2024 Scholars

Scholar | University | Laboratory | Poster/Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
George Babineaux | North Carolina A&T | Zanders | “Examining Genetic Variation in Spore Health” |
James Bleach | University of Leeds | Li | “Assessing the efficacy of de novo peptides to inhibit c-Myc” |
Diego Alfaro Carcoba | Johns Hopkins University | Kostova | “Investigating Non-stop Decay During Early Zebrafish Development” |
Samantha Crossman | Wake Forest University | Sankari | “Characterizing the antimicrobial activity of cysteine-rich peptides from legumes” |
Esha Francis | Rockhurst University | Sankari | “Plant NCR Peptide Interactions with Bacterial Proteins in Yeast Display Model” |
Camila Garcia | University of Maryland | Kostova | “Utilizing Lipid Based Transfection in Zebrafish” |
Matthew Gilley | Truman State University | Zanders | “The Quickening: Identifying Stochastic Meiotic Drive in Fission Yeast” |
Zoe Griffin | Rice University | Trainor | “CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Veiled Chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) to Study the Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms” |
Paul Llamas | Simpson Colege | Yu | “The effect of doxycycline in the intestine's morphology and its effect in behavior of stressed mice” |
Marijose Lopez Miranda | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico- | Bazzini | “Finding the Start Site of Downstream ORFs” |
Filippo Riva | Rockhurst University | Ozel | “An Optimized cell-type classifier for single-cell RNA sequencing data” |
Raisa Sanaa | Indian Institute of Science | Mashruwala | “Quorum sensing regulated mechanisms in Vibrio cholerae which protect against incoming type six secretion system (T6SS) attacks” |
Laura Sancho Salazar | Minerva University | Halfmann | “Computationally designed binders inhibit Aβ and tau assembly in vivo” |
Sydney Sharon | University of Missouri | Gerton | “FISH on fish: cytogenetic exploration of ribosomal DNA in zebrafish” |
lan Torres | Universidad De Concepcion | Yu | “DiI labeling reveals neuronal morphology development in the olfactory bulb of postnatal anosmic mice” |
Caleb Weber | University of Kentucky | Halfmann | "Exploring protein self-assembly using an mEos nanobody screening platform" |
Nino Zhunzhunadze | Minerva University | Zeitlinger | “Leveraging Deep Learning Model Predictions to Improve cis-regulatory Sequence Alignment” |