Session A: 3:00-4:30pm
Posters by mentoring department

         • Anthony Panciocco - Poster # A154

         Nucleoporin complementation in Medicago truncatula

         PI: Jean Michel Ané - Mentor(s): Manish Tiwari

         • Marta Rose Swanson - Poster # A148

         Native forb emergence and soybean herbicides

         PI: Mark Renz - Mentor(s): Mark Renz

         • Sophia Taffet - Poster # A002

         Exploring the effect of prenatal electric heat stress on offspring growth and development

         PI: Jimena Laporta - Mentor(s): Grace Larsen

         • Alexis Kasper - Poster # A013

         The characterization and purification of Hfp

         PI: Robert Landick - Mentor(s): Christine Hustmyer

         • David (Yunqi) Wang - Poster # A027

         Identifying successful mutations to swap the 2150 FSD of the NRPS system in E. coli ΔentF

         PI: Michael Thomas - Mentor(s): Michael Thomas

         • Lucy Wersinger - Poster # A021

         The effectiveness of NPC fermentate against pathogenic microbes

         PI: Jae-Hyuk Yu - Mentor(s): Dasol Choi

         • Omar Shahin - Poster # A026

         Genetically modifying CRISPR-Cas9 to target a lytic mystery phage

         PI: Charlie Mo - Mentor(s): Charlie Mo

         • Anika Richard  - Poster # A015

         Folding of poly(UG) RNA’s with pseudouridine modifications

         PI: Samuel Butcher - Mentor(s): Saeed Roschdi, Riley Peterson, Riley Peterson

         • Edison Netter - Poster # A014

         Identification and characterization of atr2, an acetyltransferase gene involved in the biosynthesis of an unusual sugar produced by the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii

         PI: Hazel Holden - Mentor(s): James Thoden

         • Galina Vartanova - Poster # A012

         The effect of increasing PCR bias on lowering the fidelity of golden gate assemblies of artificial GFP sequences created by deep generative models

         PI: Philip Romero - Mentor(s): Chase Freschlin

         • Samantha Pyatt - Poster # A016

         Evaluating the effects of trimethoprim on Physcomitrium patens growth

         PI: Sebastian Bednarek - Mentor(s): Rachel Maurice

         • Will Ranger - Poster # A011

         Engineering a nitrogenase expression biosensor in Klebsiella variicola

         PI: Ophelia Venturelli - Mentor(s): Claire Palmer

         • Ariana Halaska - Poster # A046

         Mouse visitation frequency and non-target animal visitation frequency and its effect on cotton uptake from tick tubes in residential areas

         PI: Susan Paskewitz - Mentor(s): Andie Forsythe

         • Colin Yang - Poster # A062

         Quantitative PCR analysis of neuropeptide genes in the Colorado potato beetle

         PI: Sean Schoville - Mentor(s):

         • Eric Blank - Poster # A004

         Wasp species diversity and abundance at different Wisconsin grape cultivars

         PI: Christelle Guedot - Mentor(s): Fatma Besbes

         • Steven Hsieh - Poster # A042

         Effects of metabolic engineering on 1,2-propanediol production in Clostridium tyrobutyricum

         PI: Victor Ujor - Mentor(s): Eric Agyeman-Duah

         • Anna Cornell - Poster # A047

         PFAS in ceded territories

         PI: Jessica Hua - Mentor(s):

         • Olivia Mabbott - Poster # A044

         Soil in the greater yellowstone area: contributions to post-fire lodgepole forests

         PI: Monica Turner - Mentor(s): Arielle Link

         • Daniel Jon Niemi - Poster # A060

         Analysis of ploidy's effects on antibiotic-resistant yeast

         PI: Nathaniel Sharp - Mentor(s): Nathaniel Sharp

         • Rutuja Gupte - Poster # A059

         Effects of mutations on haploid and diploid fission yeast

         PI: Nathaniel Sharp - Mentor(s): Kevin Bao

         • Joseph Chau - Poster # A150

         The effect of bacteria growth in various media plates from cranberry soils

         PI: Jyostna Devi Mura - Mentor(s): Jessica Rhode

         • Megan Basil - Poster # A030

         Comparing effectiveness of phenol-chloroform, qiagen kits, and zymo kits in DNA extraction of swab samples

