2011 REU Projects
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Collins, Landon (Hampton University). Mentor: Barbara Abraham (Hampton University). Environmental effects on the foraging activity of bees.
Credicott, Abby (University of Virginia). Mentors: Henry Wilbur and Becky Wilbur (University of Virginia). The community structure of an old growth Hemlock forest in Virginia.
Donald, Hannah (University of Virginia). Mentor: Corlett Wood (University of Virginia). Effects of host community composition on patterns of genetic differentiation in Forked Fungus Beetles (Bolitotherus cornutus).
Greenlee, Anna (University of Virginia). Mentor: Courtney Thomason (Texas Tech University). Baseline immune state: How it changes with altered parasite communities in Peromyscus leucopus.
Johnson, Rebecca (University of Idaho). Mentors: Vince Formica and Butch Brodie (University of Virginia). Comparison of behavioral and genetic Bateman gradients in Forked Fungus Beetles (Bolitotherus cornutus).
Milano, Nelson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Mentors: Vince Formica and Butch Brodie (University of Virginia). No evidence for morphological trade-offs between body size and testes in Forked Fungus Beetles.
Murphy, Asia (North Carolina State University). Mentor: Marcella Kelly (Virginia Tech). Carnivore coexistence and occupancy across the Mountain Lake landscape.
Perkins-Taylor, Ian (Swarthmore College). Mentor: Vince Formica (University of Virginia). Morphological correlates of courtship behavior.
Roberts, Margaret (Appalachian State University). Mentors: Eric Nagy (University of Virginia) and Zack Murrell (Appalachian State University). The environmental distribution of morphological variation and hybridization in Vaccinium.
Squibb, Cari Lynn (Virginia Tech). Mentor: Rachel Hanauer (Indiana University). The age-class distribution of coccidian infections in Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis).
Tomé, Braian (Florida International University). Mentor: Barbara Abraham (Hampton University). Foraging patterns of bees on shrubs in and around Mountain Lake Biological Station.