2025 Whitman Fellows

Florida Atlantic University
"Octopus health: determining hemolymph values and microbiomes for basic health standards in a laboratory setting"
cbennice@fau.edu
MRC 203/Hanlon Lab
5/5/2025 - 6/6/2025

University of Kansas
"Genome editing approaches to testing toxin function in the hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus"
pcart@ku.edu
Rowe 208
9/7/2025 - 11/15/2025

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"An ecological, morphological and phylogenomic survey of Cape Cod Stentors"
bmcdbdao2042000@gmail.com
Lillie 106
6/8/2025 - 8/16/2025
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
"Advancing genomic tools in the Atlantic horseshoe crab to study major transitions in visual systems"
guilherme.gainett@childrens.harvard.edu
Rowe 109
5/25/2025 - 5/31/2025
6/8/2025 - 7/31/2025
8/19/2025 - 9/1/2025

American Museum of Natural History
"Establishing functional tools in a nudibranch mollusk to investigate phagocytosis evolution"
jgoodheart@