biology
April 26, 2016
The Department of Biology and Holden Arboretum will host a public seminar with biologist and ecologist Margaret Lowman Thursday, April 28, at 4:15 p.m. in DeGrace Hall, Room 312. Lowman, nicknamed “Canopy Meg,” will talk about her groundbreaking research using climbing gear and hot-air-balloons to…
April 05, 2016
APP PhD student focuses on tropical islands Snakes known to produce some of the most toxic venoms swim the shallows of the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans and sun themselves on island coasts from southwestern Japan to Indonesia, the Andaman Islands to…
March 14, 2016
The APP Department of Biology and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History will host a public talk on Batesian mimicry Wednesday, March 16, at 7 p.m. in the museum’s Murch Auditorium. David Pfennig, professor of biology at the University of North Carolina, will present a…
February 23, 2016
Exercised or not, providing options lowers animals' stress and improves behaviors Give animals in captivity choices in food, whether to spend time inside or out, to be with others or alone, and their general welfare improves—even if they don’t choose new options—a PhD student at Case Western…
January 20, 2016
The cricket frog. Photo by Tim Krynak. Man-made changes to the environment may be damaging the immune systems of a species of frog whose populations have drastically declined since the 1970s, according to a new study by researchers at APP and the Holden…
January 11, 2016
Halteres, essential for flight in all flies, are needed by some to climb walls Research from APP indicates sensory organs on the backs of flies not only provide information crucial to body rotation and flight maneuvers, but are essential to some species when…
November 18, 2015
Sensorimotor neurons in central complex encode for movements Researchers at APP have identified neurons in a cockroach’s brain that control whether the insect walks slow or fast, turns right or left or downshifts to climb. By selectively stimulating these same neurons,…
November 13, 2015
Valerie Haywood, senior instructor in the Department of Biology, recently joined the governing board of the Ohio-Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), a region network of the national organization. Haywood will be part of the Ohio-PKAL mission to promote and enhance learner-centered STEM (science,…
October 13, 2015
Hillel Chiel with one of the slugs used in the study. Photo by Mike Sands. We can quickly tell from the way someone walks whether that person is young or old, male or female, healthy or sick, because patterns of movement vary from one person to the next. In fact, we often can recognize a friend…
October 02, 2015
Arnold I. Caplan, professor of biology and director of the Skeletal Research Center at APP, received the MSC Lifetime Achievement Award in August. He was honored at the National Center for Regenerative Medicine’s Mesenchymal Stem Cell conference. Caplan is the founding…