Parrott Lab

We are the Parrott Lab at UGA. Our group studies how environmental variation influences phenotypic diversity, especially in the context of health and disease.

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Hi everyone! It is officially hatchling season for the Parrott Lab 😄! Samantha Bock is going to look at at how sex promoting temperatures affect survival of these little guys. We expect 300+ hatchlings over the next month, so here is a THREAD on some gator tot facts! #SciComm

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

@Squirrelbeer23 @LauraKojima Yup! We’ve even had one that seemed to be about 3-4 years old make that noise. It’s a call to let their mom and siblings know where they are or if they’re in trouble.

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Last night our MS student Josiah Johnson, with the help of @laurakojima and Ethan Shealy, had a successful first recapture event recapturing 20 of his released hatchling gators that were reared in our lab this summer. Hopefully tonight’s recapture efforts go as smoothly! 🐊

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Many thanks to @BiolBulletin, @wareslab, and the other Eds., for allowing us to contribute a paper to this issue and we're especially excited to see a Yawkey Wildlife Center hatchling grace the cover!

[The Biological Bulletin @BiolBulletin]

Our August 2021 issue is a symposium on:

"Adaptive and Plastic Responses to Environmental Variation."

The cover image features a hatchling American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) emerging from its nest.

🔗https://t.co/0LbncGaiZ6
📸 by @benparrott @UGAEcology

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Very grateful to be able to contribute to this issue! Look forward to reading the other articles!

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Come work with @DrMusingMom and us! Lots of unanswered questions regarding the interplay between stress, aging, and variation in life history ecology.

[Dr. Kristen Navara 🌈 @DrMusingMom]

Hi Everyone!
@benparrott and I are recruiting a grad student to explore the influences of stress on epigenetic aging in medaka fish. Will gain experience in endocrinology, genomics, and there will be opportunity to gain experience with both fish and birds.

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[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

more egg variation

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Kids are cool too. Among other mysteries, we are trying to figure out why (and how) temperature determines if alligator embryos develop as male or female. One aspect of this work I really appreciate is getting to see just how variable egg shape and size really are. #twins

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

A great day of fieldwork yesterday-- deployed our last transmitter (!!!) and met up with several gators that were previously tagged years ago. #secretlifeofgators

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Our team had the opportunity to work up this recaptured gator that we discovered was first caught in 1991 at 2 feet long. Now he’s 10 feet! It is always a treat to get recaptured animals, especially ones older than some of our team members!

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

We were happy to encounter this most excellent gator mom down in FL last week. Part of our work investigating the long-term impact of the environment experienced during development.

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

New paper from the lab led by undergrad Junsoo Bae and @emily_bertucci out in @molecology! Embryonic exposure to EDCs affects telomere length in alligators, but the directionality of the effect depends on incubation temperature. @UGASREL https://t.co/bHQDaFp3Mm

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Check out our most recent feature!

[UGA SREL @UGASREL]

#UGASREL Researcher Samantha Bock is featured in this thought-provoking article on how climate change can skew the sex ratio in alligators. @lab_parrot @benparrott #UGAResearch #UGAEcology #climatechange #alligator #gator #ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/XmvKj94Tio

[Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) @UGAEcology]

Join us today (4/27) for Benjamin Parrott’s (@lab_parrott) seminar, “A means to adapt, a means to disrupt: Organism-by-environment interactions underlying development and aging.” @UGASREL

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

A few members of the Parrott lab made it to Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center to help Samantha Bock with her hatchling recapture study! Not too bad for a first night, hopefully we can get more this second time around 🐊🐊🐊

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

For those interested in ecological developmental biology and ecotoxicology, go give our course blog a read-- lots of intriguing grad and undergrad posts about all things eco-deco-toxo. Leave a comment while you're at it!! https://t.co/0loBQ0SBHl

[UGA SREL @UGASREL]

Congratulations to #UGASREL's Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin on receiving the BSA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Georgia-Carolina Council for his work as an ecologist and BSA youth programs. #CommitTo science and community service.

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

Congrats KOJIMA!

[Laura 𓆌 @LauraKojima]

I can’t believe it... I GOT THE NSF GRFP!!!

[Parrott Lab @lab_parrott]

We're searching for a grad student to study PFAS contaminants! Collaborative project between our group and Xiaoyu Xu's group @UGASREL. Fun combination of biogeochemistry, organismal health, and risk assessment. Please share and see link for details! https://t.co/WyOLgcBgGh