| -August 2012: Windsor Aguirre attended the Seventh International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution held at Bainbridge Island (Seattle) July 29-Aug 3, 2012. For pictures click here |  | 
| -June 2012: Alex Confer obtained a veterinary internship at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Way to go Alex! |  | 
| -June 2012: Rupi Padhiar obtained a fellowship to attend Des Moines University’s Health Professions Advanced Summer Scholars Program. Congratulations to Rupi! |  | 
| -June 2012: Windsor Aguirre was interviewed by DePaul's Newsline for his discovery of a new suckermouth catfish. See the article here |  | 
| -April 2012: The Aguirre Lab was mentioned in an online article published by National Geographic referring to a new species of suckermouth catfish that we helped discover in Southwestern Ecuador. See the article here |  | 
| -March 2012: Windsor Aguirre attended the PRIM&R IACUC Meeting in Boston. |  | 
| -March 2012: Windsor Aguirre's application for research leave was approved. Ecuador here we come... |  | 
| -March 3 2012: Vinh Vu and Rupi Padhiar participated in CAURS 2012. For pictures of the event, click here  |  | 
 
| -February 2012: Added a Links to Funding Opportunities page to the lab's website. |  | 
 
| -February 2012: A Miniprep protocol for isolating plasmid DNA from E. coli (molecular cloning) has been added to the lab's Protocols page. Thanks to Vinh Vu for preparing it! |  | 
 
| -January 2012: We now have an online list of the papers that we read for our weekly lab meetings: Click here for link. It can be accessed through the lab's Bibliography page. Better late than never! |  | 
 
| -January 2012: We have added a list of the lab's PCR primers to the protocols page: Click here for link. Thanks to Alex Confer for creating an electronic list of the primers! |  | 
 
| -November 2011: Congratulations to Vinh Vu for his Undergraduate Research Assistant Program Fellowship for Winter/Spring 2012. |  | 
 
| -September 2011: Windsor Aguirre joined the College of Health and Science's Curriculum Committee and the Biology Department's Graduate Committee. |  |