Lab News and Exciting Adventures
Ruby had the opportunity to attend Evolution in Montreal, Canada! Not only did she present her research on female adolescence, but she was also selected to share a story in partnership with Story Collider! Ruby gives an enthralling account of a potential near-death experience via elephants during her time managing a remote field site in Kasanka National Park, Zambia. Give it a listen! — July 2024
Courtney, Colton, and Austen had a great time presenting at Animal Behavior Society in London, Ontario, Canada, hosted by Western University! A special shoutout to Courtney for organizing a symposium entitled “Female ornamentation and reproductive competition: a compendium of possible mechanisms”.
— June, 2024
Brittany’s first official field season for her dissertation at Southwestern Research Station (SWRS) in Portal, AZ. Brittany spent nearly 4 months wrangling, observing, and hatching Sceloperus virgatus lizards to underststand more about the females’ sexual ornamentation. Stay tuned for the exciting results! — Summer 2024
A celebration for Austen
Recently published his first manuscript and was awarded an NSF GRFP!
04/15/2024
Ruby invites Dr. Patty Brennan to give an EEB seminar talk
An incredible lesson on the coevolution of elaborate genitalia.
03/25/2024
Fitzpatrick crew at SPRC
We got to spend the day hearing about the awesome science being conducted here at TAMU Biology and had the chance to talk with potential new graduate students throughout the recruitment event.
02/07/2024
The Fitzpatrick lab brings another successful semester to a close with some yummy sushi! — 12/02/2024
Courtney had the pleasure of visiting both Notre Dame and the University of Oklahoma to give seminar talks this fall. Thanks to Drs. Julian Torres-Dowdall and Ingo Schlupp, respectively, for being such great hosts. — 10/10/2023 & 11/15/23
The Fitzpatrick Lab, and family, gathered out at the “range area” to watch the annular solar eclipse. Eerie and other-wordly, we have our calendars marked for April 2024 when we are very near the path of totality! — 10/06/2023
The Fitzpatrick Lab hosted Dai Shizuka for a visit to EEB. We took Dai for a walk at the range area and saw a cottonmouth. The dyed in the wool herpetologist among us was particularly happy about that. Thanks for visiting us and for a great seminar, Dai! — 09/11/2023
In preparation to send Elizabeth George off to her new job in the Carter Lab at The Ohio State University, we gathered for some bowling! Fitzpatrick Lab trivia: Austen has been a serious bowler most of his life. He tolerated some non-serious bowling and was generous with his tutorials! — 07/02/2023
Our Official Lab Logo is Born!
We are so excited to have all the different aspects of our research program represented in this beautiful design by Ro Mottsmith. Make sure you look closely enough to find the life cycle diagram represented, which is a nod to the theoretical dimension of the Fitzpatrick Lab’s research.
06/2023
Brittany took her first trip to SWRS to meet up with collaborators and to start hatching plans for her dissertation research, which will focus on understanding the biology of female breeding color in striped plateau lizards. — 05/2023
The Fitzpatrick Lab hosted Joel McGlothlin for a visit to the Biology department. Thanks for visiting us and for a great seminar, Joel! — 04/2023
The Fitzpatrick Lab hosted Liz Hobson for a visit to the Biology department. Thanks Liz for a great seminar! — 09/2022
Lab road trip to Southwestern Research Station. As the lab works on launching studies of female ornamentation in lizards, we all took a road trip to the Southwestern Research Station to meet up with collaborator Stacey Weiss and to see some Sceloporus virgatus in the flesh! We made the hard core decision to do the drive from College Station to SWRS in one day, which we don’t recommend! But the chiricahuas do not disappoint. — 07/2022