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Apple snail Research

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Teaching at SU

The Apple Snail Ecology Lab
Romi L.Burks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
Co-Chair, Animal Behavior Program, Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626

NEWS: (Updated 3 August 2011 - click to read more)

Manuscript about female snail behavior during oviposition out in in Current Zoology.
(Click for PDF) with first-author Colin Kyle '08 and SU senior Alexis Kropf

2nd 2011 publication in process! Burks, R. L., S. A. Hensley* and C. H. Kyle*. 2011. Quite the appetite: juvenile island apple snails (Pomacea insularum) survive consuming only exotic, invasive plants. Journal of Molluscan Studies. Click for On-line First Access

Burks and New Colleagues Awarded NSF Funds to Create International Research Experience (click for Project Summary). Full IRES Proposal under consideration.

Keep Up with Blog on Apple Snails

Apple Snail Alumnus Colin Kyle receives NSF Graduate Fellowship!

Allyson Plantz receives $800 national competitive Grants-in-Aid from Sigma Xi and $1500 from the Texas Academy of Science to continue research on riparian predators, including adult and juvenile red ear slider turtles.

Senior Tracy Day has completed our first set of samples that we can send off for analysis. Burks received a $2000 grant for stable isotope analysis from Sam Taylor Fund of the United Methodist Church.

Link to Picasa Web Albums:
Other galleries within site
Happy Snails courtesy of funding for lettuce from H-E-B Commmunity Partnership

Click for pictures of apple snail crafts

Travel Pics! Slideshow from POMACEA 2010 Meeting

Email Dr. Burks or call 512-863-1280; FAX: 512-863-1696 or visit Office: 141, FJSH (Science Hall)
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