Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Biology Research Program

The Data Sciences Academy is partnering with the Undergraduate Biology Research Program to fund 7 DSA/UBRP fellows. Applications are made through the UBRP portal and are due in early February.

Following are the recent Undergraduate Research Fellows

For information on the student's research click on their name

UBRP Fellows 2024

Natalie Rawlings

Natalie Rawlings

UBRP Fellow
Major Biochemistry
My current research focuses on developing a new quantification method for detecting TORC1 activity in S. Cerevisiae (Brewer's yeast) using fluorescence microscopy. The TORC1 pathway is a metabolic supercomputer for the cell and has existed in eukaryotes f
natalierawlings@arizona.edu
Victor Sandrin

Victor Sandrin

UBRP Student
Major: Neuroscience & Cognitive Sci, Minor: Philosophy
Structural connectivity analysis with diffusion tractography and validation with light imaging. I will use different tractography methods to build connectivity maps in specimens or live brains and compare with developed methods to measure fiber orientatio
vsandrin@arizona.edu

UBRP Fellows 2022

UBRP Fellows 2021