Casey Toombs ’12 presents research poster at national conference

Medical biology student Casey Toombs ‘12 presented her research project “Differential hypoxia tolerance and AMPK activity in two color morphs of the green crab, Carcinus maenas” at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 3-7, 2011. Her presentation received significant attention from many researchers and a journal editor as it directly questions various published studies and offers new insight into stress tolerance of an invasive crustacean.

Casey works in the research lab of Dr. Markus Frederich, associate professor in Marine Sciences, who investigates cellular and molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance in invertebrates. Casey’s research was funded through a College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship and through Dr. Frederich’s research grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF.

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