Wednesday, May 4th
Posters by mentoring department

• Kathryn Agnew - Poster # 90

How sugar content varies by harvest window in sh2-i/sh2-r su1/su1 sweet corn hybrids

PI: William Tracy - Mentor(s): Auden Parkinson

• Sagarika Pal - Poster # 36

Effects of tail-docking on lamb suckling frequency and ewe-lamb bonds

PI: Sarah Adcock - Mentor(s): Jocelyn Woods

• Natalie Andorfer - Poster # 21

How diets with various energy sources and amino acid supplementation affect glucose and insulin levels in the plasma of dairy cows

PI: Sebastian Arriola Apelo - Mentor(s): Kathryn Ritz

• Albert Chou - Poster # 24

How bioactive peptides provide value for animal by-products

PI: Wei Guo

• Nicole Joanne Fritsch - Poster # 173

Impact of prebiotic supplement in maternal diet on chicken offspring muscle growth

PI: Wei Guo

• Elise Mae Bleck - Poster # 22

Variation in calves' diet effect on body weight and metabolic profiles

PI: Laura Hernandez - Mentor(s): Alysia Vang

• Olivia Soudah - Poster # 42

Effects of three different prepartum diets on dry matter intake, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and mineral concentrations in multiparous holstein cows

PI: Laura Hernandez - Mentor(s): Waneska Frizzarini

• Siena Marie Finlayson - Poster # 27

Stockpile pasture grasses and their effects on heifer development

PI: Michel Wattiaux - Mentor(s): Michel Wattiaux

• Kaitlin Isabelle Buterbaugh - Poster # 23

The effect of exogenous prostaglandin F2a administration on endogenous prostaglandin F2a levels in dairy cows

PI: Milo Wiltbank

• Lynn Huang - Poster # 31

Response of PGFM in non-pregnant lactating dairy cows after oxytocin treatment

PI: Milo Wiltbank - Mentor(s): JP Andrade

• Lauryn E Melzer - Poster # 34

Developing sandwich ELISA to measure luteinizing hormone in dairy cattle to help improve effectiveness of OvSynch protocol

PI: Milo Wiltbank - Mentor(s): Rafael Domingues

• Tenzin Ngawang - Poster # 197

Studying the tissue culture of different lab animals

PI: Wei Guo

• Maria Rivera - Poster # 39

Cost effective measures to store and ship poultry digesta samples for 16s rRNA sequencing

PI: Steve Ricke - Mentor(s): Dana Dittoe

• Brianna Wanek - Poster # 43

The effects of airspeed from a fan on dairy cattle stalling choice behavior in relation to heat stress

PI: Jennifer Van Os - Mentor(s): Kim Reuscher

• Kara Marie Clark - Poster # 25

Determining the correlation between cortisol concentrations in cow urine and cow plasma

PI: Milo Wiltbank - Mentor(s): Pedro Leopoldo Jeronimo Monterio Junior

• Suraj Chetty - Poster # 167

Determining the antimicrobial activity of NP solution

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

• Sid Punati - Poster # 109

Investigating the conditionally essential role of lipoyl (octanoyl) transferase 2 in human cancer cells

PI: Jason Cantor - Mentor(s): Kyle Flickinger

• Hanyi Zhang - Poster # 120

Cell-free transcription system worked as biosensor

PI: Vatsan Raman - Mentor(s): Thomas Gillis

• Michael Angelo Bonfiglio - Poster # 93

Kinetics of elongation rates post promoter escape by E. coli RNA polymerase

PI: Thomas Record - Mentor(s): Max Rector

• Peter Hoferle - Poster # 101

Structure-function analysis of PEDv coronavirus proofreading mechanics using cryo-electron microscopy

PI: Robert Kirchdoerfer - Mentor(s): Tommy Anderson

• Mae Ellen Hurtado-Thiele - Poster # 102

Acylcarnitine-induced insulin resistance and inflammation in brown adipose tissue

PI: Judith Simcox - Mentor(s): Lainy VonBank

• Jihyun Hanna Hwang - Poster # 103

Determining siderophore production capacity of synthetic microbial community of individual strains in corn rhizosphere

