March 2026 New Publication: Stevens, B.L.F., S.F. van Daalen, T.J. Blomquist, K.E. Gribble, & M.G. Neubert. 2026. Timing the initiation of sex: Delay mechanisms alter fitness outcomes in a rotifer population model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 620, 112333.

October 2025 New Publication: Luviano Aparicio, N., M. Dryburgh, C.M. McMaken, A. Liguori, & K.E. Gribble. 2025. Impact of histone post-translational modification inhibitors on lifespan, reproduction, and stress response in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. PLOS ONE 20(10): e0324769.

August 2025: We said goodbye to Nelia Luviano Aparicio, a great Postdoctoral Scientist in the lab. Nelia is off to be a Postdoctoral Associate with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami. We wish her well!

June 2025: Kristin and Nelia participated at the American Aging Association Annual Meeting in Anchorage, AK!

May 2025 New Preprints:

• B.L.F. Stevens, S. van Daalen, T.J. Blomquist, K.E. Gribble, & M.G. Neubert. 2025. Timing the initiation of sex: Delay mechanisms alter fitness outcomes in a rotifer population model. bioRxiv 2025.04.25.650506.
• Luviano Aparicio, N., M. Dryburgh, C.M. McMaken, A. Liguori, & K.E. Gribble. 2025. Impact of inhibitors of histone post-translational modifications on lifespan, reproduction, and stress response in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. bioRxiv 2025.2005.2003.652051.

January 2025 New Publication: Hernández, C. M., van Daalen, S. F., Liguori, A., Neubert, M. G., Caswell, H., & Gribble, K. E. 2025. Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing. Journal of Animal Ecology 94, 99–111.

May 2024 New Publication: Liguori A., S. Korm, A. Profetto, E. Richters, & K.E. Gribble. 2024. Intraspecific variability in maternal age effects on offspring lifespan and fecundity. Ecology and Evolution 14, e11287.

April 2024: We are hiring! A Postdoctoral Scientist position is available to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms of maternal age effects, as part of our NIA R01 project. Position closed!

February 2024: We said goodbye to Sovannarith Korm, a great Postdoctoral Scientist in the lab. Sovannarith is off to be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. We wish him well!

February 2024 New Publication: McMaken, C.M., & K.E. Gribble. 2024. A free and user-friendly software protocol for the quantification of microfauna swimming behavior. BioTechniques 76(5), 175–183.

October 2023: Nelia Luviano Aparicio joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Scientist. Welcome Nelia!

August 2023: We said goodbye to Alyssa Liguori, a great Postdoctoral Scientist in the lab. Alyssa is off to an Assistant Professor position at the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz). We wish her well! 

July 2023 New Publication: Feng, H., G. Bavister, K.E. Gribble, and D.B. Mark Welch. 2023. Development of highly efficient CRISPR-mediated gene editing in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. PLOS Biology 21(7): e3001888.

April 2023: We are hiring! A Postdoctoral Scientist position is available to investigate the epigenetic mechanisms of maternal age effects, as part of our projects supported by an NSF CAREER Award. Position closed!

September 2022: Colleen McMaken joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome Colleen!

June 2022: The lab has received its first R01 from the NIA! We are excited to continue our work on the role of mitochondrial function and dynamics in maternal age effects on offspring health and lifespan.

April 2022 New Publication: van Daalen, S.F., C.M. Hérnandez, H. Caswell, M.G. Neubert, & K.E. Gribble. 2022. The contribution of maternal age heterogeneity to variance in lifetime reproductive output. The American Naturalist 199(5). 

February 2022: Aksel Jensen was awarded 1st place at the FHS Science Fair and 2nd place at the Region V Science fair for his project, Toxicity of Road Runoff Entering the Waquoit Bay Estuarine System.

January 2022: Aksel Jensen joined the lab as a Website Designer. Welcome Aksel!

January 2022: Kate Allcock joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome Kate!

