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Alison Sweeney

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Name: Alison Sweeney

 

Department: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Department Website: http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

 

Address: 209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396

 

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Expertise: Molecular evolution of self-assembling protein photonic structures in molluscs and optical characterization of the sophisticated roles they play in camouflage and photosynthetic symbiosis; cellular and biochemical mechanisms of dynamic camouflage; characterization of
the open ocean light environment in which animals have evolved sophisticated camouflage; spectral changes during twilight and their effects on visual ecology.

 

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