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Last updated: 7/7/2020
Active Research Interests:
- Relationships between morphological, physiological, and behavioral specialization in arthropods, with a particular, but not exclusive, interest in solitary bees
Publications:
8. Barrett M, McNair C, Caponera V, O’Donnell S, Marenda D (2020). Potential for use of erythritol as a socially-transferrable ingested insecticide for ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, toaa019.
7. Barrett MCO, Fiocca KCO, Waddell E, McNair C, O’Donnell S, Marenda D (2019). Larval mannitol diets increase mortality, prolong development, and decrease adult body sizes in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Biology Open, 8:bio047084. DOI: 10.1242/bio.047084.
6. O’Donnell S, Bulova S, Barrett M, Fiocca K (2019). Brain structure differences between solitary and social wasp species are independent of body size allometry. Journal of Comparative Physiology, DOI: 10.1007/s00359-019-01374-w.
5. Caponera V, Barrett M, O’Donnell S, Marenda D (2019). Erythritol causes concentration-dependent mortality in the Eastern subterranean termite (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, toz260.
4. Fiocca KCO, Barrett MCO, Waddell E, McNair C, O’Donnell S, Marenda D (2019). Mannitol ingestion causes concentration-dependent, sex-biased mortality in adults of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). PLoS One, 14:e0213760.
3. O’Donnell S, Bulova S, Barrett M, von Beeren C (2018). Worker-caste differences in brain investment reflect soldier behavioral specialization (Eciton army ants, Formicidae: Dorylinae). BMC Zoology, 3:3.
2. O’Donnell S, Bulova S, Barrett M, Fiocca K (2018). Size constraints and sensory adaptation in brain architecture (paper wasps – Vespidae: Epiponini). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132:302-10.
1. O’Donnell S, Bulova S, DeLeon S, Barrett M, Fiocca K (2017). Caste differences in the mushroom bodies of swarm-founding paper wasps: implications for brain plasticity and brain evolution (Vespidae, Epiponini). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71:116.
Grants/Awards:
2020 Microscopy Training Fellowship – $1,000; Principal Investigator; Funder: American Microscopical Society
2020 Robert L. and Louise B. Jeanne Social Wasp Research Grant – $2,500; Principal Investigator; Funder: International Union for the Study of Social Insects
2020 PEO Scholar Award – $15,000; Principal Investigator; Funder: International Chapter of the PEO Sisterhood
2020 Animal Behavior Society Student Research Grant – $1,000; Principal Investigator; Funder: Animal Behavior Society, USA
2019 SysEB Student Research Travel Award – $1,450; Principal Investigator; Entomological Society of America, Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity Section, USA
2019 American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Grant – $2,100; Principal Investigator; Funder: American Philosophical Society, PA
2018 Eva Crane Trust Research Grant – $10,554.74; Co-PI with Dr. Dane Ward; Funder: Eva Crane Trust, UK
2018 Huyck Preserve Research Grant – $2,500; Principal Investigator; Funder: Huyck Preserve, NY
2014 Student Research Grant – $500; Student Researcher; SUNY Geneseo, NY
Awards in Support of Travel
2019 Drexel Teck-Kah Lim Graduate Student Domestic Travel Subsidy Award, Drexel University – $600
2018 USDA-AFRI Travel Award, IUSSI-North American Section – $1,500
2018 International Travel Award, Drexel University – $750
2017-9 Drexel Department of Biology Travel Awards, Drexel University – $750
2017 Three Rivers Evolution Event Travel Award, ASN – $200
2015 Student Travel Grant, SUNY Geneseo – $500
Conference Organizing Awards
2018 Entomological Society of America Support of Small Meeting Sponsorship (as part of Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting organizing committee), ESA
2018 IUSSI Support of Small Meeting Award (as part of Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting organizing committee), International Union for the Study of Social Insects
2018 ASN Conference Award (as part of Evolution in Philadelphia Conference organizing committee), American Society of Naturalists
2018 Small Meeting Award (as part of Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting organizing committee), Company of Biologists
2018 GSA Career Development Symposia Award (as part of Evolution in Philadelphia Conference organizing committee), Genetics Society of America