Mote REU Program

Participants

2011

• Philip Adams, West Virginia Wesleyan College                                 

Mentor: Dr. Cathy Walsh, Program: Marine Immunology, Project: Jurkat cells exposed to media conditioned with Sphyrna tiburo epigonal tissue undergo apoptosis via caspase cascade through the mitochondria

• Grace Binder, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

Mentor: Dr. Kellie Dixon, Program: Chemical Ecology, Project: Effect of culture density on the growth, particulate nutrients, and toxicity of Karenia brevis

• David Curtis, Gettysburg College

Mentor: Dr. Vince Lovko, Program: Phytoplankton Ecology, Project: The Effect of Nitrate and Irradiance on Dinoflagellate and Diatom Pigments and the Implications for Spectroscopic Characterization

• Matthew DeAngelo, Saint Louis University

Mentor: Dr. Nick Whitney, Program: Shark Behavioral Ecology, Project: Labor of Love: Female nurse sharks swim less but expend more energy than males during the mating season

• Brittany Dolan, University of Hawaii, Hilo                                                          

Mentor: Gretchen Lovewell, Program: Stranding Investigations, Project: A Review of Mortality Patterns in Offshore Cetacean Species Around Sarasota, FL

• Sheena Feist, University of Missouri, Columbia                                                                       

Mentor: Dr. Tony Tucker, Program: Sea Turtle Conservation & Research Program, Project: Out of the arena and into the real world: A new method for investigating loggerhead (Caretta caretta) hatchling orientations

• William Gilpin, Princeton University                                                      

Mentor: Dr. Gary Kirkpatrick, Program: Phytoplankton Ecology, Project: Mathematical Spectral Analysis within the Optical Phytoplankton Discriminator

• Brittany Leigh, University of South Florida                                                                       

Mentor: Dr. Cathy Walsh Program: Marine Immunology, Project: Determining the role of Fas receptor-mediated apoptosis in Jurkat cells treated with Sphyrna tiburo epigonal conditioned media

• Kymberlee Osborne, Florida International University                                                                       

Mentor: Dr. Kellie Dixon Program: Chemical Ecology, Project: An Evaluation of the Leaf Optical Properties for Thalassia testudinum and Implications for Optical Modeling

• Daniel Ravaioli, Rutgers University                                                                           

Mentor: Dr. Kim Ritchie, Program: Marine Microbiology, Project: DMSP metabolizing bacteria from Porites astreoides larvae: links to coral-bacterial symbiosis

• Karen Scheller, University of Notre Dame                                                       

Mentor: Dr. Barbara Kirkpatrick, Program: Environmental Health, Project: Public Perception of Fertilizer and Florida Red Tide

• Alyse Yeager, Gettysburg College                                                                          

Mentor: Dr. Tony Tucker, Program: Sea Turtle Conservation & Research Program, Project: Inter-nesting Dive Behavior of Female Loggerheads (Caretta caretta): Identifying the Danger Zones