Classes are starting, the undergraduates are returning to campus, and the Hoke Lab has moved to the new Biology building at Colorado State University. New college students are just beginning their academic year, but 2017 has already been a busy year for the Hoke Lab! Below are some of the highlights from Spring and Summer 2017:
In January, the Hoke Lab took on a new Research Assistant, Leorah McGinnis. Check out the “People” tab to get to know her better.
In February, Kim Dolphin, Laura Stein and Will Roberts went to Trinidad for a field trip to collect more guppies. Read about the Trindadian guppy system here!
In May, Kim Hoke and Laura attended the IBANGS 2017 Genes, Brain and Bahaviour conference in Madrid, Spain. Laura presented a poster on trait correlations in guppies.
Also in May, Kim D. gave her first talk on plasticity and courtship behavior at the 2017 Poeciliid Meeting (7th Conference of Poeciliid Biologists) in Norman, Oklahoma.
In June, Laura attended the Methods in Ecological Genomic Analysis 2017 workshop at the Mote Tropical Research Laboratory in the Florida Keys, where she learned about gene expression analysis using TAG seq.
In July, Kim D. and Laura went to Telluride, Colorado to do outreach with kids ages 5-10 through the Pinhead Institute. They used live guppies to teach lessons about natural selection, genetics and evolutionary biology.
Also in July, Jacob Edwards presented a poster on "Plasticity and stability in the amphibian CNS over metamorphosis” at the Developmental Neurobiology Course in Okinawa, Japan where he learned about CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing and light-sheet microscopy using zebrafish.
Kim Hoke returned from her sabbatical in July. It gave her time to read a lot of papers and synthesize even more fields of biology into her thinking. In Part I, she visited her field sites in Peru and built a new relationship with Mario Penna in Chile, which could lead to new future field sites. In Part II, she received a fellowship from Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study to work with Hans Gerd Nothwang and Ulrike Sienknecht in Germany.
In August, Laura gave a talk on guppy maternal effects at the Behaviour 2017 conference in Estoril, Portugal.
We also welcomed three REU students into the lab this summer. Check out the “People” tab to get to know them better.
Check back here on the homepage for more updates on outreach, conferences, and more as we head into Fall 2017! In the mean time you can keep up with us on Twitter.
In January, the Hoke Lab took on a new Research Assistant, Leorah McGinnis. Check out the “People” tab to get to know her better.
In February, Kim Dolphin, Laura Stein and Will Roberts went to Trinidad for a field trip to collect more guppies. Read about the Trindadian guppy system here!
In May, Kim Hoke and Laura attended the IBANGS 2017 Genes, Brain and Bahaviour conference in Madrid, Spain. Laura presented a poster on trait correlations in guppies.
Also in May, Kim D. gave her first talk on plasticity and courtship behavior at the 2017 Poeciliid Meeting (7th Conference of Poeciliid Biologists) in Norman, Oklahoma.
In June, Laura attended the Methods in Ecological Genomic Analysis 2017 workshop at the Mote Tropical Research Laboratory in the Florida Keys, where she learned about gene expression analysis using TAG seq.
In July, Kim D. and Laura went to Telluride, Colorado to do outreach with kids ages 5-10 through the Pinhead Institute. They used live guppies to teach lessons about natural selection, genetics and evolutionary biology.
Also in July, Jacob Edwards presented a poster on "Plasticity and stability in the amphibian CNS over metamorphosis” at the Developmental Neurobiology Course in Okinawa, Japan where he learned about CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing and light-sheet microscopy using zebrafish.
Kim Hoke returned from her sabbatical in July. It gave her time to read a lot of papers and synthesize even more fields of biology into her thinking. In Part I, she visited her field sites in Peru and built a new relationship with Mario Penna in Chile, which could lead to new future field sites. In Part II, she received a fellowship from Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study to work with Hans Gerd Nothwang and Ulrike Sienknecht in Germany.
In August, Laura gave a talk on guppy maternal effects at the Behaviour 2017 conference in Estoril, Portugal.
We also welcomed three REU students into the lab this summer. Check out the “People” tab to get to know them better.
Check back here on the homepage for more updates on outreach, conferences, and more as we head into Fall 2017! In the mean time you can keep up with us on Twitter.