Found 110 projects

Poster Presentation 1

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Add to my favorites Thermodynamic Properties of the High-Affinity Binding of Glutathione to Glutathione S-Transferase Quantified by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
Presenter
  • Clay Renshaw, Junior, Biochemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Ronald Gary, Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Session

Add to my favorites Quality Assessment Inconsistency in Standardized Publicly Available Datasets in Neuroimaging
Presenter
  • Jonathan (Johnny) Uriarte-Lopez, Junior, Biochemistry, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Eric Feczko, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health and Science University
Session

Add to my favorites Bisphosphorylimides as Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Friedel–Crafts Reactions
Presenter
  • Omar Apolinar, Junior, Biochemistry, Calif St University San Marcos McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Robert Iafe, Chemistry, California State University San Marcos
Session

Add to my favorites Comparing the Role of Arhgaps in the Anterior Migration of Mesodermal Cells during Zebrafish Posterior Body Development
Presenter
  • Jenan Alsarraf, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • David Kimelman, Biochemistry
  • Natalie Smith, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Heterotopia in Dandy Walker Malformation are Caused by Premature Migration of Cerebellar Granule Cells Due to Disrupted Fetal Mesenchymal Signaling
Presenter
  • Danilo Dubocanin, Junior, Microbiology, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Parthiv Haldipur, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites STUDIO: A New Story of Mentorship in STEM
Presenters
  • Kimia Imani, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Kari Mie Nasu, Senior, Informatics
Mentors
  • Leslie Herrenkohl, Education
  • Jiyoung Lee, Education
Session

Add to my favorites Amino Acids Increase the Formation of Prebiotic Fatty Acid Vesicles
Presenter
  • Andrew Douglas Ramsay, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Sarah L. Keller, Chemistry
  • Roy Black, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Waan Aelõñ in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands): Navigating Culture from Behind the Helm
Presenters
  • Brooke Mooney, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Dalena Kim Tran, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Concentrations of Heavy Metals in Eelgrass, Sediment and the Water Column
Presenter
  • Chase Nielson, Senior, Biochemistry, Everett Community College
Mentors
  • Ardi Kveven, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
Session

Add to my favorites Genes Involved in the Senescence of S. cerevisiae
Presenters
  • Ashley Auerbach, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Tianrui Wang, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Brian Wasko, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites How the Vaginal Microbiome Changes Before and After the Administering of Antibiotics and Its Role in the Prevention of STIs and HIV
Presenter
  • Alex Luis Roederer, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Pharmaceutics
  • Nichole Klatt, Pharmaceutics
Session

Add to my favorites Induction of Islet Amyloid Deposition in a CF Mouse Model
Presenter
  • Nevin Chin Kalaf, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Rebecca Hull, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites What Does “Grateful” Mean to Adolescents?
Presenters
  • Hannah Aihan Nguyen, Senior, Biochemistry, English (Creative Writing)
  • Gurdeep Gill, Senior, Philosophy UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Karin Frey, Education, U of Washington
Session

Add to my favorites Effect of Touch on Insect Feeding Performance
Presenter
  • Mahad Ali Ahmed, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Tanvi Deora, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Measurement of Replicative Lifespan in Yeast
Presenters
  • Naomi Amish (Naomi) Desai, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Pegah Hamedi, Senior, Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Paniz Sisan Barzegari, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Brian Wasko, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Testing the Validity of the Photo Emotion Differentiation Task
Presenter
  • Shwetha Hariprasad Sanapoori, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology
  • Rachel Aaron, Anesthesiology
Session

Add to my favorites DeepSqueak: A Deep Learning Based System for Quantifying USVs and Extended Analysis Kit
Presenter
  • Emily K Vo, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Kevin Coffey, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Identifying the Role of RHY-1 in the C. elegans Response to H2S
Presenter
  • Colette Anne Felton, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Dana Miller, Biochemistry
  • Frazer Heinis, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Assessment of Two Different Quantum Dots on Proliferating and Differentiating Human Neural Progenitor Cells In Vitro for Potential Developmental Neurotoxicity
Presenters
  • Elijah Marsh Jung, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Joan Lee, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Youjun Suh, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Sungwoo Hong, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Elaine Faustman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication
Session

