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Lauren received an NSF CAREER grant to study spatial cognition in rainforest frogs. Educational components include founding a lab course at Stanford and creating a community college internship program.

Aurora received a grant from Sigma Xi to fund her field work in Ecuador this summer! Congrats to Aurora!

We (finally) published our study on the effect of seasons on Mantella laevigata diet and chemical defense. We found that although diet differs between the seasons, mantella toxic alkaloid profiles are relatively buffered against seasonal…

Jesse Delia has joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher! Jesse completed his PhD with Karen Warkinten at Boston University working on the evolution of parental care and transparency in glass frogs. He started his postdoctoral research in the…

Dr. Jessica Nowicki received the Stanford Wu Tsai Institute for Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Fellowship! This award provides Dr. Nowicki with two years of salary and funds to travel to scientific conferences. She was award this fellowship to…

Andrius Pasukonis joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study spatial cognition in poison frogs. During his PhD, Andrius developed methods to track frogs in the wild with little radio trackers we lovingly call "frog pants". Now he has…

We received NSF EDGE funding to develop functional genomics technologies in non-xenopus amphibians! We will focus on developing a genome manipulation toolkit for Ranitomeya imitator and Mantella aurantiaca while our collaborators at the…

Travis Ramirez and Harmony Alvarez present their summer research at the Biology Undergraduate Research symposia today! We are so proud of them!

RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) high school interns Lizbeth Rios (Los Altos High School) and Helen Nguyen (Andrew P Hill High School) present their research with postdoc mentor Jessica Nowicki.  Liz and Helen spent…

Our poison frogs help solve an evolutionary mystery about where stem cells are made. In all mammals, stem cells and blood are made in bones - by why is that? This study showed that all aquatic animals have a melanocyte umbrella above their stem…