BTI Welcomes New Crop of Summer Interns

BTI invited faculty and staff to meet the 2015 summer interns in a welcome ceremony June 1 at 3:45 p.m. in the atrium. Director of Education and Outreach Tiffany Fleming introduced the 20 undergraduates who are joining BTI for the summer.

The students will undertake 10 weeks of intensive laboratory research, faculty seminars, bioinformatics training, talks and poster presentations. Each student is involved in the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), the Bioinformatics Program or the Science Education Program. Seven high school students will begin a six-week internship program on June 29.

The BTI community is also invited to a series of education events:

Welcome Interns
June 1, 2015, 3:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
BTI Auditorium

PGRP Seminar: Maria Harrison
June 3, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Jim Giovannoni
June 10, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Adrienne Roeder
June 17, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Adam Bogdanove
June 24, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Jian Hua
July 1, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Leon Kochian
July 15, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Klass Van Wijk
July 22, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

PGRP Seminar: Jocelyn Rose
July 29, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium & Atrium

Summer Student Symposium
August 5, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
BTI Auditorium, Atrium and Rm 215

Get to know your interns:

Undergraduates

Allison Izsak, Cornell University (Mueller Lab—mentor, Surya Saha)

Noah Legall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fei Lab—mentors, Yang Bai, Yi Zheng)

Ivana Rodriguez, New Mexico State University (Mueller Lab—mentors, Suzie Strickler, Aimin Yan)

Haley Wight, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Fei Lab—mentor, Wenbo Chen)

Ilea Chau, Duke University (Hanson Lab—mentor, Stephane Bentolila)

Cedric Clark, University of Kansas (Richards Lab—mentors, Eric Richards, Erika Hughes)

Luis Cruz, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Kochian Lab—mentor, Leon V. Kochian)

Jonata Freschi, University of San Paulo (Giovannoni Lab—mentor, Ari Feder)

Juan Gonzalez, New College of Florida (Martin Lab—mentor, Tom Jacobs)

Michelle Laterrade, Louisiana State University (Rose Lab—mentor, Iben Sorensen)

Sara LeFevre, University of Northern Colorado (Harrison Lab—mentor, Sergey Ivanov)

Tawni Middleton, Colorado Mesa University (VanEck Lab—mentors, Cynthia Du, Sarika Gupta)

Laura  Reese, Pennsylvania State University (Hua Lab—mentor, Zhenhua Liu)

Julian  Roberts, Pitzer College (Richards Lab—mentors, Eric Richards, Erika Hughes)

Edaris Rodriguez Izquierdo, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (VanWijk Lab—mentor, Nazmul Bhuiyan)

Roxanna Seda Velez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Giovannoni Lab—mentor, Itay Gonda)

Zhou Wang, Wellesley College (Roeder Lab—mentor, Mingyuan Zhu)

Matthew Willman, Ohio State University (Pawlowski Lab—mentor, Adele Zhou)

Kayla Hankins, Sam Houston State University (mentor, Tiffany Fleming)

Nathan Madonich, Ohio Wesleyan University (Kochian Lab—mentors, Jon Shaff, Tiffany Fleming)

High School Students

Jonathan Gomes Selman, Ithaca High School (Mueller Lab—mentor, Noe Fernandez)

Ronan Perry, Ithaca High School (Fei Lab—mentor, Honghe Sun)

Lydia Brown,  Homer High School (Scanlon Lab—mentor, Mike Scanlon)

Yang (Lindsay) Fei, Ithaca High School (Jander Lab—mentor, Georg Jander)

Freja Gudmundsson, Tarnby Gymnasium/Hollis Brookline High School (Rose Lab—mentor, Iben Sorensen)

Daniel Maldonado-Lopez, Ithaca High School (Jander Lab—mentors, Pavan Kumar, Erandi Vargas Ortiz)

Jasmine Peng, Belton High School (Giovannoni Lab—mentor, Yimin Xu)