BoBI Undergraduates Awarded PURS Fellowships

Posted on January 08, 2013

Undergraduates in several BoBI labs were given awards under the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program (PURS) this semester. These competitive awards support talented undergraduates while they conduct research in a host lab. The recipients, their host lab and projects are listed below. Congratulations.

Effat Ahmadi, Dauwalder Lab. Project: Identification of blood-brain barrier mRNAs which contribute to the determination of Drosophila male courtship behavior

Harith Al-Baldawi, Roman Lab. Project: Neural Dissection of the Starvation Effect on Exploration

Luke Gurrala, Ziburkus Lab. Project: Hot Brains: Mechanisms of Neural Inhibition Failure in Hyperthermia

Sophia Lauer, Frankino Lab. Project: Adaptive Environment-Phenotype Matching in Relative Wing Size