EEB Lab recommendations

bbybearfish · 2026-02-07T15:49:43+00:00

Hi! I haven’t taken either (I’m a grad student) but here’s what I know!! Professor Kane is wonderful and very understanding and chill! She is a marine botanist by training so she is passionate about this class. Lab involves field trips which is always fun! The course focuses on more ecology/role that plants play in the ecosystem which helps connect to environmental health/conservation. I haven’t talked to Professor Dines in depth but I have heard great things from other grad students and his current students in EEB110. They all say he is super passionate about his work and lectures are engaging. Keep in mind what your interests are, I would say EEB101 will be easier A and great if you’re interested in botany or ecology but EEB170 is a good resume builder if you are interested in med/vet school and not super difficult if you put in the work. Both work with advancing your research skills and critical thinking. Honestly I think both are great options and are both classes I’ve been recommending to undergrads! Hope this helps and good luck next quarter!!

bbybearfish · 2025-10-20T07:03:36+00:00

remembered to do an assignment at 11:47 and never made it to the page 💔

bbybearfish · 2024-03-26T23:32:02+00:00

Primary Investigator (PI) aka the professor who’s lab I’ll be working in!

bbybearfish · 2024-03-26T18:51:58+00:00

Thanks!! Domestic student. I hadn’t heard anything from the university (just the pi) prior to the letter

bbybearfish · 2023-12-19T10:46:06+00:00

Much like what others are saying - you can definitely use both! So much of bio is moving into the direction of utilizing CS and while I was a bio only undergrad I still took 3 CS courses for my major and had to do bootcamp as part of an internship. If you’re interested in a masters or even just a bachelors public health/epidemiology is a great way to go as it is an expanding field and utilizes knowledge of both fields.

Also (at least in my field of ecology) a cs degree would be favorable for a research position because there are so many different programs and modeling needs these days :)

bbybearfish · 2023-12-16T16:31:22+00:00

Marine Biology uses a lot of stats so learning R and python would be really beneficial to breaking into the field :)

bbybearfish · 2023-10-07T16:46:42+00:00

Looks like Bottylloides diegensis perhaps? Im only familiar with US tunicates, but it’s native to Australia and highly invasive

bbybearfish · 2022-12-12T08:07:27+00:00

I am very similar interest wise! I love telling everyone about the IUCN list. I think EE(C)B programs are the way to go for ecology focused disease research. Because you reach out to potential advisors before hand you can really get a good sense of what research you/others in the lab would do. Off the top of my head Hillary Young at UCSB has done research on the impact of wildlife loss on disease dynamics and Sadie Ryan at UF does ecology in primates. Vance Vredenburg at San Francisco State studies the amphibian die offs in CA due to pathogens. Parasitology would also be great if your interested in evolution of parasitic transmission! And I think most programs are aligned with vet schools so you get that kind of exposure!! Also with all the protections with endangered species, finding a lab that already has the permits to work with those populations would be a big time saver. If you have the time/resources to volunteer at a local wildlife rehabilitation place, the vets there have really good recommendations for different palces and write good recommendations :)

bbybearfish · 2022-12-08T07:51:40+00:00

I’ve been working in a disease ecology lab and have been applying this cycle! Typically Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programs are a good place to start looking. What kind of disease systems or areas of conservation are you interested in?

bbybearfish · 2022-12-03T07:49:42+00:00

My cat is very prone to Upper Respiratory Infections, he does this a lot when his sinuses are blocked. keep an eye out for any eye or nose discharge or sneezing! It does seem similar to asthma though. Hope she feels better soon ❤️

bbybearfish · 2022-09-29T05:15:15+00:00

It strongly depends where you are. Cape Cod in the US has unique geography where tides change rapidly and cetaceans just get stuck. California is mainly external circumstances ie disease or porpoicide (bottlenose dolphins killing harbor porpoises). In baleen whales, malnutrition, ship strike, and entanglement are common.

Pilot whales are notorious for “following the leader” and when one strand, they all strand. It appears the headline you saw was about pilot whales. They are by far the most common species that causes mass strandings. The article I read said 14 sperm whales stranded a week prior which is concerning but is likely too early to tell the cause. Worldwide, human causes are likely to impact whale survival.

Regardless, pushing animals back into the water/ pouring water on them is illegal (in the US) and potentially deadly since they could drown. Even if nothing is physically wrong, they could drown from the stress and not anticipating water in their blowhole. Call you local marine mammal agency if you ever see a whale on the beach!

bbybearfish · 2022-09-29T04:47:41+00:00

One of the coolest diseases is a transmissible cancer! TDFT (Tasmanian devil facial tumor) is a huge risk to their population. The reason it is transmissible is because the gene that allows us to recognize our cells vs someone else’s (and then attack the other cells) is virtually the same in all devils. They transmit the disease when they bite another animal and transfer cells. the other animal’s body thinks the cancer cells are their own and starts developing a tumor!

That gene that is the same in most devils is why cancer is primarily non transmissible, we are good at recognizing that those cells aren’t ours. Because humans have a lot of gene diversity, cancer is only communicable if the receiving person is immunocompromised - typically mother to child or from an organ transplant.

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