2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects | Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects


Andrea Appleton Georgia Southern University Faculty mentor: Elena Kramer (OEB) Grad student mentor: Molly Edwards Project: Genetic architecture of inflorescence height in two species of Aquilegia (columbine) with contrasting ecologies	Furkan Atahan Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty mentor: Gonzalo Giribet (OEB) Grad student mentors: Cody McCoy and Ben Goulet-Scott Project: City Trees: Legend, Myth, Opportunity
David Breault Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Faculty mentor: Scott Edwards (OEB) and Jonathan Losos (Washington University) Grad student mentor: Sofia Prado-Irwin Project: Let’s get groovy! The evolution of costal grooves in salamanders	Arthur Lynch Dartmough College Faculty mentor: Javier Ortega-Hernández (OEB) Grad student mentors: Rudy Lerosey-Aubri and Stephen Pate Project: Using quantitative computational methods to analyse form and function of cephalic shield design in Ostracoderms (ancient jawless fish)
Urmila Mallick Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty mentor: Colleen Cavanaugh (OEB) Grad student mentor: Daniel Utter Project: Bacterial Symbiosis in the Human Oral Microbiome: Combining Metagenomics and Transcriptomics to Identify the Ecology of TM7x in Health and Disease	Agnes Ríos University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Faculty mentor: Ann Pearson (EPS) Grad student mentor: Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck Project: Analyzing the distribution and abundance of bicarbonate-utilizing carbon fixation pathways in Yellowstone National Park using metagenomics
Diana Velazquez Northwestern University Faculty mentor: Ann Pearson (EPS) Grad student mentor: Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck Project: Carbon isotope ratios reflect the relative diversity of carbon metabolisms in hot springs Archaea