BIOLOGY SENIOR COMPS PRESENTATIONS
Biology’s Next Top Model | Fowler 302
8:30-9:15 IRIS ZHANG
Combating Antibiotic Resistance: How Bacteria Outwit Antibiotics – Phenotypes Predictions using Statistical Epistasis Model
9:15-10:00 MAGGIE SWOMLEY
The link between dietary fat and chronic metabolic disease: a mouse model
10:00-10:45 SARAH ASHEY
Clearing the Fog: Predicting Habitat Suitability for Coast Redwood under changing climate and fog cover
11:00-11:45 BRYCE LEWIS-SMITH
Slow Learners and Confused Buzzing
11:45-12:30 TOMOE MANESS
Wandering Albatross fly for free; how could we?
1:15-2:00 JOSH BEISEL
State and Transition Models: Improving Predictions of Ecological Landscape Change
2:00-2:45 ANNA FRANCESCHELLI
Taking it with a grain of salt: Salt tolerance models & genetically modified plants
2:45-3:30 ERICA CORTEZ
Understanding the symbiosis between Beewolves and Streptomyces
3:45-4:30 JOSIAH SHEFFIE
Food over Friends: The evolution of mammalian carnivore intelligence
4:30-5:15 SAM RITMEESTER-LOY
Smelly Fruit Flies and You
Life on the Edge | Fowler 202
8:30-9:15 MARIE WHITMORE
Deinococcus radiodurans: A bacterium stronger than the sun
9:15-10:00 RYLAN TANGONAN
Brace yourselves Rana sylvatica! Winter is coming!
10:00-10:45 HANNAH HOEFS
Fish in Troubled Waters: Climate change and host-lamprey interactions in Lake Superior
11:00-11:45 NAOMI FIELD
The Ultimate Blood Sacrifice: Reciprocal Food Sharing in Vampire Bats
11:45-12:30 CLAY POLLOCK
TMI about TMAO: Trimethylamine N-oxide accumulation protects protein function in deep sea fishes
1:15-2:00 NICOLE HENDERSON
A salty solution to Salmonella: Bioengineering haloarchaeal gas vesicles as a novel vaccine delivery system
2:00-2:45 SHAE SAKAMOTO
Thriving in the Deadest Place on Earth: How Modifier Proteins regulate Oxidative Stress in Haloarchaea
2:45-3:30 CHELDON ALCANTARA
Gut Feeling: Helicobacter pylori acid gradient detection within the human stomach
3:45-4:30 GIANNA ZINNEN
Is the Virus of my Virus my Friend? Virophage protection of protist host populations against giant viruses
4:30-5:15 LUCY KOLPA
The Irresistible Smell of Death: A volatile bouquet released by nematodes to manipulate host behavior
