2020 Poster Session

The Summer Science Poster Session typically features the research projects students conducted over the summer. Due to the pandemic, the work of more than 40 students is displayed here. Click on each title to open a PDF of the poster. For more information about the work, contact the various departments.


Angie Bonanno 22 (geology) and Selby Cull-Hearth: Incorporating Human Histories into Geologic Field Trips


Alexis Boutchie 20 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Patrick Melvin: Deoxyfluorination Reagents from 1999-Present


Emily Britt 21 (biology) and Adam Williamson: Molecules and Mechanisms of MEGF10 Mediated Efferocytosis


Rebecca Britt 21 (geology) and Pedro Marenco: Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of the Tribes Hill Formation


Antonia Caffrey 21 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: The Effect of Music on Stress and Anxiety Behaviors in Male and Female Rats


Hiya Datta 21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: Electrophilic Fluorination


Rachel DEmilia 22 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: Structural Basis of the Broad Variation of MK Feedback Inhibition


Emma Ecker 21 (biology) and Greg Davis: The Reproductive Polyphenism in the Pea Aphid


Jordan Ellis-Pugh 21 (biology) and Tamara L. Davis: Exploration of 5hmC enrichment in 5dpp mouse liver


Brighid Fitzpatrick 21 (psychology) and Dustin Albert: Genetic Liability for Anorexia Nervosa: Exploratory Analysis of Behavioral and Emotional Indicators


Vanessa Gitau 22 (biology) and Adam Williamson: Cell Biology of the Phosphor-tyrosine Signaling Pathway of CED-1


Lily Goltz 23 (physics), Emmy Wisz '23 (physics), and David Schaffner: Navigating Remote BMPL


Raining Huo 21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: Investigating the Structural Basis of HMG-CoA Reductase Cofactor Specificity


Yulia Iashmolkina 22 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: Stress-induced Cognitive Changes in Female Rats


Ruby Irani 21 (chemistry) and Jennifer Skirkanich: Inclusive Teaching in Primary and Post-Secondary Education


Valerie Jin '22 (chemistry, mathematics) and Yan Kung: Structural Investigation of Substrate Binding in Mevalonate Kinase


Yuqian Li 23 (physics) and Xuemei May Cheng, et al: Confocal Microscopy Imagining of Fe particle motion in Magnetorheological Elastomers


Natalie Loui 21 (biochemistry and molecular biology), Sherry Liu '20 (chemistry), and Sharon Burgmayer: Molybdenum Enzyme Cofactor Research During COVID-19


Genevieve Love 22 (physics, mathematics), Avalon Vanis 23 (physics, mathematics), and Michael Schulz: Instantons in Quantum Mechanics


Ellis McCarver 21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: Palladium-Catalized Fluorination of Amino Acid Derivitives


Emma Nikols 21 (biochemistry and molecular biology, fine arts) and Monica Chandler: Phenotypic Analysis of Antibiotic-Producing Soil Bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor


Shiksha Pandey 22 (physics, mathematics) and Michael Shulz: Compactification without Truncation of Yang Mills Action


Carey Parker 22 (geology) and Don Barber: Using statistics to further study the impact of ditch construction in salt marshes


Clementine Payne 22 (biology) and Tamara Davis: Comparison of Methylation at Imprinted and Non-Imprinted Genes


Shaili Regmi 21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Tamara Davis: The role of DNA methyltransferase1 in maintaining methylation at differentially methylated regions associated with imprinted genes


Amara Saha 22 (biology) and Adam Williamson: Cellular Biology of Engulfment in Drosphila melanogaster hemocytes


Emily Saks 21 (biology) and Greg Davis: In Search of the Maternal Signal Responsible for the Reproductive Polyphenism in Pea Aphids


Mahek Nirav Shah 22 (psychology), Zilan Ding 23 (psychology), Ariel Wu '23 (psychology), and Anjali Thapar: Young Brain, Old Brain: A Meta-analysis of Age Differences in Recognition Memory using ERPs 


Logan Wallace Shepard 21 (biology), Frances Romero '22 (biology), and Thomas Mozdzer: Comparison of ecosystem services provided by Phragmites australis vs native plant species via meta analysis


Claire Tuttle 21 (chemistry) and Yan Kung: Investigating the Role of the HMG-CoA Reductase C-Terminal Domain


Kass Wojcik 22 (biology) and Thomas Mozdzer: Investigating Salt Marsh Vegetative Community Health and Productivity with Remote Sensing


Esther Xu 21 (mathematics) and Lisa Traynor: Optimal Control Theory


Liwei Yang 21 (mathematics), Johnluca Fenton HC 21 (mathematics), and Victor Donnay: Pioneering a Path for Community Solar in Haverford Township


Mallory Yu 22 (physics, mathematics), Xiao Wang, Andy Clark, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, and Xuemei Cheng: The effect of in-plane pulsed magnetic fields on antiferromagnetically-coupled bubble skyrmion pairs


Arya Yue 21 (biology) and Sydne Record: Biotic Drivers of Macrosystems Biodiversity


Tianyi Zheng 22 (geology) and Pedro J. Marenco: Understanding Gaps within Studies of the Great Bank of Guizhou