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URAP 2022 Presentations

URAP Undergraduate Research Symposium

Friday, April 15th, 2022 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Bartram-Carr/Dickinson Courtyard

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Poster Presentations
Oral Presentations

Poster Presentations

2:00pm – 3:15pm

Validating radiocarbon aging in sea turtle hatchling eye lenses
Jenna Bennett, Amy Wallace, William Patterson III, Hannah Vander Zanden

Characterization of Immune Cell Signaling in Acyomys cahirinus and Mus musculus in Response to Skin Wounding
Nicholas Blumenthal and Malcolm Maden

Phylogenomics of Tribes Coreini, Gonocerini, Phyllomorphini, and Prionotylini (Hemiptera: Coreidae)
Chandler Downie, Michael Forthman, Christine W. Miller, Rebecca T. Kimball

Using stomata size and density to distinguish polyploids in the multiple cytotype cactus Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (Cactaceae)
Raquel Garcia, Emma Suzuki Spence, Steven T. Cassidy, Bethany A. Zumwalde

The fossil herpetofauna from the late Oligocene of Florida: advances from the Buda local Fauna
Ellie Gulkis, Maria C. Vallejo-Pareja, David C. Blackburn

Gene expression patterns between gametophyte and sporophyte life phases and the genetic forces that drive sex determination in ferns
Emily H. Kim, Jessie A. Pelosi, W. Brad Barbazuk, Emily B. Sessa

Comparison of CD45+ Measures in Wildtype and Double Knockout (IL8 & CXCL1) L3.6pl Tumor Incorporating Mice
Lam Le, Chandler Callaway, Andrea Delitto, Jose Trevino, Andrew D-Lugos, Sarah Judge, Andrew Judge

Assessing heterophil-to-lymphocyte ratios in relation to age and body condition in the Russet-crowned Warbler
Paula Martínez Avila, Sabrina Uddin, Salina Uddin, Felicity L. Newell

Sexual dimorphism in Caenorhabditis elegans stress responses
Michael L. Rodriguez and Keith P. Choe

Comparative Osteology in Three Species of Cobitids
Sydney Stanley and Larry Page

Osteological determination of a new species of Parachela
Madison Van Dreason and Larry Page

A Meristics Based Review of Rhinogobius Gobies in the Mae Klong River Basin
Basil William and Larry M. Page

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Oral Presentations

3:30 – 5:00 pm

3:30 – 3:45 pm
Environmental stress distorts epidermal cell adhesion and extracellular proteins of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Benjamin Eickwort and Keith Choe

3:45 – 4:00 pm
Impact of Large Wildlife and Land Use Change on Carbon and Nutrients in the Mara River
Ethan Lawrence, Joshua Benjamin, Amanda Subalusky]

4:00 – 4:15 pm
Investigating proteomic changes in Arabidopsis thaliana wild type and a myrosinase mutant when exposed to Pseudomonas syringae
Gedrick Mangual, Abigail Dugas, Lin Lu, Shweta Chhajed, Craig Dufresne, Sixue Chen

4:15 – 4:30 pm
Comparing Intra-Species and Intra-Canopy Leaf Variation In Four Southern Oaks
Nicholas Smith, Penelope Rezaei, Claudia Garnica-Diaz, Raiza Castillo-Argaez, Joseph Paoli, Marion Warfel, Joseph Cermak, and Grace John

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2022 URAP Committee: Claudia Garnica-Diaz, Jessie Pelosi, and Juliette Rubin

Contact Information: urapsymposium@gmail.com