upcoming events

Ph.D. student Anthony Auletta is heading to Golden, Colorado to represent the lab and present his spider research at the 20th International Congress of Arachnology (jointly organized by the American Arachnological Society and the International Society of Arachnology).

The full citation for his poster is:

Auletta A, Rue MCP, Harley CM, Mesce KA. 2016. The organization of the spider nervous system as revealed by dopamine immunolabeling and confocal microscopy.

The poster will be on display from Sunday, July 3rd until Friday, July 8th in the main hall of the Green Center (Poster #100). Anthony will be there in person on Tuesday, July 5th, from 7:00-9:00pm, so make sure to stop by if you’ll be in attendance!

Hope to see you in Golden!

It’s almost time for the 12th Congress of the International Society for Neuroethology in Montevideo, Uruguay! PI Dr. Karen Mesce and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Joshua Puhl will be there from March 30th – April 3rd to represent the lab and showcase the latest results of our leech recovery research.

For all of our friends and colleagues who will also be in attendance, please be sure to stop by our poster (#PI-58), entitled Locomotion and coordination: mechanisms underlying homeostatic plasticity following injury to the CNS. The poster will highlight some of the exciting research being conducted in the lab by Karen, Joshua, Ph.D student Morgan Newhoff, lab technician Mara CP Rue, and undergraduate researcher Tony Bigelow.

We hope to see you there!

To all of our friends and colleagues attending the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting in Minneapolis next week, please be sure to come and see what we’ve been up to! Ph.D. student Anthony Auletta will be at the meeting, presenting the results of his spider research as part of the Graduate Poster Competition:

Auletta A, Harley CM, Rue MCP, Mesce KA. 2015. The organization of the spider nervous system as revealed by dopamine immunolabeling and confocal microscopy.

Look for Poster D3171 in Poster Session #17. The poster will be on display from 8:00am-6:30pm on Monday, November 16th in Exhibit Hall BC, and Anthony will be there from 5:30-6:00 to present the poster and answer questions.

We hope to see you there!