Ryan Greenway won presentation award
Ryan Greenway won the James E. Ackert Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation. Congratulations! J.E. Ackert was a long-time Dean of the Graduate School. He was a Parasitologist in the...
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Article on cave mollies published by the BBC
BBC Earth recently published an article on cave mollies from the Cueva del Azufre and the annual La Pesca ritual conducted by the Zoque people. The article provides a nice...
Courtney Passow receives Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship
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...
Ryan Greenway receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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....
Courtney Passow receives $100K postdoctoral fellowship
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....
TV Azteca features the Cueva del Azufre
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...
Sulfide spring fish transcriptomes
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...
NSF continues its support of sulfide spring fish projects
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...
Congratulations to Garrett, a Master of Science
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...
Courtney Passow selected to participate in Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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...