Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
Brandon Bassett successfully finished his summer internship through the Center of Veterinary Health Sciences Summer Research Training Program. Brandon not only established a method to expose sulfidic and non-sulfidic populations of mollies to H2S, but simultaneously kick-started a collaboration with…
Danielle Alba has received the Southwestern Association of Naturalist’s Howard McCarley Student Research Award for 2013. The award is granted to support students in higher education researching biota of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America and is given...
Our undergraduates Cierra Keith and Ryan Greenway have received support for their research. Cierra Keith, currently a Freshman Research Scholar at OSU, has received a Virginia Richmond Scholarship and a Hunter Stone Endowed Scholarship through the College of Arts and Science as well...
Courtney Passow was awarded a Fellowship of Graduate Student Travel by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). These fellowships are awarded to “provide students with funds for travel and other expenses at distant research laboratories, museums, or field sites....
Courtney Passow received the Vern Perish Award from the American Livebearer Association for her work on elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation in extremophile mollies. The Vern Parish Fund was established in memory of Vern Parish, one of ALA’s early...
Graduate student Courtney Passow has been awarded another honorable mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Considering the volume of applications received by the program, this is a fantastic accomplishment. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate...
As part of the Niblack Scholarship program at OSU, our very own Ryan Greenway talks about his research. Ryan has been working on a variety of projects, including estimating of matabolic rates in cavefish, swimming performance of red shiners, and...
Reid Morehouse received a Nancy Randolph Davis Scholarship. The scholarship supports OSU students who have demonstrated leadership and exemplary achievement in collegiate academic studies and/or exceptional talent in the creative and performing arts. Congratulations Reid!