The Summer Science Poster Session typically features the research projects students conducted over the summer. Due to the pandemic, the work of more than 40 students is displayed here. Click on each title to open a PDF of the poster. For more information about the work, contact the various departments.
Angie Bonanno ’22 (geology) and Selby Cull-Hearth: “Incorporating Human Histories into Geologic Field Trips”
Alexis Boutchie ’20 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Patrick Melvin: “Deoxyfluorination Reagents from 1999-Present”
Emily Britt ’21 (biology) and Adam Williamson: “Molecules and Mechanisms of MEGF10 Mediated Efferocytosis”
Rebecca Britt ’21 (geology) and Pedro Marenco: “Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of the Tribes Hill Formation”
Antonia Caffrey ’21 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: “The Effect of Music on Stress and Anxiety Behaviors in Male and Female Rats”
Hiya Datta ’21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: “Electrophilic Fluorination”
Rachel D’Emilia ’22 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: “Structural Basis of the Broad Variation of MK Feedback Inhibition”
Emma Ecker ’21 (biology) and Greg Davis: “The Reproductive Polyphenism in the Pea Aphid”
Jordan Ellis-Pugh ’21 (biology) and Tamara L. Davis: “Exploration of 5hmC enrichment in 5dpp mouse liver”
Brighid Fitzpatrick ’21 (psychology) and Dustin Albert: “Genetic Liability for Anorexia Nervosa: Exploratory Analysis of Behavioral and Emotional Indicators”
Vanessa Gitau ’22 (biology) and Adam Williamson: “Cell Biology of the Phosphor-tyrosine Signaling Pathway of CED-1”
Lily Goltz ’23 (physics), Emmy Wisz '23 (physics), and David Schaffner: “Navigating Remote BMPL”
Raining Huo ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: “Investigating the Structural Basis of HMG-CoA Reductase Cofactor Specificity”
Yulia Iashmolkina ’22 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: “Stress-induced Cognitive Changes in Female Rats”
Ruby Irani ’21 (chemistry) and Jennifer Skirkanich: “Inclusive Teaching in Primary and Post-Secondary Education”
Valerie Jin '22 (chemistry, mathematics) and Yan Kung: “Structural Investigation of Substrate Binding in Mevalonate Kinase”
Yuqian Li ’23 (physics) and Xuemei May Cheng, et al: “Confocal Microscopy Imagining of Fe particle motion in Magnetorheological Elastomers”
Natalie Loui ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology), Sherry Liu '20 (chemistry), and Sharon Burgmayer: “Molybdenum Enzyme Cofactor Research During COVID-19”
Genevieve Love ’22 (physics, mathematics), Avalon Vanis ’23 (physics, mathematics), and Michael Schulz: “Instantons in Quantum Mechanics”
Ellis McCarver ’21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: “Palladium-Catalized Fluorination of Amino Acid Derivitives”
Emma Nikols ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology, fine arts) and Monica Chandler: “Phenotypic Analysis of Antibiotic-Producing Soil Bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor”
Shiksha Pandey ’22 (physics, mathematics) and Michael Shulz: “Compactification without Truncation of Yang Mills Action”
Carey Parker ’22 (geology) and Don Barber: “Using statistics to further study the impact of ditch construction in salt marshes”
Clementine Payne ’22 (biology) and Tamara Davis: “Comparison of Methylation at Imprinted and Non-Imprinted Genes”
Shaili Regmi ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Tamara Davis: “The role of DNA methyltransferase1 in maintaining methylation at differentially methylated regions associated with imprinted genes”
Amara Saha ’22 (biology) and Adam Williamson: “Cellular Biology of Engulfment in Drosphila melanogaster hemocytes”
Emily Saks ’21 (biology) and Greg Davis: “In Search of the Maternal Signal Responsible for the Reproductive Polyphenism in Pea Aphids”
Mahek Nirav Shah ’22 (psychology), Zilan Ding ’23 (psychology), Ariel Wu '23 (psychology), and Anjali Thapar: “Young Brain, Old Brain: A Meta-analysis of Age Differences in Recognition Memory using ERPs”
Logan Wallace Shepard ’21 (biology), Frances Romero '22 (biology), and Thomas Mozdzer: “Comparison of ecosystem services provided by Phragmites australis vs native plant species via meta analysis”
Claire Tuttle ’21 (chemistry) and Yan Kung: “Investigating the Role of the HMG-CoA Reductase C-Terminal Domain”
Kass Wojcik ’22 (biology) and Thomas Mozdzer: “Investigating Salt Marsh Vegetative Community Health and Productivity with Remote Sensing”
Esther Xu ’21 (mathematics) and Lisa Traynor: “Optimal Control Theory”
Liwei Yang ’21 (mathematics), Johnluca Fenton HC ’21 (mathematics), and Victor Donnay: “Pioneering a Path for Community Solar in Haverford Township”
Mallory Yu ’22 (physics, mathematics), Xiao Wang, Andy Clark, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, and Xuemei Cheng: “The effect of in-plane pulsed magnetic fields on antiferromagnetically-coupled bubble skyrmion pairs”
Arya Yue ’21 (biology) and Sydne Record: “Biotic Drivers of Macrosystems Biodiversity”
Tianyi Zheng ’22 (geology) and Pedro J. Marenco: “Understanding Gaps within Studies of the Great Bank of Guizhou”
