Ryan Palmieri, an undergraduate student in Genetics, joined the lab this semester for research. Ben Wortman, an ILS student, is doing his first rotation with us currently, as well!
Congratulations to Matthew for receiving an ARCS Foundation Scholarship Award! Matthew will use this award to further study the evolution of genetic sex determination using threespine stickleback.
Members of the White lab presented research, received awards, and caught up with the stickleback commutity at the 10th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution.
Daniel Shaw tied for the award for the best graduate student talk!
Matthew Treaster attracted a large crowd during the poster session.
Mike White presented on past and current work in the lab on meiotic double strand break repair.
Members of the lab made sure to take some time to explore this beautiful country!
This conference is a great opportunity to catch up with old friends in the community, such as Mike White’s previous postdoctoral advisor, Dr. Catherine Peichel, pictured here.
The White Lab hosted undergraduate student Jasmine Brown through UGA’s Summer Undergraduate Fellowships in Genetics. We loved having you in the lab this summer!!
Jasmine presented her research on Sexual Dimorphism of the Threespine Stickleback Meiotic Chromosome Axis.
Brittany Dorsey had a great time training Jasmine on cytogenetic techniques.
Members of the White Lab traveled to Seattle, Washington to do field collection for threespine and brook stickleback. The brooks will be new to the lab, and the threespines collected will help maintain genetic diversity in our lab colony.
This is one of the tools used for fish collection.
Matthew Treaster is making a field cross to send embryos back to the lab.
The brooks were found at Pine Lake. It was overcast but beautiful!
Congratulations to Daniel Shaw for receiving an American Genetic Association’s 2022 Evolutionary, Ecological and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Award. With this award money, he will produce high quality long read genome assemblies to investigate the evolution of centromeres and structural variation in the stickleback genome.
Additionally, congratulations to Matthew Treaster for receiving an R.C. Lewontin Early Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution to characterize the expression patterns of Amhy to better understand how Amhy evolved novel function in sex determination.
Congratulations to Daniel and the lab on our first review paper! Check out his excellent work in Trends in Genetics.
Congratulations to Matthew Treaster for successfully passing his qualifying exam, presenting on “Characterizing the function of Amhy in sex determination in threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.” We are so excited you are officially a Ph.D. candidate!
Members of the lab set up a station with albino stickleback embryos to view under the microscope and an interactive strawberry DNA extraction. It was a hit with the students and parents alike!
Shivangi Nath successfully defended her dissertation, “Exploring the Dynamics of Pairing and Double Strand Break Repair on the Sex Chromosomes of Threespine Sticklebacks.” We cannot wait to see what is next for you!
Shivangi’s defense was held via Zoom.
