The Williams Lab had an amazing lunch break on Monday!
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We enjoyed a nice weekend on March 23rd/24th at the UC Berkeley Point Reyes Field Station with games, delicious food and an awesome hike on Sunday to Tomales Point.
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Our lab takes on SICB 2024!
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We were award an NSF EDGE grant to uncover the genomic basis of the wing dimorphism in Gryllus crickets!
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Meghan is our new Postdoctoral scholar joining our lab! We’re super excited to have you as a part of our Cricket Crew!
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Lourenco has passed his QE and is now a PhD candidate!!
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Olivia Ruffins is our new cricket wrangler who is joining the team this month! We are super excited to have you be a part of our Cricket Club!
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Our undergrads did an amazing job at the research symposium, and we had a going away party for our seasoned undergrad Mark.
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Goodbye to two of our postdocs as they go onto the next phase of their careers!
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We are excited to welcome Simran Bawa as our new PhD Student in the lab!
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This past month, we had the joy of hosting Dr. Monica Sheffer and Julia Smith in our lab. Both of them work in Lauren Buckley’s lab at UW Seattle. As part of the NSF RoL grant, they were here to work on lipid extractions from the reciprocal transplant experiment done in Summer 2022. We enjoyed your short visit with us and hope to see you soon in the field!
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Caroline was gracious to host our yearly Holiday Party at her place this month. Alongside this, we got to say congratulations and good bye to one of the members of our lab, Andrew Saintsing. He finished up his PhD in understanding the energetic cost of terrestrial locomotion with the Full Lab. Congrats Andrew and Happy Holidays everyone!
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The Williams lab travels to San Diego for the annual APS conference and gets reunited with part of the Sinclair dynasty!
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Katrine is a professor at the University of Oslo studying aquatic biology and ecotoxicology. She kicked off her sabbatical year by joining the Williams Lab for our annual trip to Sedgewick to collect crickets. After spending two months with our lab and giving advice to everyone, she left for Norway in mid-October. We hope to have you back soon!
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The Williams Lab went out to Sedgwick for a week in the beginning of August. Collaborators from University of Nebraska - Lincoln, University of Louisville, and University of Oslo came to join us while we hunted for crickets in the Santa Ynez mountains. Over 200 crickets were caught and brought back to UC Berkeley to help replenish our cricket colony!
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Welcome to our new lab manager and grasshopper researcher, Simran Bawa! Simran just finished her Bachelors at UC Santa Barbara.
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Congratulations to Williams lab PhD candidates, Ana Lyons and Andre Szejner Sigal, who put on their regalia and walked the stage this past Saturday in @berkeleyIB’s commencement ceremony.
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Want to learn more about the combined impacts of hypoxia and temperature on invasive New Zealand mudsnails in California streams? Just out in PBZ, from Dr. Emily King's dissertation: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/719899 @King_EmilyE @berkeleyIB
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Congratulations to alumni Dr. Kevin Roberts, who has received an NSF PRFB to work with Philipp Lehman in Germany! Kevin will be studying how the diapausing life stage impacts an insect's vulnerability to climate-induced winter energy drain. @berkeleyIB
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New paper just accepted by Journal of Insect Physiology by PhD candidate Andre Szejner Sigal, showing that lady beetles in aggregations have lower metabolic rates and activity levels than solitary conspecifics. Congrats Andre! @berkeleyIB
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