Biology

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The Department of Biology is a close-knit community of faculty, staff, and students bound by a shared curiosity and respect for the living world. 

Kevin J. Emerson
- Associate Professor of Biology
(240) 895-2123
Schaefer Hall 231
Assistant Professor Malisch Gives Invited Talk at Williams College
March 26, 2020
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Jessica Malisch, assistant professor of biology, recently gave an invited talk at Williams College titled, “Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? Predictors of Facultative Altitudinal Migration in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha).”
In this presentation, Malisch… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Gurbisz Awarded Maryland Sea Grant
February 21, 2020
Cassie Gurbisz pictured
Cassie Gurbisz, assistant professor of environmental studies, recently received her second grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Maryland Sea Grant program. The $71,023 grant will fund a two-year project titled: Effects of Oyster Aquaculture on Submersed Aquatic Vegetation… Find Out More
Associate Professor Emerson Published in Parasites and Vectors
February 14, 2020
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Kevin Emerson, associate professor of biology, has recently been published in Parasites and Vectors titled, “Evidence for family-level variation of phenotypic traits in response to temperature of Brazilian Nyssorhynchus darlingi.”
In this article, Emerson and colleagues show that there is variation… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Latchney Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
February 13, 2020
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Sarah Latchney, assistant professor of biology and neuroscience, has recently been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled, “B cells migrate into remote areas and support neurogenesis and functional recovery after focal stroke in mice.”
In this article, Latchney… Find Out More
Professor Crawford Awarded Whitman Fellowship Award
February 12, 2020
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Karen Crawford, professor of biology, has recently been awarded a Whitman Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The award will be used to cover laboratory space and housing at MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Crawford will use the award to continue her sabbatical research project… Find Out More
University of Maryland Professor Mitchelmore Poses the Question, “Are Sunscreens Killing Our Coral Reefs?”
February 6, 2020
Carys Mitchelmore pictured
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 4:45 – 6 p.m., Professor Carys Mitchelmore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, will discuss aquatic toxicology and coral reefs. Her lecture, titled “Are Sunscreens Killing Our Coral Reefs?” takes place in Schaefer Hall, room 106 on the St. Mary’s… Find Out More
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford Presents “CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing in the Cephalopod Doryteuthis (Loligo) pealeii” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
January 29, 2020
Karen Crawford pictured
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford's presentation was selected as an oral presentation in a complementary session in the 2020 SICB Symposium "Building Bridges from Genome to Phenome: Molecules, Methods and Models," held January 3-7, in Austin Texas.
This presentation represents an important… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Latchney Published in Behavioural Brain Research
January 28, 2020
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Sarah Latchney, assistant professor of neurobiology, has recently been published in Behavioural Brain Research titled, “Indices of dentate gyrus neurogenesis are unaffected immediately after or following withdrawal from morphine self-administration compared to saline self-administering control male… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Jessica Malisch Presents her Research at Conference
January 28, 2020
Malisch, center, stands with students Ivy Antunes, Ava Chrisler and Melanie Kimball
Assistant Professor of Physiology Jessica Malisch presented “Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? Predictors of Facultative Altitudinal Migration in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held… Find Out More
Ava Chrisler '20 Presents Poster of Current SMP Work at Conference
January 24, 2020
glucocorticoid physiology
Ava Chrisler ‘20 presented a poster of current work on her St. Mary’s Project, “Modeling glucocorticoid physiology, glucose mobilization, and return rate in migrating Mountain White-crowned Sparrows” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology held January 3-7, in… Find Out More
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