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With global climate change and habitat alteration, there is an urgent need to understand how these changes impact marine and aquatic organisms. We seek to understand how fishes have adapted to their environment and can they flexibly change to cope with environmental stress? Integrating techniques across levels of biological organization (from genes to whole-animal performance), the Dichiera lab investigates both the basic science underlying physiological plasticity in a changing world, and the applications of physiological research for conservation. All fishes - wonderful and weird - are worthy of study in this lab!