2023 REU Participant, Mentors and Projects | Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

2023 REU Participants, Mentors and Projects

Isabel Carino-Bazan Lehigh University Faculty mentor: Hopi Hoekstra (OEB) Project: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Tan Streak Mutation in Deer Mice	Teo Cooper Pitzer College Faculty mentor: Elena Kramer (OEB) Project: Behind the Curve: An Evolutionary and Genetic Analysis of Spur Shape in Aquilegia
Martin Fernandez Syracuse University Faculty mentor: Javier Ortega-Hernandez (OEB) Project: Hydrodynamics of Radiocont Carapaces	Mataeus Funderburk North Carolina State University, Raleigh Faculty mentor: Naomi Pierce (OEB) Project: The Tracks of My Research: Biodiversity of Early Tetrapods in the Carboniferous Upland
Dakota Law Smith College Faculty mentor: George Lauder (OEB) Project: Hydrodynamic Function of Shark Skin Scales	Traysea Nycole Malama-Auger Florida State University Faculty mentor: Scott Edwards (OEB) Project: Eye Spy: Investigating the Evolutionary Drivers of Iris Coloration in Manakins (Pipridae)
Ivanellys Medina Tirado University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Faculty mentor: Charles Davis (OEB) Project: Investigating the Microbial Diversity Within the Tropical Plant Family Malpighiaceae	Lauren Merrill Belmont University Faculty mentor: James Mallet (OEB) Project: Moth Madness: Monitoring Biodiversity in Urban Habitat Fragments
Jonathan Sarasa University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Faculty mentor: Terry Capellini (HEB) Project: Lions & Sea Lions & Bears, Oh My: Utilizing Museum Specimens to Study Ossification Sequence of Carnivoran Taxa	Grant Wass Palomar College Faculty mentor: Gonzalo Giribet (OEB) Project: Thinking of Thrasychirus: Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Analysis of South American Long-Legged Harvesters (Ararhnida, Opiliones, Neopilionidae)