UWEC CERCA 2025

UWEC CERCA 2025

2:00pm CDT

Investigating Chemical Toxicology Using Zebrafish Embryos Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Noah Felix • Bradley Carter

11:00am CDT

Poster 050: Fungal Pathogen Prevalence on Hybridized Poplar Trees Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Marc Aguirre • Dailyn Wold • Nora Mitchell Poster 051: Investigating climate change effects on early spring plant-pollinator networks: the start of a long-term monitoring study Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Mackenzie Miner • Olivia Bernauer Poster 052: Evaluating bumble bee learning across temperatures Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Jasmine Pearson • Olivia Bernauer Poster 053: EFFECTS OF MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ACTIVATION ON MORPHOLOGY DURING EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH    Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Keeley Behr • Kara Katch • Bradley Carter Poster 054: CHARACTERIZATION OF A CRISPR-INDUCED MUTATION IN gclm GENE IN ZEBRAFISH Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Diana Abarca Palma • Karely Reyes • Bradley Carter Poster 057: Who’s making all that noise? Individuality in California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Victoria Carlsten • Sayaka Michizuki • Lucy Todd • Maia Ziaee • Jennifer Smith Poster 058: Age and sex structure on parasite prevalence in the California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Morgan Aldana • Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Mari Podas • Jennifer Smith • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 059: Effects of glucocorticoid receptor activation on morphology during embryonic development in zebrafish Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Keeley Behr • Kara Katch • Bradley Carter Poster 060: Monitoring 25 Years of Change: Long-Term Patterns in Coral Reef Fish Assemblage Structure and Shifting Reef Environments Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Jada Wahl • David Lonzarich Poster 061: Plant functional community assembly in grasslands and wetlands: effects of moisture stress Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Matt Craig • Kristen O'Brien • Hannah Renslow • Lya Wendel • Evan Weiher Poster 062: THE EFFECTS OF FOLIAR-APPLIED MICROBIAL PRODUCTS ON THE GROWTH AND PHYSIOLOGY OF CROP PLANTS Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Hannah Renslow • Tali Lee Poster 063: Detecting Introgression in Helianthus Populations in Wisconsin Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Brandy Corwin • Nora Mitchell Poster 079: Identification of Antibiotics Producing Microbes from Soil Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Eszter Klein • Daniel Herman Poster 080: Effects of zonation on mangrove health in San Salvador Island Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Ella Oestreicher • Tia Ravara • Josh Sawall • Kayla Sayovitz • David Lonzarich Poster 081: Bat diversity and activity patterns on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Morgan Aldana • Katelyn Boche • Julia Engebretson • Bryan Volla • David Lonzarich Poster 082: Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Red-light Response Pathway Mutants Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Karisa Denig • Olivia Heinecke • Derek Gingerich Poster 083: Assessing cytotoxic effects of ginger oil in human breast cancer cells Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Claire Pahl • Winnifred Bryant

1:30pm CDT

Effects of anthropogenic activity on stress physiology and its consequences for habitat selection Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Joey Ingbretson • Maddie Mueller • Ella Oestreicher • Caitlin Patrick • Jada Wahl • Ellie Williamson • Chelsea A. Ortiz-Jimenez • Jennifer Smith • Sonja Wild

2:00pm CDT

Poster 004: Characterization of a Phytochrome B mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana That Alters Blue-Light Response Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Piper Ewald • Derek Gingerich Poster 005: Space use contributed to the emergence of carnivorous squirrels in a vole boom year Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Ella Oestreicher • Mari Podas • Tia Ravara • Lupin Teles • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith • Lucy Todd • Sonja Wild Poster 006: Behaviors associated with novel hunting of voles by California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Ella Oestreicher • Mari Podas • Tia Ravara • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith • Lupin M.L. Teles • Sonja Wild Poster 007: Blugold Beaver Cam: Novel insights into the nocturnal lives of an ecosystem engineer Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Ben Adams • Megan Jones • Maddie Mueller • Ella Oestreicher • Tia Ravara • Jennifer Smith Poster 020: Integrated sensory behaviors of larval Aedes triseriatus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Helen Gensch • Avery De Ruyter • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 021: Novel predatory and carnivorous behaviors of California ground squirrels independent of the age and sex of hunters Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Jennifer Smith Poster 022: A chromosome-level genome for a keystone ecosystem engineer and textbook mammalian study species, the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith Poster 023: Decoding Gene Utility Landscapes In Brain Aging Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Easton Blissenbach • Jamie Lyman Gingerich • Hu Li Poster 033: DOSAGE DEPENDANT EFFECTS OF EMBRYONIC DEXAMETHASONE EXPOSURE ON DEVELOPMENT OF ZEBRAFISH SWIMMING BEHAVIOR Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Hailey Pucillo • Kiera Rosenberg • Emily Sanborn • Bradley Carter Poster 034: Embryonic Deoxycorticosterone Exposure Affects the Development of Larval Zebrafish Swim Behavior Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Hailey Pucillo • Kiera Rosenberg • Emily Sanborn • Bradley Carter Poster 035: Macroalgal Communities of San Salvador Island: Patterns of Diversity, Growth, and Productivity in a Changing Reef Environment Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Austin Buck • Paige Graziano • Jadyn Hartwig • Leo Pierce • David Lonzarich Poster 036: Investigating the role of a secreted snail peptide in Schistosoma mansoni miracidia host-seeking Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Rachel Horejsi • Saige Maasz-Seawright • Chase Nelson • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 050: Assessing OMP Decarboxylase Activity in Mutant Strains of Candida albicans Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Julia Engebretson • Kylie Mayer • Daniel Herman Poster 051: Developing Girardia dorotocephala as a model organism for flatworm sensory biology Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Saige Maasz-Seawright • Sophie Willett • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 052: A novel device for high-throughput phenotypic screening of schistosome miracidia Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Rachel Horejsi • Saige Maasz-Seawright • Chase Nelson • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 053: Transcriptomic differences between schistosome miracidia recovered from different host tissues Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Rachel Horejsi • Chase Nelson • Sophie Willett • Nicolas Wheeler Poster 060: Identification of deep-water mosses in Wisconsin lakes using DNA barcodes. Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Ben Hurley • David Lonzarich Poster 061: Assessing the Accuracy of a Plant Identification AppAuthors: Biology 106 class, Fall 2024 Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Claire Caswell • David Lonzarich