Jake Youngblood

Ph.D. student in Biology (working on a side project in biology education)

Research Interests: I am interested in improving how we teach online and in-person biology courses. More specifically, I aim to implement dissections and other hands-on activities into the online biology curriculum. 

About Me: I am an animal physiologist and part-time education researcher working with the BER lab to evaluate and improve online biology education.  I received my BS in biology from Clemson University, and I am now a PhD candidate in Mike Angilletta's lab at ASU. My dissertation focuses on how insects tolerate extreme heat. In my free time, I enjoy camping, playing disc golf, and practicing yoga.

Publications:

Youngblood JP, da Silva CRB, Angilletta MJ, VandenBrooks JM. 2019. Oxygen limitation does not drive the decreasing heat tolerance of grasshoppers during development. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 92(6):567-572.

Angilletta MJ, Sears MW, Levy O, Youngblood JP, VandenBrooks JM. 2019. Fundamental flaws in the fundamental niche. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(4):1038-1048. 

Angilletta MJ, Condon C, Youngblood JP. 2019. Thermal acclimation of flies from three populations of Drosophila melanogaster fails to support the seasonality hypothesis. Journal of Thermal Biology. 81:25-32. 
 

Mayerl CJ, Youngblood JP, Rivera G, Vance JT, Blob RW. 2019. Variation in morphology and kinematics underlies variation in swimming stability and turning performance in freshwater turtles. Integrative and Organismal Biology. 

Angilletta MJ, Youngblood JP, Neel LK, VandenBrooks, JM. 2018. The neuroscience of adaptive thermoregulation. Neuroscience Letters. 

*Teague C, *Youngblood JP, Ragan K, Angilletta MJ, VandenBrooks JM. 2017. A positive genetic correlation between hypoxia tolerance and heat tolerance supports a controversial theory of heat stress. Biology Letters. 13: 20170309. (*authors contributed equally)

jpyoungb [at] asu.edu