The Stuckert lab welcomes two new lab members! Courtney Whitcher has joined the lab as a postdoc to work on the mechanisms of biofluorescence in amphibians. John Nguyen has joined the lab as a PhD student to examine the evolution of conspicuous coloration in caecilians.

The lab has completed its first field season in Peru! This was a monumental chunk of work from lab members Andrew Rubio, Ashley Dye, Emily Graves, and Galina Aglyamova.

Great news! Grad student Galina Aglyamova has been awarded an NSF GRFP, and incoming grad student John Nguyen has received an Honorable Mention for the NSF GRFP.

The lab has been awarded an NSF EDGE grant to examine the evolutionary transition from striped to spotted phenotypes in two parallel groups (Epipedobates and Ranitomeya). This is a collaborative project with Becca Tarvin (Berkeley), Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley), and Roberto Márquez (VT).