Former Undergraduates

Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Sarah DeAmicis

  • 2025 3D Electron microscopy reconstruction of peptidergic terminals in the neuropil of gastropod mollusc Berghia stephanieae reveals novel ultrastructural features.

  • 2025 UMass Rising Researcher

• Zahraa Sallou

  • Localization and quantification of neurogenesis in the nudibranch mollusc Berghia stephanieae

• Alexzander Cook

  • 2024: Identification and Classification of glial cells in the nudibranch mollusc, Berghia stephanieae

• Gianna Misuraca

  • 2024:  Neuropeptide gene expression in the head appendages of the nudibranch mollusc, Berghia stephanieae

• Mehak Kang

  • 2023: Identification of neural proliferative zones in juveniles of the nudibranch mollusc Berghia stephanieae

• Saida Gomidova

  • 2022: The behavioral basis for group feeding by the nudibranch mollusc, Berghia stephanieae

• Shane Ziemba

  • 2022: Tracking down the hunger signal in the brain of the nudibranch, Berghia stephanieae

• Ashley Sheehan

  • 2022: Localization and Identification of Peptidergic Neurons Throughout the Post-Metamorphic Development of the nudibranch mollusc, Berghia stephanieae

• Meagan Olson

  • 2022: Investigating Conopressin Receptor Expression in Berghia stephanieae

• David Li

  • 2022: The distribution of APGWamide-expressing neurons in the regenerating rhinophore of the nudibranch, Berghia stephanieae

• Amanda Cho

  • 2021: Peptidergic and GABAergic Neurons in the Buccal Ganglia of Berghia stephanieae

• Kristina Nedeljkovic

  • 2021: Examining the Relationship between Satiation State, Bioactive Neuropeptides, and Reproduction in the nudibranch, Berghia stephanieae

• Kelsi Watkins

  • 2020: Peptidergic and GABAergic Neurons in the Buccal Ganglia of Berghia stephanieae

• Sebastian Gomez

  • 2019: Neuronal patterns of DNA replication in post-metamorphic Berghia stephanieae

• Mai Nguyen

  • 2019: Identification and localization of two neuropeptides in the brain of nudibranch mollusk Berghia stephanieae

UMass Undergraduate Research Assistants

• 2024-2025 Olívia DiBiasio, Elisha Alexandre, Kriti Dhiman,  Kassidy Ye, Renzci Cairo, Sarah DeAmicis, Ashna Guha, 

• 2023-2024 Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, Kriti Dhiman, Sarah DeAmicis, Alexzander Cook

• 2022- 2023: Ashley Glover, Fancesca De Mora Ocana, John Dunajski, Katelyn Lauritsen, Kassidy Ye, Kriti Dhiman, Sarah DeAmicis, Mehak Kang, Ryan Wight, Srika Raviraj, Yan Bojanowski, Niveditha Gandikote, Michaela Gay, Renzci Cairo, Sage Brisbois, Alexzander Cook

• 2021: Meagan Olson, Ashley Sheehan,  Saida Gamidova, Chigozie Sumani, Shane Ziemba, Joseph Jenie, David Li, Rylie Costello, Jacqueline Forbes, Ezra Leite, Zoya Rehan

• 2020: Jefferson Etaungo Esteves, Kristina Nedeljkovic (Honors Thesis), Raghid Alhazmy, Daniel Nguyen, Jackson Southard, Kelsi Watkins (Honors), Ani Maroyan, Emily Kirchner, Amanda Cho (Honors thesis)

• 2019: Niah Holz (Lee-SIP recipient), Victoria Donescu, Hongli Zheng, Alexander van Alphen, Philip Van, Mai Nguyen, Sebastian Gomez, Hongli Zheng

• 2018: Niko Eringros, Daniela Molina, Margot Whelan,  Samire Yimingjiang, Ben Avrahami, Bhoomi Patel

GSU Undergraduate Students

Skishnell Nairn, Julie Shwiller, Todd Cook, Steve-Felix Belinger, Deron Davis, Ann Reedy, Priyal Shah, Michele Naugle, Nina Milosavljevic, Sagar Jhalla, Mercy Abonambugre, James Griffin, Punam “Pooja” Mandania, Caleb Young, Britessia Smith (NET/work), Stephen Pendleton, Roseanne Tan, Shalin Jyotishi, Preetham Ganupuru (Honors College, Brains & Behavior Scholar, Molecular Basis of Disease Scholar), Ryan Szczech, Aiyana Batton (NET/work), Jonathan Boykin, Amirah Hurst, Anastasia Schultz, Elif Diricanli, Vidya Chenji, Rachael Beaumont, Ebah Boigny

High School Students

Amherst: Alison Jackson  

Atlanta: Rachael Beaumont, Lynn Jacobs