Strother Lab News

Congratulations to Zain Khalid for Successfully Defending his Masters Thesis!

Zain is a graduate student in the Strother Lab and his research examines how low-oxygen conditions affect neural activity in vertebrate animals using fishes as model organisms.

Whitney Scientists Develop New Approach for Drug Discovery

The scientists developed, tested, and verified a novel in vivo assay for analgesics (medications that relieve pain) using zebrafish larvae.

Research In the News: Devil ray feeding inspires innovative filtration technologies

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. James Strother and Professor of Biology Dr. James Liao and colleagues whose publication “Filter feeding in devil rays is highly sensitive to morphology” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B was featured in Oceanographic Magazine.

Larval Zebrafish, credit: 7dpf larva, akiramuto.net/archives/458, CC BY 4.0, Credit: National Institute of Genetics

Fish sensory cells have close evolutionary ties to sensory cells of humans and other vertebrates

Congratulations to Whitney researchers Dr. Elias Lunsford, Dr. Yuriy Bobkov, Brandon Ray, Dr. James Liao and Dr. James Strother who published a paper titled "Anion efflux mediates transduction in the hair cells of the zebrafish lateral line" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bailey-Niblett Family Endowment Helps Fund Trip to SICB

This January the Bailey-Niblett Family Endowment helped fund a Whitney Postdoctoral Research Associate's trip Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference from January 2- 6, 2024, in Seattle, Washington.

Strother and Loesgen Labs welcome Lucas Cathey

Please welcome Lucas Cathey to the Whitney Lab! Lucas joins the Strother and Loesgen labs as a Research Technician.

Dr. Cez Borba leans in for a closer look at a comb jelly on a computer screen

UF Explore - When the right microscope doesn’t exist, these optical innovators invent it

Whitney Laboratory Postdoc Dr. Cez Borba, Graduate Student Dorothy Mitchell and other scientists are using groundbreaking microscopes developed by optical engineer and neurobiologist Dr. James Strother to explore questions like how tissues recover from injury and how nerve cells are wired together.

Strother Lab welcomes Zain Khalid

Please welcome Zain Khalid to the Whitney Laboratory! Zain joins the Strother Lab to pursue a M.S. in Neuroscience working on whole-brain imaging of zebrafish.

Strother Lab welcomes Dr. Leandra Hamann

Please welcome Dr. Leandra Hamann to Whitney Laboratory! She recently joined Dr. James Strother's Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

James Strother, Joseph Ryan, Mark Martindale

Dr. Joseph Ryan, Dr. Mark Martindale, and Dr. James Strother Named Allen Distinguished Investigators!

This grant will allow researchers to better understand the brains and nervous systems of animals and humans by studying gelatinous ocean comb jellies, sea creatures that can lead us to insights about how brains began. This is the first time the foundation has awarded the grant to the University of Florida!