Interested in joining the lab as an undergraduate or Master's student?! Email Zach (zstahlschmidt@pacific.edu).
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Spring 2021
Some great news for Sugjit. One of his thesis chapters has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology ("When it's hot and dry: Life-history strategy influences the effects of heat wave and water limitation"), and he was accepted into the Ecosystem Science and Management Ph.D. program at Penn State to work in Dr. Bradley Cardinale's new research group!
Fall 2020
Through a bit of luck and creativity, the lab is going strong as research shifts toward more at-home work (egg counting, microdissections, image analysis, meta-analyses, and writing) given remote-only instruction at Pacific for the semester.
Summer 2020
Cindy, Jacob, and Zach were each awarded summer funding (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Dreyfus Award, and Eberhardt Award, respectively) to investigate the combined effects of glyphosate-based herbicide (Roundup®) and temperature in field crickets-- from development to reproductive decisions.
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).
*** NEWS ***
Spring 2021
Some great news for Sugjit. One of his thesis chapters has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology ("When it's hot and dry: Life-history strategy influences the effects of heat wave and water limitation"), and he was accepted into the Ecosystem Science and Management Ph.D. program at Penn State to work in Dr. Bradley Cardinale's new research group!
Fall 2020
Through a bit of luck and creativity, the lab is going strong as research shifts toward more at-home work (egg counting, microdissections, image analysis, meta-analyses, and writing) given remote-only instruction at Pacific for the semester.
Summer 2020
Cindy, Jacob, and Zach were each awarded summer funding (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Dreyfus Award, and Eberhardt Award, respectively) to investigate the combined effects of glyphosate-based herbicide (Roundup®) and temperature in field crickets-- from development to reproductive decisions.
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).
