Position(s):
Professor, Dept. of Bioscience & Biotechnology

Office: 233 Stratton Hall
Lab: 227 Stratton

Phone: (215) 895-2637 (Office)
            
Email: mike.oconnor@drexel.edu

B.A. - Biology, LaSalle University (1977)
M.D. - Johns Hopkins University (1981)
Ph.D. - Zoology, Colorado State University (1989)

Courses Taught

BIO201: Human Physiology I
BIO202: Human Physiology Lab
BIO310: Comparative Physiology
BIO440: Biometry
BIO442/443: Models in Biology I & II
BIO712: Biophysical Ecology

The focus of my research is the physiological ecology of terrestrial ectotherms, particularly amphibians and reptiles. I am particularly interested in how abiotic factors, such as temperature and water can affect the physiology, limit the activity, constrain the resource accumulation, and hence delimit the ecology of organisms. In many cases, I focus on how heat and water exchanges with the environment affect body temperatures and water stores , and when these abiotic affects can either allow or prevent the activity of the animals.

To view some of Dr. O'Connor's published work [...click here...]

Post-Docs and Graduate Students

Annette E. Sieg: Constraints of water and temperature on activity and ecology of forest 
                         dwelling frogs.

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