Found 82 projects

Poster Presentation 1

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Add to my favorites Developing Gene Knock-in Technology in Zebrafish
Presenter
  • Jessica Erin Gianopulos, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology
  • Michael Phelps, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Central Administration of Oxytocin Increases Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis in Rodent Models
Presenter
  • Daniel W. (Daniel) Chukri, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • James Blevins, Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System/University of Washington
  • Zach Roberts, Physiology & Biophysics
Session

Add to my favorites Continued Analysis of Small Gatekeeper Kinases as Drug Targets in Giardia lamblia
Presenters
  • Christine Wong, Senior, Microbiology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Brytania Angel Deloza, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentors
  • Alexander Paredez, Biology
  • Kelly Hennessey, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Seeing Eye to Eye: Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Alzheimer’s Disease Proteins Expressed in Drosophila Eyes
Presenters
  • Natalie Elise (Natalie) Pearlman, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
  • Fatima Mohamed (Fatima) El Ghazali, Senior, Neurobiology
Mentors
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Adrienne Wang, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites A Pilot Study Assessing the Feasibility of Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Pain Management for Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease
Presenter
  • Alexie Anne Carletti, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentor
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology
Session

Add to my favorites Traumatic Brain Injury Model with Drosophila melanogaster.
Presenter
  • Nitin (Bobby) Desai, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Characterizing the Role of CD82 in the Pathogenesis of Rhabdomyosarcoma
Presenter
  • Phuong Van, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology
  • Thao Pham, Pathology
  • Terra Vleeshouwer-Neumann, Pathology
  • Michael Phelps, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Phytochrome Signaling and Resource Allocation in Brassica rapa
Presenters
  • Benjamin David (Benjamin) Haagen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
  • Joseph Edward (Joey) Zemke, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Andrej Arsovski, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Elucidation of Genes Required for Endophytic N-Fixation and their Role in Plant Growth Promotion
Presenter
  • Pierre Michel (Pierre) Joubert, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor: Presentation of 14 Cases
Presenter
  • Fatima Hadi (Fatima) Al Shimari, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Dolphine Oda, Dentistry
  • Srinivasa Chandra, Dentistry
Session

Add to my favorites Perioperative Activity in Thoracic Surgery: Does Adherence to Daily Activity Monitor Use Predict Actual Activity?
Presenter
  • Emilee Anne (Emilee) Kauer, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Stephen Kaplan, Surgery
  • Richard Thirlby, Virginia Mason Medical Center
  • Michal Hubka, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Session

Add to my favorites Viva la Violacein: An Affordable Real-Time Cell Culture Analyzer
Presenters
  • Cameron T. Roots, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Brandy Snow (Brandy) Tang, Senior, Bioengineering
  • Anne Bania, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Yoshi Goto, Senior, Bioengineering
  • Natalie Elizabeth (Natalie) Johnston, Senior, Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • George Sun, Senior, Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Sun Jung (Sunny) Park, Senior, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Mice Prompt an Increase in Microglia in the Hypothalamus
Presenter
  • Phoebe Domingo, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Mark Opp, Anesthesiology
  • Hannah Thomasy, Neuroscience
Session

Add to my favorites Drosophila as a Model of Rotenone-Induced Parkinson’s Disease
Presenters
  • Rebekah Zaharia, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Justin Chandler Bethel, Senior, Neurobiology, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Adrienne Wang, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Dynamic Mass Redistribution Analysis of U251 Brain Cancer Cells for α-1 Adrenergic Receptors
Presenter
  • Yana Dmitrievna (Yana) Karlova, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Chris Hague, Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Dorathy-Ann Harris, Pharmacology
Session

Oral Presentation 1

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM

Add to my favorites Sensory and Memory in Foraging Behavior: A Comparative Analysis in Humans and Rodents
Presenter
  • Gusti Lulu (Lulu) Fatima, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Gire, Psychology
  • Brian Jackson, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites Novel Strategies to Measure HIV-2 Resistance in Real-Time
Presenter
  • Sara Masoum, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Geoffrey Gottlieb, Global Health, Medicine
  • Dana Raugi, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Antiviral Activity of EFdA against NRTI-Sensitive and NRTI-Resistant Strains of HIV-2
Presenter
  • Vincent Huang Wu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Informatics Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Geoffrey Gottlieb, Global Health, Medicine
  • Robert Smith, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Session

Add to my favorites The Origin of Low-Frequency Resistance Present during Acute HIV Infection in East Africa
Presenter
  • Dana Renae (Dana) Arenz, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Dara Lehman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Global Health
Session

