The Toadfish Lab

01/15/2026

Hanging out with Sebastian.
Go C-A-N-E-S!!!!!!!

06/21/2025

02/11/2025

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science from the women of the Toadfish lab - past, present, and future 💙

01/23/2025

Team Aplysia hanging out at the Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference in San Antonio.

08/21/2024

Congratulations to Sthefano Orellana, who worked on goldfish this past year. Thanks for all your hard work in the lab, Steff, and lots of luck for the future!! Watch out for those bullet ants!

08/09/2024

We are so proud of newly graduated Kaia Rodgers for the great work she did on sheepshead minnow this year. In the picture, she is captivating a crowd while presenting her poster at the Rosenstiel Undergraduate Poster Symposium. We expect great things from her in the future!

08/01/2024

Congratulations to our amazing undergraduate, Sasha Sypher, who graduated this year and is moving onward and upward to do a Masters at Scripps. We are so proud of her!!

07/08/2024

The Toadfish Lab went to Prague for the Society of Experimemtal Biology Meeting!

06/25/2024

Toadfish Lab 2023/2024 - thanks for all your hard work this year! (left to right: Catherine Toole, Ali Donnelly, Izzy Nelson, Kat Horrigan, Steff Orellana, Anastasiya Plotnikova, Danielle McDonald, and Kaia Rodgers). Missing our Aplysia gurus, Mary Shay and Sasha Sypher.

06/24/2024

Congrats to Izzy Nelson, former Toadfish Lab undergrad, who is starting a PhD at U Texas at Austin in Dr. Kristin Nielsen’s lab. Congrats Izzy - we know you will do great things!