Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008
Dr. Marosh Furimsky, ¾¨Ó㴫ý assistant professor of biology, presented a poster at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology held Jan. 2-7 in San Antonio. Dr. John Robertson, associate professor of biology, was co-author of the work.
The poster, "Isolated Fish Gills as a Model for Teaching Osmotic Permeability to Undergraduate Physiology Students," was initiated by Robertson and involves a novel approach to teaching students about water movement across biological membranes. It is a laboratory exercise that involves fish gills and is being used successfully in upper level ¾¨Ó㴫ý physiology labs.
Furimsky, who has been working on the project for about 18 months, said, "We are still in the trial phase of this lab exercise, but hope to publish it in the near future."
Furimsky has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 2006. He earned an undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa.
Robertson, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 2000, earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, a master's from the University of Rhode Island, and Ph.D. from Arizona State University.
Contact Furimsky at (724) 946-7207 (e-mail furimsmm@westminster.edu) or Robertson at (724) 946-7044 (e-mail robertjc@westminster.edu) for additional information.Â
