Caitlynn Klawon
Class of 2020
- Title Class of 2020
Caity was born in Connecticut, before moving to Florida and finally settling in Ohio. She has loved the marine world since attending a SeaWorld summer camp and watching the birth of a baby shark. In 2016 she started school at BU, exploring a variety of subjects before concentration on Marine Science and ultimately joining the Buston lab. Caity is working on an honors research project on heritability with graduate student E schlatter. They are interested in how genetic and epigenetic factors affect larval swimming speed and endurance, important predictors of larval dispersal.
Research Project
Klawon, C. Heritability of larval traits in clown anemonefish Amphiprion percula.