Sunny K. Scobell

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Texas A&M University, College Station

Ph.D. (Biology) 2011 

Co-chairs: Adam G. Jones, Gil G. Rosenthal

Dissertation: The role of androgens in male pregnancy and female competitive behavior in a sex- role reversed pipefish. 

 

University of Oklahoma, Norman

M.S. (Zoology) 2006

Chair: Rosemary Knapp

Thesis: Potential reproductive rate and female aggression in the sex-role reversed Gulf pipefish,Syngnathus scovelli. 

 

Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

 B.A. (Biology, Cum laude) 1999

  

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Evolution, Sexual Selection, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Reproductive Physiology

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Fall 2013 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Foundation of the City University of New York, Wilson Laboratory, Brooklyn College, CUNY

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

Summer 2012 - Field Assistant, Dr. Erik Svensson and Dr. Machteld Verzijden, Lund University

Fall 2006 – 2007 - Graduate Trainee, Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station

2004 – 2005 - Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Rosemary Knapp, University of Oklahoma

2002 – 2003 - Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Rosemary Knapp, University of Oklahoma

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Biology Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY

• Guest Lecturer - Evolution

• Instructor - Ecology

 

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University

• Lecturer - Principles of Animal Physiology

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Integrated Human Anatomy and Physiology I & II

Introductory Biology II

• Graduate Fellow - NSF GK-12 Fellows Program, Partnership for Environmental Education & Rural Health 6th Grade Science 

 

Science Department, Redlands Community College, El Reno, Oklahoma

• Adjunct Instructor

General Chemistry

Human Physiology

 

Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma

• Graduate Teaching Associate

Principles of Physiology

Human Physiology

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Principles of Physiology

Human Physiology

Concepts of Biology

• Project Leader - Summer Workshops for GK-12 Teachers, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Infusing Inquiry into Elementary School Science

Science Institute for Middle Level Science Teachers