LSAMP Scholars Spotlight Spring 2020

Anthony Grate

Anthony Grate is a senior wildlife biology major. His faculty advisor is Dr. Day Ligon and his research is on fertility patterns in a captive population of alligator snapping turtles.

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Cameron Kirk

Cameron Kirk is a junior biology major. His advisor for the Spring 2020 semester is Dr.Kyoungtae Kim and he is researching intracellular trafficking.

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Vanessa Morales

Vanessa Morales is a sophomore wildlife biology major and her Spring 2020 faculty mentor is Dr. Laszlo Kovaks. Her research is studying the elemental composition of native North American grapevines.

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Kaylene Reyes

Kaylene Reyes is a senior biology major. Her faculty advisor is Dr. Lazslo Kovacs and her research is on the correlation between ionomics and plant adaptation for climate change survival.

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Jaden Webb

Jaden Webb is a junior biology major. His advisor for the Spring 2020 semester is Dr. Matthew Siebert and his research is titled "Computational Modelling of Nature’s First Step in Rotenone Biosynthesis: Understanding How L-Phenylalanine is Transformed into trans-Cinnamic Acid".

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Sydney Wright

Sydney Wright is a senior biology major. Her faculty advisor is Dr. Jay McEntee and her research is on whether Haldane’s Rule predicts mitochondrial DNA introgression across animal hybrid zones.

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Glory Ehie

Glory Ehie is a freshmen microbiology/biotech major and her faculty mentor for Spring 2020 is Dr. Kyoungtae Kim.

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Terrick Boyd

Terrick Boyd is a junior Computer Science major. His is faculty advisor is Dr. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi and his research is on a graphical user interface (GUI) for machine learning visualization techniques and investigation of impact of noise in LSTM.

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Dorian Dehart

Dorian Dehart is a sophomore geology major. His advisor for the Spring 2020 semester is Dr. Melida Gutierrez and he is researching heavy metals in the Ozark Aquifer.

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Caitlin Sifuentes

Caitlin Siuentes is a senior geology major. Her faculty advisor is Dr. Matthew McKay and her research is on A Petrochronologic Analysis of Detrital Zircons from the Bay of Bengal.

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