Genetics and biochemistry students who participated in the Summer CI + UR program presented posters of their research at the Summer Showcase on August 20th in the Watt Family Innovation Center. Students included Kristen Gulbrandsen, Elizabeth Caldwell, Helen Kiser, Brooke Dillingham, Kate Miller, Kaite Cross and Britana Myers.
Kristen Gulbrandsen ’25, biochemistry
Title: “Exploring Environmental Factors that Influence the Inhibition of Clostridium innocuum on Enterococcus faecalis”
Elizabeth Caldwell ’24, genetics
Title: “Characterization of different UBTF tandem duplications in acute myeloid leukemia”
Helen Kiser ’24, genetics
Title: “Characterization of mitochondrial genomes and phylomitogenomic analyses confirms the existence of cryptic species in Gonodactylaceus”
Brooke Dillingham ’24, genetics
Title: “Identification of DNA Binding Mutants in BRCA2”
Kate Miller ’24, genetics
Title: “Examining facial development in response to β-estradiol exposure using Tropheops Sp. ‘Red Fin’ cichlids”
Katie Cross ’25, biochemistry
Title: “The effects of progesterone exposure on the craniofacial development of Pseudotropheus livingstonii fish embryos”
Britana Myers ’24, genetics
Title: “Truncating MEILB2 and DNA repair”
