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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 | Ainsley Bartz | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Novel nanoparticles containing G10 and OVA coated in heparin or Lovenox | George Weiner |
2 | Alaina Lundquist | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The role of mouse Slfn proteins in cellular proliferation and the DNA damage response | Jessica Tucker |
3 | Alec Melendez | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Mid-Infrared QCL Sensor for Trace-Level N2O Detection | Fatima Toor |
4 | Alexandra Gutierrez | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Culturing Primary Rat Astrocytes to Study the Toxicity of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) | Laura E. Dean & Hans-Joachim Lehmler |
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6 | Alistair Entz | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Ozone Reduction with a Beam Stopper for a FLASH Linear Accelerator | Ryan Flynn |
7 | Alyssa Marzorati | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Spatial Attentional Errors on the Clock Drawing Task are Associated with Clinicians' Recommendations to Discontinue Driving | Dan Tranel |
8 | Amanda Torres Rivera | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Mechanosensitive Calcium Channels in Circulating Tumor Cells: Investigating TRPV4 and PIEZO Under Fluid Shear Stress | Kris DeMali |
9 | Amitha Karuppiah | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Evaluating expression of lactate metabolism genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae during oxidative stress | Aimee Potter |
10 | Andrew Lee | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Progress Toward the Synthesis of Biologically Active Lindenane Sesquiterpenoids | David Martin & Matteo Mannara |
11 | Andrew Yates | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Aneuploid Subclones Derived After Transient Chromosomal Instability in p53-KO TNBC Cells Demonstrate Distinct CNAs and Elevated Mitotic Errors | Mark Burkard & Shermineh Bradford |
12 | Annadelle Brown | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Investigating the role of Echinoid in driving embryonic wound healing | Katy Rothenberg |
13 | Anya Robinson | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Sex- and Region-dependent Differences in Neuronal Activation Following Amphetamine Administration | Adele Stewart |
14 | Arib Mahmud | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Profiling Intraspecies Variation in the Oxidative Stress Response of Candida glabrata | Bin Z. He |
15 | Aubrey Watkins | Microbiology | LOX-1 Engagement by oxLDL Modulates Alveolar Macrophage Response During Pneumonia Infection | Filiz Korkmaz |
16 | Audrey Hoey-Kummerow | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Do Beliefs Drive Behavior? Exploring the Relationship Between Perceptions of Sustainability and Food Practices | Bogdan Kapatsila |
17 | Ava Blackledge | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Reassessing the Role of Codivergence in the Evolution of Polyomaviridae by Estimating Evolutionary Rates | Andrew Kitchen |
18 | Ayank Maiti | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Investigating Freezing Responses to CO2 Exposure and Central Amygdala Activity in GluD1R knockout Mice. | Stephanie Gantz |
19 | Bailee Kamerzell | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | The Influence of Executive Functioning and Conflict Monitoring on Race Bias | Bruce D. Bartholow & Paul J. Brancaleone |
20 | Bailey Newberry | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Maternal Brain and Behavior in a Mouse Model of Chronic Gestational IL-17 | Banu Gumusoglu |
21 | Bailey Williams | Microbiology | Role of HSV-1 Microtubule-Stabilizing Viral Protein in Nocodazole Resistance | Richard Roller |
22 | Ben Johnson | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | The Role of FABP4 in Early Tumor Development in MMTV-Wnt1 Mice | Bing Li |
23 | Benjamin Hourcade | Computing for Health & Well Being | Speeding up disease simulations with cut sparsification | Jeffrey Keithley, Sriram Pemmaraju, & Alberto Segre |
24 | Blessing Ukandu | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Elucidating the role of HGF/c-MET signaling during HIV-1 infection in CD4+ T cells | Li Wu |
25 | Cal Baker | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Revising the Schizophora (Diptera) Using Loss of Duplication in the TMC Protein Family | Albert Erives |
