Congratulations for two successful vivas
Congrats to Sam Fenton and John Smout for successfully passing their vivas spring 2024! And some amazing PhD cakes (made by friends and lab mates) to celebrate
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Fieldwork update from Spain
My name is Nic Strowbridge, I am currently a 4th year IAPETUS PhD student in the Elmer lab. Here is a post about my fieldwork experience studying salamanders! Spring 2024 marked the first fieldwork experience for my IAPETUS PhD. We travelled to the Principality of Asturias in Northern Spain to the Elmer lab field site near the Río Color. In this region, there is a unique population of a subspecies of the European fire salamander, S. salamandra bernardezi , which exhibits a striking diversity of colour and pattern polymorphisms. For my IAPETUS PhD project, we are examining the underlying molecular mechanisms that produce these different colour and patterns. Previous work in the lab has shown that there are gene expression differences between the colour morphs, but other molecular mechanisms may be present in determining the different colours and pattern. My work uses Oxford Nanopore sequencing to determine if other molecular mechanisms, such asRNA methylatio...