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Undergraduate

• First place: Joseph Romano — Assessment of Pythium storage stability through maize plant infection assays

• Second place: Katie Deitsch — Neighborhoods of 9: Flooding and stormwater

• Third place: Julia Stolker — Ixodidn't Ask For This: Monitoring Hard Tick (Ixodidae) Community Composition From Hunter-Harvested Deer

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• First place: Sanya Boby — Hepatic Metabolic Dysregulation and Developmental Changes Induced by Glucose Overload in a Chicken Embryo Simulating Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Second place: Isabella Ferraro — Acute exposure to micro-nano plastics trigger intestinal oxidative stress and damage in enteroids and broiler chickens

• Third place: Peyton Easton — De novo whole genome assembly of the mosquito Aedes grossbecki

Ph.D.

• First place: Destiny Mann — Demonstrating Food Waste Upcycling with Black Soldier Fly Larvae

• Second place (tie): Thabu Mugala — Environmental Drivers of Carabid-Slug Dynamics: Which Beetles Matter?

• Second place (tie): Hadimundeen Abdallah — In Ovo Hyodeoxycholic Acid (HDCA) Administration Enhances Intestinal Development, Enteroendocrine Cells, and Barrier Function in Broiler Embryos

Undergraduate

• First place: Spencer Toth – Exploring Viral Diversity Across Ecosystems: Insights from Soil Bradyrhizobium Phage Genomics
• Second place: Delaney Oeth – An In-Vitro Biocompatibility and Ex-Vivo Histological Analysis of Porous AA-MMA Copolymer ScaffoldÌý
• Third place: Joseph Romano – Evaluating early vigor in maize genotypes under Pythium stress

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• First place: Destiny Mann – Comparing Growth of a Waste Upcycler Using Benchtop and Mass Rearing Methods
• Second place: Marissa Jerden – Effect of Sulfur Amendments on Arsenic Speciation in Flooded Rice Paddy SoilÌý
• Third place: Bali Singh – Method development to optimize production of Pythium graminicola zoospores

Ph.D.

• First place: Abdallah Hadimundeen – Effects of Early Life Stress on Intestinal Development and Enteroendocrine Hormone Expression in Broiler ChickensÌý
• Second place: Brenna DeRocili – Surveillance and AMR detection of Microbial Communities in Farms Across the Mid-AtlanticÌý
• Third place: Jiddu Joseph – Evaluation of the Antibiotic-Potentiating Efficiency of Methyl Trans Cinnamaldehyde against Salmonella enterica TyphimuriumÌý

Postdoctoral

• First Place: Jeonghwa Kim – A Comprehensive Overview of Maize Landraces

Undergraduate

• First place: Claire Bernard – Identifying purple martin diet and its effect on nestling development
• Second place: Gabriel Dasilva – Cannibalism in lesser mealworms
• Third place: Madeline Downer – Community resilience plan for the town of Slaughter Beach, Delaware

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• First place: Emily Morgese – Genomic and phenotypic diversity of 16 novel bradyrhizobium phages
• Second place: Ahamed Zakaria – Estimating the impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination on the housing market
• Third place: Srabone Saha – Fair wage from the lens of consumer empathy

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Ph.D.

• First place: Rachel Keown – A single amino acid mutation in coliphage T7 DNA polymerase disrupts in vitro enzyme processivity and in vivo infection dynamics
• Second place: Kathryn Ellwood – The layer hen model of human ovarian cancer
• Third place: Ashleigh Montgomery – Targeting the destabilization of organic matter-bearing Fe and Mn oxides using indicator of reduction in soils (IRIS) films in coastal forests affected by sea-level rise

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Postdoctoral researchers

• First place: Jing Yan – Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on saltwater evaporation: a case study using bacillus subtilis

Climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation

Winner: Amanda Crandall, graduate student, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology

Title: The impacts of climate and anthropogenic change on migrant stopover using weather surveillance radars

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Genetics and genomics for plant, animal and ecosystem improvement

Winner: Martina Bordini, Ph.D. student, Department of Animal and Food Sciences

Title: Differential gene expression profiles elucidate molecular pathways associated with wooden breast defect in pectoralis major muscles

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Human dimensions of food, agriculture and natural resources

Winner: Carl Nelson-Poteet, undergraduate student, Department of Applied Economics and Statistics

Title: Common pool resource use under heterogeneous risk and impact

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One health intersections among animal, plant, human and ecosystem health

Winner: Liang-en Yu, Ph.D. student, Department of Animal and Food Sciences

Title: In-ovo glutamine administration regulates intestinal epithelium development in a broiler intestinal organoid model

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Sustainable food systems, landscapes and ecosystems

Winner: Emily Kennebeck, graduate student, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

Title: Mustard 'amara' benefits from superelevated CO2Ìýwhile adapting to far-red light over time