Abstracts from the 30th Annual Conference
Alamban, AndrewA TRUNCATED, 13KDA ISOFORM OF CX37 DOES NOT SUPPRESS PROLIFERATION OF RAT INSULINOMA CELLS
Arnold, Haley
THE EFFECT OF WORD GENERATION ON THE RETENTION OF NOVEL WORDS IN CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER
Bae, Esther
ENDOGENOUS PEPTIDE, ANGIOTENSIN (1-7), CONTAINS NEUROINFLAMMATION AND RESCUES COGNITIVE DECLINE AND NEURONAL LOSS FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI)
Bakhshi, Ky
FOXO1 RESPONSE TO MTOR INHIBITORS IN SINGLE CANCER CELLS
Bear, Rachel
CHARACTERIZING A HUMAN CELL MODEL OF ALS TO TEST POTENTIAL SMALL MOLECULE THERAPEUTIC
Belone, Brenn
FTIR BASED IMAGING METHOD FOR LOCOMOTOR FUNCTION ANALYSIS IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL OF ALS
Blanche, Anne-Laure
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CONTEXT ON EXPRESSION OF AGGRESSION IN THE ZEBRA FINCH
Blawn, Kiera
EXPLORING THE SEX DIFFERENCES OF OATP1A2 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN MIGRAINES
Calderon, Casey
MRP2 ALTERATIONS IN NASH/NAFLD LIVERS TREATED WITH SORAFENIB
Calderon, Kylie
CYCLODEXTRIN DECREASES IMMUNE CELL INFILTRATION IN CHRONIC STROKE INFARCTS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF STROKE
Carl, Adam
RETURNING STUDY MEASUREMENTS TO PARTICIPANTS OF THE HOPI ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROJECT
Cho, Tiffany
PERIPHERAL CHOLECYSTOKININ-MEDIATED CENTRAL NEURAL CIRCUITS IMPLICATED IN FEEDING SUPPRESSION
Ciccone, Haley
CHRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF MORPHINE LEADS TO INCREASED BONE LOSS AND PROLONGED NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN A MURINE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER MODEL
Coleman, Dez
MECHANISTIC ROLE OF ADENOSINE3-RECEPTOR IN HIV-INDUCED PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
Condarcure, Angelina
OPTIMIZATION OF FIBER OPTIC ALIGNED CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS WITH LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE
Cuevas, Emilie
AN INHIBITORY TAIL: LYP IS AUTOINHIBITED BY ITS INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED DOMAIN.
Culpepper, Elizabeth
EFFECTS OF STAPLED PEPTIDE THERAPY ON EGFR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY
Dasen, Jordan
NEURON COUNT IN ANT BRAINS
David, Brandon
THE ROLE OF POLYMERASE V IN RNA-DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION DURING BRASSICACEAE SEED DEVELOPMENT
Davidson, Samantha
MEASURING DED1 INTERACTIONS USING A SPLIT-LUCIFERASE ASSAY
Delacruz, Lillian
THE EFFECTS OF AMPK ACTIVATION IN ANOPHELES STEPHENSI MOSQUITOES
Eby, Allison
INVESTIGATING MOTOR LEARNING IN A LRRK2 MOUSE MODEL OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Eck, Randall
DYNAMIC EXPRESSION OF RNA STRESS GRANULE COMPONENTS IN BEHAVIORALLY CHARACTERIZED YOUNG, MIDDLE AGED AND OLD RATS
FINK, JORDAN
THE SALT-ASSISTED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES ON SI/SIO2
Flores, Ashley
ROLE OF SEX HORMONES IN MODULATING WEIGHT GAIN DUE TO SLEEP DISRUPTION
Fried, Steven
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR ACTIVATION IS COUPLED TO INTERNAL HYDRATION
Fye, Margret
MUTATIONS OF CX37 THAT INDUCE CELL DEATH REQUIRE THE FULL LENGTH PROTEIN, A TRUNCATED 13K ISOFORM IS INSUFFICIENT
Galloway, Emily
INVESTIGATING HORMONAL REGULATION OF MOLECULAR PATHWAYS IN MIGRAINE THROUGH NETWORK ANALYSIS
Gardner, Rebeca
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN MICROGLIA AND SYSTEMIC MACROPHAGES IN POST-STROKE BRAIN INJURY.
