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2021 Fellows

Congratulations to Landon Butler, Ryan Grewe, Shauni Windle, Md Ibrahim*, Justin Scott*, and Sarah Hileman*! These students were awarded the 2021 ITP Fellowships.

 

*Indicates a Senior Fellowship recipient. 


2020 Fellows

Congratulations to Debarati Chanda, Adriana Townsend, Shauni Windle, Katie Oswalt, Md Ibrahim*, Justin Scott*, and Sarah Hileman*! These students were awarded the 2020 ITP Fellowships.

 

*Indicates a Senior Fellowship recipient. 

 

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Debarati Chanda

Lab: Dr. Pope; Neurotoxicology

Degree track: PhD candidate; Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Research: I study the effects of organophosphate toxicity on cholinergic activity and neural tissues using mice and rat models.

 

Adriana Townsend

Lab: Dr. Belden; Toxicology

Degree track: MS; Integrative Biology

Research:  I study how adaptation to warmer temperatures impacts the susceptibility of an organism to toxicity of organic contaminants.

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Shauni Windle

Shauni Windle

Lab: Drs. McMurry and Belden; Toxicology

Degree track: PhD; Integrative Biology

Research: The focus of my research is the effect of anthropogenic contamination on native amphibian endocrine systems and physiology.

 

Katie Oswalt

Lab: Dr. Fahlenkamp; Tissue Engineering

Degree track: PhD; Chemical Engineering

Research: I’m a member of a Tissue Engineering research group, and my research project has two main aims. The first aim is to develop a minimally invasive ocular drug delivery method that can be used to treat diseases of the retina. The second aim is to develop a tissue-engineered eye model that can be used as an in vitro model to test our drug delivery system.

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Md Ibrahim

Lab: Dr. Minghetti; Toxicology

Degree track: PhD candidate; Integrative Biology

Research: I study how chloride affects metal speciation, toxicity, bioavailability, and metal responsive gene expressions. I use both in-vitro (The Rainbow Trout Gut Cell Line, RTgutGC) and in-vivo (Bluegill Fish, Lepomis macrochirus) models for my study.

 

Justin Scott

Lab: Dr. Minghetti; Toxicology

Degree track: PhD; Integrative Biology

Research: My research aims to develop methods for aquatic toxicity testing utilizing primary fish gill cells as alternatives to live fish assays to determine toxicity and bioavailability of pollutants dissolved or dispersed in water. Importantly, this procedure is able to drastically reduce the cost of current tests and the amount of living test specimens used on a regular basis. The main objective of my research will be to compare sensitivity and efficiency of in-vitro to in-vivo assays through various exposures to common toxicants found in whole effluent samples.

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Sarah Hileman

Lab: Dr. Belden; Toxicology and Environmental Justice

Degree track: PhD candidate; Integrative Biology

Research: I study how pervasive anthropogenically caused carcinogens are in urban, public school playground soil. My ultimate goal is to determine how these pollutant levels correlate with racial diversity and socioeconomic status within the related school systems. 

 

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