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URAP 2021 Presentations

URAP Undergraduate Research Symposium
“The Physical-Distancing Edition”
Friday, April 16th, 2021 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm
URAP 2021 Program PDF

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

Poster Presentations:

Friday, April 16th, 2021 | 2:00pm – 3:15pm

**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. **

BRIAN BRANSTETTER, Raiza Castillo-Argaez, Claudia Garnica-Díaz, Grace P. John

Ecotype variation of stomatal size-density tradeoff in switchgrass (P. virgatum)

DAWSON HOUGHTALING, Rebecca Kimball
Galliform lysozyme C evolution

BRITTNEY JABOT, Elise Richardson, Carl N. Keiser,
Assessing the Behavior of Ticks Harboring Human Pathogens

KERIANNE JARNAGIN Lindsey Riibe, Jessie Pelosi, Emily Sessa
Niche modeling in a polyploid fern

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LAM LE, Miles Cameron, Sarah Judge, Andrew Judge
Preliminary Comparisons between Cachexia in Patients with Esophageal and Pancreatic Cancers

MAX MADDOX, Arik Hartmann, Robert J. Ossiboff, Ana V. Longo
Multi-month Ranavirus outbreak leads to mass-mortality and disease in two threatened amphibian species in Florida

REBECCA MOLINA, Phil Hahn
The Effect of Herbivore Interactions on Plant and Seed Development

AMY NGUYEN, Elnaz Ebrahimi, Andrew J. Bryant
The Effect of BMAL1 on Pulmonary Hypertension

MARRAL POURMOGHADAM, Lisa David, Sixue Chen
Effects of systemic immunity on diurnal stomatal movement of Arabidopsis thaliana

ASHLEY SCHULER, Raiza Castillo-Argaez, Claudia Garnica-Díaz, Thomas Juenger, Grace P. John
Cell Size Variance in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is Related to Ploidy, not Ecotype

NICHOLAS SMITH, Claudia Garnica-Díaz, Raiza Castillo-Argaez, Susannah Dorrance, Jeffrey Chieppa, Kathryn Fuller, Michael Aspinwall, Grace P. John
Stomata size-density tradeoff is scale-dependent in southern oaks

ENRIQUE TREVINO, Andrew C. D’Lugos, Daria Neyroud, Chandler S. Callaway, Sarah M. Judge, Andrew R Judge
Pancreatic tumor burdens elicits progressive respiratory muscle pathology and dysfunction

Oral Presentations:

Friday, April 16th, 2021 | 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, Juan Piloto, Cheng-Wei Wu, Ranjala Ratnayake, Hendrik Luesch, Keith P. Choe
Histone methyltransferase inhibitor chaetocin strongly and specifically affects metal responsive genes

3:45-4:00        ALEXANDRIA HILL Zuania Colón-Piñeiro, Ana V. Longo
Quantifying biomarkers of age and stress in amphibians: Do all tissues exhibit similar telomere length estimates?

4:00-4:15        LIN LU, GEDRICK MANGUAL, Sixue Chen
Investigation of myrosinase system at single-cell type using guard cells against Pseudomonas syringae

4:15-4:30        GARRET O’DONNELL, Gustav Paulay
Considering coral commensal crabs: A phylogenetic review of gall crabs (Family Cryptochiridae > Opecarcinus) and their hosts

4:30-4:45        MATTHEW PHAM, Henry William Young II
Intranasal and Intramuscular Naloxone Dispensing Across Age and Sex

2021 URAP Committee: Jessie Pelosi, Adania Flemming, Claudia Garnica-Díaz

Contact Information: urapsymposium@gmail.com