Marissa KordalMarissa first volunteered in Fall 2018 as an aquaculturist maintaining oyster cultures and the marine invertebrate demonstration tank in the wet lab. In Spring 2019, she assisted Brittany Apuzza with her project designing and testing primers for 12 candidate genes involved in gametogenesis She was awarded an Undergraduate Summer Fellowship for the summer of 2019. For her project, she measured and compared patterns of gene expression for 8 of the candidate genes among four groups of oysters: males and females on shell (control) and males and females exposed to plastic (treatment). She presented her work at SUNY Cortland Alumni-Undergraduate Research Science Symposium on October 12, 2019. She was also awarded a TriBeta Reasearch Grant for her work in the fall of 2019. She was accepted to present her research at the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society Meeting and Transformations, both canceled by the pandemic. She resubmitted in Spring 2021 and presented at both conferences at that time. She is a co-author on a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology published July 2021.
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Former Research Students (in chronological order of start date in lab)
Students from St. Mary's College of Maryland:
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