SURC Presenters
Time slot and board assignments are subject to change, so please check back often in case your assignment changes.
SURC Presenters
Time Slot 1 (1 - 1:45 PM)
Time Slot 1 (1 - 1:45 PM)
| Board # | Name | Program | Research project title | Principal investigator or mentor |
| 1 | Aaron Boston | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Asexual P. antipodarum's Generation Time Considering rDNA Genomic Repeats | Srivarshini (Varshu) Saravanakumar |
| 2 | Addison Cunningham | Biochemistry Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (BSURF) | Investigating RAD51 Filament Formation at the Single-Molecule Level | Maria Spies |
| 3 | Aidan Cazalet | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Establishing a High-Throughput Ca2+ Uptake Assay to Simulate Reperfusion Injury and Evaluate effects of Norepinephrine on Cardiac Mitochondria | Ethan J. Anderson |
| 4 | Alex Bock | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Comparative analysis of SMAD signaling in Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy | Lori Wallrath |
| 5 | Alexa Rivera | BEST Summer Training Program | It’s Not Your Fault: Paternal Mechanisms of High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy and Long-Term Women’s Health Disease | Brandon Shickling |
| 6 | Alexis Faudel | BEST Summer Training Program | Glyphosate in Pregnancy | Donna Santillan |
| 7 | Alexis Katz | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Examining the impact of soluble PMEL on T cells in Melanoma Tumor Microenvironment | Christina Cho |
| 8 | Alfredo Regla | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Benchtop Calibration and Concentration-Dependent Response of a Mid-Infrared QCL-Based N2O Gas Sensor | Fatima Toor |
| 9 | Alivia Seehase | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | SETDB1 Protects Endometrial Cancer Cells from Macrophage Clearance Through CD47 | Shujie Yang |
| 10 | Alyssa Moore | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | A Retrospective Analysis of Response Variability and Novel Behaviors during Extinction | Matthew O'Brien |
| 11 | Amadou Sall | BEST Summer Training Program | Optimization of Substrate Pretreatment for Zwitterionic Coating | Marlan Hansen |
| 12 | Amy Tai | UI Student, No Program | Effects of NRF2 and KEAP1 knock out on clonogenic survival and cell growth in Keap 1 mutant (A549) and Keap 1 wild type (H1299T) non-small cell lung cancer cells at physiological oxygen concentrations | Douglas R. Spitz |
| 13 | Amya Saxena | UI Student, No Program | Fruit Fly Motility Assays to Identify Drugs for Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy | Lori Wallrath |
| 14 | Angelika Laginova | Biochemistry Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (BSURF) | Sufficiency of the N4BP2 SMR Domain for DNA Damage and Chromosome Fragmentation | Ksenia Krupina |
| 15 | Annika Veit | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | DR5 and CASP8 Drive Sensitivity to Apoptosis in Ewing Sarcoma | David Gordon |
| 16 | Anushi Kiribamune | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | From Toxicity to Targetability: Evaluating Inclusion Body Formation with Phusion DNA Polymerase for UltraSELEX | Jennifer Streeter |
| 17 | Anya Melson | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Progesterone Receptors Prevent Insulin-Dependent DAT Regulation in Female Mice | Adele Stewart |
| 18 | Arib Mahmud | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | The Artificial Hepatic Pseudocapsule: Enzyme-responsive Peptide Hydrogels for Liver Tumor Encapsulation | James Byrne |
| 19 | Arsh Virk | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Geometry of Generative AI: Bridging Stochastic Differential Equations and Diffusion Models | Soheil Hosseini |
| 20 | Ashley Gallion | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Brf1 dependent RNA Polymerase III activity: Exploring the impact of non-coding RNA transcripts on KSHV reactivation | Jessica Tucker |
| 21 | Austin Bunkelman | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Synthesis and Screening of Novel Insulin Sensitizers | Robert Kerns |
| 22 | Ava Schneider | UI Student, No Program | Exploration of CsrA RNA Targets in Acinetobacter baumannii | Michael Gebhardt |
| 23 | Ava Vaillant | INI Summer Scholars | Validation of Repressive Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Elements to Determine Therapeutic Potential for Sodium Channelopathies | Ryan Boudreau |
| 24 | Avery Vale-Cruz | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Investigating the actions of glucocorticoid receptor cell mutants using RNA-sequencing for B-ALL | Jessica Zimmerman |
| 25 | Avishma Muthyapu | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | A Statistical Framework for Maximizing LNP Transfection Efficiency in In Vitro Cystic Fibrosis Models | Vidit Singh |
