FYRE Student Team Research Experience

FYRE TEAM RESEARCH First Year Research Experience (FYRE) provides students with opportunities to engage in research as part of a student team and to establish early contact with faculty mentors.

FYRE STEM 2011-12 Student Led Team - Families and Chronic Illness
"Project 1 involves the coding and analysis of qualitative interview data with breast cancer survivors" and Project 2 "Will explore the theory of Health-Related Family Quality of Life and coping processes among parents of children who have been diagnosed with lymphatic and/or vascular malformations"
Team Leader: Anjana Jagpal (FYRE, 2010-11)
Team Members: First Year Students: Antoinette Lentz (FYRE), Mallory Waters (FYRE), Erika Strong (SEP/URO)
Seniors: Paige Murtagh, Marilyn Rush-Ossenbeck (USS ’10)
Graduate Student Mentors: Polina Ermoshkina, Lori Horstman
Faculty Mentor: Elise Radina, Department of Family Studies and Social Work

FYRE STEM 2010-11 Student Led Team - Pancreatic Cancer Mouse-Model Study
"The initial goals of the FYRE Team include producing a photographic atlas of the dissection of the mouse pancreas to be published on the online scientific journal JOVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments). In addition, our team will also explore how to improve sectioning techniques once the pancreas has been dissected." Read the Wilson Team FYRE Project description.
Team Leader: Bill Wilson
Team Members: First Year Students: Amielia Adams, Miranda Lazar, Maria McNurlen,
Sarah Paisley, Max Swartz
Sophomores: Jenna Greve, Grant Sefton
Juniors: Alex Thorman, Bill Wilson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Kennedy
Graduate Researcher: Lindsey Romick-Rosendale


FYRE STEM 2010-11 Student Led Team - Development of the adult motor system in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster
Research in the Fernandes lab focuses on studying the genetics of nervous system development in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Specifically, how the larval motor system is reorganized during metamorphosis to generate the adult counterpart. Study techniques: Genetic manipulations, Micro-dissections, immunostaining, confocal microscopy, histology, electron microscopy, use of measurement software.
Team Leader: Marc Toral (FYRE, spring '10)
Team Members: First Year Students: Allison Bunsey, David Conway
Sophomore: Todd Simmons
Juniors: Tara Fallah, Pavan Reddy
Faculty Mentor: Joyce Fernandes, Department of Zoology

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Why Students Should get Involved

• Gain support through establishing social mentoring relationships.
• Engage in faculty research early in your academic career.
• Experience the practice of research through workshops, seminars and activities
• Enhance Your communication and presentation skills.
• Be a part of a community of student/researchers/scholars during your first year.
• Participate in other research activities throughout your undergraduate career.

Interested in creating a student led team? Contact Mike Kennedy michael.kennedy@muohio.edu or Joyce Fernandes joyce.fernandes@muohio.edu

Contact Martha Weber OARS Undergraduate Research Coordinator at weberme@muohio.edu or call 529-3600 with any questions.