DHL M.S. student Kevin Green recently presented at the Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting held on the UT Tyler Campus in Tyler, Texas. Kevin presented a research poster titled, “Understanding the diet and distribution of newly documented Hemidactylus aff. malcolmsmithi from south Texas, USA.” This was research he began as an ENMU undergraduate, which focused on examining the distribution and diet of a recently established non-native gecko in Texas. Through this work, Kevin was able to document this species in five new counties in south Texas and recorded 13 orders of arthropods in the diet of over 150 individuals. He previously was awarded funding as an undergraduate from the Texas Academy of Science to conduct this research and he was able to return to present his results at the conference. We also were able to visit with DHL collaborator and Curator of Herpetology at The University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Collections, Travis LaDuc (pictured with Kevin), which is always a fun time!
Congratulations to Kevin for a great poster presentation!
Graduate student Zoe Hutcherson recently attending the New Mexico Research Symposium (NMRS) held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 15 November 2025. Zoe presented a poster titled, “Understanding the distribution of Rio Grande Cooters and examining spatial variation in their bacterial microbiota” at NMRS and was awarded the second place for her poster. This research is a part of Zoe’s thesis research at ENMU. This is the second time Zoe has won an award at NMRS! Way to go!
The Davis Herpetology Lab attended the recent Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SWPARC) meeting held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque from 7-10 August 2025. Not only did u
Congratulations to Kevin Green and Sebastian Summo (pictured here) for taking home top prizes in their presentations at the ENMU Student Research and Creativity Conference. Kevin won 1st place among the Biology Undergraduate Posters with his poster titled, “Prevalence of two amphibian pathogens in non-native caecilians established in Miami, Florida,” and his work on this was funded through the NM AMP. Sebastian won 1st place among Biology/Chemistry Oral Presentations his talk titled, “Distribution, habitat use, and conservation ecology of the Western Ribbonsnake (Thamnophis proximus) in New Mexico.” Four other students presented posters related to their current or past work also at SRCC, including Jake Kuschel, Zoe Hutcherson, Reagan Moritomo, and Andy Gilliam.
M.S. student Sebastian Summo Elias presented at the annual Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) of the NM/AZ The Wildlife Society Chapters in Albuquerque, NM last week. Sebastian presenting on some of his preliminary results from his field surveys for Western Ribbonsnakes (Thamnophis proximus). While in Albuquerque, the lab also stopped by to visit the ABQBioPark to discuss future collaborations with Stacey Sekscienski (Curator of Herpetology) and visited the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico to examine specimens related to several on-going projects in the lab on Aspidoscelis, Nerodia, and Thamnophis. 
I recently returned from the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Austin, TX where I presented both an oral and a poster presentation. My oral presentation, “Physiological Stress and Pathogen Infection in Larval Salamanders from Agricultural Wetlands”, was on one of my dissertation chapters and my poster presentation, “Morphological Variation between two widely distributed populations of Plethodon albagula (Caudata: Plethodontidae)”, was a continuation of work that I began as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin. 
Drew R. Davis, Ph.D. 