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

• Maya Hewitt - Poster # 29

The effect of landscape on lady beetles in southern Wisconsin

PI: Claudio Gratton - Mentor(s): Ben Iuliano

• Mikaela Shutter-Trexell - Poster # 41

Analyzing the effects of GS2 on off-target (non-Colorado potato beetle) arthropods

PI: Russell Groves

• Morgan Amanda Weissner - Poster # 45

Plastic mulches decrease counts of thysanoptera but do not influence counts of orius in raspberry crops

PI: Christelle Guedot - Mentor(s): Hanna McIntosh

• Erin Elizabeth McCormick - Poster # 249

Condensed tannin response of Populus tremuloides to defoliation by Lymantria dispar

PI: Richard Lindroth - Mentor(s): Mark Zierden

• Sobia Farooqui - Poster # 243

Etofenprox susceptibility of adult Ixodes scapularis

PI: Susan Paskewitz - Mentor(s): Kristina Lopez

• Alivia Arredondo - Poster # 238

Phenological changes in deciduous forests: using green chromatic coordinate to measure duration of growing seasons in response to temperature changes

PI: Min Chen

• Carter Scott Hellenbrand - Poster # 244

Analyzing wild fire data in Wisconsin

PI: Min Chen

• Keira Elizabeth Obert - Poster # 35

Sex and biological season drive urban coyote and red fox revisitation patterns

PI: David Drake - Mentor(s): David Drake, Morgan Morales

• Madison Elizabeth Edens - Poster # 242

The effects of water hardness on the toxicity of 2,4-D in fathead minnows

PI: William Karasov - Mentor(s): Gavin Dehnert

• Aly Rautmann - Poster # 253

Effects of differing ammonia concentration exposure on toxicity of 2,4-D on fathead minnows in early life stages

PI: William Karasov - Mentor(s): Gavin Dehnert

• Kaitlin Ann Westerbeke - Poster # 46

The effects of salinity and 2,4-d exposure on development and survival of walleye and northern pike embryos

PI: William Karasov - Mentor(s): Gavin Dehnert

• Reese Kelley Southworth - Poster # 254

Comparison of first annual sightings of migratory birds in Dane county, Wisconsin, in 1945-1959 and 2006-2020 reveal significant shift to earlier arrival

PI: Stan Temple

• Brianna Konitzer - Poster # 32

Pup sheltering behavior in island and mainland house mice

PI: Bret Payseur - Mentor(s): Mark Nolte

• Nicole Cecilia Kane - Poster # 182

Effect of Rhoa inhibitor on quantity of germ cells in 24-hour zebrafish embryos

PI: Francisco Pelegri - Mentor(s):

• Emily Kollmann - Poster # 187

Phosphonium derivatives of piperlongumine are effective at slowing thyroid tumor cell growth in vivo, but are not as effective as piperlongumine in mouse thyroid xenograft trials

PI: Tomas Prolla - Mentor(s): Jim Vann

• Joshua Nicholas Kercher - Poster # 262

Effect of respiration on mutation rates of yeast

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

• Margo Mandel - Poster # 248

Development of molecular assays to predict sex in Cannabis sativa

PI: Shelby Ellison

• Sara Evelyn Fritz - Poster # 174

Stomata density response to heat stress in potatoes

PI: Jiwan Palta - Mentor(s): Justin Schabow

• Soniya Anish Patel - Poster # 219

The mechanisms of bacterial gene transfer

PI: Briana Burton

• Mya Artzi - Poster # 91

Assessment of vitamin A in women and children – identifying deficiency and the causes in Rwanda

PI: Sherry Tanumihardjo - Mentor(s): Bryan Gannon

• Eliza Maeve Loechl - Poster # 107

Assessment of vitamin A deficiency prevalence in urban and rural populations of Rwanda.

PI: Sherry Tanumihardjo - Mentor(s): Bryan Gannon

• Olivia Schmitz - Poster # 112

The association of vitamin a deficiency in Rwanda with anthropometric measurements in relation to malnutrition.

