Recent News
2024 June: I have received a Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support my postdoctoral work on cellular adaptation during amphibian metamorphosis! April: I have been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation to fund my ongoing work in the Bellono lab! March: Our article on the functional plasticity of the male midshipman swim bladder was featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology's Outside JEB. (link) 2023 December: New article on the functional plasticity of the male midshipman swim bladder published in Proceedings B! August: I have moved to Harvard University to start as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Nicholas Bellono. Together, we will be taking a curiosity-driven approach to probe how various aquatic/semi-aquatic animals adapt to their ecological niche! May: Successfully defended my PhD! 2022 November: New article published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! Here, we show that utricular hair cells of the plainfin midshipman exhibit reproductive state-dependent changes in auditory sensitivity. August: The final article from my master's thesis has been published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! Here, we investigate toadfish utricular afferent sensitivity to auditory inputs during passive and active movements. 2021 October: I was awarded the University of Minnesota Distinguished Master's Thesis award for my graduate work "The effect of biological and anthropogenic sound playbacks and self-generated movement on the hearing sensitivity of the oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau". July: My advisor, Dr. Joe Sisneros, and I were selected as a recipient of the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, which will provide research, education, and outreach support for the next three years. Check out the press release from the HHMI and Marine Biological Lab. June: I was awarded a position as a predoctoral fellow on UW's Auditory Neuroscience Training Grant (NIH T32). January: New article on age-related loss of auditory sensitivity published in Hearing Research. 2020 September: New article published in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry with Drs. Ros Putland and Allen Mensinger! September: New article on the utricular auditory sensitivity of the plainfin midshipman published in the Journal of Experimental Biology! |