Wednesday, July 26 @ Iowa Memorial Union, Main Lounge

PRESENTATION SESSION I (1:00 - 1:55 p.m.)
Student Name Poster Title Program Faculty Mentor Poster Number
Alisha Schaefer Activation of an Insular Cortex-Bed Nucleus in the Rat Pathway Decreases Exploratory Behavior SROP Jason Radley

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Amanda Zumbrock Ligation Cloning and Helper-Dependent Adenoviral Vector Production SROP Sam Young 2
Ariana De Jesus Comparative genomics of telomere structure by Nanopore sequencing BSSURP Anna Malkova 3
Ava Ruiz Forgiveness and Trauma SROP Asha Bhandary 4
Ben Brown Story Carnival AI Project Computing for Health & Well Being Flannery Currin 5
Benjamin Black The Critical Impact of Lysosomal Function in Type I Diabetes BSSURP Ling Yang 6
Caden Nienow SOD Mimetics Enhance Ascorbate Toxicity in Lung Cancer through Hydrogen Peroxide Production BSSURP Douglas Spitz 7
Cael Elmore Synthetic Healthcare Worker Traces for Agent-Based Infection Models Computing for Health & Well Being Alberto Maria Segre 8
Christopher Pinney Elucidating the Roles of CD160 and CD244 in T Cell Exhaustion SROP Ryan Zander 9
Claire Graham Rapid peroxide removal limits radiosensitization of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) cells by pharmacologic ascorbate  BSSURP Michelle Howard 10
Colton Toutant Effect of Early-Life Gut Microbiota Depletion on Host Immunity BSSURP Ashutosh Mangalam 11
David Chengwen Gorman Metal Enrichment in Sea Spray Aerosol SROP Elizabeth A. Stone 12
Dominica Eckstrom Molecular Mechanisms of FGF21's Acute Insulin Sensitization  BSSURP Matthew Potthoff 13
Gabriella Schei Examining Pharmacological Ascorbate Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer  BSSURP Joseph Cullen 14
Hunter Miller Alteration of Molecular Functions of RAD51 Recombinase by a Fanconi Anemia Causing Mutation BSSURP Maria Spies 15
Jacob Nyberg Agent Based Hospital Simulator Computing for Health & Well Being Alberto Maria Segre 16
Jasmyn Hoeger Characterizing a novel family of alternative open reading frame encoded microproteins BSSURP Ryan Boudreau 17
Jordan Mumm Induction of GPR161 Expression in Memory Consolidation BSSURP Snehajyoti Chatterjee 18
Kana Iwahara Investigating the role of RIPK2 kinase function in the DSS induced colitis model BSSURP Prajwal Gurung 19
Kara West Face Processing in Bipolar Disorder: Meta-Analysis of Event-Related Potentials N170 and N250 SROP Amanda McCleery 20
Angél Xavier  Taste as a Proxy for Distrust SROP Samantha Zuhlke 21
Karen Garcia Age and sex-related differences in skeletal and cardiac muscle Mitochondria Endoplasmic Reticulum Contact Sites (MERCs) SROP Vitor Lira 22
Katrina Cedeño Báez Monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity in cardiac tissue from mice with cardiomyocyte MAO-A deficiency SROP Ethan Anderson 23
Klaudia Malik Does parent personality and psychopathology moderate the association between child temperament and self-regulation? SROP Isaac T. Petersen 24
La'Quan Reid Investigating the potential interaction between ism1and itgb1 BSSURP John Manak 25
Leah Gilbertson Associations Between Adversity During Childhood and Early Pubertal Timing in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study    SROP Molly Nikolas 26
Leo Nash Mining Disease-Symptom Relationships from PubMed Computing for Health & Well Being Kishley Jha 27
Lindsey Spolidoro Investigation of MED15 interactions using split-ubiquitin assays BSSURP Jan Fassler 28
Lulu King The Impact of Oxytocin and Addiction on Negative Affect in Mothers Using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) SROP Lane Strathearn 29
Madeleine Jin Data Augmentation and Validation for Agent Based Modeling Computing for Health & Well Being Alberto Maria Segre 30
Madeline Bonner Fairness and Equity in Vaccine Allocation Computing for Health & Well Being Sriram V. Pemmaraju 31
Maja Palmroos Seeing is Believing: Applying Eye Tracking to COVID-19 Maps Computing for Health & Well Being Juan Pablo Hourcade 32
Martha Pace Investigating the Effects of Cav1.3 KO on Cerebellar Molecular Layer Interneurons BSSURP Aislinn Williams 33
Mia Bruno Does Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 impact the development of the epidermis? BSSURP Martine Dunnwald 34
Mulan Liu Pathogen loads estimation for load-sharing epidemic models Computing for Health & Well Being Bijaya Adhikari 35
