Sabrina Heiser was presented the Ralph Lewin Award for best student poster at the 2017 Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Heiser, a doctoral student under Dr. Charles Amsler’s mentorship, studies chemical ecology in red seaweeds.
During her time in Antarctica earlier this year, Heiser researched an amphipod that is able to feed on Plocamium cartilagineum, a type of seaweed that has chemical compounds to protect itself from being eaten.
She found that the amphipod does not eat less or grow slower, even though its body has to be able cope with the chemical compounds it ingests.
While presenting these findings on her poster, Heiser impressed the judges with her subsets of data, as well as her command of the relevance of her data and the relevance of her project overall.
Sabrina Heiser wins Ralph Lewin Award
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CAS News
June 29, 2017
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