Former Scholars and Projects
Alumni Spotlights
Diego Prieto
Project Title: Determining the Impact of RsbV1's Phosphorylation State for Chlamydia trachomatis’ Growth and Progeny Production
Project Mentor: Scott Hefty
Caden Kussatz
Project Title: Mutating CYP5122A1 to Enhance Protein Crystallization for the Control of Leishmaniasis
Project Mentor: Michael Wang
Kelly Knowles
Project Title: Hyper-palatable, High-energy Density, and Ultra-processed Foods in the Global Food System
Project Mentor: Tera Fazzino
| Former Scholar | Project Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Kasra Alizadeh | Brian Ackley | |
| Angelo Andoyo | Liang Xu | |
| Emalee Andrews | Identification of CRH dense brain regions in the fore- and mid- brain of pair bonded male and female prairie voles. | Adam Smith |
| Tamara-Doubra Anoruse-Thomas | Rob Unckless | |
| Aylar Atadurdyyeva | Good Things Come in Threes: Drosophila-Wolbachia-Fungus Tripartite Interactions | Rob Unckless |
| Noel Barbour | mom-2 Transgenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans | Erik Lundquist |
| Anton Barybin | Sue Lunte | |
| Siam Boyd | Hannah Kinmoth-Shulz | |
| Meridia Bryant | Jenny Gleason | |
| Tiffany Chan | Determining the Evolutionary Relationship Between Octanoic Acid Resistant Bacteria and D. sechellia | Rob Unckless |
| Saron Demeke | Tera Fazzino | |
| Dannie Dilsaver | Tera Fazzino | |
| Nathan Do | Brian Ackley | |
| Ana Dorador | Justin Blumenstiel | |
| Chi Dung Luu | Roberto De Guzman | |
| Rachel Elting | Jamie Walters | |
| Natalie Eppler | Josie Chandler | |
| Anna Ferkul | Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Replication and PARP14 | David Davido |
| Jeff Goff | Adam Smith | |
| Audrey Goodwin-Rips | Determining the Accuracy of Food Labeling for Hyper-palatable and non-Hyper-palatable Foods | Tera Fazzino |
| Evan Haas | Elizabeth Friis | |
| Arman Hadjian | Blake Peterson | |
| Brunojoel Hatungimana | Joanna Slusky | |
| Reed Hodges | Elucidating the role of mitochondrial genomics in extreme cold adaptation in threespine stickleback | Emily Beck |
| Drew Honeycutt | David Davido | |
| Olivia Howgill | Hannah Kinmoth-Shulz | |
| Emily Hughes | Scott Hefty | |
| Bailey Huser | David Davido | |
| Evan Kauffman | Dan Dixon | |
| Kelly Knowles | Hyper-palatable, High-energy Density, and Ultra-processed Foods in the Global Food System | Tera Fazzino |
| Caden Kussatz | Mutating CYP5122A1 to Enhance Protein Crystallization for the Control of Leishmaniasis | Michael Wang |
| Christopher Kywe | The Role of mab-5 in C. elegans Innate Immunity | Brian D. Ackley |
| Natasha LaGrega | Brian Ackley | |
| Cheyenne Loo | Josie Chandler | |
| Lydia Manley | Yoshi Azuma | |
| Payton Markley | Dan Dixon | |
| Eva Morrison | Justin Blumenstiel | |
| Megan Myers | Eduardo Rosa-Molinar | |
| Mariaelena Nabors | Rob Unckless | |
| Bryn O’Meara | Brian Ackley | |
| Emma Pagella | Rob Unckless | |
| Riya Parikh | Shrikant Anant | |
| Albert Park | Heng Du | |
| Ben Pond | Brian Ackley | |
| Diego Prieto | Determining the Impact of RsbV1's Phosphorylation State for Chlamydia trachomatis’ Growth and Progeny Production | Scott Hefty |
| Emily Proctor | Computational Prediction of Chloroplast Outer Envelope β-barrel Proteins | Joanna Slusky |
| Eduardo Ramirez | Lisa Timmons | |
| Kaitlin Robinson | Rob Unckless | |
| Mani Sandhu | Liang Xu | |
| Kent Setiawan | Rob Unckless | |
| Dania Shoaib | Rob Ward | |
| Navya Singh | Synthesizing Hyaluronic Acid-Deferoxamine Conjugates for Local Treatment of Bone Regeneration | Laird Forrest |
| Colby Spiess | Dan Dixon | |
| Raymonda Tsatsou | Erik Lundquist | |
| Jenna Winter | Erik Lundquist | |
| Collette Wright | Audrey Lamb, Kristi Neufeld | |
| Katie Zimmerman | Candan Tamerler |