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Lab News

July 24, 2023

July 24, 2023

Paper cake! Our latest work co-led by Kari Jirik and Jimena Dominguez accepted for publication in the Royal Society‘s flagship journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences!

July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023

Jimena, Quang, and Laura presented their first scientific talks at the annual Animal Behavior Society conference in Portland, Oregon. All of their talks were very well received. I’m proud to be working with them!

June 19, 2023

June 19, 2023

Joint Lee and Grossman Labs gathering to celebrate/kickstart summer CURI.

June 1, 2023

June 1, 2023

Jimena and Norman visit Dr. Berthold Hedwig’s lab at Cambridge University in the UK to learn intracellular neurophysiology techniques to record from the auditory system of Ormia ochracea. During this trip, they successfully recording from a handful of auditory interneurons in the thoracic ganglion of Ormia ochracea

May 10, 2023

May 10, 2023

Congratulations to Aaron Wikle for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis. For his thesis work, Aaron conducted laboratory experiments (Ormia ochracea behavior and neurophysiology work) at the Lee Lab. Norman also served as Aaron’s external committee member.

May 9, 2023

May 9, 2023

Laura Mongui wins the Animal Behavior Society Charles H. Turner Award! This award recognizes reserach work contributed by undergraduate students in the Animal Behavior Society.

March 2, 2023

March 2, 2023

Lee visits Dr. Eileen Hebets’ lab and gives an invited Title: “Auditory Perception of Host Cricket Calling Songs in the Acoustic Parasitoid Fly Ormia ochracea”

February 6, 2023

February 6, 2023

Approved for tenure and promotion!

After 16 years of training (4.5 years of undergrad, 6.5 years of Ph.D., 5 years of Post-Doc), and 6 ears of being an Assistant Professor, Norman Lee is finally approved for tenure and promotion

October 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

New review article published in the journal of Comparative Physiology A as part of a special issue in memory of Dr. Albert S. Feng.

September 6, 2022

September 6, 2022

Jimena Dominguez joins Lee Lab as a full-time Post Baccalaureate Research Technician. Jimena, thanks for joining us!!!

June 12, 2022

June 12, 2022

CURI summer research students Mikayla Carlson and Mackenzie Farrell join Dr. Norman Lee for the first Lee Lab field season in Hawaii.

April 28, 2022

April 28, 2022

Lee Lab student Mackenzie Farrell wins The Orthopterists’ Society 2022 Theodore J. Cohn Research Grant to study the biomechanics of song production in Acheta domesticus

February 1, 2022

February 1, 2022

Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Norman Lee wins prestigious NSF CAREER Grant (~1M USD) to study “the coevolution of an eavesdropper sensory system in response to an ever evolving communication system”

March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

Dr. Norman Lee appears on CBC radio show Quirks and Quarks to discuss research with host Bob McDonald

March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

New article published in Current Biology demonstrating that the lungs can reduce the impacts of noise from some heterospecific calls in a noisy breeding chorus.

October 29, 2020

October 29, 2020

New article published and featured on the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology. This work was done in collaboration with Drs. Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard (University of Southern Denmark) and Mark Bee (University of Minnesota).

June 1, 2020

June 1, 2020

Lee Lab receives NSF funding support to work with Tinghitella Lab on studying auditory sensitivity in Hawaiian Ormia ochracea.

March 9, 2020

March 9, 2020

Drs. Robin Tinghitella (University of Denver) and Dale Broder (St. Ambrose University) visit the Lee Lab. We’re looking forward to future collaborations!

September 27, 2019

September 27, 2019

Fall edition of St. Olaf Magazine covers work from the Lee Lab.

April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Norman Lee wins ADinstruments Educator Scholarship to attend the 2019 CrawFly Invertebrate Neurophysiology Course.

https://www.adinstruments.com/events/crawdad-crawfly-and-snailfest/crawfly-invertebrate-neurophysiology-course-january-2019

August 3, 2018

August 3, 2018

Luis J. Almanza, Meiyi Chen, and Alexander T. Kirtley present their work at the 55th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

June 22, 2018

June 22, 2018

Dr. Norman Lee presents “Looking for Sensory Solutions to Common Hearing Challenges in Non-human Animals” at the Hearing Loss Association of America 2018 Convention.

July 22, 2017

July 22, 2017

Lee Lab renovations underway! The sound-controlled environment is under construction.

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