Add to my favorites Look Who's Talking Now: Diatom-Bacteria Communication Using Terrestrial-Plant Signaling Compounds
Presenter
  • Rae Boccamazzo, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, McNair Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Virginia Armbrust, Oceanography
  • Bryndan Durham, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Utilizing Budding Yeast to Investigate Human Dwarfism
Presenter
  • Mackenzie Erin (Mackenzie) Croy, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Optimization of Chlorotoxin Conjugation to Nanoparticle: Targeting Chemotherapeutics to Glioblastomas
Presenter
  • Dua Naveed Khan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
Session

Poster Presentation 2

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Add to my favorites Characterizing the Immune Response of Gastric Epithelial Cells to H. pylori Infection
Presenter
  • Rohan Hassan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Nina Salama, Microbiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Tina Gall, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Session

Add to my favorites Mortalin Prevents α-Synuclein Up-regulation and Oligomerization in Astroglia Under Manganese-Induced Toxicity  
Presenter
  • Dakota Lynn (Dakota) Hammrich, Recent Graduate, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Tessandra Stewart, Pathology, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Evaluating Appendicitis Treatment Options of Drugs and Appendectomy by Comparing Patient Clinical Health Outcomes
Presenter
  • Derek Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Flum, Surgery
  • Sierra Widmer-Rodriguez, Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Screening for Genetic Interactions in C. elegans to Understand the Genetic Basis of Complex Disease
Presenter
  • Cambria Lynne Heuston, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Robert Waterston, Genome Sciences
  • Calvin Mok, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Studying Cellular Aging Using the Replicative Lifespan Assay in Yeast
Presenters
  • Yaechan (Sam) Song, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Sunny Nguyen, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Anthropology: Anth of Globalization
  • Nicolas John (Nick) Tonel, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Brian Wasko, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Curare and the Cortex: How Acetylcholine May Be Involved in Waking the Brain Up 
Presenter
  • Mckenna Suzanne (McKenna) Donahue, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • William Moody, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Determining the Genes of an Essential Replication Complex that Are Involved in Evolutionary Divergence
Presenter
  • Navinder Locham (Navin) Gurmit Singh, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences
  • Bryce Taylor, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Murine Model for Late Onset Cystic Growth in Kidneys as Found in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease 
Presenter
  • Ariana Kupai, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry
Mentors
  • David Beier, Pediatrics
  • Anna Lindsay, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites Assaying Replication Fidelity through Duplex Sequencing  
Presenter
  • Connor Andrew Tadanobu (Connor) Kubo, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Lawrence Loeb, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Fgf Signaling in Zebrafish Scale Patterning
Presenter
  • Alexis Noel (Alexis) Fulbright, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Andy Aman, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Finding Genes and Markers for Extracellular Vesicle Signaling in C. elegans
Presenter
  • Shree Devendra (Shree) Mehta, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Josh Russell, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Pharmacokinetics of Dacarbazine (DTIC) in Pregnancy
Presenter
  • Aditya Kumar, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Mary Hebert, Pharmacy
Session

Oral Presentation 2

3:30 PM to 5:15 PM

Add to my favorites Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations with PEG-Coated Nanoparticles to Study Blood-Brain Barrier Diffusivity and Targeted Drug Delivery
Presenter
  • Jude Tunyi, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Jim Pfaendtner, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites The New Pattern Recognition Receptor RECON Acts as Part of the Intestinal Immune System
Presenter
  • Alexie Anne Carletti, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentors
  • Joshua Woodward, Microbiology
  • Adelle McFarland, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites Stability of Remodeling-Associated and Immunomodulatory Gene Expression by Primary Bronchial Epithelial Cells from Asthmatic and Healthy Children over Increasing Cell Passage
Presenter
  • Maryam Farrukh (Maryam) Naushab, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Jason Debley, Medicine, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites Analysis of Mast Cell Surface Proteome
Presenter
  • Victoria Sabina Kasprzak, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Adrian Piliponsky, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Nicholas Shubin, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites A Novel Protein Regulates Lymph Node Lymphangiogenesis
Presenter
  • Aubrey D (Aubrey) Brown, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Alanna Ruddell, Comparative Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites A Novel Growth Factor Gene Family Mediates Tube Formation in Drosophila
Presenter
  • Liesl Grace (Liesl) Strand, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Celeste Berg, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Racial Differences in Genetic Determinants of Telomere Length
Presenter
  • Andrew Michael (Andy) Zeiger, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sam Oh, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites CDF1 Utilizes TPL to Repress Photoperiodic Flowering in Arabidopsis
Presenter
  • Evan David Groover, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Greg Golembeski, Biology
  • Takato Imaizumi, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Kinetics of FKF1 LOV Chemistry Determine its Function in Photoperiodic Flowering in Arabidopsis
Presenter
  • Simone Lee (Simone) Kemp, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Takato Imaizumi, Biology
  • Jaesung Shim, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Vertical Distribution of Understory Avian Population in the Peruvian Rainforest
Presenters
  • Wenyi (Luke) Zhou, Junior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
  • Benjamin David (Benjamin) Haagen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Ursula Valdez, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UW Bothell
Session

