Biology,
School of Science
The Leafcutter and its Fungus Garden
Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, and two of her students traveled to the Texas capital last week for the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Clark, together with Savana Goslovich ’23 and Cassandra Smith ’24, presented a poster about their research on leafcutter ants and how fiber consumption can affect a colony.
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