Clayton Vondriska

We are excited to welcome Natalie Wride to the lab as a new (and our first ever) Master's student! Natalie received her B.S. in Biology from BYU before spending some time working as a field station assistant at The Ohio State University's Stone Lab. Natalies thesis will investigate the feasibility of bivalve aquaculture in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

We have a new publication that has come out in PLOS One titled "Observation and simulation of chemically mediated searches in marine zooplankton." This paper was a collaborative between the Gnathiid Gnation lab at the University of Miami and Peter Hinow's lab at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. In the paper, we mathematically model the chemosensory behavior of parasitic gnathiid isopods locating hosts and coral larvae locating settlement habitat using an adapted versi