UC Davis students earned two awards and multiple special merit and honorable mentions at the National Science Foundation California Alliance for Maximizing Potential’s 2026 CAMP Symposium at UC Irvine on Feb. 20 and 21. 

The symposium was a two-part presentation experience. In January, students provided virtual video presentations and also met with a panel of UC faculty judges. Awards in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences were announced at the symposium’s poster session.

UR Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: David Gold, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Research Title: Combining Lipid Extractions and Gene Expression to Test Whether Sea Sponges Could Be Responsible for Precambrian Molecular Fossils

UR Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Barbara Blanco-Ulate, Plant Sciences

Research Title: Developing New tools for Early Detection of Botrytis cinerea on Strawberry Fruit​

UR Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Joanna Chiu, Entomology & Nematology

Research Title: Characterizing the Function of CLOCK Phosphorylation in Regulating Circadian Rhythms

UR Program:  CAMP 

Faculty Mentor: Sara Thomasy, Surgical & Radiological Sciences

Research Title: Effects of Probe Sizes Used in Cryo Injury in Relation to Corneal Healing Time 
 

UR Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Grey Monroe, Plant Sciences

Research Title: The Genomics of Plant Adaptation to Climate Change

UR Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Wilsaan M Joiner, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 

Research Title: Spatial Generalization of Motor Adaptation Based Solely on Explicit Visual Feedback Compared to Implicit Learning with Dynamic Perturbations

Research Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Stephen K Robinson, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Research Title: Deep Space Habitat 

Research Program: CAMP

Faculty Mentor: Amanda Hodson, Entomology & Nematology

Research Title: Whole Orchard Recycling

Julia Cook, Senior, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 

Research Program: IIFH
Faculty Mentor: Dan Kliebenstein, Plant Sciences
Research Title: Botrytis Cinerea Energy Investment in Secondary Metabolites