Chan Lab

School of Oceanography, University of Washington

About Us

Combining coastal oceanographic, ecological, and engineering-based observational techniques, our work focuses on the main question of how individual experience in the plankton affects population dynamics.  

News

New start at the University of Washington

September 2024
The Chan Lab has completed its relocation to Seattle.We are so glad to be part of the UW Oceanography community (again)!
 

Summer Research in Video

August 2024
Swarthmore students Katie Kohn and Lucy Valencia were interviewed about their summer research. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/QwxC_NVpIrg?si=_KjbHw5XJiHD9-JL.
 

Summer research in full swing

June 2024
Four fabulous undergraduates are conducting independent research. Helga Conclaves is investigating the ecotoxicology of nanoplastic. Ruby Novogrodsky is working on marine heatwave and trophic transfer. Luciana Valencia is testing larval response to vorticity. Katie Kohn is exploring larval urchin fluid […]
 

Karen gave invited symposium talk at SICB

January 2024
Karen spoke at the society symposium on “Modelling organismal response to changing environment”
 

NSF-funded symposium on small-scale biophysics (Papers published)

December 2023
A collection of 11 articles from the symposium on “Large scale biological phenomenon arising from small-scale biophysical processes” https://academic.oup.com/icb/issue/63/6#1821707-7243387
 

New paper on single embryo transcriptomics 

December 2023
Collaboration with the Wu lab at HKUST to interrogate ocean acidification impacts on individuals
 

New start at the University of Washington

September 2024
The Chan Lab has completed its relocation to Seattle.We are so glad to be part of the UW Oceanography community (again)!
 

Summer Research in Video

August 2024
Swarthmore students Katie Kohn and Lucy Valencia were interviewed about their summer research. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/QwxC_NVpIrg?si=_KjbHw5XJiHD9-JL.
 

Summer research in full swing

June 2024
Four fabulous undergraduates are conducting independent research. Helga Conclaves is investigating the ecotoxicology of nanoplastic. Ruby Novogrodsky is working on marine heatwave and trophic transfer. Luciana Valencia is testing larval response to vorticity. Katie Kohn is exploring larval urchin fluid […]
 

Karen gave invited symposium talk at SICB

January 2024
Karen spoke at the society symposium on “Modelling organismal response to changing environment”
 

NSF-funded symposium on small-scale biophysics (Papers published)

December 2023
A collection of 11 articles from the symposium on “Large scale biological phenomenon arising from small-scale biophysical processes” https://academic.oup.com/icb/issue/63/6#1821707-7243387
 

New paper on single embryo transcriptomics 

December 2023
Collaboration with the Wu lab at HKUST to interrogate ocean acidification impacts on individuals
 

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