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The Yang Lab at UC Davis

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Posted on May 30, 2019January 4, 2021 by Louie

Welcome, Emily!

We are glad to welcome Emily Patterson to the lab! Emily will be joining the lab as an undergraduate in the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB).

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  • Tracie Hayes receives the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Bodega Marine Laboratory Fellowship
  • Elizabeth Postema receives Phi Beta Kappa scholarship and Maurer/Timm Award
  • Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands
  • Biodiversity and infrastructure interact to drive tourism to and within Costa Rica
  • Gwen Erdosh receives Garczynski Undergraduate Research Scholarship

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What’s going on?

  • Tracie Hayes receives the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Bodega Marine Laboratory Fellowship May 17, 2022
  • Elizabeth Postema receives Phi Beta Kappa scholarship and Maurer/Timm Award April 14, 2022
  • Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands March 31, 2022
  • Biodiversity and infrastructure interact to drive tourism to and within Costa Rica March 9, 2022
  • Gwen Erdosh receives Garczynski Undergraduate Research Scholarship March 4, 2022
  • How long will California’s butterfly boom last? February 4, 2022
  • An integrative approach for projecting insect responses to a rapidly changing climate January 1, 2022
  • Gwen Erdosh receives Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship December 10, 2021
  • Disentangling the direct, indirect, and combined effects of experimental warming on a plant–insect herbivore interaction October 12, 2021
  • A meta-analysis of single visit pollination effectiveness comparing honeybees and other floral visitors October 12, 2021

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Graduate alumni

Marshall S. McMunn
Population Biology Graduate Group, Ph.D. 2018

“The night is coldest just before the dawn.”


Shahla Farzan
Ecology Graduate Group, Ph.D. 2017

“Seek out people who inspire you and challenge you to be a better scientist.”


Meredith L. Cenzer
Entomology Graduate Group, Ph.D. 2016

“Don’t be afraid to fail! Failure is a necessary part of science.”

Postdoc alumni

Nicholas Rasmussen, 2014-2016

“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie


Heather Kharouba, 2013-2015

“In wildness is the preservation of the world” Henry David Thoreau


Jonah Piovia-Scott, 2011-2014

“What I have learned is just enough to find my way farther.” Donald Culross Peattie


Erin Wilson-Rankin, 2010

“1) “Never underestimate the benefit of a pilot study; you may discover new questions to answer.” 2) “The plural of anecdote is not data.”

Land Acknowledgement Statement

We should take a moment to acknowledge the land on which we are gathered. For thousands of years, this land has been the home of Patwin people. Today, there are three federally recognized Patwin tribes: Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation, and Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.

The Patwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected, as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. 

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Final words

“…any solution to problems of the scope that are presented requires good deeds and good acts by people in all sorts of places that you may not see or know or register. It’s a collective thing, and that putting good out into the world without knowing the results is sort of incumbent on all of us if we want things to improve.” Naren Shankar

“I try, and I made it.” William Kamkwamba

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine… then keep going.” Mary Oliver

“Skill is the child of patience.” Obi-Wan Kenobi

“The greatest teacher, failure is.” Yoda

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without realizing that it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau

“…I can see no way out but through…” Robert Frost

“I am going to make it though this year if it kills me.” John Darnielle

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.” John Green

“Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power… Use it.” Stacey Abrams

“Never give up!” Michael Iaconelli

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” Maya Angelou

“This is the goodest day ever! So many fun things.” Toco Yang, age 4

“Daddy, I want to do something. Can I have a hammer?” Karoo Yang, age 6

“Collaborations work best this way; when there’s a mutual desire to see what the other side adds. You know that what you’re making on your own has value but the sum is more than the parts and every part knows it.” Ahmir Questlove Thompson

“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.” Tina Fey

“I love the people here. They’re the best. They’re creative and collaborative and kind.” John Stewart

“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.” Albert Einstein

“All models are wrong, but some are useful. ” George E.P. Box

“Ninguém educa ninguém, ninguém educa a si mesmo, os homens se educam entre si, mediatizados pelo mundo.” Paulo Freire

“1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.” Kahlil Gibran

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.” Ray Bradbury

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.” Ada Lovelace

“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Charles Darwin

“Dare to be naïve.” Buckminster Fuller

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki

“I have a commonplace book for facts, and another for poetry, but I find it difficult to preserve the vague distinction which I had in mind, for the most interesting and beautiful facts are so much more poetry and that is their success. They are translated from earth to heaven. I see that if my facts were sufficiently vital and significant – perhaps transmuted into the the substance of the human mind – I should need but one book of poetry to contain them all.” Henry David Thoreau

“Independence is happiness.” Susan B. Anthony

“A person can always find a career in a calling, but it is far more difficult later in life to find a calling in a career.” David W. Orr

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin

“When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.” Pele

“The young are not afraid of telling the truth.” Anne Frank

“Theories have four stages of acceptance: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view, iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so.” J.B.S. Haldane

“It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing).” Duke Ellington

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.” John le Carré

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” Barack Obama

“Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” St. Benard of Clairvaux

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” John Muir

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