Dr. Rachel Bowden
School Director & Distinguished Professor of Ecological Physiology
Office
SLB Science Laboratory Building 244
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
BSC 299.002 Independent Honor Study
BSC 290.007 Research In Biological Sciences
BSC 599.001 Research In The Biological Sciences
Teaching Interests & Areas
Ecological Physiology of Animals;
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy;
Graduate and Undergraduate Seminars
Research Interests & Areas
Maternal resource provisioning to offspring;
Sex determination;
Ecoimmunology
Post-Doc Zoology & Genetics
Iowa State University
Ph D Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington
BA Environmental, Population, and Organismal Biology
University of Colorado
Boulder
Million Dollar Club
ISU
2015
Outstanding University Researcher
ISU
2013
Outstanding College Researcher Award - Sciences
ISU College of Arts & Sciences
2012
Grants and Contracts
Nature of systemic and mucosal B cell function in reptiles
Laura Anne Vogel, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
National Institutes of Health. June 15 2018 - June 30 2022
Induced immunity as a source of maternal effects on offspring phenotype (renewal application - resubmission)
Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Charles Thompson, Rachel Michelle Bowden, E Keith Bowers, Laura Anne Vogel, .
National Institutes of Health. September 6 2017 - August 31 2020
MRI: Acquisition of a high speed cell sorter for interdisciplinary student research and training in Biological Sciences
Laura Anne Vogel, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Nathan T. Mortimer, Ben Sadd.
National Science Foundation. September 1 2017 - August 31 2021
Book, Chapter
Freshwater turtles
Rachel Michelle Bowden.
(2010), 3, 462-68, Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour, Oxford: Academic Press.
Journal Article
Responsiveness to cold snaps by turtle embyros depends on exposure timing and duration
Clinton R Warren, Anthony T Breitenbach, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Ryan T Paitz.
(2025)
To bob or not to bob: Context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen
Austin C Calhoun, Kerrigan B Tobin, Dylan M Poorboy, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Ben M Sadd.
(2025)
Experiencing short heat waves early in development changes thermal responsiveness of turtle embryos to later heat waves
Anthony T Breitenbach, Rosario A Marroquín-Flores, Ryan T Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 226, (2023)
Effects of Constant and Fluctuating Temperatures on Gene Expression During Gonadal Development
Anthony T Breitenbach, Rachel M Bowden, Ryan T Paitz.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, (2022)
Sex-specific effects of hatching order on nestling baseline corticosterone in a wild songbird
Madison A Rittinger, Rachel M Bowden, Logan A Sauers, Ryan T Paitz, Christine J Poppe, Charles F Thompson, Scott K Sakaluk.
General and Comparative Endocrinology, 319, 113964, (2022)
Temperature fluctuations and estrone sulfate affect gene expression via different mechanisms to promote female development in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination
Rosario A Marroquín-Flores, Ryan T Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Journal of Experimental Biology, (2022)
Understanding how variable thermal environments affect the molecular mechanisms underlying temperature-sensitive phenotypes: lessons from sex determination
Ryan T Paitz, Anthony T Breitenbach, Rosario A Marroquin-Flores, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 225, jeb242373, (2022)
Brief exposure to warm temperatures reduces intron retention in Kdm6b in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination
Rosario Marroquin-Flores, Rachel M Bowden, Ryan T Paitz.
Biology Letters, (2021)
Is thermal responsiveness affected by maternal estrogens in species with temperature-dependent sex determination?
Rachel M Bowden, Ryan T Paitz.
Sexual Development, (2021), DOI: 10.1159/000515187
Characterizing the timing of yolk testosterone metabolism and the effects of metabolites on development in avian eggs
Nicole Campbell, Rachel Angles, Rachel M Bowden, Joseph M Casto, Ryan T Paitz.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, jeb210427, (2020)
Comment on: Carter AW, Paitz RT, Bowden RM. 2019. The Devil is in the Details: Identifying Aspects of Temperature Variation that Underlie Sex Determination in Species with TSD. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:1081-8 Reply
Amanda W Carter, Ryan T Paitz, Rachel M Bowden.
