Monthly Archives: October 2024

Pespeni lab at the Evolution Meeting in Montreal 2024!

We had an amazing time representing at the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology summer 2024!

Chanchal and Aly presented a poster on their research on thermal tolerance of Lake Champlain copepods!

From left to right: Postdoc Emily Longman gave a talk on the eco-evolutionary dynamics in the rocky intertidal; PhD candidate Alison Hall gave a talk on the mechanisms underlying copepod developmental thermal plasticity; PhD student Ericka Griggs gave a poster on host-parasite dynamics in migratory raptors; Honors Thesis students Aly Rodger and Chanchal Saratkar presented a poster on seasonal dynamics in copepod thermal tolerance; PI Melissa Pespeni gave a talk on evolved vs. plastic differences in responding to warming and acidification in copepods; Postdoc Matt Sasaki gave a talk integrating three massive copepod thermal tolerance datasets to reveal patterns across space and time; Postdoc Danny Sadler gave a poster on identifying genome-environment associations across 140 purple urchin genomes and 1700 kilometers. It was an amazing meeting and so fun to have such a strong Pespeni lab showing! Huge thank you to the National Science Foundation for making this work and sharing our science possible!

And the conference inspired us to finally make a lab logo! How many creatures do you see?