Casey Toombs presents honors research at Experimental Biology conference

Medical Biology Major Casey Toombs ‘12 presented her honors research at the Experimental Biology meeting, a national conference, which was held in San Diego, CA. Casey’s poster was titled “Differential anoxia and hypoxia tolerance in two color morphs of the green crab, Carcinus maenas.” Her conference attendance was funded by an award from the American Physiological Society, which also funded her research last summer in the laboratory of Markus Frederich, Ph.D. associate professor in Marine Sciences. Casey’s Honors research project was on elucidating physiological differences between red and green color morphs in an invasive crab species. Her findings question a broader set of earlier studies, and she will submit her work for publication in the next few weeks.

 

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