2026

May - Virtual Evolution talks

Jiseon gave a talk on our general model for the evolution of thermal performance curves.

Zoe gave a talk that showed how our thermal performance curve model can reproduce patterns of adaptive tracking observed in the wild.

Katie gave a talk on the impacts of government polices on science, which are published at https://firsthandaccounts.org

March-April

We host a joint symposium with the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute

NU and GMGI personnell

Dr. Lotterhos launches the Center for Marine Ecological Genomics

The mission of the Center for Marine Ecological Genomics is to discover and study the genetic variation that exists among individuals within the same species.

Lei and Katie at graduation.

Awards and Acceptances!

Former undergraduate Kiran Bajaj received an Honorable Mention for their proposal to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Senior Lei Curtis accepted an offer to a PhD program at the University of Michigan and won the MES Excellence Award

Senior Zoe Chapman won the MES Research Award

Undergrads Mariana Kaulbach received the Muckenhoupt Scholarship

Undergrads Anna Eaton and Eshna Kulshreshtha were named to the Huntington 100

Anna Eaton also won a PEAK Summit Award for their summer research project

Presentations

Undergraduates Anna and Eshna present posters at Northeastern's annual RISE conference

Anna presents a poster on her research at RISE

Eshna presents a poster on their research at RISE

Oyster Doctors Workshop

Graduate student Madeline Eppley ran our Oyster Doctor's Workshop at the Northeastern High School Marine Science Symposium in March! This workshop walked students through an oyster dissection and introduced them to the importance of genetics in oyster research.

January-February

Welcome to new lab members!

We are excited to welcome co-op Megha Prasad (MS student in Bioinformatics) and postdoc Maddie Armstrong to the lab!

Dr. Lotterhos named as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

This list recognizes the top 1% of cited researchers on the Web of Science. Read more here: https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/12/09/northeastern-2025-highly-cited-researchers-list/

Students start their senior thesis

Anna Eaton started her senior honor's thesis, which will examine patterns of parentage in a large scale field experiment

Eshna started their senior thesis, which will examine patterns of pea crab infection across different oyster genotypes

Dr. Lotterhos voted onto American Genetic Association Council

The AGA is one of the oldest genetic societies in the US and has a complex history dating back to eugenic research in the early 1900s. Today, their mission is centered on advancing organismal genetics and genomics research, and promoting the application of genetic and genomic methods to understand, document, conserve, and manage biological diversity. Katie will serve on the AGA Council through 2029 and shares AGA's commitment to advance their mission with the most inclusive and diverse community possible.

Lab members present at Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition (NACE)

Madeline presents oyster seascape genomics

Camille presents on genomic forecasting on oysters

Kiran presents a poster on oyster genetic x environment interactions

Papers accepted

Former undergraduate Elisabeth Leung had her undergraduate senior thesis on "Comparing non-lethal sampling methods in the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)" accepted at Ecology and Evolution

Madeline and Lei had a paper entitled "Where do we go from here: harnessing queer perspectives to advance practice in ecology and evolutionary biology" accepted at Ecology and Evolution

Madeline had a paper entitled "There is no consensus on biological sex" in Ecology Letters

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