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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GVLer Alana Luzzio presented hot off the press results for her research using parentage based tagging to study Putah Creek salmon - more evidence of a new population establishing in the creek!

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GVL affiliate Mac Campbell talks about advances in our understanding of longfin smelt ecology from the high quality reference genome produced in the lab.

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Current and former GVLers contributed five talks to the genetics session at Bay Delta Science, spanning population genetics, eDNA detection, CRISPRdx, and genetic biocontrol of invasive species! Thanks to DWR for organizing such a great session!

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Genomic Variation Lab at UC Davis @gvl-ucd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

PhD Candidate, Mary Badger, shared her research on American Kestrels in working agricultural landscapes at the American Ornithological Society (AOS) Annual Meeting in Massachusetts last week! Great job, Mary!

Mary Badger stands behind the podium with a large drop-down projector screen to her right. The slide shows an image of a young male American Kestrel. The title of the talk is "Interactive effects of temperature and land cover on parental movement, provisioning, and nesting diet in American Kestrels breeding in agroecosystems"

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Genomic Variation Lab at UC Davis @gvl-ucd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Carlos Esperanza, one of our PhD students, shared his research on Western Bluebird population structure at the American Ornithological Society (AOS) Annual Meeting in Massachusetts last week! Great job, Carlos!

Carlos Esperanza stands in front of his poster, smiling broadly.

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do you like Lake Tahoe? Do you dislike invasive mollusks? If so, and to learn more, check out my PhD student Grace Rosburg-Francot's crowdfunding campaign to support her research developing eDNA methods for AIS surveillance and management in Lake Tahoe! experiment.com/projects/how...

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How can we use environmental DNA detection keep invasive mollusks out of Lake Tahoe?

All organisms shed DNA into the environment (eDNA). Research suggests that detecting aquatic invasive species (AIS) early can be better done with eDNA methods than through conventional means [1]. I am...

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Visited GVL undergrads Juliette Dalicano and Sofia Nadeau at their poster presentation at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference! They did a fantastic job! And who knew that western bluebirds like to eat cockroaches? Now there is an incentive to put a birdbox on your property!

Two UC Davis undergraduate women stand in front of a poster describing their research results at a conference. Their poster has a colorful pie graph showing the proportions of cavity nesting bird diets made up by different families of insects.

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

GVL project scientist Ravi Nagarajan gave a great talk at the Interagency Ecological Workshop about how eDNA metabarcoding is about as sensitive as qPCR in detecting Chinook salmon in tidal wetlands, and run-typing from eDNA looks promising!

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Genomic Variation Lab at UC Davis @gvl-ucd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Our undergraduate interns are vital to our graduate students' research! Many use the skills they developed to initiate their own projects, preparing them to be the researchers of tomorrow 🧪.

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So proud of the GVL's own Anna Jordan, who educates Californian's about her study species, the giant gartersnake, in this great video by RiceNews. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqw...

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California Rice Footprint: Giant Gartersnake

YouTube video by RiceNews

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Genomic Variation Lab at UC Davis @gvl-ucd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Hi Bluesky! We are the Genomic Variation Laboratory based at UC Davis. Our current projects include: 🧬 CRISPR-based SHERLOCK assays for eDNA detection 🧬 Metabarcoding to detect animal and plant diversity in predator diets and ecosystems 🧬 Population genetics of fishes and more!

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