| 26 | Ayman Mohamed | UI Student, No Program | Social Functioning and Mood/Anxiety Comorbidity in a Neurodevelopmental Cohort | Jacob Michaelson |
| 27 | Bebe Cosgrove | Computing for Health & Well Being | Improving LLM-based Audio Understanding via Hallucination Reduction | Weiran Wang |
| 28 | Belén Avalos | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Monitoring Bipolar Disorder: Longitudinal Tracking of Fitbit Actigraphy with the ASERT Questionnaire. | Vincent Magnotta |
| 29 | Ben Plum | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Cognition improves with rTMS treatment for depression in a large-sample retrospective analysis | Aaron Boes |
| 30 | Benjamin Stavar | UI Student, No Program | Relations Between Parent and Teacher Reports of Children’s ADHD Symptoms Before and After School Entry | Isaac T. Petersen |
| 31 | Bethany Kobes | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluating the Effects of Non-canonical TGF-beta Signal Cascade Inhibition | Erin Talbert |
| 32 | Brooke Groezinger | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Effect Of Carbon Fiber Custom Dynamic Orthosis Cuff Design On Foot Loading During Gait With Impaired Individuals | Jason Wilken |
| 33 | Brooke Groezinger | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Preliminary Evaluation of Lower Extremity Motion and Loading in Patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease | Jason Wilken |
| 34 | Camden Maas | BEST Summer Training Program | Systematic Troubleshooting of Annealing/Extension Reactions in Sel2N25 dsDNA Synthesis to Enable Modified Aptamer Transcription | William Thiel |
| 35 | Christian Argenbright | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Exploring the Relationship between MS-Associated HLA Class II Genotypes and Gut Microbiota | Ashutosh Mangalam |
| 36 | Christian Engen-Carter | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Characterizing the role of Echinoid in embryonic wound healing | Katheryn Rothenberg |
| 37 | Christina Yu | INI Summer Scholars | The emergence and development of sleep-related ocular activity in infant rats | Mark Blumberg |
| 38 | Claire Smothers | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Effects of NRF2 and KEAP1 knock out on clonogenic survival and cell growth in Keap1 mutant (A549) and Keap 1 wild type (H1299T) non-small cell lung cancer cells at physiological oxygen concentrations | Doug Spitz |
| 39 | David Steele | Computing for Health & Well Being | Of Chatbots and Children: Developing Scenarios to Elicit Stakeholder Feedback on the Ethics of Conversational AI for Preteens | Juan Pablo Hourcade |
| 40 | De'Onna Battle | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Characterizing Transcriptional Changes Induced by Ebola Virus VP30 Expression in Cells | Wendy Maury |
| 41 | Eleanor Foley | Non-UI Student, No Program | Immunomodulatory Effects of Lactate on Neutrophil-Mediated Killing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Aimee Potter |
| 42 | Eleanor VanHorn | UI Student, No Program | Effect of Carbon Fiber Custom Dynamic Orthosis Cuff Design On Foot Loading During Gait With Unimpaired Individuals | Jason Wilken |
| 43 | Ella Pate | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Bridging Preclinical Models to Clinical Trials: Validating Hormone Therapies for Endometrial Cancer | Shujie Yang |
| 44 | Emilee Crouser | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Effects of Sex and Aging on Circadian Rhythms of Synapse Formation and Elimination | Taylor Jay |
| 45 | Emily Fox | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Assessing Fitness Costs of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Aimee Potter |
| 46 | Emma Heckman | Biochemistry Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (BSURF) | Mapping the PA0012-ChpB interface through alanine scanning and NMR-based characterization | Ernesto Fuentes |
| 47 | Emma Megli | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | mAb-Activated NK Cells Orchestrate CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T-Cell Responses to Enhance Bispecific Antibody Immunotherapy | George Weiner |
| 48 | Emma Stoodley | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Dual LSD1 and PARP Inhibition Targets Cancer Stem Cells in BRCA1-Mutant TNBC | Yi Huang |
| 49 | Eitan Yisraeli | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Shock probe defensive burying test elicits active coping in rats, as opposed to control condition | Jason Radley |
| 50 | Haley Parker | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Alginate Stiffness Impacts Proliferation and Morphology of Encapsulated Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells. | Kristan Worthington |
