2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

  
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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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