John joins the faculty at Cornell
Dr. John Benning has been working in the lab since 2020 but will soon be joining the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell University as an assistant professor!
John got his PhD from the University of Minnesota researching the biological and environmental factors responsible for range limits in a California endemic flower, Clarkia xantiana. At UW, he has continued to research range limits by conducting experiments and theoretical studies comparing the importance of ecological and evolutionary factors in creating the stable range limits that occur ubiquitously in nature.
John joined the lab with a postdoctoral fellowship from NSF and then extended his stay after the lab was awarded a large NSF grant (with John as a co-PI) to continue working on range limits in our microcosm system. In recognition of his amazing research accomplishments, John recently accepted a job offer to join the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell University as an assistant professor! He will be missed in the lab, but we hope to continue collaborating with John in his new capacity at Cornell.