Poster Session 4

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Add to my favorites HuskySat-1: a 3U CubeSat
Presenter
  • Aaron Roy Adler, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Robert Winglee, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Paige Northway, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Paul Sturmer, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Understanding Fluid Migration History in Sedimentary Rocks of the Jurassic Carmel Formation, Utah, Using Petrography and Clumped Isotopes
Presenters
  • Fairuz Aisyah Binti Ahmad Zamri, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology UW Honors Program
  • Pranav Bhardwaj, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Environmental), Environmental Studies
Mentor
  • Katharine Huntington, College of the Environment, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Shyness and Technology Use in College Students
Presenter
  • Ahmed Alattas, Sophomore, Psychology, Bellevue College
Mentor
  • Rika Meyer, Psychology, Bellevue College

Add to my favorites The Development of our Longitudinal Data Visualization Tool
Presenter
  • Adam Samir Alayli, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Krakow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Medicine, Fred Hutch
  • Michael Zager, Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Gretchen Krenn, Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Testing the Mutualism between Sponges and their Scallop Hosts: Impacts of Different Predators on Scallop Swims to Protect their Epibiont Sponges
Presenter
  • Elliott M. Allen, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Mentor
  • Kenneth Sebens, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Biology

Add to my favorites Invisibility Threat: The Consequences of Being Rendered Invisible for Less Prototypical Asian American Subgroups
Presenter
  • Alya Azman, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
  • Linda Zou, Psychology

Add to my favorites Peer Interaction in the Spanish Language Classroom: Comparing Learner Interactions
Presenter
  • Lori Baca, Junior, Pre-Humanities
Mentor
  • Ana Fernandez Dobao, Romance Languages & Literature

Add to my favorites In Vivo Tolerability of Chronic Intraperitoneal Administration of Methylcellulose in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Presenter
  • Megan Ann Beckman, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Melissa Barker-Haliski, Pharmacy

Add to my favorites Polyethylene Glycol-Mediated Transformation of P. ostreatus with the Human Insulin Gene
Presenters
  • Noah Biru, Non-Matriculated, Biochemistry, North Seattle College
  • Karen Gaffney, Non-Matriculated, Bioengineering, North Seattle College
  • Dylan Yu, Recent Graduate, History, North Seattle College
  • Uchechi Esonu, Recent Graduate, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Amelia Reesman, Non-Matriculated, Biomedical Engineering , North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Method Development: Collecting and Measuring Cortisol in Afro-Textured Hair
Presenter
  • Tayla Simone Bolden, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Steven Goodreau, Anthropology
  • Julius Doyle, Anthropology
  • Eleanor Brindle, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Add to my favorites The Relationship Between Wildfire and the Cascading Impacts of Predators on Plants
Presenter
  • Hannah Mckown Booth, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Aaron Wirsing, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Apryle Craig, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites ARGO Float Array Failure Analysis
Presenter
  • Ian Borchert, Junior, Oceanography
Mentors
  • Rick Rupan, Oceanography
  • Stephen Riser, Oceanography

Add to my favorites NatureCollections: Can a Mobile App Connect Kids with Nature?
Presenters
  • Julian Andre Boss, Senior, Informatics: Info Assurance & Cybersec
  • Jimmy Nguyen, Senior, Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Chelsea Wang, Senior, Psychology, Informatics
  • Nicole Simone Kuhn, Junior, Informatics McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Saba Kawas, The Information School
  • Katie Davis, The Information School

Add to my favorites Automation’s Immediate Impact on Employment
Presenter
  • Robert Charles James Boyd, Senior, Economics UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Rachel Heath, Economics

Add to my favorites A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Homo Naledi Distal Humeri
Presenter
  • Ashlee Breedlove, Junior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
Mentors
  • Ben Marwick, Anthropology
  • Elen Feuerriegel, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Scattering from a Distribution of Rough Plates
Presenter
  • Max Apollo Bright, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentors
  • Yasuo Kuga, Electrical Engineering
  • Akira Ishimaru, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Characterizing an in vitro Gel Model of the Brain Microenvironment Intended for Use in the Evaluation of the Diffusive Ability of Nanoparticles within the Brain Extracellular Space
Presenter
  • Samuel Mun Yut Broadwell, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentors
  • Michael Mc Kenna, Chemical Engineering
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology

Add to my favorites The Effect of Ca2+ Concentrations on Eyesight
Presenter
  • Daniel Brock, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Rachel Hutto, Biochemistry
  • Susan Brockerhoff, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Optimization of Macrophage Polarization: The Effect of Macrophage Differentiation on Phagocytosis and Its Implications for Scaffold Design
Presenter
  • Brittni Pritpal (Brittni) Burgess, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • James Bryers, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Identifying Neuropsychiatric Illness from Voice Samples
Presenters
  • Yasmin Rauz Byott, Sophomore, Pre-Major
  • Aparna Gayathri Hariprasad, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice, Psychology
  • Hirali Elesh Kadakia, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Goda Maria Lajauskaite, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Lana A. Shamdeen, Senior, Psychology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Kendra Beth Leete, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Nikolai Hegeman Liang, Senior, Psychology
  • Christian Jay Paragas Buensuceso, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Ali Asad Rafiq, Junior, Informatics
  • Aaron C. Ong, Junior, Psychology
  • Nadav Ruby Brumer, Junior, Psychology
  • Kaylani Tam, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences
  • Enoch Chung, Senior, Neurobiology
  • John Daehyun Kim, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Akanksha Bawa, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences) UW Honors Program
  • Sarah J. Holden, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Kielan Lemoine Kowalski, Graduate,
Mentor
  • Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Effects of Amino Acid Availability on Yeast Replicative Aging
Presenter
  • Dexter Euwen Chen, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Kenneth Chen, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Magnetic Field Stability Analysis Using ESR in Project 8 Phase II Experiment
Presenter
  • Shirley Chen, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics
Mentors
  • Mathieu Guigue, Physics
  • Gray Rybka, Physics

