Summer Symposium - Union Ballroom
August 4, 2023
10:00 am -11:30 am
sponsored by URECA & the Center for Inclusive Education (CIE)
INDEX OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS
# | Student Presenter(s) | Project Title | Mentor(s) |
1 | Jason A. Benitez | Identification and Validation of Novel Biomarkers for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Surveillance | Dr. Dada Pisconti |
2 | Nina Cheng | Shocked? Heat Shock Protein Q Promotes Rapid Degradation of Antitoxins | Dr. Wali Karzai |
3 | Isabella Janowicz | Soft Tissue Syndactyly from lack of Epithelial Formation Between Digits 2 & 3 | Dr. Bernadette Holdener |
4 | Isabella Berger | Nitroscillator: Utilizing Gene Oscillators to Engineer Sustainable Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria | Dr. Peter Gergen |
5 | Jerome Cai | Nitroscillator; Modeling Oscillatory Expression of a Target Protein | Dr. Peter Gergen |
6 | Arianna Cubero Jiménez | Effect of Glucose Concentration on Cell Growth for a 3D Cell Culture Experimental Model | Dr. David Rubenstein |
7 | Natalia C. Mena-Santiago | The Versatile Nature of Sodium Alginate: A Characterization Study | Dr. David Rubenstein |
8 | Drew Nicholson | Low Intensity Vibrations Effects on Exhaustion in T-Cells: CAR T Immunotherapy | Dr. Mei Lin (Ete) Chan |
9 | Ankur Sikder | The Effects of LIV on CAR T-Cell Exhaustion and Proliferation | Dr. Mei Lin (Ete) Chan |
10 | Alisha Tejada | The Effects of Thrombosis on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms | Dr. Wei Yin |
11 | Julia Wallace | Fluid-Structure Interaction Analyses of Blood Flow in an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Model | Dr. Wei Yin |
12 | Aalim Abdullah | Modification of the AMBER chiOL3 RNA Force Field | Dr. Maria Nagan |
13 | Natalie Alfano | Histidine Kinase NahK Regulates Bacterial Communication and Toxin Production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dr. Elizabeth Boon |
14 | Aleena I. Ali | Structure-Kinetic relationship for the development of long residence time LpxC inhibitors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dr. Peter Tonge |
15 | Julia DuVal | The Role of Water in Peptide-RNA Recognition: HIV Rev Responsive Element | Dr. Maria Nagan |
16 | Blessing Ezeadichie | The Functionalization of Targetable Tetrazine- Fluorophore Conjugates | Dr. Scott Laughlin |
17 | Sarah Gunasekera | Improving RNA Hairpin Simulations through Adjustment of Force Field Parameters for Interaction of Aliphatic Hydrogens and Backbone Oxygens | Dr. Carlos Simmerling |
18 | Shuwen Guo | Biological Evaluation of L-[18F]fluoroalanine as Tumor PET Imaging Agents | Dr. Peter Tonge |
19 | Riley Hershberger | Manganese Dissolution in Zinc Aqueous Batteries | Dr. Esther Takeuchi |
20 | Sarah Hoffman | Using Mass Spectrometry to Probe the Role of Amino Acids in New Particle Formation | Dr. Chris Johnson |
21 | Goldie Hutchful | Effect of Salts on the Critical Micelle Concentration of the Polymeric Drug Delivery System Soluplus®: NaCl | Dr. Surita Bhatia |
22 | Kezia Kelly | Designing and Synthesizing Cell Selective Probes for H2S Detection in Cell Imaging | Dr. Scott Laughlin |
23 | Aine MacDermott | Characterization of the Role of NahK in Biofilm Regulation via Genomic Deletion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dr. Elizabeth Boon |
24 | Simran Multani | Characterizing Kinase Interactions Essential for Biofilm Regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dr. Elizabeth Boon |
25 | Bryant Peña | Analyzing the Effects of Temperature on Micelle Formation of Soluplus® using Dynamic Light Scattering | Dr. Surita Bhatia |
26 | Miriam Ramirez | Using Blue Light to Dimerize a DNA-Binding Protein in Bacteria | Dr. Peter Tonge |
27 | Emma Scher | Ansa-titanocene complexes as photocatalysts for C-H fluorination | Dr. Jeffrey Lipshultz |
28 | Addison Zou | Probing the Phase Separation in Poly(L-Lactic Acid)-Block-Poly(Ethyl Glyoxylate) Thin Films & the Effect of Poly(Ethyl Glyoxylate)-Grafted Surfaces on Reinforcing Di-Block Copolymer Phase Separation | Dr. Robert Grubbs |
