Subir Shakya was recently selected to be a participant in the
Smithsonian Natural History Research Experience program in Washington D.C. This 10-week internship offers a $5500 stipend and involves research in the field of vertebrate zoology. Subir will be a part of a research team supervised by two post-doctoral members of the Braum lab who are involved in the project. The title of the project is "Origin of the Tepui Highland Avifauna: a Comparative Phylogeographic Approach."
Subir will be responsible for testing a number of competing hypotheses that have been proposed to explain Pantepui avifauna endemism in various contexts by reconstructing data generated using next generation DNA sequencing. The post-doctoral mentors will be responsible for training and supervising Subir in all aspects of research. At the conclusion of the internship, Subir will likely be given authorship for the research, possibly as a first author.
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