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Marcella Venettozzi '25

Under the guidance and mentorship of Biology professors, students may choose to perform Honors. Most will complete a summer of research followed by research in their senior year. The work culminates as a written and defended Honors thesis, and the work is often presented at conferences or published as scientific articles.

2024-2025

Marcella Venettozzi (Adviser: Mowery): Comparison of Anti-Cancer Activity of Halogen and Methoxy Substituted Small Molecule Tubulin Inhibitors.

2022-2023

  • Erika Jean Sipos (Adviser: Straub): A Phylogenetic and Biogeographical Study of Parsonsia (Apocynaceae)

2019-2020

  • Alessandra Bryan (Adviser: Cosentino): Effects of Urbanization on the Evolution of Coat Color in Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)
  • Katherine Foley (Adviser: Cushman): Competition for Food Resources between the Native Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) and Invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
  • Brianna Hurysz (Adviser: Mowery): Assessing Anti-cancer Potential and Mechanism of Action of Novel Staurosporine Analogs
  • Rizky Kafrawi (Adviser: Straub): Investigating the Interplay between Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Genomes in Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae)
  • Allie Seminer (Adviser: Cushman): Mercury Bioaccumulation in Fish Food Webs of New York State Finger Lakes’ Tributaries

2018-2019

  • Madison Cullinan ’19 (Adviser: Straub): Evidence of a mitochondrial insertion in the chloroplast genome in the genus Alyxia (Apocynaceae)
  • Anna Leffler ’20 (Adviser: Droney): Variation in Exploratory Behavior of Red-Backed Salamanders
  • Grace Marshall ’19 (Adviser: Cosentino): Relationship of Movement Behavior to Water Balance in Red-Backed Salamanders
  • Penelope Murphy ’19 (Adviser: Brown): Fraternal Twins: The Food Webs of Two Neighboring Ponds
  • Carl Wagner ’19 (Adviser: Straub): Further Resolution of Phylogenetic Relationships Within the Temperate North American Clade of Milkweeds (Asclepias, Apocynaceae)

2017-2018

  • Rachael Best ’18 (Adviser: Brown): The Influences of Taxonomic Composition and Environmental Factors on Methylmercury Concentrations in Zooplankton in Seneca Lake, NY
  • Banan Otaibi ’18 (Adviser: Cosentino): Adaptive Evolution and Population Genetic Structure of a Woodland Salamander in Regenerating Landscape

2016-2017

  • Kayleigh Buffington ’17 (Adviser: Brown): Methylmercury Bioaccumulation and Tropic Position of the Non-native Bloody Red Shrimp (Hemimysis anomala) in the Finger Lakes (New York)
  • James Cooper ’17 (Adviser: Carle): CD28 Induces Metabolic Fitness in Multiple Myeloma via a NF-kB/IRF4-Dependent Signaling Axis to Promote Survival
  • Noland Michels ’17 (Adviser: Cushman): The Ecological Effects of the Invasive Neogobius melanostomus in the Finger Lakes
  • Namita Neerukonda ’17 (Adviser: Mowery): Biological Evaluation of Simplified Analogs of Protein Kinase C Inhibitor, Staurosporine
  • Madison Sutton ’17 (Adviser: Deutschlander): Is Mass Gain in Migratory Warblers Influenced by Sex, Season, or Arrival Date?

2015-2016

  • Nicolette Andrzejczyk ’16 (Adviser: Cushman): Histological effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Male Blacknose Dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) in the Seneca Lake, NY Watershed.
  • Alexander Gatch ’16 (Adviser: Brown): Age and Size as Predictors of Mercury Accumulation in Lake Trout from the Finger Lakes.
  • Kathryn M. Mendez ’16 (Adviser: Brown): The Potential Use of Environmental DNA for Detection of Hemimysis anomala.
  • Lauren Walter ’16 (Adviser: Straub): Comparative genomic analysis of Apocynaceae plastomes.

2014-2015

  • Stephanie L. Cramer ’15 (Adviser: Mowery): Examining the Amino Acids in Bacterial Motility-like Receptors.
  • Bridget E. Logan ’15 (Adviser: Kenyon):Examining Protein Interactions of Candidate Genes Implicated in Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) Syndrome.
  • Alison J. McCarthy ’15 (Adviser: Cosentino):Do Edge Effects Impact the Behavioral Traits of Red-backed Salamanders in a Fragmented Forest.
  • Caitlyn E. Mitchell ’15 (Adviser: Carle): Testing Xyzistatin, a Novel Depsipeptide, for Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Activity on Cancer Cells.
  • Amanda L. Rappaport ’15 (Adviser: Droney): Mating decisions: Alternate Courtship Strategies and Sexual Conflict in Drosophila sulfurigaster (tropical fruit flies).
  • Carly E. Rolph ’15 (Adviser: Mowery): Biological Evaluation of Simplified Analogs of Protein Kinase C Inhibitor Staurosporine.
  • Kaitley A. Wozer ’15 (Joint Honors in Biology (Mowery) and Dance (Davenport):
    Viral Bodies: Socially Conscious Bio-Specific Choreography.