         • Tegbir Singh Chawla - Poster # A140

         Effect of acute genetic disruption of CPT2 on intestinal stem cell proliferation

         PI: Eric Yen - Mentor(s): Hubert Peng

 • Jackson Banks - Poster # A164

         The effect of grapefruit seed extract on the prevalence of antibiotic-producing isolates

          PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):         

• Triston Behrend - Poster # A164

         The effect of grapefruit seed extract on the prevalence of antibiotic-producing isolates

          PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):      

         • Ella Braufman - Poster # A163

         Impact of manuka honey on antiobiotic production in soil bacteria

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

         • Olivia Bochnak - Poster # A152

         Leaf mass per area for two maple species decrease along an elevational gradient on Mount Washington

         PI: Ken Keefover-Ring - Mentor(s): Tyler Wintermute

         • Samikshya Bhatta - Poster # A162

         Niacin impact on antibiotic production in soil microbes

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

   • Elissa Fogarty - Poster # A162

         Niacin impact on antibiotic production in soil microbes

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

 • Caroline Erin Gulka - Poster # A160

         Analyzing antibiotic production of soil bacteria in the presence of Irish sea moss

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s): Dr. P

         • Charlie Halaska  - Poster # A164

         The effect of grapefruit seed extract on the prevalence of antibiotic-producing isolates

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s)

         • Sophia Levenson - Poster # A163

         Impact of manuka honey on antiobiotic production in soil bacteria

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

   • Shannon Martin - Poster # A163

         Impact of manuka honey on antiobiotic production in soil bacteria

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

         • Skylar Schultz - Poster # A161

         Antibiotic-producing bacteria in the rhizospheres of medicinal plants: examining the broadleaf plantain (Plantago major)

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

         • Sydney Spiegel - Poster # A163

         Impact of manuka honey on antiobiotic production in soil bacteria

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

         • Caroline VanDrisse - Poster # A164

         The effect of grapefruit seed extract on the prevalence of antibiotic-producing isolates

         PI: Josh Pultorak - Mentor(s):

         • Nolan Abels - Poster # A032

         Sodium orthovanadate decreases maximal shortening velocity of single muscle fibers in rat skeletal muscle

         PI: Gary Diffee - Mentor(s): Justin Lopez

         • Zachary Goldberg - Poster # A090

         Atrophy does not fully describe sarcopenia

         PI: Gary Diffee - Mentor(s): Gary Diffee

         • Benjamin Kutler - Poster # A022

         The effect of varying amounts of IL-2 on T cell exhaustion

         PI: Kris Saha - Mentor(s): Nina Denne

         • Maya Nornberg - Poster # A087

         Psychoplastogen plasticity: exploring the relationship of DOI and DOI antagonist ketanserin on neuronal plasticity

         PI: Aviad Hai - Mentor(s): Ilhan Bok

         • Genevieve Kell - Poster # A049

         Modeling the effect of eddy covariance receptor height on footprint size over a proposed agrivoltaic field

         PI: Ankur Desai - Mentor(s): Bethany Blakely

         • Alex McNelis - Poster # A158

         The effect of increasing elevational gradient on betula stomata’s density from Mt. Washington

         PI: Sam Anderson - Mentor(s): Sam Anderson

         • Hannah De Guzman - Poster # A048

         Palynological study of the Tallgrass Aspen Parklands: A look into pollen preparation

         PI: Sara Hotchkiss - Mentor(s): Calla Olson

         • Jude Whale - Poster # A153

         Analysis of biomass and non-structural carbohydrate storage in Populus heterophylla of varying hydrologic growth environments

