Kranti Galande
Faculty Advisor: Rick Cote
Research Topic: Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases as a potential nematicides
Juan Yang
Faculty Advisor: Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: acid sensing ion channels (ASICs), primary cilia
Allison Kloeckner
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Walker
Research Topic: Comparing ovarian cancer and endometriosis
Hannah Hagearty
Faculty Advisor: Rick Cote
Research Topic: Integrative structural modeling of the RGS9-1-Gβ5-R9AP complex using XL-MS
Victoria Aumann
Faculty Advisor: Jingwei Cheng
Research Topic: Characterizing the role of the NOTCH pathway in Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Evie Proctor
Faculty Advisor: Jingwei Cheng
Research Topic: DNA damage response pathways in Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Harrison Vedrani
Faculty Advisor: Sean Edington
Research Topic: The structural and chemical properties of lanthanide binding peptides and how they influence their binding specificity
Yuri Kwon
Faculty Advisor: Krisztina Varga
Research Topic: Optically-active nanocrystals functionalized by chiral biomolecules
Jenn (Lingshu) Wang
Faculty Advisor: Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Establishing neuronal hierarchy by in vivo calcium imaging
Sumaya Akter
Faculty Advisor: Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Influence of Primary Cilia and Reelin on Postnatal Reverse Migration of Principal Neurons
Michael Rizzi
Faculty Advisor: Krisztina Varga
Research Topic: Structure and Cryoprotective Properties of Antifreeze Proteins & Structure of Calcium Channel Splice-Variants
Jaxson Libby
Faculty Advisors: Sarah Walker & Linqing Li
Research Topic: Mechanobiology of breast and ovarian cancer
Soheila Mirhosseiniardakani
Faculty Advisor: Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Neuronal primary cilia pattern in the cortex
Kaleb Ducharme
Faculty Advisor: David Plachetzki
Research Topic: Investigating the composition, expression patterns, and evolutionary history of hagfish slime gland proteins.
Megan Garcia
Faculty Advisor: Louis Tisa
Research Topic: Copper tolerance mechanisms in the bacteria Frankia and their role in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants for heavy metal bioremediation
Alyssa Daigle
Faculty Advisor: Anna O'Brien
Research Topic: Investigating the effects of duckweed genotypes, microbiomes (including toxin-producing cyanobacteria), and co-occurring species on the quality and safety of duckweed as a green manure
Santiago Rivera Reyes
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Garnas
Research Topic: Evaluating ecological, nutritional, and genomic differences between the beech bark disease fungal agents N. faginata and N. ditissima and how those factors allow co-occurrence of the two species on the same host.
Javier Arambula Rascon
Faculty Advisor: Lou Tisa
Research Topic: The actinorhizal symbiosis
Emma Kinerson
Faculty Advisor: Anna O'Brien
Research Topic: Investigating plant-microbe interactions focusing on the role of diversity within microbe communities and their effect on duckweed genetics and phenotype.
Lawrence Gordon
Faculty Advisor: W. Kelley Thomas
Research Topic: Genomics for pathogen surveillance and host-pathogen interaction
