Human Health
Siyuan Yang "A pair of dopamine-mediated neural circuits regulates the reward taste conditioning"
Zuer Wu "Dual dopamine circuitry controls higher order conditioning in Drosophila"
Kimchi Le "Liposomal Bioanalytical Assay Development for Biomarkers in Monitoring Disease Progression for Muscular Dystrophy"
Evolution
Irene Martinez "Examining the genetic architecture of seed inviability and pollen fertility between two closely related taxa of monkeyflowers (Mimulus)"
Rachel Kruger "Uncovering Early-Stage Speciation via Ecogeographic Isolation in Two Species of Mimulus"
Jordyn Condrate "Potential asynchrony in specialized insect communities under future climate conditions driven by opposing diapause responses"
Metabolism
Jennifer Heritz "The Warburg effect is driven by inactivation of the tumor suppressor folliculin upon phosphorylation by the MAPKinase p38"
Fiza Hashmi "The Impact of V-ATPase Proton Pump Assembly and Function in Aging"
Gianna Mochi "Dynamic TRAP1 Succinylation Regulates TCA Cycle Activity"
Utsav Nyachhyon "Physical activity and Infection susceptibility of long-lived flies"
Microbiology
Kalaivani Saravanan "Crosstalk between V-ATPase and PI(3,5)P2 lipid in Osmotic Stress. How, When, and Where?"
Harsimranjit Sekhon "A DNA-triggered protein biosensor for point-of-care diagnostics"
Deepit Bhatia "Understanding the role of metapopulation persistence in measles dynamics"
Nicholas Faiola "Determining the role of the Streptococcus agalactiae two component system SaeRS in vaginal colonization and metal homeostasis."
Ecology
Rosebelle Ines "Assessing intra- to interspecific variation in thermal tolerance in a species complex of seed-dispersing ants"
Alexandra Martin "Thermoregulatory behaviors and effects of water characteristics on dive duration in Anolis aquaticus"
Ryan V. Crawford "Effect of Soil Moisture on Yield on Fertilized and Unfertilized Switchgrass Plots and Unfertilized Miscanthus Plots at a Wetness-Prone Marginal Site"
Aly Milks "Host plant variation scales up to alter top-down enemy controls in a range expanded gall wasp"
Poster Session (Friday)
Ojashpi Singh Kapalio "R-Loop Characterization in Basal-Like Breast Cancer: Implications for Precision Medicine"
Shazrah Syed "Impact of OprF on post-antibiotic recovery and antibiotic tolerance of P. aeruginosa persister cells"
Steven Dang "Deciphering the Mechanism of Fragile X Syndrome through Disorder and Phase Separation Regulation of FMRP"
Yuzhen Chen "A search for biological relevance of fatty acids taste in Drosophila"
Christopher DeAngelis "Unraveling Color Variation's Role in Ecological Traits of Aphaenogaster Ants"
Catherine Farrell "Biomass of ground-dwelling invertebrates is higher in primary compared to regenerated secondary temperate forests"
Poster Session (Saturday)
Rhodrick Takor "The role of S. aureus and S epidermidis in Atopic Dermatitis"
Naya A Eady "Characterizing B cell populations in developing foals with anti-equine IgM and IgD mAbs"
John Burns "The Effect of Pterois volitans on the Grazing Behavior of Caribbean Reef Fish"
Anthony Martinichio "Candidate Gene Research"
Stephanie Nguyen "How Climate Change Affects Thermal Reaction Norms of Rhagoletis Flies, an important agricultural pest"