Oklahoma State University
I'm Ashley Baragary, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University working towards an M.S. in Integrative Biology, with a B.S in Marine Biology from Northwest Missouri State University. My research has focused on modeling how organisms with different movement strategies fare in environments with different arrangements of resource and toxicant. I have used the nematode species Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism to answer questions such as which movement speeds with have a greater abundance when toxins overlap with resource, or when a refuge is a certain distance away from contaminated habitat. I will be attending the ESA Annual Meeting for the first time and will present a poster titled "Consequences of movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resource and toxicant".