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Another pond experiment done. The WilsonLab did a great job harvesting fish. None of this would have been possible without our collaboration with Ben Beck and his awesome crew.

Three more papers from my meta-analysis course including two from last spring’s course! This makes 70 papers in total. Incredible effort by my students.

White, A. J., J. L. Robinson, A. E. Wilson, M. A. Reid. 2026. Neurometabolics of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in major depressive disorder (MDD): a systematic review and meta-analysis. NeuroImage: Clinical 43:103959.

Liu, L., X. Luo, Q. Zhang, J. Wang, and A. E. Wilson. In press. Comparative meta-analysis of antimicrobial peptides in aquatic and terrestrial livestock species. Animal Research and One Health

Ji, R.-L., H. S. Zheng, A. E. Wilson, and Y.-X. Tao. 2026. Association of mutations in the melanocortin-2 receptor accessory protein 2 gene (MRAP2) and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 27(2):1051.

The Gulf of America Alliance posted a nice press release about our new EPA project focused on using engineering approaches to reduce eutrophication of important coastal systems around the Gulf.

Brandon just published his meta-analysis class project, which is super fast considering class ended in May 2024! Congrats, Brandon.

Peoples, B. M., Harrison, K. D., Renfrow, G., Bethea, D., Santamaria Guzman, K. G., Wilson, A. E., Samaan, M. A., and Roper, J. A. 2024. Osteoarthritis and neurological disorder diagnoses in adults: a meta-analysis examining associations with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Cureus 16(10):e71458.

2024 is already starting off well. Emily’s meta-analysis project was just published in BioScience. This was only due to Emily’s persistence and hard work. The first set of reviews required another literature search that highlighted hundreds of studies to consider for this study. Great job, Emily.

Driessen, E. P., A. E. Wilson, S. Odom, I. Hall, P. Brewer, S. B. Ramsay, S. Wood, and C. J. Ballen. In press. Group work and student performance in biology: A meta-analysis. BioScience.

The lab organized another successful holiday cookie swap that included several labs. I was out sampling green ponds but saw a bald eagle relaxing in a tree (sorry the resolution isn’t great…). Fortunately, the students saved me some sweets when I got back to the lab.

I just learned about our 53rd publication from the Meta-analysis class. Nice job, Andrea!

Paez, A. M., M. Sundaram, and J. R. Willoughby. 2021. Comparison of minimally invasive monitoring methods and live trapping in mammals. Genes 12(12):1949. (Website)

Sarah Zohdy’s meta-analysis class group project has been published. Congrats to Jordan for leading a bunch of awesome students to get this paper out! This is our class’ 52nd paper. Wow! As a special bonus, I just heard Sarah on NPR discussing her CDC research about mosquitos.

Eckert, J., S. Oladipupo, Y. Wang, S. Jiang, V. Patel, B. McKenzie, N. Lobo, and S. Zohdy. In press. Which trap is best? Alternatives to outdoor human landing catches for malaria vector surveillance: a meta-analysis. Malaria Journal

Jinhai’s class project has been published in Animal Nutrition! Congratulations, Jinhai. This is the 51st publication from my Meta-analysis class. Also, this is our fastest class project (May 2022) to publication (September 2022). Incredible!

Wang, J., A. E. Wilson, B. Su, and R. A. Dunham. In press. Functionality of dietary antimicrobial peptides in aquatic animal health: Multiple meta-analyses. Animal Nutrition