2019 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

2019 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

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Alissandra Ayala
University of Texas at Austin

Faculty mentor: N. Michele Holbrook (OEB)
Project: Temperate forests! How climate change affects growth and phenology

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Aundrea (Dree) Koger
Western Washington University

Faculty mentor: Benjamin de Bivort (OEB)
Project: Playing it cool: An investigation of thermal preference in entomophthora muscae-infected Drosophila melanogaster

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Nicole Márquez-Reyes
University of Peurto Rico, Cayey

Faculty mentor: Cassandra Extavour (OEB)
Project: Evolution of ovariole number in insects

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Macy Petrula
California State University, Sacramento

Faculty mentor: Gonzalo Giribet (OEB)
Project: Identifying marine snails and slugs from the Maldives with COI barcoding

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Emma Riccardi
Northeastern University

Faculty mentor: Peter Girguis (OEB)
Project: Impact of oxygen on an iron and sulfur oxidizing microbe

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Alyssa Vanerelli
University of North Carolina at Asheville

Faculty mentor: Hopi Hoekstra (OEB)
Project: Finding evidence for arboreal adaptation in rodents through an unbiased computational analysis of museum records

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Kierra Wilk
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Faculty mentor: David Johnston (EPS)
Project: Isotopic and experimental insights on the mechanisms of pyrite oxidation