Welcome to the Lohman Laboratory! Lab News May 2022 :: David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, Jing Leong, Tenzing Doleck, Y-Lan Nguyen, and the entire ButterflyNet team posted a pre-print presenting a robust molecular phylogeny with 92% of all butterfly genera. The paper further explores the diversification, biogeography, and host use evolution on a global scale. This highly collaborative project involved co-authors from 28 countries on 6 continents. David Lohman was presented with the CCNY Divison of Science Award for Excellence in Teaching, Curricular Innovation, and Assessment by the Dean of Science. David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution of Limenitidinae butterflies. David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and colleagues publish a paper on the role of past climate change on diversification of the Afrotropical butterfly genus Bicyclus. April 2022 :: David Lohman is awarded a PSC-CUNY grant to partially fund the thesis research of a Renato Nunes. This work will examing population differentiation of Euploea mulciber butterflies in the Philippines. David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and colleagues published a paper on the evolution and biogeography of brush-footed butterflies. March 2022 :: David Lohman and Vietnamese colleagues published a paper on the diversity and uniqueness of butterflies in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. February 2021 :: Karen Kohama joins the lab to investigate spatial biodiversity patterns across the islands of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. August 2021 :: Renato Nunes gave a presentation on the evolution of Danaini butterflies at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society, held online. September 2021 :: Ashraf Moumou joins the lab to study the evolution of Kallimini butterflies. David Lohman and colleagues published a paper on adult butterflies that wound caterpillars of related species to suck their hemolymph (insect blood), presumably to imbibe defensive coumpounds derived from their host plants. This article was featured in the New York Times. David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, and colleagues published a paper on the evolution and biogeography of brush-footed butterflies. June 2021 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on describing Jamides wananga, a new butterfly species from Papua New Guinea and Dauan Island.. May 2021 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on investigating trade-offs in the evolution of male secondary sexual characteristics in Eumaeini butterflies. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on demonstrating that public interest in insect species is negatively correlated with their conservation status and phylogenetic distinctiveness. March 2021 :: David Lohman appointed as an Associate Editor of Journal of Tropical Ecology. David Lohman, Susan Tsang, and colleagues publish a paper on the discovery of Tioman virus in a remote bat population in Indonesia. January 2021 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the genomic basis of dual mimicry in the common palmfly butterfly, Elymnias hypermnestra. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution and biogeography of awl and policeman skippers. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution and biogeography of Heteropterinae skippers. October 2020 :: David Lohman, Kwaku Aduse-Poku and colleagues publish a paper on the phylogeny of sailor butterflies (Neptis). September 2020 :: David Lohman gives plenary address at 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, via Zoom during the global COVID-19 pandemic. July 2020 :: Lohman Lab alumna Dr. Susan Tsang nominated by US State Department as the United States' nominee for the APEC ASPIRE award. Lohman Lab alumna Christie Sukhdeo successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at the University of New Orleans. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution and taxonomy of the butterfly tribe Candalidini. June 2020 :: David Lohman, Yi-Kai Tea, and colleagues publish a paper on beach puddling butterflies in Sulawesi. May 2020 :: Lohman Lab alumnus Ricci Kalayanamitra graduates with his MD from Penn State College of Medicine. April 2020 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on changes in pitcher plant communities along an elevational gradient in the Philippines. March 2020 :: Manegbe Eben awarded summer research fellowship at New York Genome Center. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on co-occurring mimetic forms of Elymnias agondas on Aru. February 2020 :: David Lohman, Susan Tsang, and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution and biogeography of Pteropus bats. November 2019 :: David Lohman gives invited lecture "Biogeography of mimetic diversity in an adaptive radiation of butterflies" at the Commemorative Symposium for the 25th International Prize for Biology in Tokyo, Japan October 2019 :: David Lohman, Y-Lan Nguyen, and colleagues publish a paper in Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo revising the taxonomy of butterflies in the Arhopala hercules species group. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on Baorini skippper biogeography. February 2019 :: David Lohman is awarded an REU supplement and an RAHSS supplement to DEB-1541557 : ButterflyNet--an integrative framework for comparative biology, to support the research of one additional undergraduate researcher, and one high school researcher. January 2019 :: David Lohman teaches a CCNY course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation in peninsular Thailand in collaboration with Prince of Songkla University November 2018 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a note on the discovery of a rare Tiradelphe schneideri specimen in a museum drawer. October 2018 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution of moth-like butterflies in the family Hedylidae. September 2018 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the wing pigments of female Elymnias hypermnestra. June 2018 :: Susan Tsang, David Lohman, and colleagues publish a paper on the population genetics of Pteropus vampyrus. David Lohman and colleagues publish a paper on the evolution of skipper butterflies. May 2018 :: Brandon Latorre is named a CCNY Great Grad Jing Leong is awarded the Prof. William Stratford Prize from the CCNY Biology Department April 2018 :: David Lohman is awarded a Fulbright ASEAN Research