Any average human couldn’t do it. But two rhesus macaques did. With skills including manipulating humans, moving joysticks, watching videos, and eating treats; monkeys Agave and Saguaro decided they were over the pressure of academic research and headed for retirement in the Pacific Northwest. They joined the Gothard lab around the age of 5 years […]
In the Gothard Lab, undergraduates have always been integrated into all aspects of research; they train the animals, collect and analyze data, and help plan follow-up experiments. Recently, part of our mission focus turned to improved training of our undergraduates to share their work with both the scientific and lay community, as we believe the […]
This past Saturday undergrad students Ryan Le and Sun Woo Kim presented a culmination of their past years research at the 35th Annual Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) Conference. Ryan’s first UBRP conference saw him describing how pharmacological manipulations affected tolerance to heat, something that all local Tucsonans could sympathize with, as part of a […]
Congratulations to graduate student Michael Cardenas, who was selected by the organizers of the NIH Annual Investigator Meeting on Interoception Research (Washington DC, Nov. 11, 2023) to give a flash talk presentation! The selection of his abstract for oral presentation comes with a travel award to the conference. Michael will present his recent findings on […]
Spring is a time of change, both in nature and the Gothard lab. At the end of each academic year, the lab gets together to say farewell to students that are graduating and to welcome the new students that joined the lab over the past year. The spring of 2023 saw many undergraduate and graduate […]
The Gothard Lab traveled to Christopher Columbus Park for a well-deserved break on the water. A sigh of relief is shared amongst the undergrads, who just finished the last of their final exams. For Berna Dennis and Natalia Magnusson, their sighs are understandably greater, as the weight of their undergraduate careers is finally off their […]
The All Souls Procession, in honor of Dia de Los Muertos, is a large and popular event in Tucson. It started in 1990 and has grown to a weekend long event with over 100,000 participants. It is a celebration and mourning of the lives of loved ones and ancestors. The procession is a two mile […]
Over Labor Day, 2021, some of the lab members took a road trip to New Mexico for some relaxation and outdoor recreation. While we were there, we took a short trip to visit Dr. Gothard's cabin, in eastern Arizona, where we hiked through the forest and collected lobster mushrooms, which we ate for dinner. While […]
What started as a typical Sunday morning in central Arizona quickly turned into a free-fall when five members of the Gothard Lab and one un-named spouse exited a perfectly functional airplane at 13,000 ft and hurled 120 mph to the waiting planet below. “I was scared until I learned that more people die each year […]
Cam's father, Michael Bolles, is the owner and head instructor of Krav Maga of Chandler (Chandler is a suburb of nearby Phoenix, Arizona). He offered to introduce us to Krav Maga, a practical street self-defense system that is designed to be relatively quick and easy to learn. It is widely considered the most effective type […]
Two new graduate students are starting their dissertation work in the lab this summer: Michael Cardenas and Archer Bowman. Although their projects are in the 'design' phase, the general direction of their research is starting to crystallize. Archer came to the lab with the desire to understand the algorithm of social and affective behavior and […]
Lizzie Hillier has announced that she will be starting medical school this fall. We are happy for her future patients but we are sorry for ourselves. Lizzie has been a lab member for only two years, but it feels like she had been here for decades. Everything became perfectly organized soon after she started and […]