Casey Toombs presents honors research at Experimental Biology conference
Medical Biology Major Casey Toombs 鈥12 presented her honors research at the Experimental Biology meeting, a national conference, which was held in San Diego, CA. Casey鈥檚 poster was titled 鈥淒ifferential anoxia and hypoxia tolerance in two color morphs of the green crab, Carcinus maenas.鈥 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鈥檚 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.