Multiple projects receive funding for Tobler lab members

Late March has been good for the Tobler lab. We just received three huge honors and awards back to back!

I am extremely honored and excited to have been selected to receive a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. The project I proposed for this fellowship focuses on understanding the mechanisms driving speciation in sulfide spring fishes, as well as the genomics of speciation and adaptation to sulfidic habitats. I will be combining field work, behavioral and physiological assays, and genomic approaches in order to understand how different mechanisms contribute to reproductive isolation in different genera of livebearing fishes from sulfide springs.

Courtney Passow received a "Grand Challenges in Biology Postdoctoral Program Fellowship" from the University of Minnesota, as well as a Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship in Molecular Biology from the KSU Graduate School to fund her upcoming postdoc work with Dr. Suzanne McGaugh. Courtney starts her research working with blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus), investigating how organisms adapt to nutrient and light-poor cave environments this coming fall semester at the University of Minnesota.

For more details on these programs and awards, see the links below.