PI: Sherry Tanumihardjo - Mentor(s): Bryan Gannon

• Stephanie Hayes - Poster # 274

Blue light represses Ralstonia solanacearum swimming motility

PI: Caitilyn Allen - Mentor(s): Mariama Carter, Shabda Gajbhiye

• Danielle Renee Kniefel - Poster # 186

Determination of an optimal DNA extraction kit for detection of disease within tubers and stems of potatoes

PI: Brooke Babler - Mentor(s): Brooke Babler

• Kailey Felch - Poster # 218

The Effect of Sucrose On Soil Bacteria Antibiotics Production

PI: Josh Pultorak

• Kathryn Marie Lindeman - Poster # 247

Impacts of inoculation methods of Fusarium spp. on Pinus resinosa germination

PI: Nick Balster - Mentor(s): Jaya Suneja

• Lauren Jessica Liebman - Poster # 246

How does moisture impact the MIR spectra of clay, silt, and sand soils?

PI: Jingyi Huang - Mentor(s): Annalisa Stevenson

• Sally Christenson - Poster # 241

Increasing fire intensity effect on the pH of soil

PI: Thea Whitman - Mentor(s): Kelsey Kruger

• Emma Dee Johnson - Poster # 245

Impact of increasing jack pine ash on soil pH

PI: Thea Whitman - Mentor(s): Kelsey Kruger

• Laura Elaina Yip - Poster # 255

Effects of parent-mediated physical activity interventions on fundamental motor skills of children with autism spectrum disorder

PI: Luis Columna - Mentor(s): Laura Preito

• Jessica Rose Diedrich - Poster # 97

The effects of a regimented exercise- dance program on balance in senior citizens

PI: Kristen Pickett - Mentor(s): Kristen Pickett

• Laura Arroyo - Poster # 156

Characterizing PIEZO1 expression in ovarian cancer models

PI: Pamela Kreeger - Mentor(s): Hannah Micek

• Elizabeth Erin Wacker - Poster # 214

Construction of a parallel plate flow chamber for modeling the aorta

PI: Kristyn Masters - Mentor(s): Kristyn Masters

• Logan Victor Florek - Poster # 172

Effects of pyruvate-lactate ratio modulation on optical metabolic imaging measurements in hela cells

PI: Melissa Skala - Mentor(s): Amani Gillette

• Meghan Maureen Horan - Poster # 178

The impact of collagen patterns on pancreatic cancer cells as indicated by metabolism & migration behaviors

PI: Melissa Skala - Mentor(s): Sophie Mancha

• Maya Manish Tanna - Poster # 213

Tumor microenvironment oxygenation levels influence cellular metabolism

PI: Melissa Skala - Mentor(s): Amani Gillette, Danielle Desa

• Rae Salazar Ng - Poster # 196

Low intensity pulsed focused ultrasound alters the collagen microenvironment in 4T1 xenografts

PI: John-Paul Yu

• Brenna Katherine Fricke - Poster # 261

The effects of lightening on the encapsulation properties of prebiotic amphiphilic compartments

PI: David Baum - Mentor(s): Tym Sokolskyi

• Erin Lauren Wiegman - Poster # 216

Rapid signaling in Arabidopsis: a look at the calcium wave

PI: Simon Gilroy - Mentor(s): Johnny Johns

• Thomas Robinson - Poster # 202

Plant gravitropism and SLQ1’s effect on the plant cells

PI: Edgar Spalding

• Ryan Powis - Poster # 252

Variation in accuracy of photo measurements of fish across species

PI: Zach Feiner - Mentor(s): Ashley Trudeau

• Brady David Burkle - Poster # 239

The relationship between fishing season and information use by fishers

PI: Olaf Jensen

• Kaela Kathleen Groppel - Poster # 99

Kinetic simulations on folding and protein aggregation

PI: Silvia Cavagnero - Mentor(s): Silvia Cavagnero

• Claire Marie Mueller - Poster # 250

Menominee agricultural practices as analyzed through stable isotope signatures

PI: William Gartner - Mentor(s): William Gartner

• Kaiya Marie Johnson - Poster # 104

The effect of TRK-fused gene mutations on terminal branching of axon collaterals in zebrafish