Ritika Thapa Examining the effect of Nr4a activation on social recognition memory SROP Ted Abel 36
Ruth Pfeiffer Mitochondrial Dicarboxylate Carrier Preserves Cell Viability During Respiration Loss  BSSURP Eric Taylor 37
Samantha Anema Investigating the effects of prenatal stress and IL-6 exposure on dorsal striatal microglia in mice BSSURP Hanna Stevens 38
Sarah Haulk Nocturnal susceptibility to heat-induced seizures in a mouse model of Dravet Syndrome SROP Gordon Buchanan 39
Schaler Starks Elucidating Mechanisms of Trametinib Response in Low Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer BSSURP Adam Dupuy 40
Scott Tomlinson Impression Management and Corporate Social Responsibility SROP Ion B. Vasi 41
Sherlean Roberts Beyond Aid: Exploring the Implications of Chinese Engagement in African Countries SROP Brian Lai 42
Sofia Martinez Treatment for Spanish-English Bilingual Children With Speech Sound Disorder Using Complex Targets: Assessing Generalization and Transfer Across Languages SROP Philip Combiths 43
Sophia Keis Time-of-day and circadian-dependent seizure mortality in a mouse lacking the clock gene Bmal1 BSSURP Gordon Buchanan 44
Taylor Sakaguchi LRRK2 G2019S promotes the development of colon cancer BSSURP Zizhen Kang 45
Teddy Friedman Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols from Consumer Products in New York City SROP Elizabeth A. Stone 46
Tiffany Michels "Yes MiniBird! Yes Sir!" Applications of E-Books and Voice Agents in Social Play Computing for Health and Well Being Juan Pablo Hourcade 47
Tiziana Hernandez & Luke Aschenbrenner Lost In The Voids: Discovering the Exploitation of Data Voids Computing for Health & Well Being Rishab Nithyanand 48
Ujvala Jupalli The effects of IL-27 on T Cells in the nonobese diabetic mouse model of  Sjogren’s Disease BSSURP Scott Lieberman 49
Venezia Roshko Gestational hypothyroidism effects on oxidative stress in fetal forebrain and placenta SROP Hanna Stevens 50
Rika Yahashiri Mechanisms of NK(T) cell IFNg production during canine Lyme Disease BSSURP & Williams College Christine Petersen 51
PRESENTATION SESSION II (2:00 - 2:55 p.m.)
Student Name Poster Title Program Faculty Mentor Poster Number
Alba Bon, Jason Homann, Robert Bradle, & Maryam Mafuri Aerial LiDAR Examination and Conservation of Ecology (ALEX-CE) Edge of Space Program Allison Jaynes, Susan Meerdink, & Adam Skibbe 1
Henry Krain, Meklit Shiferaw, Naysha Jain, & Klara Kjome Fischer Balloon Altitude Analysis of Cosmic Ray Flux Experiment Edge of Space Program Allison Jaynes 2
Juliana Karl, Justin Crevier, & Hally Zhou Raspberry Pi-Based Aerial Plant Stress Identification Edge of Space Program Allison Jaynes 3
Clare Christensen & Holden Sevening Prefrontal cortex activation during n-back task performance: A combined FNIRS & EEG pilot study FUTURE in Biomedicine Nandakumar (Kumar) Narayanan

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Hunter Mennenga & Grace Schaefer Tracking lipid bodies in macrophages infected with Leishmania infantum FUTURE in Biomedicine Mary Wilson 5
Alexia Lynn The Surprising Emergence of Twitches During Non-REM Sleep Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Greta Sokoloff

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Anne Cunningham Decreased cerebral blood flow as a predictor of radiation-induced cognitive decline Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Michelle Tamplin 7
Anne Morris Cross-feeding in the gut microbiome: how bacterial contact regulates polysaccharide usage Microbiology Dustin Bosch 8
Archisha Biwas Unraveling the Coordination of Respiratory Cilia: Effects of Chemicals and Environment on Beat Frequency and Direction Computational Bioengineering Abou Alaiwa Mahmoud 9
Arianna Escandon Experimental manipulation of algal diet to assess environmental influences on Potamopyrgus antipodarum Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Maurine Neiman 10
Avery Scurlock CT-based Airway Segmentation in Fibrotic Lung Disease Using Convolutional Neural Networks  Computational Bioengineering Sarah Gerard 11
Beatriz La Rota Self-Organization of Honeycombing in an Agent-Based Model of Lung Fibrosis Computational Bioengineering Jacob Herrmann 12
Brooke Wetherill Accelerating Reconstruction for Diffusion Weighted Imaging Computational Bioengineering Vincent Magnotta 13
Alonzo L. Moore, IV Using CRISPRi to Determine How MEF2C Modulates Glucocorticoid Sensitivity in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia  N/A Miles Pufall 14
