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!
Congratulations again to Zoe!
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. 