Author: michitobler

Michi received a Golden Torch Award from the Achafoa chapter of Mortar Board at Oklahoma State University. The award honors individuals that have made significant contributions toward the success of...

Selection by parasites on the MHC has been hypothesized to drive speciation. In Poecilia mexicana from the Cueva del Azufre system, we found that while parasites select for MHC diversity,...

Tobler lab students Reid Morehouse, Danielle Alba, and Ryan Greenway were recognized for their achievements at the annual zoology banquet at OSU: Reid Morehouse recived the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award...

After productive and exciting years at OSU, our lab will be moving to Kansas State University’s Division of Biology in August 2014. We are grateful for OSU’s continued support and...

Several people from the lab will be attending the SICB 2014 meeting in Austin from January 3-7. Look out for presentations by Ryan Greenway (on his work on sulfide spring...

Genome Web recently named our collaborator, Joanna Kelley, as one of the promising young investigators in genome biology. For this series of young investigators, Genome Web asked established principal investigators to...

Ryan Greenway presented his research at the third Karen L. Smith Undergraduate Research Symposium at OSU. At that occassion, he also received the Karen L. Smith Undergraduate Research Excellence Award...

Nature featured our recent Ecology Letters paper on life history evolution in sulfide spring fishes in their Research Highlights.

Rudy Riesch took the lead on a nice study of life history traits in sulfide spring fishes. Using a broad taxon sampling, the analyses indicate largely convergent patterns of evolution...

A long time in the making, Reid Morehouse’s first dissertation chapter finally hit the printing press at Zootaxa (see here). The paper includes a general review of the crayfish fauna...