Frances Velay Fellows - Summer 2023
Meet the students who participated in the Frances Velay Women in Science Fellowship
Program - Summer 2023!
The Frances Velay Women and Science Research Fellowship program at Stony Brook is
administered by URECA in collaboration with Dr. Maria Nagan (Department of Chemistry;
Associate Dean for Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences).
Aleena Ali
Chemistry major
Mentor: Dr. Peter Tonge (Chemistry)
Project: Structure-Kinetic relationship for the development of long residence time LpxC inhibitors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Victoria Castle
Geology major
Mentor: Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)
Project: Luminescence Dating of Terrace Development in the Udorka Valley, Poland
Nina Cheng
Biology major
Mentor: Dr. Wali Karzai (Biochemistry)
Project: Shocked? Heat Shock Protein Q Promotes Rapid Degradation of Antitoxins
Sarah Gunasekera
Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Biology majors
Mentor: Dr. Carlos Simmerling (Chemistry)
Project: Improving RNA Hairpin Simulations through Adjustment of Force Field Parameters for Interaction of Aliphatic Hydrogens and Backbone Oxygens
Iveliz Hernandez
Biology major
Mentor: Dr. Tara Smiley (Ecology & Evolution)
Project: Exploring Fungal Diversity: Using Forest Surveys to Investigate Plant-Fungi Mutualism as an Ecosystem Service
Anna Kovalskaya
Astronomy major
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Lanzetta (Physics & Astronomy)
Project: Transiting Planets Around White Dwarf Stars
Christine Meiselbach
Geology major
Mentor: Dr. Hanna Nekvasil (Geosciences)
Project: Tridymite: New Insights into an Old Problem
Amy Phi
Biology major
Mentor: Dr. Hyungjin Kim (Pharmacological Sciences)
Project: Dynamics of RPA Phosphorylation in the Replication Stress Response
Emma Scher
Chemistry major
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Lipshultz (Chemistry)
Project: Ansa-titanocene complexes as photocatalysts for C-H fluorination
Esha Singh
Physics, Mathematics majors
Mentor: Dr. J. Perez-Rios (Physics & Astronomy)
Project: The Kicked Rotor Mechanism: Toy Model for Quantum Chaos