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 present their research. 

Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral student participants may present new posters or posters recently presented at a scientific meeting. Top presenters receive monetary awards. Registration closes on November 8. 

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.

Students must register to present a poster. Faculty and staff wishing to attend the event do not need to register in advance. 

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