Recent Honors Recipients
The Biological Sciences Undergraduate Major confers Honors to a select set of graduating seniors, based partly on grades within the major, but more particularly on the quality of research and writing evidenced in formal Senior Theses.
2024-25 Honors in Biological Sciences
Eduardo Andrade
"A Fluorescent Microscopy Screen Identifies a Novel Function for Protein Involved in GABA Export and Metabolism in Bacillus Subtilis"
Research Supervisor: Arthur Prindle
Paul Alexander Bernhard
"RNA Riboswitch Manipulation in Bacillus cereus for Fluoride Ligand Detection"
Research Supervisor: Julius Lucks
Sophia Bonfigli
"Bioactive Self-Assembling Nanomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: Dynamic Presentation of IKVAV in a Peptide Slider System"
Research Supervisor: Samuel Stupp
Chiara Corbo-Galli
"Towards Improved Characterization of Isotopic Fingerprints of Subsurface Methanogens"
Research Supervisor: Yongchao Charles Ma
Kaitlyn Elizabeth Hung
"Examining Age-Related Changes in C. elegans Proteostasis Network Composition and Function"
Research Supervisors: Magdalena Osburn
Maddie Haas
"Biochemical and Biophysical Studies of the Steroid Receptor Transcriptional Coactivator SRC1"
Research Supervisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan
Meghana Versha Karan
"Assessment of phage susceptibility in chlorhexidine-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from hospital intensive care units"
Research Supervisor: Erica Hartmann
Maggie Johnson
"Investigating the role of CHASERR Exon 5 in CHD2 Regulation"
Research Supervisor: Gemma Carvill
Winny Liu
"Relationship between Asg1 and Put3 in GRS1-medaited Peripheral Targeting of Genes"
Research Supervisor: Jason Brickner
Michael Kim
"Random Forest Models for Post-Hoc Calibration of Top Down Mass Spectra"
Research Supervisor: Neil Kelleher
Sophie Koenig
"Human Inflammatory Response to Microbial Stimuli from Primate Gut Microbiota"
Research Supervisor: Katherine Amato
Simeon Lee
"Structure-Function Analysis of MEF2C:SRC2 Transcriptional Activator: Coactivator Interactions"
Research Supervisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan
Luna (LinhNga) Nguyen
"What Earth-based Stresses Mimic Spaceflight Effects on the Mouse Gut Microbiome?"
Research Supervisor: Martha Vitaterna
Katrina Peterson
"Individual Ion Mass Spectrometry Data Processing Workflow for Increased Plasma Proteoform Identification and Relative Quantification"
Research Supervisor: Neil Kelleher
Kelly Teitel
"Quantitative metabolic flux modeling of lignocellulose carbons in wild-type and engineered Pseudomonas species"
Research Supervisor: Ludmilla Aristilde
Matthew Thakur
"Innate Activation of B Cells Following RBC Transfusion"
Research Supervisor: Stephanie Eisenbarth
William Thakur
"A Novel Function for a Master Regulator of Molecular Circadian Rhythm in Control of RNAPII Pause Release"
Research Supervisor: Ali Shilatifard
Brock Tweedy
"Regulation of Photoreceptor Neuron Regeneration in Hofstenia miamia"
Research Supervisor: Christian Petersen
Andrew Watson
"Analyzing Factors for Computational Prediction of Therapeutic Phage Host Range in Clinical Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Research Supervisor: Erica Hartmann