Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars Recipients
2020 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars
Karly Fear
Industrial Source Scholar
Mentor: Salil Karipott
Project: Fabricate and quantify mechanically active bone fixation devices for bone fractures to enhance regeneration.
Lab: Ghee Ong
Cailan Feingold
Mentor: Cori Cahoon
Project: Developing biomarkers of chromosome structural defects during live sperm and egg development
Lab: Diana Libuda
Jade Kast
Guldberg Scholar
Mentor: Deepika Sundarraman
Project: Investigating the spatial organization and physical structure of gut microbes
Lab: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Nora Kearns
Petrone Scholar
Mentor: Calin Plesa
Project: Repurposing bacteriophage phi29 as a tool for molecular engineering
Lab: Calin Plesa
Emily Ma
Mentor: Cathy Pohl Robinson
Project: Construction of a SpdE-NarQ fusion protein as a biosensor for amino acids
Lab: Karen Guillemin
David McNeely
Mentor: Kelsey Schultz
Project: The relationship between impulsivity and motor response variability
Lab: Nicole Swann
Haley Rice
Mentor: Christine McDevitt
Project: Investigation of Platinum Induced Nucleolar Stress Through the Development of a Click-Capable Oxaliplatin Mimic
Lab: Victoria DeRose
Alina Salagean
CHC Scholar
Mentor: Erik Toraason
Project: Defining mechanisms regulating accurate meiotic DNA repair
Lab: Diana Libuda
Nathan Stovall
Mentor: Raina Krivina
Project: Atomic control of the OER catalyst architecture for tuning stability and activity of the catalyst and unraveling the mechanism of OER
Lab: Shannon Boettcher
2019 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars
Dan Tudorica
Thermo Fisher Scientific Scholar
Mentor: Arden Perkins
Project: Determining the Molecular Mechanism of Bleach Sensing by Bacterial Chemoreceptor Zinc-Binding Protein Domains
Lab: Karen Guillemin
Emily Niebergall
Mentor: Emily Beck
Project: Threespine Stickleback as a evolutionary mutant model of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrom and Crohn’s Disease
Lab: Bill Cresko
Ian Torrence
Mentor: Sean Fontenot
Project: Sensors and Materials for In-field Soil Analysis of Nitrate and Other Ions
Lab: Darren Johnson
Michelle Hernandez
Thermo Fisher Scientific Scholar
Mentor: Kelly Hyland
Project: 3D Printing-Compatible BioMaterials for Musculoskeletal Regeneration
Lab: Bob Guldberg
Robin Black
Mentor: Michelle Massaquoi
Project: Investigating the Impact of a Bacterial Derived Bio-molecule on Host Beta Cell Regeneration
Lab: Karen Guillemin
Russell Nickels
Mentor: Hazel Fargher
Project: Designing Supramolecular Receptors for Reversible Binding of the Hydroselenide (HSe–) Anion
Lab: Darren Johnson & Michael Haley
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