heather bracken-grissom

At the Bay, School of Environment, Arts and Society April 24, 2014

Marine Sciences faculty tracks ancestry of decapods

A University faculty member has made it her mission to track down the ancestry of certain groups of crustaceans.

Heather Bracken-Grissom, assistant professor in the Marine Sciences Program and in the Department of Biological Sciences, got interested in helping with a project called, “Assembling The Tree of Life,”and started collaborating with the research on the relationship and origins of all decapods.

She is currently working on finding the relationship among crabs, lobsters and shrimp as well as their history of life.

News September 7, 2012

Professor helps uncover a specimen from the deep sea

The sea is deep and so are its mysteries; one of these mysteries, however, has been recently solved.
A team, led by Assistant Professor Heather Bracken-Grissom of the Department of Biological Sciences, has recently discovered the connection between a strange larval crustacean and its adult form, a deep-sea shrimp.