Hi everyone! My name is Hana Larkins and I am so excited to be able to finally introduce myself. I’m a junior biology major and I’ve been researching limb bone scaling and shape in pleurodire and semi-aquatic cryptodire turtles since spring of 2021 with Dr. Young. It’s been a lot of data analysis on a phylogenetic tree containing three different types of turtles - Pleurodires, Tryonychids, and Emydids, but it’s been very interesting so far! I was very interested in studying animals, specifically biomechanics, and getting involved in research at SMC and was thankfully referred to Dr. Young. We haven’t made much progress since a lot of this research involves data analysis via Mesquite and running code on RStudio, both of which never fail to give me a headache. We were having trouble running the code for a while now, but I believe we may have cracked the case! If all goes well, we can finally move on to the next step. Besides that, most of this semester has been trying to get prepared for my first SICB conference in January and I’m so excited! Stay tuned for a SICB update in the spring!
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