Recent Publications, Presentations, and Grants
Grants
Kelsey Wallace, March 1, 2012, COAST Graduate Student Award for Marine Science Research, $3000
Publications
Zazay R, Morrison JB, Redondo R, Murray JA (2012) Structure and function of pedal neurons controlling muscle contractions in Tritonia diomedea, Impulse, the Premier Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal. http://www.impulse.appstate.
Murray JA, Jones AP, Links AC, Willows AOD (2011) Daily tracking of locomotion of the nudibranch Tritonia tetraquetra in nature, and the influence of water flow on orientation, crawling, and drag, Marine and Freshwater Behavior and Physiology 44(5):265-288 (online; DOI:10.1080/10236244.2011.
Presentations
CSU Biotechnology Symposium (Santa Clara CA; Jan 2012), The characterization of antifeedant/defensive properties of a Pacific coast opisthobranch Tritonia tetraquetra (Bergh) and its octocoral prey Ptilosarcus gurneyi(Gray), NS Shapiro, BA Choate, MH Huynh, JA Murray (Poster presentation)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology [Charleston, SC; January 2012]. The characterization of antifeedant/defensive properties of a Pacific coast opisthobranch Tritonia tetraquetra (Bergh) and its octocoral preyPtilosarcus gurneyi (Gray), NS Shapiro, BA Choate, MH Huynh, JA Murray (Poster presentation)
CSU Biotechnology Symposium (Santa Clara CA; Jan 2012), The marine gastropod Tritonia diomedea expresses different forms of acetylcholinesterase in its hemolymph and in different parts of its central nervous system, V Tran, M Kaur, JA Murray, M Sommerhalter
CSU Biotechnology Symposium (Santa Clara CA; Jan 2012), Purification and characterization of the detoxification enzyme glutationine-S-transferase (GST) from the digestive gland of the marine gastropod Tritonia diomedea, S Huang, JA Murray, T Amagata, M Sommerhalter
