The Wade Lab at Indiana University

2012 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer

dmdrown — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:34:24 +0000

Mike was selected as the 2011-2012 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer. This lecture is an annual campus-wide celebration designed to recognize the research achievements of an IU Bloomington faculty member whose research makes important contributions to society. Mike’s lecture is still to be scheduled, but should occur sometime in April. Previous recipients from Biology include Ellen Ketterson, Eugene Weinberg, John Preer, Howard Gest, and Tony Mahowald.

conference notes from EEID

dmdrown — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:49:21 +0000

Evolution of transmission mode

Peter Zee and I made our way north this past weekend to Madison, WI for the Evolution and Ecology of Infectious Disease (EEID) PI meeting. Learned a lot about emperical systems this weekend and the current state of some interesting disease projects.

Sexual selection, Bateman gradients, and Mormons…oh my

dmdrown — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:30:47 +0000

Keywords from the paper

Mike and his coauthors used a large database of human demographic information, Utah Population Database (UPDB), to study the efffects of sexual selection and mating system. Read all about it in Evolution and Human Behavior :

Moorad JA, Promislow DEL, Smith KR, Wade MJ (2011) Mating system change reduces the strength of sexual selection in an American frontier population of the 19th century. Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 147-155.

BBQ

dmdrown — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:23:00 +0000

The weather has turned hot, so it’s time to fire up the BBQ and throw on some combustibles…and some steaks.