Andrew Gracey

  • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Office: (213) 740-2288

Expertise Summary

Expert in how organisms adapt to extreme, changing environments, including hibernation

Expertise

  • how temperature, oxygen concentration and salinity affect physiological processes of animals
  • evolutionary development of stress tolerance
  • hibernation
  • gene expression during environmental change
  • gene chips and micro arrays
  • coping with extreme cold
  • genomics of surviving change
  • marine inter-tidal zones
  • carp, mussels, oyster, squirrels, mudsucker fish
  • oyster sudden summer mortality syndrome
  • adapting to climate change