26 | Carius McClain | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Modeling Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in ARPE-19 Cells Using Pro-EMT Cytokines | Kristan Worthington |
27 | Cassandra Garcia | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Investigating the Methyltransferases Responsible for Hypermethylation Under Hypoxia | Adam Mailloux |
28 | Cecily Gross | Computing for Health & Well Being | Optimizing Accuracy and Fitting Time in Preset Selection for OTC Hearing Aids | Octav Chipara |
29 | Charlie Thomas | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Mode, Mood, and Attitude: Understanding Transportation Satisfaction in the University of Iowa Campus Region | Bogdan Kapatsila |
30 | Chloe Hein | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | (Almost) Amazons: Exploring Sex Determination in a Female-Dominated Freshwater Snail | Maurine Neiman |
31 | Claudia Claridy | Chemistry - Heavy Metals | Multinuclear NMR Characterization of Polyoxometalates in Aqueous Solution | Korey Carter |
32 | Corinne Lambrecht | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Optimized CRISPR Guide RNA Design for LOXL2 Targeting in Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor Metastasis Research | Rebecca Dodd |
33 | Grace Peil | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | The effect of TGF-beta on GPx expression in CRC | Sarah Short |
34 | DeAndre Steger | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Analyzing Campus Water Consumption: How Age Relates to Drinking Water Choices at the University of Iowa | Bogdan Kapatsila |
35 | Drew Ridenour | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Identification of inflammatory pathway leading to hyperinflammatory syndrome in patients with lysinuric protein intolerance | Polly Ferguson |
36 | Dylan Friend | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Sleeping Beauty Based Forward Genetic Screen may Identify Novel Downstream Regulators of Melanoma Progression | Colin Kenny |
37 | Dylan Madsen | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | GPCRs driving drug resistance in rare and aggressive form of melanoma | Christopher Stipp |
38 | Elizabeth Gross | INI Summer Scholars | pCREB Expression in A11 Dopamine Neurons During the Transition to Chronic Pain | Kathleen Sluka |
39 | Ella Pate | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Patient-Derived Models to Test Drug Effectiveness and Patient Tailored Therapies in Endometrial Cancer | Shujie Yang |
40 | Ellie Wojcikowski | INI Summer Scholars | TRACE-SZ: Trace Eyeblink Conditioning Differences in a Schizophrenia-Relevant Mouse Model | Krystal Parker |
41 | Emily Roberts | Microbiology | The Role of Calprotectin in Nutritional Immunity: Inflammatory Dynamics during Campylobacter Infection | Jeremiah Johnson |
42 | Emily Zhang | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Chaperone Regulation of Protein Aggregation in C. elegans | Bryan Phillips |
43 | Emma Fonseca | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | A Genomic Analysis of Sex Determination in P. antipodarum | John Logsdon |
44 | Eric Spain | BEST Summer Training Program | Cardiovascular Effects of Vaping in Young Adults Using MRI | Sean Fain |
45 | Erin Elisabeth Anderson | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Macrophage-Mediated Clearance and Cytokine Response to Stimuli During Pneumonia-Associated Inflammation | Filiz Korkmaz |
46 | Erin Morrow | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow, Csomay Center Summer Scholar | Engaging Rural Communities to Understand Psychosocial Stress Impacting Brain Health in Latino Middle-Aged and Older Adults. | Juliana Souza-Talarico |
47 | Ethen Santana | Computing for Health & Well Being | Extended Reality, Extended Responsibility: Ethical Considerations for Children | Juan Pablo Hourcade |
48 | Gabriel Im | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Investigating Replication Protein A–DNA Interactions Using FRET-Based Assays | Maria Spies |
49 | Gabriel Postacchini | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | A Tool For Summarizing How a Document Was Revised | N. Charles Harata |
50 | Garrett Roehl | Computing for Health & Well Being | Modeling the Spread of Hospital Acquired Infections | Alberto Maria Segre |
51 | Georgia Chaffin | Microbiology | The Functional Analysis of ICP22 Mutants During an HSV-1 Infection | Richard Roller |
52 | Grace Early | UI Student, No Program | Identify Factors that Inhibit Pancreatic Lipase | Brandon Davies |
