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?