{"id":2949,"date":"2017-03-29T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:10:37","slug":"new-roster-of-summer-undergrads-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/29\/new-roster-of-summer-undergrads-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New Roster of Summer Undergrads Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2950\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/29\/new-roster-of-summer-undergrads-announced\/allprojects2017_400x207\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2950\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2950\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2950 \" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Allprojects2017_400x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Allprojects2017_400x207.jpg 400w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Allprojects2017_400x207-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five interesting projects ready for researchers in this summer&#8217;s SRE program<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 17 participants\u00a0selected for its highly competitive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Summer Research Experience (SRE)<\/a>\u00a0program. The participants, which this year include one middle\u00a0school math teacher,\u00a0were selected from a pool of more than 100\u00a0applicants. The program runs for eight weeks, from June 5-July 28. 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>2017 SRE participants and their assigned team\u00a0projects are\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Sharee Brewer (Biology and Math, Fisk Univ.); Kimberly Dautel (Applied Mathematics, Marist College); Brian Lerch (Biology, Case Western Reserve Univ.)\u00a0and Alan Liang (Math and Computer Science, Cornell Univ.) will team up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017_mating_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to build a model to investigate\u00a0mating patterns in birds&#8217; evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Hranov (Computer Science, Univ. of Tennessee); Audrey Hommes (Mathematics, Vanderbilt Univ.); and Saroj Duwal (Computer Science, Univ. of New Orleans) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017_games_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to develop computer games for teaching biology.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Adams (Genetics and Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Georgia, Athens); Quiyana Murphy (Math and Psychology, Univ. of Kentucky); and Owen Dougherty (Biology with Microbiology, Univ. of Tennessee) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017_immunity_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to model the immune system in host-virus conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hardison (7th and 8th grade math, Pi Beta Phi Elementary School, Gatlinburg, TN); Patrick Wise (Biology and History, Univ. of Delaware); Maitraya Ghatak (Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee); and Javier Urcuyo (Applied Math and Biology, Arizona State Univ.) will team up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017_virus_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to model the spread of La Crosse encephalitis virus in East Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Tanay Wakhare (Math and Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, College Park); David Nguyen (Biology, Eastern Washington Univ.); and Lara Weaver (Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee) will work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/sre\/sre2017_seasonality_proj\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> to examine disease-independent seasonal patterns and\u00a0pathogen dynamics in multi-host systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 17 participants\u00a0selected for its highly competitive\u00a02017 Summer Research Experience (SRE)\u00a0program. The participants, which this year include one middle\u00a0school math teacher,\u00a0were selected from a pool of more than 100\u00a0applicants. The program runs for eight weeks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/29\/new-roster-of-summer-undergrads-announced\/\">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":[15,86,87,47],"tags":[16,125,45,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}