ARC Undergraduate Research Symposium

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Ronn Friedlander
Design of Mixed-Backbone Antisense Oligonucleotides for PEI-Mediated Cell Delivery.
Poster Presentations General Session II - 12:00- 2:00
Advisor: Charles Roth

Ronn Friedlander is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Ecology & Natural Resources. He is researching gene silencing using polymeric vectors and has presented his research at conferences in California and New Jersey. Ronn’s wanderlust has led him to travel the world and in so doing, witness a startling degree of poverty. Ronn is now an active member of Engineers Without Borders, through which he is establishing a project to bring pure water to people in northern Thailand. Poster 60.

Michael Gallagher
11:00am- 12:00pm Room 402
Digital Visualization of Decay in Oak Species Five Years After Pruning
Advisor: Jason Grabosky

Michael Gallagher is a senior in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at SEBS. He has a keen interest in urban forestry as an important component of environmental management in our ever-growing urban areas. He has applied to graduate programs to continue his studies in urban forestry, and wishes to continue his current decay research. In addition to pruning and decay, Michael is also interested in recycled tree waste as an economic means of implementing environmental sustainability in urban areas.

Katherine Parisi
Characterizing Anaerobic Dehalogenating Bacteria in Marine Sponges
Poster Presentations General Session II - 12:00- 2:00
Advisor: Charles Roth
Advisor: Max Häggblom

Katherine Parisi is a Microbiology major with a double minor in Biochemistry and Ecology & Natural Resource Management at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. She has been working at Dr. Max Haggblom’s laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Young-Beom Ahn since Sept. 2006 and participated in the 2007 NEMPET regional meeting. Katherine will be presenting her research contributions at the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting in June 2008. Poster 24.

EENR News

2008 Outstanding Student Awards Announced 

Rutgers Ecological Preserve events May 2-3 

Ecology & Natural Resource Students present at The Fourth Annual University-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium April 25. 

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2008: International Year of the Reef. How about Florida for some experience-based learning? 

Live, work at the Smithsonian this summer RTP 

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