<![CDATA[LAUREN E. NADLER - News]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:36:16 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[New research grant from the Royal Society!]]>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/new-research-grant-from-the-royal-societyI am thrilled to have been awarded a research grant from the Royal Society titled "Physiological advantages of fish schooling", where I will get the chance to come back to some exciting research from my PhD, looking at the calming effect of group living in gregarious fishes. With this grant, we will be able to look into both the factors that modulate the calming effect and see if we can detect it through techniques for field metabolic rate. Can't wait! ]]><![CDATA[New paper in Frontiers in Fish Science]]>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/new-paper-in-frontiers-in-fish-scienceCheck out our new paper in Frontiers in Fish Science, led by former graduate student Monica Bacchus, where we show that larger group sizes of a schooling coral reef fish exhibited lower kinematic performance in their escape response potentially due to a greater perceived safety in their larger group. I was especially excited for this one, as it is my first last-author paper. Congratulations to Monica on her first first-author publication! 
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]]><![CDATA[New paper in Bioessays on the toolkit to capture intraspecific variation in metabolic rate]]>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/new-paper-in-bioessays-on-the-toolkit-to-capture-intraspecific-variation-in-metabolic-rateHow do we capture variation in metabolic rate within and among species? I am excited about our new Bioessays paper (led by Neil Metcalfe & Pat Monaghan) that examines this important question. This publication stems from the Rank Prize Symposium on "Variation in Metabolic Rate: where does it come from and does it matter?" in July 2022. I unfortunately contracted covid-19 on day 1 of the conference and spent its entirety attending virtually from my room. So I was thrilled to take part in the group effort to write this opinion piece! Thanks to my unfortunate buddy in covid quarantine, Amelie Crespel, with whom I worked on my section and one of the tables. Check out the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202300026 Picture
]]><![CDATA[Guest edited special feature out now in BES journals Functional Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology]]>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/guest-edited-special-feature-out-now-in-bes-journals-functional-ecology-and-journal-of-animal-ecologyAfter nearly 2 years, I am thrilled to see the cross-journal special feature in Functional Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology that we guest-edited out now, focused on mechanisms and consequences of infection-induced phenotypes. Check out all of the amazing contributions here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652435/2023/37/4. The graphical abstract from our editorial included below! 
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]]><![CDATA[New paper accepted in Functional Ecology!]]>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/new-paper8319556
A new paper that I am co-author on was accepted for publication today in Functional Ecology! We showed that even resistant hosts develop behavioral changes following exposure to parasites. Here, we used medaka and the microsporidan parasite, Pseudoloma neurophilia , which the medaka was previously shown to be susceptible to but never developed in our cohort of fish. Early view of the paper can be found here: 
​https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14248
]]><![CDATA[Big move done!]]>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/big-move-doneAfter endless packing, I am excited to be officially here at the University of Southampton. I had an amazing (and breezy) introduction to the Solent right at the waterfront campus' doorstep with other new lecturers on the RV Callista. More to come soon!
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]]><![CDATA[First field course to Australia!]]>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/first-field-course-to-australiaAfter three weeks in the field in Australia, we have returned from the first annual field "Transdisciplinary approaches to coral reef science" course, funding by the National Science Foundation's International Research Experiences for
Students track II program. We learned a ton that we can use to make the course even better in the future and think the students had an amazing experience as well. 
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]]><![CDATA[Big changes for the NMBP lab!]]>Fri, 27 May 2022 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/big-changes-for-the-nmbp-lab


​I am excited to announce that the NMBP lab is moving to the University of Southampton in the UK in fall 2022. I will be based at the National Oceanography Centre. This unique location on the south coast of England will allow access to the many unique marine systems close by and facilitate collaborations with the many amazing researchers at the University and close by. 
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]]><![CDATA[New schooling species]]>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/new-schooling-species



​We are excited to be working a new schooling species, the tomtate grunt, Haemulon aurolineatum. We are collecting this coral reef fish species using a range of techniques to see if the metabolic rate of fish collected shifts depending on the type of collection technique used. More on this soon!
]]><![CDATA[Fish in the lab!]]>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:23:02 GMThttp://www.laurenenadler.com/news/fish-in-the-labAfter a year of pandemic induced delays, I finally have fish (and snails) in my lab! Yayyy! The fish species in the lab are Fundulus similis (longnose killifish) and F. grandis (gulf killifish). Both are known second intermediate hosts for the Euhaplorchis sp. A parasite, which is found on their brain. They are infected by free-swimming larval parasites called cercariae that depart the first intermediate host, Cerithideopsis scalariformis (ladder hornsnail). With both the first and second intermediate host in the lab, I will be able to do experimental infections of the killifish to determine how they response (either behaviorally or physiologically) to these infectious parasites in their environment. I studies a closely related system in California, and found that the killifish host wasn't happy when it encountered cercariae in their environment and am interested in testing similiar ideas here. 
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