2023 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

2023 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

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Isabel Carino-Bazan
Lehigh University

Faculty mentor: Hopi Hoekstra (OEB)
Project: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Tan Streak Mutation in Deer Mice

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Teo Cooper
Pitzer College

Faculty mentor: Elena Kramer (OEB)
Project: Behind the Curve: An Evolutionary and Genetic Analysis of Spur Shape in Aquilegia

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Martin Fernandez
Syracuse University

Faculty mentor: Javier Ortega-Hernandez (OEB)
Project: Hydrodynamics of Radiocont Carapaces

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Mataeus Funderburk
North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Faculty mentor: Naomi Pierce (OEB)
Project: The Tracks of My Research: Biodiversity of Early Tetrapods in the Carboniferous Upland

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Dakota Law
Smith College

Faculty mentor: George Lauder (OEB)
Project: Hydrodynamic Function of Shark Skin Scales

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Traysea Nycole Malama-Auger
Florida State University

Faculty mentor: Scott Edwards (OEB)
Project: Eye Spy: Investigating the Evolutionary Drivers of Iris Coloration in Manakins (Pipridae)

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Ivanellys Medina Tirado
University of Puerto Rico, Humacao

Faculty mentor: Charles Davis (OEB)
Project: Investigating the Microbial Diversity Within the Tropical Plant Family Malpighiaceae

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Lauren Merrill
Belmont University

Faculty mentor: James Mallet (OEB)
Project: Moth Madness: Monitoring Biodiversity in Urban Habitat Fragments

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Jonathan Sarasa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Faculty mentor: Terry Capellini (HEB)
Project: Lions & Sea Lions & Bears, Oh My: Utilizing Museum Specimens to Study Ossification Sequence of Carnivoran Taxa

 

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Grant Wass
Palomar College

Faculty mentor: Gonzalo Giribet (OEB)
Project: Thinking of Thrasychirus: Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Analysis of South American Long-Legged Harvesters (Ararhnida, Opiliones, Neopilionidae)