The Swanson Lab

Rubus Functional Biology

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.  I graduated from Penn State with a Ph.D. in Integrative Biosciences (Ecological and Molecular Plant Physiology Option).  My Masters thesis was completed at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. At Salve, I teach Human A&P for Non-majors, Developmental Biology, and Biochemistry.  I have a great research lab that works primarily on cell-cell communication using Raspberry and Blackberry prickles, human stomach cancer cells and algal blooms as models.