53 | Grace Schroeder | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Determining the Regulatory Effects of sRNA-50 in Acinetobacter baumannii | Michael Gebhardt |
54 | Jackson Friedman | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Experimental Investigation of Synthetic Jet Actuators via Rigid-Orifice and Deformable-Membrane Interaction | Cong Wang |
55 | Joseph Egbe | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Assessing Arsenic Exposure with Toenail Biomarkers | Kim Jong Sung |
56 | Lauren Wall | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Neonatal testosterone dysregulation induces developmental delays in wild-type mice | Sarah Ferri |
57 | River Blumenstock | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Depression Affects the Accuracy of Maternal Reports of Children’s Externalizing Behavior | Isaac Petersen |
58 | Sanaa Thomas | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | The Miseducation of Misogynoir: Criminalization | Amber Powell |
59 | Sofía Cruz | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Phosphate homeostasis and phosphate availability impacts the sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus to antibiotics | Thomas Kehl-Fie |
60 | Wren Pinkela | Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) | Are Visuo-spatial Neuropsychological Test Performances Associated with Visual Hallucinations in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies? | Dan Tranel |
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63 | Cotes Royson | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | RNA Traffic Controllers: Expression and Localization of KIF1c and APC in Healthy and Diseased Hearts | Ryan Boudreau |
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 | Megan Murphy, Amod Sabnis, Maria Marchozzi, Sydney Schultz | Edge of Space Program | G.E.C.O. (Geiger Experiment for Cosmic Ray Observation) | Allison Jaynes |
2 | Alayna Gallery | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | pCREB Signaling Pathway in Spinal Dopamine 1 Receptor Neurons | Kathleen Sluka |
3 | Andrea Medina | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Sleep & Behavior: Examining the relations of sleep quality with empathy and social cognition in people living schizophrenia | Bengi Baran |
4 | Bhoomika Shettigar | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Refining Green Space Measurement: A Pipeline for Psychological Data | Ece Demir-Lira & Tess Filip |
5 | Christina Yu | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Development of state-dependent visuomotor activity in infant rats | Mark Blumber |
6 | Everett White | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Investigating Calpain Proteolysis of Mutant Junctophilin-1 | Long-Sheng Song |
7 | Hailey Barrett | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Characterizing the behavioral phenotypes of a novel Drosophila prickle mutant | John Manak |
8 | Hana Abou Alaiwa | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The contribution of the mineralocorticoid receptor to progestin treatment of endometrial cancer. | Miles Pufall |
9 | Harry Bui | UI Student, No Program | The Role of Transcription Factor Binding Affinity in DNA Damage Formation | Miles Pufall |
10 | Helen Branson | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Dissecting the contribution of iRhom2 on thymic adipose remodeling and T cell output | Thorsten Maretzky |
11 | Hifaa Adam | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | End-of-Life and AI: Exploring Family Caregiver Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Palliative Care and End of life decision making for there loved ones | Alaa AlBashayreh |
12 | Ian Palmroos | Computing for Health & Well Being | Integrating Cognitive Tacking with LLM Coaching for Focus Support | Lucas Silva |
13 | Isaac O'Toole | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Defining the Role of pax3a in Uveal Melanoma | Colin Kenny |
14 | Jacob Langewisch | Computing for Health & Well Being | Modeling the Spread of Hospital Acquired Infections | Alberto Maria Segre |
15 | Jade Roghair | Non-UI Student, No Program | Identifying Early Risk Factors for Post-Discharge Feeding Challenges in Extremely Preterm Infants with Chronic Lung Disease | Heidi Harmon |
16 | James Texter | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Primed and Ready: Epigenetic and Metabolic Programming of Naïve T Cells Dictates Immune Outcomes | Priya Issuree |