Christine Needham Investigating the Effects of STA on Anatomical Frame Estimates for Motion Capture Computational Bioengineering Rachel Vitali 15
Cole Belcher Investigating the Adhesion Function of Candida auris Hyr/Iff (Hil) Family Adhesins using an Exogenous Expression System Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Bin He 16
Courtney Johnson Analyzing the LPS Biosynthesis Pathway in Cefsulodin Suppressor Mutants FUTURE in Biomedicine David Weiss 17
Elizabeth Quam PDZ domain specificity modulation through allosteric mutations N/A Ernesto Fuentes 18
Devin Hendrix Characterizing PilZ Domain Protein Interactions with Type IV Pili Effectors in Biased Twitching Motility In Pseudomonas aeruginosa Microbiology Ernesto Fuentes 19
Elizabeth Elias Augmentation of PD-L1 expression in MPNSTs by CDK4/6-MEK dual inhibition Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Dawn Quelle 20
Elizabeth Walker Comparing the effects of the Wahls VS Swank Diets on Sleep Quality and Perceived Stress Levels in People with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Study Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Terry Wahls 21
Emily Nothwehr Isolation and Characterization of OmpH Mutations Leading to Increased Cefsulodin Resistance n FUTURE in Biomedicine Brittney Dinkel 22
Evan Larson Developing a Statistical Shape Model for Joint Space Width and Congruency Index Analysis of Medial Tibiofemoral Articulation Computational Bioengineering Don Anderson 23
Gabrieline Dennis Exploring the Association between APOE variants and Frontotemporal Dementia Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Li-Chun (Queena) Lin 24
Grace Schroeder Determining the Essential Nature of Hfq in Acinetobacter baumannii Microbiology Michael Gebhardt 25
Hannah Landman Deleting Memo in Nemo: Does Mutating memo1 in Zebrafish Affect Development? FUTURE in Biomedicine Eric Van Otterloo 26
Hannah Laster Identification of Putative Cell Division Proteins in Clostridioides difficile Microbiology Craig Ellermeier 27
Jacques Bugumba MRI Based Visualization of the Vocal Tract during Human Phonation Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Sajan Goud Lingala 28
Owen Fiedorowicz Geodesic Deviation and TW Gravity N/A Vincent Rodgers 29
Jawad Haider Functional protein domains that are required for MCL-1-CT181 binding in Chlamydia trachomatis infection Microbiology Mary Weber 30
Josie Bliss Characterizing Endopolyploidy in a Ploidy-Polymorphic Snail Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Maurine Neiman 31
Brenna Powers Using Fruit Fly Models of Muscular Dystrophy to Find Treatments N/A Lori Wallrath 32
Jurnie Rosius Pharmacologic ascorbate as a protectant against radiation-induced cognitive decline: Preliminary results Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Isabella Grumbach 33
Kayla Podlewski Effects of the Center of Rotation on Joint Contact Stresses Derived from Computational Models of Dysplastic Hips Computational Bioengineering Jessica Goetz 34
Keirsten Trayte Isolation and Variant Analysis of Cefsulodin Suppressor Mutants via Whole Genome Sequencing FUTURE in Biomedicine David Weiss 35
Hailey McCoy-Munger Identifying compounds that rescue disease phenotypes of a Drosophila model of retinitis pigmentosa N/A Lori Wallrath 36
Kiley Christopher Expression and Involvement of Complement Component C5aR1 in Glial Cells Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Yuriy Usachev 37
KJ Foster-Middleton Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Adipocyte-Induced Myofibroblasts Computational Bioengineering Terry Braun 38
Lupita Morales Aguilar Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Study Numerical Cognition in Preschoolers Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Ece Demir-Lira 39
Madalyn Lovejoy Rape-Supportive Attitudes among Heterosexual and Sexual Minority College Students: Comparing Heteronormative and Inclusive Measures Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Teresa Treat 40
Madelyn Bigalke Characterization of the interaction between LPS biosynthesis and Cefsulodin resistance in E. coli FUTURE in Biomedicine David Weiss 41
Mariam Nawar Design and Development of a High-Resolution 3D Printer with Improved Adaptability Computational Bioengineering Kristan Worthington 42