Oral Presentation 1

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM

Add to my favorites The NLRP3 Inflammasome in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
Presenter
  • Nihar Mahajan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Thomas Hawn, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Using Expansion Microscopy for the Study of Hematopoeisis
Presenter
  • Hyeon Jin Kim, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences), Biochemistry, Chemistry Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Hao Yuan Kueh, Bioengineering
  • Joshua Vaughan, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Building a Better Kidney Organoid from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Presenter
  • Laura Victoria Islas, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Benjamin Freedman, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Hypoxia-Induced Factors in Latent KSHV Infection of Endothelial Cells
Presenter
  • Jie Yin, Senior, Biochemistry, Microbiology Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology
  • Daniel Holmes, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites Theodosius Dobzhansky: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Theistic Evolutionary Synthesis
Presenter
  • Aubry Louise Matter, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Leah Ceccarelli, Communication
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of Smooth Muscle Cell Type II Transforming Growth Factor-ß Receptor Deletion on Early Onset Aortopathy
Presenter
  • Donya Derakshani, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jay Zhu, Medicine, Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Modeling Chronic Gut Motility Deficiency in Autistic Children Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Enteric Neurons
Presenter
  • Kyle James Curtis, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry (ACS Certified) Levinson Emerging Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • David Mack, Rehabilitation Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Drosophila melanogaster: Unlocking the Mechanisms of Small Molecule Cancer Drugs through Germline-Specific Gene Knockdown
Presenters
  • Daniel Kennedy (Dan) Brewer, Senior, Biology (Physiology) Mary Gates Scholar
  • Julien Roy Ishibashi, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Exploring a Novel DNA Replication Error as a Source of Neochromosome Formation in Yeast  
Presenter
  • Madison Amber (Madison) Miller, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites The Impact of miRNAs on Postnatal Retinal Progenitor Cell Development
Presenter
  • Ellen Riddle, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Thomas Reh, Biological Structure
  • Stefanie Wohl, Biological Structure
Session

Add to my favorites Understanding Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance Development
Presenter
  • Chris Hsu, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Houra Merrikh, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites Biodegradable Fluorocarbon Modified Polyethylenimine for High Gene Transfection
Presenter
  • Xinyu Gu, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Effects of Peptide Microenvironments on the Electronic Properties of Tryptophan
Presenter
  • Timothy (Tim) Welsh, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences), Chemistry, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Stefan Stoll, Chemistry
  • Ellen Hayes, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Worming the Way to a Genetically Tractable BRCA1 Model
Presenter
  • Natali Michelle Shumlak, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Rachel Klevit, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Nanoparticle-Mediated Inhibition of Phospholipid Glutathione Peroxidase Pathway to Combat Radio-Resistance in Glioblastoma
Presenter
  • Hailey Loucks, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Zachary Stephen, Materials Science & Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Identifying Genetic Pathway Involved in the Suppression of Elevated Mutation Rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Presenter
  • Thao Thanh Tang, Senior, Biochemistry CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Alan Herr, Pathology
  • Mitchell Lee, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Assessing the Role of Ctf18 in Aiding and Abetting Mutator Polymerases
Presenter
  • Julia Ho Young Joo, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Alan Herr, Pathology
Session

Poster Presentation 2

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Add to my favorites Deciphering Interactors of the α1D Adrenergic Receptor
Presenter
  • Diana Tram Anh Dinh, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Chris Hague, Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Dorathy-Ann Harris, Pharmacology
  • Eric Janezic, Pharmacology
Session

