Category Archives: Announcement

Chang Lab and colleagues receive Human Frontier Science Program grant to pursue studies into the evolution of the multifunction rhodopsin protein

We are excited to announce that our lab has received a $2M grant to study the multifunctional role of rhodopsin! The research will be conducted as a collaborative effort with the Feuda lab at the University of Leicester, the Menon … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Leave a comment

Context Matters: Epistasis in a Whale Visual Gene

Does a genetic mutation in one organism have the same effect in another from a different species? New research from Ph.D. candidate Sarah Dungan in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences highlights a case where parallel genetic changes … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement, Publications | Leave a comment

SMBE 2017

We are proud to announce that Belinda Chang has been elected to the SMBE council! Belinda has also been nominated as an Editor for the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. Congratulations Belinda! Congratulations also to Ph.D. candidate Eduardo de Almeida Gutierrez, … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Leave a comment

Chang Lab Presentations at Evolution 2017

Our lab’s talks and posters at Evolution 2017 were a big success! Recorded talks will be available soon. Congratulations everyone! Functional changes in bat dim-light visual pigment evolution are associated with differing echolocation abilities. Eduardo de Almeida Gutierrez, Gianni M. Castiglione, … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Leave a comment

Three new publications: Protein Science, Nature Communications, and Journal of Experimental Biology

We have three new publication announcements to make, covering the last two papers of 2016, and the first of 2017. In 2016, Chang Lab members in collaboration with Professor John A. Endler (Deakin University) published “A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement, Publications | Leave a comment

Congratulations to Gianni on a successful PhD defense!

On October 12, 2016, lab member Gianni Castiglione successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Functional Characterization and Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of Rhodopsin in Fishes and other Vertebrates”. Dr. Castiglione will continue his work in the Chang lab as a Post-Doc. … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Leave a comment

Chang Lab presentations at Evolution 2016

A number of lab members will be in Austin from June 17-21 to present at the Evolution 2016 conference. This year’s talks and posters include: “Divergence of the dim light opsin gene in Neotropical cichlids reflects macroevolutionary transitions” by Frances Hauser, Ryan … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Tagged | Leave a comment