Scholarship to Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines March 2018 :: Tenzing Doleck is awarded an Early Career Grant from the National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration Kwaku Aduse-Poku, David Lohman, and colleagues publish a paper in Current Biology on the evolutionary history of butterfly tribes using hundreds of loci captured via anchored hybrid enrichment Kwaku Aduse-Poku, David Lohman, and colleagues publish a paper in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution on the evolutionary history of Batesian mimetic Hypolimnas butterflies January 2018 :: David Lohman is awarded a visiting professor fellowship to the Department of Zoology and Environmental Management at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka December 2017 :: David Lohman is awarded an Exploration Grant from the National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration Jing Leong, David Lohman, and Royce Cumming publish a paper in Zootaxa describing new leaf insects (Phyliidae) from Luzon, Philippines November 2017 :: Kwaku Aduse-Poku, David Lohman, and colleagues publish a paper in Ecology and Evolution on the community ecology of Afrotropical butterfly assemblages October 2017 :: Tenzing Doleck, David Lohman, and colleagues publish a review paper in Climate on the impact of climate change on the biodiversity of Nepal May 2017 :: David Lohman and colleagues publish a revisionary checklist of the genus Elymnias in Zookeys. April 2017 :: Brandon Latorre is awarded the Prof. William Stratford Prize from the CCNY Biology Department Jing Leong is accepted into the NSF-funded NYBG-MoBot Summer Internship Program January 2017 :: David Lohman is awarded an REU supplement to DEB-1541557 : ButterflyNet--an integrative framework for comparative biology to support the research of two additional undergraduate researchers. May 2016 :: Kwaku Aduse-Poku joins the lab. February 2016 :: Jing Leong and Tasnim Jackson join the lab September 2015 :: Cing Vung and Brandon Latorre join the lab June 2015 :: Susan Tsang graduated with her Ph.D, Dylan Scott graduated with his master's degree, and Y-Lan Nguyen, Arton Oey, and Ricci Kalayanamitra graduated with their bachelor's degrees. David Lohman and collaborators are awarded a Genealogy of Life grant from the National Science Foundation to reconstruct the evolutionary history of all butterflies and assemble all available life history and other trait data, to be delivered through the ButterflyNet Dashboard. February 2015 :: Lab alum Gabriela Farias Quipildor and David Lohman and their coauthors published a paper in Systematics and Biodiversity confirming the species status of Danaus petilia in Australia. David Lohman published a paper in Evolution about the evolution of carnivorous and other non-phytophagous Miletinae butterflies. David Lohman is awarded a CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award October 2014 :: Susan Tsang is awarded the Luis F. Bacardi Student Award in Bat Conservation at the 2014 North American Symposium on Bat Research August 2014 :: David Lohman, Ashman Pradhan, Noah Burg, and their coauthors published a paper in PLOS ONE tracing the provenance of a butterfly introduced to Thailand. May 2014 :: Dylan Scott is awarded a Young Explorers Grant from the National Geographic Society Ricci Kalayanamitra is accepted into the NSF-REU Summer Program in the Biology Department at CCNY. David Lohman is awarded a PSC-CUNY grant to use next-generation sequencing to study species interactions along elevational gradients in Nepal. April 2014 :: Ashman Pradhan is accepted to the MBA program at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Kevin Purce is accepted to the Ph.D. program at Drexel University. Y-Lan Nguyen is awarded the Edmund Baermann Scholarship in Natural Sciences. February 2014 :: Ricci Kalayanamitra joins the Lohman Lab January 2014 :: Christy Myer joins the Lohman Lab David Lohman is awarded an REU supplement to DEB-1120380: Evolution of Batesian mimicry in Elymnias butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) to support the research of one additional undergraduate researcher. August 2013 :: Andrew G. Brownjohn and Pungki Lupiyaningdyah join the Lohman Lab Images from this past field season added July 2013 :: Dylan Scott joins the Lohman Lab June 2013 :: David Lohman's commentary paper in Journal of Biogeography is published online May 2013 :: Kevin Purce is awarded a Masters Degree from the City College of New York. Elva Yang is accepted to the Ph.D. program at Texas Tech University. Gabriela Farias Quipildor is accepted to the Ph.D. program at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Roy Song is accepted to the Ph.D. program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. David Lohman is awarded a PSC-CUNY grant to use next-generation sequencing to study species interactions in tropical forests. March 2013 :: Y-Lan Nguyen joins the Lohman Lab David Lohman is awarded a National Geographic Research Grant for field work in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia and and NIH R21 for studying bat-borne paramyxoviruses in Southeast Asia. February 2013 :: Ryan Crew, Ashton Dorminvil and Kenneth Mendez join the Lohman Lab January 2013 :: Susan Tsang is awarded a student travel grant to the Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution 2013 conference in Berlin and a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant. David Lohman is awarded an REU supplement to DEB-1120380: Evolution of Batesian mimicry in Elymnias butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) to support the research of two additional undergraduate researchers. December 2012 :: Posted new research videos made by Olaf Woldan on Susan Tsang and Bareena Silverman's respective research projects August 2012 :: Olaf Woldan joins the Lohman Lab Images from this past field season added June 2012 :: Gabriela Farias Quipildor is awarded the Max Pavey Scholarship Award. Susan Tsang is named a Lewis and Clark Field Scholar from the American Philosophical Society. Elva Yang graduates with a M.A. in Biology, Roy Song graduates with a B.S. in Biology, and Gabriela Farias Quipildor graduates with a B.S. in Biochemistry. David Lohman publishes a paper on Malaysian butterfly communities in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Department of Biology :: City College of New York :: City University of New York 160 Convent Avenue :: New York, NY 10031 USA Marshak Science Building 802 (212) 650-6074 Web Counter