Evolution in Extreme Environments
Tobler Lab at Kansas State University
Zach Culumber spearheaded a monumental effort to investigate phenotypic diversification and speciation in 112 species in livebearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. The resulting paper “Sex-specific evolution during the diversification...
Participants of the NSF-funded K-State Biology REU program have presented their research to the public during a Science Saturday event at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, KS. Throughout the summer, REU...
Several lab affiliates and collaborators are presenting our research at the 2017 Evolution Meeting in Portland, OR. Come and check out some of the presentations: Anthony Brown: Genome-scale data reveals that endemic...
Audrey Arner joined the lab to conduct research under the NSF-sponsored REU program at Kansas State University. Audrey studies biology and biological anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. This summer, she will...
Our collaborator Dr. Joanna Kelley received an Early Career Achievement Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University. Congratulations!
Nick Bart won a presentation award at the 2017 K-State Graduate Research, Arts, and Discovery (GRAD) Forum. Congratulations! His talk was entitled “Metabolic physiology and its significance for adapttaion to...
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...