Rokyta Lab News
The Rokyta Lab is looking for Ph.D. students to start in the fall of 2025. We can accept students through the Ecology and Evolution or Cellular and Molecular Biology programs at Florida State University. Contact Dr. Rokyta if you are interested.
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Gunnar Nystrom successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March 25, 2024.
Kylie Lawrence successfully defended her M.S. thesis on March 20, 2024.
Francis Ebuara passed his Ph.D. qualifying exams in March 2024 and is now a Ph.D. candidate!
Our fantastic undergraduate researcher, Shakthi Rajesh, was just awarded the Helen Louise Lee Undergraduate Research Award through the FSU IDEA grant program! This award will support his research this summer on sex-based venom variation in the Florida Bark Scorpion (Centruroides gracilis).
In March 2023, the Rokyta Lab visited the AP Biology class at Leon High School to talk about our research. Dave Madden, their teacher, put together an awesome video of the event that can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8dzu5ozbo
Schyler Ellsworth successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on November 20, 2023.
Emilie Broussard passed her Ph.D. qualifying exams in November 2023. She is a Ph.D. candidate now!
Erica Atkins joined the lab in August 2023 through the Ecology and Evolution Ph.D. program.
Collins Awiaga joined the lab in August 2023 through the Ecology and Evolution Ph.D. program.
Mike Hogan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on April 6, 2023.
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