Department of Biological Sciences Research

If you are interested in participating in a research opportunity please contact the Department of Biological Sciences at 513-7273447. 

Dave Berg:

• American Midland Naturalist
• Isolation Drives increased diversification rates in freshwater amphipods.
• Predicting the effects of climate change on population connectivity and genetic diversity of an imperiled freshwater mussel, Cumberlandia monodonta (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae), in riverine systems.
• Past climate change drives current genetic structure of an endangered freshwater mussel species.
• Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses reveal Pleistocene isolation followed by high gene flow in a wide ranging, but endangered, freshwater mussel.
• J. Crustacean Biology
• Aquatic Conservation
• Aquatic Conservation 2 
• Ecology
• Landscape Ecology

Paul Harding

• HB-EGF and ADAM 12S directed cellular reprogramming results in metabolically active brown adipose tissue-like cells

Jim Janik

• Effects of Pup Separation on Stress Response in Postpartum Female Rats.
• Effects of High-Fat Diet on Stress Response in Male and Female Wildtype and Prolactin Knockout Mice.

Brian Keane

• American Midland Naturalist
• Animal Behaviour
• Ethology 

Carolyn Keiffer

• Soil Metals and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Associated with American Chestnut Hybrids as Reclamation Trees on Formerly Coal Mined Land

Ann Rypstra

• Impact of an atrazine-based herbicide on an agrobiont wolf spider.
• Contact with a glyphosate-based herbicide has long-term effects on the activity and foraging of an agrobiont wolf spider. 
• Animal Behavior

Jennifer Schumacher

• Clec14a genetically interacts with Etv2 and Vegf signaling during vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in zebrafish.
• Vegf signaling promotes vascular endothelial differentiation by modulating etv2 expression.

DJ Ferguson

• Microbes, QAs, methane: Top to bottom

Matt Saxton

• Elemanta Science of the Anthropocene
• Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• Limnology and Oceanography