Interested in joining the lab?! Email Zach (zstahlschmidt@pacific.edu).
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Fall 2017
Backyard ANTology was one of several local citizen science projects featured by the Lodi News-Sentinel (read more here)!
The lab welcomes two new M.S. students: Dustin Johnson is busy expanding his appreciable ant experience (co-founder of Backyard ANTology) as his thesis will focus on the thermal biology of urban ants. Sugjit Singh (formerly of the Reznick Lab at UC-Riverside) will investigate the interactive effects of temperature and water availability on life history traits and tradeoffs using the lab's newest study species, Gryllus lineaticeps.
Summer 2017
Jordan and Zach wrapped up the bulk of the experiments outlined by the lab's NSF grant. An abundance of assays and data analysis await!
In collaboration with Caroline Williams' Lab, Jordan and Sugjit (see above) collected Gryllus lineaticeps from the lovely Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County. Having a (fairly) local species will allow us to maintain natural genetic variation in our colony and better parameterize lab manipulations based on environmental conditions in the field.
Spring 2017
Congrats to recent grads, Katherine Nguyen and Dustin Johnson! Katherine was named one of UOP's outstanding seniors, and Dustin has also been recognized for his outstanding achievements. Congrats also to Carolyn Pak and Iris Chu, as these two exemplary lab members are well on their way to making the arduous journey across the mighty Calaveras River to start the Doctor of Pharmacy program!
The lab (and Fern!) had a great time at the Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Iris Chu (abstract; poster), Narin Jeong (abstract; poster), and Katherine Nguyen (abstract; poster) did a fantastic job presenting their research projects.
The lab was awarded an REU Supplement from the National Science Foundation, which will fund Jihee Yoon as she investigates proteomic shifts due to factorial manipulations of heat wave, food limitation, and immune activation this summer.
Dustin and Zach are working with University of the Pacific's Garden Director, Patty Gray, and The Pacific Garden Program on a new project focused on characterizing the ant community in and around the university's Robb Garden.
In collaboration with Mike Butler and Susannah French's lab, we just had a paper ("Simulated heat waves have diverse effects on immune function and oxidative physiology in the cornsnake (Pantherophis guttatus)") accepted in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology!
Winter 2016-2017
The Stahlschmidt Lab and the University of the Pacific were well-represented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology in New Orleans-- click on the link HERE to check out photos.
*** NEWS ***
Fall 2017
Backyard ANTology was one of several local citizen science projects featured by the Lodi News-Sentinel (read more here)!
The lab welcomes two new M.S. students: Dustin Johnson is busy expanding his appreciable ant experience (co-founder of Backyard ANTology) as his thesis will focus on the thermal biology of urban ants. Sugjit Singh (formerly of the Reznick Lab at UC-Riverside) will investigate the interactive effects of temperature and water availability on life history traits and tradeoffs using the lab's newest study species, Gryllus lineaticeps.
Summer 2017
Jordan and Zach wrapped up the bulk of the experiments outlined by the lab's NSF grant. An abundance of assays and data analysis await!
In collaboration with Caroline Williams' Lab, Jordan and Sugjit (see above) collected Gryllus lineaticeps from the lovely Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County. Having a (fairly) local species will allow us to maintain natural genetic variation in our colony and better parameterize lab manipulations based on environmental conditions in the field.
Spring 2017
Congrats to recent grads, Katherine Nguyen and Dustin Johnson! Katherine was named one of UOP's outstanding seniors, and Dustin has also been recognized for his outstanding achievements. Congrats also to Carolyn Pak and Iris Chu, as these two exemplary lab members are well on their way to making the arduous journey across the mighty Calaveras River to start the Doctor of Pharmacy program!
The lab (and Fern!) had a great time at the Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Iris Chu (abstract; poster), Narin Jeong (abstract; poster), and Katherine Nguyen (abstract; poster) did a fantastic job presenting their research projects.
The lab was awarded an REU Supplement from the National Science Foundation, which will fund Jihee Yoon as she investigates proteomic shifts due to factorial manipulations of heat wave, food limitation, and immune activation this summer.
Dustin and Zach are working with University of the Pacific's Garden Director, Patty Gray, and The Pacific Garden Program on a new project focused on characterizing the ant community in and around the university's Robb Garden.
In collaboration with Mike Butler and Susannah French's lab, we just had a paper ("Simulated heat waves have diverse effects on immune function and oxidative physiology in the cornsnake (Pantherophis guttatus)") accepted in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology!
Winter 2016-2017
The Stahlschmidt Lab and the University of the Pacific were well-represented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology in New Orleans-- click on the link HERE to check out photos.
