HOT out of the Autoclave: Biology summer research projects

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  • Applies to:
    • Current Students
    • Full-time faculty
    • Prospective Students
  • Sent: July 14, 2016
  • Expires: May 21, 2017

Biology student researchers are keeping busy this summer with a number of biology research projects.

Each summer, the biology department hires groups of students to research alongside professors for ten weeks. Check out what each student is working on this summer in one of Calvin's many research opportunities for undergratuates.

  • Alex Kuipers with Professor Ryan Bebej
    • Hind limb form and function in terrestrial and semiaquatic mammals: insights into locomotor evolution in early cetaceans
  • Lydia Abma and Alan Stockdale with visiting scholar Garrett Crow and Professor Dave Warners
    • Botanical inventory of Kent County
  • Leah Baas with Professor David Koetje
    • Developing investigative labs for Biology 230
  • Ben Naghtin, Jenna Van Donselaar and Max DeYoung with Professor Dave Warners
    • Ecological restoration in the Plaster Creek Watershed
  • John Leerar with professors John Ubels and Loren Haarsma
    • Protection of the cornea from UVB radiation by elevated potassium in tears
  • Josh Auyer, Chad Apol, Ben Johnson and Ryan Hulst with Professor Randy Van Dragt
    • Stewardship of the Calvin College Nature Preserves
  • Luke Tilma and Harry Ervin with Professor Randy DeJong
    • Tracking geographic and taxonomic sources of fecal microbes in Plaster Creek tributaries
  • Matthew Schepers with Professor John Wertz
    • Metabolic congruence or divergence in ant gut bacteria
  • Rachel Warners, Sarah Hughes and David Bouma with Professor Keith Grasman
    • Fish-eating birds as sentinels for pollution in aquatic ecosystems
  • Philip Simonton is working with Professor David Dornbos
    • Invasion physiology: light use efficiency of common and glossy buckthorn
  • Abigail Stearns and Ryan Toering with Professor Amy Wilstermann
    • CancerEd: tools for teaching kids about cancer
  • Mackenzie Geels, Bo Ram Kim and Derrick Kamp with Professor Anding Shen
    • Roles of endothelial cells on HIV-1 infection and latency in resting CD4+ T cells
  • Joseph Choi and Nathan Jansen
    • Ecosystem response to fire and climate change at Flat Iron Lake Preserve
  • Leira Lew and Micah Warners with Professor Dave Warners
    • Habitat restoration with Green Team high school students
  • Patrick Jonker with Professor Dave Warners
    • Research and maintenance of habitat restoration projects
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