29 | Kelvin Cheng | Advancing Anthropology: A Centralized Web Application for Comparative Nonhuman Primate Research | Dr. Paul Fodor |
30 | Loy Hashimoto | The Effect of Nutrition on Mouse Molar Thickness | Dr. Natasha Vitek |
31 | Iveliz Hernandez | Exploring Fungal Diversity: Using Forest Surveys to Investigate Plant-Fungi Mutualism as an Ecosystem Service | Dr. Tara Smiley |
32 | Josephine Elumeze | Low Cost Solar Energy Module | Dr. Fang Luo |
33 | Victoria Castle | Luminescence Dating of Terrace Development in the Udorka Valley, Poland | Dr. Marine Frouin |
34 | Christine Meiselbach | Tridymite: New Insights into an Old Problem | Dr. Hanna Nekvasil |
35 | Emily Braun | Visualizing Familial Identities In Twitter Bios | Dr. Jason Jones |
36 | Helena Donaldson | Optimizing Neural Network Models Through Insight Learning to Simulate Aqueous Solution of NaCl | Dr. Marivi Fernández-Serra |
37 | Brette Fitzgibbon | An Explainable AI Approach to Large Language Model Assisted Causal Model Auditing and Development | Dr. Klaus Mueller |
38 | Kian Hayes | Exploring Visualization Techniques for the Urca Process in White Dwarf Stars | Dr. Alan Calder |
39 | Elena Lowe | Spatiotemporal Shifts in Environmental Indicators and Anguilla Population Center in the Hudson River Estuary | Dr. Yong Chen |
40 | Genesis N. Perez- Gonzalez | Tropical Cyclone's Role in the Climate System Using Fully Coupled, Idealized Planet Configurations | Dr. Christopher Wolfe |
41 | Peter Scully | Nonadiabatic Excited-State Dynamics Assisted by Gaussian Process-Based Machine Learning Methods | Dr. Benjamin Levine |
42 | Alessio Tosolini | Predictability of ‘NSFW’ and ‘Porn’ in Twitter Bios | Dr. Jason Jones |
43 | Katherine Walton | Marine Requirements for Penguin Colonization on the Western Antarctic Peninsula | Dr. Heather Lynch |
44 | Wil Cruz-Ruiz | Stilbenes Inhibit Cell Proliferation in HCT-116 Colon Cancer Cells Independent of P53 | Dr. Daniel Moloney |
45 | Stephanie Forella | Exploring the Impact of Flavonoids on Colon Cancer: A Comprehensive Comparative Study | Dr. Daniel Moloney |
45.1 | Jennifer Hernandez-Torres | Analyzing the Effects of Annonacin on Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells | Dr. Jennie Williams |
46 | Jacob Konigseder | Using a Water-based Broccoli Seed Extract of Glucoraphanin to Induce Apoptosis in HCT 116 Colon Cancer Cells | Dr. Daniel Moloney |
47 | Danielle Ruiza,c | The Strawberry Flavanol Fisetin Inhibits Colon Cancer Cell Proliferation | Dr. Daniel Moloney |
48 | Samantha Chauvert | Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Oxide (MnO2) | Dr. Esther Takeuchi |
49 | Ashley Igbokwe | Understanding the growth of Biofilm on Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel | Dr. Gary Halada |
50 | Julian Lam | UV-stimulated green synthesis of silver and palladium nanostructures on recycled cotton textiles for catalytic dye degradation | Dr. Gary Halada |
51 | Dina McGinley | The Effect of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Skin Cells | Dr. Miriam Rafailovich |
52 | James Pousson | Electron Percolation through Battery Cathodes | Dr. Amy Marschilok |
53 | Daniel Razgonyaev | Probing the Protein-Resistant Properties of Nanopatterned Surfaces | Dr. Maya Endoh |
54 | Ryan Chowdhury | Capillary Imbibition of Water in Nanostructure Materials | Dr. Carlos Colosqui |
55 | Nicholas Esposito | A Mechanism for propellor ejection in Aerial Robots | Dr. William Stewart |
56 | Namrata (Nami) Singh | Silicone Ink 3D Printing using Magnetic Actuation | Dr. Shanshan Yao |
57 | Melodie Cadichon | DES1 is Not Involved in ER Stress-Related AIS of HER2+ and Basal Breast Cancer | Dr. Christopher Clarke |
58 | Stacey Jiang | Krüppel-like factor 15 (KLF15) Protein Regulation for Potential Therapeutic Treatment of Kidney Injury | Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu |
59 | Mia Kotikovski | ClpP Agonist Inhibits Pancreatic Cancer Growth in vitro | Dr. Agnieszka Bialkowska |
60 | Ryan Marquez | Addressing Racial Disparities: Unveiling the Surface Expression of a Potential Therapeutic Target, gC1qR, in African American Breast Cancer | Dr. Berhane Ghebrehiwet |
