Welcome to the Searle Lab website!
We are located in the Lilly Hall of Life Sciences room G-366. Phone: 765-494-9016
News
July 20, 2023
Congratulations to JLo for being selected for the Outstanding Grad TA Honor Roll!
June 2023
We have three REU students joining us this summer! Ethan Muñiz joins us from the University of Puerto Rico - Humacao, Paula Galindo joins us from the Universidad de los Andes, and Alahana Gonzalez joins us from the University of Puerto Rico - Aguadilla. We also have three of our Purdue students staying for the summer (Emileo, Ethan, and Megan). It's going to be a fun and busy summer!
Top row: Cat, Kurt, JLo, Ben, Alahana, Ethan M
Bottom row Emileo, Ethan G, Paradyse, Paula, Aura, Megan
April 19, 2023
Spring semester is almost done and we managed to get a lab photo with almost everyone! Also, congratulations to graduating senior Maggie!
Top row: JLo, Aura, Kurt, Ben, Paradyse, Cat
Bottom row: Koby, Emileo, Megan, Maggie, Kayla
Missing: Ethan
February 27, 2023
Field season has begun early this year! We found a lot of spring peepers at the Ross Reserve.
Swabbing a spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) to test for Bd infection
August 22, 2022
Fall semester has begun and we have several new students joining the lab!
Aura Muñiz Torres is a new Ph.D. student who joins us after recently completing her masters degree at UMass-Boston.
Kurt Lutz is a new Ph.D. student who joins us after conducting his master's research at the University of San Francisco.
Maggie Kelly and Megan Lawson join us as new undergraduate students.
Welcome to the lab everyone!
July 22, 2022
Summer lab group photo!
Top row: JLo, Ben, Cat, Emily, Stephanie
Bottom row: Alana, Amirah, Paradyse, Luke
(Missing: Emileo and Ilinca)
June 13, 2022
We are excited to have Jonathan Lopez ("JLo") join our lab as a Ph.D. student. JLo recently received his undergraduate degree from Sewanee: The University of the South and is supported over the summer by the BRIDGE program. He is interested in the intersection of infectious disease and behavior and will be working on field sampling of amphibians and Bd this summer. Welcome to the lab JLo!
June 6, 2022
Alana Lopez-Cruz has arrived to join the lab as an SROP student this summer. She is currently an undergraduate student at the Univeristy of Puerto Rico - Aguadilla and will be studying population rescue using Daphnia as a model organism. Welcome to the lab Alana!
June 1, 2022
Our new technician, Ben Beggren started today! Ben recently received his undergraduate degree from Austin College and will be working on various projects in the amphibian-Bd system.
May 31, 2022
Amirah Nieves-Medina has arrived to join the lab as an REU student this summer. She is currently an undergraduate student at the Univeristy of Puerto Rico - Humacao and will be studying host competence in the amphibian-Bd system this summer. Welcome to the lab Amirah!
May 16, 2022
Summer session has begun! Emily and Luke will be continuing their research over the summer and Emileo Peralta, who is a Summer Stays Scholar, started today to help with amphibian field work. Welcome to the lab Emileo!
May 8, 2022
Congratulations to the five lab members who are graduating this fall: undergraduate students Emily Martin, Lulu Davis, Maggie Bui, and Nicole Perry, plus Ph.D. student Spencer Siddons. We will you all the best!
Top: Emily, Lulu, Cat, Spencer
Front: Nicole, Maggie, Luke, Paradyse
April 27, 2022
Spencer successfully defended his Ph.D. today! Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Siddons!
April 12, 2022
Great job to Emily, Lulu, and Nicole, who presented their honors research at Purdue's Undergraduate Research Conference today!
Nicole presenting her poster titled "Investigation of COVID-19 variants in symptomatic and asymptomatic cases" (in collaboration with Giovanna Carpi and Ilinca Ciubotariu).
Lulu presenting her poster titled "Assessing the effects of Bd reservoir species on susceptible frog species within their geographic ranges in Costa Rica."
March 7, 2022
Barsha Bhowal is a first-year PULSe student who will be doing a rotation in our lab for the next 7 weeks. Welcome to the lab, Barsha!
November 3, 2021
Everyone has been busy in the lab! Some recent photos:
October 2, 2021
We had a great lab trip to the Lafayette zoo today!
May 20, 2021
Summer has begun and we have one new undergraduate joining the lab, Luke Papai. Luke will be helping with Daphina field sampling and experiments. Welcome to the lab!
May 16, 2021
It was great to celebrate in person the graduation of Hector Zumbado-Ulate and Meredith Scherer! Congratulations to you both!
Back: Cat, Emily, Spencer
Front: Paradyse, Meredith, Hector
April 2, 2021
Hector successfully defended his Ph.D. research today! Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Zumbado-Ulate!
December 14, 2020
Our last lab meeting of the semester was today. Here's our lab photo for 2020!
October 13, 2020
We spent a beautiful day today working hard to remove the in-ground mesocosms from Martell. (supervised by Kira, the dog)
September 17, 2020
Congratulations to Spencer for being awarded the Graduate Teaching Award! Photo = Spencer training lab undergrads in methods of amphibian sampling.
August 24, 2020
Fall semester has begun and we have one new undergraduate joining the lab. Welcome Maggie!
May 25, 2020
We have two new undergraduate students joining us this summer. Lulu Davis is a Purdue student who will be joining us through the Summer Stays program. Fabiola Fontan is a student at the University of Puerto Rico Humacao, who is working remotely and supported through an NSF REU. Welcome to the lab Lulu and Fabiola!
March 31, 2020
Congratulations to Paradyse on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Paradyse will be studying the effects of abiotic stressors on disease susceptibility in amphibians.
Februrary 19, 2020
Kacie made the most amazing cookies for lab meeting today!
January 13, 2019
Spring semester has begun and we have one new undergraduate joining the lab. Welcome Allison!
December 13, 2019
Congratulations to our three graduating seniors, Brittany, Kiersten and Marin! Best of luck with everything in your future - we will miss you!
Left to right: Brittany, Kiersten, Cat, Marin
November 18, 2019
Brittany presented the results of her honors thesis at Purdue's undergraduate research conference today. Her poster was titled "Effects of salinity on invasion in freshwater communities."
September 4, 2019
Kacie has been leading efforts to collect Daphnia for our upcoming experiments on evolutionary rescue. There have been some beautiful (and not so beautiful) days!
August 19, 2019
Fall semester has started and we have several new people. First, Paradyse Blackwood is joining us as a new Ph.D. student. Paradyse received a B.S. from Binghamton University and is interested in studying the interactive effects of abiotic stressors on disease susceptibility in amphibians. Welcome to the lab Paradyse!
We also have four (!) new undergraduates joining the lab. Welcome to Emily, Meredith, Diego, and Maddie!
August 16, 2019
Today's the last day of the Ecological Society of America meeting where Cat, Hector, Spencer, Stephanie, Kiersten and Mariah all presented. We had a great time!
Left to right: Spencer, Kiersten, Mariah, Hector, Cat
August 13, 2019
Hector's latest paper was on the cover of Diversity. You can see the image here.
June 14, 2019
Today we said goodbye to Isa Adarve who has been an intern in our lab for the last six months. She will be missed!
Left to right: Marin, Isa, Kacie, Stephanie, Spencer, Emily, Mariah
May 6, 2019
Hector presented the results of his most recent paper at the Interdisciplinary Programs reception today. You can find more about his work here.