         PI: Ken Keefover-Ring - Mentor(s): Tyler Wintermute

          • Claire An - Poster # A054

         Effects of the Acanthocyclops robustus age on its survival rate and Schistocephalus solidus infection rate

      PI: Jesse Weber - Mentor(s): Cole Joseph Wolf

         • Abigail Cichocki - Poster # A006

         Impact of vision on zebrafish avoidance behaviors

         PI: David Ehrlich - Mentor(s): Anne Weerda

         • Analise Coon - Poster # A025

         Elucidating soma-germline interactions during ovary development and regeneration in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

         PI: Phillip Newmark & Melanie Issigonis - Mentor(s): Melanie Issigonis

     • Daisy Hester - Poster # A043

         Age of A. robustus at exposure affecting infection rates by S. solidus

         PI: Jesse Weber - Mentor(s):

         • Julia Mercer - Poster # A031

         Effects of neuronal stimulation on Purkinje cell output during development

         PI: David Ehrlich - Mentor(s): Kamila Mizerska, n/a, n/a

         • Nadia Nackers - Poster # A045

         Variable response of leaf-mass-per-area between evergreen and deciduous Vaccinium species compared along an elevation gradient

         PI: Monica Turner - Mentor(s): Nathan Kiel

         • Meera Thiagarajan - Poster # A139

         Overexpression of Zic2 in zebrafish may cause abnormalities in forebrain development

         PI: Yevgenya Grinblat - Mentor(s):

         • Anita Venzke - Poster # A065

         CCSER as a dynein regulator in axon terminal

         PI: Katie Drerup - Mentor(s): Katie Drerup

         • Sophia Walton - Poster # A058

         Locating a novel EGF in C. elegans involved in the regulation of sleep

         PI: Han Wang - Mentor(s): Haania Khan, Manuel Alvarez, Manuel Alvarez

         • Jane Liu - Poster # A142

         Are caudal dmPFC CRF receptors involved in the effects of CRFGlu neurons on working memory?

         PI: Craig Berridge - Mentor(s): Andrea Martin

         • Aurelia Rutkowski - Poster # A144

         A machine learning approach for the analysis of synchrony in large group human movement

         PI: Paula Niedenthal - Mentor(s): Michelle Marji

         • Lulia Tekeste - Poster # A145

         Relationship between corpus callosum area lateral hand bias in macaques

         PI: Allyson Bennett - Mentor(s): Allyson Bennet

         • Nolan Abels - Poster # A032

         Sodium orthovanadate decreases maximal shortening velocity of single muscle fibers in rat skeletal muscle

                              PI: Gary Diffee - Mentor(s): Justin Lopez       

  • Srideepti Marada - Poster # A089

         Insight into insomnia: exploring the relationship between stress and sleep with an analysis of physical activity, smoking, alcohol, and gender moderators

         PI: Simon Goldberg - Mentor(s):

         • Zachary Goldberg - Poster # A090

         Atrophy does not fully describe sarcopenia

         • Sydney O'Flanagan - Poster # A095

         A role for GCN2 in the regulation of metabolic neuropathy

         PI: Zachary Campbell - Mentor(s): Guadalupe Garcia Perez

         • Emilia Nicometo - Poster # A010

         Effects of a freeze-thaw cycle in LC-MS sample preparation on post-translational modifications of sarcomeric proteins in swine heart tissue

         PI: Ying Ge - Mentor(s): Melissa Pergande, Mallory Wilson

         • Elise Dahlby - Poster # A096

         The effects of genetically deleting the PAC-1 receptor on melanoma tumor growth in mice

         PI: Alexander Birbrair - Mentor(s): Debpali Sur

         • Olivia Leighton - Poster # A143

         Investigation of mutant GNA proteins in vascular anomalies through in vitro models

         PI: Hao Chang - Mentor(s): Jenna Meyers

         • Ella Peterson - Poster # A097

         Novel memory-like natural killer cell immunotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

         PI: Jose Ayuso - Mentor(s): Rithvik Turaga

         • Charlit Vang - Poster # A034

         The warburg effect in cancer cells and the role that it has on the cell's metabolism and microenvironment