Add to my favorites Next-Generation Sequencing to Evaluate Segregation Pattern of Candidate Causal Variants for Joubert Syndrome
Presenter
  • Yong-Han Hank (Hank) Cheng, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Dan Doherty, Pediatrics
  • Megan Grout, Pediatrics
  • Caitlin Miller, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Binding and Inhibition of Heme-Regulated eIF2α Kinase by the Human Cytomegalovirus TRS1 Protein
Presenter
  • Munif Nyem Chowdhury, Senior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • Adam Geballe, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Medicine, Microbiology

Add to my favorites The Effects of Environmental Stress on Streptomycin Resistant E. coli
Presenters
  • Michelle Clarissa, Sophomore, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Danny Alvarez, Sophomore, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Lindsay Owings
  • Abdullah Farajallah, Sophomore, Biology, Chemisrty, North Seattle College
  • Janet Lynn Nickels,
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites On Polynomials that Preserve all Nonnegative Matrices of a Fixed Order
Presenter
  • Benjamin James (Ben) Clark, Junior, Computer Science & Software Engineering
Mentor
  • Pietro Paparella, Engineering and Mathematics (Bothell Campus), University of Washington Bothell

Add to my favorites Emphasizing the Culture in Permaculture: Cultivating Healthy Soil and Nutrition in a Remote Community of the Amazon Rainforest
Presenter
  • Summer Lynne Cook, Senior, Environmental Studies
Mentors
  • Samantha Zwicker, Environmental & Forest Sciences, Global Health
  • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment

Add to my favorites Environmental Detection of Poliovirus Utilizing Reverse Transcription Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RT-RPA)  
Presenter
  • Karissa Crawford, Senior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • John Scott Meschke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Synthesis of Lead-Free Double-Perovskite (Elpasolite) Colloidal Nanocrystal Semiconductors
Presenter
  • Evan Crites, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Chemistry
Mentors
  • Daniel Gamelin, Chemistry
  • Sid Creutz, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Instructors’ Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Teaching
Presenters
  • Quynh Dang, Sophomore, Physics, South Seattle College
  • Nhan Le, Senior, Pre-Physical Therapy, South Seattle College
Mentor
  • Abigail Daane, Physics, South Seattle College

Add to my favorites Importance of Student Representation on an Institutional Governing Board in Higher Education
Presenter
  • Naol Debele, Sophomore, Physics, Economics , Edmonds Community College
Mentor
  • Ruth Harris-Barnett, English, Edmonds Community College

Add to my favorites Light and Noise Pollution Data Collection from Online Sources for Public Health Research
Presenters
  • Taylor Kalei Demotta, Senior, Psychology
  • Elizabeth Anne Shipley, Senior, Early Childhood & Family Studies, Nursing
  • Saakshi Subhash Dulani, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentor
  • Michelle Garrison, Health Services, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Engineering Ribonucleotide Reductase to Elevate 2-deoxy-ATP as Therapy for Cardiomyopathy
Presenter
  • Sabrina Do, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering
  • Jason Murray, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites A Search for Changing-Look Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Presenters
  • Sierra Alison Dodd, Senior, Astronomy, Business Administration (Finance) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Daniel Joslin Hoover, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, English
Mentor
  • Scott Anderson, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Worse than Nothing: Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense and Great Power Deterrence
Presenter
  • Decker Eveleth, Sophomore, Political Science , Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Terry Taylor, Political Science, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites Modeling the Hepatic Ontogeny of Epigenetic Gene Expression in HepaRG Cells
Presenter
  • Yasmin Kaori Everson, Senior, Environmental Health
Mentors
  • Julia Cui, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Joseph Dempsey, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Energy Homeostasis Neural Circuitry in the Brain Regulates the Composition of the Gut Microbiota
Presenter
  • Sedona Noel Ewbank, Senior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Richard Palmiter, Biochemistry
  • Carlos Campos, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Development and Testing of WRANGLER for Design and Modeling of Peptides and Proteins with Interactive Visual Analytics
Presenter
  • Jennifer Ann (Jenny) Ferina, Senior, Bioengineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Valerie Daggett, Bioengineering
  • Matthew Childers, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Comparing CYP2J2 Regulation between Heart and Liver Tissue
Presenter
  • Justin Paul Ford, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Rheem Totah, Medicinal Chemistry
  • Eric Evangelista, Pharmacy

Add to my favorites Mapping Landslides on Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest with New LiDAR-based Contour Connection Method
Presenter
  • Gavin Cole Forster, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentor
  • L. Monika Moskal, College of the Environment

