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Tarvin Lab 2023 publication round-up
Tarvin Lab 2023 publication round-up

Quickly wanted to highlight some of our lab’s publications this year:

  1. Out in March, from a side project during my PhD and a collaboration with friend Anne Chambers: Chambers^, EA, RD Tarvin^, JC Santos, SR Ron, M Betancourth-Cundar, DM Hillis, MV Matz, and DC Cannatella. 2023. 2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is an effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics. Ecology and Evolution 13: e9842. PDF • https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9842 • Twitter Thread (3/10/23)

  2. Out in June, Kate Montana’s undergraduate thesis: Montana, KO, V Ramírez-Castañeda† and RD Tarvin. 2023. Are Pacific Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris regilla) resistant to tetrodotoxin (TTX)? Characterizing potential TTX exposure and resistance in an ecological associate of Pacific Newts (Taricha). Journal of Herpetology 57: 220—228. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1670/22-002 • PDF

  3. Out in October, Yin Chen Wan’s undergraduate thesis: Wan^, YC, MJ Navarrete^†, LA O’Connell, LH Uricchio, A Roland, ME Maan, SR Ron, M Betancourth-Cundar, MR Pie, K Howell, CL Richards-Zawacki, ME Cummings, DC Cannatella, JC Santos*, and RD Tarvin*. 2023. Selection on visual opsin genes in diurnal Neotropical frogs and loss of the SWS2 opsin in poison frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40: msad206. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad206 • PDF • Twitter Thread (10/21/22)

  4. Out in November, a Tarvin lab collaborative review paper: Tarvin*, RD, KC Pearson*, TE Douglas, V Ramírez-Castañeda, María José Navarrete. 2023. The diverse mechanisms animals use to resist toxins. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-102117 • PDF

  5. Also out in November, a response to a commentary about specimen collection: Nachman, MW, … RD Tarvin, et al. 2023. Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PLoS Biology 21:e3002318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318 • PDF

new publication, lab activitiesRebecca Tarvinundergraduate research, graduate research, Kate Montana, Kannon Pearson, Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, Maria Jose Navarrete-Mendez, Yin Chen Wan, Lawrence Uricchio, Tyler Douglas, Santiago Ron, Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar
JMIH 2022

A small contingent from the Tarvin Lab attended JMIH this year

Kannon Pearson and Becca Tarvin

But many folks from AmphibiaWeb were there…

Left to right: Emma Steigerwald, Alejandro Catenazzi, David Cannatella, David Blackburn, Rebecca Tarvin, Michelle Koo, Jim McGuire, Molly Womack

As well as many past and present UC Berkeley / MVZ people

conferences, lab activitiesRebecca TarvinKannon Pearson, Becca Tarvin
New lab photos posted

It’s been almost 2 years since we had our last group photo. Thanks to Carlie McGill for taking these for us. We are currently 16 strong with 4 graduate students, 2 postdocs, and 10 undergraduate students. Go Bears!

Back Row (Left to Right): Ines Huret (ugrad), Bri Baumbach (ugrad), Genna Mount (pdoc, in paper), Vashee Shenthan (ugrad), Kannon Pearson (grad student), Luis Jazo (ugrad), Rebecca Tarvin (PI), Inga Conti-Jerpe (pdoc, in paper), Puja Iyer (ugrad), Ameya Joshi (ugrad), Tyler Douglas (grad student)

Front Row (Left to Right): Marc Bonnot (ugrad), Nikki Lemus (postbac), Majo Navarrete (grad student), Valeria Ramírez Castañeda (grad student), Jacob Saal (ugrad)

lab activities, new team memberRebecca Tarvin