| 51 | Lauren Feller | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | An investigation into the physiological conservation of TOK1 channels in yeast | Alexandria Miller |
| 52 | Luke Bruderer | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Refining a spatial navigation test for clinical use | Daniel Tranel |
| 53 | Nikhil Vaduguri | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Influence of Free-Surface Proximity on Synthetic Jet Evolution and Vortex Dynamics | Cong Wang |
Time Slot 2 (1:50 - 2:35 PM)
Time Slot 2 (1:50 - 2:35 PM)
| Board # | Name | Program | Research project title | Principal investigator or mentor |
| 1 | Eric Morrell | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | An Investigation of the NETotic Effects of Colorectal Cancer Cell Releasate | Sanjana Dayal |
| 2 | Erika Barnes | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Melanoma-Derived PMEL Impairs Innate Immune Surveillance by Suppressing NK Cell Function. | Christina Cho |
| 3 | Erin Chen | Non-UI Student, No Program | Ifi30 as a Target for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease | Ling Yang |
| 4 | Ethan Herstedt | Computing for Health & Well Being | Agentic Humor, Customizable Comedic Personas for Self-Tracking and Behavior Change | Lucas De Melo Silva |
| 5 | Eunice Uy | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Role of Ncc69 in Drosophila melanogaster Hearing | Dan Eberl |
| 6 | Eva Siebert | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Targeting the CD7 axis to combat T cell exhausted in solid tumor settings | Ryan Zander |
| 7 | Evan Ferber | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Drosophila Brain Morphology in Response to Physical Injury Through Life. | Taylor Jay |
| 8 | Evan Ringnalda | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | How does verbal mathematical input influence children's magnitude processing abilities? | Ece Demir-Lira |
| 9 | Everett White | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Investigating the Role of Junctophilin-1 in Skeletal Muscle | Long-Sheng Song |
| 10 | Grace Cai | UI Student, No Program | The Role of Lysosomal GILT in Pancreatic Beta-Cell Dysfunction During Obesity and Diabetes | Ling Yang |
| 11 | Grace Knedler | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Linking Mechanics to Metabolism Through Aldolase Binding to Actin | Kris DeMali |
| 12 | Gretchen Schwager | Non-UI Student, No Program,Other | A New Task Battery to Characterize Social Cognition in the Iowa Neurological Patient Registry | Dorit Kliemann |
| 13 | Gunner Kline | Computing for Health & Well Being | Measuring Bidirectional Packet Latency in 5G | Tianyu Zhang |
| 14 | Hadley Snell | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | SMARCAL1 at Human Telomeres and its Malfunction in Osteosarcoma | Maria Spies |
| 15 | Hamza Selim | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Development and Characterization of Solid Gas-Entrapping Materials for Oral Drug Delivery Applications | James Byrne |
| 16 | Hana Abou Alaiwa | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The contribution of the mineralocorticoid receptor to progestin treatment of endometrial cancer | Miles Pufall |
| 17 | Hannah Lake | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Grooming microstructure development in mice with 16p11.2 copy number variations | Krystal Parker |
| 18 | Harpreet Kaur | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Evaluating MAPK/ERK pathway inhibitors against JCPyV infection in glial and kidney cell lines. | C. Sabrina Tan, Prabuddha Sarkar |
| 19 | Himanshu Jangid | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | High-Throughput In Vitro CRISPR Guide Screening Using TIDE Analysis to Enable Efficient In Vivo Mouse Knockout Models | Ryan Boudreau |
| 20 | Inika Talati | Computing for Health & Well Being | Conceptualizing Brain Health Systems for ADRD Prevention. | Lucas Silva |
| 21 | Isabella Jimenez Rodriguez | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Effect of STN-DBS on Cortical Beta Activity for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease | Jan R. Wessel |
| 22 | Isabella Webb | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Regulator of G Protein Signaling 6 (RGS6) Modulation of DAT Expression and Stimulant-Induced Locomotion. | Rory Fisher |
| 23 | Isabelle DeWitt | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Distinguishing Mild Cognitive Impairment from Normal Aging: Domain Specific Cognitive Differences | Natalie Denburg |
| 24 | Jack Dahlager | BEST Summer Training Program | Investigating the role of PKA R1β on Tau phosphorylation in aged mice. | Stephan Strack |
| 25 | Jaiden Kooima | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Enterococcus Interaction with the Extracellular Matrix in Early-onset Colorectal Cancer | Dustin Bosch |