Add to my favorites An Overview of the University of Washington’s Internal Medicine Women’s Health Care Track
Presenter
  • Yael Leah (Leah) Frank, Junior, Pre-Major
Mentor
  • Rachel Chapman, Anthropology, UW Seattle

Add to my favorites An Analysis of Busy College Students at the University of Washington
Presenters
  • Clarisse Mary Furtado, Senior, Communication, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
  • Noemi Correa, Junior, Spanish
  • Emma Spickard, Senior, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Anne Browning, Undergraduate Academic Affairs
  • Emily Kroshus, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Validating 5-HT6 and AC3 Knockout in Primary Cilia
Presenter
  • Amit Galitzky, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Alec Gibson, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Growth and Sexual Maturation of Purple-Hinged Rock Scallop (Crassadoma gigantea) as a Function of Energetic Tradeoffs
Presenter
  • Maya Nicole Garber-Yonts, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Lorenz Hauser, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
  • Molly Jackson, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Add to my favorites The Effects of Silane Layers on the Degradation Pathways of ZnO of Hybrid Inorganic-organic Perovskites
Presenter
  • Mark Kevin (Kevin) Garcia, Sophomore, Civil Engineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Qiuming Yu, Chemical Engineering
  • Gabriella Tosado, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Seasonal Variation in Abundance of Nutrients and Heavy Metals Present in Eelgrass Beds
Presenter
  • Annika Goranson, Sophomore, Environmental Science, Actuarial Science, Everett Community College
Mentors
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
  • Ardi Kveven, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
  • Josh Searle, English, Everett Community College

Add to my favorites Conservation of Deubiquitinating Enzyme Activity in RNA Polymerase I
Presenter
  • Ruth A. Groza, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Richard Gardner, Pharmacology
  • Sabrina Kamran, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Engineering a Peptide-Guided Biomimetic Treatment for Dental Hypersensitivity
Presenters
  • Eric Linden Hall, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Andrea Ming Hwei Dao, Senior, Chemical Engineering
  • Saleh Abdullatif S Alhamad, Junior, Bioresource Science and Engr: Business
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Dentistry, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences
  • Deniz Tanil Yucesoy, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Hanson Fong, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Sami Dogan, Dentistry

Add to my favorites Effective Utilization of Experimental and Modeling Data in Innovation via Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and AI: Looking inside the Black Box
Presenters
  • John Taylor (John) Hamann, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
  • Jack Otto Ryan, Junior, Pre Engineering
  • Benjamin (Ben) Mac Millan, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Antonio R. Crowe, Junior, Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering (Bothell Campus), Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
  • Siddharth Rath, Materials Science & Engineering, Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center
  • Burak Berk Ustundag, Computer Science & Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
  • David Starkebaum, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Global and Pathogenic Variation in the Fanconi, ADH and ALDH Gene Families
Presenter
  • James N. Hamilton, Senior, Chemistry, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Ray Monnat, Pathology

Add to my favorites The Role of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway in the Survival of Endothelial Cells Latently Infected with KSHV
Presenter
  • Madeleine Hart, Recent Graduate, Biochemistry, Public Health, University of Washington UW Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program
Mentors
  • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology
  • Daniel Holmes, Medicine, Microbiology

Add to my favorites Expression of Treponema pallidum Antigens in Borrelia burgdorferi for Immunization-Challenge Trials to Evaluate Protection Against Syphilis
Presenter
  • Austin M Haynes, Senior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • Lorenzo Giacani, Global Health, Medicine

Add to my favorites Modifying Lasso Peptide Biosynthesis to Engineer Novel Antibiotics
Presenter
  • Ethan Charles Hills, Junior, Biochemistry Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Stanley Fields, Genome Sciences
  • Ben Brandsen, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Water Quality Analysis: Contaminants, Comparisons, and Possible Solutions
Presenter
  • Elena Hinz, Senior, Environmental Studies, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentor
  • Samantha Zwicker, Environmental & Forest Sciences, Global Health

Add to my favorites Cell Cycle Control Mechanism Against Fatal Genomic Missegregations in Aging Yeast
Presenters
  • Mung Gi (David) Hong, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Joslyn Goings, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Matthew Crane, Pathology

Add to my favorites Mesoscale Eddies Modulate Microbial Biogeography in the California Current
Presenter
  • Erin Kelly Horn, Senior, Microbiology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Sophie Clayton, Oceanography

Add to my favorites Automatically Adjust Raven Camera
Presenter
  • Issac Huang, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentors
  • Blake Hannaford, Electrical Engineering
  • Yun Hsuan Su, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites How Children's Books Portray Nighttime Routines
Presenters
  • Linh Tieu (Linh) Huynh, Junior, Education, Communities and Organizations, Psychology
  • Yeji Lee, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Michelle Garrison, Health Services, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites The Effects of RAM Pressure Stripping on Galactic Evolution in a Simulated Galaxy Cluster
Presenter
  • Julia Bridget Jansen, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Thomas Quinn, Astronomy
  • Iryna Butsky, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Microglia Morphology and Density Studies in mGluR5 Knockout Rat Model with Hallmarks of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenter
  • Saahiti Jasti, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology

