Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
Courtney Passow received an Alvin and RosaLee Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship in Molecular Biology from the K-State Graduate School. This award is intended to recognize exceptional achievement in scholastics and research. Recipients must show evidence of effective communication of research…
Ryan Greenway has been selected to receive a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Ryan’s projects primarily focus on understanding speciation in sulfide spring fishes. He combines field work, experimental approaches, and genomics to disentangle...
Courtney Passow received a Grand Challenges in Biology Postdoctoral Program Fellowship of the University of Minnesota. She will start her postdoctoral fellowship this fall upon graduating from the Biology Ph.D. program. She will primarily be working with blind Mexican cavefish...
On a recent visit to the Cueva del Azufre, our research efforts were covered by TV Azteca in Villahermosa. Members of our team and the BBC were interviewed by reporter Fanny Lopez. The two segments below were part of a...
In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation to hydrogen sulfide springs, we have been working with Joanna Kelley’s lab at Washington State University to sequence and analyze transcriptomes from multiple population of sulfide spring fishes of the...
The National Science Foundation continues its support of our projects investigating how fishes adapt to toxic, hydrogen sulfide rich environments. We will compare closely related populations that live in adjacent sulfidic or nonsulfidic habitats to identify differences in genetic, biochemical,...
Garrett Hopper successfully defended his Master’s thesis investigating how darter morphology and trophic ecology vary along environmental gradients. Congratulations! Garrett is continuing his graduate career at KSU and will work towards a Ph.D in Keith Gido’s lab. We wish you...
Since 1951, Nobel Prize winners and students in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine have met annually in Lindau, located on Lake Constance in southwestern Germany. Courtney Passow was selected to be among 600 of the “world’s best and brightest...