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.
2022-23 Honors in Biological Sciences
Polina Cherepanova
"Investigating cortico-striatal interactions across diverse movement subtypes within climbing"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Miri
Niko DiStefano
"Exploring the clinical significance of proteoforms of ApoA1, ApoC3, and ApoE in cardiovascular disease: a proteomic approach"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Neil Kelleher
Troy Fisher
"Individual ion mass spectrometry for the characterization of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha, Interleukin-8, and Interleukin-10 at single proteoform resolution"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Neil Kelleher
Julia Greenwood
"Structural and functional analysis of the substrate binding protein NTHI-0310 in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Heather Pinkett
Trevor Hintz
"Endogenous metastable proteins as sensors of proteostatic stress in C .elegans"
Research Supervisors: Dr. Richard Morimoto
Eleanor Pope
"Investigating the pathophysiology of PACS1 Syndrome using Iinduced pluripotent stem-cell-derived models"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Alicia Guemez-Gamboa
Sumit Sen
"Generation of Caenorhabditis elegans degron-tagged beta-tubulin"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Erik Andersen
Alex Solivan
"Cross-Linked tumor lysate spherical nucleic acids as cancer vaccines"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Chad Mirkin
Nikola Stanic
"Liposomal spherical nucleic acid cellular uptake, processing and retention in murine macrophages"
Research Supervisor: Dr. Chad Mirkin
Cece Stumpf
"Characterizing novel costs of virulence expression in Salmonella enterica"
Research Supervisor: Keara Lane
Anna Yamazaki
"Repeated behavioral testing from adolescence to adulthood results in cognitive decline in a genetic rat model of depression and stress-hyperreactivity"
Research Supervisor: Eva Redei
Cindy Zhao
"Designing and characterizing metastable protein biosensors for monitoring proteostasis in C. elegans"
Research Supervisor: Richard Morimoto