• Grace Curtis: DCE Best Talk Winner!

    Pleiotropic Roles of Leptin Signaling in Xenopus Tail Tip Regeneration

    My name is Grace Curtis and I’m a PhD candidate in Erica Crespi’s lab at Washington State University. My research focuses on how hormones regulate regeneration in larval Xenopus frogs. Specifically, I am trying to better understand the mechanisms behind how leptin, a nutritional hormone, promotes regeneration in this species. My hope is that this research can someday be applied to improve wound healing in human patients.
  • Lauren Merlino: DCE Best Poster Winner!

    Endocannabinoids vary with seasonal life-history transitions in a wild reptile

    I am a Ph.D. candidate studying under Deborah Lutterschmidt at the University of California, Irvine. My research interests focus on the neuroendocrine mechanisms that mediate behavioral transitions and allow wild animals to navigate shifts between self-maintenance and reproduction. I am also broadly interested in comparative physiology and biochemistry, especially as it relates to animal behavior.
  • Jennifer Heppner: DCE Best Talk – Runner Up!

    Avian maternal hormone transfer is mediated by limited food in urban environments

    Jennifer Heppner is a PhD Candidate in Dr. Jenny Ouyang’s lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on how urbanization and its unique environmental factors, specifically limiting food resources, alter avian physiological (circulating and maternally transferred hormones), behavioral, and morphological phenotypes.

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