Honors Spotlight
Researching Effects of Exercise on Insulin Sensitivity and Gene Expression
Under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Kolwicz, Jack Thompson completed his Honors project titled, “The Effect of Acute Exercise on Insulin Sensitivity and Metabolic Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice.”
Honors Spotlight Star: Alexa Alessandrini
Honors student Alexa Alessandrini, under the mentorship of Dr. Rebecca Lyczak completed her project titled “The role of MBK-2 and CDK-1 in oocytes and early embryos of pam-1 mutant C. elegans.”
Honors Spotlight Star: Samuel Krause
Honor’s spotlight star Samuel Krause researches “The Effect of Dietary Nutrition on the Regeneration of Ambystoma mexicanum” under the mentorship of Dr. Ellen Dawley.
Honors Spotlight Star: Luca Walborn
Honors spotlight star, Luca Walborn under the mentorship of Dr. Kolwicz studying “the Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice.”
Honors Spotlight Star: Alex Goldsby
Under the mentorship of Dr. Beth Bailey, honors researcher Alex Goldsby studies the combined effects of pregnancy and obesity on cardiac function and structure.