Travis Hagey’s lab
Dawkins MUW Summer Scholar project on Hemidactylus toes
This summer, research student Alaina Dawkins, has also been doing research in the lab. Spring 2022, she received a Mississippi State Space Grant Consortium award, and this summer her project was chosen to participate in the MUW Summer Scholars program! Yesterday she...
Howell et al Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Shape Differences in the Toes of Urban Lizards
Its been a busy summer so far, but the most exciting thing to announce is that the project Bailey Howell completed here at MUW when she was an undergrad is now in press at Integrative Organismal Biology! Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Shape Differences in the Toes of...
SICB 2022
This year I decided to attend SICB in person in Phoenix. I was a little apprehensive, but the conference organizers did a great job, and I felt the in-person experience for my student Jenny McCann presenting her poster would be worth it. Jenny did a great job with her...
MUW TikTok video on Geico gecko
Working with our university photographer, I recorded two videos for TikTok and for Facebook! The Geico gecko, which is based on a real life species, the Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis) has three inaccuracies. Can you guess what they are? [video...
Semester research and BS 400 posters
Fall 2021 has been a busy semester! As we're reaching the end, we have fun exciting updates. This semester I've had four research students working on various toe pad projects, including Alicia Jefferson, Alaina Dawkins, Jenny McCann, measuring a preserved Tuatara...