Month: July 2019

Delayed homeothermy in high-atltitude deer mice

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Congratulations to Cayleih Robertson for her paper that just came out today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, entitled:

Development of homeothermic endothermy is delayed in high-altitude native deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus)

This project is the result of Cayleih’s PhD research in Dr. Grant McClelland’s lab. I was lucky enough to be involved with these talented scientists, although all the credit goes to Cayleih for her hard work. What a tour de force of physiology, biochemistry and imaging.

Sample video of the experimental paradigm examining cooling in neonatal mice using infrared thermal imaging. For more details, see the link to the paper above.

Backyard Biology

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Earlier this year, I put a raspberry pi on a robin nest in my backyard. Used it as an opportunity to test out tweet streaming from my twitter account, so am posting the link here to the lab blog. Sorry it took so long, I was away from stable internet access for the past month.