Outcomes
The Biology department takes pride in delivering a high-quality program, and each year graduates approximately 50 well-trained students that move on to successful careers in many areas of Biology, including:
- PhD programs in areas diverse as ecology, botany, and molecular biology, including prestigious programs at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Chapel Hill.
- Graduate programs in many health professions fields
- Employment in government, industry and education, including The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) and the National Park Service
Graduate School
Jessica Mann '07 (Biochemistry) has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health Undergraduate Scholarship. She will receive a $20,000 award towards her academic Juniata tuition and 10-week paid summer research experience at NIH research laboratory, and is guaranteed 1-year of employment at NIH following graduation.
Amber Ziegler '06 (Biochemistry) is a PhD student in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–New Jersey Medical School. While a senior at Juniata, Amber conducted research with Dr. Jill Keeney. She competed with graduate students and was awarded a travel grant from the American Society for Microbiology to present her research at the ASM Conference on Mobile DNA, February 2006, in Banff Canada Her research was entitled "Genomic localization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty1 mobility events in mutant strains allowing for high temperature transposition."
Heather Hassel '06 (Biology) is a PhD student in the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook. She will be spending the summer of 2007 at a primitive site in Indonesia studying siamangs, a small primate species. She received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship program in the 2006 competition.
Employment
Katey Glunt '06 (Biology) is a researcher in Medical Entomology at the University of California, Davis. She is developing genetic markers track changes in the mosquitoes that transmit Dengue fever.
Darren Moser '04 (Natural History) took the "Art and of Science and Brewing" course from Dr. Todd Gustafson while a student at Juniata. Darren is currently “lead brewer” in the German tradition at the Trumer Pils brewery in Berkeley CA, the sole US facility of a company begun in Salzburg in 1600.
Deborah Mensch '04 (Biology) is one of only 8 full-time park rangers at Glacier National Park in Montana.
Faculty Publications
(* indicates Juniata student)
*Blazer LL, Boyle MD. 2006 Nov 23. Use of protein chip mass spectrometry to monitor biotinylation reactions. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol.
Buonaccorsi, V. P., C. Kimbrell, E. Lynn, R. Vetter. 2005. Limited realized dispersal and introgressive hybridization influence genetic structure and conservation strategies for brown rockfish, Sebastes auriculatus. Conservation Genetics 6: 697-713.
M. Westerman, Buonaccorsi, V. P., J. Stannard*, L. Galver, C. Taylor, E. Lynn, C. Kimbrell, R. Vetter. 2005. Cloning and characterization of novel microsatellite DNA markers for the grass rockfish, Sebastes rastrelliger, and cross-species amplification in 10 related Sebastes spp. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 74-76.
Buonaccorsi, V. P. and A. Skibiel*. 2005. A striking demonstration of the Poisson distribution. Teaching Statistics 27(1): 8-10.
Glazier, D.S. 2005. Beyond the “3/4-power law”: variation in the intra- and interspecific scaling of metabolism in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 80, 611-662.
Glazier, D.S. 2006. The 3/4-power law is not universal: evolution of isometric, ontogenetic metabolic scaling in pelagic animals. BioScience, 56, 325-332.
*Radford, Sarah J., *Meredith L. Boyle, *Catherine J. Sheely, *Joel Graham, *Daniel P. Haeusser, Leigh Zimmerman and Jill B. Keeney. 2004. Increase in Ty1 cDNA recombination in yeast sir4 mutant strains at high temperature. Genetics. 168: 89-101.
Faculty Grants
Mike Boyle, American Heart Association, $120,000, Characterization of a Putative Strepcoagulase
Jay Hosler, National Science Foundation, $46,500, A Non-Majors Biology Textbook in Comic Book Form
Jill Keeney, National Institutes of Health, $194,000, Mobility control of a Yeast Transposon