by hageyt | May 26, 2025 | Research
Over the last semester, I have been working with senior high school student Danica Belingon from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. We have been focused on blending computer science and research! Danica built custom Python code to run a piece of lab...
by hageyt | Jan 12, 2025 | Research
The SICB conference (Society for Integrative Comparative Biology) was a busy one this year! Working with Dr. Burnes, we brought five MUW students with us to Atlanta. MUW students Cain Petty, Zarin Raya, and Billy Hufton all presented posters, and Ethan Wilkins and...
by hageyt | Sep 22, 2024 | Research
I am very excited to announce that my NSF CAREER proposal has been approved for funding! See the MUW press release here and our local newspaper, the Commercial Dispatch’s article here. According to NSF’s website: “The Faculty Early Career Development...
by hageyt | Mar 1, 2024 | Education, Research
Working with Dr. Burnes, we brought 11 of his bioinformatics students to the 2024 Mississippi Academy of Sciences conference in Hattiesburg. They all presented posters sharing class projects they had been working on. I also presented a poster on a collaboration...
by hageyt | Jan 8, 2024 | Research
Our new paper is out in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! Using geometric morphometrics, we evaluated parallel morphological differences in toe pad shape across geckos. We also adapted the use of phylogenetic independent contrasts for shape data to conduct a node...
by hageyt | Dec 11, 2023 | Research
Last week Dr. Burnes and I had the chance to visit Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Our visit was part of a project looking at biogeography of Sceloporus lizards, in connection with Dr. Burnes’...
