Mentored teaching and research programs foster a strong educational environment in the Department of Biology for both undergraduate and graduate students. Our research is primarily conducted within three focus areas: Cell and Developmental Biology, Neurobiology and Neuromechanical Systems, or Evolution and Ecology. The Department is closely affiliated with other divisions such as the School of Medicine and the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as organizations in Greater Cleveland that provide additional opportunities and resources to our students and faculty.
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Miranda Shetzer
Miranda is a 4th year PhD Candidate studying plant ecophysiology in the Medeiros Lab at Holden Arboretum. She graduated with a BS in Biology from John Carroll University in 2022 where her undergraduate work focused on cyanobacteria taxonomy. After completing a summer internship at Holden Arboretum in 2021, Miranda...
Accepted Manuscript: PhD Candidate Miranda Shetzer, BioScience Alliance Student and Former Ingalls Fellow, has a First-Author Paper in Press at AoB PLANTS
As a member of the Medeiros lab at Holden Arboretum, Miranda’s dissertation work focuses on understanding drivers of intraspecific variation in the context of environmental change. Shetzer et al. (in press) shows that Rhododendron minus plants growing in exposed, cold habitats of the Appalachian Mountains may benefit from higher...