2019 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

Alissandra Ayala University of Texas at Austin Faculty mentor: N. Michele Holbrook (OEB) Project: Temperate forests! How climate change affects growth and phenology	Aundrea (Dree) Koger Western Washington University Faculty mentor: Benjamin de Bivort (OEB) Project: Playing it cool: An investigation of thermal preference in entomophthora muscae-infected Drosophila melanogaster
Nicole Márquez-Reyes University of Peurto Rico, Cayey Faculty mentor: Cassandra Extavour (OEB) Project: Evolution of ovariole number in insects	Macy Petrula California State University, Sacramento Faculty mentor: Gonzalo Giribet (OEB) Project: Identifying marine snails and slugs from the Maldives with COI barcoding
Emma Riccardi Northeastern University Faculty mentor: Peter Girguis (OEB) Project: Impact of oxygen on an iron and sulfur oxidizing microbe	Alyssa Vanerelli University of North Carolina at Asheville Faculty mentor: Hopi Hoekstra (OEB) Project: Finding evidence for arboreal adaptation in rodents through an unbiased computational analysis of museum records
Kierra Wilk Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Faculty mentor: David Johnston (EPS) Project: Isotopic and experimental insights on the mechanisms of pyrite oxidation