A new research article resulting from a collaboration between the lab of Allison Coffin (WSU-Vancouver) and the Crespi Lab and in now available on-line:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595518303563?dgcid=rss_sd_all
Robyn was selected to give an oral presentation titled, “Leptin’s signaling role during limb and tail regeneration in Xenopus laevis tapdoles,” and Grace Curtis presented a poster titled, “Leptin as an angiogenic factor in developing Xenopus laevis tails,” at the 52nd Annual Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting, held March 20-22 at Friday Harbor Laboratories.
Erica Crespi, along with Robyn Reeve and Marietta Easterling, spent some time in Enrique Amaya’s lab at the Center for Regeneration and Cell Matrix Biology at the University of Manchester in the Fall 2018 semester. They were collaborating on experiments investigating the role of leptin in limb and tail regeneration in Xenopus. It was an amazing experience!
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!
Work conducted by collaborators Lucas Kirschman and Robin Warne of Southern Illinois University was recently published by Journal of Animal Ecology online ahead of press:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12778/abstract
Travis earned the Gil Pauley Travel Award for best graduate student presentation at the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 50th Anniversary Meeting, held Oct. 24, 2017, in Seattle, WA. Travis presented work he did in collaboration with Dr. Caren Goldberg (WSU School of the Environment), titled, “Genetically informed metapopulation viability analysis to understand effects of translocation on the last Northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) population.”
Eric Navarro was one of 117 graduate and undergraduate student presentation winners (from more than 1000 presentations) at the National Diversity in STEM Conference sponsored by the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah Oct. 19-21. His poster was titled, “Retention of learning through life stages in Xenopus laevis.” Eric is also an undergraduate McNair Scholar at WSU.
See article about Eric at:
https://sbs.wsu.edu/eric-navarro-is-named-a-winner-at-the-sacnas-conference/
Congratulations, Eric!
For more information: http://sacnas.org/2017/10/26/sacnas-awards-117-graduate-and-undergraduate-students-for-their-research-presentations-at-2017-sacnas/
SACNAS is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of Chicano/Hispanic and Native American scientists from college students to professionals in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and position of leadership in STEM.
The study titled, “Physiological consequences of exposure to salinized roadside ponds on wood frog larvae and adults” will be in press sometime this year. Co-authors included Steve Brady, Nichole Mattheus and Ryan Earley.