         PI: Jose Ayuso - Mentor(s): Seth Zima

         • Madelyn Harris - Poster # A091

         The role of Axl in the tumor immune microenvironment of head and neck cancer tumors

         PI: Deric Wheeler - Mentor(s): Kourtney Kostecki

         • Pate Lantz - Poster # A093

         Griseofulvin increases multipolar spindles through centrosome amplification

         PI: Pippa Cosper - Mentor(s): Pippa Cosper, Katheryn Jones, Katheryn Jones

         • Haroldas Matulevicius - Poster # A037

         Nodavirus protein a linker mutations differentially impact RNA replication

         PI: Paul Ahlquist - Mentor(s): Helena Jeramillo Mesa, Megan Bracken

         • Alexandra Reichert - Poster # A092

         The impact of radiation dose fractionation on centrosome amplification and multipolar spindles in cervical cancer cells

         PI: Pippa Cosper - Mentor(s): Pippa Cosper

         • Charlotte Sawicki - Poster # A070

         The effect of radiation on microglia polarization

         PI: Zachary Morris - Mentor(s): Maya Takashima

         • Maisy Andes - Poster # A081

         Impact of gene alteration on Candida auris growth

         PI: Jeniel Nett - Mentor(s): Chad Johnson, Emily Eix

         • Emmaly Bertges - Poster # A029

         The lack of arginine inhibits the replication of the cat-loving parasite, Toxoplasma gondii

         PI: Laura Knoll - Mentor(s): Katie Barnes

         • Nathan Schwartz - Poster # A088

         T cell chemotaxis towards dendritic cells and its modulation by dendritic/iNKT interactions

         PI: Jenny Gumperz - Mentor(s): Dana Baiu

         • Shreya Vattem - Poster # A035

         Role of gpr132b in macrophage mediated melanoma invasion

         PI: Anna Huttenlocher - Mentor(s): Gayathri Ramakrishnan

         • Derek Zhang - Poster # A063

         Computational analysis of barcode diversity between donor and mutant bacterial libraries

         PI: Mark Mandel - Mentor(s): Vincent Watring

         • Leena Jaiswal - Poster # A075

         The effect of implementing a medication flowsheet on provider time spent making decisions and finding patient information

         PI: Saha Sumona - Mentor(s): Sumona Saha

         • Halli Von Ruden - Poster # A079

         Expression of cholecystokinin in beta cells under metabolic stress

         PI: Dawn Davis - Mentor(s): Molly Mulcahy

         • Brian Corsiga - Poster # A071

         Ketogenic diet effects on sleep quality in mice (WY and Fmr1KO) at P(95)

         PI: Cara Westmark - Mentor(s): Cara Westmark

• Presley Pergande - Poster # A077

         The effects of susceptibility to kindling on learning and memory in fear conditioning

         PI: Robert Kotloski - Mentor(s): Robert Kotloski

         • Anna Sauer - Poster # A078

         Spatial and behavioral learning in kindling rat strains through fear-conditioning and the radial arm maze

         PI: Robert Kotloski - Mentor(s):

             • Daniela Beers - Poster # A001

         Action potential differences in Rhesus macaque brain during a switching saccade task

         PI: Abigail Rajala - Mentor(s): Abigail Rajala

         • William Glass - Poster # A098

         The use of PIGA variant T lymphocytes for surrogate selection of immunologically relevant cells

         PI: Mark Albertini - Mentor(s): Cindy Zuleger

         • Cole Tiran - Poster # A074

         The effects of BYL719, GDC0068, and Everolimus on the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signal pathway of T47D breast cancer cells

         PI: Marina Sharifi - Mentor(s):

         • Tori Fraser - Poster # A080

         Determining if the HSV-1 enhancer is specific for proximal gene promoters

         PI: Donna Neumann - Mentor(s): Kayley Manuel

         • Emma Grindstaff - Poster # A005

         Effect of co-morbid glaucoma in a mouse model of alzheimer's disease (AD) on visual acuity

