Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology

Research Educator: Dr. Michel Shamoon-Pour

Stream Collaborators: Drs. Ralph Garruto, Koji Lum, Andrew Merriwether

Second-year Researchers

34. Bacterial microbiome of Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Binghamton, NY - Armenia, Gianna | Dalglish, Marianna | Gokhan, Selin | Kyler-Wank, Owen | Yang, Renee

44. Coming to America: an mtDNA perspective on the New World’s first migration - Donato, Emma | MA Kumar, Anagha | McGrowder, Dane | Poupore, Claire

54. Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Binghamton, NY - Baron, Shai | Brauer, Christian | Lane, Thomas | Mamkin, Anastasia | Straface, Michael | Vildman, Rachel 

64. The effect of vaccination on the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 variant - Gabbay, Lea | Leung, Isaac | Raeihle, Madeline | Richards, Claire | Wang, Ziyi

74. The rapid evolution of the 2022 Monkeypox outbreak: an investigation of APOBEC3-derived mutations - Cheung, Breanna | Ferdaus, Jannatul | Lazaro, Julian | Liu, Rachel | Pham, Johnny | Spokony, Chaya | Wong, Katie

First-year Researchers

37. Analysis of mutation rates of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants - Hussain, Naima | Jack, Hailey | Pacheco, Daisy | Pineda, Aislynn | Stoddard, Lily | Viggiano, Luke

47. Effects of lead exposure on children’s health in the United States - Cerenzio, Penny | Digianni, Luke | Jasie, Micha | Kondo, Reina | Krasinski, Katherine | Perez, Kyara | Verdon, Emily

57. Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in blacklegged ticks from New York State - Encarnacion, Bryan | Jordan, Ryann | Mishkin, Brooke | Moussa, Mariam | Orgo, Luke | Renda, Samantha 

67. The phylogeography and genetic diversity of Ixodes scapularis tick - Ajay, Allen | Andersen, Morgan | Chan, Britney | Flores-Kaplan, Julian | Kennedy, Sarah | Nariani, Amanda | Zheng, Arthur

77. Tracing early human migrations in South America through mtDNA haplogroups - Georgatos, George | Hu, Nicole | Rocke, Samantha | Rodriguez, Emma | Rodriguez, Vivian | Weisgerber, Samuel