A new manuscript has been posted to bioRxiv. Looking forward to seeing this work in press. Wersebe, M.J., T. Günther, P.K. Morton, L.J. Weider, and D. Frisch. 2024. A tale of two lakes: divergent evolutionary trajectories of two Daphnia populations experiencing distinct environments. bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.19.590332v1
A new paper in Nature Communications has just been published on local adaptation and climate change in the bank vole in Great Britian. Congratulations to Silvia, Petr and colleagues!
Newest addition of Daphnia art! Thanks, Matt!
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Wersebe!
Congratulations to Alisha Hemani!
Alisha Hemani, who conducted Honors Research in our lab, was a recipient of a 2023 Outstanding Senior Student Award. Congratulations Alisha and all the best as you start at OU Medical School in August.
Daphnia-inspired Haikus
In honor of International Haiku Poetry Day 2023 (April 17th), here are several Daphnia-inspired haikus. (Authors listed in parentheses.)
Daphnia are cute.
Fish eat Daphnia a lot!
Poor, poor Daphnia.
(L.J. Weider)
Swim away from fish.
Hop around and filter feed.
Limnological!
(D. Herrman)
Give extra credit,
For a Daphnia haiku,
Get happy students.
(N. Zehrbach)
He did it!! Congratulations on your successful Ph.D. defense!
We want to congratulate Matt Wersebe on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “AN INTEGRATIVE ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY GENOMIC STUDY OF LAKE DAPHNIA ACROSS TIME”. This was a great deal of hard work, but you have produced an excellent body of work. You will be sorely missed in the lab, but we look forward to future collaborations, as you venture out to pursue future professional opportunities.
Congratulations to Alisha Hemani!
We are happy to announce that Alisha Hemani has successfully defended her Honors Thesis entitled “Salinity Tolerance and the Combined Effects of Salinity and Food Quantity on Daphnia Life Histories”.
We will miss Alisha in the lab, but look forward to keeping in touch with her, as she starts her medical school career in summer 2023. All the best, Alisha!
Congratulations to Matt Wersebe!
We are excited to announce that Matt’s third chapter of his doctoral dissertation has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Wersebe, M.J. and L.J. Weider. 2023. Resurrection genomics provides molecular and phenotypic evidence of rapid adaptation to salinization in a keystone aquatic species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Link
Congratulations Matt!
A Daphnia Christmas Ornament for 2022