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About Me
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Katy joined the CMC Lab in the fall of 2017. She received her BA with departmental honors in Science, Technology and Society, from Vassar College in 2015. Katy became interested in studying human mating psychology from an evolutionary perspective through her senior thesis research which examined sex differences in mate preferences and mating strategies. She is interested in using agent-based models to understand how evolution has shaped the psychology of men and women in areas like mate preferences, mate value, mating strategies, mate choice, relationship satisfaction, leadership, power, and status.
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My Research
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Jellyfish, jellies or sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are not mobile, being anchored to the seabed by stalks. The bell can pulsate to provide propulsion and highly efficient locomotion. The tentacles are armed with stinging cells and may be used to capture prey and defend against predators. Jellyfish have a complex life cycle; the medusa is normally the sexual phase, the planula larva can disperse widely and is followed by a sedentary polyp phase.
Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea. Scyphozoans (the "true jellyfish") are exclusively marine, but some hydrozoans with a similar appearance live in freshwater. Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide. The medusae of most species are fast growing, mature within a few months and die soon after breeding, but the polyp stage, attached to the seabed, may be much more long-lived. Jellyfish have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal group.
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