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lab profile
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Suzy Renn Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202
USA
renns@reed.edu
503 517 7967
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| PI: |
YES |
| Taxa Studied: |
Vertebrate Animals |
| Techniques Employed: |
Degenerate PCR, Quantitative PCR (qPCR), Microarrays, Solexa (Illumina) Sequencing, Bioinformatics/Sequence Analysis, In Situ Hybridization, Antibody Staining, Sectioning for Histology, Other, behavioral observation and hormone manipulation |
| Research Description: |
Through the synthesis of comparative genomics with functional studies in behavior, physiology, and ecology, the Renn lab aims to understand the genomic basis of behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Primarily, we use African Cichlid Fishes as our model system. These fishes have experienced an incredibly rapid recent and repeated evolutionary radiation resulting in thousands of closely related species that exhibit a wealth of morphological and behavioral diversity despite very low genomic sequence divergence. We aim to identify both structural (gene duplicates) and functional (gene expression and gene regulation) differences among genomes that are responsible for this rich species diversity. The Reed College undergraduate students in my lab and courses use microarray techniques including aCGH, and heterologous hybridization as well as next-generation sequencing technologies for RNA-seq, transcriptome assembly and enhancer sequencing. These data are analyzed in light of behavioral observations and manipulations as well as hormone assays and in situ hybridization using bioinformatics tools. |
| Lab Web Page: |
http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/index.html |
| Willing to Host Undergraduates: |
YES |
| Actively Seeking Undergraduates: |
YES |
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