Lisa Crummett

Lisa Crummett, PhD

Faculty - Undergraduate

Associate Professor of Biology

Director of Life Sciences Concentration

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I am a broadly trained biologist with diverse interests in evolutionary biology, marine ecology (invertebrates and microbes), nutritional physiology, and type 2 diabetes etiology. I have published journal articles on diverse topics, including microhabitat partitioning of cryptic gastropod species, parthenogenesis and evolution of sex, host-derived metabolic genes in marine viruses, effects of ocean acidification on marine microbial diversity, postprandial response in humans to consuming whole vs blended fruit, and type 2 diabetes risk factors and preventions. I am currently carrying out experiments to determine how exposure to synthetic estrogen, a common pollutant in surface waters, affects reproduction in marine invertebrates. I teach a variety of classes that cover human anatomy, physiology, nutrition, zoology, and marine conservation.

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Education

PhD in Zoology, University of Florida
MS in Biology, California State University, Fullerton
BS in Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton

Courses Taught at SUA

Human Physiology (BIO 303)
Human Body in a Modern World (BIO 120)
Genetics and Evolution (BIO 130)
Animal Diversity (BIO 135)
Foundations of Biology 1: DNA to Organisms (BIO 140)
Foundations of Biology 2: Organisms to Ecosystems (BIO 141)
Various Learning Clusters exploring topics associated with nutrition and metabolic disease, and coastal marine conservation.

Research Interests

I am interested in coastal marine environments and I have studied mollusks, cyanobacteria, and marine bacteriophage. My current interests include: how might ocean acidification affect marine microbial diversity and abundance, how might infection by bacteriophage affect marine cyanobacterial metabolism, and how do marine bacteriophage life history traits vary across time and space? On a very different topic, I have interests in the association between the industrial diet and type 2 diabetes risk. How is information about that association being disseminated to the public and how are the food and beverage industries actively distorting that information?

Publications and Scholarly Works

An asterisk (*) in front of the author's name denotes SUA undergraduate coauthors.

*Le N, Heras J, Herrera MJ, German DP, Crummett LT. (2023) The genome of Anoplarchus purpurescens (Stichaeidae) reflects its carnivorous diet. Molecular Genetics and Genomics.
Crummett LT and *Aslam MH. (2023) Diabetes websites lack information on dietary causes, risk factors, and preventions for type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in Public Health.11.
Crummett LT and *Grosso RJ. (2022) Postprandial Glycemic Response to Whole Fruit versus Blended Fruit in Healthy, Young Adults. Nutrients. 14(21): 4565.
Crummett LT. (2020) Acidification decreases microbial community diversity in the Salish Sea. Plos one 15(10), e0241183
Crummett LT. (2020). Industry's Role in the Metabolic Disease Pandemic. In A. Patterson and I. Read (Eds.) The Shapes of Epidemics and Global Disease.
Crummett LT, Puxty, RJ, Weihe C, Marston MF, Martiny, JBH. (2016). The genomic content and context of auxiliary metabolic genes in marine cyanomyoviruses. Virology 499: 219-229.
Crummett LT, Sears BF, LaFon DC, Wayne ML. (2013). Parthenogenetic populations of the freshwater snail Campeloma limum occupy habitats with fewer environmental stressors than their sexual counterparts. Freshwater Biology 58(4): 655-663.
Crummett LT and Wayne ML (2009). Comparing fecundity in sexual versus parthenogenetic populations of the freshwater snail Campeloma limum: Is there a twofold cost of sex? Invertebrate Biology 128 (1): 1-8.
Crummett LT and Eernisse DJ. (2007). Genetic evidence for the cryptic species pair Lottia digitalis and Lottia austrodigitalis and microhabitat partitioning in sympatry. Marine Biology 152 (1): 1-13.

Positions Held

Science and Mathematics Area Coordinator, Fall 2018 – Spring 2019