Student Research
Our undergraduate students’ research posters will be on display during Biology Day. Below is a list of their research topics:
- Effects of Bt maize on the mortality of crickets
Merve Ozbas, Sung Kim, Mario Rivera and Michael Dumont - Effects of alcohol on embryonic development of sea urchins in relation to fetal alcohol syndrome
Katherine Hernandez and Haley Duncan - The effects of silica nanoparticles on aquatic monocots vs dicots
Justin Rhee, Abhishek Ajit, Clarissa Kristie, and Eric Ma - The effects of trimethylamine n-oxide on the induced stress response in Caenorhabditis elegans
Cynthia Nieves, Michelle McCarthy, Shannon Cline, Aubrey Otis and Zoe Mickens - Evolutionary pressure on metapleural gland secretions in ants adapted to different geographical regions
Erika Donaldson, Daniel Jerezano and Kelsey Snyder - Using luminescence of Pyrocystis Lunula as an indicator of water quality in contaminated water and waters around Camden, NJ
Khyati Lad, Elif Patan, Enise Patan and Archi Shah - Role of melanin pigment in UV-resistance
Karolina Badilla and Caroline Espina Bueno - The effect of sodium chloride in grass closer to the road versus the grass further away from the road
Rewan Morssi, Troy Mulligan and Shaeen Saai - Survey of Annelid Populations in South Jersey
Julia Manchester and Shannon Bonn - A hidden ecosystem service: terrestrial arthropods and food security
Rachel A. Carr - Phosphate starvation leads to lipid modifications in Caulobacter crescentus
Michael Bamimore - Identification of genes involved in stalk elongation in Caulobacter crescentus
Kevin DeYoung - Student exploration of biostatistics through critical evaluations of science reporting
Nia Nikolaidis - Is there an urban feeding syndrome for ants? Experimental tests in U.S. cities
Danielle Genay - Assessments of heavy metals in soils: An analysis across an urban to rural gradient in South Jersey
Zachary Cook - Functional metabolic network of cold stress tolerance in green algae
Shaima Munira - Building a library of random DNA sequences to discover non-natural regulatory elements
Bianca Patel - Mycorrhizal root associations and arthropod diversity across an urban to rural matrix
Alexa Martinelli - Respiration Through the Drosophila Eggshell
Marina Mikheil - Using EGFR Inhibitors to manipulate Drosophila and Scaptomyza eggshells
Nguyen Nguyen - Urban environment effects on the heat tolerance of ants
Taylor Sims - Characterizing the quantitative genetic elements of conidiation in Neurospora crassa
Morgan Dwyer - Brain regions active during female orgasm
Ashley Lewis - Effects of ant bioturbation on soil density in the NJ Pinelands
Megan Rhone - Effects of fire management on arthropod community structure at Warren Grove Gunnery Range, New Jersey
Claudia Vaca - Histological examination of clitellum secretory cells in the ceech Erpobdella obscura
Fatima Er - Caught in the web: spiders and their webs as pollution sensors
Katrina Dewitt - Conformations of amyloid beta aggregate’s: beta sheets and beta barrels
Shaun Tung - Molecular modeling of a probe in 2D IR spectroscopy
Anthony Cooper - Computational study of the effect of pseudo-phosphorylation and phosphorylation on protein Tau
Dmitriy Prokopovich - Learning how to perform a meta-analysis in ecology
Angela Wollard