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!
Nathan gave what might be one of the best talks of all time while defending his masters thesis. Well done Nathan, we will miss you!
Annika visits for a few weeks and pipettes hundreds upon hundreds of qPCR reactions! The lab welcomes Annika from the University of Minnesota while she does some molecular work looking at the expression of glucocorticoid receptors in the frog brain.
Rachel Jacks has joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant, learning the ropes of tissue preparation for immunohistochemistry. Welcome Rachel!
Rachel Fleming was awarded best student presenter at SICB 2022 in the Division of Vertebrate Morphology. Congratulations!
Amir represented the lab's guppy research at Front Range Neuroscience Group's 2021 annual meeting. Way to go Amir!
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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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