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Learn More About the UC Santa Cruz Koret Scholars Program!
KORET SLAM EVENT
Friday June 7, 2024
2:00pm - 3:30pm PST
If you need to register for the event, please contact ur_hnrs@ucsc.edu
***Be sure to update your Zoom app before joining the event to be able to move between breakout sessions!***
UC Santa Cruz's Office of Campus Advising Coordination proudly presents the Koret Slam - an annual poster session celebrating the undergraduate research projects of the Koret Scholars. Come learn about the variety of research projects and ask the students about their experience doing undergraduate research.
STUDENT POSTER SITES ARE LIVE!
Check out student posters by clicking on student talk titles in the Poster Session Schedules below or by clicking on Student Posters in our header above.
POSTER SESSION SCHEDULE
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks - Alan Christy
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm: Session 1 in Rooms 1 - 10 (see lineups below)
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm: Session 2 in Rooms 1 - 10 (see lineups below)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: Closing Remarks and Acknowledgments - Alan Christy
SESSION 1
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm
Room 1
Skye Gunasekaran (Crown): Knowledge Distillation Through Time Enables Hierarchical Predictive Coding
Ari Sinervo (Porter): Mapping Information Flow in Human Brain Tissue
Room 2
Kerney An (Crown): Exploring Recombination in Mixed Wolbachia Infections
Matteo Anicetti (Oakes): The Potential Role of Tetraspanins in Human Astrovirus Entry
Room 3
Eliot Wachtel (Carson): Automated microfluidic system to enhance cerebral organoid culture
Heather Knight (Cowell): A Bioelectronic Approach to Modeling Epilepsy with Cortical Organoids
Room 4
Zoe Shmidt (Oakes): Optimization of a Minimally-Invasive DNA Extraction Protocol for Human Dental Remains
Serena Ramirez (Porter): The Impact of Habitat f
SESSION 1
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm
Room 5
Krystle Pale (Oakes): Exploring the Challenges Faced by Student Parents in Higher Education
Kristopher Orduna (JRLewis): Bulletproof Education: Analyzing the Paradox of School Shootings in Gun-Controlled Mexico
Room 6
Quinn Davis (Kresge): The Influence of Hesiodic Cosmology and Hierarchy on John Milton's Paradise Lost
Melina Sauerman (Carson): Affect Theory in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Room 7
Julie Fintamag (Nine): Watsonville is in the Heart; Mapping A Recuperative History of Filipino Farmworkers
Andrew Kato (Cowell): Structural and scopal asymmetries in the syntax of relative measurements
Room 8
Madhu Ayyer (Crown): Uncovering novel reactivity in a monomeric stibine oxide
Lucas Ognibene (Carson): Heavy Metals in the Eastern Sierras by Elemental Analysis of Trout Fin Clippings
SESSION 1
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm
Room 9
Connor Dickinson (Carson): Constraints on the Progenitor Star of the Type Ic Supernova 2023cj
James Leyton (Crown): Ryukyu Kingdom Video Project
Room 10
Elise Huang (Carson): Optimization of clinical tumor RNA sequencing assay for synovial sarcoma
Mansi Khare (JRLewis): Developing an RNA-based fusion gene detection assay
Room 11
Quynh Le (Cowell): The Binding of DREAM Complex Upon the Inactivation of CHR (Cell-cycle Homology Region)
Gabriel Lefebre (Merrill): Investigation of biosynthetic potential in Actinobacterial gene clusters using Cas12a Direct Cloning
SESSION 2
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm
Room 1
Sam Bartosik-Velez (Merrill): Comparing Thermoregulatory Strategies Between Dolphins and Beluga Whales
Elizabeth Wang (Crown): Effect of Tegula brunnea grazing on microscopic Macrocystis pyrifera
Room 2
Oliver Lokhandwala (Nine): Explainable AI Autograder
Yash Malegaonkar (JRLewis): Shloka
Room 3
Albert Lee (JRLewis): Towards Safe GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers
Room 4
Winston Yi (Merrill): Benchmarking Quantum Network Routing Protocols
Javier Perez Soto (Merrill): Development of deformable mirror-based pupil chopping for exoplanet imaging and adaptive optics
Kathryn Echandia-Monroe (Nine): Comparative RNA sequencing analysis reveals KRAS A146P presence in rare form of Gliosarcoma
SESSION 2
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm
Room 5
Geneva Samuelson (Cowell): Dating Dating: Using Relationship Advice in Print Media to Track Attitudes
izzy zazueta (JRLewis): A Feminist Analysis of Mexican and Chicane Fashion and Aesthetics
Room 6
Natalie Cellucci (Kresge): Modeling gut microbe interactions through surface adhesion
Elias Logari (Nine): Determing the Role of PCH-2 in Meiotic Recombination Distribution Using SNIP-SNP Analysis
Room 7
Colette Reed (Porter): Examining Queerness and Politics in Southern California Punk History
Andrew Kato (Cowell): Structural and scopal asymmetries in the syntax of relative measurements
Room 8
Aditi Gangadharan (Nine): Optics Testing for SCALES
Shreyanshi Garg (Nine): A Comparison of the PypeIt and spec2d Data Reduction Pipelines for Keck DEIMOS Spectra
SESSION 2
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm
Room 9
Emily Cheng (JRLewis): The Effect of Intron RNA Sequence on Spliceosome Assembly
Kristina Oh (Stevenson): Illuminating U2snRNA Mutations: A Fluorescent Splicing Reporter System
Room 10
Emily Mader (Carson): Uniform forward-modeling analysis of L and T benchmark brown dwarfs
Sean Ricarte (Kresge): Outer Stellar Mass as a Cluster Finder
Room 11
Monica Rodriguez-Vazquez (Kresge): Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Antibiotic Resistance in Uropathogenic E. coli
Gwen Thomas (Carson): The Role of Endoreplication in Regulating Endometrial Growth
Contact ur_hnrs@ucsc.edu for more information regarding the live virtual event and poster session website.
We'd like to thank the Koret Foundation for their generous financial support.
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