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

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

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

Ian Torrence

 

Mentor: Sean Fontenot

Project: Sensors and Materials for In-field Soil Analysis of Nitrate and Other Ions

Lab: Darren Johnson

Michelle Hernandez

Michelle Hernandez

Thermo Fisher Scientific Scholar

Mentor: Kelly Hyland    

Project: 3D Printing-Compatible BioMaterials for Musculoskeletal Regeneration

Lab: Bob Guldberg

Robin Black

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

Russell Nickels

 

Mentor: Hazel Fargher    

Project: Designing Supramolecular Receptors for Reversible Binding of the Hydroselenide (HSe–) Anion

Lab: Darren Johnson & Michael Haley