Mitochondrial Evolution, Genomics, and Physiology at University of Texas at Austin.
Joined November 2019
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17 Jun 2025
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:
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28 Jan 2025
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
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Havird Lab retweeted
5 Aug 2024
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/rese…
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13 Sep 2024
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/articl…
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6 Aug 2024
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/upcoming-eve…
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Havird Lab retweeted
31 Jul 2024
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=1569&…
We do other cool mito evolution and physiology, plz get in touch!
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30 Jul 2024
Lab killed it at #Evol2024! Great tonsee everyone and hear about all the awesome work being done.
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26 Jul 2024
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!
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17 Jul 2024
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/qpae1…
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29 Jun 2024
Congrats to Erik Iverson for being considered for this awesome award!
20 Jun 2024
Congratulations to this year’s finalists for the Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Join us June 27 at 1:30 pm EDT to hear this series of excellent talks as part of the virtual Evolution meeting! Register here: evolutionmeetings.org/ @Evol_mtg @SSEgrad
ALT Text: Virtual 2024 Society for the Study of Evolution Hamilton Award Symposium, Thursday June 27, 1:30 - 7:30 PM Eastern (GMT-4). 2024 Finalists: Chris Blake, McCall Calvert, Sylvia Durkin, Ana-Hermina Ghenu, Yuki Haba, Erik Iverson, Brian Lerch, Michelle McCauley, Ruthvik Pallagatti, Autumn Peterson, Rosalyn Price-Waldman, Nitin Ravikanthachari, Saubhik Sarkar, Emily Troyer, and Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish.
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17 May 2024
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. 🤙🦐
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17 Apr 2024
UT highlighted our lab with a fun video about community!
youtube.com/watch?v=LajMx6hF…
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Havird Lab retweeted
26 Mar 2024
If you ever wondered how much universities pay assistant professors, and how that compares to the local cost of living, wonder no more..
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1 Mar 2024
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/pnas.23…
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Havird Lab retweeted
2 Feb 2024
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
ALT Caroline Farrior (left), Justin Havird (middle), Fatima Varner (right)
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