Photo: A. Sue Weisler / RIT

Degrees

• Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio (Zoology)

• M.S., University at Buffalo (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)

• B.S., Juniata College (Biology/Forensic Science)

Areas of Interest

• Molecular Ecology

• UV-induced DNA Damage

• Environmental Stressors on Human Pathogens

• Physiological and Genomic Responses to UV-radiation

Current research projects

• Fitness of Freshwater and Marine Invertebrates with Climate Change

• Effect of Temperature and UV on Induction of DNA Damage

• Genomic Shifts in Freshwater Invertebrates with UV Exposure

• Enhancement of Pigments in /Daphnia/ with Temperature and UV

Courses

• General Biology
• Ecology of UV Radiation