Maggie Hantak

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Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders Color polymorphism, the occurrence of multiple discrete color morphs with co-adapted sets of traits within the same population, may provide the raw materials for rapid species formation. It has been h...

New preprint from postdoc @bpwaldron.bsky.social and coauthors! Love to get to think about salamanders sometimes with the help of real experts like Brian, was my original academic goal to be a salamander biologist and I'm largely failing.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illuminating the dark mess of fibers: Application of circular cross polarized light in unravelling the bone tissue structure of the dermal pectoral girdle of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis Circular cross polarized light reveals the fine stucture of dermal bone tissue of a metoposaurid amphibian from the Late Triassic. Top right image shows the looped interwoven fibered bone when illumi....

Interested in bone histology? Temnospondyl amphibians? Check out this new paper by my PhD student, Sudipta Kalita, from his MSc work on Metoposaurus at the University of Bonn! doi.org/10.1111/joa....

The salary is ~$22,000 for Ph.D. students, but there are also competitive fellowships through the university that can increase the stipend, and support for research and conference travel.

The University of Dayton is a thriving institution, located in the city, and has a low cost of living. There are many metroparks, state forests, and state parks in the area.

Some particular topics of interest: ecological and morphological variation in amphibians across urbanization gradients, global effects on species color variation, and evolutionary patterns of trait variation in amphibians. But please reach out with other relevant topics!

I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student for the fall of 2025 to work on phenotypic variation in amphibians! More info here: maggiehantak.weebly.com

KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician! The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...