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The road to investigating an ancestral mammal, Tenrec ecaudatus, as a model for mammalian heart regeneration I am currently a 2nd year integrative physiology PhD student in Dr. Frank van Breukelen’s laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The core focus of my dissertation is to investigate the physiology of Tenrec ecaudatus through functional imaging. Tenrecs are bizarre basoendothermic Afrotherian mammals. They are endemic to Madagascar and its surrounding islands where ambient temperatures often fluctuate >30°C and <20°C. Interestingly,…

"I believe, as you know... in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Furthermore I have plotted and triangulated the vectors of the interconnectedness of all things and traced them to a beach in Bermuda which it is therefore necessary for me to visit from time to time in the course of my investigations. I wish it were not the case, since, sadly, I am allergic to both the sun and rum punches, but then we all have our crosses to…

Update: The application period has concluded and selections will be made later this month. Thank you to everyone to applied! The application period is now open for our March 2023 workshop! We encourage you to apply for this NSF-sponsored learning, networking, and adventuring opportunity. The workshop will be held Amazonas, Brazil from 13-21 March 2023. Participants will tour the INPA facility at the initiation of the workshop and the remaining week will be on boats navigating the Rio Negro with…

As the RCN heads into its final year, we want to remind all our members that the final workshop is still happening! We're continuing to finalize everything with our (floating) event hosts, and will be opening the application form in December! March 2023 - Amazonas, Brazil   Stay tuned!

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Simon Lailvaux’s lab at the University of New Orleans. My research focuses on how varying energetic environments affect aspects of green anole (Anolis carolinensis) phenotypes and ultimately their offspring. To tackle my research questions, I used methods such as measuring gene expression of hormones involved in the response to varying environmental pressures. I wanted to expand my ability to identify and measure mechanisms that link the genotype to the phenotype. The Research Coordination…

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Michael Romero’s lab at Tufts University studying the broad effects of long-term chronic stress on the physiology of house sparrows. I noticed that the majority of chronic stress studies involved subjecting animals to one or two bouts of stress. While these studies are useful, they are not very ecologically relevant to what animals actually experience in the wild, which would likely involve more bouts of stress in their lifetime. In 2021, I conducted…

We received an announcement to share with the RCN members regarding the upcoming New England Future Faculty Workshop, presented by Northeastern University in partnership with Harvard Medical School. This year’s virtual workshop will be held on July 27th and 28th, and prepares participants for entry into the academic job market through sessions on finding their institutional fit, developing research, teaching, and diversity statements, honing interview and negotiation skills, time management, and planning their first year as faculty.  The workshop was created to serve members of groups whose representation in faculty positions is…

Dr. Irene Kaplow, Carnegie Mellon ‘Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning’

Dr. Mira Han, University of Nevada Las Vegas ‘Learning the effect of 3D genome organization on gene expression’

Dr. Kathleen Keough, Fauna Bio ‘Genome evolution over multiple timescales and dimensions'