• Sara Schaal received a Dean's Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching
• Alan submitted his manuscript "Ocean acidification induces subtle shifts in gene expression and DNA methylation in the tissue of calcification" for peer review
• Áki's manuscript "The importance of genetic redundancy in evolution" is published in TREE
• Ffion:
  • presented her poster "Within- and among-species variation in tolerance of thermal extremes by Littorina spp. marine snails" at RISE based on her Littorina experiment
  • presented her co-op research "Factors underlying the evolution of phenotypic plasticity" at the MSC Undergraduate Research Symposium
  • Was selected for the Huntington 100!
• Molly was the scientist for an “Ask the Scientist” series at the Asheville Museum of Science
• Katie survived moving her course online

Áki, Sara, and Alan attend the Oikos conference in Iceland, along with Ben Haller from the Messer Lab at Cornell (See below)

We move to online teaching, working from home, canceling travel plans, and social distancing to help slow the spread of COVID-19

Lotterhos lab donates lab supplies (left) to help local hospitals

Alan, along with Ries lab members Elise Begin and Louise Cameron, attend the Ocean Sciences Conference and present data from our NSF-funded research studying the effects of ocean acidification on oysters

In mid-January, Alan and Áki attended the SliM workshop at Cornell, and brought back lots of great tips and tricks for simulating genomes

Essex Tech High school student Ellie Clark joins the lab

Alan talked about lionfish at the Science Cafe in Salem (right)

Katie and Thais volunteered to help the Stellwagon Bank National Marine Sanctuary present their giant walk-through life-size replica of a humpback whale named Salt at the Johnson School, in collaboration with Friends of Lynn and Nahant Beach and Girls Inc. of Lynn!

Áki and Molly - Awards for Conceptually Challenging Project

Alan - "Not going to be responsible for publication bias" Award

Sara - Award for Biggest Sequencing Project

Thais - Best Technical Editing Award

Ffion - Award for Most Samples Analyzed

Jason - Weekend Warrior Award