Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on September 13, 2021
Interested in applying for RCN travel support to attend our Cambridge workshop in November? We will be cutting off applications in one week, so be sure to register soon and indicate that you’d like to be considered!
Recipients will be directly contacted by the RCN to arrange their travel. Please note that funding is limited — in addition to the event needing to be smaller in scale due to pandemic conditions — and only a portion of applicants will… Read more
Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on August 20, 2021
I had the privilege of spending two days at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/) in Dallas with Dr. Will Israelsen in April 2021. Dr. Israelsen studies the meadow jumping mouse, a small hibernating rodent, to understand how metabolic enzymes and pathways are regulated during hibernation. This lab exchange provided me the opportunity to discuss details of hibernation behavior and physiology; learn successful husbandry techniques and methods to similarly care for, create conditions conducive to hibernation… Read more
Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on February 24, 2021
The application deadline is May 3, 2021. More information about the program, the announcement and the link to the application form are all available HERE.
Program Equips Future Scientists to Build Bridges Between Life sciences and Mathematics
Training program launched by Instituto Serrapilheira and ICTP-SAIFR aims to prepare researchers to tackle today’s challenges in ecology and biology
Instituto Serrapilheira, in a joint venture with the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, is… Read more
Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on June 4, 2020
For the month of February I traveled from Ottawa, Canada to Las Vegas, Nevada to work under Dr. Frank van Breukelen at the University of Nevada to study tenrecs’ response to acute environmental hypoxia.
There are 34 species of tenrecs, ranging morphologically from what looks like a small field mouse to larger species which resemble otters! Dr. van Breukelen’s lab researches the common tenrec and houses the only research population in the world. Although they look like a small hedgehog… Read more
Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on May 5, 2020
Check out incredible footage of the Purple Martin research efforts taking place in the Amazon basin, produced by Into the Unknown
Posted by CEFNS Web Admin on March 11, 2020
My name is Shannon Medlock, I’m a first-year graduate student from Anchorage, AK studying at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). I study the gut and milk microbial communities of arctic ground squirrels. For the Research Coordination Network (RCN) lab exchange I am collaborating with Dr. Greg Caporaso’s lab at Northern Arizona University (NAU) where I am looking at Aberts squirrels, sometimes called tassel-eared squirrels, and their gut microbial communities using samples collected by Victor Zhang. The project examines… Read more