Posts Tagged: Brendon Boudinot
Got an Ant Question? Ask Away at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Got a question about ants? Or other insects? By popular demand, ant specialists (myrmecologists)...
How much do you know about ants? Members of the Phil Ward lab will discuss ants and answer questions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Here carpenter ants (Camponotus semitestaceus) nest in a Vacaville park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet The Ant People (Myrmecologists) from the Phil Ward lab at UC Davis. From left are doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zach Griebenow; graduate student Ziv Lieberman; and alumnus Brendon Boudinot. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on 20-Million-Year-Old Ants, a New Genus
What incredible research! It involves fossilized male ants, estimated to be about 20 million...
From left: Martin Müller, director of the Institute for Materials Physics at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and Christian Schroer, leading scientist of DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, accept a model of the newly identified ant from lead author Brendon Boudinot of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and co-author Jörg Hammel, beamline scientist at the Hereon measurement station at PETRA III, where the research took place. (Photo courtesy of Marta Meyer, DESY)
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Brendon Boudinot, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, shows a 3D image of the newly discovered ant species named "Hereon" (foreground). On the screen, background, is the ant encased in Ethiopian amber. (Photo by Jens Meyer, University of Jena)
Lead Author Brendon Boudinot on the Discovery of a New Genus of an Extinct Ant
A team of international scientists led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and including key...
From left: Martin Müller, director of the Institute for Materials Physics at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and Christian Schroer, leading scientist of DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, accept a model of the newly identified ant from lead author Brendon Boudinot of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and co-author Jörg Hammel, beamline scientist at the Hereon measurement station at PETRA III, where the research took place. (Photo courtesy of Marta Meyer, DESY)
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Brendon Boudinot, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, shows a 3D image of the newly discovered ant species named "Hereon" (foreground). On the screen, background, is the ant encased in Ethiopian amber. (Photo by Jens Meyer, University of Jena)
International Research Team Led by Brendon Boudinot: 'Missing Link' in Ant Evolution
An amber-preserved ant pupa discovered in southeast Asia, and estimated to be 99 million years old,...
Overview of the Kachin amber piece and its syninclusions. (Figure from the research article in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.)
Brendon Boudinot, active in the Entomological Society of America, reacts to a question asked at the Linnaean Games, now the "Entomology Games." Boudinot served on—and anchored—three of the UC Davis Linnaean Games teams that won national or international ESA championships. The Games are a lively question-and-answer, college bowl-style competition on entomological facts played between university-sponsored student teams. (ESA Photo)
The Ants and Butterflies of Gates Canyon: Quite the Ecosystem
Gates Canyon, located just outside the city of Vacaville, in Solano County, Calif., is...
This is the species (Lasius nr. atopus) that inspired the initial stages of the UC Davis project. (Photo by Matthew Prebus)
This image of Gates Canyon Road, Vacaville, was taken Sept. 25, 2020, following the massive wildfire that swept through the canyon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gates Canyon Road is a paved county road, located just outside the city of Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)