Securing Our Food: A Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Virginia Tech 2017-2025
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2022 Virginia Tech REEL Fellows ​

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Fellow                                 Fellow's Home Institution                      Faculty Mentors                                      
Brandon Bickley                 Piedmont Virginia Community College      Aaron Gross & Sally Taylor

            Project: Host plant effects on the biochemistry and dispersal ability of tarnished plant bug
Lillian Chiang                     Virginia Tech                                                 Dorothea Tholl & Vijay Singh
            Project: An i
nvestigation on innate plant defenses, natural pesticides, and herbicides
Eva Detroia                      College of New Jersey                               M.A. Saghai-Maroof & Vijay Singh
             Project: Chromosomal mapping and population screening to identify putative resistance traits
Emma Nieland                   Iowa State University                                    Clay Wright & David Langston
             Project: 
Plants, plasmids and pathogens ... oh my!
Madison Payne                  Virginia Tech                                                  Bas Bargmann & Mark Reiter
             Project: 
The interaction between auxin and phosphate signaling pathways in plants
Celeste Phillips                  College of William and Mary                        Birgit Scharf & Maria Balota
             Project: 
Biological nitrogen fixation: Micro process, macro impact 
Trey Warren                       Virginia Tech                                                 Xiaofeng Wang & Jayesh Samtani
             Project: 
Screening wheat varieties for tolerance to Brome mosaic virus, and assessing pollinator  
            diversity on blackberries

​Jonathan Yoder                   College of William and Mary                       Susan Whitehead & Alejandro Del-Pozo
             Project: 
Bug off pests! The importance of beneficial predatory insects

The VT-REEL program started May 23, 2022 with dorm move-in and orientation (lunch provided). Icebreakers helped fellows network with one another, and their on-campus faculty mentors attended the orientation lunch. Other program-affiliated events included: weekly scientific workshops, a multi-day AREC tour, a visit to the Adventure Park at Virginia Aquarium, and the annual Summer Research Symposium. The gallery below provides highlights of the summer.
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