Congratulations to the 2020 Three Minute Thesis Competition Winners from the College of Science

Monday, Mar 27, 2023

Florida Atlantic University has announced the winners of the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. The competition challenges doctoral and master鈥檚 students to explain their complex research projects in three minutes or less to an audience that has no background in their area of study.

Morgan Slevin, a doctoral candidate in Integrative Biology, was the 3MT Championship Winner, earning first place and the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT Endowed Award.听

Michelle Edwards, an M.S. in Marine Science and Oceanography student, was the 3MT Championship Runner-Up.

This year鈥檚 virtual competition included over 60 competitors. Congratulations to all of the competitors from the College of Science, and view their videos below.听 to see all of the winners and for details about the competition.

First Place

Morgan Slevin,听听
鈥淪marts and Symbiosis: How a Bird's Gut Microbiome Influences its Cognitive Performance鈥
Faculty advisor: Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.

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Runner-up

Michelle Edwards, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
鈥淓xposure to Multiple Algal Toxins Among Juvenile Bull Sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, in Florida鈥檚 Indian River Lagoon鈥
Faculty advisor: Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.

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Toluleke Famuyiwa
"You Only Treat Cancer Once (YOTCO)"听

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral Candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Skylar Hoolar
"Investigating the impact of dams on water interactions"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Claire Rice
"Forgetting to Remember: Targeting SK Channels to Rescue Memory and Attention"

国产自拍 3MT庐听Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Experimental Psychology听
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Danielle Ingle听
"What happens when vertebrae don't bear weight?"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology听
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Rachel Wong听
"A Systematic Comparison Of Classifying Human Actions From Pose Estimation"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Psychology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Nicholas Nifakos听
"Analysis of SLKED-mediated wound response to insect herbivory in Solanum lycopersicum"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Biological Sciences听
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Madeleine Hagood
"Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Shark Skin"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Emily Stark
"Computational Mimicry of Biological Olfaction"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Experimental Psychology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Panagiota Galanakou听
"Monitoring prompt gamma emission for reducing range uncertainties of carbon ion radiation for cancer treatments"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Physics听
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Stephanie Insalaco
"The Influence of the Kennedy Space Center on Land Use/Land Cover and Population Dynamics in Brevard County, Florida"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Ryan Amato
"Hiding in Floodplain Sight听"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Majedul Islam听
"Correlation between liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and fibrillation of Tau in Alzheimer's disease."

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Chemistry
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Madeleine Bitting
"Reconstructing the history of human activity and climate from a Costa Rican diatom record"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Jorge Gonzalaz
"Accurate high order computation of invariant manifolds for long periodic orbits of maps and equilibrium states of partial differential equations.听"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Mathematics
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Ivana Serra
"Toasty Turtles: Too Hot to Think?"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Environmental Sciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Glen Oglesby
"How do the Socio-Economic demographics and Cultural Cognitions of South Floridians influence their resilience towards flood risks and to a greater extent, does this resilience vary spatially?"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Braden Ruddy
"Keep your friends close and enemies further: Collective movement in elasmobranch fishes听"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Brandice Thompson
"Exploring Motivation to Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Exercise Science, and Health Promotion
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science听

Aubrey Clark
"Variation in Elasmobranch Olfactory Rosette Morphology"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Afrouz Ataei
"A Novel Microfluidic Sperm-Sorting Device based on Rheotaxis Effect听"

国产自拍 3MT庐 Competitor听
Doctoral candidate, Physics
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

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