January 2022 New Publication: Bronikowski, A.M., R.P. Meisel, P.R. Biga, J.R. Walters, J.E. Mank, E. Larschan, G.S. Wilkinson, N. Valenzuela, A.M. Conard, J.P. de Magalhães, J. Duan, A.E. Elias, T. Gamble, R.M. Graze, K.E. Gribble, J.A. Kreiling, & N.C. Riddle. 2022. Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directions. Aging Cell e13542.  

January 2022 New Publication: van Daalen, S.F., C.M. Hérnandez, H. Caswell, M.G. Neubert, & K.E. Gribble. 2022. The contribution of maternal age heterogeneity to variance in lifetime reproductive output. The American Naturalist. 

December 2021: We said goodbye to two great Research Assistants in the lab. Emily Richters is off to a Research Assistant position at Columbia University and Alex Profetto will be working at McLean Hospital. We wish them well! 

September 2021: Haiyang Feng joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Scientist to work on a joint project with David Mark Welch’s group. Welcome Haiyang!

March 2021: Sovannarith Korm joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Scientist. Welcome Sovannarith!

February 2021: Alyssa Liguori started as a Postdoctoral Scientist in the lab. Welcome Alyssa!

March 2020: The lab was awarded an R21 from the National Institute on Aging. In this collaborative project with Jacob Robinson of Rice University, we’ll design, construct, and test microfluidics and automated image analysis systems rotifers, for use in studies of aging and healthspan. Excited to develop what we hope will be a great resource for the rotifer and aging research communities.

January 2021 New Publication: Gribble, K.E. 2021. Brachionus rotifers as a model for investigating dietary and metabolic regulators of aging. Nutrition and Healthy Aging 6:1-15.

June 2020 New Publication: Hérnandez, C.M., S.F. van Daalen, H. Caswell, M.G. Neubert, & K.E. Gribble. 2020. A demographic and evolutionary analysis of maternal effect senescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 117(28):16431-16437.

May 2020 New Publication: Gurdebeke, P.R., K.N. Mertens, V. Pospelova, K. Matsuoka, Z. Li, K.E. Gribble, H. Gu, K. Bogus, H. Gu, H. Vrielinck, S. Louwye. 2020. Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, and cyst wall composition of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Votadinium Reid (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales, Protoperidiniaceae). Palynology 44(2):310-335.

February 2020: The lab was granted an NSF CAREER award! We’ll investigate the molecular mechanisms and fitness outcomes of intergenerational maternal age effects and develop research and education opportunities for community college and high school students.

December 2019: Alexandria Profetto joined the lab as a group Research Assistant. Welcome Alex!

September 2019: Kristin participated in the Mechanisms and Evolution of Intergenerational Change conference at the Wellcome Genome Campus, United Kingdom.

September 2019: Emily Richters joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome Emily!

July 2019: Kristin presented at the Biology of Aging Gordon Research Conference in Newry, ME.

July 2019 New Publication: Ivashkin, E., V. Melnikova, A. Kurtova, N. Brun, A. Obukhova, M.Yu. Khabarova, A. Yakusheff, I. Adameyko, K.E. Gribble, E.E. Voronezhskaya. 2019. Transglutaminase activity determines nuclear localization of serotonin immunoreactivity in the early embryos of invertebrates and vertebrates ACS Chemical Neuroscience 10(8): 3888-3899.

June 2019: Kristin participated at the American Aging Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

May 2019 New Publication: Gurdebeke, P.R., K.N. Mertens, V. Pospelova, K. Matsuoka, Z. Li, K.E. Gribble, H. Gu, K. Bogus, H. Gu, H. Vrielinck, & S. Louwye. 2019. Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, and cyst wall composition of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Votadinium Reid (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales, Protoperidiniaceae). Palynology 44(2), 310–335.

February 2019 New Publication: Bock, M.J., G.C. Jarvis, E.L. Corey, E.E. Stone, & K.E. Gribble. 2019. Maternal age alters offspring lifespan, fitness, and lifespan extension under caloric restriction. Scientific Reports 9:3138.