         PI: Gillian McLellan - Mentor(s): Julie Kiland, Virginia Mathu

         • Nandini Shah - Poster # A023

         Production of actin fibers in collagen gel by varying temperature in EV and CAꞵ3 cells

         PI: Donna Peters - Mentor(s): Mark Filla

         • Sydney Wolf - Poster # A024

         Isolating, confirming, and sequencing virus from rapid antigen tests (specifically Sars-COV-2; looking for a mutation on the spike protein)

         PI: David O'Connor - Mentor(s): William Vuyk, Isla Emmen

         • Avani Deglurkar - Poster # A066

         Combating Nonsense Mutations with Engineered Transfer-RNA

         PI: Bikash Pattnaik - Mentor(s): Enes Akyuz, Pawan Shahi

         • Samay Inampudi  - Poster # A073

         Pro-apoptotic processes and decreased pro-survival factors and their effect on Choroidal neovascularization

         PI: Christine Sorenson - Mentor(s): Christine Sorenson

         • Grace Reimers - Poster # A094

         Efficacy of natural killer cells in treating neuroblastoma​

         PI: Christian Capitini - Mentor(s): Matthew Forsberg

         • Arno Crowley - Poster # A083

         The efficacy of percutaneous cholangiography for excluding biliary atresia in infants

         PI: Eric Monroe - Mentor(s):

         • Samantha RusselHapp - Poster # A085

         Hydrophone cavitation detection for histotripsy: a non-invasive cancer therapy

         PI: Fred Lee - Mentor(s): Meridith Kisting

         • Samanyu Ambewadkar - Poster # A082

         Feasability of a liquid biopsy diagnostic assay in canine patients with sarcomas

         PI: Muhammed Murtaza - Mentor(s): Dr. Patricia Favaro

         • Kaitlyn Fueger - Poster # A084

         Surgical outcomes of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) and totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repairs

         PI: Anne Lidor - Mentor(s): Anne Lidor

         • Alysson Lee - Poster # A086

         Optimizing media conditions for neuroblastoma cell cultures in under-oil microfluidic systems

         PI: Hau Le - Mentor(s): Ligi Milesh

         • Brooke Miller - Poster # A036

         Sirtuin-6 and its effects on liver inflammation during normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion

         PI: David Al-Adra - Mentor(s): David Al-Adra, Heather Jennings

         • Elise Moreira - Poster # A136

         The impact of Lisa Popeil's vocal control technique on glottal opening: an exploration of M1 and M2

         PI: Jack Jiang - Mentor(s): Kat Smereka

         • Kristen Patterson - Poster # A019

         Correlation between general anesthesia time and laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery complications

         PI: Anne Lidor - Mentor(s): Anne Lidor

         • Annika Olson  - Poster # A141

         Binding affinity of a novel peptide-dendrimer conjugate for the treatment of pancreatic cancer

         PI: Seungpyo Hong - Mentor(s): JinWoong Lee

         • Michael Kelley - Poster # A028

         Exploring crown ether as the shift reagent for the differentiation of amino acid enantiomers and peptide epimers via ion mobility spectrometry​

         PI: Lingjun Li - Mentor(s): Gaoyuan Lu

         • Ziruim Fu - Poster # A064

         Dynamics of spacial temporal maturation of fetal leydig cell

         PI: Joan Jorgensen - Mentor(s): Joan Jorgensen

         • Jayden Rather - Poster # A003

         Effects of intermittent hypoxia of rats in utero

         PI: Jyoti Watters - Mentor(s): Tracy Baker

         • Connie Zhao - Poster # A146

         Effect of intercropping Kernza with alfalfa on grain yield at different nitrogen fertilizer levels

         PI: Valenti Picasso - Mentor(s): Priscilla Pinto

         • Nurit Gutierrez-Cuate - Poster # A135

         The impact of mechanical confinement on neutrophil migration speed and its psuedopod morphology

         PI:  - Mentor(s):