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Elisa Howansky<\/p><\/div>\n

Current Location: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL<\/p>\n

Current Position: PhD Student in the Holmes Lab; Department of Zoology<\/p>\n

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    Current Location: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Current Position: PhD Student in the Holmes Lab; Department of Zoology \u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Drosophila Research Technician\r\n\r\nEmail: ehowans@clemson.edu\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1465\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"225\"]\"Elisa Elisa Howansky[\/caption]\r\n

Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nMy name is Elisa Howansky, and I graduated with the Honors Medal and Honors Pin from Lander University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. While at Lander, I conducted many class-related research projects which covered many topics ranging from ecology, limnology, wildlife biology, and conservation biology. While I was part of Lander\u2019s Ecology Research Team, I predominantly researched white-tailed deer and their behavioral responses to human and predatory disturbances. I presented my research at USC Upstate\u2019s Research Symposium, Lander\u2019s Academic Symposium, and the Association of Southeastern Biologist\u2019s annual meetings in 2022 and 2023.\r\n\r\nFor the Lander University Honors Program, I successfully completed a working abroad experience in the Galap\u00e1gos, with the Arnaldo Tupiza Tortoise Breeding Center. As part of this working abroad experience, I spent 3 weeks on Isabela Island in the Galap\u00e1gos and during that time I worked alongside Gal\u00e1pagos National Park employees to ensure the safety, comfort, and health of the Galap\u00e1gos Giant Tortoises living there. My duties included looking for egg clutches in the enclosures, keeping track of the tortoises to ensure none went missing, numbering baby tortoises for record keeping, cleaning the enclosures, feeding the tortoises, and providing them with fresh water. While on the island of Isabela, we also did some work for the community, like painting the Spanish alphabet on the elementary school walls.\r\n

Research<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nI am chiefly interested in bioinformatics and animal behavior. In the lab of Dr. Trudy Mackay and Dr. Robert Anholt, I jointly manage Clemson's PrecisionTox project which focuses on testing the survival and sensitivity of hundreds of Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> lines when exposed to waterborne toxins. These include cadmium chloride, arsenic, 4-methylimidazole, and soon acrylamide. The goal is to see if sex and genetic background have an effect on Drosophila<\/em> survival and sensitivity to toxins.\r\n\r\n\u00a0","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}