The Biology Poster Award, sponsored by the Department of Biology, recognizes poster presentations in the fields of biology and marine biology. Judging will be performed by senior level graduate students.
Eligibility Criteria: A current undergraduate UO Biology or Marine Biology major working in any science lab at the University of Oregon, or an undergraduate student (from any major) who is doing work in a lab run by a biology department faculty member.
*NOTE: Candidates who self nominate for this award, may not also self-nominate for the CAS Dean's Poster Award in Natural Sciences.
Award Amounts: One (1) $300 Award; Up to Three (3) $100 Honorable Mention Awards.
Current Recipients
Caleb Farrow '24
Major: Mathematics
Project: "The Story of Rough-Skinned Newts and Garter Snakes: Coexistence in a Coevolutionary Arms Race?"
2024 $75 Award
Brittney Lee '24
Major: Biology, Human Physiology
Project: "Roles of TBP1 N-Terminus in 3D Genome Organization and Gene Regulation"
2024 $300 Award
Hayden Penn '24
Major: Biochemistry, Neuroscience
Project: "Exploration in the Gulf Pipefish: Charting the Developmental Cellular Atlas"
2024 $300 Award
Alanna Sowles '24
Major: Biology, Neuroscience
Project: "Identifying candidate temporal transcription factors in Drosophila Type 2 neuroblasts"
2024 $75 Award
Prior Recipients
Mikala Capage '22
Major: Biology
Project: "Misfolded but not Malicious: Prion Proteins in Budding Yeast"
2022 $100 Award
Ethan Dinh '24
Major: Computer and Information Science
Project: "Proteomic Signatures of Reinjury in Tibial Bone Stress Injury"
2023 $75 Award
Zealon Gentry-Lear '24 & Celine Lopez Padilla '24
Majors: Biology, Neuroscience
Project: "Characterizing and Understanding Synergistic Drug Interactions for Killing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
2023 $75 Award
Olivia Hougham '24
Major: Biology
Project: "An age-dependent decrease in Syd-1 may be responsible for age-dependent memory decline"
2023 $300 Award
Hannah Lewack '23
Major: Biology
Project: "The Effects of daf-2/IGFR on Healthspan in C. elegans Malesritis"
2022 $100 Award
Amanda Linskens '22
Major: Biochemistry
Project: "Decreasing Hunchback and Bicoid Levels in Pair1 Neurons Alters the Pair1 Circuit in Drosophila"
2022 $300 Award
Nicole Mullen '23
Major: Neuroscience
Project: "The Role of Microbiota in the Development of Insulin-producing Cells in Drosophila melanogaster"
2023 $75 Award
Rosa Taylor '23
Major: Anthropology
Project: "An analysis of the impact of parity on long term health outcomes for Tunisian mothers"
2023 $75 Award