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Maggie Hantak
@maggiehantak.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Dayton. Evolutionary Ecology, Color Polymorphism, Natural History, Amphibians & Reptiles
https://maggiehantak.weebly.com
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Re-upping this post! Email me!
In case this is helpful to someone out there: I'm moving to Ball State University this August, and I'll have a support for MS students over the next three years (RAs/TAs)

If your lab has talented students graduating this spring, I welcome them to reach out and talk about the opportunities.
April 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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New preprint from postdoc @bpwaldron.bsky.social and coauthors! Love to get to think about salamanders sometimes with the help of real experts like Brian, was my original academic goal to be a salamander biologist and I'm largely failing.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders
Color polymorphism, the occurrence of multiple discrete color morphs with co-adapted sets of traits within the same population, may provide the raw materials for rapid species formation. It has been h...
www.biorxiv.org
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Interested in bone histology? Temnospondyl amphibians? Check out this new paper by my PhD student, Sudipta Kalita, from his MSc work on Metoposaurus at the University of Bonn! doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Illuminating the dark mess of fibers: Application of circular cross polarized light in unravelling the bone tissue structure of the dermal pectoral girdle of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis
Circular cross polarized light reveals the fine stucture of dermal bone tissue of a metoposaurid amphibian from the Late Triassic. Top right image shows the looped interwoven fibered bone when illumi....
doi.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student for the fall of 2025 to work on phenotypic variation in amphibians! More info here: maggiehantak.weebly.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!
The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…
zamudiolab.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM