The Biology Department was well represented in the 2022 virtual CSUNposium celebration of student research and creative work, and numerous Biology graduate students and undergraduate researchers have awards recognizing their exceptional presentations. The following students have been awarded for research talks or poster presentations:
- Graduate researcher Olivia Diehl won First Place place for a 3-minute talk presenting work with Robert Carpenter, “Investigating the interactive effects of herbivory and water flow on the morphology and metabolic rates of non- calcifying marine macroalgae.”
- Graduate researcher Alyssa Cohen won Second Place place for a 3-minute talk presenting work with Robert Carpenter, “Coral-Macroalgae Phase Shifts: Habitat-Specific Characteristics and Herbivory Lead to Changes in Dominance.”
- Undergraduate researcher Vanessa Tamayo won First Place place for a 3-minute talk presenting work with Gilberto Flores, “Strain level variation in the interactions between the human gut microbiome and bile acids by human-associated Akkermansia.”
- Graduate researcher Jessica Peria won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Mark Steele, “Seasonal movement of giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas) within the Southern California Bight.”
- Graduate researcher Benjamin Chubak won Second Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Mark Steele, “Evaluating the Impact of a Marine Heatwave on the Condition, Growth, Reproduction, and Diet of a Temperate Reef Fish.”
- Graduate researcher Amanda Di Maso won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Cristian Ruiz Rueda and Dana Harmon, “Characterizing the Physiological Role of TolC Efflux Pump Mutants in E. coli.”
- Graduate researcher Allea Cauilan won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Cristian Ruiz Rueda, “Identification of Endogenous Substrates of the AcrAB-TolC Multidrug Efflux Pump of Escherichia coli Using Fluorescence Polarization.”
- Graduate researcher Andriu Kavanagh won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Gilberto Flores, “Investigating Siderophore Production in Akkermansia muciniphila.”
- Undergraduate researcher Alessandra Serrano won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Cindy Malone, “Characterizing the Promoter Region of the Forkhead Box R1 Gene.”
- Undergraduate researcher Jessica Pacheco won First Place place for a 10-minute talk presenting work with Rheem Medh, “Crosstalk between PI3K/AKT and RCAN1 pathways in susceptibility of breast cancer cell lines to apoptosis.”
- Undergraduate researcher Katherine Orr won First Place place for a poster presentation of work with Cindy Malone, “Optimization of Beta-Globin Lentiviral Vectors for Sickle Cell Disease Using Alpha-Globin 3’UTRs.”
- Undergraduate researcher Emily Skuratovsky won First Place place for a poster presentation of work with Cindy Malone, “DMD Mouse Model Disease Severity Affects hSMPC Systemic Delivery.”
- Undergraduate researcher Andrea Gutierrez won First Place place for a poster presentation of work with Melissa Takahashi, “Interrupting a Defense Mechanism in Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.”
- Graduate researcher Melissa Gutterman won First Place place for a poster presentation of work with Mark Steele, “Management-based differences in the dietary niches of California reef fishes.”
- Undergraduate researcher David Bursalyan won First Place place for a poster presentation of work with Cindy Malone, “Designing a stem cell-model for neuromuscular disorders using developmentally relevant mechanisms.”