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Incorporating Culinary Medicine Into A First Year Science Course, Elizabeth Merz, Sarah Bultje, Luke Witvliet, Amy Wilstermann, Kumar Sinniah

Summer Research

• Culinary medicine uses an evidence-based approach to translate nutrition research into practical use in order to bring medicine and cooking together 1
• Medical schools are bringing in culinary medicine programs so that prehealth students can relate to their patients in the clinical setting when sharing necessary dietary changes
• Obesity is one of the leading risk factors for early death – From 1990 to 2017, globally, deaths due to obesity has increased by 78%2
• By introducing culinary medicine at the undergraduate level into a first year course, we hope to track the students in the course throughout their four years at …

Tagtools: New Toolkit Analyzing High Resolution Biologging Data In R, Yuqian Wang, Oghenesuvwe Ogedegbe, Stacy L. De Ruiter

Summer Research

Bio-logging studies with high-resolution movement-sensors offer opportunities to observe animal behavior in unprecedented detail, but analysis of the resulting data is often complex, and there is a need for freely available, easy-to-use, flexible, welldocumented software tools to facilitate analysis and interpretation. We introduce a new open-source tool kit for processing data from tags with highresolution movement sensors.

Examples of Tags: DTAG, CATS, Acousonde, DailyDiary, etc.

Investigating Peptide Folding Of Tryptophan Zippers, Chad Tatko, Jessica Bedow, Kachel Bedow, Maddy Hoogstra, Douglas Vander Griend

Summer Research

Protein folding has been a subject of interest in the research community for its wide array o f applications in academia and medicine. By understanding how the interaction of localized amino acids in different environmental factors affect the global folding of peptides, one can anticipate synthesis of proteins or manipulation of exis ting pro teins to have more desirable functions. For this investigation, tryptophan zippers (monomeric β-hairpin peptides) were synthesized, titrated in differing pH, and analyzed by NMR