CRE Investigators Discuss the Importance of Hands-on Mentorship in the Laboratory and the Classroom at a Syracuse University Alumni Event in Philadelphia

Scott Pitnick and Steve Dorus discuss sperm biology, the genesis of the CRE and the important role played by motivated undergraduates in its research mission with Syracuse University alumni in the Egypt Room of Penn’s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. The event was well attended by a diverse mix of accomplished SU alumni and also included inspiring talks by SU Biology alumnus Laura Feldman and SU Interim VP for Research Peter Vanable.

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Liz Droge-Young, a CRE PhD student, has her recent publication in Behavioral Ecology covered by Syracuse University news

Her research suggests that the desiccating environment of stored grain facilities underlies the evolution of extreme promiscuity by female red flour beetles, with females mating with many males each day in order to harvest moisture from their ejaculates.  In something of a sexual conflict twist, all of this mating appears to come at a cost to males – http://news.syr.edu/journal-publishes-doctoral-candidates-findings-on-beetle-promiscuity-60370/