2019-2020
Spydel Nardy s a junior at Iowa State University who is majoring in Biochemistry with a minor in Emerging Global Diseases. He has served as the secretary for the Stupka Committee since Fall 2017 and actively volunteers in the committee. Since Spring 2018, Spydel has been involved in undergraduate research in Dr. Dipali Sashital’s lab where he is currently focusing on CRISPR Cascade Type 1-C complex. He also enjoys being a Supplemental Instructor for organic chemistry in Iowa State’s SI program. In the future, Spydel hopes to attend graduate school to pursue a Ph.D after graduating in spring 2020.
Kayla Uthe is a junior in biochemistry with a minor in environmental studies. She is a research assistant in Dr. Olga Zabotina’s lab, where she is involved in the study of the xyloglucan synthesizing complex formation in the plant cell wall. She is currently fundraising co-chair of the Stupka Symposium Planning Committee, LAS representative of the BBMB Club, and a B&B learning community peer mentor. After graduation, Kayla plans to pursue a career in environmental biotechnology.
Sarah Zelle is currently a junior at Iowa State majoring in biochemistry and genetics. Since May 2017, she has worked in Dr. Eric Underbakke’s lab researching determinants of membrane association in the synaptic GTPase-activating protein SynGAP. She is currently a B&B Learning Community peer mentor, Stupka Symposium Planning Committee media chair, and has been an undergraduate instructional assistantant for BIOL 313L. After graduation, Sarah plans to obtain her PhD in biochemistry and eventually have a career in biomedical research.
Past and Present Scholars
| Jacqueline Ehrlich | 2018
B.S. in Agricultural Biochemistry, 2020 |
Bailey Mooney | 2018
B.S. Biochemistry and Genetics, 2019 |
Emily Knuth | 2018
B.S. in Agricultural Biochemistry, 2019 |
| Matt Cook | 2018
Graduate training, Yale |
Lauran Chambers | 2017
Research Specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Surgery conducting research on specific drug effects on mitochondrial respiration. |
Alex Donelson | 2017
B.S. Biochemistry S18 |
| Drew Tonsager | 2017
M.S. Biochemistry S18 |
Adrienne Smith | 2015, 2016
B.S. in Biochemistry, F2016 |
Morgan Barrett | 2016
B.S. in Biochemistry and Genetics, 2017 |
| Natalie Whitis | 2016
B.S. in Biophysics, 2017 |
Flora Yen | 2015
3rd year dentistry student at the University of Iowa |
Zack Young | 2014
Senior Researcher at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. |
| Denis Tamiev | 2014
3rd year graduate school Biological Engineering at Iowa State University |
Kinsey Cornick | 2013
D.O. Des Moines University 2018 |
Kristen McKibben | 2013
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Jennifer Kaczynski Meyer | 2013
Scribe in the dermatology department at Unity and Mercy Hospital, MN. |
Alana Jackson | 2012
M.D. University Minnesota, Duluth 2016 |
Samson Condon | 2012
Ph.D. candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Mollie Tiernan Schubert | 2011
M.S. Biochemistry, ISU |
Johanna Jass Bailey | 2011
Master of Public Health, Univ. of Missouri, 2015 |
Craig Brown | 2011
M.D. from University of Chicago 2016 |
| Jackie Souleyrette Rivas | 2011
Ph.D. in Immunology 2017 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Dayna Peterson | 2010
Ph.D. Arizona State University 2017 |
Mina Farahbakhsh | 2009
Ph.D. University of Kansas 2015 |
| Luke Helgeson | 2008
Ph.D. Biochemistry |
Mara Determan Alexeev | 2007
M.D. University of Iowa 2012 |
Claire Kruesel | 2006
Lecturer for the English Department at Iowa State University. |