Add to my favorites Eliciting Human Factor Preferences in the Context of Digital Pedestrian Mapping - User Experience
Presenters
  • Estelle Jiang, Senior, Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction), Informatics: Data Science
  • Alexandre Mooc, Senior, Human Ctr Des & Engr: Human-Computer Int
  • Ksenia Andreevna Ivanova, Senior, Design: Interaction Design
Mentors
  • Anat Caspi, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Nick Bolten, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites BrainNet: First Three-Person Brain-to-Brain Communication System
Presenter
  • Preston Jiang, Senior, Computer Science (Data Science) Levinson Emerging Scholar
Mentors
  • Rajesh Rao, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Andrea Stocco, Psychology

Add to my favorites Cytokine mRNA Levels as a Biomarker of Neuroinflammation in mGluR5 KO Rats
Presenter
  • Sameeha Jilani, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology

Add to my favorites Tracking Coordinated Flight of Foraging Bats in a Natural Observatory
Presenter
  • Aidan Johnson, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentor
  • Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of IAA28 and Its Influence on Organ Arrangement
Presenter
  • Jennifer R. Jones, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Mallorie Taylor-Teeples, Biology
  • Andrew Lemmex, Biology

Add to my favorites Computational Studies of Hydrogen Bonding in Complexes of Hydronium with both Simple Ethers and Cyclic Crown Ether Molecules
Presenter
  • Mathew John Joyner, Junior, Chemistry
Mentors
  • Anne McCoy, Chemistry
  • Lindsey Madison, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Examining Infant Primate Temperament in Relation to Cognitive Development
Presenter
  • Nadia Rosanina Kako, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Laura Little, Psychology

Add to my favorites Attaching pH-Responsive Proteins to Synthetic Nucleocapsids for Endosomal Escape
Presenter
  • Sharon H. Ke, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • David Baker, Biochemistry
  • Gabriel Butterfield, Biochemistry, Institute for Protein Design

Add to my favorites An Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic: Fabrication of a Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Utilizing a Modular Chimeric Probe Assembly for Biomarker Detection
Presenters
  • Rebeka Khajehpour, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics
  • Jessica Elise Ahrens Tran, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Zane Prior Smith, Senior, Physics: Biophysics, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Richard Lee, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences, Physics
  • David Starkebaum, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Phase Dependent Models of Solar System Planets for Simulating Exoplanet Observations
Presenter
  • Min Young Kim, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Victoria Meadows, Astronomy
  • Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Astrobiology, Astronomy
  • Andrew Lincowski, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Cellular Response to Zika Virus
Presenter
  • Elena Kolpikova, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Susan Fink, Laboratory Medicine

Add to my favorites Internal Deletion Induced Interferon Response to Influenza A
Presenter
  • Jacob Richard Kowalsky, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Jesse Bloom, Genome Sciences, Microbiology
  • Alistair Russell, Microbiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites A Comparative Analysis on Global Humanity and its Socialized Trends Towards Marginalized Religious Communities 
Presenter
  • Tanya Kumar, Senior, Law, Economics & Public Policy (Bothell)
Mentor
  • Camille Walsh, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UWB

Add to my favorites Characterizing the Role of Chlamydia Inclusion Protein CT147 in Inclusion Formation and Pathogenesis
Presenter
  • Forrest Michael Kwong, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Kevin Hybiske, Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Add to my favorites Examining Mechanisms through which Critical Reflection Predicts Critical Action in College Students
Presenter
  • Sam Larsen, Junior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Psychology), UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Rachel Hershberg, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus), Psychology, University of Washington Tacoma

Add to my favorites Rhizosphere Changes Help Explain the Reduced Nutritional Quality of Rice under Elevated Carbon Dioxide: Evidence from a Controlled Greenhouse Study
Presenter
  • Sarah Katherine Larson, Junior, Biology (Plant)
Mentors
  • Rachel Strickman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Rebecca Neumann, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Inhibition of Aurora B Kinase Suppresses Segregation of Chromosomes in Insect Sperm Cells
Presenters
  • Ming Jung Lee, Senior, Physics: Biophysics
  • Connor James (Connor) King, Junior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • Charles Asbury, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Wireless Data Transfer (WDT) for Robotic Fingertips Sensor
Presenter
  • Cloe Lee, Senior, Electrical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Patrick Lancaster, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Joshua Smith, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Cultural Model of Family: How the Role of Family of First-Generation College Students and Continuing-Generation College Students Influence Their College Experience
Presenter
  • Suyi Leong, Senior, Early Childhood & Family Studies, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Yuichi Shoda, Psychology
  • Laura Brady, Psychology

Add to my favorites The Role of Ethnic Identity in Depression and Anxiety 
Presenters
  • Christine Lew, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
  • Peter Benjamin Holmes, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Oluwapelumi Emmanuella (Pelumi) Ajibade, Junior, Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Mariah Corey, Psychology
  • Jonathan Kanter, Psychology
  • Adam Kuczynski, Psychology, Center for the Science of Social Connection

