Thank you to all of the Biological Sciences students that presented and shared their research at the 2023 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium!
- Abe Stone, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Alyssa Church, Human Biology + Anthropology
- Grace Gonzalez, Medical Laboratory Science
- Megan Guyer, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Ina Klasner, Computational Biology + Applied & Computational Mathematics
- Haley Marchese, Medical Laboratory Science
- Nathan Ostlund, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Brian Reeves, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Tessa Tormoen, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Overall Awards
First Place – Leah Harazin and Nathan Ostlund: “Stability of Terephthalate Degrading Microbial Consortia for Plastic Upcycling”
Second Place – Haley Marchese: “Sympathetic Activity to the Heart is Increased in a Mouse Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”
Third Place – Grace Gonzalez: “The Gut Microbiome of Fish and Its Relevance to Antimicrobial Resistance”
Special awards for research affiliated with the Great Lakes Research Center
First Place — Leah Harazin and Nathan Ostlund: “Stability of Terephthalate Degrading Microbial Consortia for Plastic Upcycling”
Second Place — Grace Gonzalez: “The Gut Microbiome of Fish and Its Relevance to Antimicrobial Resistance”
Third Place — Tessa Tormoen: “Using DNA Metabarcoding to Evaluate Dietary Resource Partitioning Between Two Sympatric Tilefish”
Congratulations to all participants!
Tessa Tormoen
Haley Marchese
