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Press Coverage

Media coverage and press mentions of the Cresko Laboratory’s research

2024

Cresko Named UO Director for Center for Biomedical Data Science

UO Knight Campus

2023

The Big Pivot: Lasting Lessons of the UO’s COVID-19 Testing Lab

UO Research and Innovation

2022

New Methods Tripled COVID-19 Testing in Latinx Communities

Medical Xpress

2022

Crunching the Numbers with Data Science

Oregon Quarterly

2022

Effectiveness of a COVID-19 Testing Outreach Intervention for Latinx Communities

JAMA Network Open

2022

Evolution Gone Wild: What makes seadragons so strange

New York Times

2022

Leafy and Weedy Seadragon Genomes Connect Genic and Repetitive DNA Features to the Extravagant Biology of Syngnathid Fishes

PNAS

2021

UO faculty member receives grant to better understand symbiosis

Around the O

2021

Genome Spotlight: Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)

The Scientist

2021

Study looks at how the human microbiome varies with location

Around the O

2021

Research project examines male pregnancy and microbes in fish

Around the O

2021

Seadragon genome analysis provides insights into its phenotype and sex determination locus

Science Advances

2020

Gift will rapidly expand UO, state COVID-19 testing

Around the O

2020

Experimental COVID-19 test at UO replaces nasal swab with saliva sample

Oregon Public Broadcasting

2020

New grant will expand COVID-19 testing in Latinx communities

Around the O

2019

UO, OHSU will partner on opioid research with $10M grant

Around the O

2019

Three UO undergraduates awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Around the O

2019

Knight Campus Program Gives Undergrads Real-World Research Experience

Around the O

2019

Stacks 2: Analytical methods for paired-end sequencing improve RADseq-based population genomics

Molecular Ecology

2018

UO postdoc solves mystery of isolated Atlantic island birds

Around the O

2018

How an earthquake shook up stickleback genomes

GSA Blog

2017

Hold your (sea)horses – here’s the pipefish genome

BioMed Central

2017

Deriving genotypes from RAD-seq short-read data using Stacks

Nature Protocols

2016

Harnessing the power of RADseq for ecological and evolutionary genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics

2016

Earthquakes and rapid evolution

Molecular Ecologist

2016

Oregon researchers publish reference genome of gulf pipefish

EurekAlert, AAAS

2016

UO team unspools the genome of a seahorse relative

Around the O

2016

The genome of the Gulf pipefish enables understanding of evolutionary innovations

Genome Biology

2016

UO’s Cresko chosen as fellow of world’s largest scientific group

Around the O

2015

A decad(e) of reasons to contribute to a PLoS community-run Journal

PLoS Genetics

2015

Our 2010 PLoS Genetics paper was chosen one of the 10 most important papers ever in PLoS Genetics

PLoS Genetics

2015

Interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud about stickleback evolution

OPB

2015

Small fish takes evolution fast track – Interview with Dr. Susie Bassham

Scientific American

2015

Small fish species evolved rapidly following 1964 Alaska earthquake

ScienceDaily

2015

Catastrophic Earthquake Drove Fish Evolution In Just 50 Years

IFL Science

2015

Interview on Jefferson Public Radio about stickleback evolution

OPB

2015

Earthquake forced rapid evolution in fish

Discovery News

2015

Small fish species evolved rapidly following 1964 Alaska earthquake

Phys.Org

2015

Big Earthquake jolted fish into fast evolution

Futurity

2015

Stickleback fish evolved rapidly to living in freshwater ponds following major earthquake

Nature World News

2015

UO-led study shows fish evolved rapidly after 1964 Alaska quake

Around the O

2015

Genetics journal names paper led by UO’s Cresko as among its Top 10 of all time

Around the O

2011

Fast-Forwarding Mendel

Around the O

2011

RAD-Tagging is demystifying genome sequencing

NewsWise

2011

Using DNA to Reveal a Mosquito’s History. Science 331:1006-1007

Science

2010

Genomic Study IDs Parallel Adaptations in Independent Stickleback Populations

GenomeWeb

2010

Stickleback Genomes Shining Bright Light on Evolution

ScienceDaily

2010

Stickleback Genomes Shining Bright Light on Evolution

NSF Press Release

2010

The parallel lives of threespine stickleback

Discover

2010

Adaptation Genomics: the next generation. 25:705-712

TREE

2010

Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined

NSF Press Release

2010

Mosquitoes: Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined

ScienceDaily

2009

Biology’s next top model. Nature 458:695-698

Nature

2008

Science & Swing: Steve Perry’s career a blend of swing, ska, punk…and evolutionary developmental biology

Around the O

2008

Fitness in a changing world

NSF Press Release

2006

Macroevolution: Alive and well in sticklebacks. The American Biology Teacher 68:5-6

ABT

2006

Perchlorate affects stickleback sexual development

Environmental Health Perspectives

2006

Macho moms: Perchlorate pollutant masculinizes fish. Science News 170(7)

Science News

2004

Evolution in parallel: new insights from a classic system. 19:456-459

TREE

2004

Evolutionary Biology: Changing fish’s bony armor in the wink of a gene. Science 304:1737-1739

Science

2004

Big cross lands sticklebacks in the spotlight. The Scientist 18(21):16

The Scientist

2004

Morphological Diversity: Taking the spine out of three-spine stickleback. 14(11):422-424

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