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The Evolution &
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Our lab studies the evolution & eco-physiology of wetland animals (and other critters).
Lab News
2026
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2025
December
November
October
October
- Mike gives a seminar at University of Wyoming
September
- Sarah presents a poster at GREEBs 2026
August
- Ph.D. student Anna Brasket joins the lab!
- Sarah and Mike interviewed by Spokesman-Review to talk about the potential impacts of wildfires on dragonflies in Spokane
- Martha leaves the lab to start her new job as a teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota Rochester!
July
- Ph.D. student Megan Mokriski joins the lab!
June
- Serene's article in Ecological Entomology chosen as Editors' Choice Article for the June Issue
- Martha's research and journey profiled by CLAS!
May
- Martha Young successfully defends her MS Thesis!
April
- Martha wins the 2025-2026 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award from CU Denver's Department of Integrative Biology!
- Martha wins the 2026 Outstanding Masters Award from CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! More details soon!
- Mike, Sarah, and friend-of-the-lab Noah Leith have review article about reproduction, climate change, and local extinctions published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
March
- The lab is excited to announce that we will be welcoming Megan Mokriski from Davidson College as a new PhD student starting in Fall 2026!
- The lab is excited to announce that we will be welcoming Anna Brasket from the University of Washington as a new PhD student starting in Fall 2026!
- Sarah presents her research on post-fire dragonfly assemblages at the 2026 Rocky Mountain National Park Biennial Research Conference
February
- Mike wins the 2026 Excellence in Research Award for tenured/tenure-track faculty from CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
January
- Sarah, Martha, and Mike present about the lab's research at SICB 2026
2025
December
- Mike has paper accepted to Journal of Experimental Biology with Ragland lab
- High-school student extraordinaire, Serene Park, has first-author paper accepted to Ecological Entomology!!!!
- PhD student Sarah deftly defends her proposal and advances to candidacy!
November
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology selects Mike for the 2026 George A. Bartholomew Award -- the annual prize given to the top young investigator in integrative biology
October
- Sarah talks to 9News about her paper in Nature Climate Change!
- Sarah & Mike talk about their recent Nature Climate Change paper on NPR!
- Martha expertly defends her thesis proposal!
