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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