{"id":2716,"date":"2016-03-15T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2016-05-16T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:44:46","slug":"announcing-the-new-roster-of-participants-for-the-2016-summer-research-experience-at-nimbios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/15\/announcing-the-new-roster-of-participants-for-the-2016-summer-research-experience-at-nimbios\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the New Roster of Participants for the 2016 Summer Research Experience at NIMBioS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2719\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/15\/announcing-the-new-roster-of-participants-for-the-2016-summer-research-experience-at-nimbios\/tbo1_00100001jt_20580979_ver1-0_640_480\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2719\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tbo1_00100001jt_20580979_ver1.0_640_480.jpg\" alt=\"tbo1_00100001jt_20580979_ver1.0_640_480\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tbo1_00100001jt_20580979_ver1.0_640_480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tbo1_00100001jt_20580979_ver1.0_640_480-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two students\u00a0work on developing mathematical models for their project during last year&#8217;s SRE at NIMBioS. (Photo Credit: News Sentinel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 16 undergraduates\u00a0selected for its highly competitive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Summer Research Experience (SRE)<\/a>\u00a0program. Participants were selected from a pool of more than 100\u00a0applicants. The program runs for eight weeks, from June 6-July 29. Participants will come to NIMBioS on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus to work in teams with NIMBioS postdocs and UT faculty on research at the interface of mathematics and biology.<\/p>\n<p>2016 SRE participants and their assigned team\u00a0projects are\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Darville (Fisk Univ.); Elman Gonzales (East Tennessee State Univ.); and Jan Siess (Rutgers Univ.) will team up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016_allostery_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to investigate a molecular process called allostery, integral in many biological functions, such as oxygen binding, enzyme regulation, and immune response.<\/p>\n<p>Alana Cooper (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville); Emily Horton\u00a0(Lynchburg College); and Kelly Reagan (Elon Univ.) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016_emotions_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a>\u00a0using dynamic modeling to better understand how human emotions unfold over time.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Iselin (Valparaiso Univ.); Howsikan Kugathasan (Fisk Univ.); and Jacob Miller (Univ. of Kentucky) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016_games_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to develop computer games for teaching biology.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff DeSalu (The Ohio State Univ.); Morganne Igoe (Univ. of the Minnesota-Twin Cities); Joey Moran (Unity College); and Theresa Sheets (Univ. of Maryland-Baltimore County) will team up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016_mice_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to investigate the effects of different landscapes and resources on hantavirus spread in mice populations.<\/p>\n<p>Alanna Gary (Univ. of Chicago); Vera Liu (Rice Univ.); and Penny Wu (Houghton College) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2016_organelle_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> using statistical filters to follow fast organelle movements in plant cells<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 16 undergraduates\u00a0selected for its highly competitive\u00a02016 Summer Research Experience (SRE)\u00a0program. Participants were selected from a pool of more than 100\u00a0applicants. The program runs for eight weeks, from June 6-July 29. Participants will come to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/15\/announcing-the-new-roster-of-participants-for-the-2016-summer-research-experience-at-nimbios\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86,47],"tags":[125,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}