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| 4 April 2012 | The stickleback genome paper was published today - check out the beautiful article, as well as the News and Views in Nature! | ||
| 30 March 2012 | Jen Cech was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Way to end the Peichel Lab streak of Honorable Mentions! | ||
| 5 March 2012 | Awesome news - Anna Greenwood has received a research grant from NSF to support her work on schooling behavior!!! | ||
| 20 Jan 2012 | Science wrote an article on Anna's talk at the 2012 SICB meeting - Anna presented the work she and Abby have done on the genetic and neural basis of schooling behavior. | ||
| December 2011 | Registration is now open for the 7th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution in Seattle, WA July 29 - August 3, 2012. | ||
| 6 Oct 2011 | The Peichel Lab moved to our new digs! Come visit us in C2-201! | ||
| 1 Sept 2011 | Mike White joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. We are glad Mike is here to work on the evolution of the stickleback Y chromosome. | ||
| 17 Aug 2011 | Jen Cech was awarded a position on the Chromosome Metabolism and Cancer Training Grant to support her project on centromere evolution. | ||
| 21 July 2011 | James Urton defended his PhD “The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determination Mechanisms in Stickleback Fishes (Gasterosteidae)”. Nice work James! | ||
| 20 June 2011 | Welcome to our newest graduate student, Jen Cech! | ||
| 25 Mar 2011 | Anna and Abby’s paper on schooling behavior was published today in PLoS ONE. You can see videos of the awesome “Model School Assay” here or by accessing the Supporting Information for the paper. | ||
| 4 Nov 2010 | For the 8th year in a row, the Peichel Lab opened the doors of the stickleback facility to hundreds of high school sophomores from Washington State as part of the FHCRC “Hutch High”. Thanks to Shaun McCann for teaching these students (almost) everything he knows about sticklebacks. | ||
| 3 June 2010 | Abby Wark defended her PhD dissertation "Genetic and neural contributions to social behavior in sticklebacks" in the UW Neurobiology and Behavior Program. | ||
| 14 May 2010 |
Amanda Bruner defended her Master's thesis in the UW School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. In recognition of her scholarship and service to the community, Amanda has been given a Faculty Merit Award from the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences AND was named a Graduate Dean's Medalist in the College of the Environment! | ||
| 11 Jan 2010 | Katie spoke at the inaugural Pacific Science Center Science Café in Kirkland. You can watch the video here. | ||
| 12 Oct 2009 | Jun's article on sex chromosomes and speciation in the Japanese stickleback species was published today in Nature. You can listen to a Nature podcast from 01 October 2009 here. | ||
| 30 July 2009 | Duncan Reid was awarded a spot on the University of Washington Genome Training Grant. | ||
| 17 June 2009 | We always knew stickleback researchers were pretty smart, but now we know that sticklebacks are too! In fact they have been proclaimed as the "geniuses of the fish world." Read all about it here. | ||
| 2 April 2009 | Congratulations to Amanda Bruner for receiving a second year of funding on the University of Washington NSF GK-12 grant in Marine Science. You can read about Amanda's experiences teaching high school students about the environment here. | ||
| 15 Feb 2009 | In honor of Darwin's 200th birthday, a front page article in the Seattle Times highlights the threespine stickleback as "Darwin's Fishes". The article features work from the Peichel lab, as well as that of our collaborators: the Schluter Lab at UBC and the Kingsley Lab at Stanford. | ||
| 8 Aug 2008 | News backlog:
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| 16 May 2008 | Jun and Katie's Current Biology article (published online yesterday) on the "reverse evolution" of sticklebacks in Seattle's Lake Washington has garnered a lot of local and national media attention, including a spot on KIRO-TV's news yesterday, and in the following print and online outlets: | ||
| 9 May 2008 | Spring News updates:
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| 21 Feb 2008 | A recent NY Times article, once again!, features impacts of fish research and contains a quote from our famous Dr. Peichel! | ||
| 30 Jan 2008 | Welcome to Melissa Caras, who recently began her grad student rotation in our lab! Also, today's NY Times e-front page features a link to a journalist's review on recent publications demonstrating parallel evolution in sticklebacks. They're famous! | ||
| 16 July 2007 | While Anna is on the East coast studying pufferfish for the summer, we've been experiencing an influx of new lab members: Adam Knappe, a summer undergraduate student, is the new Anna (working on related projects while she's away), and Tessa Lageson has joined the team to help with fish husbandry and some research. Finally, in preparation for Amanda's "departure" to the U.W. Fisheries Master's program this Fall, our new technician, Shaun, is starting today. Welcome, all! | ||
| 14 June 2007 | Congratulations to Martin Escandon, our long-time undergraduate researcher, who has graduated from the U. of Washington and, sadly, will be leaving our lab. We all wish you much success Martin! | ||
| 12 Feb 2007 | Yet more congratulations are in order to Jun Kitano, for receiving a scholarship to attend the "Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments" international summit in Los Angeles, and to Martin Escandon for receiving a Mary Gates Undergraduate Endowment for Research award! | ||
| 9 Jan 2007 | We were recently informed that stickleback research has been invoked in a controversy surrounding the science of "gay sheep" (science of sexual behavior)! The following blog contains a link to Katie's U. of Washington faculty page. All publicity is good publicity, right? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/4/134158/4348 | ||
| 7 Feb 2007 | Congratulations to Anna Greenwood, who was recently notified that she is the recipient of a Grass Fellowship to study at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole this summer. We'll miss her, but we're sure she'll have fun studying pufferfish. Even though sticklebacks are obviously superior model organisms... | ||
| 26 Sept 2006 | Congratulations to James Urton, who was recently notified that he was accepted onto the Genome Training Grant for the upcoming year. Well done bringing money to the lab, James! | ||
| 18 July 2006 | An initial annotation of the stickleback genome has been released at Ensembl. This release includes locations of mRNA and gene predictions on the genome scaffolds. The address is available on the Links page. We've also added a new resource: a stickleback research image gallery. It can be accessed by using the links at the left; we only have two images at present, but will certainly add more. We hope that this gallery will allow the dissemination of a variety of "visual" stickleback research and data (not only photographs but movies, figures, etc.) | ||
| 20 June 2006 | We're experiencing an increase in lab size! For the Summer, we'll be having two undergrads working with us: Martin (with Tiffany) and Amanda P. (with Anna). Also, James Urton, a grad student from the Molecular and Cell Biology department at U. of Washington, has decided to join our lab and officially started yesterday. Welcome all! Also, please read this recent NY Times article about how humans can impinge on the evolution of new species (including sticklebacks) by causing hybridization. | ||
| 20 Jan 2006 | Welcome to the Peichel Lab website! We're happy to bring you this brand-new website; please enjoy! | ||
| 23 Dec 2005 | Sticklebacks have been recently listed by Science magazine as one of the systems used in studies deemed to be the "Breakthrough of the Year 2005: Evolution in Action". Also, watch a wonderful video detailing this Science feature. (Science 310(5756): 1878-1879. 23 December 2005). Genetic studies of evolution in sticklebacks were listed among Discover magazine's Top 100 science stories of 2005 (Discover 27(1) January 2006). | ||
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