Congratulations to Christina on her UCARE award!

5/08/2025

Big congrats to Christina Van Haren on receiving a UCARE award through UNL. This award will support her summer research as she investigates the use of eDNA in characterizing the fauna of ephemeral waters in Nebraska and beyond!

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The lab is open for science!

3/18/2025

Construction always takes longer than you expect. But we made it through a minor flood, some strange walls, and the discovery that the last person here had the ENTIRE space wired to a single 20 amp breaker (bad plan!). It's great to be settled in my actual office and to have science happening in my actual lab! Looking forward to exciting times ahead!

New paper accepted in Genes, Genomes, and Evolution

5/13/2025

New jellyfish genome just dropped! We just got word that our paper was accepted in G3. You know that feeling when you accidentally sequence the genome of the wrong animal? Stay tuned for a tale of tragic contamination turned fascinating as this manuscript hits the internet.

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SICB2025

1/9/2025

A 3D scan of a sea spider

Kocot lab past and present members.

Great to be at SICB and to reconnect with science family from afar. Rebecca is proud to be on 3 talks ranging from sea spiders to jellyfish eyes. Looking forward to exciting science to come!