Kristina Luisa Cohen

Research and Teaching Interests

Environmentally cued hatching in treefrogs, herpetology, behavioral ecology of early life stages, science education, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs).

Selected Publications

Cohen, K.L. Wright, M.C., Johnson, M.A., Lawrence, S. (2022) Preserving the positive student outcomes of CUREs through disruption: Implications for remote learning. Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring. 10.1.  

Harris, D.M., Schlueter-Kuck, K., Austin, E., Cohen, K.L. (2021) Course-based undergraduate research in upper-level engineering electives: a case study. Journal of STEM Education 22(2), 46-55.  

Cohen, K.L., Piacentino, M.P., Warkentintin, K.M. (2019) Two types of hatching gland cells facilitate escape-hatching at different developmental stages in red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas (Anura: Phyllomedusidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126(4), 751-767. 

Cohen, K.L., Piacentino, M.P., Warkentintin, K.M. (2018). The hatching process and mechanisms of adaptive hatching acceleration in hourglass treefrogs. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 217, 63-74. 

Cohen, K.L., Seid, M.A., Warkentin, K.M. (2016). How embryos escape from danger: the mechanism of rapid, plastic hatching in red-eyed treefrogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 219, 1875-1833. (Featured in Inside JEB)
Video abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1YqxQkdn0 

Other Professional Activity and/or Awards

“Supporting LGBTQ+ Students” – written for the Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning at Brown University

Belamarich Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at BU  (2018)

National Geographic article by Ed Yong: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/06/15/unborn-frogs-can-still-escape-from-snakes/