We planted an #orchid in the Gifford Arboretum to commemorate the start of EPIC University of Miami . Can't wait to see it grow in concert with the lab. Thanks @rileyfortierii for organizing this effort!

We celebrated the end of the first semester University of Miami with tacos and birthday cake for research assistants Tatiana Malli and Patrick Janssens.

Welcome to the lab Jalen Gordon! Jalen is a rising junior University of Miami. He will help optimize the optomotor response assay to assess visual acuity across development in multiple #zebrafish strains.

Dr. Delia Shelton, in the Environmental Psychology Innovation Center (EPIC), was awarded an $750,000 NIH NIEHS R00 grant to study the transgenerational effects of cadmium-induced behavioral disorders in zebrafish. Congratulations, Delia Shelton (she/her) EPIC science !

Welcome to EPIC science, Myles Covington! Myles completed a BS in Biology FIU. They have extensive research experience studying orchids w/ the Fairchild Million Orchid Project and interned at the Dept. of Agriculture. 🌿🌷 They join #TeamFish to study how pollutants affect behavior in #zebrafish.

🥳Congratulations to lab alumnus Vincent Johnson for securing a position as a data curator Global Hydrography UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography! They are lucky to have you. #LatinXinSTEM

🥳Congratulations to Ethan Bentley for winning the Toppel Internship fund scholarship to support his work studying strain differences in #zebrafish vision working with Delia Shelton (she/her) and NIH @NIEHS post-bac fellow Myles Covington University of Miami

🥳Congratulations to Makeda Walker for winning the UM Center for Global Black Studies Scholarship to study strain differences in #zebrafish vision working with Delia Shelton (she/her), NIH @NIEHS post-bac fellow Myles Covington, Toppel fellow Ethan Bentley and U.S. National Science Foundation ACE fellow Jenny Parral University of Miami.