Assistant Professor of Biology Ariel Kahrl, along with Max Girard ’24, and Lorin “Lainey” Groll ’25 recently presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference in Atlanta.
Kahrl presented her ongoing research on “Evolution of diverse reproductive strategies and sperm morphologies in tropical frogs” as part of a session on “Evolution and diversification,” which she chaired.
Girard, a biology major who graduated with honors in 2024, presented “Examining relationships between pre- and postcopulatory selective traits in male green frogs” in a Best Student Presentation session. The presentation was based on his senior thesis, “The Frog Prince: examining the relationship between reproductive traits in male green frogs.” Kahrl said Girard was the only undergrad chosen to present a project.
Groll, a biochemistry/molecular biology and German studies double major, presented a poster titled “From pond to proteome: comparing sperm and egg jelly proteomes of anurans” in a session on “Reproduction, sexual selection, and sexual dimorphism.” Co-authors on the poster were seniors Amy Shanahan and Miranda Gregory, as well as Kahrl and three Syracuse University students.
