The research accomplishments of the following students were recognized at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference on 30 March 2017.
Oral presentations
1st place
Samuel Stanley
Faculty mentors: Kim Caldwell and Guy Caldwell
Investigation of dopamine neuron degeneration as a consequence of microbiome-derived bacterial metabolites
3rd place
Zain Aryanpour
Faculty Mentor: Stevan Marcus
Investigating the role of phosphatidylethanolamine and calcium signaling in the cytoprotective responses to the anticancer triterpenoid avicin G in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Honorable mention
Braxton Greer
Faculty Mentor: Stevan Marcus
Conservation of Molecular Effects of the Tumor-Inhibitory Compound Avicin G Between Yeast and Human Cancer Cells
Poster presentations
1st place
Melissa Uehling
Faculty Mentors: Kim Caldwell and Guy Caldwell
One-carbon metabolism gene GCST-1 modulates amyloid-beta toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease model
Honorable mention
Caitlin Curtis
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Earley
Non-reversing mirror test: a new method for quantifying aggression and predicting contest behavior.
Honorable mention
Emily Pabst
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Kocot
Inferring the evolutionary history of sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) using genomic and bioinformatic tools