Undergraduates Publish Research in Scientific Reports Journal!
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 3:03pmWe are excited to announce the publication of a new study by members of Dr. James Albert’s (Department of Biology) lab on the diversity and evolution of body shape in Louisiana fishes. This paper was published on November 24, 2023, in the prestigious journal, Scientific Reports.
This project was led by UL Lafayette PhD student Kevin Torgersen, and is especially notable for the participation of four Undergraduate student co-authors, all in the Department of Biology: Bradley Bouton, Alyx Hebert, Noah Kleyla and Garrett Rolf. Each of these students contributed substantially to the project design, data acquisition and analysis, manuscript preparation, and public dissemination of results.
Aspects of this work were presented by Alyx Hebert at the 2022 UL Lafayette Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium (BURS), by Noah Kleyla at the 2023 LSU Discover Day, by Bradley Bouton at the 2023 LSU Discover Day, and by Bradley Bouton at the 2023 UL Lafayette Advance Undergraduate Research Conference.
This work was made possible by logistical and financial support from several units and people at UL Lafayette. Special thanks to the Advance program (Dr. Sherry Krayesky-Self), Department of Biology (Dr. Paul Leberg), Ray P. Authement College of Sciences (Dr. Azmy Ackleh, Dr. Ashok Kumar), Graduate School (Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser), and the UL Lafayette Research Office (Dr. Ramesh Kolluru, Dr. Kumar Das).
Additionally, work on the larger project continues, with contributions from additional UL Lafayette undergraduate students. We are looking forward to several additional published papers with undergraduate student co-authors in the coming year.
