Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
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 video below. Cueva de Villa Luz in Mexico A little…
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 and is available early 2015. A number of authors have...
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 locally adapted cave and sulfide spring mollies. Congratulations!
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 obtained a two-year CONACyT Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universidad Autónoma...
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 by a three-man team that accompanied us on our expedition...
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 towards a Ph.D. We wish you all the best for...
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 Sustainable Systems. Best wishes for your future!
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 elevated internal concentrations appear to play a critical role, although...