Dr. Fudge and Dr. Noah Bressman worked with the wonderful staff at TED-Ed and animator/director Denys Spolitak to create this short video about hagfishes.
Check out this piece on the wonders of hagfishes by Mimi Schiffman published recently on the KQED website. Dr. Fudge was one of the researchers consulted.
Dr. Fudge was interviewed by Marty Martin and Art Woods in the podcast Big Biology about all things hagfish in an episode sponsored by the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Dr. Fudge received a Faculty Opportunity Fund award from Chapman University for his proposal “Bio-inspiration for the Next Generation of Firefighting Technologies.” The award will allow the Fudge Lab to carry out a pilot study exploring the use of...
The Fudge Lab published a paper in Langmuir on the biophysical properties of mucous vesicles from hagfish slime. This was work that was started by Shannon Ferraro and Andre Hupe at the University of Guelph, and finished by Sara Siwiecki and Dr. Gaurav Jain at Chapman...
The Fudge Lab, in collaboration with Tara Barnhart, received a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) award from the National Science Foundation to work with two local high school biology teachers in the summer of 2021. These teachers will have the opportunity to work...
Dr. Fudge returned to the Galápagos in January 2020 with collaborator Michael Mincarone to continue their research there on hagfishes. They finished a whole bunch of data collection and also collected hi-res video of four species of hagfishes at depth. Below is a...
The Fudge Lab recently got back from a research expedition to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador as part of an NSF-funded project on the biogenesis and evolution of hagfish slime and slime glands. Other members of the team include Charlie McCord and Tim Winegard from...
