Since 1985, Student Research Day has provided an on-campus forum for students to showcase their research pursuits. For many students, the day offers the opportunity to share their dissertation research with their colleagues from other disciplines, engaging in discussion and soliciting feedback.
Student Research Day is held in the fall of each year for the students in the Ph.D. programs at the Georgetown University Medical Center. The purpose of Student Research Day is to showcase the scientific research efforts of graduate students at Georgetown University.
1st: Sidharth Jain – 3rd year, Tumor Biology (5th year M.D./Ph.D.) “Monitoring treatment response and toxicity in immune-checkpoint-inhibitor treated metastatic melanoma from circulating cell-free methylated DNA”
2nd: Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl – 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience “Neuroanatomical differences in children with reading disability”
Poster Presentations
1st: Douglas Kung – 3rd year, Tumor Biology “The disordered activation domain of Estrogen Receptor α dictates nucleolar localization of the receptor in a ligand-dependent manner”
2nd: Lindsey Russ – 3rd year, Pharmacology & Physiology “Dissecting the local circuitry between subpopulations in the pedunculopontine nucleus”
3rd: Katie Hummel – 5th year, Pharmacology & Physiology “CCR5 regulates PNNs and PV+ interneurons in the mouse hippocampus”
1st (Tie): Zac Colon – 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience “Implications of aging on inflammation, perineuronal nets, and parvalbumin interneurons”
1st (Tie): Michel Fallah – 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience “Basal ganglia inhibition of the rostral and caudal pedunculopontine nucleus”
Poster Presentations
1st: Micaila Curtis – 3rd year, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology “Mechanical and Biological Regulation of Bone Extracellular Matrix by Aging”
2nd: Douglas Kung – 2nd year, Tumor Biology “Decoding intrinsic disorder in the AF1 domain of estrogen receptor α”
1st: Karli Gilbert – 5th year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Pramipexole modulates pro-plasticity proteins, attenuates inflammation, and improves depressive-like behaviors in Balbc female mice
2nd: Phil Gross – 5th year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Clearance of senescent-like microglia improves remyelination in a mouse model of focal demyelination
Poster Presentations
1st: Matthew Nelson – 2nd year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Activation of toll like receptors by pathogenic alpha-synuclein
2nd: Luz Ruiz – 2nd year, Tumor Biology Investigating the BAIAP2-CDC42 interaction in medulloblastoma
3rd: Alexander Sukharev – 1st year rotation student, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Characterizing cross hemisphere projections from the pedunculopontine nucleus
1st: Kelly Martin – 5th year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Functional partitioning of sentence processing and emotional prosody in the right perisylvian cortex after left hemisphere perinatal stroke
2nd: Phillip Gross – 4th year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Characterizing the emergence of senescent cells in a mouse model of focal demyelination
Poster Presentations
1st: Michel Fallah – 1st year, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Characterizing functional subgroups among cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine nucleus
2nd: Sambo Wilfried Banaba – 4th year, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of Pfvps34 Encoding an Essential PI3 Kinase From Plasmodium falciparum
1st: Holly Korthas – 4th Year Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Ph.D. Program High Frequency Head Impacts Disrupts Sleep Architecture and Circadian Rhythms
2nd: Kelly Martin – 4th Year Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Ph.D. Program Language activation in the right hemisphere weakens and disperses with age
3rd: Gayatri Sanku – 3rd Year Microbiology and Immunology Ph.D. Program Unraveling the immune repertoire of SARS CoV-2- specific human T cell lines generated from unexposed individuals
Mackenzie Fama – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Self-reported inner speech in Aphasia is related to phonological retrieval
Zeus De los Santos – Chemistry Program Sensing of chiral compounds with a stereodynamic probe via multicomponent self-assembly
Amrita Pai – Cell Biology Program Hydralazine attenuates the development of hypertension in the female Dahl salt-sensitive rat in a T cell-independent manner
Shady El Damaty – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Intrinsic Connectivity of the Striatum in Developing Adolescents
Stephanie Sloley – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Repeat Concussion Causes Functional Changes in the Absence of Synapse Loss, Neuronal Cell Death and Neuroinflammation
Sarra Djemil – Pharmacology β4-containing receptors are necessary for network potentiation within in Vitro Hippocampal networks
Adam Caccavano – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Disruption of perineuronal nets increases the abundance of Hippocampal sharp wave ripples
Poster Category 2: Cellular & Molecular
Erin Conn – Cell Biology Program Discovery of the interaction between the Ewing sarcoma marker CD99 and V-ATPase
Chinyere Agbaegbu Iweka — Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) PRG-3 Modulates CSPG and LPA Inhibition of Neurite Outgrowth through the RhoA-ROCK Pathway
Bonnie Carney – Biochemistry Program Persistent ROS Damage Due to Decreased Ability to Scavenge ROS Contributes to Hypertrophic Scar Phenotype After Wound Closure
Kaela S. Singleton – Ph.D. in Neuroscience Matching Your Sox: Cross Species function and regulation of Sox11 in neural development
Alyssa King – Ph.D. in Biology Regulation of small RNAs by CodY in Staphylococcus aureus
Gabrielle Ann-Torre – Ph.D. in Neuroscience / Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) The Modulatory Roles of IQ and Socioeconomic Status (SES) on Gray Matter Volume
Oral Presentations
Cameron McKay – Ph.D. in Neuroscience / Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Resting-state EEG as a tool to characterize brain functional connectivity
Zeus Allen De Los Santos – Ph.D. in Chemistry Sensing of chiral compounds with a stereodynamic probe via multicomponent self-assembly
Mohan Zhang – Ph.D. in Chemistry Structural and Solubility Parameter Correlations of Gelation Abilities for Dihydroxylated Derivatives of Long-Chained, Naturally-Occurring Fatty Acids
Elizabeth Koch – Ph.D. in Chemistry Phase Transformations and Dopant Effects in Thymine Monohydrate
Marina Solomos – Ph.D. in Chemistry Template-Directed Nucleation of Diarylurea Polymorphs
Oral Presentations
Megan Allen – Ph.D. in Neuroscience / Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) Astrocyte-Derived MMP-1 As An Effector of Neuronal Excitability
Mackenzie Fama – Ph.D. in Neuroscience / Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) The Effects of Healthy Aging and Left Hemisphere Stroke on Statistical Language Learning
Ivana Brekalo – Ph.D. in Chemistry Templation of Elusive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Solid State Synthesis.