Molly Guerra Effects of Parenting Stress on Children’s Academic Achievement: The Role of Positive and Negative Parenting Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Isaac T. Petersen 43
Natalie Kehrli Physical Exercise as an Adjunct Intervention to Support Well-Being & Cognition in Schizophrenia Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Amanda McCleery 44
Precious Maryah Pate Building a New Model: Germline Identification Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Maurine Neiman & Doug Houston 45
Sabryn Labenz Decoding Destabilization: Investigating the Mechanisms by Which Disruption of the RAD51:RAD51 Interface Affects RAD51 Nucleoprotein Filament Integrity and Function FUTURE in Biomedicine Maria Spies 46
Seren Castellano Solving a Sex Mystery: Invasion of the Clones Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Maurine Neiman 47
Thomas Carillo, Jr. Unveiling the differential impact of MHV-JHM and MHV-A59 I proteins on virulence and innate immune antagonism Microbiology Stanley Perlman 48
William Dong Processing of ultra-high resolution (7T) brain scans to detect chemotherapy-related white matter abnormalities Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) Kancha Ramchandran 50
Sydney Williams A Novel Sap Flow Sensor for Corn Plants N/A Anton Kruger 51
Wilensky Coleau A Soft Exoskeletal Device for Hand Rehabilitation & Assistance Computational Bioengineering Deema Totah 54
PRESENTATION SESSION III (3:00 - 3:55 p.m.)
Student Name Poster Title Program Faculty Mentor Poster Number
Adriana Sanchez Manzo Iron oxide nanoparticle enhances pharmacological ascorbate toxicity in NSCLC by a H2O2
dependent mechanism		 SCURPI Melissa Fath 1
Alexis Olson Effect of SerpinA3N in Leptin Receptor Expressing Neurons on Metabolic and Glucose Homeostasis INI Summer Scholars Kamal Rahmouni & Deng Guo 2
Calyssa Huff The effects of angiogenin overexpression on transfer RNA fragments and the reactivation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Microbiology Jessica Tucker 3
Aniyah Muldrow Racial Disparities in State-Level Cancer Incidence Rates SCURPI Whitney Zahnd 4
Arielle Cafi Orally Administered Carbon Monoxide Augments Autophagy Inhibition for Cancer Therapy SCURPI James Byrne 5
Asriya Karki Investigating the neuronal role of the cytoskeletal associated protein MICAL2 SUMR Aislinn Williams 6
Ava Gabrys Exploring domain architecture diversity and its potential contribution to virulence in an adhesin gene family found among pathogenic yeasts Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Bin He 7
Juan Rivera Rosado Clostridiodes difficile: identification of conserved and novel cell division proteins in an important pathogen Microbiology David Weiss 8
Cameron Diehl Characterization of adhesins and biofilms in pathogenic yeasts Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Jan Fassler 9
Cassandra Garcia Endothelial SIRT1 Inhibits Melanoma Tumor Growth SCURPI Kaikobad Irani 10
Cassandra Hung Are Old and New World Camelid Sperm Genes Under Relaxed Selection? Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology John M. Logsdon, Jr. 11
Cathryn Ramon Design of Tools and Conditions for the Study of the Effect of R-loops on Crossover Formation in the C. elegans Germline Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Sarit Smolikove 12
Chase Eastham Human Cytomegalovirus Late Transcription Factors Essential Influence on Viral Gene Expression SUMR Jeffery Meier 13
Deven Strief Can the antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) attenuate neuronal cell death and microglial activation in mouse neocortex following developmental alcohol exposure? INI Summer Scholars Michael Dailey 14
Eli Gregory The Contribution of Shal (Kv4) to Hearing in Drosophila ICRU Research Fellow Dan Eberl 15
Daisy Hernandez TRAF3 Regulation of Type I Interferon Signaling in B Cells Microbiology Gail Bishop 16
Ellie Johnson Establishing a Mouse Model to Elucidate the Role of the CD5 Co-receptor in Tumor Infiltrating T Cells SUMR Priya Issuree 17
Emma Demuth Assessing the Impact of Chiari Malformation Surgery on Visuospatial Construction ICRU Research Fellow Dan Tranel 18
Erica Edinger Do introduced gall systems retain ancestral parasitic insect associates, and do they recruit new ones? Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Andrew Forbes 19
Erin Elizalde Does ZEB1 confer sensitivity to GPx4 inhibition through regulation of iron metabolism? SCURPI Michael Henry & Marion Vanneste 20
