ESKAPE Pathogens
9:00 - 10:00 am
Favour Nwankpa "Understanding the impact of matrix proteases on the P. aeruginosa dispersion response"
Nadia Nikulin "Rcs-regulated motility enhances Enterobacter cloacae pathogenesis"
Isabella Lin "Paenibacillus encodes a membrane-localized Spo0B"
Alicia Wood "Inter-species contact-dependent suppression of Clostridioides difficile sporulation requires Enterococcus pili"
EEB
10:15 - 11:00 am
Chris DeAngelis "Variation in cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) in a seed-dispersing ant complex - a trait linking climate adaptation to behavior that impacts ecological communities"
Mary Ann Bogert "Evaluating the Impact of Interpersonal Relationship Building in a Scaffolded Three-Semester CURE"
Rachel Kruger "Secondary woodiness in Mimulus: genetic architecture and ecological considerations"
Transcription/Translation
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cassidy Prince "Autoregulation of release factor 2 is unique and imperative for effective translation"
Daniel Tetreault "YdiF is a ribosome-binding ABCF ATPase without a targeted stalling sequence"
Avipsha Datta "Myelin’s Make-or-Break Window: How Translation Shapes CNS Myelin"
Stephen Landry "Exploring the influence of Phosphorylation, Prolyl isomerization, and Sequence variability on Phase behavior of the RNA Polymerase II CTD"
Genomics/Proteomics
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Josh Knecht "Evidence for epistatic selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone"
Anastasia Rusnak "The role of ACTN subfunctionalization in the evolution of vertebrate muscle types"
Katherine Meluni "Deep-Learning Predicts Post-Translational Modification Crosstalk of the Molecular Chaperone Hsp90 in Drug Binding"
Biofilms
9:00 - 10:00 am
Ankita Kundu "Characterization of Multispecies Biofilm Dispersion"
Shirmin Islam "Polystyrene nanoplastics impact the growth and architecture of a “synthetic” small intestinal microbiota"
Victoria Namiganda "Pseudomonas aeruginosa planktonic and biofilm outer membrane vesicles display variable cargo"
Emma Glynn "Can the interaction between SagS and PA0918 be disrupted to impede clinically relevant phenotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms?"
Cell Organization
10:15 - 11:00 am
Ahmed Mousa "Ion-Specific Modulation of MBD3 Phase Separation via Its Acidic Disordered Region"
Sara Cayaban "Peptide-Mediated Targeting of the CDK4 Chaperone Network in Kidney Cancer "
Laura Haney "TDP-43 regulates microtubule dynamics"
Species Interactions
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Zahavah Rojer "Insect-pathogenic fluorescent Pseudomonas impacts aphid behavior and fitness"
Julianna Yager "Synthesizing long-term insect monitoring data with songbird abundance models to assess dietary coupling across trophic levels"
Remington Forster "Responses to defoliation in Quercus agrifolia"
Kathy Fridrich "Cryptic Diversity and Community Changes in Oak Gall Parasitoid Communities During a Human-Mediated Range Expansion"
11:10am-12pm
Sophia Zaslow "The influence of intra-morph variation on morph-trait associations"
Aishwarya Sriram "Hearing in Manduca sexta caterpillars "
Neel Singh "GWAS of longevity-associated polymorphisms in Drosophila melanogaster reveals enrichment for genes involved in cell migration, morphogenesis and neural development."
Rachel Pitt "Drought tolerance strategies in ecogeographically isolated species variants"
Sarah Bases "Dose-dependent effects of larval atrazine exposure on sexual dimorphism in adult Drosophila melanogaster body size"
Sabrina Amin "Investigating the effects of Myo1e tail-binding protein OSTF1 on the regulation of myosin activity in invadosomes of breast cancer cells"
Giselle Jimenez "Investigating the phenotypic effects of BvaP, a novel membrane-bound and secreted protein conserved in Streptococcus agalactiae"
Michael Omini "Decoding the role of Tyr 61 phosphorylation in extracellular Hsp90 regulation"
Miranda Coldren "Investigating the role of cyclic-di-GMP in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria biofilm formation"
Arthur O'Sullivan "Ability of low-metabolic bacterial cells to establish in wound environment fluids"
Noah Walsh "An ancient medicament is effective in inhibiting the growth of S. aureus and P. aeruginosa"
John Mercaldo "Development of an in vitro small intestinal model for characterizing the gut inflammatory response to environmental contaminants"
Wencheng Li "The impact of polysaccharide on biofilm dispersion"
Jerry Sheng "Genomic overview of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia phages"
Joanna Żur-Pińska "New insights into RND-mediated multidrug resistance in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"
Nermin Mohamed "Biofilm dispersion in Enterococcus faecalis is mediated by nutrients and intestinal metabolites"
Mariah Desroches "Investigating the role of quorum sensing in non-tuberculous mycobacterial biofilm formation"
11:10am-12pm
Emily Yarbrough "Atrazine exposure alters achievement of critical weight in Drosophila melanogaster"
Griffin Patel "Pea aphid fecundity compensation in response to attractive Pseudomonas sp. infection "
Xinmin Chang "Engineering a non-melodic ploidy reduction to improve the brewer’s yeast traits"
Zachary McCann "GWAS reveals polymorphisms in genes related to sugar metabolism and transport correlated with survival in DGRP line Drosophila melanogaster reared on a 25% sugar diet"
Stephanie Nguyen "Thermal sensitivity in dormancy regulation is key to predicting population vulnerability to climate change"
Nicole Casab "Exploring the relationship between the pharyngeal microbiome and Group A Streptococcus carriage and infection. "
Nicole Gill "Combating medical device-associated infections with a bacteria-responsive antimicrobial surface"
Mark Watson "Elucidating the role of the small protein, YshB, in the Escherichia coli nitrogen stress response."
Benjamin Reinhard "Fibronectin upregulation is associated with increased levels of VPS34 in pulmonary smooth muscle in pulmonary hypertension"
David Lam "Mapping NRPS methyltransferase substrate and cofactor binding sites to enable antibacterial drug development"
Bharti Sharma "Ability of M0 and M1 macrophages to engulf bacteria attached to a surface"
Fiddi Hilmi "Biofilm controls: PPIs and peptidomimetic polymers"
Artur Pinski "Insights on SmeDEF promotor variation from a multi-Omics database for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"
Luca Voli "Variation in type IV pilus affects phage infection in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"