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| Name | Elizabeth Harrison |
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| Bio | Elizabeth Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Georgia Gwinnett College. She holds a Ph.D in Biology from Florida International University and a B.Sc. in Biology from Howard University with emphasis on aquatic ecology and invasive species ecology. Elizabeth has been teaching biology to undergraduate students for 12 years. She teaches general biology for science majors and nonmajors. She has also been organizing and teaching study abroad biology courses in Thailand since 2017. Elizabeth strives to increase scientific literacy in her students and aims to encourage more women and minority students to enter STEM fields. |
| Scholarship/Publications | Harrison, Elizabeth. 2018. Role-playing activity to demonstrate diffusion across a cell membrane. Journal of Molecular Biology Education. Accepted Harrison, E., J.C. Trexler, T.M. Collins, E. Vazquez-Domínguez, U. Razo-Mendivil, W.A. Matamoros, and C. Barrientos. 2014. Genetic Evidence for Multiple Sources of the Non-Native Fish Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Günther; Mayan Cichlids) in Southern Florida. PloS one, 9(9), e104173. Harrison, E., J.J. Lorenz, and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Per Capita Effects of Non-native Mayan Cichlids (Cichlasoma urophthalmus; Gunther) on Native Fish in the Estuarine Southern Everglades. Copeia 2013(1): 80-96. Harrison, E., C.N. Love, K.L. Jones, S.L. Lance, J. C. Trexler, and T.M. Collins. 2013. Isolation and characterization of 18 novel, polymorphic microsatellite markers from the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus). Conservation Genetics Resources 5(3): 703-705 Layman, C.A., Araújo, M.S., Boucek, R., Harrison, E., Jud, Z.R., Matich, P., Hammerschlag-Peyer, C.M., Rosenblatt, A., Vaudo, J., Yeager, L.A., Post, D.M., and Bearhop, S. 2011. Applying stable isotopes to analyze food web structure: An overview of analytical tools. Biological Reviews 87(3):545-562. |
