AUDREY ADAMS, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Investigating the relationship between nociceptor morphology and nociceptive behavior using Drosophila melanogaster
Mentors: Victoria Lopez, Dr. Dan Tracey
 
CADE BOERSMA, Wartburg College
A novel apparatus to test olfactory memory in Loxodonta africana
Mentors: Alec Iruri-Tucker, Dr. Daniella Chusyd
 
SYDNEY CRAIG, Hanover College
Paired-association learning in rats: An odor-based model
Mentors: Siyan Xiong, Dr. Jonathan Crystal
 
JARON EZEKIEL, Vassar College
Strike directionality and biomechanics in the net-casting spider Deinopis spinos
Mentor: Dr. Jay Stafstrom
 
MADALYN FRY, Utah Valley University
Investigating the androgenic basis of aggression in a non-traditional model songbird, Melospiza melodia
Mentors: Josephina Fornara, Dr. Kimberly Rosvall
 
SOLEÁ HEREDIA, Santa Barbara City College
Effect of aromatase inhibition on long-day female Siberian hamsters
Mentors: Hannah F. Fink and Dr. Gregory E. Demas

MAYA KHALIL, Bowdoin College
Effects of substance P in a simple communication circuit
Mentor: Dr. G. Troy Smith
 
ELEONORE ALIX JOSIANE LOUVRIER, Texas A&M
Mentors: Suryatapa Chatterjee, Dr. María de la Paz Fernández
The role of s-LNv in regulating male-male courtship in Drosophila melanogaster

OTTER MALONEY, Stony Brook University
Squeak week: Investigating the effects of mouse estrous cycle on social behaviors
Mentors: Doğa Özcan, Courtney Waters, Dr. Laura Hurley

JOSIE MILLER, Indiana University Bloomington
The carryover effects of larval temperatures on the predation and morphology of juvenile Eastern Spadefoots (Scaphiopus holbrookii)
Mentors: Ellie Shell, Dr. Cris Ledon-Rettig
 
MARK PRICE, Pomona College
Investigating the impact of relatedness on thermoregulatory behavior in nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
Mentors: Atalanta Ritter, Dr. Kimberly Rosvall
 
NADESHA RAMOS LABOY, University of Puerto Rico Humacao
Testing entomopathogenic nematode preference towards native and non-native symbiotic microbes as a proxy for avoiding heterospecific competitors
Mentors: Jonathan Enriquez Madrid, Dr. Farrah Bashey-Visser
 
SARAH SCHOPPMAN, Florida Southern College
Leaves and landmarks: Examining the sex differences in feeding ecology of folivorous primates
Mentors: Maire O’Malley, Isabelle Wagoner, Dr. Michael D. Wasserman
 
KATE SCHROEDER, Middlebury College
Mentors: Sara Isgate, Dr. Kimberly Rosvall
How developmental heat exposure affects inhibitory control in adult tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
 
FIONA VON WALLMENICH, Lewis & Clark College
Putting all your eggs in a shaky basket: How noise impacts oviposition and early life behavior in lacewing Chrysoperla rufilabris
Mentor: Dr. Ciara Kernan
 
JABARI WOODBURY, Coe College
With great power…. comes normal behavior? A comparison of aggression and courtship in transgenic and wild-type Drosophila
Mentors: Gihan Jayasinghe, Noah Schimpf, Dr. Julia Saltz