Tag Archives: Mammalogy

Digging Deeper, Branching Out

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Destiny Wadewitz

For the past two semesters, I have had the most amazing experience being involved in Biology Research. I had been interested in research in the past, but had never gained the courage to ask how to be a part of … Continue reading →

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ACU Wildlife Society Spotlight

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Joshua Brokaw

This January The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society featured the ACU Wildlife Society and our research projects in its monthly newsletter!

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Bat Research Class

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Kimberly Burt

I began research with Dr. Brokaw and Dr. Lee at the beginning of Fall 2013. They wanted to start an entirely new project with me, so a lot of the beginning stages were simply figuring out what to research. Our … Continue reading →

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Biology prof discovers new animal species

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Amber

As originally posted in “ACU News” on October 08, 2013: While leading a student expedition in Ecuador’s Sangay National Park in 2010 Dr. Tom Lee, professor of biology, discovered a new species of opossum. Lee, along with one ACU student and one … Continue reading →

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Students spend the summer researching

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Amber

As originally posted in “The Optimist” on September 5, 2013: By Maggie Marshall Posted on September 5, 2013 Over 50 students from at least 12 departments conducted research across the country this summer. Research was supported in part by grants … Continue reading →

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Thomasomys Phylogeny Continued

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Michael Maeker

In early October we received our sequence data back from the Yale DNA Analysis Facility. The sequence data gave us both the forward and reverse strands that we copied using PCR for each of our rodent species. We had two … Continue reading →

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Rodent Phylogeny Progress

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Michael Maeker

This month we made a huge step toward our short term goal of sending off the Thomasomys DNA samples for sequencing. Dr. Brokaw and I found a set of primers that could amplify an approximately 1200 base pair region of … Continue reading →

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Rodent Phylogeny Research

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Michael Maeker

Hello fellow biology enthusiast, my name is Michael Maeker and this blog post is the first blog entry on the Phylogeny of Thomasomys research project. The goal of this research is to determine the structure of a phylogeny for a … Continue reading →

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Biology Students Conduct Groundbreaking Summer Research

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Amber

See this latest story about our research program here.

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