Program Alumni

Alissandra Ayala
University of Texas at Austin

Faculty Mentor: Michele N. Holbrook
Research Mentor: Cat Chamberlain (Holbrook lab)
Peer Mentor: Dan Utter (Cavanaugh lab)
Project Title: Temperate Forests! How Climate Change Affects Growth and Phenology

Aundrea (Drea) Kroger
Western Washington University

Faculty Mentor: Benjamin de Bivort
Research Mentor: Carolyn Elya (de Bivort lab)
Peer Mentor: Sofia Prado-Irwin (Edwards lab)
Project Title: Playing It Cool: An Investigation of Thermal Preference in Entomophthora muscae - Infected Drosophila melanogaster

Nicole Márquez-Reyes
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey

Faculty Mentor: Cassandra Extavour
Research Mentor: Sam Church (Extavour lab)
Peer Mentor: Brandon Enalls (Girguis lab)
Project Title: Evolution of Ovariole Number in Insects

Macy Petrula
California State University, Sacramento

Faculty Mentor: Gonzalo Giribet
Research Mentor: Juan Moles, Tauana Cunha (Giribet lab)
Peer Mentor: Sam Church (Extavour lab)
Project Title: Identifying Marine Snails and Slugs from the Maldives with COI Barcoding

Emma Riccardi
Northeastern University

Faculty Mentor: Peter Girguis
Research Mentor: Isabel Baker, Jessica Mitchell (Girguis lab)
Peer Mentor: Jessica Gersony (Holbrook lab)
Project Title: Impact of Oxygen on an Iron and Sulfur Oxidizing Microbe

Alyssa Vanerelli
University of North Carolina at Asheville

Faculty Mentor: Hopi Hoekstra
Research Mentor: Brock Wooldridge (Hoekstra lab)
Peer Mentor: Eadaoin Harney (Wakeley lab)
Project Title: Finding Evidence for Arboreal Adaptation in Rodents Through an Unbiased Computational Analysis of Museum Records

Kierra Wilk
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Faculty Mentor: David Johnston
Research Mentor: Jordon Hemingway (Johnston lab)
Peer Mentor: Stephen Bourguet (Schrag lab)
Project Title: Isotopic and Experimental Insights on the Mechanisms of Pyrite Oxidation