Gee, Michael
AMYLOID-BETA (Aβ) DIFFERENTIALLY MODULATES α7* NACHRS EXPRESSED IN VITRO
Giunta, Marissa
EXPLORATORY BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF INHIBITING CRMP2 SUMOYLATION IN TRANSGENIC MICE
Gonzales, Alana
PAPER-BASED VERTICAL ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF METASTATIC BREAST CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS
Grabiec, Cheyenne
CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN COLLABORATION WITH TRIBAL COMMUNITIES: A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
Hancock, Sarah
LORELEI AND ITS MOST CLOSELY RELATED PARALOG, LLG1, HAVE SHARED FUNCTION BUT DIFFERENT EXPRESSION PATTERNS
Harrell, Emma
RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUSED IN SARCOMA (FUS) ROLE IN RNAP2 AND T7 TRANSCRIPTION IN THE PRESENCE OF MOLECULAR CROWDING AGENTS
Hodges, Destiny
ANALYSIS OF CRISPR-CAS9-GENERATED MUTANTS OF MRP-1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE IN MAIZE
Howard, Gregory
SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF LORELEI IN PLANT CELLS VIA GPI-ANCHORING
Howard, Victoria
MICROBIAL SYMBIONTS OF AN INVASIVE GRASS DIFFER IN URBAN AND EX-URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Ingabire, Nadia
A BACTERIAL SURFACE PROTEIN PROTECTS RICKETTSIA FROM MULTIPLE HOST POLYUBIQUITYLATION MECHANISMS
Jackson, Jayme
DETECTING HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS RECOMBINATION IN VIVO
Jezulin, Derek
DOES CONFLICT DRIVE DIVERSITY: THE EFFECT OF IMMUNE STRESS IN QUEEN BEES ON WORKER BODY SIZE VARIATION.
Juang, Jason
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF SMALL MOLECULES ON ALS PHENOTYPES IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL
Kim, Caleb
PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE-BINDING PROTEIN REDUCES OPIOID INDUCED ?ARRESTIN2 RECRUITMENT TO THE MU OPIOID RECEPTOR
Kirwan, Konner
NRF2 OVEREXPRESSION MITIGATES THE AGE-RELATED DECLINE OF NEURAL STEM CELLS DURING A CRITICAL PERIOD
Koons, Emily
EVALUATION OF A HUMANIZED SINGLE CHAIN VARIABLE FRAGMENT (SCFV) SPECIFIC TO PROSTATE STEM CELL ANTIGEN (PSCA)
Lacey, James
EXPLORING EEG BIOINDICATORS OF MDD
Lagas, Maxwell
A-SYNUCLEIN EXPRESSION IN YEAST AND APPARENT EFFECTS ON ENDOCYTOSIS
Lara, Heber
THE ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE IN CELL QUIESCENCE
Lee, Joo Ryung
SCALE-UP OF PREVIOUS PROTOCOL FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLYSTYRENE NANOPARTICLES FOR ANALYTE TO PROTEIN INTERACTION QUANTIFICATION
Little, Alyssa
DEVELOPING RECRUITMENT METHODOLOGY FOR H.PYLORI PILOT STUDY ON NAVAJO NATION
Macklin-Isquierdo, Samantha
ATP7A’S ROLE IN COPPER HOMEOSTASIS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Madias, Marianne
A CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM FOR JUXTACELLULAR PIPETTE CONTROL
Mamaril, Erin
INVESTIGATING CONTROL OF NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS DOPAMINE RELEASE BY VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA NEURONS AND THE ROSTROMEDIAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS
Mapp, Jacob
DEVELOPING MORE COST-EFFECTIVE AND MOBILE CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS INSTRUMENTATION THROUGH 3D PRINTING
Morrison, Alexis
SPEECH DEFICITS IN APHASIC STROKE PATIENTS
Nguyen, Paul
THE MU-DELTA OPIOID RECEPTOR HETERODIMER MAY EVOKE SIMILAR SIGNALING WITHIN THE STRIATUM, PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY, AND BRAINSTEM
Noun, Jibriel
MODELLING SIMPLIFIED NATURAL LIPID MEMBRANES IN NANODISCS
Ordine, Juliana
APPLICATION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERIZE THE ORGANIC MATTER WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL BUFFERS RECEIVING WASTEWATER EFFLUENT
Paat, Victor
COLONY CONTEST IN THE ANT TEMNOTHORAX RUGATULUS
Paterson, Chloe
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO EXPLORATION IN FORAGING BUMBLEBEES
