2022 Tiny Earth
Virtual Winter Symposium

Student Research Presentations – Session I

Visit Student Research Presentation Guidelines for student expectations and tips for presenting.

Room A

All posters in the session are included in the galleries below. Click on a poster to see it in full screen. During the session, posters will also be screen-shared by the Zoom host. To find a specific poster, see the index below the gallery.

Poster # Presenter(s) Institution Title
1 Aria Barve
Himani Musku
Alyssa Senese		 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The Effects of Proximity to Tree Roots on Antibiotic-Producing Soil Bacteria
2 Aarushi Das Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The effect of habitat on the production of novel antibiotics from soil
3 Shatakshi Chatterjee Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Search for New Antibiotics from Soil Samples from an Illinois Campus
4 Vincent You
Jaden Blankenship
Jaykrish Ganesan		 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The Impact of Trees on the Quantity and Diversity of Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria in Soil
5 Jan P Gomez-Acevedo Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus Isolation of bacteria with antimicrobial properties from a home garden in Puerto Rico
6 Victoria Valentin Rodriguez Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus Isolating soil bacteria with antimicrobial activity from Florida

Room B

All posters in the session are included in the galleries below. Click on a poster to see it in full screen. During the session, posters will also be screen-shared by the Zoom host. To find a specific poster, see the index below the gallery.

Poster # Presenter(s) Institution Title
8 Grace Downs University of Wisconsin-Madison Marshland Soils Impact on Bacterial Antibiotic Production in a Co-Cultured and Independent Environment
9 Lauren Engaldo
Aisha Dadzie
Angelique Compton		 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Wisconsin soil samples isolated to test for antibiotic resistance
10 India Fleming
John Gallet		 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Isolation of Antibiotic Producing Microbes from Soil in Wisconsin
12 Gavin Forsythe
Ella Nguyen
Rolan Panza
Rachel Vogel		 University of Wisconsin-Madison The Effect of pH on Secondary Metabolite Production In Soil Bacteria
13 Molly D’Angelo Northwestern Connecticut Community College Discovering an Antibiotic Producing Bacteria on the Campus of Northwestern Connecticut Community College
14 Efrah Hussein
Erin Weise		 University of St. Thomas Transposon Mutagenesis and Isolation of Antibiotic Producing Genes in Pseudomonas