Kelly Pennoyer presents at Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Kelly Pennoyer, former graduate student in the Marine Sciences Masters program, presented her research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in San Francisco, California. Her talk was titled “Differential physiological tolerance to low salinity exposure in two color morphs of Carcinus maenas.” The talk was coauthored by her research advisor, Markus Frederich, Ph.D., associate professor in marine sciences.

In her presentation, Pennoyer showed that the salinity tolerance of the highly invasive green crab changes throughout its life cycle and is potentially different between different populations. These findings can have major implications in understanding the invasiveness of this species.

Pennoyer recently moved to Corpus Christy, Texas, to attend the Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University.

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