Add to my favorites Dynamic Loading of Glass Composite
Presenter
  • Alexander James Li Green, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • George Mayer, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Recovery of Poliovirus from Primary Sludge
Presenter
  • Yarrow Linden, Senior, Environmental Health
Mentors
  • John Scott Meschke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Christine Fagnant, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Towards Understanding and Improving Recurrent Neural Networks
Presenter
  • Nelson Liu, Senior, Linguistics, Statistics, Computer Science Goldwater Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Noah Smith, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Development of a High-Performance Dielectrophoresis-Enhanced Plasmonic Sensor for Rapid Bacterial Detection and Separation
Presenter
  • E Lin (Ellen) Liu, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr
Mentors
  • Qiuming Yu, Chemical Engineering
  • David Galvan, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Crows’ Ability to Distinguish Different Conspecific Sounds  
Presenters
  • April S. Lo, Senior, French, Psychology
  • Ellen M Jasmine, Senior, Psychology
  • Kaylie Sue Firebaugh, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Eliot Brenowitz, Psychology
  • Lindsey Nietmann, Psychology

Add to my favorites Characterizing SWI/SNF Complex Components through CRISPR/Cas9 Multiplex Library in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Presenter
  • Texia Loh, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Michael Phelps, Pathology
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology

Add to my favorites Sherds of the Past: An Analysis of Ceramics Found in Grande Ronde, Oregon
Presenter
  • Bay Elaina Loovis, Junior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Yoli Ngandali, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Implicit Leader-Follower Gender Stereotype Attitudes in Children
Presenter
  • Katherine Verity (Kate) Luken Raz, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Tony Greenwald, Psychology

Add to my favorites A Palate Culture Method to Study Secondary Palate Development
Presenters
  • Jocelyn Ma, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Marisa Alysia Yonemitsu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Kai Yu, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Mobile-Phone Use while Driving in Uganda: Distracted and Deadly
Presenter
  • Sandra Genevieve Matthews, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Bert Stover, Health Services
  • Amy Hagopian, Global Health, Health Services

Add to my favorites Our Children are our Future: An Archaeology of Childhood on the Grand Ronde Reservation
Presenter
  • Celena Verde Mc Peak, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Yoli Ngandali, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Approximating Lunar Rocket Trajectories Using the Runge-Kutta Method
Presenters
  • Peter Michael, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Edmonds Community College
  • Raden Roy Pradana, Sophomore, Computer Engineering , Computer Science, Edmonds Community College
  • Hayden Hulbert, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering , Edmonds Community College
Mentor
  • William Hamp, Engineering, Edmonds Community College

Add to my favorites Computational Design of IL-17A Cytokine Binders
Presenter
  • Lauren Marie Miller, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • David Baker, Biochemistry
  • Franziska Seeger, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Bridging Biology with Solid-State Devices: Molecular Phase Behavior of Self-Assembled Peptides on 2D Atomic Layered Materials
Presenters
  • Madelyn Joy Milligan, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Tyler Scott Chinn, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
Mentors
  • Ty Jorgenson, Materials Science & Engineering, Molecular Engineering and Science
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Molecular Engineering and Science

Add to my favorites Ground Truthing The Drumlin Pressure Gradient Theory on Whidbey Island
Presenter
  • Patrick Glenn Milstead, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Steven Walters, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Terry Swanson, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Characterization of Quantum Dot Stability in the Brain Microenvironment for Potential Use as Biomarkers
Presenter
  • Olesya Mironchuk, Senior, Neurobiology, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology
  • Mengying Zhang, Molecular Engineering and Science

Add to my favorites Investigation of Historic Nails from the Grand Ronde Reservation
Presenter
  • Ethan Alexander Mofidi, Sophomore, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Yoli Ngandali, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Transmission Pathways of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
Presenter
  • Sophie Claire Morse, Senior, Anthropology, Microbiology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • John Scott Meschke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Wham! 1930s Pop Culture at the Grand Ronde Reservation Schoolhouse
Presenters
  • Sophie Muro, Sophomore, Anthropology
  • Danielle N. Sakowski, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
  • Rachel Cassandra Mc Gill, Junior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
  • Justice Mc Neeley, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Yoli Ngandali, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Social Capital Revisited: Applying Morgan and Sørensen's Social Closure Analysis to Outcomes in Mental Health and Deviance
Presenter
  • Jackson James Herbert Nahpi, Senior, Sociology, Economics UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ross Matsueda, Sociology

Add to my favorites Patient Experience Ambassador (PXA) Program Impact on Swedish Medical Center's Press Ganey
Presenter
  • Liz Newcomer, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentor
  • Leila Batmanghelidj, Public Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Sleep and Media in Early Adolescents: Standardizing Media and Design Characteristics in Video Games
Presenter
  • Anthony Wade Newsome Moffa, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentor
  • Michelle Garrison, Health Services, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites What Goals Do Youth with Type-2 Diabetes Choose, and Do They Associate with Glycemic Control?
Presenter
  • Makayla Deann Nez, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Joyce Yi-Frazier, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Grace Kim, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Allison Laroche, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Novelty Not Disparity - Body Shape Evolution in Marine and Freshwater Needlefishes
Presenter
  • Justin Yi Kai Ng, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Matthew Kolmann, Friday Harbor Laboratories

Add to my favorites Genetic Analysis of the Regulatory Mechanism of FLOWERING LOCUS T under Matural Long-Day Conditions
Presenter
  • Nhu H. Nguyen, Junior, Pre-Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Takato Imaizumi, Biology
  • Akane Kubota, Biology

