Lab technician Orianna Duh has achieved a new milestone in her scientific career: publication of her first paper! Some of her master’s thesis work, done in the lab of Dr. Danielle McDonald at the University of Miami, can be found in this article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00360-024-01547-3

The gills of fish have oxygen-sensing neuroepithelial cells. Orianna found that these cells increase in density under severe hypoxia in the toadfish, a fish the McDonald lab uses to study environmental stress.

Led by the Martindale lab’s incredible Dorothy Mitchell, see the full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05901-7

Whitney lab news link: https://www.whitney.ufl.edu/articles/ctenophore-deploys-a-rapid-injury-response-dating-back-to-the-last-common-animal.html

Orianna joins the Edgar lab after receiving her master’s degree working in the lab of Dr. Danielle McDonald at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.