The LAQE

05/31/2026

Can anyone beat the LAQErs at Field Work Bingo? Use this card and play along!

05/29/2026

It’s possible that the crayfish stole the show today.

05/20/2026

Today’s efforts on the Fluvial Shiner survey yielded some of our highest fish diversity including some new species.

04/25/2026

Great fish and great people on the Tombigbee today.

04/17/2026

It was a great day to be outside in Mississippi!

04/10/2026

The LAQE was well represented at the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium this week on the Mississippi State campus.

Tori presented the culmination of her two year long project quantifying microplastics in sharks and rays.

Jacob shared his work on exploring which parts of the natural immune system in native Mississippi fishes are most important for resisting infections.

Ben presented on his work in Dr. Correa's lab on how habitat differences in the Pascagoula drainage affect the health and breeding cycles of two minnow species, but we claim him too!

04/02/2026

The PCR demons have been appeased. Recent lab wins include a tick ID confirmation, successful amplification from archived fish DNA, a working eDNA qPCR protocol, and a sequencing success after troubleshooting. Not all the fun happens in the field.

02/20/2026

The weather this week in Mississippi was great for kicking off field work for a new project. Day 1 of a status survey for the Fluvial Shiner (Alburnops edwardraneyi) with The LAQE. See the project on iNaturalist here. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fluvial-shiner-survey-2026

02/07/2026

Our lab had a great time attending the Joint Meeting of the Alabama & Mississippi Chapters of the American Fisheries Society in Orange Beach, AL! We were proud to have multiple students sharing their research.

Congrats to Jacob McGee on earning 1st place poster for “A Novel Method of Determining Speciation Dates between Gambusia Species Using Paralogs.” Great work by all of our students!

12/19/2025