Julianna Mendez will be joining us in the fall of 2023. Julianna is coming from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where she worked on red eyed tree frog acoustic and vibrational signaling. We are very fortunate and excited to have her join the lab!
Fearless leader Dr. Kim Hoke gave a special lecture in light of receiving the well-deserved highest honor in the college in recognition of her achievements and commitments in research, service, mentoring, and teaching. More in this source article:
https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/professor-laureate-ceremony-spring2023/ A huge congratulations to Dr. Kim Hoke for being named Professor Laureate by the College of Natural Sciences! Professor Laureate is the college’s highest academic award; well deserved!
Huge shout out to Mariana and Miles for giving such great talks, and to Amir for surviving the entire 4 hour poster session.
Amir passed his written and oral comprehensive exams (aka qualifying exams, or preliminary exams), and is now a PhD Candidate. He now qualifies for 7 more years of grad school!
Miles and Amir represented our guppy work by presenting posters at the 2022 Front Range Neuroscience Group annual meeting.
The lab welcomes Shanelle Wikramanayake from California State University Northridge while she uses our facilities to section, label, and image frog brains for markers of neuronal activation.
Cameron pipettes their way into the lab! The lab welcomes Cameron Badger, an undergraduate student interested in learning more about animal behavior research. First up - qPCR experiments. Then on to some bioacoustics!
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Our primary goal is to understand the processes that shape evolutionary trajectories. We focus on the mechanisms of convergent evolution of behavioral and morphological traits. We link molecular, neural, and developmental mechanisms to their consequences for organismal phenotypes, and we investigate the neural and hormonal mechanisms of context- or experience-dependent changes in behavior.
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