Integrative and Comparative Biology60, 60, 1351-1354, (2020)
Using naturalistic incubation temperatures to demonstrate how variation in the timing and continuity of heat wave exposure influences phenotype
Anthony T Breitenbach, Amanda W Carter, Ryan T Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 287, 20200992, (2020)
Intestinal B cells in the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta: Anatomical distribution and implications for ecological interactions with pathogenic microbes
Marc Ashford, Sarah Palackdharry, Ben Sadd, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Journal of Experimental Zoology, 331, 407-415, (2019)
Posthatching parental care and offspring growth vary with maternal corticosterone level in a wild bird population
E Keith Bowers, Charles F Thompson, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Scott K Sakaluk.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, (2019)
Red-eared slider hatchlings (Trachemys scripta) show a seasonal shift in behavioral types
Haley Nichols, Amanda W Carter, Ryan Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Journal of Experimental Zoology, 331, 485-493, (2019)
The devil is in the details: identifying aspects of temperature variation that underlie sex determination in species with TSD
Amanda W Carter, Ryan Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, 1081-1088, (2019)
The world is not flat: accounting for the dynamic nature of the environment as we move beyond static experimental manipulations
Rachel Michelle Bowden, Timothy Greives.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, 1033-1037, (2019)
Evidence of embryonic regulation of maternally derived yolk corticosterone
Amanda W Carter, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Ryan Paitz.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 221, jeb 182600, (2018)
Short heatwaves during fluctuating incubation regimes produce females under temperature-dependent sex determination with implications for sex ratios in nature
Amanda Carter, Ben Sadd, Tracey Tuberville, Ryan Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Scientific Reports, 8, 3, (2018)
Temperature fluctuations and maternal estrogens as critical factors for understanding temperature-dependent sex determination in nature
Rachel Michelle Bowden, Ryan Paitz.
Journal of Experimental Zoology, 329, 177-184, (2018)
Characterizing the distribution of steroid sulfatase during embryonic development: when and where might metabolites of maternal steroids be reactivated?
Ryan Paitz, Kristin Duffield, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 220 (24), 4567-4570, (2017)
Other
Humoral immune function in long-lived ectotherms, the reptiles
Laua A Vogel, Sarah Palackdharry, Laura M Zimmerman, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Springer, (2nd edition), 843-859, (2019)
Presentations
Identifying B cells in hatchling and adult Trachemys scripta, red-eared slider turtles
Hanna Paton, Allison Mool, Christen Fairow, Whitney Hurst, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Immunology 2022, Portland, OR, May 6, 2022
Use of a monoclonal antibody to identify B cells in Trachemys scripta, the red-eared slider turtle
Hanna Paton, Allison Mool, Christen Fairow, Whitney Green, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Autumn Immunology Conference 2021, Chicago, IL, November, 2021
Purification, biotinylation, and testing of a monoclonal antibody to identify B cells in Trachemys scripta, the red-eared slider turtle
Hanna Paton, Allison Mool, Whitney Green, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
AAI Immunology 2021, Online, May, 2021
Working With Turtle Immune Cells And Antibodies In The Lab: Determining Experimental Conditions
Beto Araiza, Paige Farchmin, Ceara Abbott, Micaela Ryan, Whitney Green, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Autumn Immunology Conference 2019, Chicago, IL, November 22, 2019
So many turtles, so little time
Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Savannah River Ecology Labs, Aiken, SC, May, 2019
So many turtles, so little time
Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, March, 2019
Heat Wave Timing, Continuity, and Length Affect Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in a Freshwater Turtle
Tony Breitenbach, Amanda Carter, Ryan Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Tampa, FL, January, 2019
Formation of ILF-like structures in hatchling T. scripta
Marc Ashford, Jake Jasinski, Sarah Palackdharry, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2017
Do moms put enzymes into eggs to protect embryos from exposure to environmental chemicals?
Ryan Paitz, Maggie Gillard, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, LA, January, 2017
The effect of environmental temperatures on reptilian B cell function
Sarah Marrochello, Ben Sadd, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Laura Anne Vogel.
Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2015
Do vertebrate eggs contain maternally derived steroidogenic enzymes that are susceptible to inhibition by endocrine disruptors?
Ryan Paitz, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, West Palm Beach, FL, January 3, 2015
Does sex vary with season via maternal estrogens when temperatures fluctuate?
Amanda W Carter, Rachel Michelle Bowden, Ryan Paitz.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, West Palm Beach, FL, January 3, 2015
Effects of season and incubation temperature fluctuation frequency on oxidative stress in hatchling red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta)
Lisa A Treidel, Amanda W Carter, Rachel Michelle Bowden.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, West Palm Beach, FL, January 3, 2015