My name is Brooke Martin, and I am a Junior Biology major as well as Human Nutrition minor in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. During the Spring and Fall semesters of 2020 I have worked under the supervision of my faculty advisor, Dr. Jamie I....
Author: Brittany Tian Majors: Biology, English During late spring of my sophomore year, I began conducting research in the Paré Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences. The lab focuses on developmental biology and utilizes the fruit fly as a model system. While...
Author: Chloe Kuebler Major: Biology During the fall semester of 2020, I continued my project with Dr. Paré’s developmental biology lab to define the molecular mechanism behind embryo compartmentalization in Tribolium castaneum. My goal was to use RNA interference to...
Author: Abbigail Merrell Majors:Biology and Animal Science As a senior in both Fulbright College and Bumpers College majoring in Biology and Animal Science, I worked on research in the Biology department in the Westerman lab during the fall 2020 semester. The...
A senior premedical student majoring in biology and chemistry, I spent my second semester of research funded by the Honors College research grant in Dr. Mack Ivey’s molecular biology lab doing online modelling of a regulatory protein in Clostridium difficile and the potential effects of introducing mutations.
My name is Kristen Gates and I am a biology major in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. In the fall semester of 2020, I conducted research in Dr. Clemencia Rojas’ lab in the department of entomology and plant pathology. The focus of my project is isolating...
Author Salem Jackson Major Biology Peptide research and implementation is a burgeoning field of agriculture, offering the possibility of increased crop yields and decreased pesticide use to farmers across the country. My project “Determining the Shelf-Life of Peptide...
My name is Dania Rahal. I am a junior in the J. William Fulbright College majoring in chemistry with a biochemistry concentration and minoring in biology. I have been funded by the Honors College Research Grant for the spring and fall of 2020. I worked in Dr....
Author: Danica McGrevey Major: Biology I conduct immunology research under Dr. Jeannine Durdik in the biological sciences department in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Durdik’s lab is interested in the effect of fever on the immune response. Fever...
I am Ashlyn Anderson, a December 2020 graduate from the William J. Fulbright College with a bachelors of science in biology. This was my 5th and final semester of research under the direction of Dr. Erica Westerman in the biological sciences department. I successfully...