Levi presenting poster at SICB
Levi, representing the Chipojolab at SICB 2017. He presented recent results demonstrating behavioral flexibility in Anolis sagrei, which supports our previous findings “anoles are smarter than those of us who study them” and shows that we have a lot to learn.
The main component of Levi’s undergrad research, which evaluated risk taking behavior in lower vertebrates” was published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The title of the paper is “Male treefrogs in low conditions resume signaling faster following a simulated predator attack”
Congrats to Arianne for receiving a Sigma Xi, Grants-in-Aid of Research to support her research with lower vertebrates.
It is fitting that an “Idea and Perspective” that I co-author with Alex has made its debut in Ecology Letters at a time in which climate change finds itself on the cover of most major newspapers and a subject commonly mentioned in the US presidential campaign. The paper, entitled “A conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on ectotherm activity with implications for predicting responses to global change,” nicely illustrates the importance of having boots on the ground to measure variables at scales relevant to the species in question, or in other words, of doing natural history work in order to inform climate change models. You can read more about this paper in our blog.
Ellee and Knotchie
Our own Ellee has been selected to represent the Biology Graduate Students in the University of Missouri’s Graduate Student Leadership Development Program. As part of this system-wide program, she will be collaborating with doctoral students from the UM campuses to engage in professional development and leadership training. These activities will take place at each of the different campuses over the course of next year, and she promises to send post-cards from her epic travels to Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis.
Chipojolab participated in the campus-wide event to support diversity and graduate students at Mizzou
Ariannee and Eddie, part of the group shown fox news
