Abbie Tomba, Ph. D.
Tomba
Abbie Tomba, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
334 Jepson Sciences Center
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Office: (540) 654-1366
atomba@umw.edu
Abbie Tomba is a streams ecologist and Assistant Professor of Biology who joined the department in 2006. She earned her M.S. at Bowling Green State University where she studied the effects of chemical cues on crayfish behavior. She then went on to Auburn University where she earned her Ph.D. studying the interactions between freshwater snails and trematode parasites. Her current research focuses on environmental factors affecting stream invertebrate diversity and host-parasite interactions. Abbie teaches Biological Concepts I&II, Introduction to Ecology, and Parasitology.