Evolution in Extreme Environments
Tobler Lab at Kansas State University
Nick Barts has been selected to receive a GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) Fellowship. Nick’s projects primarily focuses on understanding biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation to...
Maura Palacios Mejia successfully defended her dissertation investigating phylogenetic relationships of species in the species Poecilia. Congratulations! We will you all the best for your future career.
With the help of an Engagement Incentive Grants from the K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development and support from Sunset Zoo, we are able to continue Science on Tap in...
Andrew Whitehead’s lab at UC Davis recently published an excellent paper about the genomic basis of adaptation to polluted waters in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). We were abole to provide...
Spencer Ingley and Gil Rosenthal wrote a nice digest entitled “Mechanisms of assortative mating and ecological speciation” on Ryan Greenway’s recent paper in Evolution.
Nick Barts received grants through the Charlotte Mangum Student Support Program as well as K-State’s Graduate Council to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology....
In a recent Science on Tap, Bryan Frenette, doctoral student in our lab, talked about the biology and conservation of North America’s most misunderstood fishes, the gars. Gars are common...
In collaboration with Jared Bixby and Nicole Wade from Sunset Zoo, our lab received a Engagement Incentive Grant from the Center for Engagement and Community Development at Kansas State University....
Courtney Passow successfully defended her dissertation investigating physiological and transcriptomic aspects of adaptation in Poecilia mexicana. Congratulations! Courtney is continuing her career at the University of Minnesota, where she is...
The US Army Research Office has funded an infrastructure project through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The $127,000 grant will provide the resources for the establishment of an...