Devin Drown, Principle Investigator
Graduate Students
Tracie Haan (2019-present, MS student)
- 2020-2021 Alaska INBRE Graduate Research Assistantship.
- 2019 Alaska URSA Mentoring Award ($5000)
- 2019 Best Lightning Talk at the Alaska INBRE retreat
- 2019-2020 Alaska INBRE Graduate Research Assistantship.
- 2019 Institute of Arctic Biology Summer Research Award ($7500)
Taylor Seitz (2019-present, MS student)
- 2020-2021 Alaska INBRE Graduate Research Assistantship.
- 2019 Alaska URSA Mentoring Award ($5000)
- 2019 Best Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Alaska Branch of ASM
Jeremy Buttler (2019-present, PhD student)
Undergraduate Students
Shayna Matson (2020 – present, pursing BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Lab alumni
Graduate Students
Geneva Mottet (2017-2019, MS Physics) –
Undergraduate Students
Kyle Callegari (2019-2020, pursing BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Sabrina Bishop (2019-2020, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Samantha Haines (2019-2020, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Taylor Seitz (2018-2019, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, now MS at UAF),
- 2019 Outstanding Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student at UAF 2018
- Alaska URSA ($2500) Unearthing a reservoir of antibiotic resistance within Fairbanks permafrost
Jennie Humphrey (2017-2019, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks) 2017, 2018 Alaska BLaST Scholar
Josette McLean (2018, BS, St. George’s University, Grenada) 2018 Alaska REU Student
Chloe Bryson (2018, pursing BS, Salish Kootenai College) 2018 Alaska BLaST Exchange Student
Scout McDougall (2017-2018, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Patrick Knavel (2018, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- 2018 Alaska URSA ($2500) Understanding the microbiomes of invasive Esox luclus.
Abigail Vandenberg (2018, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Tracie Haan (2017-2018, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, now MS at UAF)
- Best Undergraduate Talk at 2018 Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference
- 2016-2017 Alaska BLaST URE ($4998) Co-Selection of Heavy Metal and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Boreal Forest Soil Microbes Affected by Thawing Permafrost.
Alex Keller (2016-2017, pursing BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- 2017 Alaska URSA ($2500) Testing the Effects of the Changing pH from Alaskan Microbiome on Subsistence Berries.
Madeline McCarthy (2016-2017, BS, University of Guelph, now MS at University of Saskatchewan)
- Best Undergraduate Poster at 2017 Midnight Sun Science Symposium.
- 2016-2017 Alaska BLaST URE ($6000) Comparison of Antibiotic Resistance in Soils from Ancient and Modern Permafrost.
- 2016 Alaska BLaST URE ($5940) Identification and analysis of antibiotic resistant plasmids in the microbial communities of a Fairbanks permafrost gradient.
Anastasia Butler (2016-2017, BA, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- 2016 Alaska URSA ($850) Understanding the genetic diversity of Bird Vetch.
Alex Wynne (2016-2017, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- 2016 Alaska URSA ($5000) Does permafrost thaw alter methane cycling via a shift in the microbial community composition?
Patrick Smith (2016, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Jackson Drew (2015-2016, BS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, now MS at UAF)
- 2016 Alaska URSA ($2500) Testing the Effects of the Alaskan Microbiome on a Model Organism: Arabidopsis thaliana