Research Symposium
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Student Research Symposium
November 20 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Townsend Hall, Commons
Join us as students across the college—undergraduate, master’s and doctoral student participants—present new posters or posters recently presented at a scientific meeting.
Student registration has closed. Faculty and staff wishing to attend the event do not need to register in advance.
Participants summarize their findings to faculty judges and UD faculty and staff in attendance. In addition to valuable professional skills, the chance to work on new research and with novel data brings a healthy dose of excitement to their work. Top presenters receive monetary awards.
Undergraduate
First place: Claire Bernard – Identifying purple martin diet and its effect on nestling development
Second place: Gabriel Dasilva – Cannibalism in lesser mealworms
Third place: Madeline Downer – Community resilience plan for the town of Slaughter Beach, Delaware
Master’s
First place: Emily Morgese – Genomic and phenotypic diversity of 16 novel bradyrhizobium phages
Second place: Ahamed Zakaria – Estimating the impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination on the housing market
Third place: Srabone Saha – Fair wage from the lens of consumer empathy
Ph.D.
First place: Rachel Keown – A single amino acid mutation in coliphage T7 DNA polymerase disrupts in vitro enzyme processivity and in vivo infection dynamics
Second place: Kathryn Ellwood – The layer hen model of human ovarian cancer
Third place: Ashleigh Montgomery – Targeting the destabilization of organic matter-bearing Fe and Mn oxides using indicator of reduction in soils (IRIS) films in coastal forests affected by sea-level rise
Postdoctoral researchers
First place: Jing Yan – Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on saltwater evaporation: a case study using bacillus subtilis
Climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation
Winner: Amanda Crandall, graduate student, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
Title: The impacts of climate and anthropogenic change on migrant stopover using weather surveillance radars
Genetics and genomics for plant, animal and ecosystem improvement
Winner: Martina Bordini, Ph.D. student, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
Title: Differential gene expression profiles elucidate molecular pathways associated with wooden breast defect in pectoralis major muscles
Human dimensions of food, agriculture and natural resources
Winner: Carl Nelson-Poteet, undergraduate student, Department of Applied Economics and Statistics
Title: Common pool resource use under heterogeneous risk and impact
One health intersections among animal, plant, human and ecosystem health
Winner: Liang-en Yu, Ph.D. student, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
Title: In-ovo glutamine administration regulates intestinal epithelium development in a broiler intestinal organoid model
Sustainable food systems, landscapes and ecosystems
Winner: Emily Kennebeck, graduate student, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Title: Mustard 'amara' benefits from superelevated CO2 while adapting to far-red light over time