Parker Young receives the 2018-19 Outstanding MS Student Award!
Posted onWoot woot!
Olivia Phillips presents her research at UC’s Showcase
Posted onOlivia presented the results of her research at UC’s Undergraduate Scholarly Showcase on April 22, 2019. Her work breaks new ground in the field of nutritional immunology. Olivia graduated Spring 2019 with the BS degree. Congratulations Olivia!
The NSF awards the lab two REU supplements for 2019
Posted onNina Shemancik and Harman Singh will receive REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) summer fellowships to conduct full-time research in the lab over summer 2019. Harman and Nina are dedicated UC undergrads whose interests focus on the genetic and physiological bases of costs of parasite resistance […]
Karl Grieshop wins the 2019 John Maynard Smith Prize in evolutionary biology
Posted onDr. Karl Grieshop, who earned his MS in the Polak Lab, is the 2019 winner of the prestigious John Maynard Smith (JMS) Prize, awarded by European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Karl currently is a postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University & the University of Toronto. […]
The lab takes a break, goes fishing
Posted onLauren Titus defends MS thesis
Posted onLauren defended her MS thesis Nov 9, 2017! Her work focused on feeding responses to parasitic infection in desert-dwelling fruit flies…
New paper on male nutrition
Posted onThis work is yet another example of the awesome power of the fruit fly model in biological research! The paper describes a collaborative project among researchers from 3 countries, examining sire nutritional effects on post-fertilization fitness outcomes.
Ashley and Margot present at UC
Posted onAshley (left) and Margot presented their research…
The lab collects flies and mites in Arizona
Posted onMembers of the Polak/Benoit labs went to Arizona in May to collect flies and mites. Within a couple days of exploring the desert landscape in the Superstition wilderness, we found several active cactus rots, and successfully established lab colonies of both flies and their ectoparasitic […]