Add to my favorites Does rDNA Copy Number Influence Genome-Wide Replication Initiation?
Presenters
  • Mackenzie Erin (Mackenzie) Croy, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Madison Amber (Madison) Miller, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Sarah Ariana (Sarah) Johnson, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Does Single-Stranded DNA Accumulation Cause Death of Ligase-Deficient Yeast Cells?
Presenter
  • Sarah Ariana (Sarah) Johnson, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • M.K. Raghuraman, Genome Sciences
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
Session

Poster Presentation 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Add to my favorites The Role of Imaginal Disc Growth Factors in Wound Healing in Drosophila
Presenter
  • Bernice Lin, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Celeste Berg, Genome Sciences
  • Sandra Zimmerman, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Differential Vascular Risk Factors for Cognitively-Defined Alzheimer's Disease Subgroups
Presenter
  • Mack Paller Moore, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Paul Crane, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Influence of Cardiorespiratory Coupling on the Risk of Sudden Unexpected Death in a Mouse Model of Dravet Syndrome
Presenter
  • Sandy Liang, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Franck Kalume, Neurological Surgery, Pharmacology, Seattle Children's Research Institute, UW/ Seattle Children's
Session

Add to my favorites Analysis of Orofacial Anomalies in a Mouse Model for Pierre Robin Sequence
Presenter
  • Marisa Alysia Yonemitsu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Kai Yu, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites Variations in Cytokine Profiles Associated with Small for Gestational Age and Premature Births in Nepal
Presenter
  • Nicole Marie Horsley, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Helen Chu, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Sea Urchin Larval Development in a Warming Ocean
Presenters
  • Zoe Rae (Zoe) Ludwig, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Suzannah Waimun (Suzannah) Yu, Senior, Psychology, Biology (General) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Colette Feehan, Biology, Rutgers University
Session

Add to my favorites When Plants Strike Back: Engineering Plants with Pest-Triggered Defenses Using Synthetic Transcription Factors
Presenter
  • Andrew Charles (Andrew) Lemmex, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Arjun Khakhar, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Controlling the Flow: Re-Engineering the Flow of a Plant Growth Hormone to Tune Developmental Processes
Presenter
  • Mrunmayee Manohar Shete, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Arjun Khakhar, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites The Relationship between Social Dysfunction and Internalizing Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenter
  • Madelyn Lehualani (Maddy) Mc Keague, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Francisco Velasquez, Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center
Session

Add to my favorites The Effects of Ocean Tides on Suspended Surface Sediments in the Amazon River Using Satellite Imaging and Ground Truth Sampling
Presenter
  • Caitlin Joy Fisher, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Oceanography
Mentors
  • Andrea Ogston, Oceanography
  • Aaron Fricke, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Cardiac Mitochondrial Ultrastructure Seen by Electron Microscopy Degenerates with Age and is Partially Reversed by Treatment with SS-31 Peptide
Presenter
  • Gabriel J (Gabe) Otero, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Peter Rabinovitch, Pathology
  • Ying Ann Chiao, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Developing a Generalizable System for the Exhaustive Identification of Drug Resistance Mutations in Oncogenic Tyrosine Kinases
Presenter
  • Aquene N. Reid, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Douglas Fowler, Genome Sciences
  • Ethan Ahler, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating Candidate Variants in NPR3 and SRL in an Extended Family with a History of Joint Hypermobility  
Presenter
  • Edith Paola (Edith) Almanza Fuerte, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Michael Bamshad, Pediatrics
  • Kati Buckingham, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites Characterization of Hearing Loss Related to Impaired Mitochondrial Function in Mutant Zebrafish Models
Presenter
  • Jonathan David (Jonny) Ramos, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Raible, Biological Structure
  • Sarah Pickett, Biological Structure
Session

Add to my favorites Engineering Novel MAP Kinase Interaction Domains in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Presenter
  • Anna Kus, Senior, Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Georg Seelig, Electrical Engineering
  • Arjun Khakhar, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Immune Response to Cancer Cell Death
Presenter
  • Kristy Chiang, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Andrew Oberst, Immunology
  • Annelise Snyder, Immunology
Session

