2024 Biology Honors Presentations
May 20th, 11:30 AM, LSC 200
Felix Rawlinson — Analysing the effect of varying concentrations of nasally administered ACAT1 inhibitors (F26) on ACAT activity in mice.
Research Advisor: TY Chang
May 23rd, 1:30 PM, LSC 201
Julia Picker – Identification of DCAF Proteins for the CRL4 Ubiquitin Ligase Complex in the Wnt Signaling Pathway.
Research Advisor: Yashi Ahmed
May 23rd, 3:30 PM, LSC 201
Penelope Tir – Characterizing early dendritic growth of hippocampal neurons.
Research Advisor: Bryan Luikart
May 24th, 11:30 AM, LSC 200
Alexander Stanford – Residency status of CD103-/CD69+ CD4T-cells in the brain
Research Advisor: Pamela Rosato
May 24th, 2:30 PM, LSC 201
Sarah Lamson – Lipid Peroxidation Stabilizes BNIP3 to Induce Mitophagy and Protect Against Ferroptosis.
Research Advisor: Christopher Shoemaker
May 24th, 3:30 PM, LSC 100
Wyatt Cummings – Insect communities in the Anthropocene: Acid rain and forest age as drivers of decline.
Research Advisor: Matthew Ayres
May 24th, 4:15 PM, LSC 100
Ian Smith – Plant Hormone Signaling: Control of cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Research Advisor: Eric Schaller
May 28th, 9:00 AM, LSC 100
Whitney Thomas – Investigating LasR Dependent Citrate Cross-Feeding between pseudomonas aeruginosa and environmental isolates.
Research Advisor: Deborah Hogan
May 28th, 9:45 AM, LSC 100
Soyeon Cho – Inflammation resulting from organophosphate exposure and its implications in Parkinson's Disease.
Research Advisor Matthew Havrda:
May 28th, 2:30 PM, LSC 201
Farrar Ransom – The importance of macrofungal community composition in changing temperate forest ecosystems.
Research Advisor: Matthew Ayres
May 28th, 3:30 PM, LSC 201
Dawn Lim – Balancing of Actin Polymerizing and depolymerizing factors required for Normal Growth
Research Advisor: Magdalena Bezanilla
May 28th, 4:15 PM, LSC 201
Chloe Park – Investigation of Eps1 function in the absence of Kar2.
Research Advisor: Charles Barlowe
May 29th, 2:30 PM, LSC 201
Anne Katula – Using machine vision to assess global change impacts on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal traits.
Research Advisor: Bala Chaudhary
May 29th, 3:30 PM, LSC 100
Anna Beth Swain – Investigating sex-specificity of systemic inflammatory responses in Alzheimer's Disease.
Research Advisor: Arti Gaur