Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
As part of the Kansas Science Communication Initiative (K-SCI), we are part of the organizing team of the first Science Communication Week at K-State. The week full of events includes community engagement events and professional development opportunities for scientists and communicators….
Audrey Arner received a $1,200 travel award from the REU Travel Grant Program of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. The award will allow Audrey to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, which is held early November 2017 in Phoenix,...
Michi was invited to talk about hydrogen sulfide physiology at the 2017 Biology Workshop organized by the Army Research Office and NASA. The workshop was held at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and designed to foster interactions...
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 of livebearing fishes” was just published in Nature Ecology &...
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 students have received training in how to communicate with public...
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 Poecilia populations from small sulfidic springs display no evidence of...
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 be investigated oxidative stress responses to H2S exposure in fish...
Our collaborator Dr. Joanna Kelley received an Early Career Achievement Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University. Congratulations!