2021 Abstracts

On-Campus

• The Physiological Adaptations of Podarcis muralis in Urbanized Localities
  Students: Princeton Vaughn ’22, Wyatt McQueen ’22, Sierra Spears ’22, Ciara Pettit ’23, and Caitlyn Colwell ’21
  Research Mentors: Eric Gangloff and Laura Tuhela-Reuning (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Lizard Performance in Various Environments Demonstrates Morphology-Performance Trade-Offs
  Student: Princeton Vaughn ’22
  Research Mentor: Eric Gangloff (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy and Podarcis muralis
  Student: Caitlyn Colwell ’21
  Research Mentors: Eric Gangloff and Laura Tuhela-Reuning (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Lazarus Lizards: Thermoregulation and Water Loss in the Podarcis muralis (Common Wall Lizard)
  Students: Ciara Pettit ’23 and Sierra Spears ’22
  Research Mentor: Eric Gangloff (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• The Development of Dipyrrin Platforms for Oxygen Reduction
  Student: Myles Steed ’23
  Research Mentor: Allen Pistner (OWU Department of Chemistry)
• Exploring Ecological Stability in Real Communities Using Mathematical and Modeling Approaches
  Student: Maximos Goulakos ’23
  Research Mentors: Craig Jackson (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and Amy Downing (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Modeling a Central Ohio Regional Food Network for Sustainable Outcomes
  Student: Mackenzie Wade ’22
  Research Mentor: Ashley Allen (OWU Department of Environment & Sustainability)
• Artificial Intelligence for “Battle Line”
  Student: Love Ayinde ’23
  Research Mentor: Sean McCulloch (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
• The Hawk-Snake Game: Responses of Female House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) to Simulated Nest Predators
  Student: Josephina Fornara ’23
  Research Mentor: Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Courtship Behavior and Paternity Outcomes in the Sailfin Molly (Poecilia latipinna)
  Student: Hannah Littlefield ’22
  Research Mentor: Shala Hankison (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Histological Comparison of Ovarian Structure in Poeciliopsis Fish
  Student: Hannah Littlefield ’22
  Research Mentor: Tami Panhuis (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Using a sUAS to Calculate Solar Power Potential at Ohio Wesleyan
  Students: Gram Dick ’22 and Jay McConkey ’23
  Research Mentor: Nathan Rowley (OWU Department of Environment & Sustainability)
• Interactions Between Ibuprofen and Phospholipid Monolayers in Cell Membrane Model Systems
  Student: Ali Amer ’23
  Research Mentor: Bethany Rudd (OWU Department of Chemistry)
• Examining Cognitive and Brain Functions Through Video Games
  Students: Cassie Farber ’23, Navami Shenoy ’23, and Emma Zajac ’23
  Research Mentor: Kira Bailey (OWU Department of Psychology and OWU Neuroscience Program)
• Characterization of Novel Nematodes
  Student: Kaeli Evins ’23
  Research Mentor: Danielle Hamill (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Starspots on LO Pegasi
  Students: Eva Mulloy ’22 and Tiyinoluwa Olushola-Alao ’23
  Research Mentor: Bob Harmon (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy)
• Entrainment of Disordered RF SQUIDs on an External Magnetic Field
  Student: David Jindracek ’22
  Research Mentor: Bradley Trees (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy)
• Explaining Support for Human Rights Actions: Experimentally Studying Accountability, Democracy, and Authoritarianism
  Student: Brianna DeMuth ’23
  Research Mentor: Nicholas Dietrich (OWU Data Analytics Program)
• Inference for Regressional Model Coefficients When Data Has Been Subjected to Censoring
  Student: Muzaffar Yezdan ’22
  Research Mentor: Scott Linder (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
• Gravitropism of Root Tip Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Student: Carly Schafer ’23
  Research Mentor: Chris Wolverton (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Searching for Components of the Gravity Sensing System in Plants
  Students: Manga Bauer ’23, Regina Campbell ’22, Mo Cartnal ’24, Ale Coronel-Zegarra ’22, Marquise Downing ’22, Abby Doza ’23, Ross Eggleston ’22, Catie Hyatt ’22, Reagan Jennings ’23, Carly Schafer ’23, Myles Steed ’23, Sai Suresh Kannan ’24, Athena Vakaleris ’22, and Makaila Weir ’21
  Research Mentor: Chris Wolverton (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)

