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Murphy Lab
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Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions
at the University of Denver

Dr. Shannon Murphy

​Associate 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
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News from the SmurphLab

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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!

July 2020 - We missed our normal Lab Breakfast because of COVID this year, so made up for it with a socially distanced breakfast this week! Welcome to all the new members of the lab - Blyss, Maelah, Audrey and Amanda!
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March 2020 - Shannon won the Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching from the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America. I'm so honored by this recognition - thank you so much to Anna Sher for nominating me.

September 2019 - Wow, maybe a record? 3 papers published in the same week!!!  Congrats to former graduate students Mayra Vidal and Eva Horna Lowell for their papers in Molecular Ecology and Apidologie, and Gina and Shannon had a new one out in Frontiers Ecology and Evolution! See our publications page for information on them!

July 2019 - Excited to announce a travel award opportunity that Gina Wimp, Mayra Vidal and I got funded by NSF!  We have funding for 6 graduate students and 5 postdocs to travel to the 2020 ICE meeting in Helsinki - contact me for more information and the application (Deadline Sept 30, 2019)

PDF HERE!​ award_announcement.pdf

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July 2019 - Dhaval Vyas has joined the lab as a NSF postdoc and we are so excited to have him join team webworm!

June 2019 - Congratulations to Claudia Hallagan, Eva Horna Lowell and Jake Wilson who all graduated with their MS degrees and to Andrea Ku who graduated with Honors for her BS!!!  They will all be missed, but excited to see their new adventures.

April 2019 - Congratulations to Dhaval Vyas for receiving a NSF postdoc fellowship to join the lab this summer! He is currently a doctoral student at CSU with Paul Ode - can’t wait to have him join us!

March 2019 - Congratulations to Ryan Beshai and Elizabeth Barnes for the new publication of Ryan’s undergraduate Honors Thesis in Southwestern Entomologist!

December 2018 - Shannon had a great trip to Sweden visiting colleagues at Lund University and Stockholm University!

September 2018 - The whole lab presented at the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists (GREEBs) meeting - Claudia, Eva and Jake all did fantastic jobs!

September 2018 - Mayra and Shannon’s paper is accepted at Ecology!

August 2018 - Two new fire papers out!!!  One in Frontiers and the other in COIS!  See our publications page for PDFs of both!

June 2018 - Congratulations to Mayra Vidal for successfully defending her PhD!  She is now moving to Syracuse for a postdoc - we will miss you!
Congratulations also to Andrea Ku, Elizabeth Pacheco, Gui Zheng and Veronica Huizar Cabral for receiving summer research funding!

April 2018 - So much great news for lab funding!!!!  Congratulations to Jake Wilson for receiving funding from both the Shubert Graduate student fellowship and the Orthopterists’ Society! And super wow and congratulations for Eva Horna Lowell who received a NSF GRFP and funding from Sigma Xi! Shannon and Gina Wimp received funding from NOAA SeaGrant! Shannon and Robin Tinghitella received funding from the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging!
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December 2017 - Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Barnes for completing her PhD!  We will miss you, but are excited for your new adventure at Purdue!

​November 2017 - So many great talks and posters from the Murphy lab at EntSoc!  In particular, congratulations to Claudia Hallagan for winning 2nd place in the Student’s Competition for the  President’s Prize and to Mayra Vidal for having her first chapter accepted at Ecology Letters!!!

October 2017 - Congratulations to Carissa Cherpes for receiving a Partners in Scholarship (PinS) grant from the DU Undergraduate Research Center!

September 2017 - Welcome to our two new graduate students!  Jake Wilson and Eva Horna Lowell!

July 2017 - Congratulations to Elizabeth Barnes on her successful defense of her thesis!!!


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  • Home
  • Research
    • Ecology and Evolution of Diet Breadth >
      • Host Shifts
      • Evolution of Polyphagy
      • Competition between Generalists
    • Global Change >
      • Nutrient subsidies
      • Habitat Edges
      • Light Pollution
      • Fire
    • Bees and STEM education
    • Aging
  • Publications
  • Teaching
  • Lab Members
  • Science Education
  • Join the Lab?