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New paper in Functional Ecology!

10/27/2020

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Our new paper came out this week in Functional Ecology showing that parasites begin having energetic impacts on their hosts long before infection takes hold. Using the California killifish and its brain infecting parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis, we observed major increases in metabolic rate and activity in killifish hosts in response to infectious parasites in the environment, highlighting that parasites can disrupt their host´s metabolism even before they start feeding on them.

Check out the paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.13695?af=R

And the press release from Scripps Institution of Oceanography here: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-study-finds-parasites-can-drain-energy-hosts-prior-infection

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New lab!

7/2/2020

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I am thrilled to be starting my own lab in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. My lab at the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center will continue many of the research themes that I explored throughout my PhD and postdoc, including social behavior, physiology, climate change, coral reef fish ecology, and parasitology. This department is full of amazing scientists working on a range of exciting research and I am looking forward to to learning new things from them. Where I am based in southern Florida is also a literal treasure trove of exciting marine systems and I can´t wait to jump in to see them all. Please touch base if you are student looking for a new project or a researcher interested in collaborating! 
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International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry

8/12/2019

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I have just arrived back to Norway from an amazing week in Ottawa, Canada for the International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (ICCPB). The scientific program was stellar and I learned a ton from hearing about the exciting, interdisciplinary science from international researchers in the field. Many thanks to Professor Nadia Aubin-Horth (Univ Laval) for inviting me to speak in the session "Studying the evolution of host-parasite interactions: Advantages of combining mechanistics and evolutionary approaches" on my postdoctoral work examining how host physiology and behavior shift following infection by manipulative parasites. I thoroughly enjoyed all of our discussions throughout the conference. I am looking forward to the next ICCPB in 2023!
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2019 Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference

7/6/2019

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Many thanks to the organizers of the annual Society for Experimental Biology conference for putting together another amazing meeting in Seville, Spain. It was great to catch up with old friends, hear about all of the amazing new science that everyone is doing, and present some of my brand new research looking at the connections linking energy metabolism, brain serotonergic signaling, and parasite infection/exposure history. I can´t wait for Prague 2020! If you are working on parasites, disease, or immunity, please consider joining us at the 2020 SEB meeting where Sandra Binning (Univ of Montreal) and I are organizing a session titled "Parasites, disease and host immunity: Towards a mechanistic understanding of infection-induced phenotypes".  

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Department seminar talks in Florida!

4/20/2019

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I had a wonderful time this week visiting the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) at the University of Miami, and the Marine Sciences Program at Florida International University. Everyone was really welcoming and I had a great time geeking out on everyone´s cutting edge science as well as presenting my own work. Many thanks to my hosts Prof Nikki Traylor-Knowles (RSMAS) and Prof Alastair Harborne (FIU). Also, thanks to Javier del Campo for snapping this photo of me during my talk at RSMAS!
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Second meeting of the Academic Writing Club!

4/12/2019

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Many thanks to Michael Frisk from the University of Oslo for coming speaking at the second session of the NMBU Academic Writing Club for research students. He gave heaps of super handy tips and tricks for making effective figures for publication. 
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Seminar at University of Oslo!

4/11/2019

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Many thanks to Sjannie Lefevre for inviting me to speak in the University of Oslo seminar series today, where I talked about my work on how manipulative parasites alter the behavior and physiology of their intermediate and final hosts. 
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Shaun Killen visiting!

3/29/2019

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Many thanks to Shaun Killen for coming to Oslo for a productive visit full of paper writing/idea generating and one awesome talk at the University of Oslo on social behavior. I first met Shaun almost 10 years ago as a Masters student at the University of Glasgow. It´s great to still be working together all of these years later!

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First meeting of the Academic Writing Club for graduate students!

3/15/2019

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Our first meeting of the NMBU Academic Writing Club for graduate students was a success! I am organizing this new initiative on campus to provide additional opportunities for graduate students to learn tips and tricks for improve success in scientific writing. I am bringing in a new speaker each month to speak on a different topic related to academic writing and facilitating weekly peer editing among students. So far, the students are really enthusiastic and excited about the club! Many thanks to Hedvig from the Writing Center for kicking things with off with tips for making an outline before writing. Looking forward to next month´s talk on making effective figures for publication!
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First round of HPLC in the bag!

3/13/2019

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My first round of brain parts are finished running through the HPLC! Yippee! This work will allow us to better understand how infection with a brain infecting microsporidian parasite alters neurotransmitter activity, particularly the monoamines dopamine and serotonin. 
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