In July 2023, Poppy Northing left the lab to start graduate school at the University of Arizona. In September 2023, we hired Nuzha Baksh as our new lab technician. Nuzha comes to us after spending a year in Madagascar in the Brook lab at U Chicago.
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)
It’s grant season…
Valeria was awarded a Tinker Field Research Grant from the Center for Latin America Studies at UC Berkeley
Valeria, Majo, and Tyler each received funding from the MVZ for summer research
Kannon Pearson was recognized by the Rausser College Dean’s Office of Instruction and Student Affairs Award Committee with the Kenneth L. Babcock Prize in Environmental Science for his outstanding research and outreach efforts. Kannon will be joining us as a new graduate student in the fall.
TBD was awarded an NSF PRFB and will be joining the lab in the fall. More information soon!
Sofia Beskind, currently an undergraduate researcher in the Matz Lab at UT Austin, will be joining us this summer to do research on Epipedobates, funded by an NSF REU grant that she received. Congrats Sofia!
Novia Kayfetz-Vuong is a new undergraduate in the lab. She will be picking up the RNAseq project on nudibranchs started by Yin Chen Wan and Noah Martin. Welcome Novia!
