The R-Z lab has had the opportunity to give several interviews with the popular press recently, including the impact of chytrid fungus on amphibian species (Panama; Pennsylvania) and working with FrogWatch USA volunteers.
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Ashley Cecil has just completed a six-month residency in the RZ lab and will be exhibiting the results of her time with us at the Frick Environmental Center on June 28, 2018. Ashley’s “Edged Out” exhibition consists of a series of paintings and sculptural works about human influence on […]
Dr. Laura Brannelly, a Postdoc in the RZ lab, was recently awarded the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. This prestigious fellowship is designed to support excellent basic and applied research, and advance promising early career researchers. This is a fantastic opportunity for Laura, but bitter-sweet for […]
Dr. Karie Altman has joined the Richards-Zawacki lab as a postdoctoral research associate. Karie recently received her PhD from Oakland University in Michigan, where she studied disease ecology and thermal biology. Prior to her PhD work, Karie received a BS from Madonna University. Welcome to the R-Z lab Karie!
Matt Robak, a recent RZ lab alum, published a paper in the March 2018 issue of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The research described in this publication documents how temperature and the skin microbial community affect the susceptibility of northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infection.
Defying disease: Panama’s frogs are fighting back Many infectious diseases can fade away after initial outbreaks. Bubonic plague, cholera, and influenza are examples from recent human history. The same phenomenon occurs for wildlife diseases as well. How does this happen? One popular explanation is that the pathogen evolves to become less deadly, so […]
A new paper written by Yusan Yang, a PhD student in our lab, was published in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. In this paper, Yusan describes some of her recent research testing if male Strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio) differ in the territorial aggression […]
The R-Z Lab is excited to host a new lab member: Ashley Cecil is a Pittsburgh-based artist and illustrator specializing in paintings of flora and fauna that illustrate the interconnectedness between the natural world and its inhabitants. Ashley will join our lab in January of 2018 for a 6-month residency as part […]
Julia Sonn, a recent PhD graduate from our lab, recently published a paper in the December 2017 issue of the journal EcoHealth. In this publication, Julia describes an experiment testing the effect of temperature on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infection of Northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans).
Dr. Tali Hammond has joined the Richards-Zawacki lab as a NSF postdoctoral research associate. Tali comes to us from the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkley, where she received her PhD in 2017. While finishing her PhD, Tali wrote and was awarded a prestigious NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellowship to […]