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Lab News

October 28th, 2008
Check out Shane Campbell-Staton's new note on extracting DNA from shed reptile skin. Shane's been working hard on further improving this method, stay tuned...

September 12th, 2008
Dan, Julienne, and Rich are back from a successful month-long trip to the Dominican Republic. We came home a massive collection of over 1,200 tissue samples, mostly from Anolis distichus. Dan also managed to tally an impressive number of Sphaerodactylus species, and a few massive Aristelliger as well.

July 28th, 2008
Congratulations to PhD student Julienne Ng for winning the Henri Seibert award for best student presentation at the Joint Ichthyology and Herpetology Meetings in Montreal!

July 1st, 2008
Shane Campbell-Staton - a former honors student spending the summer doing research on Costa Rican lizards - reports that he "got stuck waist deep in a mud pit, stung 5 times by bullet ants, stepped on a coral snake, and had an allergic reaction to a plant spine that lead to me blacking out for a half hour. But other than that it had been a blast." Gotta love the field work!

June 2nd, 2008
First, our lizard breeding operation is beginning to bear fruit. See below. The babies are doing well and growing fast. We've got around 6 babies and 20 eggs incubating at this point. Second, Glor has started a blog on phylogenetics and comparative methods with a few friends. Check it out!