AWARD DETAILS

The Department of Biology will offer one $300 award, and may award up to three $100 honorable mention awards for posters with honorable mentions, in the fields of biology and marine biology.  Judging will be performed by senior level graduate students. 

2023 AWARD RECIPIENTS

$300 Award

• Olivia Hougham "An age-dependent decrease in Syd-1 may be responsible for age-dependent memory decline"

$75 Award

• Ethan Dinh "Proteomic Signatures of Reinjury in Tibial Bone Stress Injury"
• Zealon Gentry-Lear & Celine Lopez Padilla "Characterizing and Understanding Synergistic Drug Interactions for Killing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
• Nicole Mullen "The Role of Microbiota in the Development of Insulin-producing Cells in Drosophila melanogaster"
• Rosa Taylor "An analysis of the impact of parity on long term health outcomes for Tunisian mothers"

2022 AWARD RECIPIENTS

$300 Award

• Amanda Linskens "Decreasing Hunchback and Bicoid Levels in Pair1 Neurons Alters the Pair1 Circuit in Drosophila"

$100 Award

• Hannah Lewack "The Effects of daf-2/IGFR on Healthspan in C. elegans Malesritis"
• Mikala Capage "Misfolded but not Malicious: Prion Proteins in Budding Yeast"

• A current undergraduate UO Biology or Marine Biology major working in any science lab at the University of Oregon.
• An undergraduate student (from any major) who is doing work in a lab run by a biology department faculty member.

One (1) $300 Award

Up to Three (3) $100 Honorable Mention Awards 

Department of Biology