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Frances Velay Fellows  - Summer 2025

 

Meet the students who participated in the Frances Velay Women in Science Fellowship Program - Summer 2025!

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) and the College of Arts & Sciences.

Jillian Daneshwar

Physics major

Mentor: Dr. Will Farr (Physics)

Project: An Analysis of the Detectability of Ringdown Modes in Black Hole Mergers

Rebeca Diaz

Chemistry major

Mentor: Dr. Maria Nagan (Chemistry)

Project: NMR Structural Refinement for RNA in Amber

Abbie Gao

Chemistry major

Mentor: Dr. Dale Drueckhammer (Chemistry)

Project: Development of Nickel-Pincer Complexes for Catalysis of the Nitrile Aldol Reaction

Loy Hashimoto

Biology major

Mentor: Dr. Eugene Serebryany (Physiology & Biophysics)

Project: The Mechanism of Human γD-Crystallin Aggregation Suppression by Myo-Inositol

Alexandria Lewkowski

Biocheistry & Applied Math-Statistics majors

Mentor: Dr. Lina Carlini (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)

Project: Understanding Transport Across Dense Cytoskeletal Networks: Diffusion Within the Anaphase Spindle

Faria Lorin

Environmental Studies major

Mentor: Dr.  Marine Frouin (Geosciences)

Project: Unravelling the Depositional History of Marilaleng Pan using Luminescence Dating Techniques

Elaine Mei

Biochemistry & psychology majors

Mentor: Dr. Galadriel Hovel-Miner (Microbiology & Immunology)

Project: Identification of Putative Drug Resistance Genes in the African Trypanosome

Mariya Shalashova

Physics major

Mentor: Dr. Tom Allison (Chemistry, Physics)

Project: Preparation and Characterization of Monolayers for Exciton Dynamics Studies

Amber Wilson

Biology majors

Mentor: Dr. Prerana Shrestha (Neurobiology & Behavior)

Project: Investigation of Prefrontal Cortex Protein Synthesis in Differential Signal Active Avoidance

Sirou (Serena) Zhang

Chemistry major

Mentor: Dr. Peter Tonge (Chemistry)

Project: Design and Synthesis of BTK PROTACs to Study the Role of Kinetics in Targeted Protein Degradation

Roheyatou "Roro" Ceesay

Graduate Student

Group: Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)

Project: Mineralogical Analysis of East Turkana (Kenya) Sediments for Luminescence Dating and Provenance Study