Student Research Day

Oral Presentations:

1st/Tie: Paige Brooks – Biology

1st/Tie: Erin Wenzel – Pharmacology

2nd: Adam Caccavano – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN)

First-Year Rotation Posters:

1st: Marissa Laws – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN)

2nd: Plamen Nikolov – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN)

Biologies:

1st: Ivana Brekalo – Chemistry

2nd: Yang Yang — Biochemistry

3rd/Tie: Manasa Suresh — Microbiology and Immunology

3rd/Tie: Anjelika Gasilina – Biochemistry

Neuroscience:

1st: Gabrielle-Ann Torre – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN)

2nd: Katherine O’Connell – Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN)

Pharmacology:

1st/Tie: Mai Abdel-Ghani – Pharmacology

1st/Tie: Seham Alaiyed – Pharmacology

Oral Presentations:

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

Poster Category 1: Behavior, Cognitive, Circuits & Network Dynamics

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

Poster Presentations:

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

Poster Presentations:

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.