| 26 | Jazmine Bolden | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | M1-Macrophage Vesicles have Minimal Impact on T Cells and Dendritic Cells in Ovarian Cancer | George Weiner |
| 27 | Jennifer Cardenas-Hernandez | BEST Summer Training Program | Engineering Stable Cellular Reagents: Optimizing Promoter Kinetics and Bacterial Growth for In-House Phusion DNAP Synthesis | Jennifer Streeter |
| 28 | Jenny Huynh | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Association Between Circle of Willis Status and Symptomatic Chronic Carotid Occlusion | Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez (PI) & Dr. Milagros Galecio-Castillo |
| 29 | Jenny Zuercher | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | The impact of HDAC inhibitors on MPNST viability in vitro | Rebecca Dodd |
| 30 | Jilly Janssen | BEST Summer Training Program | Maternal health risks in subsequent pregnancies following a pregnancy complicated by chorioamnionitis | Mark Santillan |
| 31 | Jimmicial Korsor Tengbeh | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Investigating the Role of FABP5 in the Proliferation and Metabolic Adaptation of 4T1 Breast Cancer Cells Under Nutrient-Deprived Conditions | Bing Li |
| 32 | Jorvik Jensen | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluating the effect of GPx2 on CRC cell migration | Sarah Short |
| 33 | Josefina Frisina | UI Student, No Program | A Screen to Identify Phosphatidylglycerophosphate Phosphatases in Clostridioides difficile | Craig Ellermeier |
| 34 | Justin Severson | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | The N4BP2 SMR Domain Induces DNA Damage in Ruptured Micronuclei | Ksenia Krupina |
| 35 | Kaitlyn Sander | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Abcc9 expression defines the centrally projecting subpopulation of estrogen receptor beta neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus | Jon Resch |
| 36 | Kaitlyn Wong | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | The impact of Western diet on the spatial proteomic signature of an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model | Snehajyoti Chatterjee |
| 37 | Kara Kueper | UI Student, No Program | The Role of Asymmetry in Spin and Vibrational Manifolds of Lanthanide Polyoxometalate Complexes | Korey Carter |
| 38 | Karamot Fatai | BEST Summer Training Program | IGF1 Overexpression Alters PLGF and Brain Vessel Density in Developing Fetal Brain | Serena Banu Gumusoglu |
| 39 | Kareem Alkhaleefa | Computing for Health & Well Being | MamaMoves: Designing Self-Tracking Systems for Reducing Sedentary Behavior During Pregnancy | Lucas De Melo Silva |
| 40 | Kassandra Alvarez | UI Student, No Program,Other | Investigating the Role of the Golgi Tethering Complexes GARP/EARP in Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) Infection in CAD Cells | Richard Roller & Diana Jung |
| 41 | Kayla Vital | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Association of Total Number of Medications and ASCVD Risk In Endometrial Cancer Survivors Following An Exercise Intervention | Jessica Gorzelitz |
| 42 | Kelsey Taylor | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Campylobacter jejuni Transposon Library (Tn-Shrink) | Lincoln Lewerke |
| 43 | Kennedy Godfredsen | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Determining the role of the basement membrane component Perlecan in promoting collective cell migration | Tina Tootle |
| 44 | Khanh Tran | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Efferocytosis of prelicensed MSCs mediate enhanced T cell suppression due to sustained anti-inflammatory phenotype | James Ankrum |
| 45 | Kyla Toombs | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Inhibition of Proteasome Functions Results in Cytoskeletal Aberrations in Corneal Endothelial Cells. | Raji Shyam |
| 46 | Landen Freeman | UI Student, No Program | Neutrino Physics at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) | Matheus Hostert |
| 47 | Laura Torres Ramos | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | EPHA2 Mediates Glucose-Dependent Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Growth and Metabolic Activity | Bing Li |
| 48 | Lauren Schultz | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Macrophage-Mediated JC Polyomavirus Trafficking: Implications for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy | Sabrina Tan |
| 49 | Lawrence Quinn | UI Student, No Program | Effects of C3G knockdown on embryonic wound healing in Drosophila | Katheryn Rothenberg |
| 50 | Leah Muench | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Optimizing mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Treatment in a Human iNeuron Model of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C1 | Mark Schultz |
| 51 | Levi Rosenboom | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Effect of Inflammation on JC Polyomavirus Cell Tropism | C. Sabrina Tan |
