Karen T. Lee's research interests
My Research Interests
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I have always been fascinated
with arthropods, particularly marine crustaceans like lobsters and crabs.
I began working on lobsters as a graduate student, at Northeastern
University in the laboratory of Joseph Ayers. There I worked on the
feeding behavior of the American lobster, Homarus americanus and
the relationship of feeding behavior to movements of the foregut.
As a
postdoc at Bryn Mawr College, I took a brief foray into frog behavior,
working on describing the variability of prey orienting movements in
Leopard Frogs, in Paul Grobstein's lab.
I spent the next 2 years working
at Connecticut College in New London, CT. There I began my current work
on the population dynamics of the Green Crab, Carcinus maenas and
the Japanese Shore Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus. Both of these
crabs are introduced species that have successfully invaded the southern
New England coastline.
Last July I took a job here at
UPJ. Though I am spending most of my time teaching at the moment, I am
planning to continue research this summer. I will spend some time in CT
continuing my work on Carcinus and Hemigrapsus. I am also
hoping to begin work on local crayfish species. Crayfish are
underutilized as a model species. They are also abundant locally. Thus,
I plan to begin a long term project on the neurobiology and behavior of
crayfish, since I am currently land-locked.
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