Tait was awarded the Best Graduate Talk in Population and Organismal Biology at the Western Society of Naturalists annual meeting in Monterey, CA! She presented on her thesis project looking at the regulatory underpinnings of seasonal run-time variation in Chinook salmon. Congratulations Tait!
The Kelley Lab is excited to welcome Tina Cai to the lab! Tina will be pursuing her PhD in the lab studying adaptation in polar fishes!
The Kelley and Cornejo Labs enjoyed a festive evening of pumpkin carving this past Tuesday. We were joined by Evan, Tina, Sam, MC, Joanna, Omar as well as partners and family for dinner before transforming pumpkins into cats, unicorns, nucleotides, and more!
This week, MC, Isabel, and Kara performed the first DNA extraction in the new Kelley Lab space at UC Santa Cruz! Thanks to everyone for working to get our new space up and running!
Our recent manuscript was chosen to be featured on the cover of the October 2023 issue of Physiological Genomics! Many thanks to Stephen Graepel for creating this beautiful illustration, and congratulations to Blair, Joanna, all co-authors! Perry, B.W., A. McDonald, S. Trojahn, M.W. Saxton, E.P. Vincent, C. Lowry, B.D. Evans Hutzenbiler, O.E. Cornejo, C.T. Robbins, H.T. Jansen, and J.L. Kelley. 2023. Feeding during hibernation shifts gene expression towards active season levels in brown bears (Ursus arctos). Physiological Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00030.2023
We are excited to welcome three new members of the Kelley Lab at UCSC! Muh-Ching (MC) Yee is our new lab manager, Isabel Kline is our new lab technician, and Sam Bogan joins as a new postdoctoral researcher in the lab. Welcome MC, Isabel, and Sam!
Kara’s first lead-author paper is out now in Molecular Ecology! Huge congrats to Kara and coauthors! Link to the open-access study in Molecular Ecology. Abstract Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas that disrupts numerous biological processes, including energy production in the mitochondria, yet fish in the Poecilia mexicana species complex have independently evolved sulfide tolerance several times. Despite clear evidence for convergence at the phenotypic level in these fishes, it is unclear if the repeated evolution of hydrogen sulfide tolerance is the…
Kara was awarded the Vern Parish Fund award from the American Livebearer Association to continue her work on Poeciliid fish genomes! Congrats Kara!
The Kelley Lab recently attended the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2023 conference in Ferrara, Italy. Joanna gave an invited symposium talk on recent updates from the sulfide-adapted fish project, and presented on the 2022-2023 SMBE Virtual Lab Meeting Training Program. Rishi gave a talk on supergenes in African Monarch butterflies, and Ellie, Kara, Blair, and incoming post-doc Sam gave posters highlighting numerous ongoing projects in the lab!
Joanna has had a busy year presenting the lab’s latest research through numerous invited talks! These include talks at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Spain, PopGen Vienna in Austria, and UC Berkeley in California. Videos of three of these presentations can be found below and on our new Presentations website page! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgesv6aAFvA