17 | Jaxson Hoppes | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluation of Different Bias Field Correction Approaches for Pulmonary MRI | Sean Fain |
18 | Jenny Wagenhoffer | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Optogenetic and thermogenetic assays to explore mechanisms of Neurofibromatosis type 1 in Drosophila larvae | Seth Tomchik |
19 | Joanna Huang | Computing for Health & Well Being | Tuberculosis Diagnosis via Reinforcement Learning | Mehrdad Moharrami |
20 | Joe Polyak | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Characterizing SMARCAL1 Activity on Alternative DNA Structures Using FRET | Maria Spies |
21 | John Cooke | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Gallium maltolate sensitizes glioblastoma cells to radiation and chemotherapy-induced DNA damage | Vince Magnotta & Michael Petronek |
22 | Jon Featherston | Microbiology | Investigating CsrA Regulation of Candidate RNA Targets in Acinetobacter baumannii | Michael Gebhardt |
23 | Jon Mebrahtu | Microbiology | Houston, we have too many centrosomes: An investigation into how Chlamydia trachomatis serovars cause centrosome amplification | Mary Weber |
24 | Jonathan McCoy | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Memory-constrained multiscale groupwise registration for exceedingly large images | Jacob Herrmann |
25 | Jonathan Wang | Computing for Health & Well Being | A Deep Q-Learning Approach to Vaccine Allocation | Bijaya Adhikari |
26 | Justin Gagnon | Edge of Space Program | Height Diversity Analysis of Plants in the Ashton Prairie Utilizing Lidar | Susan K. Meerdink |
27 | Kaleb Feia | INI Summer Scholars | nSORBS2 May Regulate Alternative Splicing in Candidate Genes | Jared McLendon |
28 | Karissa Heishman | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | TGF-β regulation of glucose transporters in cancer cachexia | Erin Talbert |
29 | Kassandra Sigafus | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Investigating the RNA Processing Body Assembly Pathway in C. elegans Germline Development | Bryan Phillips |
30 | Katelyn Nguyen | BEST Summer Training Program,Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | The Adhesin Explosion: Rapid Evolution of Adhesin Families in Opportunistic Yeast Pathogens | Bin Z. He |
31 | Kayanna Gomez | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Persistence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus following ETI Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis | Anthony Fischer |
32 | Kayla Holley | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Characterizing the Effect of Novel METTL3 Inhibitor STC-15 on HIV-1 Reactivation in CD4+ T Cells | Li Wu |
33 | Kaylee Allen | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Investigating the Crime Scene of Dying Genes: Pseudogene Evolution Following a Recent Whole Genome Duplication | John Logsdon |
34 | Keeley Behr | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Exploring the effects of premature stop codons on cerebellar structure in SCN2A mice | Aislinn Williams |
35 | Keirsten Trayte | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Mechanisms of Colorectal Cancer Progression Promotion by the Tumor Microbiome | Dustin Bosch |
36 | Keishla González Pérez | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Differential HLA‑E Upregulation during JC Polyomavirus Infection Across Human Cell Types | Sabrina Tan |
37 | Krushi Patel | UI Student, No Program | Developing a Neonatal Microglial Classification Scheme Using a Model of Chorioamnionitis | Serena B Gumusoglu |
38 | Lauren Johnson | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Cotranslational Protein Folding at the Ribosome: Chaperone and Ribosomal Biogenesis Disruption in S. cerevisiae Mutants | Jan Fassler |
39 | Lauren Keiper | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Investigating Histone Modifications in Memory Consolidation Through Analysis of Active and Inactive Neurons | Snehajyoti Chatterjee |
40 | Leo Petsinger | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Do beetles host undiscovered specialist eukaryotes? They Mite | Andrew Forbes |
41 | Lexi Ellermeier | Non-UI Student, No Program | The contribution of the androgen receptor in progestin treatment of endometrial cancer | Miles Pufall |
42 | Lienah Ali | BEST Summer Training Program | Sleep Monitor Comparability Study | Kara Whitaker |
43 | Lillian Boge | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Modeling Radiation Therapy in Endometrial Cancer | Kristi Thiel |