| 52 | Logan Frye | Microbiology REU Program | Tissue-Specific Immune Regulation in Macrophages via LOX-1 | Filiz Korkmaz |
| 53 | Luke Hawkins | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Faculty and Staff Burnout and Wellness: A Preliminary Study of the Effectiveness of an Interpersonal Gratitude Group Intervention | Martin Kivlighan |
Time Slot 3 (2:40 - 3:25 PM)
Time Slot 3 (2:40 - 3:25 PM)
| Board # | Name | Program | Research project title | Principal investigator or mentor |
| 1 | Macy Callahan | Computing for Health & Well Being | Empowering Middle School Students to Recognize Cyber Fraud | Juan Pablo Hourcade |
| 2 | Madeline Bickley | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Profiling the Metallome Using Non-Invasive Toenail Biomarkers to Evaluate Metal Exposure and Cancer Risk | Jong Sung Kim |
| 3 | Madeline Roberts | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Impact of Heat on Physical and Physiological Characteristics of Candida albicans Biofilms | Jan Fassler |
| 4 | Madisyn Gholson | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | The Role of Etv4 in Mammary Oncogenesis and Maintenance of Cancer Stem Cells | Ronald Weigel |
| 5 | Mariam Shaaban | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Repurposing Retired Coal Plants Using Thermal Storage: A Pathway to Grid Decarbonization in MISO | Jacqueline A Dowling |
| 6 | Matieis Mayes | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | A Computational Framework for Quantifying Collective Airway Epithelial Dynamics | Amy Ryan |
| 7 | Matthew Nachtman | UI Student, No Program | Effects of Proximal Cuff Tightness on Forces Acting on the Leg and Foot During Gait With Carbon Fiber Custom Dynamic Orthoses | Jason Wilken |
| 8 | Meadow Poitra | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Engineering a custom CRISPRi library to interrogate the transcriptional effects of steroid hormone receptors on progestin activity in endometrial cancer | Kristi Thiel |
| 9 | Meaghan Krier | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Genetic Predictors of Severe Adverse Events in Fluoropyrimidine-based Chemotherapy | Steven Offer |
| 10 | Melody Rages | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Role of glucocorticoid receptor in progestin treatment of endometrial cancer | Miles Pufall |
| 11 | Mikhail Sheridan | REU Program | Site Directed Mutagenesis of Key Amino Acids in a New Family of Clostridioides difficile L,D-Transpeptidases to Test Enzyme Activity | Atsushi Yahashiri |
| 12 | Miles Goetzman | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Investigating visual acuity in a novel B cell-dependent mouse model of multiple sclerosis | Alex Boyden |
| 13 | Molly Schneider | BEST Summer Training Program | Analysis of Great Toe Range of Motion and Plantar Fascia Strain | Ruth Chimenti |
| 14 | Morgan Kremer | Stinski Undergraduate Research Fellowship | Plasmodium infection-induced TFH1 cells are promoted by IL-12 signaling and provide suboptimal help to B cells compared to conventional TFH cells | Noah Butler |
| 15 | Nathan Fassett | INI Summer Scholars | Region-Specific Regulation of the Dopamine Transporter (DAT) by Insulin | Adele Stewart |
| 16 | Ngoc (Maggie) Nguyen | Non-UI Student, No Program | The Role of Lysosomes in Maintaining Bone Marrow Adipocyte Homeostasis | Ling Yang |
| 17 | Nicholas Germann | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Characterization of LINC01314-Encoded CtxnD1 Microprotein | Ryan L. Boudreau |
| 18 | Nicole Pedersen | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | mRNA Replacement Strategies in Glycogen Storage Disorder III | Mark Schultz |
| 19 | Noah Britton | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Optimization of Ga-68 radiolabeling of PSMA binding ligands | Ahmad Shariftabrizi |
| 20 | Noelle Michael | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Analyzing Growth and Phenotypic Response of Various Candida glabrata Strains Under a Range of pH Conditions | Bin He |
| 21 | Olivia Heller | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Characterizing the Role of Clp1 in Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Lytic Reactivation | Jessica Tucker |
| 22 | Omar Aristizabal | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Characterizing Ebolavirus Localization and Neuroinflammation in the Murine Brain | C. Sabrina Tan |
| 23 | Owen Ashbrook | BEST Summer Training Program,Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Molecular approaches clarify food webs of insects associated with North American oak galls | Andrew Forbes |
| 24 | Owen Cox | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Mapping spindle features in sleep and under anesthesia using higher-order spectra in human intracranial recordings | Sukhbinder Kumar |