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

• Justin Riley Stevens - Poster # 210

Identifying sleep-promoting neuropeptides in C. elegans with the bipartite GAL4-UAS system, CGAL

PI: Han Wang

• Ron Chen - Poster # 165

Successful sequencing of an mChe-dysferlin protein and its visualization in muscular dystrophy

PI: William Bement - Mentor(s): Sonnemann, Kevin

• Emily Marie Kaster - Poster # 183

Hippo signaling pathway in Drosophila

PI: Seth Blair - Mentor(s): Alex Murphy

• Conor David Bendett - Poster # 260

Methyltransferase gene family phylogeny in E. affinis and related arthropods

PI: Carol Lee

• Oliver Nicolas Parmekar - Poster # 108

Composition of coral-building structures as they grow

PI: Pupa Gilbert

• Tia Sika - Poster # 206

Determining the correlation between crystal misorientation and hardness and stiffness in human tooth enamel

PI: Pupa Gilbert - Mentor(s): Cayla Stifler

• Kaitlynn Wang - Poster # 44

Hand preference for a coordinated bimanual task: variation in age in Macaca radiata

PI: Allyson Bennett

• Mazen Anjum Razzaq - Poster # 110

How physiological stress responses relate to trait anxiety

PI: Richard Davidson - Mentor(s): Sasha Sommerfeldt

• Manmeet Singh Dang - Poster # 96

No title submitted

PI: Shawn Green

• Helen Rose Treankler - Poster # 116

Correlation between fluid intelligence and cognitive planning

PI: Shawn Green - Mentor(s): Emma Cunningham

• McKenzie Michelle Braun - Poster # 161

Pulse radiofrequency ablation as a treatment for chronic pain localized to the suprascapular nerve

PI: Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed - Mentor(s): Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed, Kenneth Fiala

• Ryen Kincade Hazzard - Poster # 100

Effects of cofactors, S-Adenosyl Methionine and H3K27me3, on polycomb repressive complex 2 substrate binding, and gene repression ability

PI: Peter Lewis - Mentor(s): Andrew Rashoff

• Grace Evelyn Branger - Poster # 160

Stereological assessment of cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain in the context of Down Syndrome

PI: Anita Bhattacharyya - Mentor(s): Matthew Russo, Matthew Russo

• Emma Helen Anderson - Poster # 155

Analyzing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) edited with CRISPR Cas9 to modify the RS4977756 SNP linked to glioma

PI: Valentina Lo Sardo - Mentor(s): Valentina Lo Sardo

• Ashley Rose Skoyen - Poster # 207

Effects of estrogen signaling through GPER in the ECM of breast cancer

PI: Suzanne Ponik - Mentor(s): Shelby Fertal

• Navi Volety - Poster # 118

Effects of cyclosporin-a, an immunosuppressive drug, on melanoma progression in BRAFV600E/ptennull mice

PI: Nihal Ahmad - Mentor(s): Gagan Chhabra

• Kaleigh Jean Mazola - Poster # 192

Adjuvant DUSPi and BRAFi treatments for cutaneous melanoma sensitivity

PI: Vijayasarahdi Setaluri - Mentor(s): Sarah Altameemi

• Madeline Elizabeth Huber - Poster # 179

Inhibition of ROS scavengers to improve treatment of head and neck cancer

PI: Randall Kimple - Mentor(s): Zafer Gurel

• Cole Michael Witt - Poster # 217

Efficacy of a regimen combining radiotherapy and immunotherapy against large MC38 colon adenocarcinomas

PI: Paul Sondel - Mentor(s): Alexander Rakhmilevich

• Sydney Lynn Steiner - Poster # 209

Autoimmune research - pollution and its effects on autoimmune disease (this topic is subject to change)

PI: Yun Liang

• Preethi Saravanan - Poster # 204

Mapping dopaminergic grafts in a rhesus macaque model of Parkinson’s disease

PI: Marina Emborg

• Carrie Anne Semenas - Poster # 113

Expression of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in the temporal cerebral cortex and the putamen nucleus of nonhuman primates

