Lab Rotations
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All IQ Biology students participate in three, 8鈥恮eek research rotations during their first year. Students must choose three different labs in at least two different departments/disciplines to gain laboratory, experimental, and computational skills. These rotations should be an interesting opportunity to learn new techniques and introduce you to ideas outside of your primary discipline. Students conducting rotations take three credits of CHEM 6901鈥898 each semester.
Students can rotate with any of the participating IQ Biology faculty. It is also possible to rotate in the labs of faculty from our participating departments by arrangement.
Following these rotations, students will partake in an 8-week collaborative team research project. This project听will provide a strong application in complex systems and pull on the quantitative biology skills and knowledge from students'听first-year experiences, exposing them听to the team science aspect of interdisciplinarity.
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Past Team Rotations
2024 Cohort
- Sarah Elizabeth Stockman,听Jenna Stanislaw, Carolina Valderrama Hincapie听
- PIs: Orit Peleg (CSCI)听& Nolan Kane (EBIO)
- Developing an agent-based model for the domestication of sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)
- Logan Barrios,听Zac Caterer,听Pedro Albuquerque Lemos
- PIs: Richard Benninger (Anschutz) &听Stephen Kissler (CSCI)
- Developing a computational model of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Islet cell interactions
- Lauren Ohler &听Helen Brackney
- PIs: Maggie Stanislawski (Anschutz)听&听Luke Evans (EBIO)
- The Weight of Data: A Multi-Omic Approach to BMI Evolution
- Lily Slemp,听Ben Braun,听Michael Luzadder,听Luis Paez Beltran
- PIs: Ed Choung (MCDB)听&听Sammy Ramsey (EBIO)
- Genome construction and variant analysis in Apis mellifera using nanopore long-read sequencing
2023 Cohort
- Katie Bardsley, Luis de Pablo,听Emma Keppler
- PIs: Stephen Kissler (CSCI) &听Zia Mehrabi (ENVS)
- Assessing the impact of an emerging respiratory pathogen on US agricultural workers and food production
- Grace Bowman,听Fink Kumpeerakij,听Vivian L
- PIs: Dan Larremore (CSCI)听&听Roy Parker (BCHM)
- Tau Tales: the story of a disease鈥檚 journey across a neuronal network
- Lindsey Whitmore,听Laurel Robbins,听Gabrielle Gionet
- PIs: Kayla Sprenger (ChBE)听&听Sara Sawyer (MCDB)
- Computationally Improving Binding Affinity of HIV to Host Cell Receptors
- Carolus Vitalis,听Juan Hanel,听Tyler Amos
- PIs: Chris Myers (ECEE)听&听Daniel Acu帽a (CSCI)
- PUMA: Promoter Unraveling through Machine-learning Algorithms
2022 Cohort
- Emma Aldrich, Georgia Barone,听Nolan Bonnie,听Kurt Winkler
- PIs: Ryan Layer (CSCI)听&听Kayla Sprenger (ChBE)
- Identifying Apolipoprotein E Variants that Alter Canonical Phenotype in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease: A Computational Analysis
- Rachel Billings,听Catherine Fontana,听Vanessa Maybruck
- PIs: Cresten Mansfeldt (EE)听&听Lizzy Trower (GEOL)
- Modeling the microbiome dynamics of Utah鈥檚 Great Salt Lake: A regression analysis of key abiotic factors impacting growth of Dunaliella green algae in the GSL鈥檚 South Arm
- Alexzanah Griffin,听Kaylee Rosenberger,听Hope Townsend
- PIs: Fan Zhang (Anschutz)听&听Kristi Kuhn (Anschutz)
- Benchmarking computational methods integrating genetics into single-cell transcriptomics to uncover disease relevant cell phenotypes
2021 Cohort
- Chris Arehart,听Rosie Garris,听Ruth Quispe Pilco,听John Sterrett
- PIs: Luke Evans (EBIO)听&听Maggie Stanislawski (Anschutz)
- Combining multiple outer -omics to generate poly-omic risk scores for inflammatory bowel disease
- Kendra Kreienbrink,听Payton Martinez, Bailey Zinger
- PIs: Mark Borden (BME)听&听Kayla Sprenger (ChBE)
- Microbubbles as Non-Invasive Targets for Blood Brain Barrier Disruption: An In Silico Investigation
2020 Cohort
- Eli Cipriano,听Hannah Edstrom,听Lyanna Kessler
- PIs: Jerome Fox (ChBE)听&听Chris Lowry (IPHY)
- Bioreactor Design for Polystyrene Degradation by Mealworm Gut Microbiome
- Lukas Buecherl,听Clair Huffine,听Zach Maas
- PIs: Boz Wing (GEOL)听&听Alexis Templeton (GEOL)
- Metabolic Pathways on Europa
- Casey Middleton,听Claire Powers,听Josh Seabaugh
- PIs: Brett Melbourne (EBIO)听&听Eric Vance (APPM)
- NEON's Phenology Ecological Forecasting Challenge
2019 Cohort
- Tristan Caro,听Liam Friar,听Jack Gugel,听Ellen Waddle
- PIs: Dan Doak (ENVS)听&听Orit Peleg (CSCI)
- Effect of Termite Nest Distribution on Herbivore Grazing Patterns
- Kate Bubar,听Adam Dziulko,听Alison Leonard,听Sharon Wu
- PIs: Dan Larremore (CSCI)听&听Sara Sawyer (MCDB)
- Agent-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Quarantine Release
2018 Cohort
- Karl Widney,听Andrea Halling,听Kathleen Murphy
- PIs: Sabrina Spencer (BCHM)听&听Joel Kralj (MCDB) & Amy Palmer (BCHM)
- Cancer Immortality: Is a single cancel cell immortal?
- Kristen Schneider,听Peter Innes,听Timothy Thorn
- PI: Ryan Layer (CSCI)
- Cancer Genetics / Diagnosis: Improving the accuracy of diagnostic tools for acute myeloid leukemia
- Sierra Jech,听Ethan Hobbs,听Philip Benson
- PI: Colin Campbell (sabatical faculty, Edinburgh)
- Pollination: How to reduce the rate of pollinator decline by 50% by the year 2025