A5037536804- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Plant and animal studies
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Career Development and Diversity
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Digital Education and Society
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
LaGuardia Community College
2017-2023
Arizona State University
2011-2019
San Diego City College
2016
Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and otherwise nonstraight and/or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) have often not felt welcome or represented in the biology community. Additionally, can present unique challenges for LGBTQ+ students because of relationship between certain topics their identities. Currently, there is no centralized set guidelines to make learning environments more inclusive individuals. Rooted prior literature collective expertise authors members...
Reproductive investment and output are integral fitness components, often incorporated into life-history trade-off models important to population dynamics. The trade-offs associated with reproduction can be dramatic in species such as snakes that make especially large investments reproduction. Unfortunately, traditional methods used determine reproductive effective many (but not all) situations. Thus, we portable ultrasonography serially estimate three python exhibit significant variation...
Previous studies have shown that brooding Burmese Pythons, Python bivittatus, use endogenous heat production to buffer clutch temperature against suboptimal environmental temperatures and is correlated with body muscle twitch rate metabolic rate. Improving our understanding of the patterns thermogenesis mechanisms regulate it will provide insight into proposed link between parental care evolution endothermy. We measured body, clutch, nest also evaluate buffering capability during as well...
Abstract Parental care provides substantial benefits to offspring but exacts a high cost parents, necessitating the evolution of recognition systems when risk misdirected is high. In species that nest, parents can use cues associated with (direct recognition) or nest (indirect reduce care. Pythons have complex parental care, low Thus, we hypothesized female Children's pythons ( A ntaresia childreni ) indirect induce and maintain brooding behavior. To test this, used series five clutch...
Many environments present some degree of seasonal water limitations; organisms that live in such must be adapted to survive periods without permanent access. Often this involves the ability tolerate dehydration, which can have adverse physiological effects and is typically considered a stressor. While having many functions, hormone corticosterone (CORT) often released response stressors, yet increasing plasma CORT while dehydrated could maladaptive, especially for species experience...
Gateway science courses are an ongoing obstacle to recruitment into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, in part due the large gains vocabulary that fundamental scientific literacy. Students also struggle achieve technological literacy necessary for a career. We implemented ePortfolio-based project 12 sections of General Biology I (n = 164) at urban community college. This was designed aid students integrating general biology around central topic – organism their...
ABSTRACT Endothermy provides considerable benefits to an organism but requires large energy investment. To understand potential driving forces that would lead the evolution of endothermy, it is important costs and intermediate steps between ectothermy homeothermic endothermy as well influences environmental conditions on energetic costs. However, efforts examine are greatly limited by predominant natural dichotomy endothermy. Facultative brooding pythons a fortunate study system where...
AbstractAcademic food security aims to provide students with sufficient access knowledge (one key academic nutrient) in order limit intellectual hunger. In this analogy, the student is seen as a consumer of knowledge. Academic sovereignty, on other hand, shift focus from consumership producership. Our efforts democratize authentic undergraduate research experiences and our computational biology approach discovery analysis sea star ovarian gene expression aim paradigm sustainably realize...