October 2025 - Peter gives a departmental seminar at Hope College (Holland, MI), hosted by Dr. Jimena Golcher-Benavides. He also enjoyed conversations with students and faculty and learning about the college’s Dutch history.
October 2025 - Our animal welfare grant funded by the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science was featured in CMU News.
September 2025 - Dijkstra lab featured in article about mouthbrooding in The Scientist.
December 2024 - Olivia Buzinski defends her MS. thesis and will continue as a Ph.D. student in our lab!
November 2024 - New article out about social stress and oxidative status in the brain in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (link). Press release, Yahoo News, Earth.com, Technology Networks, Metro, and KIJK (Dutch)
November 2024 - New article out filial cannibalism and antioxidant function in microPublication Biology (link). The first author is former undergraduate student in our lab, Hailey Hartman!
August 2024 - New graduate students Ethan Burka (MS) and Farjana Chamily (Ph.D.) are joining our lab!
July 2024 - New article out about color change and sexual selection in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences (link)
August 2023 - Our lab received an NIH-grant examining how social stress and impacts brain oxidative status. Preliminary data for this grant was supported by a seed grant from CMU's Neuroscience Program.
May 2023 - Lab awarded an animal welfare grant from AALAS. This grant allows us to study the impact of physical enrichment on aggression and welfare in cichlid fish, complementing our work on social stress, behavior, and physiology.