Short video about Robbie Shone’s work in Villa Luz
Last May, Robbie Shone accompanied our expedition to Mexico to take photographs of some of the caves and sulfide spring we work in. He describes his experiences in a short...
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Extremophile fishes book goes in production
A book project co-edited with Rüdiger Riesch and Martin Plath finally went into production. “Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments” will be distributed by Springer...
Courtney Passow receives Ecological Genomics Symposium Travel Fellowship Award
Courtney Passow received an Travel Fellowship Award in order to attend the 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium in Kansas City. She will be presenting her new data about transcriptome variation among...
Zach Culumber joins to complete the lab
Zach Culumber joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher, completing the crew for the first year at Kansas State University. Zach received his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University and then...
Tobler lab research on extremophile fish featured in GEO magazine
GEO magazine – the European equivalent to National Geographic – published a 16-page feature article about our research on extremophile fishes in its September 2014 issue. This was made possible...
Congratulations to Tess, a Master of Science
Tess Doumas successfully defended her Master’s thesis investigating variation in energy physiology and behavior of extremophile mollies. Congratulations! Tess is moving on to the the University of Houston to work...
Reid is now Dr. Morehouse
Reid Morehouse successfully defended his dissertation today, congratulations! He is moving on to Kentucky State University, where he will be a Research Associate in the College of Agriculture, Food, and...
Two papers shed light on molecular mechanisms of sulfide adaptation
We published two papers this week shedding light into the molecular mechanisms of adaptation to H2S-rich environments. Both mechansisms that reduce internal H2S concentrations and mechanisms that allow coping with...
ALA’s Vern Perish Award to Danielle Alba
Danielle Alba received the Vern Perish Award from the American Livebearer Association for her work on elemental signatures of adaptation in extremophile mollies. The Vern Parish Fund was established in memory of Vern...
Ryan wins presentation award at Wentz Day
Ryan Greenway received – yet another – research excellence award at this years Wentz Day, at which recipients of the Wentz Research Project Awards showcase their findings and accomplishments. Congratulations,...