Roberts Lab | School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Austral Summer Institute Course Wrap-up

Last month I had that opportunity to visit the University of Concepción, and teach a course at the Austral Summer Institute – “Physiological response of marine organisms to environmental change from a...

A Gift of Preprints

Just before Christmas we released two preprints with accompanying GitHub repositories. While both are on on oysters, they are different in several ways. Different species, different servers, and different software...

Shotgun Proteomics reveals so much about Ocean Acidification

Not only proteomics, but the integration of lipid profiles, glycogen analysis, shell strength, growth, response to heat, and response to spinning provides tons of new insights into ocean acidification impacts on...

Claire Goes Live!

Claire defends her Master’s Thesis research on oyster epigenetics! DNA methylation variation in gametes and larvae of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas Date: November 19th, 2014 2pm PST IRL Location: FSH 109...

Jay awarded ARCS fellowship

Jay Dimond was awarded the prestigious ARCS – Achievement Rewards for College Students – fellowship from the Seattle Chapter. A Seattle Chapter ARCS Foundation Fellowship is an opportunity to contribute to...

Research

Research in our lab focuses on characterizing physiological responses of marine organisms to environmental change. Using integrative approaches we strive to examine impacts and adaptive potential from the nucleotide to organismal level. A core component of this includes investigating the functional relationship of genetics, epigenetics, and transcription.

Open Science

We practice open science with lab members maintaining online electronic lab notebooks. In addition we have developed a Data and Resource Sharing Plan and are in the process of providing a list of resources we use for open science. To learn more about what we are doing, be sure to view our weekly, live lab meetings on YouTube, follow us on Facebook, or check out one or more of our blogs.

News and Notes

Sam & Steven completed Software Carpentry Instructor Training [11/14]
Congrats to Claire Olson – successfully defended her Master’s degree! [11/14]
Jake Heare presented Identifying Local Olympia Oyster Stocks Useful for Restoration at the Western Society of Naturalists Annual Conference 2014 [11/14]
Jay Dimond joins the lab [9/14]