Ashley Stuteville

Monroe, Louisiana Area United States

Graduate Assistant at Louisiana Tech University

I am a student at Louisiana Tech in my second year of working on a MSc in Biology. I graduated in November 2015 from Louisiana Tech with my BSc in Biology. My thesis work involves CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing in Pisum sativum. It is my intention to take my background in molecular biology and apply it to Orcinus orca conservation. In December 2015, I was awarded a graduate assistantship that involves teaching ecology, which is a junior level core lab course for biology and environmental science majors. The main topics we cover involve a soil invertebrate diversity project with analysis using indices of diversity as well as a foraging ecology project in which students measure gray and fox ...