Noor D. White, PhD Evolutionary Geneticist
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I was featured in an NIH Intramural blog post

4/12/2022

 
I was featured in a recent post on the NIH "I Am Intramural" blog. I began working with the authors at the end of my postdoc, thus the "postdoc profile" title. Regardless, I was honored to be featured and I am grateful to have the opportunity to share my research with others in a non-technical forum. The blog post can be found here.
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New job!

3/29/2022

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I am very pleased to announce that I have joined the Biological Imaging Core of the National Eye Institute as a Staff Scientist. I am grateful and honored to be joining the civil service, and I look forward to a long and productive career serving both this Nation and the goals of the institute.
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I have received a National Eye Institute Director's Award

11/1/2021

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I am honored to receive an NEI Director's Award in the Administrative/Technical Excellence Award Category in recognition of developing and running the NEI Summer Vision Science Course for NEI summer interns using a problem-based learning approach.
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Bird Vision Probe Set Published!

10/15/2021

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I am pleased to announce that my molecular tool for efficiently capturing vision genes from any extant bird species has been published in Molecular Ecology Resources. This is an in-solution RNA bait probe set, and we demonstrate that it captures genes far more efficiently than whole genome sequencing. The probe set should be used when conducting broad surveys of vision gene evolution across a large number of samples, or when depth of coverage is needed, such as in population-level studies. Using the genes isolated by our probe set, we where then able to identify some interesting parallel evolution in genes between two very divergent avian lineages--both of which display cool vision phenotypes! Once again, thanks to friend and colleague Daniel J. Field for use of this beautiful American Oystercatcher photo! See my PUBS section for the paper.
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Presentation at Evolution 2021

6/14/2021

 
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I will be presenting at this year's virtual Evolution conference, as part of the Sensory Systems session on Wednesday, June 23 at 4:30-6pm EST. Publication of this work is currently in review at Molecular Ecology Resources!

Continuing outreach during the pandemic

5/19/2021

 
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I was delighted to take part in the National Eye Institute's first ever virtual Take Your Child to Work Day. This is an annual event where we lead ~30 kids through dissections of eyes of different species. This year we had a virtual dissection demo, and I was able to display a diversity of eyes and talk about their different adaptations.
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A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds wins 2020 Best Paper Award

3/19/2021

 
I am pleased to announce that our 2019 publication "A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds," was awarded a 2020 best paper award from the journal Diversity. The paper is available here.
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I received a National Eye Institute Director's Award!

12/16/2019

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I was very pleased to receive a 2019 National Eye Institute Director's Award for Scientific/Medical Innovation in the Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration & Repair Laboratory :)
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Strisores molecular+morphological work gets Diversity cover!

9/23/2019

 
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Our combined molecular+morphological work on the Strisores (Chen et al. 2019) was given the cover of the September issue of Diversity! The image is a frogmouth skull, tone of the most highly modified members of Strisores. See my PUBS page for the paper.

Phylogeny of the Strisores is published

9/19/2019

 
So pleased to see this paper out! It represents my very best effort at trying to resolve the phylogeny of the nightbirds (superorder Strisores), using a novel genome-scale marker (ultraconserved elements). I initially uncovered some conflicting signal pertaining to the relationship between the potoos and oilbird, and subsequently designed a series of analyses to try and tease that signal apart. It wasn't easy, but in the end I've uncovered significant support for the topology seen below. Now I can proceed with further analyzing the visual adaptations to nocturnality in this group, in order to unravel their evolutionary history. See my PUBS page for the paper, published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Thanks to friend and colleague Daniel J. Field for use of the beautiful photos.
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