by hageyt | Jul 30, 2025 | Research
This summer I had the amazing experience of conducting fieldwork in Morocco. We had a ton of support from our local collaborators Tahar Slimani and Abderrahim S’khifa and collaborators in Portugal (James Harris and all his students and Sónia Ferreira and her...
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...
