BAHS at SICB 2020

BAHS faculty and students present research at the 2020 meeting
 of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
BAHS students and faculty traveled to Austin, TX during winter break to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative Biology (SICB). SICB is a national professional organization whose mission is to promote research in many fields of specialization in biology from molecules and cells to ecology and evolution. SICB supports biology education and scholarship at all levels, from Kindergarten to postgraduate. SICB strives to inform the public, policy makers, and grant agencies of new knowledge in biology and its potential applications. Research is presented in a series of plenary sessions, symposia, workshops, exhibits, and oral and written poster sessions. The theme of the 2020 conference was on the importance and impact of interdisciplinary research. Presenting research at the 2020 SICB meeting this year were BAHS graduate students Hannah Anderson and Heather Llewellyn,  undergraduate Stephen Tapsak and faculty members Drs. Clay Corbin, John Hranitz, and Cindy Surmacz.  Stephen Tapsak, BS Biology major, presented research that he conducted in Lesvos, Greece as part of an National Science Foundation funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program.
Tapsak, ST, Hranitz JM, Percival CR, Pulley KL, Gonzalez VH, Petanidou T, Tscheulin T, Kantsa A, Barthell, JF,  Generalist Polinators are the Foundation of a Summer Coastal Pollination Network in Dune Habitat.

 Pulley KL, Percival C, Tapsak S, Tscheulin T, Pentanidou, T, Gonzalez VH, Hranitz JM, and Barthell JF. Differences in Critical Thermal Maximum between Crepuscular vs  diurnal species of Xylocopa

 Anderson HB, Hutchinson M, Corbin CE, Hranitz JM. Avian Host Diversity Detected in Blood Meal Analysis of Two Species of Culex Mosquitoes Collected from Urban Habitats in Pennsylvania.

Corbin CE and Roper VG. Linking Effects of Aid Mine Drainage to Ecology and Morphology or Riparian Birds.

 Llewellyn, HJ, Hare-Harris A, Hranitz JM, Surmacz CA. Sublethal Doses of the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid alters Cellular and Molecular Responses of Honey Bees.
Heather Lewellyn at the SICB meeting


Hannah Anderson explains her research results.


Stephen Tapsak's poster based on his REU research at Lesvos, Greece

Heather Llewellyn presents research on the effects
of pesticides on cellular and molecular responses of honey bees.

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