Add to my favorites Application of Ultrasound to Enhance Binding Kinetics in ELISA
Presenter
  • William Nguyen, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentor
  • Karol Bomsztyk, Medicine

Add to my favorites Effects of Temperature and Herbivory on Photosynthesis and Performance in Lupinus latifolius Leaves
Presenter
  • Katlyn Ann (Katie) Nielsen, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentors
  • Janneke Hillerislambers, Biology
  • Meera Sethi, Biology

Add to my favorites Understanding How Combinations of Natural Products Confer Anti-inflammatory Effects on Human Cells
Presenter
  • Yva H Nyhammer, Senior, International Studies, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentors
  • Stephen Polyak, Laboratory Medicine
  • Jessica Wagoner, Laboratory Medicine

Add to my favorites Estimating Small Mammal Density in Boreal Forests Using Camera Traps and Live Trapping Methods
Presenter
  • Alishia Elizabeth Orloff, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • Mitchell Parsons, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Laura Prugh, College of the Environment

Add to my favorites Multi-Modal Actuation in Unsteady Flight Control
Presenter
  • Clara Orndorff, Junior, Mechanical Engineering
Mentor
  • Tom Libby, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Histopathology of Metabolic Defects in Mitochondrial Disease
Presenter
  • Amanda Y. Pan, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Simon Johnson, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Errors in DNA Replication Provide an Alternate Mechanism for Gene Amplification  
Presenter
  • Sam Lynn Paskvan, Senior, Dance, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
  • M.K. Raghuraman, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Targeting the NRAS Oncogene in Rhabdomyosarcoma using CRISPR/Cas9
Presenter
  • Shivani Patel, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Michael Phelps, Pathology
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology

Add to my favorites Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology: Changes in Hyaluronan and Hyaluronan-Associated Extracellular Matrix
Presenter
  • Jasmine Pathan, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • May Reed, Medicine
  • Mamatha Damodarasamy, Medicine

Add to my favorites Collaboration and Communication between Second-Language Learners and Heritage Language Students in Mixed-Language Classes
Presenter
  • Ellen Rachel Perleberg, Junior, Pre-Humanities
Mentor
  • Ana Fernandez Dobao, Romance Languages & Literature

Add to my favorites Differential Olfactory Learning Across Mosquito Species 
Presenters
  • Erica Lee Peterson, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Brian Russell Hughes, Recent Graduate,
  • Brian Michael Vickers, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Gabriella Wolff, Biology

Add to my favorites AFM-Based Imaging of High-Capacity Nanowire Conversion-Type Li-Ion Battery Negative Electrodes
Presenter
  • Chester T. Pham, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Vincent Holmberg, Chemical Engineering
  • Grant Williamson, Molecular Engineering and Science

Add to my favorites Genetically Fate Mapping Sox9-expressing Cells in a Mouse Model Exhibiting Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
Presenter
  • Kat Pierce, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Yanfeng (Mei) Speer, Bioengineering
  • Subramanian Dharmarajan, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Dose-Dependent Photoreactivation in an Excision-Repair Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Presenters
  • Nataliia Piestrup, Sophomore, Nursing, Pre-medical, Wenatchee Valley Coll
  • Jared Harris, Sophomore, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Wenatchee Valley Coll
Mentors
  • Sue Kane, , Wenatchee Valley College
  • Steve Stefanides, Biological Sciences, Wenatchee Valley College

Add to my favorites Wirelessly Streaming High-Volume Data From Robot End-effectors
Presenter
  • Ramon Qu, Sophomore, Informatics
Mentors
  • Rosario Scalise, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Solar Telescope
Presenters
  • Jimmy Ragan, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy, Aeronautics & Astronautics Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Ellis Antonia Avallone, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics UW Honors Program
  • Alexander Lee (Alex) Vellozzi, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Andrea Marie (Andi) Bergeson, Sophomore, Physics: Comprehensive Physics
Mentor
  • Oliver Fraser, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Role of STING in KSHV Infection and Immune Response of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells
Presenter
  • Alice Ponsawarn Ranjan, Junior, Microbiology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology
  • Danny Vogt, Microbiology

Add to my favorites Biomechanical Comparison of Lower Extremity Acceleration and Force Generation to Analyze Male and Female Gait Differences Among Sprinters and Distance Runners  
Presenters
  • Nicole Rasor, Fifth Year, Pre Physical Therapy, Edmonds Community College
  • Erika Simburger, Fifth Year, Pre Physical Therapy, Edmonds Community College
  • Cameron Siler, Fifth Year, Exercise Science, Edmonds Community College
Mentor
  • Rachel Wade, Physics, Edmonds Community College

Add to my favorites Characterization of Cell-to-Cell Gene Expression Variation Within Tissues of Aging C. elegans
Presenter
  • Anthony Reynolds, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Microbiology
Mentors
  • Nikolay Burnaevskiy, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology

