by Stephanie Sang | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
In late January NHK (National Broadcast, Japan) sent a film crew to interview Tetsuto, Mike, Vicky Prince, and Urs Schmidt-Ott and follow their research activities in OBA and the Field Museum. Here, Tetsuto is demo-ing zebrafish injection/engaging in a fossil fish...
by Stephanie Sang | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our lab met to celebrate the legacy of Mr. Burns, a Scot, at Tetsuto/Kesia/Toru’s apartment. We sipped on whiskey, ferociously snacked on pork belly and cous cous salad, and ate too much chocolate pudding. Thank you hagfish-in-training Tetsuto and Kesia for...
by Stephanie Sang | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
On a dark and stormy day in January, we bid goodbye to our beloved lab artist, Kristen, who has ascended to Kansas. As Kristen lay on a table among human bones, we read aloud tragic eulogies and wept. Finally, we launched a boat into Botany Pond and set it aflame,...
by Stephanie Sang | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Coates lab postdoc Tetsuto Miyashita traveled to Austin, TX for the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), where he delivered a talk “The evolutionary origin of the filter-feeding larval phase in lampreys.” When...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Members of the Coates Lab traveled to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to present at the Great Lakes Student Paleoconference which hosted students from 7 institutions. Talks ranged from topics including reconstructing ecological communities, applying geometric...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
We had a successful and fun trip to SVP in Brisbane this year! Ben Otoo presented a poster, “New Diversity in Early Tetrapod Hind Limbs” and Mike enraptured audiences with his talk, “Rethinking the Assembly of Chimaeroid Fishes.” Rumor has it...
