Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center
Professor, Cell Biology & Anatomy, MUSC
Ph.D., State University of New York/ Buffalo
lacyer@musc.edu
Stingray osmoregulation and reproduction. Research is focused on two aspects of stingray structure and function. We investigate the role of peritoneal fluid in the acid/base balance and osmoregulation in euryhaline stingrays. We are identifying and characterizing molecules in fluids secreted by accessory reproductive organs.
Publications:
Lacy ER, Colglazier J,
Vazquez-Martinez R. Evidence that the coelomic cavity of the euryhaline
Atlantic stingray, Dasyatis sabina, is a site for tH and
osmoregulation. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiol (2005
Submitted).
Jenny MJ, Ringwood AH, Lacy ER,
Lewitus AJ, Kempton JW, Gross PS, Warr GW, and Chapman RW. Potential
Indicators of Stress Response Identified by Expressed Sequence Tag
Analysis of Hemocytes and Embryos from the American Oyster, Crassostrea
virginica. Mar Biotech. 4:81-93 (2002).
Grabowski GM, Blackburn JG, Lacy ER. Morphology and Epithelial Ion transport of the alkaline gland in the Atlantic stingray (Dasyatis sabina). Biol Bull., 197:82-93 (1999).