The Toadfish Lab

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

We have a proud toadfish papa taking care of his babies! How many can you count?

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

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

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!

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!

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!!

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

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.

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!

The toadfish were at today and became our participants' new favorite fish.

Definitely the host's favorite.

Just a few more from the Saltwater Semester - as a . .barracuda