2019 O’Day Fellowship in Biological Sciences Recipients
UROP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 O’Day Fellowship in Biological Sciences. For more information about the program visit the O’Day Fellowship website.
The awards are distributed annually by the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program within the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Designed to stimulate promising undergraduate research and scholarly activity under the mentorship of UO graduate student, the awards support biological science research.
The 2019 O’Day Fellowship recipients are:
Undergraduate: Emily Hill Graduate: Kaye Shek
Title: Linking mycorrhizal fungal diversity with pathogen abundances in a vineyard agroecosystem
PI Lab: Krista McGuire
Undergraduate: Jeanette Helgerson Graduate: Doug Foote
Title: Differences in Old and Young Patient Myoblast and Myotube Responses to Amino Acid Stimulation
PI Lab: Hans Dreyer
Undergraduate: Rennie Kendrick Graduate: Lea Frank
Title: The Effect of Blocked vs. Interleaved Training on Associative Inference
PI Lab: Dasa Zeithamova
Undergraduate: Sydney Kobak Graduate: Dylan Sieck
Title: Histamine and Cardiovascular Adaptation to Endurance Exercise
PI Lab: John Hailliwill