Off-Campus

• Reproductive Trade-Offs Between Costly Sexually Selected Weapons and Other Expensive Tissues in Three Species of Coreoidea
  Student: Anna Schill ’22
  Research Mentors: Christine Miller and Michael Forthman (University of Florida Department of Entomology)
• Rotational Internship at South Florida Wildlife Center
  Student: Chase Reinert ’22
  Research Mentor: Shala Hankison (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Drug Related Induction of PD-L₁ in Cancer Cells
  Student: Davis Graham ’22
  Research Mentors: Bert O’Malley, David Lonard, and Yosi Gilad (Baylor College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
• Overexpression of Quorum Sensing Transcription Factors NRG₁ and CQS₂ Affects Filamentation in Cryptococcus neoformans
  Student: Emma Blackburn ’22
  Research Mentor: Xiaorong Lin (University of Georgia Department of Microbiology)
• Characterization of S¹PR² Specific Radioligand [¹¹c]TZ34-125 in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Model
  Student: Hien Ngoc Mai ’22
  Research Mentors: Zhude Tu and Hao Jiang (Washington University School of Medicine: Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology)
• The Investigation of a Hornwort Insertion Line With Rhizoids Specific GFP Expression
  Student: Isabel Johnson ’22
  Research Mentor: Fay-Wei Li (Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute: Department of Plant Science)
• DKP Development as Treatment for OP Nerve Agent Poisioning
  Students: Isabel Solowiej ’22 and Rebecca Hölzel ’22 (Kenyon College)
  Research Mentors: Christopher Hadad, Ryan Yoder, and Joseph Fernandez (The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Reducing Cloud Computing Costs Through Compression of Genome Sequencing Data
  Student: Isaiah Brant ’25
  Research Mentors: Patrick Brennan, Samuel Franklin, Ben Kelly, and Alejandro Otero-Bravo (The Institute of Genomic Medicine)
• Defrosting Seward’s Icebox: Climate Change and Museums in Alaska
  Students: Josh Pletcher ’21 and Alan Cohn ’22
  Research Mentors: Lisa Tabak and Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
• Reward, Sociability, Affective Behavioral, and Functional Neuroimaging Differences in Young, Middle, and Aged C57BL/6J Male and Female Mice
  Student: Joy Buraima ’22
  Research Mentors: Marcelo Febo and Marjory Pompilus (University of Florida College of Medicine: Department of Psychiatry McKnight Brain Institute)
• Medical Education in the Time of COVID-19: A Didactic Curriculum for Rising Urology Rotators
  Student: Justice Clark ’22
  Research Mentor: Tasha Posid (The Ohio State University Department of Urology)
• Optical Detection of Fluids
  Student: Kaden Hubly ’22
  Research Mentors: Thomas Weiss and Ivan Rajkovic (Stanford University SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Reverse Genetics to Investigate the Roles of Two Genes in the Biosynthesis and Export of Nonribosomal Peptide Natural Products
  Student: Lydia Arnold ’22
  Research Mentors: Yitao Dai and Alessandra Eustaquio (University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Biolecular Sciences: College of Pharmacy)
• Fragmentation in Computational Quantum Chemistry: Developing Pyfragment
  Student: Syed Sharique Ahmed ’22
  Research Mentor: John Herbert (The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Association Between Fish Oil Supplements and Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
  Student: Lauren Barnes ’22
  Research Mentor: Elizabeth Kantor (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology)
• Novel Role of BK_CA Channels in Exosomes
  Student: Mayukha Dyta ’24
  Research Mentor: Harpreet Singh (The Ohio State University Department of Physiology and Cell Biology)