Interested in joining the lab as an undergraduate or Master's student?! Email Zach (zstahlschmidt@pacific.edu).
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Spring 2020
Alyssa, Cindy, and Jacob presented their work at the "virtual" Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. They did an excellent job representing the lab and department while presenting in both poster and oral formats!
Another paper from the lab ("Life history and immune challenge influence metabolic plasticity to food availability and acclimation temperature") was accepted. This one was written by Jordan and Zach, and it will be published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
More good news! Our paper ("Dehydration enhances cellular and humoral immunity in a mesic snake community") was accepted by Journal of Experimental Zoology - A. This was a collaboration among members of our lab (Garrett, Andy, and Zach) and colleagues at Arizona State University, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the Spring Island Trust.
Some good news in uncertain times: Dustin's thesis was accepted as a paper ("City limits: Heat tolerance is influenced by body size and hydration state in an urban ant community") in Ecology and Evolution!
Winter 2019 - 2020
The lab had a blast at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology in Austin! Sugjit, Lauren, Alyssa, and Jacob presented their work from our lab (see their abstracts here, here, here, and here).
Fall 2019
More recent alumni (Christina and Iris) and Zach just had a paper ("When do looks matter? Effects of mate quality and environmental variability on lifetime reproduction") accepted by Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology!
Several lab alumni (Narin, Dustin, and Nick) and Zach's paper ("From phenoloxidase to fecundity: Food availability does not influence the costs of oxidative challenge in a wing-dimorphic cricket") was accepted by the Journal of Comparative Physiology B!
After a busy summer of writing and fieldwork, the fall semester is underway! We are excited to have Lauren Harter join our team as the newest grad student in the lab. She made the trek from Pennsylvania and has started up a project focused on the costs of cross-tolerance and hardening associated with heat and desiccation.
*** NEWS ***
Spring 2020
Alyssa, Cindy, and Jacob presented their work at the "virtual" Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. They did an excellent job representing the lab and department while presenting in both poster and oral formats!
Another paper from the lab ("Life history and immune challenge influence metabolic plasticity to food availability and acclimation temperature") was accepted. This one was written by Jordan and Zach, and it will be published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
More good news! Our paper ("Dehydration enhances cellular and humoral immunity in a mesic snake community") was accepted by Journal of Experimental Zoology - A. This was a collaboration among members of our lab (Garrett, Andy, and Zach) and colleagues at Arizona State University, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the Spring Island Trust.
Some good news in uncertain times: Dustin's thesis was accepted as a paper ("City limits: Heat tolerance is influenced by body size and hydration state in an urban ant community") in Ecology and Evolution!
Winter 2019 - 2020
The lab had a blast at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology in Austin! Sugjit, Lauren, Alyssa, and Jacob presented their work from our lab (see their abstracts here, here, here, and here).
Fall 2019
More recent alumni (Christina and Iris) and Zach just had a paper ("When do looks matter? Effects of mate quality and environmental variability on lifetime reproduction") accepted by Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology!
Several lab alumni (Narin, Dustin, and Nick) and Zach's paper ("From phenoloxidase to fecundity: Food availability does not influence the costs of oxidative challenge in a wing-dimorphic cricket") was accepted by the Journal of Comparative Physiology B!
After a busy summer of writing and fieldwork, the fall semester is underway! We are excited to have Lauren Harter join our team as the newest grad student in the lab. She made the trek from Pennsylvania and has started up a project focused on the costs of cross-tolerance and hardening associated with heat and desiccation.