Pena, Nicolai
TSC2 DEFICIENCY IN OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR NEURONS CAUSES STEREOTYPY AND SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IMPAIRMENT
Pham, Nancy
HARNESSING THE PAIN RELIEVING PROPERTIES OF NARINGENIN, A CITRUS FLAVONOID
Plecki, Caroline
EVALUATING THE RHIZOSPHERE MICROBIOME ASSOCIATED WITH ALLELOPATHY OF AN ICONIC DESERT SHRUB
Pottenger, Ayumi
SUB-ANESTHETIC KETAMINE INCREASES MICROGLIA RAMIFIED MORPHOLOGY IN A PRE-CLINICAL MODEL OF LEVODOPA-INDUCED DYSKINESIA
Rheinschmidt, Shelby
MODELING EXERCISED INDUCED STRESS WITH ACM ENGINEERED HEART TISSUES
Sadler, Rachel
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL LEARNING AND BRAIN METABOLIC ACTIVITY IN ANTS
Sanchez, Andres
DRUG RESISTANCE MECHANISM MEDIATED BY FUNGAL STEROL TRANSPORT PROTEIN TIR3
Sandoval, Estevan
EFFECTS OF ARSENIC ON MOUSE TRACHEAL EPITHELIUM TIGHT JUNCTION INTEGRITY
Scandura, Matthew
TDP-43 MEDIATED TRANSLATION INHIBITION IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Schmidt, Johnny
LARGE-SCALE LIFESPAN ANALYSIS OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS IDENTIFIES NOVEL AGING GENES
Schoelen, Siena
SELF-REFERENTIAL PROCESSING IN DOWN SYNDROME
Schreiber, Yannick
CAFFEINE-EMBEDDED TRIAZABUTADIENE AS AN ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR INHIBITOR AND PROBE
Serrano, Karen
BIOGEOCHEMICAL FACTORS AFFECTING PHOSPHORUS AVAILABILITY DURING REVEGETATION OF MINE WASTE ROCK SLOPES
Servin, Frank
ASSESSMENT OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL STRUCTURE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Sillik, Sara
COMPLEX CONTROL OF EXOSOME RELEASE IN OCULAR TISSUES
Sin, Kristina
GENERATION OF REPORTER HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LINE USING CRISPR/CAS9 FOR ATRIAL CARDIOMYOCYTE IDENTIFICATION AND EFFICIENT DIFFERENTIATION
Smidt, Saskia
VEGF-B OVEREXPRESSION IN PINK1 GENE KNOCK OUT RATS: IS IT NEUROPROTECTIVE OR NEURORESTORATIVE?
Smith, Angela
MECHANISMS OF OPIOID-INDUCED TLR4 SIGNALING
Somers, Julian
GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ARABIDOPSIS LONG NON-CODING RNA
Souder, Madeline
LOST IN SPACE: THE ROLE OF OBJECTS DURING COMPLEX RODENT SPATIAL NAVIGATION
Spence, Erica
DIRECT HYDROGEN PEROXIDE BREAKDOWN BY 3-HYDROXYANTHRANILLIC ACID AS AN OXIDATIVE STRESS RESISTANCE MECHANISM FOR INCREASED LONGEVITY IN C. ELEGANS
Srinivasan, Sneha
CRISPR MEDIATED TAGGING OF ENDOGENOUS CELL FATE MARKERS
Stearns, Jack
“THE VITAL ROLE OF RNA DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE (RDR2) IN THE RNA DEPENDENT DNA METHYLATION PATHWAY DURING SEED DEVELOPMENT”
Stine, Carolyn
HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90, ASSISTED BY THE CO-CHAPERONE CDC37 BUT NOT P23, PROMOTES MORPHINE ANTI-NOCICEPTION IN THE BRAIN THROUGH ERK AND JNK MODULATION IN A MURINE CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY MODEL.
Syal, Arjun
STUDYING NRF2- ALPHA SYNUCLEIN INTERACTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Tolton, Ashley
DETERMINING HOW SP-A1 AND SP-A2 MEDIATE THE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN ALLERGIC MOUSE MODELS.
Turner, Emily
EFFECT OF KYNURENINE PATHWAY METABOLITES ON LIFESPAN IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
Van Linden, Noelle
RESPONSE TO TREATMENT FOR NAMING DIFFICULTY IN INDIVIDUALS WITH APHASIA
Vann, Roxanne
FORMATIVE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TO INFORM A COMMUNITY NAVIGATION PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
Warner, Amanda
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Williams, Brittany
INCREASING CRISPR-MEDIATED HOMOLOGOUS DNA REPAIR EFFICIENCY
Wilson, Lauren
THE EFFECT OF PUF4 BINDING ON NSR1 MRNA STABILITY
Young, Juliana
IDENTIFYING TARGETS FOR NECROPTOSIS INHIBITION IN RIPK3-MLKL MEDIATED ACTIVATION.
