Student Research Week here at TAMU is the largest student-run research symposium in the nation, and highlights all the student research occurring on campus. This event aims to recognize and celebrate student research, and allows hundreds of students to showcase their work. This year, one of the students was our……
This month the Lawing Lab hosted a week-long meeting with their collaborators on the NSF-funded grant “Inferring the impacts of closely-related species on phenotypic evolution”. We were joined in College Station by Dr Jaime Zúñiga-Vega from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Dr Julio Rivera from the Henry M. Jackson……
Congrats to Postdoc Dr. Alex Howard for graduating from her PhD program back at the University of Cambridge. She graduated PhD Zoology for her work with Prof. Jason Head on the origin of snakes. Her dissertation is titled “Fossoriality in snakes: Perspectives from morphology and the fossil record”. You can……
Graduate students and postdocs of the Lawing Lab celebrated Darwin Day, where we shared fun facts about lizards with members of the public. Darwin Day is an annual event inspired by the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin, to “inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of……
Congratulations to graduate student Breann Richey and her two undergraduate researchers Audra Hicks and Taylor Leeder. They received fellowships through the LT Jordan Institute for International Awareness to study habitat use of invasive lizards in Italy
Congrats to PhD Candidate Breann Richey for passing her proposal defence. Breann is working on her project studying the invasive Italian Wall Lizard Podarcis siculus, in both its native and invasive range.
Congratulations to our PhD Candidate Rose Blanchard for her latest publication Predictability and conceptual repeatability of the predator-associated burst speed ecophenotype in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), published in Fish Biology You can read the paper here
