2015 Photo Gallery

Julie presents a poster on her mechanosensory lateral line communication research

Julie presents a poster on her mechanosensory lateral line communication research at the 2015 SICB meeting in West Palm Beach, FL.

Karen Jr. presents her poster on chemosensory signaling

Karen Jr. presents her poster on chemosensory signaling at the 2015 SICB meeting in West Palm Beach, FL.


 

Air Boat and Crawfish Outing with Colleagues

 

Karen, Danielle, Jr., and Julie at McGee's landing

Teruyama, Maruska, and more lab members

Julie, Danielle, and friends enjoing crawfish

crawfish with Maruska lab, Caprio, and more

Maruska lab on an airboat

Danielle and Karen Jr. on an airboat

crawfish closeup

Caprio and colleagues on an airboat

Teruyama and Maruska lab on an airboat

Karen Maruska enjoying crawfish

 


 

Spring 2015 Fiesta!

 

Danielle with a sombrero and Karen Jr.

Danielle with a sombrero and lab undergrads enjoy the fiesta

maruska lab members sitting around an outdoor fiesta table

blindfolded Karen attemps a pinata

 

Maruska lab members fiesta picture
Karen and undergrads enjoy graduation mugs
blindfolded Karen Jr. attemps a pinata

 

Julie and others help paint the Maruska lab logo
Julie and others painting Maruska lab logo
Finished Maruska lab logo painting
Finished Maruska lab logo painting

 

The lab wall gets a cichlid face lift! Special thanks to Julie and everyone else who helped beautify the lab space!


 

Danielle defends Master's Thesis

Danielle (a.k.a. Master Porter) successfully defends her Master's Thesis!

Danielle defends Master's Thesis
maruska lab undergrads doing bench work

maruska lab undergrad working on the microscope

We do work in the lab also!

 


 

Kara presents summer HHMI poster

Charles presents HHMI poster

Kara and Charles present their summer HHMI research projects at the 2015 LSU SURF symposium.


 

Karen Jr. presents chemosensory poster

Karen Jr. presents her chemosensory research at the 2015 annual LSU BioGrads Symposium and wins first place for her poster!

Karen Jr. presents poster to Dr. Wischusen

hallway display case featuring maruska lab work

The lab and our work on CRH evolution using the spotted gar is featured in the LSU Biological Sciences display case.


 

Lab Holiday Party 2015!

 

maruska lab holiday party group pic
maruska lab holiday party group pic on the couch
maruska lab holiday party silly group pic

 

Karen Jr. and undergrads opening presents
Karen Jr. and undergrads group photo
maruska lab holiday party talking on couches

 

Daniel with a new present
Julie and undergrad playing games in the living room
undergrad holiday group photo
Karen Jr. looks stressed next to an undergrad
lab undergrads laughing at the holiday party
undergrad telling a story at the holiday party

 

lab door with holiday lights around it

lab door and hallway with holiday decorative lights

holiday party invite with fish in 2015