PI: Marina Emborg

• Nathan Benjamin Clemons - Poster # 95

Assessing radiolabeled PSMA-C18 as a theranostic tool against prostate cancer

PI: Reiner Hernandez - Mentor(s): Carolina Ferreira

• Lexie Kolton - Poster # 188

The kinetics of anti-receptor binding domain antibodies post covid-19 immunization in patients with ibd

PI: Freddy Caldera

• Frank Charles DeGuire III - Poster # 171

Caveolae may mediate cardiomyocyte contraction strength to protect the cell from damage

PI: Alexey Glukhov - Mentor(s): Roman Medvedev

• Zach Spears - Poster # 171

Caveolae may mediate cardiomyocyte contraction strength to protect the cell from damage

PI: Alexey Glukhov - Mentor(s): Roman Medvedev

• Colbey Morgan Johnson - Poster # 181

Analysis of the interplay between mitochondrial health and metabolic output, with particular regards to ADP sensitivity

PI: Adam Konopka - Mentor(s): Christian Elliehausen

• Lexie Borgelt - Poster # 159

Rapamycin blocks hepatic FGF21 gene expression induced by a low isoleucine diet

PI: Dudley Lamming - Mentor(s): Yang Yeh

• Mackenzie Mae Jarchow - Poster # 180

Association between sleep problems and amyloid accumulation in individuals at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease

PI: Ozioma Okonkwo - Mentor(s): Ira Driscoll

• Samuel Earl Strachan - Poster # 211

Factors associated with salivary flow rate in older adults with pneumonia

PI: Nicole Rogus-Pulia

• Nandini Suryavanshi - Poster # 212

Determining the optimal range of saliva collection for analysis in dysphagia-focused research studies

PI: Nicole Rogus-Pulia - Mentor: Raele Donetha Robison

• Luke Michael Vander Kooy - Poster # 117

Comparative effects of rapamycin and ARRY-37197 on cardiac function in mice with LMNA N195 K dilated cardiomyopathy.

PI: Matthew Wolff - Mentor(s): Wolff, Matthew

• Brady Dennis Wellman - Poster # 276

Ecdysterone and muscle growth: a Meta-analysis

PI: Alexey Glukhov - Mentor: Di Lang

• Joy Y Zhang - Poster # 277

Disulfide bonds reveal location of TRPV4s c-terminal end

PI: David Zhang

• Alex Abbott - Poster # 154

Analyzing factors for improving survival rates for patients with H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas: an epidemiological study using the SEER database

PI: Mahua Dey - Mentor(s): Sudarshawn Damodharan

• Jeongwoo Choi - Poster # 168

Efficacy of antioxidant and anti-ER stress combo therapy against neurological and secondary brain damage following traumatic brain injury

PI: Raghu Vemuganti - Mentor(s): CHARLES KOZHIKKADAN DAVIS

• Rachel Elizabeth Roberts - Poster # 111

Increased gamma and posterior brain activity during self-thought

PI: Melanie Boly - Mentor(s): Maximilian Grobbelaar

• Joshua John Walter - Poster # 119

Intracranial study of the neural signatures of thought and metacognition/reflective awareness

PI: Melanie Boly - Mentor(s): Melanie Boly

• Maeve Ryan - Poster # 40

Can APGAR scores help predict neonatal seizures and HIE in infants?

PI: Melisa Carrasco McCaul - Mentor(s): Noah Trapp

• Ian Corsiga - Poster # 170

Effects of CREB signaling on the survivability of Rett syndrome in mice

PI: Qiang Chang - Mentor(s): Ziyao Zhang

• Parker Steven Kuehni - Poster # 106

Genetic background influences gene expression following TBI in kindling-susceptible and kindling-resistant rats

PI: Robert Kotloski

• Kimberly Chappell - Poster # 163

TSC2 signals through HDAC6 to regulate axon extension in human forebrain neurons

PI: Timothy Gomez - Mentor(s): Austin Pier

• Megan Kathleen Rusk - Poster # 203

Relationship of ethanol exposure during developmental periods and penetrance of craniofacial abnormalities in zebrafish mutants

