LAB NEWS:

-2011/12:

-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.