Session 1Q

Evolution, from Aedes to Zebrafish

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM | Moderated by Maitreya Dunham
Add to my favorites The Role of Transposable Elements in Hybrid Adaptation
Presenter
  • Erica Alcantara, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences
  • Caiti Smukowski Heil, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Facing the Flow: Effects of Water Current Speed on Nudibranch Body Shapes
Presenter
  • Bryan Antonio (Bryan) Briones Ortiz, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Petra Ditsche, Friday Harbor Laboratories

Add to my favorites Adaptation and Diversification of Bacteriophage SBW25Φ2
Presenter
  • Josh Ming Borin, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation), Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Katrina van Raay, Biology
  • Benjamin Kerr, Biology

Add to my favorites Impact of Genetic Variability on Prochlorococcus Arsenic Tolerance
Presenter
  • Kelsey Renee (Kelsey) Gibbons, Junior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Gabrielle Rocap, Oceanography
  • Jaclyn Saunders, Oceanography

Add to my favorites Uncovering the Evolutionary History of Pseudo-nitzschia: Connecting Physiology and Molecular Phylogeny
Presenter
  • Terence Sebastian Leach, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Gabrielle Rocap, Oceanography
  • Michael Carlson, Oceanography

Add to my favorites The Effect of Early Life EE2 Exposure on the Innate Immunity in Zebrafish
Presenters
  • Emma Deas, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) UW Honors Program
  • Victoria Lynn Hanna Mc Pherson, Senior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • John Hansen, Global Health, Pathobiology

Add to my favorites Shaping Up: Stucture Determination of the lincRNA cyrano 
Presenter
  • Nicholas Michael Forino, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Alisha Jones, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Aversive Conditioning to Vertebrate Body Odors in the Disease Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
Presenter
  • Jessica Elizabeth (Jessica) Liaw, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Chloe Lahondere, Biology
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Clement Vinauger, Biology