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URAP 2020 Presentations

URAP Undergraduate Research Symposium
“The Physical-Distancing Edition”
Friday, May 8th, 2020 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm

ATTENTION ATTENDEES: All passwords for URAP Zoom sessions will be provided to the department via email.

Poster Presentations:

Friday, May 8th, 2020 | 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Zoom Link: Each presenter has their own link

**Poster Presenters: Please note that you must stay in your Zoom session from 2:00-3:15pm. Please also consider attending the oral presentations at 3:30pm. **

Alice Rodriguez, Carolyn Enloe, Rebecca Kimball
Prevalence of blood parasites in seaside sparrows

Nathalie Alomar, Samantha Popkin, James Gillooly
The predicted metabolic rate of dinosaurs determined through brain size analysis

Poster Preview (not available)

Ethan Stolen, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Johanna Jantzen
Relationship between polyploidy and range size in malpighiales

Jenna Bennett and Verity Mathis
Cause-specific mortality of Florida Panthers

Clayton Olinger, Mukundan Ragavan, Anthony Giacalone, Matthew Merritt
[U-13C] Glutamine as a tracer to study hepatic metabolism

Gina del Pozo, J. Aristizabal-Henao, B. Da Silva, J. Bowden
Perfluorinated chemicals in cosmetics

Lindsey Warnock, Riley Moran, Lisa David, Sixue Chen
Stomatal densities of wild type Arabidopsis thaliana and disease susceptible mutant npr1 throughout vegetative development

Annika Petersen
Construction of a tet-inducible Axl knockdown plasmid

Marral Pourmoghadam, Lisa David, Sixue Chen
The effects of systemic immunity on diurnal stomatal movement of Arabidopsis thaliana

Oral Presentations:

Friday, May 8th, 2020 | 3:30 – 5:00 pm

**Presenters: Please join the Zoom meeting no later than 3:15pm to test your presentation and screen-sharing – plan to remain in the call until all speakers have presented. Please also consider attending the poster session at 2:00pm.**

3:30-3:45        Elijah Abraham and Keith Choe

A histone modifying drug activates a putative RNA homeostatic response in C. elegans

3:45-4:00        Juan Piloto and Keith Choe

Does sex affect responses to environmental stress in C. elegans?

4:00-4:15        Joshua Lopez-Scarim and Jeffrey Chen

Proposal Idea: Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum response to mitigate drought stress in Arabidopsis

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4:45-5:00        Presenter:

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2020 URAP Committee: Ellen Humbel, David Anderson, Alexandra Gulick

Contact Information: urapsymposium@gmail.com