Recent National/International Conference talks including undergrads (in red) as authors:

Hopkins, P.M., Durica, D., and Washington, T. 2008. The Putative Partner of the Crustacean Ecdysteroid Receptor, UpRXR, and its Isoforms from the Fiddler Crab, Uca pugilator. Ecdysone-Workshop 2008,  Ulm University, 20-24 July, Ulm, Germany. 

Durica, D.S., Johnson, J.B., Das, S., Lee, K., and Hopkins, PM. 2009. Structure and Expression of the Uca pugilator E75 Nuclear Receptor: a Primary Ecdysteroid Response Gene.  Presentation, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology,  3-7 January 2009, Boston, MA.

Durica, D.S.,  Phillips, B., and Hopkins, P.M. EcR/RXR LBD Isoforms in Crustacea. 2010. Presentation, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology,  3-7 January 2010, Seattle, WA.

Shyamal, S.D.; Durica, D.S., and Rudkins, J.M. 2016. Methoprene-tolerant: a putative juvenile hormone pathway gene in Uca pugilator. Presentation, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Portland, OR, 3-7 January.

Daab, C., Smith, A., Shyamal, S. and Durica, D.S. 2017. Vitellogenesis and Limb Regeneration over the Molt Cycle in the Cherry Shrimp, Neocardinia deticulata, a proposed Crustacean Transgenic Model. National meeting, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, LA. 4-8 January.

Durica, D.S., Wolfard, F., Shyamal, S., Das, S. and Mykles, D.L. 2020. Examination of Ecdysteroid Hormone Biosynthetic Enzyme Genes in the Y-Organ Transcriptome and Developing Lim Bud Transcriptome During the Crab Molt Cycle. National Meeting, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX, 3-7 January.

Scientific Publications with undergraduates as authors:

Hopkins, P.M., Durica, D., and Washington, T. 2008. RXR isoforms and endogenous retinoids in the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator.  Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 151:602-614.

Durica, D.S., Das, S., Najar, F., Roe, B., Phillips, B., Kappalli, S. and Anikumar, G. 2014. Alternative splicing in the fiddler crab cognate ecdysteroid receptor: Variation in receptor isoform expression and DNA binding properties in response to hormone. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 206:80-95. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.05.034.