Also congratulations to Matthew Treaster and Jenny McCann who received the best presentations at the meeting!
Stickleback collecting
Tyler Downs completed a summer internship in our lab through the “Summer Undergraduate Fellowships in Genetics.” Tyler worked with graduate student mentor Katie Benjamin on the project.
Matthew gave a talk as a finalist for the Hamilton Award! Jenny, Alexis, and Katie also presented posters.
Congratulations to Alexis Lambert for successfully passing her qualifying exam, “Sex-Specific Differences of Meiotic Recombination in Threespine Sticklebacks.” Alexis is now officially a Ph.D. candidate!
Congratulations to Jenny McCann for successfully passing her qualifying exam, “Investigating the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of a neo-functionalized sex determining gene.” Jenny is now officially a Ph.D. candidate!
Jenny, Alexis, and Kyra all presented posters. Congratulations to Matthew for being awarded the best presentation!
Jenny presented research and represented our lab for the first time at this meeting.
Congratulations to Jenny for receiving an ARCS Foundation Scholarship Award! Jenny will use this award to study how the threespine stickleback sex determination gene is regulated.
Matthew and Jenny both highlighted their research with a poster presentation.
Congratulations to Matthew for being named a finalist for the best poster award!
