Poster Session A

Samantha Bidlack
Seth Borrowman
Michelle Roy

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Abundance and Habitat Preferences of Bobcats (Lynx Rufus) in Central Illinois

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Jamie Blumberg

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Does the Presence of the Marine Zooplankton Brachionus Plicatilis Influence Bacteriophage Abundance?

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Meghan Bowler
Greg James
Sydney Longfellow

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Making Waves in Phage Research: Pacific’s Journey through Discovery, Experimentation, and Clustering

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

James Burnell

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Chaotic Oscillator

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Julia Chen
Ria Patel
Julie Xu

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Newly Discovered Phage Xuper: Single Ready to Mingle with Rhodobacter Capsulatus

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Minghao Chen
Panxi Chen
Zihan Nie

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Girard-Waring Identities and Their Applications

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

John Davine
Evan Dill
Joseph Ziegel

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Electron Detection: Design and Construction

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Ronan Dorsey

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Completion and Testing of an Instrument for Investigating the Terahertz Optical Properties of Cooled Samples

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Rowland Filbert
Ngan Pham
Niyant Vora

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Characterization of Defects Brought onto Corneal Development by the Glutamine Analog Don

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Megan Frederick
Lilia Garcia
Rosemary Josenkoski

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Conquering Constella: A Journey of Phage Discovery

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Alysia Gazder

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Comparison of Muscle Development in Moenkhausia Sanctaefilomenae and Danio Rerio

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Samridh Gupta
Alyssa Pisano

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Stop Here, Now Go: Seeking Insight into the Coordinated Movements of Nerves During Cornea Innervation

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Veena Hamill

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Are You Looking to Justify Your Wine Habit? A Quantitative Analysis of Wine Antioxidant Content Compared to Tea

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Noah Haskin
Jack McKermitt
Alexander Palacios
Oscar Schmidt

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Relative Abundance and Habitat Preferences of American Badgers and Plains Pocket Gophers in Mclean County, Illinois

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Hamzah Khan
Mark Siegel

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Linear Position Detector with High Bandwidth

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Minzhao Liu

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Towards Spatial Localization of the Source of High-Energy Particles in the Near-Space Portion of the Atmosphere

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Shenyu Lyu

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

A New Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from Northern Peru

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Larisa McCoy

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Increasing the Number of Hispanic Nursing Students: Core Elements to Successful Nursing Programs

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Monica Mocogni

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Backlash Against Feminism

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Matthew Moser

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Free to Stand: Limits of Meritocracy in Sports

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Weronika Pach

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Applications of Quantum Entanglement Towards “Ghost” Imaging

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Mansi Patel
Jill Rajarathnam

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Can Thyroid Hormone Enhance Corneal Nerve Regeneration Following Lasik?

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Anna Poulton

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

A New Terrestrial-Breeding Frog (Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) from Northern Peru

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Kayleigh Ruffolo

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Is Cloning Always Beneficial? The Effects of Asexual Reproduction by Planktonic Feeding Larvae of Sea Stars

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Zachary Silver

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Domestic Dogs Prefer Prosocial to Antisocial Humans

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Jennifer Swanson

Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Design, Creation, and Characterization of a Vacuum System for Electron-Atom Scattering Experiments

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM