We are pleased to highlight some of the great research our undergraduates are doing in IB!  The following IB students are presenting at this year’s Symposium:

Behavioral Freeze Avoidance Strategy in an Antarctic Fish
Mateusz Grobelny, Senior

Efficacy of Common Disinfectants Against Ophidiomyces Ophiodiicola, the Causative Agent of Snake Fungal Disease
Marta Rzadkowska, Senior

RNAi Knockdown: The Role of unc-25 in Mediating Nicotine Resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Andrew Tran, Sophomore
Emily Yaniz, Sophomore
Stephanie Martynenko, Sophomore

Community Inference
Zachary Cohen, Sophomore

Modeling Threat Assessment in Prey
Nicholas Sutton, Senior

Molecular Evolution for the Chemoreceptor Gene Families in the Common Eastern Bumblebee, Bombus impatiens
Yihui Zhu, Senior

DNA Fragment Length Heterozygosity PCR: Lab-on-a-Chip Method for Testing Bias in Prairie Root Metagenomics
Taylor Pederson, Senior

Electrophysiological and Mass-Spectrometric Investigation of Aplysia L1-L7 Neurons
Feng Zhu, Senior

Elucidation of Dopamine’s Influence in Peripheral Sensing in Pleurobranchaea.
Megan Flanagan, Junior
Andrew Tran, Sophomore

Genetic Analysis of Cellobiohydrolase I (cbhI) Gene Sequences and Production of Other Wood Degradation Enzymes in Tropical Aquatic Fungal Communities
Matthew Boyce, Senior

Improving the Accuracy of Photosynthetic Compensation Point Measurements
Jessica Ayers, Junior

Hox Gene Expression in Mammalian Limb Development
Paige Oboikovitz, Senior