Montooth Lab News
April 2019: Mr. Buchanan defends his PhD to become Dr. Buchanan! Justin will be transitioning this summer to investigating disease dynamics in Tribolium with Prof Ann Tate at Vanderbilt University.
April 2019: Dr Omera Matoo, Cole Julick and Kristi report how larvae use plasticity in metabolic pathways to compensate mutations in energy metabolism in a newly accepted paper in GENETICS! Check out these correlations that show how natural genetic variation in mitochondrial respiration (State3), TCA cycle (CS activity), and anaerobic ATP production (indicated by lactate accumulation) correlates across development and among genotypes, particularly during in the second instar as individuals shift from dependence on anaerobic to aerobic ATP production! Also some dramatic shifts in metabolic scaling with mass across larval development.
January 2019: A symposium on mito-nuclear evolution has been chosen for ESEB 2019 in Turku Finland! Kristi is excited to join Ron Burton as an invited speaker. Thanks to Flo Camus and Hernan Morales for organizing! Please consider submitting an abstract.
January 2019: The lab had a wonderful time attending SICB 2019 in Tampa, where we all shared a large Airbnb (left and center). There were symposia on mito-nuclear ecology and on disease dynamics, which kept us very busy. It was an inspiring week of integrative organismal biology. This semester will have its challenges, as Kristi teaches 200-level Genetics for the first time and takes over as SICB DCPB Program Officer! Thank goodness for our weekly writing retreat (right).
January 2019: The lab had a wonderful time attending SICB 2019 in Tampa, where we all shared a large Airbnb (left and center). There were symposia on mito-nuclear ecology and on disease dynamics, which kept us very busy. It was an inspiring week of integrative organismal biology. This semester will have its challenges, as Kristi teaches 200-level Genetics for the first time and takes over as SICB DCPB Program Officer! Thank goodness for our weekly writing retreat (right).
October 2018: It's official, we will have another butterfly system in the lab this Fall, as we embark on a new collaboration on winter-warming effects on diapausing small white cabbage moth pupae with Emily Mikucki and Dr. Brent Lockwood at the Univ of Vermont.
September 2018: Kristi, Omera and Imogen visit the University of Iowa to learn more about the New Zealand mud snail that we are working on in collaboration with the Neiman Lab
September 2018: John DeLong and Kristi received an NSF Rules of Life EAGER award to integrate thermal performance curves from molecular physiology to population dynamics in Drosophila and Paramecium!
August 2018: Kristi is elected DCPB program officer for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
August 2018: Justin Buchanan's first chapter of this thesis is published in Integrative and Comparative Biology.
August 2018: Dr. Jessica Hite starts as an NIH NRSA fellow and she has started working with flies ... the Daphnia of the Montooth Lab!
July 2018: Dr. Ibrahim El-Shesheny joins the lab as a visiting scholar from the University of Tanta Egypt. Welcome Dr. Ibrahim!
July 2018: We have a new NSF grant in collaboration with Drs. Maurine Neiman and Joel Sharbrough to investigate genomic and functional consequences of mitochondrial-nuclear interactions in the New Zealand mud snail!
June 2018: The first UNVEIL network symposium on the Genomics of Adaptation was a great success at Flathead Lake in Montana! #evomontana2018
May 2018: Omera has been chosen as an UNVEIL postdoctoral researcher for the next 2 years to work on thermal performance and mito-nuclear variance in the NZ mud snail.
May 2018: Three new UCARE projects were awarded to support the independent undergraduate research projects of Jenny Libov, Olivia Miller and Lauren Reiman!
Fall 2017: We established the NSF-funded UNVEIL network along with Jay Storz, Colin Meiklejohn, and University of Montana faculty Zac Cheviron, Lila Fishman, Jeff Good, Scott Mills and Dane Scott. We will be Using Natural Variation to Educate, Innovate and Lead, as well as connect genetic to phenotypic variation in the context of adaptations of natural populations to their environment. In addition, we are working on applications of this knowledge to the field of ethics in conservation genetics.
10-27-2017: We have a new website!
August 2018: Kristi is elected DCPB program officer for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
August 2018: Justin Buchanan's first chapter of this thesis is published in Integrative and Comparative Biology.
August 2018: Dr. Jessica Hite starts as an NIH NRSA fellow and she has started working with flies ... the Daphnia of the Montooth Lab!
July 2018: Dr. Ibrahim El-Shesheny joins the lab as a visiting scholar from the University of Tanta Egypt. Welcome Dr. Ibrahim!
July 2018: We have a new NSF grant in collaboration with Drs. Maurine Neiman and Joel Sharbrough to investigate genomic and functional consequences of mitochondrial-nuclear interactions in the New Zealand mud snail!
June 2018: The first UNVEIL network symposium on the Genomics of Adaptation was a great success at Flathead Lake in Montana! #evomontana2018
May 2018: Omera has been chosen as an UNVEIL postdoctoral researcher for the next 2 years to work on thermal performance and mito-nuclear variance in the NZ mud snail.
May 2018: Three new UCARE projects were awarded to support the independent undergraduate research projects of Jenny Libov, Olivia Miller and Lauren Reiman!
Fall 2017: We established the NSF-funded UNVEIL network along with Jay Storz, Colin Meiklejohn, and University of Montana faculty Zac Cheviron, Lila Fishman, Jeff Good, Scott Mills and Dane Scott. We will be Using Natural Variation to Educate, Innovate and Lead, as well as connect genetic to phenotypic variation in the context of adaptations of natural populations to their environment. In addition, we are working on applications of this knowledge to the field of ethics in conservation genetics.
10-27-2017: We have a new website!
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