Casey Toombs awarded Research Fellowship from American Physiological Society

Undergraduate medical biology student Casey Toombs, 2012, was awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship from the American Physiological Society, APS. This fellowship will support Casey’s research during the summer 2011 in the laboratory of Dr. Markus Frederich in the Department of Marine Sciences. She will work on a project that investigates the differences in physiology and molecular biology between red and green colormorphs of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. The APS Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships program funds only up to 24 fellowships each year and provides a stipend, support for the actual research and travel support to present the results of the summer research at a national conference, the Experimental Biology, FASEB, meeting in San Diego, CA in April 2012.

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