Marietta Easterling and Robyn Reeve presented their research at the 51st Northwest Developmental Biology , held at Friday Harbor Marine Laboratory from March 14-17 2018. Marietta’s talk on leptin and limb development in Xenopus laevis was chosen for a oral presentation, and Robyn presented her poster of her research linking leptin signaling to melanocytes in X. laevis larvae.  Erica Crespi gave a talk on the success of incorporating inquiry-based labs in her Animal Development course at WSU.

Travis was the 2018 winner of the Anne & Russ Fuller Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research/Scholarship awarded by the WSU Graduate School. Congratulations, Travis!