Elmer Lab

Welcome to our FSBI Intern Tie Caribe, who has a busy summer ahead of lab work, husbandry, and and learning lots of new science! Congratulations on a successful award.

We welcome our summer project Masters students Allan Campbell, John Smout and Melissa Raske who are all working on molecular biotech projects, either in the field using in situ, rapid assessment with tests of the cool new qPCR-on-an-iPhone from biomeme, linking candidate genetic variants with local environments, or doing tissue-specific ecological transcriptomics in the lab. They have in intensive but exciting few months ahead!

Congratulations to Hans, who successfully defended (="viva") his thesis on 22 April. With many thanks to the examiners and convenor, it was an interesting discussion and an exceptional thesis. Hans' research is on the ecology and evolution of reproductive modes, primarily using squamates as a model. His project was funded by an interdisciplinary Lord Kelvin-Adam Smith project with Kathryn Elmer (IBAHCM) and Nick Kamenos (Geography). There was also a pic of a lovely leaping lizard cake, but it is all gobbled up ...