Oral Presentations

• Graduate student winner: Kaveh Kiani (Faculty Mentor: Anton Bryantsev, MCB) "Studying genetics of sarcopenia using the fruit fly model"
• Graduate student runner-up: Samantha Thompson (Faculty Mentor: Jean Lu, MCB) "Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Infecting Enterobacter cloacae to Reduce Bloater Defect in Fermented Cucumbers"
• Undergraduate student winner: Max Warner (Faculty Mentor: Julia LeCher and Jennifer Cooper, MCB) "Improving CPP-mediated Uptake of proteins in C. Cohnii"
• Undergraduate student runner-up: Kristen Coutinho (Faculty Mentor: Scott Nowak, MCB) "Akirin and its association with the NuRD complex in Drosophila melanogaster"

Poster Presentations

• Graduate student winner: Ashley McDonald (faculty mentor: Chris Cornelison, MCB) "Evaluating Volatile Organic Compounds for Contact-Independent Antagonism of Pseudogymnoasus destructions”
• Graduate student runner-up: Austin Gilly (Faculty Mentor: Sigurdur Greipsson, EEOB) "Effect of soil-antibiotics and fungicide on lead (Pb) uptake of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)"
• Undergraduate student winner: Morgan Zelt (Faculty Mentor: Bill Ensign, EEOB) "Variation in stream fish abundance as a function of urbanization and stream size"
• Undergraduate student runner-up: Max Andrews (Faculty Mentor: Anton Bryantsev, MCB) "Understanding Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Muscle Type Specification"