Assistant Professor of Biology Lisa Whitenack had a paper published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. In “A Cretaceous Shark Tooth in the Glacial Debris of Middle Missouri,” Professor Whitenack and her collaborator describe the first Cretaceous-aged shark fossil found in Missouri.
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Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Scott Wissinger and co-authors Dr. Hamish Greig and Dr. Angus McIntosh of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand had their article “Top-down control of prey increases with drying disturbance in ponds: a consequence of non-consumptive interactions?” published in the most recent issue of The Journal of Animal Ecology. The
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Erin Nawrocki ’13, Hillary Bedell ’11, and Assistant Professor of Biology Tricia Humphreys had a peer-reviewed article, titled “Resveratrol is cidal to both classes of Haemophilus ducreyi,” accepted by the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. It will appear in the May 2013 issue. Resveratrol, a polyphenolic phytoalexin, is produced by plants in response to infection
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Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Webb was co-author on a paper, “Genome Sequencing Identifies Two Nearly Unchanged Strains of Persistent Listeria monocytogenes Isolated at Two Different Fish Processing Plants Sampled 6 Years Apart,” published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Professor Webb contributed through running data analyses and interpreting results. The food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes, can
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Twenty-six Allegheny students participated in the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference held at Penn State Behrend on April 13. They are (with their faculty advisors listed in parentheses): Ashley Baronner ’13 (Caryl Waggett), Korey Bartolomeo ’13 (Brad Hersh), Austin Becker ’13 (Tricia Humphreys and Ann Kleinschmidt), Ava Carvour ’14 (Barbara Shaw), Kyrsten
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Creek Connections Project Manager Wendy Kedzierski was a presenter on a National Wildlife Webinar on their Ranger Rick Geocache Trails on March 5. The Geocache Trail, which includes eight geocaches, is located along streams and watersheds. Geocaches were placed throughout the French Creek Valley Conservancy, Crawford County & Erie County Conservation Districts, the City of
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Assistant Professor of Biology Lisa Whitenack presented two studies at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting in San Francisco. The first was a poster titled “Thermal effects of jumping kinematics in plethodontid salamanders,” which is a continuation of the work started with Anthony Hessel ’12. Results from this research suggest that jumping
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