Past Harlan Scholarship Winners
Each year, select undergraduate biology majors earn merit-based scholarships supported by the Wilbur V. Harlan Trust. Learn more about the Harlan Research Fellowship and how to apply.
2023
- Margarita Kyza-Karavioti: Best Undergraduate Poster for "Wolbachia endosymbionts regulate the Drosophila resistance to Zika virus infection in a sex dependent manner"
- Ling Sheng Loh: Best Graduate Poster for "A single-nuclei transcriptomic atlas of the developing Colias eurytheme pupal wing"
2022
- Caitlin Garrett: Best Undergraduate Poster for "Pharyngeal Morphology of Invasive Carp Species"
- Muhammad Riadul Haque Hossainey: Best Graduate Poster for "A perspective into the relationships between amphibian (Xenopus laevis) myeloid cell subsets"
2021
- Nora Cavanaugh: Best Undergraduate Poster for "Biodiversity in Our Canopies: Modeling Global Distribution of Epiphytes".
- Ryan Spahn: Best Graduate Poster for "Temporal dynamics in an agricultural plan-herbivore-parasitoid interaction network".
2019
- Lydia Burnett: Best Undergraduate Poster for Human amylin trafficking and toxicity in pancreatic β cells
- Zarafsha Uzzaman: Best Undergraduate Poster for Immunological difference between adult frogs and tadpoles
- Amulya Yaparla: Best Graduate Poster for Contribution of the peripheral liver and bone marrow to the myelopoiesis of the amphibian Xenopus laevis
2018
- Daphne Koubourli: Best Undergraduate Poster for Functional Analysis of Two IL-8 Isoforms in the Amphibian Xenopus Iaveis
- Jignasha Rana: Best Graduate Poster for Cryptic diversification in a species-rich Neotropical ant lineage
2017
- Ana Ren: Best Undergraduate Poster for Extending the Wings of Wnt
- Vincent Ficarrotta: Best Graduate Poster for Shedding Light on the Scale Dimorphism and Ultrastructures of Colias eurytheme
- Reeham Motaher: Best Graduate Poster for Identification of a LIM Homeobox Transcription Factor as a Candidate Regulator of a Calcium Potassium in Caenorhabditis elegans
2016
- Jose Hermina: Best Undergraduate Poster for “Using CRISPR Mutagenesis to Study Butterfly Wing Pattern Development” (PDF)
- Vishal Sharma: Best Graduate Poster for “NCX-9 Regulates Calcium Exchange at the Mitochondrion and Is Required for Neural Circuit Patterning in Caenorhabditis elegans” (PDF)
Previous Harlan Projects
- Characterizing Candidate Genes for Sperm and Seminal Receptacle Length in Drosophila Melanogaster (PDF), Reem Al Shabeeb
- Bumblebee Foraging Specialization and Expression Levels of a cGMP-related Protein Kinase (PDF), Connor Barley
- Differential Aggression Responses across Instars and Host Plants of Epargyreus clarus (PDF), Ced Block
- Predation Effects on Bumblebee Foraging Behavior (PDF), Soren George-Nichol
- Survivorship of Apis mellifera in Response to Bacterial Challenge (PDF), McKenzie Gray
- Characterization of the sodium calcium exchanger NCX-6 in C. elegans (PDF), Julia Keegan
- Anatomy of a Menace: Functional morphology of the palatal organ of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) (PDF), Melinda McCalley
- Control Genes for Genetic Analysis of Sperm Length in Drosophila melanogaster (PDF), Aubrey Pepin
- Investigating the genotypic-phenotypic relationship between the gene small optic lobes (sol) and sperm length (PDF), Ponmali Parovath.
- Seasonal Changes: A Differential Expression Analysis of the Fathead Minnow Transcriptome Acclimatized to Warm versus Cold Temperatures (PDF), Simon Wentworth
- Understanding the evolution of spiders through novel genetic markers (PDF), Maya Wolf
- Muscle Architecture and Myosin Profile of the Cypriniform Palatal Organ (PDF), Alexis Chen
- Somatic DNA Modifications in the Sp185/333 Gene Family in the Purple Sea Urchin Following Immune Challenge (PDF), Brian D'Allura
- The Effect of Endosymbiotic Microbes on the Immune Response of Drosophila melanogaster to Nematode Parasites and Their Mutualistic Bacteria (PDF), Joanna Frazier
- Embryos in Waiting: Embryological Insights into Desiccation Resistant Non-Annual Fish (PDF), Anais Hayes
- Global Analysis of Snake Ecomorphology: A Preliminary Study (PDF), Felisa Wei Hsieh
- Phthalate Exposure Affects Intercellular Connectivity and Calcium Handling of Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes (PDF), Rabia Idrees
- Investigating the Function of Putative Sperm Length Genes Using Mutants (PDF), Ayesha Monga Kravetz
- Optimal Media for Culturing Apis mellifera Primary Cells (PDF), Kyle Kurland
- Foraging Specialization and Measures of Sexual Fitness in the Bumble Bee, Bombus impatiens (PDF), Jack Leech
- Identifying the Role of WBP2NL on Developing Neural Cells (PDF), Alex Marchak
- Interspecies coexistence in acorn-dwelling ants (PDF), Rebecca Prather
- Selecting for long and short sperm storage organs in female fruit flies influences the mating success of the songs (PDF), Reem Al Shabeeb
- Hemocyte Density and Differentiation in Apis mellifera Worker Bees Infected with E. Coli (PDF), Brooke Talbot
- Transcriptome profile of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) (PDF), Simon Wentworth