News and Events in the Biology Department

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Effects of Simulated Dusk and Dawn on Activity and Feeding of Puerto Rican Crested Toads (Peltophryne lemur) in Captivity, by Brady Parlato and Noah Dunham

Check out this new article in Zoo Biology by CWRU graduate student Brady Parlato and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo research curator and BioScience Alliance adjunct assistant professor Dr. Noah Dunham on the effects of light at night on the behavior of Puerto Rican crested toads! They found that toads tended...

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Biology Graduate Students Awarded GCAS GSSCE Grants

Three graduate students in the biology department were recently awarded GCAS Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavor Grants for their work in their respective fields Manish Sarkar "Context-dependent coexistence of social parasites: fungus-growing ant communities as a case study" Elizabeth Rush "A Novel Preclinical Mouse Model for Neonatal Marfan Syndrome Exhibits...

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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...

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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...

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