Students

Summer 2024 Undergraduate Research Assistants

Name

Project Title

Campus

Preceptor

Kiefer

Tire-Wear Toxins: Unmasking the Cellular Consequences of 6PPD-Q Exposure on Alaskan Salmon

UAA

Stecyk

Richardson

Pioneering Pyrolysis GC-MS Methods for Tire and Road Wear Particle Analysis in Southcentral Alaska

UAA

Tomco

Crawford

Baseline Sampling of Biotic and Abiotic Conditions of Auke Lake to Better Understand the Growth and Abundance of Juvenile Salmon Important to the Subsistence Diet of Humans.

UAS

Tallmon

Tozier

Investigating the Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Artemisia Tilesii (Sargiġruaq) Extracts

UAS

Barth

Elsik

Identification of Proteins That Comprise the Blood Brain Barrier in The Arctic Ground Squirrel

UAA

Hannah

Workman

Holothurians Against Leukemia

UAS

Barth

Anderson

Investigating the Effects of Temperatures on Snails Infected with Trichobilharzia Alaskensis

UAF

Larson

Abbott

The Range of Phenotypic Variation and Developmental Stability in Auke Creek Juvenile Pink Salmon.

UAS

Tallmon

Miller

Effects of RVG Binding on Dog and Human Α7 Receptor Functionality

UAF

Welztin

2023 - 2024 Graduate Research Assistants

Name Project Title Length of Award Campus
Faculty Mentor
Agustus Snyder Characterization of the Molecular and Physiological Stress Response of Notothenioids to Hypoxia One Year UAF
Kristin O'Brien
Amanda Stromecki Phytoremediation of Diesel-contaminated Soils in Rural Alaska One Year UAF
Mary Beth Leigh
Bevyn Cover Assessment of Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistant Genes in Northern Alaska One Year UAF
Devin Drown
Elizabeth Parry The Development and Validation of a One Health Food Insecurity Vulnerability Index (FIVI) Two Year UAF
Andrea Bersamin
Gabriela Olmos Rosas Testimonios de dulzura y dolor: The Social Context of Diabetes for Mexican Immigrants in Alaska One Year UAF
Elaine Drew
Garrett Savory Do Amino Acid Nitrogen Isotope Ratios Capture Declines in Captive Muskox Body Condition? One Year UAF
Diane O'Brien
Hannah Woody Energy Requirements of Cold-Adapted Bacteria in the Arctic Permafrost One Year UAF
Mario Muscarella
Jordyn McNeil The Heart and Brain Metabolome of the Anoxia-tolerant Red-eared Slider Turtle. One Year UAA
Jonathan Stecyk
Lahra Weber Novel Alpha7 nACHR-selective RVG Chimeric Peptide as Cargo-delivery Agent Targeting the CNS One Year UAF
Maegan Weltzin
Sarah Suarez Epilepsy Associated Mutation Disrupts VILIP-1 Driven Modulation in α4β2 nAChRs Two Year UAF
Maegan Weltzin
Travis Jennings Akkermansia Muciniphila and Pre-hibernation Fattening in Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrels One Year UAA
Khrys Duddlesston

Summer 2023 Graduate Research Assistants

Name

Project Title

Length of Award

Campus 

Faculty Mentor

Jordyn McNeil

The heart and brain metabolome of the anoxia-tolerant red-eared slider turtle.

Summer 2023

UAA

Stecyk

Hannah Woody

Characterization of the molecular and physiological stress response of notothenioid’s to hypoxia

Summer 2023

UAF

Muscarella

Lahra Weber

Novel alpha7 nACHR-selective RVG chimeric peptide as cargo-delivery agent targeting the CNS

Summer 2023

UAF

Weltzin

Travis Jennings

Akkermansia muciniphila and pre-hibernation fattening in thirteen-lined ground squirrels

Summer 2023

UAA

Duddlesston

Becca Olson

The Coupling of Mercury and Carbon Cycles in Boreal Forest Soils

Summer 2023

UAF

Muscarella