Welcome to the Searle Lab website!
We are located in the Lilly Hall of Life Sciences room G-366. Phone: 765-494-9016
News
April 15, 2024
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Blackwood on their successful Ph.D. defense today!
April 13, 2024
Our lab hosted a booth at Springfest this weekend! We had a lot of fun talking about amphibians and aquatic habitats.
January 8, 2024
Spring semester has begun! Dr. Searle will be on sabbatical at Universität Trier, Germany this semester but will return next fall.
August 21, 2023
Fall semester has begun and we have one new undergraduate student joining the lab. Welcome Kendall!
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!
