Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Nicole zur Nieden

Research Focus: In vitro stem cell models to predict adverse effects of chemicals on bone development

Major: Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Iman Noshadi

Research Focus: Optimization of a STrIPS Facilitating Microfluidic Device for Bicontinuous Interfacially Jammed Emulsion (BIJEL) Fabrication

Major: Microbiology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amit Roy-Chowdhury

Research Focus: Using machine learning to identify patterns and abnormalities in gait movement data

Major: Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Joseph Genereux

Research Focus: My project focus is assessing imidacloprid proteotoxicity using the Hsp40 assay, working on the Hsp40 protcol with Anti-FLAG bead optimization experiments, and investigating DNAJB8 and its possible molecular isoforms.

Major: Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor: Elena Kokkoni

Research Focus: Develop and/or assess technologies to promote movement in the early stages of life for populations with or at risk for movement disorders

Major: Environmental Sciences

Faculty Mentor: David Volz

Research Focus: Understand the mechanisms of PFOSA-induced developmental toxicity

Major: Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor: Martin Riccomagno

Research Focus: Using adeno-associated viruses to deliver genetic cargo to the brain

Major: Mathematics

Faculty Mentor: Kieran Samuk

Research Focus: Enhancing aneuploidy detection in gametes through a single-cell RNA sequencing pipeline

Major: Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology

Faculty Mentor: Frances Sladek

Research Focus: Investigate the impact of a high fat soybean oil diet on the liver

Major: Neuroscience/Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Kevin Kou

Research Focus: Synthesis of Spriroalanfurantones A-D

Major: Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Ernest Martinez

Research Focus: Investigate how the domains of YEATS2 regulate ribosomal protein genes

Major: Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor: Kieran Samuk

Research Focus: The project will focus on establishing threespine sticklebacks as a vertebrate model for the study of brain development and pathology and test the parental brain hypothesis.

Major: Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor: Iryna Ethell

Research Focus: Characterizing differentiation of FXS astrocytes

Major: Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor: Prue Talbot

Research Focus: The effect of passive cigarette smoke exposure on children’s health: A study of cotinine, 8-isoprostane, and metallothionein