PI: Yevgenya Grinblat

• Rohit Bakayat - Poster # 157

Manipulating neuronal responses elicited by moving stimuli using visual adaptation and the impact on motion perception

PI: Xin Huang - Mentor(s): Huang, Xin

• Vicky Chan - Poster # 162

Testing transcriptional changes of endocytosis genes in stem cells derived from patients with Parkinson’s Disease using qPCR

PI: Su-Chun Zhang - Mentor(s): Sakthikumar Mathivanan

• Megan Keefe - Poster # 105

The mechanism that accounts for autophagy deficits caused by MAP1B overexpresssion

PI: Xinyu Zhao - Mentor(s): Kristy Guo

• Sebastian Krebsbach - Poster # 189

Neurons in MBD1 mutant mice exhibit abnormal dendritic spines

PI: Xinyu Zhao - Mentor(s): Yu Gao

• Nesya Galit Graupe - Poster # 175

Immune signature of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in women undergoing infertility treatment

PI: Aleksander Stanic-Kostic - Mentor(s): Soma Banerjee

• Alex Shuaibo Chen - Poster # 164

Comparing genes of interest between multiple myeloma and other cancers and viewing the expression of these genes in multiple myeloma progression

PI: Peiman Hematti - Mentor(s): Ameet Mishra

• Mitchell Charles Mussehl - Poster # 194

Kinetochore proteins CENP-C and CENP-T localize to DNA-dense heterochromatin regions in interphase nuclei

PI: Aussie Suzuki - Mentor(s): Jon Loi

• Dima Osama Hamdan - Poster # 177

Investigating beat-sidestep as a disease modifier in a Drosophila model for Ubiquilin-2 associated ALS

PI: Randal Tibbetts - Mentor(s): Sang Hwa

• Cameron Mark Baenen - Poster # 92

Minimally invasive method for in-vivo upper cortex photoconversion in mice

PI: Zsuzsanna Fabry - Mentor(s): Laaker, Collin

• Mohan Kumar - Poster # 190

Murine neural progenitor cells are hosts for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and display inhibited neurogenesis

PI: Matyas Sandor - Mentor(s): Thiunuwan Thanthrige

• Michelle Choi - Poster # 169

Using Caenorhabditis elegans to study anthelmintic synergy and antagonism

PI: Mostafa Zamanian - Mentor(s): Nic Wheeler, Elena Garncarz

• Ava Staehler - Poster # 208

Levels of chemokines in bronchoalveolar fluid in acute lung injury model

PI: Awni Al-Subu - Mentor(s): Rudolf Braun, Regina Golding

• Morgan Grace Blume - Poster # 158

The sexually differentiated role of neurotrophin signaling in the neonatal hippocampus post-hypoxia ischemia

PI: Pelin Cengiz - Mentor(s): Ela Bicki

• Alexa Skrapits - Poster # 115

The role of MAPK/ERK in hypoxic-ischemic injury

PI: Pelin Cengiz - Mentor(s): Ela Bicki

• Grainne Mairead McDonagh - Poster # 33

Examination of cocaine use and generalized anxiety disorder among community college students

PI: Megan Moreno - Mentor(s): Maggie Bushman

• Kayla Nicole Wanless - Poster # 215

The role of MTORC1 in heart regeneration

PI: Wyatt Paltzer

• Natan David Botshtein - Poster # 94

ELX-01 effectiveness to read-through E148X nonsense mutation in the KCNV2 gene

PI: Bikash Pattnaik - Mentor(s): Pawan Shahi

• Sydney A Katz - Poster # 184

Incorporating MYCN inhibition into a clinically-relevant regimen to treat a preclinical model of high-risk neuroblastoma

PI: Paul Sondel - Mentor(s): Lauren Zebertavage

• Jo Fuller - Poster # 28

Associations between physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness levels, and sleepiness

PI: Paul Peppard - Mentor(s): Erika Hagen

• Claire Elyse Punke - Poster # 201

The function of sleep: effects of sleep and wake after motor learning on the synaptic ultrastructure of the dorsal-medial striatum in mice