44 | Lizzie Kilburg | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Effects of pre-adipocyte conditioned medium and adipocyte conditioned medium on macrophage plasticity | James Ankrum |
45 | Luca Angerer Sueppel | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Tour de Potamo : Evaluating How Phosphorous Allocation Shifts Across the Life Cycle of P. Antipodarum | Maurine Neiman |
46 | Madi Gentles | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | KEAP1 Mutation Induces Resistance to Auranofin, Irradiation, and Pharmacological Ascorbate Monotherapies in NSCLCs | Douglas Spitz |
47 | Magdalena Eggen Lim | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Comparison of Cancer Cell Survival Responses to FLASH vs Conventional Radiotherapy | Andrean Burnett |
48 | Maggie Fairchild | Microbiology | Regulatory mechanisms that control superoxide dismutase expression in Staphylococcus aureus | Thomas Kehl-Fie |
49 | Maggie Meehan | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluation of Drug Activity in GY011 Clinical Trial | Shujie Yang |
50 | Makena Krause | Edge of Space Program | UAV Spectral Analysis of the Ashton Prairie | Susan Meerdink |
51 | Maren Jones | UI Student, No Program | Comparative analysis of microbiome gene markers in early- and late-onset colorectal cancer pre- and post-1995 | Dustin Bosch |
52 | Matthew Ahlers | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Determining the Impact of TLR Agonist Treatment on CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells | George Weiner |
53 | Matthew Brown | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Modulating the ERK Pathway using Combination ERK Inhibitors and Carbon Monoxide in Pre-Clinical Models | James Byrne |
54 | Matthew Kawa | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Exploring ghost bacteria as a drug delivery device | Jennifer Fiegel |
55 | Matthew Wang | Computing for Health & Well Being | Collecting Medical Data over 5G | Tianyu Zhang |
56 | Maya Kinser | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Measuring the Accuracy of RadAI-Based Auto-Contouring in Head and Neck Cancer Patients | Kailin Yang |
57 | Mia Michel | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Contributions of Cardiac Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 1 (SGLT1) in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy | Ferhaan Ahmad |
58 | Miles Goetzman | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Investigating pathogenic B cells in immune-mediated CNS demyelinating disease | Alex Boyden |
59 | Minou Emmad | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Low-Loss Metacontacts for Enhanced MWIR Optoelectronics | Minou Emmad |
60 | Morgan Kremer | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Factors That Influence the Differentiation Patterns of TFH1 Cells in Plasmodium Infection | Noah Butler |
61 | Sydney Tune | Edge of Space Program | Spectral Analysis of Solar Emission | Dustin Swarm |
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 | Morgan Larick; Ella Schlueter; Vriti Patel; & Austin Kansa | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Flint Water Crisis Public Archive: Navigating & Organizing Email Records of the Crisis | Louise Seamster |
2 | Luke Hawkins & Berkley Johnson | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA),UI Student, No Program | Utilizing GAPIM to Examine Relational Dynamics in Gratitude-Based Group Therapy | Martin Kivlighan |
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4 | Abigail Myroth | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Why does twitching during sleep persist in adult animals? | Mark Blumberg |
5 | Emily Formella | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The role of mechanotransduction pathways in chorioretinal cell response to simulated microgravity | Kristan Worthington |
6 | Serra Kaptanoglu | Non-UI Student, No Program,Other | The Prevalence and Functional Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Insomnia and Hypersomnia in People Living with Schizophrenia | Bengi Baran |
7 | Kylee Harford | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | The Logistics of Managing Biodiversity Research Collections | Tiffany Adrain |
8 | Mostafa Telfah | Stanley Award for International Research | Comparing Motor Cortex Neural Activity between Parkinson’s Disease Patients and Healthy Controls Performing an Interval Timing Task Using Time-Frequency Analysis and Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition | Rodica Curtu & Lorand Parajdi |
