Caroline Keroack |
Education M.S. Biological Sciences (Anticipated May, 2016) B.A., Biological Sciences; B.A., Chemistry (Received May, 2014) |
Selected Awards & Honors 2015 Best Student Presentation for “Assessing the Spread of Seal Heartworm Using Molecular Techniques”, New England Association of Parasitologists 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award for “Absence of Wolbachia in Seal Heartworm (Acanthocheilonema spirocauda) with Evidence of Lateral Gene Transfer”, American Society of Parasitologists 2015 Ester Carpenter Award for general biology 2014 Yi Tan and Qingfu Zeng Memorial Award For Excellence, Cell Signaling Technology, Inc 2014 Margaret Temple Brigham Award for excellence in microbiology and immunology Publications Keroack, C. Wurster, J. Decker, C. Slatko, B. Foster, J. Williams, S. “Absence of the Filarial Endosymbiont Wolbachia in Seal Heartworm (Acanthocheilonema spirocauda) but Evidence of Lateral Gene Transfer. 2015. Journal of Parasitology. Accepted. Keroack, C. “Nematode Parasites of Marine Mammals: Phylogenetic and Statistical Analysis of Coevolution” Smith College, Honors Thesis. 2014. |
Current Research I am currently sequencing and annotating mitochondrial genomes of marine mammal parasites for phylogenetic analysis and diagnostic assay development. Additionally, I am working on confirming the spread of particular marine mammal parasites beyond their normal host range using molecular techniques. A third branch of my team’s research focuses on the evolutionary relationship between filarial parasites of wildlife and the endosymbiont Wolbachia. |
Research Interests – Parasitology, Infectious Disease – Wild Life Disease Biology, Zoonosis – Marine Biology – Coevolution, Phylogenetics, Systematics |
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General Interests Swimming, painting, cooking |