Undergraduates who have interned at JBEI this Spring participated at a poster presentation and celebration on May 4. The students presented results of their JBEI related research. Sixteen posters and two talks were presented to the JBEI community.
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The undergraduates were judged for their presentation and poster making skills. This year, two students from the Biofuels and Bioproducts Division won awards: Ravi Lal won for ‘Best Poster’ and Marian-Joy Baluyot won for ‘Best Verbal Presentation’.
The following students presented seminar talks:
- Miranda Werts (mentor: Amin Zargar)
- Joyce Luk (mentor: Megan Garber)
And the students below presented posters:
- Angela Fang (mentor: Xi Wang)
- Brenda Wang (mentor: Robin Herbert)
- Brian Laus (mentor: Maren Wehrs)
- Gianina Wicaksono (mentor: Megan Garber)
- Irene Kim (mentor: Laure Leynaud-Kieffer)
- Jadie Moon (mentor: Maren Wehrs)
- Jennifer Gorman (mentor: Raphael Gabriel)
- Jessica Wang (mentor: Amin Zargar)
- Julie Lake (mentor: Sam Curran)
- Marian-Joy Baluyot (mentor: Sam Curran)
- Maya Ramamurthy (mentor: Connie Bailey)
- Michael Doane (mentor: Blake Simmons/Carolina Barcelos)
- Ravi Lal (mentor: Amin Zargar)
- Reo Yamanaka (mentor: Yan Liang)
- Ronald Kam (mentor: Jackie Blake-Hedges)
- Will Sharpless (mentor: Mitch Thompson)