Research lab of Aimee Dunlap at the University of Missouri, St. Louis
With sadness, we said our farewells to Pablo as he left for his new adventure as a PhD student in neuroscience at Brown University. Its been a productive and fun time during his time here. Looking forward to seeing his future work, as well as what our new fly team puts together this fall!
Lots of congratulations for Pablo Iturralde, who defended his MS thesis, “Transcriptomics of Learning,” this week. Pablo has been extremely busy during his time in the lab: running selections, collecting huge amounts of t-maze data, building automated t-mazes (including machining the parts himself), making libraries for RNA and DNA sequencing, analyzing sequencing data, working on more qPCR samples than we even want to count, and importantly, mentoring undergrads and high school students. We will miss Pablo and his many contributions when he leaves to start a PhD program in neuroscience this August at Brown.
Lots of congratulations to Andreia for receiving her first research grant for her dissertation research. The Harris Center for World Ecology is funding her new work on orchid bee cognition at the St. Louis Zoo.
Former MS student Mellissa Marcus’s thesis experiment is out in the Journal of BioEconomics and can be found here: http://rdcu.be/zWFJ
A few years of very hard work, some unexpected results, and a fly egg counting record that will probably never be matched in the lab in the future.
PhD student Matt Austin had some nice campus press about his dissertation work. You can read about it here: http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2017/12/05/matt-austin/
Dunlap Cognitive Ecology Lab 