Havird Lab

I haven't been too active on this, but lots of updates for the lab website: sites.utexas.edu/havird/ Most importantly, our first PhD student, Erik Iverson, successfully defended his PhD! Here's a pic where Joseph's foot looks way too big:

Journals when I'm reviewing for them: it's been 2 weeks, we need your reviews NOW! Same journals when I submit: yeah, we know its been 4 months, there's not much we can do, lol

Our lab is at SICB2025! Come find us and our talks!

Anyone interested in a postdoc with us and/or others at UT? Consider applying to be a Stengl-Wyer Scholar and reach out! $70,000 annual salary plus UT benefits $10,000 annual allowance for research and travel expenses Up to $3,000 relocation expenses cns.utexas.edu/research/resea…

Bittersweet to return to Auburn University after 10 years to give a seminar honoring my late PhD adviser Scott Santos. Great to see old friends and make new ones, and I'm glad to know the dept is honoring Scott's legacy as a super scientist and mentor. auburn.edu/cosam/news/art…

Excited to be co-organizing a symposium @SICB 2025 w/@ummat_s on sexual selection and energetics. If you're interested in this (even broadly), consider joining us in Atlanta and registering to present your work at a complimentary session! sicb.org/events/upcomin…

I'm recruiting PhD students to work on mitochondrial bioenergetics. Check out my talk from #Evol2024 on HGT of an alternative mito pathway youtu.be/mdfk3JxLV4c?t=… We do other cool mito evolution and physiology, plz get in touch!

Lab killed it at #Evol2024! Great tonsee everyone and hear about all the awesome work being done.

Our lab is at Evolution 2024 in Montreal! Come here about the role of mitochondrial evolution in aging, environmental adaptation, speciation, selfishness, mutation processes, and coevolution in 6 talks and posters given by undergrads, grads, postdocs, and even me!

We thought, "Surely, if you have two very different mtDNAs, nuclear DNA will only coevolve with one of them." Work led by @Texas_Mussels shows how wrong we were: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Congrats to Erik Iverson for being considered for this awesome award!

Lots of shrimp, crust, and airbnb science!

Our lab is in Hawaii again! This time our anchialine research program is geared towards shrimp genetics, gut microbiomes, microbial ecology, and eDNA. New grad students are seeing the habitats for the first time and we're having a blast with local collaborators. 🤙🦐

UT highlighted our lab with a fun video about community! youtube.com/watch?v=LajMx6…

I'll be there!

If you ever wondered how much universities pay assistant professors, and how that compares to the local cost of living, wonder no more..

@KendraZwonitzer @pnas And the UT write-up: cns.utexas.edu/news/research/…

Anytime I talk about extreme rate variation in plant mtDNA evolution, people ask why some lineages evolve fast. @KendraZwonitzer took that personally. Her paper out today @PNAS offers some evidence for one possibility. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We’re proud to announce the winners of our inaugural CNS Mentoring Excellence Award, which honors outstanding mentorship of graduate students & postdoctoral researchers: • Caroline Farrior • Justin Havird • Fatima Varner @CarolineFarrior @HavirdLab @ProfFV