61 | Malaika Zaidi | Protective role of podocyte-specific overexpression of Kruppel-like factor 6 in diabetic kidney disease | Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu |
62 | Kiyoshi Shiomitsu | The Effect of Adipose Tissue-Specific Interleukin-22 Signaling during Intestinal Inflammation | Dr. Pawan Kumar |
63 | Francis Torres | Flippase and Sur7 Sensitivity: Are they Comparable? | Dr. James Konopka |
64 | Adam Mostafa | CRISPR-induced DNA Damage and its Effects on Neuron Development in Drosophila | Dr. Joshua Dubnau |
65 | Katherine Otavalo | Seizure Sensitivity of Zebrafish grin2D Mutants | Dr. Howard Sirotkin |
66 | Miura Traficante | Investigating Dysregulated Emotional Behaviors in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex with Behavior Battery and Calcium Photometry | Dr. Prerana Shrestha |
67 | Keith Yeung | Disruption of Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4E in Prefrontal Excitatory Neurons Attenuates Memory Consolidation | Dr. Prerana Shrestha |
68 | Megha Gopal | Mechanical Characterization and Endothelial Cell Response of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Vascular Grafts Blended with Resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate) (RDP) clay | Dr. Chander Sadasivan |
69 | Nickolas Chalen | MET and EGFR Crosstalk in NSCLC | Dr. John Haley |
70 | Erick Intriago | Development of Gemcitabine Modified micro-rna Mimics to Treat Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma | Dr. Jingfang Ju |
71 | Mahmoud (Moudy) Salem | Unique Metabolic Signature of Keratin 17 Transduced, 5-FU Treated Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas Reveals Upregulation of De novo Pyrimidine Synthesis | Dr. Kenneth Shroyer |
72 | Ellena Karapatakis | The Effects of Phospholipase D2 Mutations on Localization to Subcellular Vesicles | Dr. Michael Frohman |
73 | Amy Phi | Dynamics of RPA Phosphorylation in the Replication Stress Response | Dr. Hyungjin Kim |
74 | Margaret (Mars) Anderson | Design and Optimization of a Quasi Zero-Stiffness System for Low-Frequency Vibration Isolation in cryo-Nanoscopy and Implementation of Room-Temperature SNOM | Dr. Mengkun Liu |
75 | Konstantin Bauer | Study of ω/π⁰ ratio in Heavy-ion Collisions | Dr. Axel Drees |
76 | Ryan Brady | Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays as Oscilloscopes and Arbitrary Waveform Generators | Dr. Thomas Weinacht |
77 | Jose Gregorio Esparza III | Prototyping the Proximity-Focusing Aerogel Ring-Imaging Cherenkov Detector for the future Electron-Ion Collider | Dr. Abhay Deshpande |
78 | Parker Johnson | Accuracy and Efficiency of Integration Methods used in Castro Code | Dr. Michael Zingale |
79 | Daniel Julian | Learning Chemical Reactions: Neural Networks for Predicting Final States | Dr. Jesús Pérez Ríos |
80 | Jasleen Kaur | Design and Construction of a Vacuum System for Coincidence Velocity Map Imaging with TPX3CAM | Dr. Thomas Weinacht |
81 | Giorgi Kharchilava | Quasi-Static Theory for Rydberg Excitations in various density Bose-Einstein Condensates | Dr. Jesús Pérez Ríos |
82 | Anna Kovalskaya | Transiting Planets Around White Dwarf Stars | Dr. Kenneth Lanzetta |
83 | Austyn Masuno | Evaluating the Performance of a Universal Electron Force Field | Dr. Marivi Fernández-Serra |
84 | Shauna Shepard | Observing Dark Matter through Strong Gravitational Lensing using Next Generation Space Telescopes | Dr. Simon Birrer |
85 | Esha Singh | The Kicked Rotor Mechanism: Toy Model for Quantum Chaos | Dr. Jesús Pérez Ríos |
86 | Vera Staub | Complex Data for High Energy Physics at CERN: Two Projects in Cluster Computing and Machine Learning | Dr. Dymitri Tsybychev |
87 | Gabriel Andres | Summer Progress on a Low Cost HeNe Optical Tweezers | Dr. Eric Jones |
88 | Trevor Donovan | Assembling and Aligning a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer | Dr. Eric Jones |
89 | Destiny Howell | Progress Toward Building a Near-IR Spectrometer | Dr. Eric Jones |
90 | Naryman Lounici | Particle Tracking of Optically Trapped Microspheres with a Position-Sensitive Detector | Dr. Eric Jones |
91 | Donna Mahalli | Automated Light Attenuation with a Fast Response | Dr. Eric Jones |
