#  Program Alumni 

 



###  **2019 ALUMNI**

Sort      ![Alissandra Ayala](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/allisandra_ayala.png?itok=iWl0kEnq) 

 

**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 Kroger](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/aundrea.kroger.png?itok=tHf0MlCQ) 

 

**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/n.marquez-reyes.png?itok=ogYvkof-) 

 

**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/m.petrula.png?itok=sWinIrCK) 

 

**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/e.riccardi.png?itok=2YWatnab) 

 

**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/a.vanerelli.png?itok=PGVhwZOa) 

 

**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum6871/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb-reu/files/kierra.wilk_.png?itok=JL8IInYd) 

 

**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