Biology Department undergraduates presented their scientific research on Friday, April 12, 2024 at the department’s annual Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URAP) Symposium. The students, representing 5 labs in the department, presented 12 posters and fielded questions from and audience of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. Their research encompassed conservation biology, animal physiology, genetics, and medicine.
Award Winners
The symposium is organized by the URAP Committee of the Biology Graduate Student Association, which also funds a Grant In Aid of Research for one undergraduate research proposal. Four undergraduates won awards at this year’s symposium.
First Place Presentation
Faith Dunlap
Title: Fungus in Florida: analyzing spatiotemporal spread of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with 100 years of museum specimens
Second Place Presentation
Leandra Toledo
Title: Genomic differences reveal a northern and southern species of Mnemiopsis (comb jelly) along the US Atlantic Coast
Third Place Presentation
Ryan Antalek
Title: The Temperature Dependence of Carbon Isotope Turnover
GIAR Grant
Yooseong Wang
Title: Identifying Genetic Suppressors of a Temperature-Sensitive Mutation in the Fatty Acid Synthase Gene (fasn-1)
Congratulations to all of our undergraduates on their excellent work! Previous years’ award winners can be viewed here.