PI: Chiara Cirelli

• Liah Anne Francart - Poster # 270

Childhood dreaming: the neural mechanisms

PI: Stephanie Jones

• Rachel Elise Emmiti - Poster # 26

Simulating prolactin levels comparable to those of pregnant women with antipsychotics

PI: Zachary Stowe - Mentor(s): Tijana Sagorac Gruichic

• Sarah Jo Schubbe - Poster # 205

The effect of maternal use of amphetamines to treat ADHD on neonatal head circumference

PI: Zachary Stowe - Mentor(s): Tijana Sagorac Gruichich

• Olivia Ellen Larson - Poster # 191

Benzodiazepine exposure in pregnancy: impact on child behavior

PI: Zachary Stowe - Mentor(s): Chloe Botsford

• Michael Nathaniel Fritz - Poster # 98

Agreement of the results of different MRI sequences for liver fat quantification

PI: Scott Reeder - Mentor(s): Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos

• Tony Chen - Poster # 166

Administration of an experimental mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor in NeoThy humanized mouse

PI: Matthew Brown - Mentor(s): Daffada, Cross,

• Abhiram Nettem - Poster # 195

Sex differences in immune cell engraftment kinetics of NeoThy humanized mice

PI: Matthew Brown

• Diviya Senthilkumar - Poster # 114

Comparing USVs recorded during NOR in a pink1 rat model to look at effects of Parkinson’s disease on speech functioning

PI: Michelle Ciucci - Mentor(s): John Szot

• Lucille Hoa Pham - Poster # 37

Measuring tongue strength after ablations of the lingual, hypoglossal, or both nerves in a rat model

PI: Nadine Connor - Mentor(s): Jared Cullen

• Grace Elizabeth Groeschel - Poster # 176

Locus-specific changes in HLA Class I and Class II gene expression of human endothelial cells under proinflammatory conditions

PI: Luis Hidalgo - Mentor(s): Luis Hidalgo, Megan O'Neill

• Easton Prazak - Poster # 200

The effects of trigeminal nerve stimulation on functional arm strength recovery after peripheral nerve injury in rodents

PI: Sam Poore - Mentor(s): Pete Nicksic

• Hannah Marie Hua - Poster # 30

Analysis of intravesical oxybutynin therapy as an effective treatment for neurogenic bladder

PI: Walid Farhat

• Mai Chada Vang - Poster # 271

Hmong word recognition test among Hmong adults with hearing loss

PI: Maichou Lor

• Luna Mo - Poster # 193

The cell-based drug delivery system of the programmed death protein1 in immunotherapy of the cancer treatment

PI: Quanyin Hu - Mentor(s): Zhaoting Li

• Victoria Iris Palucki - Poster # 199

Nanoemulsion to treat non-small cell lung cancer

PI: Sandro Mecozzi - Mentor(s): Sookyung Hwang

• Emily Ren - Poster # 38

The effects of liposomes decorated with peptides iGRD and CGKRK on steroid hormone secretion by the Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) placenta

PI: Thaddeus Golos - Mentor(s): Logan Keding

• Tyler Wesley Kearse - Poster # 185

Influence of fetal Leydig cell position on star transcription

PI: Joan Jorgensen

• Ella Rose Chorlton - Poster # 240

Projected effects of cold temperature fluctuations on overwintering survival of Aedes albopictus

PI: Lyric Bartholomay - Mentor(s): Katie Susong

• Peyton Lisabeth Thomson - Poster # 263

Drug combination’s ability to alter metabolism and reduce antibiotic resistance

PI: Jessica Hite - Mentor(s): Fatemeh Ekbatani-amiri

• Sydney Elizabeth Oerter - Poster # 198

Assessing anthelmintic properties of natural compounds

PI: Mostafa Zamanian - Mentor(s): Katie Ryan

• Katherine Grace Porubcan - Poster # 251

Exploring the drivers of soil respiration in Wisconsin corn and alfalfa fields

PI: Alison Duff - USDA Dairy Forage Research Center