Add to my favorites A Two-Year Prospective Longitudinal Gait Analysis of Total Ankle Arthroplasty Patients
Presenter
  • Alyssa Anne Ricketts, Senior, Bioengineering, Computer Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • William Ledoux, Mechanical Engineering, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
  • Christina Stender, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Add to my favorites Dashboard Compliance Tool for Mobile and Worn Sensors
Presenter
  • Nicole Kathleen (Nicole) Riley, Fifth Year, Computer Science Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Jennifer Mankoff, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Yasaman Sefidgar, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Online Relational Learning and Reasoning via Multimodal Interaction
Presenters
  • Ryan Frank Rowe, Senior, Computer Science
  • Shivam Singhal, Junior, Computer Engineering
Mentors
  • Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Daqing Yi, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Exploring the Relationship Between Trauma Chronicity and Implicit Self Concept
Presenter
  • Sarah Rubin, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Lori Zoellner, Psychology
  • Trevor Coyle, Psychology

Add to my favorites Personalized Chemosensitivity Assay Using Thread-Based Microfluidics
Presenter
  • Maxwell Benjamin (Max) Rumaner, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Albert Folch, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites The Correlation of Emotional Intelligence with Health and Relationship Factors in College Students
Presenter
  • Avery Rundle, Sophomore, Psychology, Bellevue College
Mentor
  • Rika Meyer, Psychology, Bellevue College

Add to my favorites Determining Baseline Partial Thromboplastin Time Using Protamine and Corrected Heparin Activity Curve
Presenter
  • Danielle Anne Balboa Sale, Senior, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentor
  • Wayne Chandler, Laboratory Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Estimates of Glacial-Interglacial Temperature Change in the Central Rocky Mountains, USA, from Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry of Soil Carbonates
Presenter
  • Nicole Sarieddine, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Environmental)
Mentors
  • Katharine Huntington, College of the Environment, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Julia Kelson, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Landon Burgener, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Using Concept Mapping to Identify Influencers of College Student Vaccination Behavior
Presenter
  • Joshua Bryce (Josh) Scheck, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Political Science Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Mersine Bryan, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites The Relationship Between Personality and Burnout in Community Mental Health Therapists
Presenter
  • Celia Grace Schlekewey, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Shannon Dorsey, Psychology
  • Julie Harrison, Psychology

Add to my favorites The Aortic Dissection Calculator
Presenter
  • Alyssa L. Schul, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Alberto Aliseda, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Ground Truthing Statistical Modeling in a Field Lab on the Damage Characteristics of Ice Targets by Projectile Hypervelocity Impact
Presenter
  • Austin John Seely, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics
Mentors
  • Mariah Danner, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Robert Winglee, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Stimuli-Responsive Properties of F127-DMA Hydrogels for use in 3D Printed Shape-Morphing Structures
Presenter
  • Anuradha Seshan, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentor
  • Alshakim Nelson, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Quantitative Analysis of Negative-Trion Auger Recombination in Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Presenter
  • Skylar Javin Sherman, Senior, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Daniel Gamelin, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Differences between Exosomes Isolated from 2D vs 3D Cell Culture Assay
Presenter
  • Wen Shi, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • James Bryers, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites A Technology Unlike Any Other: BCIs and the Analogies Used to Understand their Ethical Implications
Presenter
  • Sierra Mcdonald Simmerman, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Sara Goering, Philosophy
  • Paul Tubig, Philosophy

Add to my favorites Do Northern Spotted Owl Population Dynamics Respond to Mast Seeding Events?
Presenter
  • Benjamin Ian Simpson, Junior, Biology (Plant)
Mentor
  • Janneke Hillerislambers, Biology

Add to my favorites Effect of Chemical Fertilizers on Plant Growth-Promoting Bacillus subtilis Populations
Presenters
  • Hillary Smith, Sophomore, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Kim Tran, Sophomore, Biochemistry, Mathematics, North Seattle College
  • Ying Xu, Sophomore, Biochemistry, North Seattle College
  • Sophia Herrmann, Sophomore, Soil Science, North Seattle College
  • Junfei Chen, Sophomore, Biochemistry, North Seattle College
  • Tristan Reni, Non-Matriculated, Finance, North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Educating Young Eyes
Presenters
  • Warisha Soomro, Junior, Pre-Major, UW Bothell
  • Kaitlyn Kuulei Kiyomi Yamamoto, Fifth Year, Computer Science & Software Engineering
Mentor
  • William Erdly, Computing & Software Systems (Bothell Campus), School of STEM - UW Bothell

Add to my favorites Climate Change and its Effect on Partisanship: 2100 Projection
Presenter
  • Shyanne Alayna Marie Steele, Sophomore, Pre-Social Sciences
Mentor
  • Todd Sperry, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity

Add to my favorites The Hand That Feeds: How Policies for Pain Perpetuate Opioid Abuse and a Non-pharmaceutical Solution
Presenter
  • Jillian Thompson, Sophomore, Human Biology, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Terry Taylor, Political Science, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites Effects of Mouse Sex and Strain on Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption during Systemic Inflammation
Presenter
  • Jarl Adam Thysell, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Michelle Erickson, Medicine

Add to my favorites Colloidal Stability of Nanoparticles in the Brain Microenvironment
Presenter
  • Dorsa Toghani, Junior, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology

Add to my favorites Morphological Match Between an Orchid and its Mosquito Pollinator
Presenters
  • Sarah Melissa Trostle, Junior, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
  • Joe Lim, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentors
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Ryo P. Okubo, Biology

