Anai Tabera-Cruz

Year in the program: 2024
Mentors: Dr. Pushpa Soti
Title of project/presentations:
Anai Tabera-Cruz, Marco Silgueeo, Pushpa Soti, Teresa Patricia Feria Arroyo. Effects of Shade on the Growth and Reproduction of Silverleaf Nightshade (solanum elaeagnifolium). UTRGV 2nd Annual SIBCS Undergraduate Research Symposium, December 5, 2023.
Where I am now:
I am currently pursuing my master’s in Biology at UTRGV with Dr. Pushpa Soti as my mentor. I have joined the EFAS program in hopes of gaining an enriching research experience that will help me that will help in future endeavors in the field of science. I hope to further explore environmental research with the techniques and experiences EFAS provides. The research I have focused on for this project is studying how shade and no shade affect Silverleaf Nightshade by analyzing its physiological and morphological parameters. For my thesis, I am going to be working with soil by analyzing soil cores found in various areas around the Rio Grande Valley.