Esme Avila-Marquez Data entry and data quality activities in support of the NET-PRO study SCURPI Michael O'Rorke 21
Felix Berrios Ortega Evaluating the interaction between heat stress expected under climate change and nutrient limitation in a freshwater snail Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Maurine Neiman 22
Kellyann Román-Cruz In vitro characterization of Chlamydia trachomatis effector protein TmeA and its interactions with host N-WASP/Toca-1 protein Microbiology Mary Weber 23
Helen Yoo Computational modeling of the production and translation of multi-gene mRNA transcripts in E. coli  SUMR Adrian H. Elcock 24
Hiruni Sumanasiri Establishing Preclinical Models of Gynecologic Cancer SCURPI Kristi Thiel 25
Isabella Murray Molecular profiling of a slow-growing metastatic subpopulation of cancer cells capable of persisting within a bulk tumor cell population Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Christopher Stipp 26
Isaiah Johnson Impact of duration and sequential order of bsAb administration with mAb on NK cell activation and ADCC SCURPI George Weiner 27
Jacob Hunt Tissue equivalent materials for PET and SPECT calibration and viability of direct Actinium-225 quantitative imaging SCURPI John Sunderland 28
Jake Miller In Vitro Age-Related Macular Degeneration Characterization and Treatment SUMR Budd Tucker 29
Jasmine Miftahof Gap Symmetry in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Analyzing the Impact of Robotic Assistance SUMR Jessica Goetz 30
John Cooke Effects of Iron metabolic manipulation on stearyl co-a desaturate inhibition SCURPI Vince Magnotta 31
Kazi Salsabil Patient-Derived Model Systems of Endometrial Cancers for Disease Modeling and Drug Sensitivity Testing SCURPI Shujie Yang 32
Kenn Benne Identifying drivers of gemcitabine resistance in Ewing Sarcoma through an insertional mutagenesis screen SCURPI David Gordon 33
Laura Hovenga Man's best friend or foe? Pets' microbial and psychological effects on breast cancer and healthy control SCURPI Catherine Cherwin 34
Marissa Maier Antimicrobial Resistance and Hypermutation After Loss of Antibiotic Selection in CF Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Anthony Fischer 35
Melanie Tran-Duong Depressive Symptoms and Circadian Rhythm Characteristics in Older Adults​ ICRU Research Fellow Chooza Moon 36
Nhandhi Edmond Investigating the specific roles of Tet enzymes in T cell exhaustion SCURPI Thorsten Maretzky & Priya Issuree 37
Nicole Boodhoo Investigating a role of corticosterone in seizure related mortality in amygdala kindled mice INI Summer Scholars Gordon Buchanan 38
Njenga Kamau Novel Lead (212^Pb) Theranostic Pair Targeting CXCR4 in Lung Neuroendocrine Cancers SCURPI Doug Spitz 39
Jasmine McKeel Investigating the Role of Lmo2839: A Potential Virulence Factor in Listeria monocytogenes during Animal Infection  Microbiology Lilliana Radoshevich 40
Paige Wiebke Characterization of fruit fly models of the vision disorder Retinitis Pigmentosa ICRU Research Fellow Lori Wallrath 41
Parker Boevers Importance of NOD1 and NOD2 in L. monocytogenes Infection N/A Prajwal Gurung 42
Prithivi Geetha Krishnamoorthy Randomizing Viral DNA Sequences of Polyomaviridae to determine Evolutionary Rates Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Andrew Kitchen 43
Ruth Bropleh Identifying and tracing brain lesions to predict neuropsychological outcomes N/A Alyssa Sullivan 44
Sarah King Cu-ATSM in the fight against pediatric brain cancer: repurposing an ALS drug for DIPG SUMR Michelle Howard 45
Seydeanna Delgado Tenebrionid Beetle "Evo-Devo": Comparative Genomics of the HES-C Developmental Gene Complex Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology Albert Erives 46
Shanmukh Boggarapu The Impact of Placental Igf-1 Expression on Embryonic Forebrain Morphology and Cell Proliferation in Mice N/A Hanna Stevens 47
Stephanie Pedraza Marin Health Promotion Initiatives: Cancer Prevention through HPV Vaccine  SCURPI Natoshia Askelson 48
Tarynn Rodman Influence of GI Microbiome and Age on Mood Symptoms in Women with Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy ICRU Research Fellow Catherine Cherwin 49
Wesley Steiner An Experimental Investigation on the Stability of Nanofuels Using the Photoluminescent Property of Smart Material & Image Analysis N/A Albert Ratner 50