Dr. Shannon Murphy
Professor University of Denver Boettcher West 306 2050 E. Iliff Ave Denver, CO 80208 Shannon.M.Murphy[at]du.edu Office: (303) 871-7571 Fax: (303) 871-3471 Click HERE for a PDF of my CV |
DU Ecology and Evolutionary Biologists
Our lab is part of a larger group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists at the University of Denver.
Check out our group website to see what we are all up to!
DUEEBs Website
Check out our group website to see what we are all up to!
DUEEBs Website
News from the SmurphLab
April 2024 - Shannon is excited to be a new Editor in Chief at Ecological Entomology!
Winter 2024 - Lots of exciting happenings! Congratulations to Max Meyer for receiving distinction for his honors thesis! Mykaela had her first first-author paper published in Environmental Entomology!! Also exciting news for Mykaela, Kailey, and Kelly who all received grants to fund their summer research!
Summer 2023 - So much great news! Kailey received a NSF GRFP to fund her work in the lab for 3 years and Mick and Norah received DU URC grants for their summer research.
January 2023 - Claire was invited to present her research at the Colorado State Capitol for all of our state legislators - congratulations Claire!
December 2022 - Congratulations to Alaina who received funding from the American Wildfire Experience!
June 2022 - Congratulations to Blyss who graduated with her MS! Welcome to all of the new undergraduate students who are starting in the lab this summer - Emma, Ashley, Kailey, and Julia!
July 2021 - More great news! Dhaval was hired as an Assistant Teaching Professor at DU and our NSF REP supplement was funded so Mykaela Tanino-Springsteen will be joining the lab soon! Shannon was also promoted to Professor!
Shannon and Dhaval published a paper with our DU SciTech team, including middle school girls! You can read about it in this blog post that Dhaval led here: Vyas et al. 2021
April 2021 - DU wrote about our fall webworm research and you can read about it here! magazine.du.edu/finicky-or-voracious-a-multiyear-study-explores-the-dietary-preferences-of-insects/
March 2021 - Lots of great news! Congratulations to Blyss Bieber for being awarded both a University of Denver Shubert grant and also a John Marr award from the Colorado Native Plant Society!
Welcome to Claire Guzinski who is starting her PhD in the lab this spring!
Welcome to both Collette Hong and Kiaryce Bey who are now working in the lab!
January 2021 - Maelah, Audrey, Amanda, and Blyss got their first paper published in the DUURJ! Congratulations on this huge milestone! See the publications page for more info
August 2020 - I'm so honored to be the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching from the Entomological Society of America!
https://www.entsoc.org/esa-names-winners-2020-professional-and-student-awards
July 2020 - YAY!!! Our NSF proposal on fall webworms is funded for 4 years! So excited to keep working with Dhaval Vyas, Mayra Vidal and Gina Wimp!
Read about what we'll be doing here: www.du.edu/news/shannon-murphy-awarded-nsf-grant-insect-research