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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 ’21Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: Eric Gangloff (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)Scanning Electron Microscopy and Podarcis muralis Student: Caitlyn Colwell ’21Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: Eric Gangloff (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)The Development of Dipyrrin Platforms for Oxygen Reduction Student: Myles Steed ’23Research Mentor: Allen Pistner (OWU Department of Chemistry)Exploring Ecological Stability in Real Communities Using Mathematical and Modeling Approaches Student: Maximos Goulakos ’23Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: Ashley Allen (OWU Department of Environment & Sustainability)Artificial Intelligence for “Battle Line” Student: Love Ayinde ’23Research 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 ’23Research Mentor: Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)Courtship Behavior and Paternity Outcomes in the Sailfin Molly (Poecilia latipinna ) Student: Hannah Littlefield ’22Research Mentor: Shala Hankison (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)Histological Comparison of Ovarian Structure in Poeciliopsis Fish Student: Hannah Littlefield ’22Research 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 ’23Research Mentor: Nathan Rowley (OWU Department of Environment & Sustainability)Interactions Between Ibuprofen and Phospholipid Monolayers in Cell Membrane Model Systems Student: Ali Amer ’23Research 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 ’23Research Mentor: Kira Bailey (OWU Department of Psychology and OWU Neuroscience Program)Characterization of Novel Nematodes Student: Kaeli Evins ’23Research Mentor: Danielle Hamill (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)Starspots on LO Pegasi Students: Eva Mulloy ’22 and Tiyinoluwa Olushola-Alao ’23Research Mentor: Bob Harmon (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy)Entrainment of Disordered RF SQUIDs on an External Magnetic Field Student: David Jindracek ’22Research Mentor: Bradley Trees (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy)Explaining Support for Human Rights Actions: Experimentally Studying Accountability, Democracy, and Authoritarianism Student: Brianna DeMuth ’23Research Mentor: Nicholas Dietrich (OWU Data Analytics Program)Inference for Regressional Model Coefficients When Data Has Been Subjected to Censoring Student: Muzaffar Yezdan ’22Research Mentor: Scott Linder (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)Gravitropism of Root Tip Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana Student: Carly Schafer ’23Research 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 ’21Research Mentor: Chris Wolverton (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)
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Reproductive Trade-Offs Between Costly Sexually Selected Weapons and Other Expensive Tissues in Three Species of Coreoidea Student: Anna Schill ’22Research Mentors: Christine Miller and Michael Forthman (University of Florida Department of Entomology)Rotational Internship at South Florida Wildlife Center Student: Chase Reinert ’22Research Mentor: Shala Hankison (OWU Department of Biological Sciences)Drug Related Induction of PD-L1 in Cancer Cells Student: Davis Graham ’22Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: Xiaorong Lin (University of Georgia Department of Microbiology)Characterization of S1 PR2 Specific Radioligand [11 c]TZ34-125 in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Model Student: Hien Ngoc Mai ’22Research 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 ’22Research 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 ’25Research 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 ’22Research 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 ’22Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: Tasha Posid (The Ohio State University Department of Urology)Optical Detection of Fluids Student: Kaden Hubly ’22Research 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 ’22Research 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 ’22Research Mentor: John Herbert (The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryAssociation Between Fish Oil Supplements and Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Student: Lauren Barnes ’22Research Mentor: Elizabeth Kantor (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology)Novel Role of BKCA Channels in Exosomes Student: Mayukha Dyta ’24Research Mentor: Harpreet Singh (The Ohio State University Department of Physiology and Cell Biology)
