2019 - 2020 Research Students
 Shun-Je Bhark Assessing genetic diversity in an isolated population of black-tailed deer |
 Menna Hailemariam Yohannes Identification & characterization of tardigrade Hedgehog pathway homologs |
 Callista Nackviseth Sex determination of black-tailed deer skulls by PCR |
 Kalkidan Yekuno Sex determination of black-tailed deer skulls by PCR |
Lab News
- Menna Hailemariam Yohannes and Callista Nackviseth presented research posters at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in November, 2019.
- Laarni Aguila, Grace Duffey, Menna Hailemariam Yohannes, Angenlina Luthi, and Leslie Rodriguez-Salas presented research posters at the 2019 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Shun-Je Bhark and Callista Nackviseth co-presented a talk at the 2019 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference. This talk focused on their development of a protocol to amplify sex-specific genetic markers from black-tailed deer skulls.
- Laarni Aguila, Shun-Je Bhark and Callista Nackviseth presented research posters at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in November, 2018.
- Hypsibius dujardini was renamed Hypsibius exemplaris based on a research paper published by the Michalczyk lab in November 2018.
- Jenny Tenlen presented a research poster at the Society for Developmental Biology 77th Annual Meeting in July 2018. The poster described our progress in identifying homologs of candidate germline development genes in the H. exemplaris genome.
- Eliza Williams presented a research poster at the 2018 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Jenny Tenlen presented a research poster at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology in August, 2017. The poster described our progress in characterizing Notch pathway components in H. exemplaris. Former student Braeden Wiebe was a co-author.
- Hannah Rodrigues and Braeden Wiebe presented research posters at the 2017 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Shamil Hasanov and Braeden Wiebe presented research posters at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in November, 2016.
- Julian Conn Busch and Sierra Sanders presented research posters at the 2016 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Cara Lord and Patrick Nielsen presented a joint research poster at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in November, 2015.
- Cara Lord, Patrick Nielsen, Quinton Ouellette and Zach Ryan all presented their research at the 2015 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference
- Cara Lord and Patrick Nielsen presented their research poster at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in November, 2014.
- Jamie Gephart presented her cloning of a putative homolog of piwi at the 2014 Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference
