Benjamen Kline

Benjamen Kline

May 04, 2022

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A big delivery

It has been a couple of weeks since my last update, but I am excited to announce that the custom panel that we designed with experts at Arbor Biosciences (https://arborbiosci.com/) has arrived in East Lansing as of last week! Over the next couple of months I will be working on testing the panel using genetic samples we collected from brook trout across the species range.

I am also pleased to announce I will be presenting a poster on my research progress at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 16th (https://jasm2022.aquaticsocieties.org/). JASM is one of the world's largest gatherings of aquatic scientists, practitioners, students, resource agency staff, and industry representatives. This meeting is hosted by The Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies (CASS), which is comprised of 9 groups representing various interests in the aquatic sciences realm, including the American Fisheries Society (AFS), which I am heavily involved in. I also recently presented the same research at the annual Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Symposium and Michigan State University and was recognized with best student poster! As such, I want to offer a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me in my work and helped me to get to where I am now.

In the coming weeks you can expect additional updates coming out of our research lab, including lab activities, troubleshooting, as well as generating the first rounds of data for this project! As always, thank you for your support and please feel free to reach out with any questions or collaborations.

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  • James Suleski
    James SuleskiBacker
    Thanks Ben!
    May 04, 2022
  • Bill P Ogle
    Bill P OgleBacker
    This is very exciting news. Go Ben Go!
    May 04, 2022
  • Benjamen Kline
    Benjamen KlineResearcher
    Thanks, Bill! Glad to have folks following along with our progress.
    May 04, 2022
  • James Suleski
    James SuleskiBacker
    Very exciting! Do you know if there is any possibility of watching your up coming presentation virtually? If not no worries, just interested and wanted to check. Thanks for what you do.
    May 04, 2022
  • Benjamen Kline
    Benjamen KlineResearcher
    Hi Jim! Thanks for your comment. I will be giving this presentation during the poster session of the JASM event in Grand Rapids. If you were keen on seeing more of the posters and chatting with other scientists, you could register for the meeting virtually (https://jasm2022.aquaticsocieties.org/registration/), though it is very expensive to do so and I don't think there would be a livestream session for my presentation. However, I just uploaded a copy of my poster to the main page of my project on the experiment platform, under the "Results" section if folks want to check it out there for free. Please feel free to reach out with questions or comments on the poster, or the progress of the project.
    May 04, 2022

About This Project

Freshwater fish account for a quarter of the world’s vertebrate species and are critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems and supporting local communities. However, freshwater fish remain one of the most vulnerable taxa to climate change, with over 1/3 of species threatened with extinction. How will fish adapt and survive in response to climate change? We are attempting to answer this question by examining the underlying genetic variation that enables populations adapt to thermal stress.

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