| 25 | Peter Kotchick | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction and Quantitative Roughness Characterization of an Optical Cavity for N₂O Gas Sensing | Fatima Toor |
| 26 | Peter Nitsche | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Tentacle Tales: How Genome Architecture and Food Availability Shapes Tissue Regeneration | Maurine Neiman |
| 27 | Rayne Aurit | Computing for Health & Well Being | Ethics of Extended Reality Research with Children, Adult Stakeholder Perspectives | Juan Pablo Hourcade |
| 28 | Renee Lin | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | HER2+ Breast Cancer Cells Downregulate HER2 Expression in Response to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan | Mark E. Burkard |
| 29 | Rithik Vijaykumar | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluating GPx impact on intestinal inflammatory response | Sarah Short |
| 30 | Sahana Nagarajan | Non-UI Student, No Program | Using Patient Cells and Tissues to Investigate VEGF Signaling in Pulmonary Lymphangioleiomyomatosis | Amy Ryan |
| 31 | Samuel Smith | Non-UI Student, No Program | Investigating Basement Membrane Mechanics via Laser Microdissection | Katheryn Rothenberg |
| 32 | Seth Frerking | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Accessing Accuracy of a Scaphoid Pinning Simulator | Geb Thomas |
| 33 | Shelley Mishra | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Salience Network-Default Mode Network Connectivity and Anhedonia Severity: A Proposed EEG Approach | Bruce Bartholow |
| 34 | Shreya Gautam | Biochemistry Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (BSURF) | In vitro investigation of P. aeruginosa protein PA2989 as a modulator of PilT ATPase activity | Ernesto J. Fuentes |
| 35 | Shreya Ravada | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Oxygen- dependent PDO Formation in Ovarian Tumors | Danielle Uhl |
| 36 | Siqi Li | Computing for Health & Well Being | Incite: An AI-assisted surgical resident feedback system | Alberto Segre |
| 37 | Skyler Smart | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Correcting CFTR G542X via Integrase-Mediated Gene Insertion Using Viral Vectors | Paul McCray |
| 38 | Sophia Schnoebelen | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Oral Health During Pregnancy Continued | Donna Santillan |
| 39 | Stephanie Carr | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | A therapeutic strategy for enhancing target gene expression through blockade of microRNA binding sites | Ryan Boudreau |
| 40 | Steven Siegel | UI Student, No Program | Investigating the Role of ATP in Physiological Aggregation in Yeast | Jan Fassler |
| 41 | Sultan Cheema | BEST Summer Training Program | Utilizing immunofluorescence to validate AAV viral expression in the hippocampus | Ted Abel |
| 42 | Sydney Milcarek | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Efferent projections of Cck-expressing parabrachial neurons in mice | Joel Geerling |
| 43 | Taylor Brejcha | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Determine whether DNA-PK activity regulates FOXA2- dependent gene expression to direct epithelial differentiation | Amy Ryan |
| 44 | Teagen Kasel | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Synovial Sarcoma Morphology and its Effects on Iron Cycling within the Tumor Microenvironment | Karen Cyndari |
| 45 | Theodore Retsinas | UI Student, No Program | Comparison of Precision and Normative Tractography for Predicting Cortio-Cortical Evoked Potentials After Direct Electrical Stimulation of the DLPFC: A Case Study | Mark Bowren |
| 46 | Tianna Haliburton | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Perinatal PFAS Exposure and the Risk of Autism | Mark Santillan |
| 47 | Tracey Nguyen and Sebastian Veras | Computing for Health & Well Being | Predicting EMA Reported Real-World Hearing Experiences Using Machine Learning. | Octav Chipara |
| 48 | Vincent Ruiz | UI Student, No Program | Parity Provides Neuroprotection in the 5xFAD Amyloidopathy model of Alzheimer’s Disease | Serena Gumusoglu |
| 49 | Warren Sauer | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Creating a Xenograft GFP/Luciferase Uveral Melanoma | Colin Kenny |
| 50 | Weiran Wang | CS REU Program | Hallucination reduction of Large Audio Language Model | Weiran Wang |
| 51 | William Hand | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Role of Free Transit Fares in Advancing Well-being of Low-Income Individuals and University Students | Bogdan Kapatsila |
| 52 | William Sprengelmeyer | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Site in Wayne County | John Doershuk |
| 53 | Yatharth Sirohi | UI Student, No Program | Searching for Lepton Number Violating Long Lived Particles at Neutrino Experiments | Matheus Hostert |