Add to my favorites Structural Characterization of Designed Fusion Proteins
Presenter
  • Evelyn (Chenen) Tsai, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentors
  • David Baker, Biochemistry
  • Una Nattermann, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Validation of a New Tool for Non-invasive Measurements of Hormones in Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) and Coyote (Canis latrans) Scat
Presenter
  • Chomie U, Senior, Biology (General) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Mary Gates Endowment, Biology

Add to my favorites Management of Anticoagulation and Hemostasis for Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Call for Change in the Current Preferred Method of Testing
Presenter
  • Inna Ulziibaatar, Senior, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentor
  • Wayne Chandler, Laboratory Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Adaptation of the Bag-Mediated Filtration System for Bacterial Indicator and Pathogenic Bacteria Capture and Concentration
Presenter
  • Camila Valdebenito, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • John Scott Meschke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Nicola Beck, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Budget Microfluidic Microscopy to Study Effects of Probiotic Metabolites on Yeast Aging
Presenter
  • Toby Nathan Ven, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Kenneth Chen, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Synthesis and Optical Response of High Quality CuFeS2 Nanocrystals
Presenter
  • Srivathsav (Sri) Venkatesh, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr
Mentors
  • Vincent Holmberg, Chemical Engineering
  • Soohyung Lee, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Measuring Magnetic Susceptibility in Chlorinated Soil to Determine Remediation Strategies
Presenters
  • Brandon E. Voelker, Junior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
  • Risa Anne Hess, Senior, Environmental Sci: Geosciences (Tacoma)
  • Melissa Marie Brainard, Recent Graduate, Environmental Sci: Geosciences (Tacoma)
Mentors
  • Peter Selkin, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)
  • Jennifer Wynkoop, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

Add to my favorites Impact of Prenatal Stress on Maternal and Fetal Brain Development and Metabolism: A Model Approach
Presenters
  • Colin Michael Atwood Wakefield, Junior, Microbiology
  • Benjamin Carl (Ben) Janoschek, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Martin Frasch, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Add to my favorites Reversible Confinement of Cell Seeding Area for High Throughput Antimigratory Cancer Drug Screening
Presenter
  • Ziwen Wang, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Deok-Ho Kim, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Studying Gene Networks using a Novel HCV NS3a Protease based Chemically Induced Dimerization Complex
Presenter
  • Katrina Marissa Warner, Senior, Mathematics, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Dustin Maly, Chemistry, UW, Seattle
  • Glenna Foight, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Developing an Effective Microfluidic Instrument for Medical Diagnostics of HIV and HPV
Presenter
  • Bob Weng, Junior, Pre-Health Sciences
Mentors
  • Daniel T. Chiu, Chemistry
  • Thomas Schneider, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Stability of Ice Belt Formation on High Obliquity Planets around Main Sequence Stars
Presenter
  • Caitlyn E. Wilhelm, Junior, Pre-Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Russell Deitrick, Astrobiology, Astronomy
  • Rory Barnes, Astrobiology

Add to my favorites An Automated Program to Generate Birthday Cards from Anatomical Magnetic Resonance Images
Presenter
  • Josh Wolfe, Senior, Psychology
Mentor
  • Tara Madhyastha, Psychology, Radiology

Add to my favorites Fear Generalization and Avoidance: Reactions to Ambiguous and Non-Threatening Stimuli Contributing to Anxiety and Stressor Related Disorders
Presenter
  • Grace Shannon Woodard, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Natalia Garcia, Psychology
  • Lori Zoellner, Psychology

Add to my favorites Peptide-Enabled Fluorescent in situ Identification of Phytoliths in Contemporary Plants
Presenter
  • Gwendolyn Joanna (Gwen) Xiao, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Deniz Tanil Yucesoy, Mechanical and Materials Engineering
  • Caroline Stromberg, Biology

Add to my favorites Association between King County Population’s Cardiovascular Disease Rate and Accessibility to Environmental Amenities Using GIS
Presenter
  • Mingyou Yang, Senior, Environmental Science - Bothell Campus
Mentor
  • Santiago Lopez, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Using an Integrative Taxonomic Approach to Discern Species Boundaries and Detect Ecological Speciation in the Reef-fish Genus Risor (Gobiidae)
Presenter
  • Sarah Yerrace, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Luke Tornabene, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Add to my favorites Environmental Justice in Washington State
Presenter
  • Maedot A. Yidenk, Senior, Microbiology
Mentor
  • Lianne Sheppard, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Mindfulness and its Impact on Attitudes Toward Life after Social Exclusion
Presenters
  • Chia Li Yu, Junior, Psychology UW Honors Program
  • Esther Chanhye Park, Recent Graduate,
  • Wenqi Zheng, Recent Graduate,
Mentors
  • Trevor N. Coyle, Psychology
  • Sara Schmidt, Psychology

Add to my favorites Comparison of Liver Enzyme Levels Before and After Vedolizumab Infusion in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Presenter
  • Kaelan Yu, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences), Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Lei Yu, Medicine

Add to my favorites The Connection Between Phytochrome B and Gynoecium Development in Brassica rapa
Presenter
  • Joseph Edward (Joey) Zemke, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Andrej Arsovski, Biology