{"id":1004,"date":"2024-11-15T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:49:41","slug":"john-myles-starting-my-phd-in-avian-evolution-at-uc-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/john-myles-starting-my-phd-in-avian-evolution-at-uc-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"John Myles &#8211; starting my PhD in avian evolution at UC Berkeley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>John Myles &#8216;2024 here. After working in the Townsend Lab for my whole time in college, I have returned back to my hometown to start my PhD in the Integrative Biology (IB) department at UC Berkeley. I will be studying sunbirds (Nectariniidae) and Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) and maybe some other fun stuff, with a particular interest in birds&#8217; adaptations to high-elevation environments and convergent evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much to the Andrea and the rest of the Townsend Lab for being so wonderful, hardworking, nerdy, supportive, and overall making my undergraduate experience so fulfilling. I look forward to seeing all the amazing work that comes out of the lab in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Email me at johnwmyles@berkeley.edu if you want to talk about research at Hamilton, ornithology, or anything else!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! John Myles &#8216;2024 here. After working in the Townsend Lab for my whole time in college, I have returned back to my hometown to start my PhD in the Integrative Biology (IB) department at UC Berkeley. I will be studying sunbirds (Nectariniidae) and Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) and maybe some other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}