{"id":1416,"date":"2023-05-24T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/chg\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:36:51","slug":"elisabeth-howansky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/elisabeth-howansky\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Howansky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drosophila Research Technician<\/p>\n

Email: ehowans@clemson.edu<\/p>\n

\"Elisa

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

Biosketch<\/b><\/h2>\n

Elisabeth \u201cElisa\u201d Howansky graduated with the Honors Medal and Honors Pin from Lander University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. While a student at Lander University, they studied mammalian behavior with camera traps. They focused on white-tailed deer in Upstate South Carolina, specifically on three behaviors: vigilance, grouping, and diel activity. This project was funded by the TriBeta research grant. They presented their research at USC Upstate\u2019s Research Symposium, Lander\u2019s Academic Symposium, and the Association of Southeastern Biologist\u2019s annual meetings in 2022 and 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broadly, their research interests span population genomics, behavioral and disease ecology, and evolutionary biology. They are motivated by questions surrounding the drivers of genetic variation across habitats, population dynamics, and how sex and genetic background influence responses to toxins and diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Research<\/b><\/h2>\n

Since joining Clemson\u2019s Center for Human Genetics in 2023, they have been put jointly in charge of a toxicogenomics project funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 program as part of the international PrecisionTox consortium. Their contribution to this project aims to test the survival of over 200 maximally diverse\u00a0<\/span>Drosophila<\/i>\u00a0Genetic Reference Panel lines when exposed to different waterborne toxins with the goal of running genome wide analyses and identifying genes with human orthologs that could be driving sensitivity or resistance. Additionally, genes shared between the GWAs of multiple chemicals are to be validated with RNAi to further elucidate the effect they have on toxin resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Publications<\/strong>
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Chaturvedi A, Shankar V, Simkhada B, Lyman RA, Freymuth P,\u00a0<\/span>Howansky E<\/b>, Collins KM, Mackay TFC and Anholt RRH (2025) Arsenic toxicity in the Drosophila brain at single cell resolution. Front. Toxicol. 7:1636431.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/ftox.2025.1636431<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collins KM*,\u00a0<\/span>Howansky E<\/b>*, Macon-Foley SC, Adonay ME, Shankar V, Lyman RF, Nazario-Yepiz NO, Brooks, JK, Lyman RA, Mackay TFC and Anholt RRH. 2024. Drosophila toxicogenomics: Genetic variation and sexual dimorphism in susceptibility to 4-methylimidazole.\u00a0<\/span>Hum Genomics<\/i>. 18, 119.<\/span>
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*co-first authors<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drosophila Research Technician Email: ehowans@clemson.edu Biosketch Elisabeth \u201cElisa\u201d Howansky graduated with the Honors Medal and Honors Pin from Lander University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. While a student at Lander University, they studied mammalian behavior with camera traps. They focused on white-tailed deer in Upstate South Carolina, specifically on three behaviors: vigilance, grouping, […]<\/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 ","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff"],"_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":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"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}]}}