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LAB NEWS:
-2013/14:
-June 11, 2014: Grace Malato and Daniel Reyes passed their oral exams. Now if we can just get those theses done... |
-May 5, 2014: Marissa Locke was offered an internship at the Field Museum of Natural History. She will be working with Thorsten Lumbsch on a project examining speciation in lichens. Congratulations Marissa! That makes 3/3 for Summer research positions obtained by non-graduating students in our lab. |
-May 3, 2014: The Aguirre Lab participated in “Day at DePaul” on Saturday May 3, 2014. We gave a group of local 7th and 8th graders a tour of the lab and explained why science is awesome. |
-April 21, 2014: Lissette Arellano was awarded a Women in Science Internship at the Field Museum of Natural History. She will be working on a project involving Mammal Feeding Systems. Way to go Lissette! |
-April 12, 2014: Our paper on morphological and genetic divergence of Hoplias microlepis in rivers and artificial impoundments of western Ecuador won the Best Paper Award in the category of Young Scholar/Ichthyology for the 2013 volume of Copeia. |
-April 5, 2014: Lissette Arellano and Maxine Loh presented at the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 5, 2014. Great job Lissette and Maxine! |
-March 1, 2014: Seth Contreras, Grace Malato, Daniel Reyes and Cat Collins attended the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) in Dayton, Ohio. |
-March 1, 2014: Windsor Aguirre participated in DeSACNAS Parents Day at DePaul. Parents of some of our students got to see the research lab and hear about the research our students conduct. |
-February 26, 2014: Grace Malato received a Graduate Research Fund award from the College of Science and Health at DePaul University to travel to Ecuador this Summer. Congratulations Grace! |
-February 14, 2014: Cat Collins, Rachel Reynolds, Carla Benedetto, and Maxine Loh presented posters at DePaul's Darwin Day celebration. |
-February 2014: Katie Carlson was accepted to the RFUMS/DePaul Research Internship Program and will be spending her Summer conducting research at Rosalind Franklin. Congratulations Katie! |
-February 2014: The Department of Biological Sciences will be hosting Darwin Day on February 14. Mark Westneat is our invited speaker. His presentation "The Beak of the Fish: Phylogenetics and Biomechanics of Coral Reef Fishes", will be at 1:00pm. It will be followed by a reception and mini poster session. |
-February 2014: Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference abstract submission extended until Feb 8 and registration extended until Feb 15. See: http://meec2014.wordpress.com/registration/ |
-January 2014: Marissa Locke and Katie Carlson joined the lab. |
-November 2013: Carla Benedetto, Cat Collins, Maxine Loh, Rachel Reynolds, and Webster Vital presented posters at the DePaul Science Showcase on Nov 8, 2013. Way to go!!! |
-September 2013: Carla Benedetto, Winer Daniel Reyes, and Grace Malato joined the Aguirre Lab. Good luck! |