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JoAnna Sidote,
B.S. Biology, Ohio University
JoAnna has been working as a Lab
Technician in the Williams Lab since 2006. She is involved in
all aspects of the research, including assisting with
experiments by lab personnel. Her specialty, however, is animal
training. She works with all of our research animals and
uses clicker training to ensure the success of our experiments.
Finally, in her spare time JoAnna also provides
dog-training
classes and private animal training consultations.
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Postdoctoral Associate |
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Stephane Montuelle,
PhD, Organismal Biology, Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, France
My primary interest is in
the role of predator-prey interactions during the evolution of
vertebrates. To investigate these interactions, my
research focuses on feeding behavior, especially prey
capture behavior. To date, most studies of feeding
behavior in Vertebrates quantify movements of the trophic elements like the jaws and the hyolingual
apparatus. However, feeding performance is now
considered to be based on a complex integrative
performance involving movements of the trophic elements
with those of the locomotor elements such as the
vertebral axis and the forelimbs particularly. In
details, my work aims at documenting and testing the
coordination of locomotor and trophic movements during
feeding behavior, and whether such coordination responds
to prey stimuli....
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Graduate Students |
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Jillian S. Davis, PhD Student, Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology, Department of Biology Sciences
My research objective is to understand the correlations
between diet, masticatory morphology and kinematics. I
am also interested in the influences of adaptation due
to diet and phylogenetic constraint in mammalian cranial
morphology. To investigate these relationships, I focus
on species that have independently evolved
specializations for frugivorous and carnivorous diets.
My project involves comparing jaw-muscle EMG and jaw
kinematics during mastication in two mammalian species -
the kinkajou (Potos
flavus) a frugivorous species form the order
Carnivora, and the ferret (Mustela putorius furo) a carnivorous carnivoran. I will use these
experimental data to investigate
the relationship between morphology and movements in the
masticatory apparatus in a broader sample
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Seham Ben Amer - MS Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University
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Undergraduate Students (current and recent graduates) |
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Emily Naylor, Biological Sciences Major,
Ohio University
Clare Vesel, Biological Sciences Major, Honors Tutorial College,
Ohio University
Michelle Rettig, Biological Sciences, Ohio University
Tatjana Dolgushina - Wildlife &
Conservation Biology, Ohio University
Kristin Stover, BS,
Biological Sciences, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University,
2009
Kristin is currently getting her MS in
Biological Sciences at the University of Charleston. Her thesis
is on "Performance
Changes Under Immune Response and Varying Oxygen Levels in the
Atlantic Blue Crab, Callinectes
sapidus."
Erika Peiffer, BS, Biological
Sciences, Ohio University, 2009
After working at the Berkeley
National Laboratory for almost two years in a breast cancer
research lab, Erika has recently moved to Colorado where she
works at the Antschutz Medical Campus Digestive Health
Institute. She is a Research Assistant in a lab studying the
autoimmune response and immune pathways involved in biliary
atresia.
Sonya Ford, BS, Biological Sciences, Ohio University, 2009 |
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