9 | Moussa Saab | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Increased Expression of RNase P in BRF Knockdown Cells during Gamma Herpes Infection | Jessica Tucker |
10 | Mya Alexander | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Rapid Differentiation of iPSCs to Neurons Using Generation 2 Plasmids | Mark Schultz |
11 | Natalie Kehrli | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | More than Low Disinhibition: Multiple Trait Explanations for Scores on Rigid Perfectionism as Measured by the Personality Inventory for DSM-5-Short Form | Brendan Whitney |
12 | Nate Koester | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Analysis of 2,2’,5,5’-Tetrachlorobiphenyl-4-ol (4-OH-PCB52) in Lung Tissue in Female Adolescent Rats Exposed to 4-OH-PCB52 via Polymeric Implants | Crystal Roach |
13 | Nathan Fassett | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Investigating the impact of diet on the dopamine-dynorphin system | Adele Stewart |
14 | Neil Garza Hernandez | Microbiology | Investigating the Dual Immunomodulatory and Antimicrobial Effect of Glycerol Monolaurate on Human Neutrophils and Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Aimee Potter |
15 | Nico Enerlan | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Exploring Early Cerebellar Neurodevelopment in 16p11.2 Microduplication Mice | Aislinn Williams |
16 | Nimzay Gueits-Jiménez | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Impact of e-cigarettes on monocytes and monocyte-related cells | Josalyn Cho |
17 | Oliver Mize | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow, Csomay Center Summer Scholar | Thermal Shock Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms on Titanium Hip Screw Plugs | Eric Nuxoll |
18 | Olivia Frantum | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Tumor Location and Onset Age Shape the Gut Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer | Ashutosh Mangalam |
19 | Olivia Raasch | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow, Csomay Center Summer Scholar | Usability and Acceptability of Physical Activity Data Visualization in Rural Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes | Chelsea Howland |
20 | Omar Aristizabal | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Neuropathogenesis of Ebola | Chen Sabrina Tan |
21 | Omar Rafiq | Computing for Health & Well Being | FamilySync: Integrating Multi-Device Health Tracking and LLM Coaching for Family Wellbeing | Lucas Silva |
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23 | Pascal Cuhat | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Prevention of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis via tardigrade mRNA | James Byrne |
24 | Rain Johnson | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Development of Gene Expression Tools to Study Auditory Neural Function in Drosophila melanogaster | Daniel Eberl |
25 | Renee Lin | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | HER2+ Breast Cancer Cells Downregulate HER2 Expression in Response to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan | Michael Wendt |
26 | Rhett Ellerbroek | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Tissue-Specific Immune Regulation in Macrophages | Filiz Korkmaz |
27 | Richard Phan | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Functional Lung Image-guided Adaptive Radiotherapy | Blake Smith & Samuel Rusu |
28 | Riddhi Gosavi | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | The Role of the Complement System Receptor C5aR1 in Neuropathic Pain | Yuriy Usachev |
29 | Riley Dachel | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Characterization of Antitumor Efficacy with OSW-1 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer | Yi Huang |
30 | Riley McCoy | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP),Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Mapping DRN 5-HT stimulated brain-wide activation patterns with chemogenetic iDISCO | Catherine Marcinkiewcz |
31 | Robin Marquez | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Gall Things Considered: the taxonomy of gall wasp parasitoids in genus Ormyrus | Andrew Forbes |
32 | Saar Bar-Ziv | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Commissioning a Monte Carlo Model of the FLEX-9 FLASH LINAC | Joel St-Aubin |
33 | Sabrina Vlk | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | GORDON: A Compact Lidar Instrument for Aerosol Profiling | Matthew McGill |
