This summer graduate students and faculty of the Zoology Department have been conducting research on a wide variety of topics and animals. Please find below some impressions of our accomplishments.
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OSU professor Ron Van Den Bussche collecting bats in Oklahoma. |
Graduate students Dana Lee and Justin Lack non-invasively collect tissue samples from a bat for genetic analyses. |
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Graduate student David Levering using a GPS unit to mark a field site. |
He excavated this fossil turtle shell during an internship with the National Park Service in Idaho over the summer (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument). |
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Graduate student Emily Hooser studied the effects of strobilurin fungicides on tadpoles of the toad Bufo cognatus. |
Graduate student David Haines performed surgery on juvenile green anoles to study how hormones affect their behavior. The picture shows an an anesthetized lizard right after surgery. |
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Graduate student Eric Johansen holding an adult soft shell turtle. Eric studies aquatic turtles in Oklahoma... |
... and occasionally also comes across other reptiles. |
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Graduate student Anna Hiatt joined the Evo Concept Inventory Working Group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC this summer and will continue to work with them to develop concept inventories to improve evolutionary understanding. |
Graduate student Reid Morehouse is sampling macroinvertebrate in northeastern Oklahoma, as part of a project that studies the distribution of endangered fish species. |
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Members of the Jeyasingh lab visited lakes in Minnesota to study the ecology and evolution of zooplankton. |
Their work included coring sediments and retrieving resting eggs of Daphnia to monitor changes in the genetic composition of populations over time. |
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Graduate student April Bagwill received a Research Coordination Network in Ecoimmunology grant and traveled to McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA to learn several microbiological/biochemical techniques investigating innate immune properties of the American alligator. |
She also participated in a wound healing study and collected information on how often female alligators are present at their nests after oviposition. The picture shows an alligator nest with a camera trap set in the background. |
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Graduate student Priyanka Chowdhury and her group won an award at the Ecological Genomics course she attended in Maine. |
Graduate student Andrea Acevedo is noosing collard lizards at Sooner Lake. |