We are excited to welcome Zoya Wani to the Stuckert lab! Zoya is a STEGG-INTERACT Post-Bacc Fellow and will be studying the evolution of odorant receptors in frogs.

We had a fun day of talks and posters at the 2025 Houston Ecology and Evolution Regional Symposium. Ashley presented a poster and John did a talk. Congratulations to all that attended!

The Stuckert lab received the Science IRL Grant from Skype-A-Scientist to implement a science communication and outreach project! We will be highlighting the role of climate change in population decline of the Peruvian dart frog, Hyloxalus azureiventris, bringing accessible science to the Houston community. Image credits: Frank Steinmann.

The Stuckert lab goes to SICB 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia! A week of awesome integrative science, whale sharks, and talks from Ashley and John.

The Stuckert lab welcomes two new lab members! Courtney Whitcher has joined the lab as a postdoc to work on the mechanisms of biofluorescence in amphibians. John Nguyen has joined the lab as a PhD student to examine the evolution of conspicuous coloration in caecilians.

The lab has completed its first field season in Peru! This was a monumental chunk of work from lab members Andrew Rubio, Ashley Dye, Emily Graves, and Galina Aglyamova.

Great news! Grad student Galina Aglyamova has been awarded an NSF GRFP, and incoming grad student John Nguyen has received an Honorable Mention for the NSF GRFP.

The lab has been awarded an NSF EDGE grant to examine the evolutionary transition from striped to spotted phenotypes in two parallel groups (Epipedobates and Ranitomeya). This is a collaborative project with Becca Tarvin (Berkeley), Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley), and Roberto Márquez (VT).