Roberts Lab | School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Where in the Puget Sound is Jake?

Summer sampling is in full force and if you want to see what Jake Heare is up to check out is notebook. Each week Jake knocks out oysters and checks out how many little baby oysters are inside these...

Webcast – Epigenetic regulation of environmental response

Tune in Wednesday at 1pm (or later) to see Mackenzie defend her thesis entitled “Epigenetic regulation of environmental response in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas.” More information available at...

Hackathon with GEMS

Mackenzie Gavery helps put on a Hackathon with the middle school girls at GEMS. They wrote code for making various patterns of stacked cups. A little buggy, but overall they did awesome! For this activity one...

Genomics on the Half Shell: Making Science more Open

“In our research we leverage several computing infrastructure solutions that I will describe. In addition, our lab practices Open Notebook Science. I will describe the practical aspects of how we accomplish this...

Ocean Acidification Research Highlights

With our lab’s focus on the physiological response of marine organisms to environmental change we have considerable interest in how changes in ocean chemistry impacts biology. Our efforts on this front can be...

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.