Joel McGlothlin

New postdoc, Sarah Foltz

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Sarah Foltz, a recently minted VT Ph.D., has just joined as the McGlothlin lab’s first postdoc! Sarah did her dissertation work with Ignacio Moore, focusing on behavior and hormones in urban vs. rural birds. Here, she will be working on a project examining population variation in aggression and display behavior in brown anoles. She’ll also be […]

Evolution 2015 in Guarujá, Brazil

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I recently visited Guarujá, Brazil, for Evolution 2015. This was another fantastic Evolution meeting, providing a chance to catch up with collaborators and old friends and meet new people, particularly the large group of excellent Brazilian evolutionary biologists in attendance. I gave a talk on some of the lab’s work on lizard voltage-gated sodium channel […]

So long Eric

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Today was Eric Wice’s last day as the McGlothlin Lab manager. It’s been great having him here, but he’s moving on to pursue a Ph.D. at Rice University. Eric has been instrumental in getting the lab going and keeping it running over the last two years. There’s no way I could have done it without […]

Steve Arnold visits the lizard lab

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I recently hosted evolutionary biologist Steve Arnold, who happens to be my academic grandpa, as part of VT’s EEB seminar series. Steve was kind enough to share these pictures he took in our Anolis breeding colony. Photos by Steve Arnold.

Lizard collecting trip to Andros, The Bahamas

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Eric and I recently returned from Forfar Field Station, where we collected from another population of brown anoles to add to our study on the genetics of sexual dimorphism. In contrast to San Salvador, an island with large males where we collected last year, Andros has relatively smaller males. Learning from our experience in San Salvador, […]

NSF grant on voltage-gated sodium channel evolution

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The lab has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels in reptiles (including birds). We are extremely grateful to the NSF for their support, and we’re looking forward to this exciting project! Below, I’ve pasted the project abstract from the NSF website. Stay tuned for project […]