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Crespi Lab October 2019

Marietta Easterling (Ph.D., ’19) starts postdoctoral research position at University of North Carolina Medical Center

Marietta Easterling graduated in August with her Ph.D in August with the successful defense of her dissertation, “Leptin: A Novel role as a nutritional modulator of limb development and regeneration in Xenopus leaves tadpoles.” She  started this month as a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Bressan at the University of North Carolina  School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, where she will be studying morphogenic patterning and differentiation of the heart.  We miss you Marietta! Best of luck!!

Review on endocrine and environmental regulation of regeneration published in General and Comparative Endocrinology

Marietta Easterling (Ph.D., ’19) and Kristin Engbrecht (MS, ’14) put together a great review on how the environment affects epimorphic regeneration (regeneration of structures) and what is known about the endocrine factors that regulate regeneration.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.113220

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648019302400

 

 

 

Crespi lab participates in Washington state Northern leopard frog reintroduction project

In a project lead by graduate student Bernie Traversari, we were able to work with Washington Department Fish and Wildlife and the Oregon Zoo, raised Northern leopard frog tadpoles at our Airport Gardens research site and released almost 200 recently metamorphosed frogs at the Columbia Wildlife Preserve. This is a part of a reintroduction program to sustain a new population of Northern leopard frogs in Washington, where it is locally endangered. Read more about the releases event that occurred this summer.