Add to my favorites Diversity of Human T Cell Receptors Specific for Mycobacterial Sulfoglycolipid Antigens
Presenter
  • Lalita Saraswathi (Lalita) Narayanan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Chetan Seshadri, Medicine
  • Krystle Yu, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Single Nuceotide Variants in Patients with Infantile Spasms
Presenter
  • Nancy Thuy (Nancy) Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Heather Mefford, Pediatrics
  • Alison Muir, Pediatrics
Session

Poster Presentation 4

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Add to my favorites Evaluating the Efficacy of a Sample of College Preparedness Organizations in Promoting Adolescent User Engagement on Social Media
Presenter
  • Joshua Bryce (Josh) Scheck, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Megan Moreno, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Bradley Kerr, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites Self Versus Peer-Grading of Practice Exams: Which is Better?
Presenters
  • Mallory Jackson, Senior, Psychology, Biology (Physiology)
  • Alina Thuc Uyen (Alina) Tran, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Jennifer Doherty, Biology
  • Mary Pat Wenderoth, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Novel Approaches to Enhance Endothelial-Specific Transgene Expression for Gene Therapy of Atherosclerosis
Presenter
  • Meena Sethuraman, Senior, Neurobiology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Dichek, Medicine
  • Nagadhara Dronadula, Cardiology, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Detection of Mutations in Cancer-Linked Microsatellite Loci
Presenter
  • Nahum Thomas (Nahum) Smith, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Stephen Salipante, Laboratory Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Is Phosphorylation of p120-Catenin's 228 and 335 Tyrosine Residues Important for Binding to E-Cadherin during Development in Zebrafish?
Presenters
  • Azlann Bryce (Azlann) Arnett, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
  • Dane Kazuo (Dane) Kawano, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (General) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Drake Anthony Tuerk, Junior, Biochemistry
  • Daniel Olegovich Saidov, Junior, Pre-Health Sciences
  • Joyce Huang, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Merrill Hille, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Sexual Dimorphism of the Pelvis in Marsupials and Placentals
Presenters
  • Elizabeth Traylor, Non-Matriculated, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), University of Washington
  • Liesl Grace (Liesl) Strand, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sharlene Santana, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Detecting Auxin Using an IAA17-ADE2 Fusion Protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Presenters
  • Gabriel Beuchat, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Xavaar Chayton Quaranto, Freshman, Pre Engineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Eric Klavins, Electrical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Laying the Foundations for Protein Drug Design: A Thermophilic SUMO Protease System to Improve Heterologous Protein Expression
Presenter
  • Kara Lau, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Christopher Bahl, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Design of an in Vivo, Repeatable, and Real Time Reporter for Myofibroblast Cell Fate as a Surrogate for Cardiac Fibrotic Remodeling
Presenter
  • Kevin Shi, Senior, Bioengineering, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jennifer Davis, Bioengineering, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Exploration of an Approach to Studying HAC1/WRKY71 Interaction in A. thaliana Cold Response
Presenters
  • Astiana Marie (Astiana) Stults, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Asma Said Sheikh, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Esther Hopping (Esther) Nelson, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentor
  • Alison Crowe, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Impulsivity: An Influencing Factor in Family-Based Behavioral Treatment Weight Reduction Outcomes
Presenter
  • Holly Kay (Holly) Sandborg, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Ellen Schur, Medicine, Univ Of Washington
Session

Add to my favorites Macrophage Mmp28 Expression is Regulated by Type 1 Interferons
Presenter
  • Joe Volk, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Anne Manicone, Medicine
  • Matthew Long, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating Small Ubiquitin-Like Modifier Systems
Presenter
  • Jaylee Michelle (JayLee) Morgan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Christopher Bahl, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in SULT1A1 and Their Impact on SULT1A1 RNA and Protein Expression in Humans
Presenter
  • Gregory Mun Sum (Gregory) Tong, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Tim Wong, Pharmaceutics
  • Kenneth Thummel, Pharmaceutics
Session

Add to my favorites Phosphorylation of Specific Serine and Threonine Residues on p120 Catenin Regulates Cell Motility in Developing Zebrafish Embryos
Presenter
  • Alexis Rodriguez, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Merrill Hille, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Understanding Joubert Syndrome by Creating a PI(4,5)P2-RFP Biosensor and Ciliary Marker to Identify PI Localization in Primary Cilia
Presenter
  • Joey Smith, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Dan Doherty, Pediatrics
  • Julie Van De Weghe, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites Identifying Antimutators in Saccharomyces cerevisae
Presenters
  • Julia Ho Young Joo, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
  • Rebekah Ray (Bekah) Ashpole, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Stuart Hamilton Macgeorge, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Alan Herr, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Interaction of Quorum Sensing Systems in Environmental Strains of P. aeruginosa
Presenter
  • Jose Enrique (Jose) Verdezoto Mosquera, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Ajai Dandekar, Medicine, Microbiology
Session