Bed bugs have become a common pest in the past 15-20 years in the U.S. They feed on human and their bites cause pain, itchiness and loss of sleep, etc. To find effective methods to control this pest, it is necessary to learn its behavior. In particular, understanding the bed bug host searching behavior will help us find better materials or methods to detect them or control them. Recent research found some novel active compounds that are attractive to bed bugs in lab studies. But their effectiveness (...)
Aresty Summer Science
SEBS - Entomology
We conduct research on the cognitive and neural basis of language processing. The underlying question we seek to address is: What makes human language special? More specifically, why are adults able to understand language with ease despite the daunting computational problem posed by language processing? Depending on their interests, undergraduates who join the lab will participate in one of the following two projects:
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN HUMAN NAVIGATION. People use subtle acoustic, (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Center for Cognitive Sciences, SAS - Computer (...)
Computer Science and Engineering, Cognitive Science, (...)
Due to lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in persons living with HIV, there has been a decline in mother-to-child transmission of HIV. However, this has led to a growing population of infants that are exposed to HIV but not infected (iHEU). These infants have a higher mortality risk and display altered immunological profile. In addition, iHEUs exhibit impaired growth compared to infants not exposed to HIV (iHU). The mechanisms underlying these phenomena are not well understood. Postnatally, (...)
Aresty Summer Science
CABM
Microbiology
Marine diatoms are single-celled, eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms that produce roughly 20% of the oxygen on the planet and play a central role in the global carbon cycle. Our lab is broadly interested in understanding the ecophysiology of diatoms and blends concepts in physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry with marine ecology and oceanography.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are natural by products produced during photosynthesis and are essential as signaling molecules that regulate (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SEBS - Inst of Marine & Coastal Sciences, SEBS (...)
Aquatic ecosystems , Biology, Cell & Molecular (...)
Honey bees are disappearing mysteriously. Many do not return after they leave their hives. Without honey bees, we will not get honey and, more serious, since fruit trees and flowering plants are not pollinated, we do not have fruits and vegetable crops. What if we could make flapping robots, of the size of honey bee and at a cost affordable for farmers, which can fly and pollinate flowers? Noninvasive surgery allows doctors to get into our body without cutting us. What if we could make flapping (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
Engn - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Bioengineering, Computer (...)
