2022 in Review
2022 was a great year. We got back into he lab and started a new exciting project in the Canal. Maycol left for graduate school, Alex and Maria won fellowships and we welcomed new team members Grisel, Milton, Ana, Luica, Sheryl and Rafa. All topped off with this holiday party.
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Fiestas Patrias 2022
July 2019
Maribel Pinto successfully defended her Undergraduate Thesis entitled:
VARIACIONES EN EL CICLO REPRODUCTIVO DE DOS ESPECIES DE CIRRÍPEDOS TROPICALES EN LA ZONA INTERMAREAL DE PUNTA CULEBRA, AMADOR, PANAMÁ.
Lab members attended the event. Left to right (Rachel Collin, Maribel Pinto, Isis Ochoa and Maria Sanchez.
VARIACIONES EN EL CICLO REPRODUCTIVO DE DOS ESPECIES DE CIRRÍPEDOS TROPICALES EN LA ZONA INTERMAREAL DE PUNTA CULEBRA, AMADOR, PANAMÁ.
Lab members attended the event. Left to right (Rachel Collin, Maribel Pinto, Isis Ochoa and Maria Sanchez.
December 2018
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Our first larval DNA barcoding paper is published! The first of many, we hope. Using a combined morphological and molecular approach we collected, photographed and sequenced the larvae of both major groups of inarticulate brachiopods. In both the Bay of Panama on the Pacific coast and the Bocas del Toro Region on the Caribbean Coast, we found representatives of Glottidia and of an unidentified discinid. We want to give a shout out to Michael Boyle who was a post-doc in the lab when he took the amazing photographs featured in the paper! [Read more]
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February 2017
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TaxaGloss, an online glossary tool for taxonomists developed by the NSF-ARTS project lead by Rachel Collin was released this month. Described in a publication in the Biodiversity Data Journal this tool not only allows taxonomists to make illustrated glossaries, but it includes a translation tool. When available we provide translations for both the term and the definition. The GUI is implemented in the Symbiota biodiversity platform and can be found here [link]
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January 2017
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CollinLab members presented the results of their research at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Ariana Gaskin presented the results of her REU project on trail following in Nerita snails. Kayley Mak presented results of an experiment that used slipper snails to show that larvae from different mothers performed differently under elevated temperatures and reduced salinities. Kelvin Santana Rodriguez presented the results of his project on barnacle settlement, which showed that barnacles settle more during the day than during the night in the intertidal of the Bay of Panama.
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September 2016
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Early developmental stages of sea urchins are more sensitive to thermal stress than are adults, gametes or larvae. It's a common assumption that developmental stages are more sensitive to stress than are adults, but this assumption is not tested often. We studied different life stages of the sea urchin Lytechius variegatus to test this assumption. We found that fertilization occurred and adults survived at temperatures higher than those ever experienced in the field but that early developmental stages are more sensitive and may experience stressful or lethal conditions during some times of the year. For more details read Collin and Chan (2016).
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