Medical Biology Major Casey Toombs coauthors talk at national conference

Casey Toombs, Medical Biology major 2012, coauthored a talk with her research advisor Dr. Markus Frederich, Associate Professor in Marine Sciences, at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, SICB, in Charleston, South Carolina. The presentation “Color polymorphism in the Green crab, Carcinus maenas: are green morphs really more stress tolerant than red morphs?“ was based on Casey’s honors research project.

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