34 | Sage Kaplan | Microbiology | Generation of a HEK293T cell line that stably expresses Ebola Virus-Like Particles | Wendy Maury |
35 | Salimatou Diallo | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Evaluation of Pulmonary Radiomic Biomarkers for Emphysema Progression Prediction | Jessica Sieren |
36 | Sam Mock | Microbiology | Deep Mutational Scanning of the Hiv-1 Envelope Protein | Hillel Haim |
37 | Sarabjit Dhillon | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Longitudinal comparison of cord and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in neonatal studies | Jennifer Bermick, TJ Boly, & Kyra Watral |
38 | Sarah Friedlander | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Determining the role of novel transcription factor networks in regulating CD4+ T cell differentiation during acute viral infection | Ryan Zander |
39 | Saya Geisendorfer | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | Underlying mechanisms for increased lipid droplets in metastatic breast cancer cells | Michael Wendt |
40 | Shanmuka Sadhu | Computing for Health & Well Being | Improvement of Audio Event Recognition with Consistency Regularization | Weiran Wang |
41 | Shirry Stallard | Microbiology | The Interaction of a Sirtuin-Like Protein (SliP) and the Histone Complex in Campylobacter jejuni | Jeremiah Johnson |
42 | Shrey Kapoor | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Response of Murine Splenocytes to Total Body Irradiation | Michael Petronek |
43 | Shreya Ravada | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Establishment of an Intrinsic Chemoresistant Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Organoid Model | Kristina Thiel & Danielle Uhl |
44 | Shreyas Natarajan | UI Student, No Program | Uncovering CD5's Role in T-Cell Exhaustion: Implications for Immunotherapy | Priya Issuree |
45 | Sophia Gardner | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Sensitizing Progestin Therapy for Endometrial Cancer | Shujie Yang |
46 | Sophia Heller | Radiation Biology & Physics Undergraduate Research (FLASH) | Fluorescent Modeling of IRE Binding | Michael Petronek |
47 | Sophia Schnoebelen | BEST Summer Training Program | Misconceptions of Oral Health During Pregnancy | Donna Santillan |
48 | Sophia Symalla | Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) | Lesions involving white matter tracts are associated with acquired prosopagnosia and prosopagnosia related symptoms | Jing Jiang |
49 | Sorayya Nazari | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | In Silico Identification of Gut Microbes and Metabolites in Colorectal Cancer Associated Thrombosis | Sanjana Dayal |
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51 | Tate Steig | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Lighting the Path: Tracking Cell Migration Using CRISPR-Modifiable Tags | Katheryn Rothenberg |
52 | Tommy Wolosinski | Microbiology | The Effect of m6A Modifications of HIV RNA on Viral Replication | Li Wu |
53 | Tram Tran | Non-UI Student, No Program | Evaluation of GPX1 isoform expression in colorectal cancer | Sarah Short |
54 | Tyler Draayer | UI Student, No Program | Establishing the Contributions of Degranulating Immune Cells to Oxidative Stress in Osteoarthritis | Karen Cyndari & Mitchell Coleman |
55 | Varsha Ponnala | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Sex Differences in Dorsal Striatal COMT Levels During Amphetamine Withdrawal in Mice | Nandakumar Narayanan |
56 | William Hand | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Differences in Media Skepticism, Political Ideology, and Information Verification: A Mixed Methods Study | Brian Ekdale |
57 | William Marzen | Iowa Summer Institute in Biostatistics (ISIB),OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Evaluating Barriers that Audiologists Perceive to Providing Care Under Medicaid | Jake Oleson |
58 | William Sprengelmeyer | OUR/ICRU Research Fellow | Mastodon Skull Micro-Ecosystem | John Doershuk |
59 | Yafet Fissihye | Cancer Research Opportunities at Iowa (CROI) | The role of Fibronectin on MITF activity in uveal melanoma | Colin Kenny |
60 | Yuva Sai Charan Alavala | Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) | Calmodulin’s Role in Mechanosensation in Drosophila | Daniel Eberl |
61 | Zachary Niemasz | UI Student, No Program | Neurotoxicant, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Exposure Leads to Long-Term Spatial Memory Deficits in Adult Mice | Snehajyoti Chatterjee |