Students

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

Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Assistants

Name

Project Title

Campus

Faculty Mentor

Danielle Wrenn 

DART: Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Toolbox

UAF

Drown

Joseph Milton

Determination of 6-PPD Quinone LC50 and Impact on Swimming Performance in Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye Fry

UAA

Stecyk

Charlotte Springer

Processing Stomach contents of Berryteuthis magister Squid using eDNA

UAS

Navarro

Aria Workman 

Characterizing woodrat gut microbes and their role in toxin tolerance

UAF

Muscarella

Jorda Kovash

Change in gene expression indicates trembling aspen defense mechanisms against a new fungal pathogen.

UAF

Schutte

Donovan Varelman

Investigating the efficiency of fatty acid synthesis using a formulated diet for Dungeness crabs

UAS

Schram

Alyssa Sampson

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

UAA

Stecyk

Michelle Ramirez

Energy Requirements of Cold-Adapted Bacteria in the Arctic Permafrost

UAF

Muscarella

Agatha Boldt

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

UAF

Weltzin

Hailei Nystuen

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

UAA

Duddlesston

Maura Grahek

The Coupling of Mercury and Carbon Cycles in Boreal Forest Soils

UAF

Muscarella