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Learn More About the UC Santa Cruz Koret Scholars Program!
KORET SLAM EVENT
Friday June 6, 2025
3:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Zoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92320913777?pwd=DUbHllc0OQCUkCacOgknaHHhGE7nqB.1
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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 amazing undergraduate research projects and ask the students about their experience doing research.
STUDENT POSTER SITES COMING SOON!
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
3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks - Matt O'Hara
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm: Session 1 in Rooms 1 - 13 (see speakers below)
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm: Session 2 in Rooms 1 - 12 (see speakers below)
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm: Closing Remarks and Acknowledgments - Matt O'Hara
SESSION 1
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm
Room 1 (Arts)
Samantha Chang (Nine): Expresso: Brew connection and empathy ...
Emily Tran (Kresge): Fruit Fashion
Room 2 (Hum)
Elliot-Elyjah Mcwhinnie (Kresge): The California vowel shift and African American ...
Katherine Arnold (Cowell): Nonnative Perception of Italian Consonant Length Contrast
Room 3 (PBSci)
Luca Menotti (Merrill): Estimating the Hubble Constant...
Piramon Kumnurdmanee (Stevenson): Searching for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors ...
Room 4 (Soc Sci)
Adrian Southard (Oakes): Educating Evolution
Lili Grigoryan (Carson): I Was One of You Before
Room 5 (BSOE)
Ruhai Lin (Oakes): ASIC For Ternary State Space Models
Alexandra Lum (Nine): Mixed Wolbachia Infections in Drosophila Cell Lines
SESSION 1
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm
Room 6 (Soc Sci)
Audrey Yu (JRLewis): Language Effects on Parent-Child Conversations
Jenna DiNapoli (Carson): The Social Integration of Immigrant Chimpanzees ...(Can not attend)
Room 7 (PBSci)
Danielle Kelly (Carson): Structural Mapping of an Immunodominant Antigenic Site ...
Aurora Hofkin (Nine): Biochemical Characterization of Human Astrovirus 1...
Room 8 (Hum)
Emma Bavera (Cowell): Restoring Othello: An Exploration of...
Jonas Amaya (Porter): Phenomenal Consciousness in Complex Adaptive Systems...
Room 9 (BSOE)
Owen Arnst (Cowell): Enhancing Long-Term Stock Investment...
Crystal Fan (Crown): Assessment of the effective brain-interface Muse 2 on reducing stress
SESSION 1
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm
Room 10 (BSOE)
Skye Gunasekaran (Crown): Future-Guided Learning: A Predictive Approach ...
Jasmin Liao (Oakes): LLM Integrated Systems
Room 11 (Soc Sci/Hum)
Naja Steward (Carson): Special Economic Zones and Land Grabbing ...
Jacqueline Nowak (Merrill): On the Frontier: Archaeological Evidence of Cross Cultural Interactions...
Room 12 (PBSci)
Emma Krebs (Oakes): Reconstitution of H3.3 Heterotypic Variant Nucleosomes
Nurik Gimranov (Stevenson): Deciphering the Acidic Patch Interactions of Human ...
Room 13 (PBSci)
Klaus Stephenson (Kresge): Discovering Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
Lukas Varga (Carson): Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction of Vanadium-dependent...
SESSION 2
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm
Room 1 (Hum/Soc Sci)
Kelly Camacho (Merrill): Experiences of Health in Argentina
Solenn Augustin (Merrill): Directed Forgetting: Impact of Encoding Instructions ...
Room 2 (BSOE/PBSci)
Megna Chalamala (Carson): Understanding the Instructive Effects of TPRX1 Splicing Variants
Alejandro Poot (Stevenson): Characterization of IDO1-Expressing Goblet Cell ...
Room 3 (PBSci)
Diego Rodriguez (Merrill): Crystallizing CDK2 Bound with Small Molecule Inhibitors
Scarlett Ortega Velez (Kresge): Sexual Reproduction Genes in Various Hydra Strains
Room 4 (PBSci)
Kealani Holland (Merrill): SNIP-SNP Analysis of Recombination Patterns in C. elegans
Vanessa Pham (Porter): Determination of Mercury in Marine Aerosols
SESSION 2
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm
Room 5 (PBSci)
Bailey Borbas (Porter): Ocellated Wrasse Isotocin Manipulation
Samantha Ma (JRLewis): Degradation of Dietary Fibers by Macrophages
Room 6 (BSOE)
Kamran Hussain (JRLewis): A Foundation Model for Cortical Organoid Electrophysiology...
Shivani Mandalaparthi (Crown): Investigating the Effect of the Evolutionary Ages of Transposable Elements..
Room 7 (Soc Sci/PBSci)
Saúl Ordaz (Nine): Navegando la Jotería
Eva Weller (Kresge): Potential Costs of Floral Longevity in Clarkia unguiculata in Drought
Room 8 (PBSci)
Jocelyn Lee (Cowell): Permeability of Lariat Scaffolds and their Compatibility with mRNA Display
Kobe Ly (JRLewis): Characterization of p16 Mutants within Cancer
SESSION 2
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm
Room 9 (PBSci)
Ryan Liu (Nine): Exploring the Link Between Micronutrient Status ...
Sumukh Cadpakar (Cowell): Exploring the Link Between Micronutrient Status ...
Room 10 (Soc Sci)
Giannella Guerrero Cardenas (Nine): From Childhood to Adulthood: The Enduring Effects of Parental Divorce
Kira Klonel (Cowell): An Experimental Archaeological Approach to the Oldowan...
Room 11 (BSOE/PBSci)
Delia Gagnon (Oakes): Structural Analysis of RSV G Glycoprotein’s Central Conserved Domain...
Yeison Samayoa (Cowell): KZNF 534s Role in Transposable Element Regulation
Room 12 (Soc Sci)
Evan Quintana (Stevenson): Tracking Disinformation in the 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election
Carmen Tallbear-Edmunds (Kresge): Tribal Sovereignty and the Land: A Focused Exploration ...
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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