2016 March

March 22, 2016
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Congratulations to Gabriel (Lu) Diaz on getting a McNair Award!

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Our own Gabriel (Lu) Diaz is a new Fellow in the 2016 Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program (mcnairscholars.com), BIG congratulations!!! The McNair Scholars Program is a federal TRIO program funded at 151 institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico by the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. McNair participants are either first-generation college students with financial need, or members of a group that is traditionally underrepresented in graduate education and have demonstrated strong academic potential. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase graduate degree awards for students from underrepresented segments of society. The induction ceremony will take place next Tuesday, March 29th at 6pm, in the MMC Campus at FIU.

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March 14, 2016
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New Ph.D. student Javier Rodriguez Casariego joins Chromevol next fall

Posted by | Epigenetics, FIU, Genetics, Graduate student, Marine Biology, Oysters, Red Tides, Toxicology | No Comments

Javier graduated from the University of Havana, Cuba (B.S. Biology, 2008; M.S. Marine Biology, 2012) and has worked as a research scientist for the Marine Research Center at this institution until his transition to FIU. During the last 2 years he acted as senior research technician for FIU’s Ecotoxicology Laboratory before joining the Biology Graduate program. Javier is already participating in several Chromevol projects examining environmental epigenetic responses in marine invertebrates. His collaboration has been instrumental for the simulation of HAB episodes using Eastern oysters last summer (he presented preliminary results about this work in the Biosymposium last month), as well as for the analysis of coral samples exposed to nutrient loading. Those preliminary results will constitute the conceptual basis for his Ph.D. project. Welcome!!!

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March 11, 2016
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Meet new graduate student Andria Beal

Posted by | Education, Epigenetics, FIU, Graduate student, Marine Biology, Research | No Comments

We have a new Ph.D. student joining us next fall!!! We are excited to welcome Andria Beal to the group! Andria got her Bachelors of Science in Biology at Tarleton State University (2014) and will be getting her Masters of Science in Biology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, this spring. Andria is already working on the outline of her Ph.D. project, involving sharks, stable isotopes and epigenetics. Really cool stuff! Welcome to sunny Florida Andria!

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