#  2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects 

 



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##  2020 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects 

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### **Andrea Appleton**  
**Georgia Southern University**

**Faculty mentor:** Elena Kramer (OEB)  
**Grad student mentor:** Molly Edwards  
**Project:** Genetic architecture of inflorescence height in two species of Aquilegia (columbine) with contrasting ecologies



   ![Bulent Furkan Atahan_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/bulent_furkan_atahan-1000.jpeg?itok=m6767TkD) 

 

### **Furkan Atahan**  
**Worcester Polytechnic Institute** 

**Faculty mentor:** Gonzalo Giribet (OEB)  
**Grad student mentors:** Cody McCoy and Ben Goulet-Scott  
**Project:** City Trees: Legend, Myth, Opportunity



   ![David Breault_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/david_breault1000.jpg?itok=IY3BcVc4) 

 

### **David Breault**  
**Edinboro University of Pennsylvania**

**Faculty mentor:** Scott Edwards (OEB) and Jonathan Losos (Washington University)  
**Grad student mentor:** Sofia Prado-Irwin  
**Project:** Let’s get groovy! The evolution of costal grooves in salamanders



   ![Arthur Lynch_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/arthur_lynch1000.jpeg?itok=nYokQTEw) 

 

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**Arthur Lynch**  
**Dartmough College**

**Faculty mentor:** Javier Ortega-Hernández (OEB)  
**Grad student mentors:** Rudy Lerosey-Aubri and Stephen Pate   
**Project:** Using quantitative computational methods to analyse form and function of cephalic shield design in Ostracoderms (ancient jawless fish)



   ![Urmila Mallick_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/urmila_mallick1000.jpg?itok=ePZHJQae) 

 

### **Urmila Mallick**  
**Worcester Polytechnic Institute**

**Faculty mentor:** Colleen Cavanaugh (OEB)  
**Grad student mentor:** Daniel Utter  
**Project:** Bacterial Symbiosis in the Human Oral Microbiome: Combining Metagenomics and Transcriptomics to Identify the Ecology of TM7x in Health and Disease



   ![Agnes Rios-Delgado_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/agnes_rios-delgado1000.jpeg?itok=s8444q1M) 

 

### **Agnes Ríos**  
**University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras**

**Faculty mentor:** Ann Pearson (EPS)  
**Grad student mentor:** Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck  
**Project:** Analyzing the distribution and abundance of bicarbonate-utilizing carbon fixation pathways in Yellowstone National Park using metagenomics



   ![Diana Velazquez_REU2020](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/diana_velazquez1000.jpeg?itok=vw0neUo6) 

 

### **Diana Velazquez**  
**Northwestern University**

**Faculty mentor:** Ann Pearson (EPS)  
**Grad student mentor:** Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck  
**Project:** Carbon isotope ratios reflect the relative diversity of carbon metabolisms in hot springs Archaea