Add to my favorites Inhibition of Glycoprotein Horseradish Peroxidase from E. coli Receptor Protein, FimH
Presenter
  • Chantalle Sasha Bell, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Wendy Thomas, Bioengineering
  • Laura Carlucci, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Molecular Crowding and Its Effect on Protein Conformations and Interactions  
Presenter
  • Kevin Christopher Felt, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • James Bruce, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites How Do Cell Polarity Proteins Help to Pattern and Form Functional, Intact Tubes from Sheets of Cells?  
Presenter
  • Sydney Bowker, Junior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Celeste Berg, Genome Sciences
  • Rachel Dam, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Conformation and Adsorption Capabilities of Osteocalcin's Decarboxylated First Alpha Helix
Presenter
  • Vadim Pascua, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Gary Drobny, Chemistry
  • Rachel Gebhart, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Pattern Recognition Alignment of Microneedles to Electrodes Using Nanoscribe Technology
Presenters
  • Julia L. Worden, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Lauren Arianna Mahdi, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
Mentors
  • Duane Irish, Electrical Engineering
  • Michael Khbeis, Electrical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites The Regulation of Cocaine and Alcohol Craving by Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens Core
Presenters
  • Kayla Wang, Junior, Psychology
  • Michael Reeves, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Nathan Holtz, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Paul Phillips, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Inhibiting B-Cell Lymphoma by Targeting Raptor
Presenter
  • Janella Sorin Kang, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Brian Iritani, Comparative Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Presenilin 2 Mutation Impacts on Phagocytosis in Alzheimer's Disease
Presenter
  • Leah Ariel Osnis, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Suman Jayadev, Neurology
Session

Add to my favorites Mapping Gibbs Phase Diagrams for Ternary Model Membrane Systems Containing Phosphatidylethanolamine Lipids
Presenter
  • Catherine Chang, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Sarah L. Keller, Chemistry
  • Caitlin Cornell, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating Measure Bias in Autism Spectrum Disorder Between Sexes
Presenter
  • Tanner Jacob Mooney, Sophomore, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Sara Webb, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites Development and Identification of Tbr2+ Neurons in the Mouse Midbrain
Presenter
  • Jessica Taylor Lo, Senior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Robert Hevner, Neurological Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Secondary Glioblastoma Cancer Research
Presenters
  • Rammy Kaur, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Terry Linnea Garfield, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • John Silber, Neurosurgery
Session

Add to my favorites Baseline Characterization of Testes Co-Culture System
Presenters
  • Youjun Suh, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Elijah Marsh Jung, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
  • Joan Lee, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Elaine Faustman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication
  • Sung Woo Hong, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Collin White, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Ji Hyun Lee, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Adaptive Learning Quizzes Show No Impact on Student Learning
Presenters
  • Elena Kolpikova, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry
  • Derek Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jennifer Doherty, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Programming DNA Loops to Probe the Relationship between Genome Structure and Function
Presenter
  • Kieran Elliott Lewis, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jesse Zalatan, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Interactions Between Chaperones and Disease-Associated Tau Mutants
Presenter
  • Hau Pham, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Hannah Baughman, Medicinal Chemistry
  • Abhinav Nath, Biological Physics, Structure & Design, Medicinal Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Chromastat: An Affordable Real-Time Metabolics Tracker
Presenters
  • Yoshi Goto, Senior, Bioengineering
  • Andrew Hu, Sophomore, Computer Science Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Angel Tan (Angel) Wong, Senior, Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • William Wei Wah (William) Kwok, Junior, Pre Engineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Xavaar Chayton Quaranto, Sophomore, History: Empire and Colonialism Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Fedor Pogulsky, Senior, Pre-Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Karl Borgan (Karl) Anderson, Junior, Chemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Ishaan Bhimani, Freshman, Pre Engineering
  • Anita Grace Elnathan, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Karen Thickman, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Understanding the Temperature Sensitivity of PTEN Missense Variants
Presenter
  • Cailin Winston, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Douglas Fowler, Bioengineering, Genome Sciences
  • Kenneth Matreyek, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Development of a User-Centered Care Organization Tool for Children with Medical Complexity
Presenter
  • Grace Wang, Junior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Arti Desai, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital
Session

Add to my favorites NMDA Receptor Increase the Synchrony in Neuronal Electrical Synapses of the Mice's IO and Enhances the Rhythmogenesis
Presenter
  • Intisar H (Mary) Mkheseer, Junior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • John Welsh, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites In Vivo Drug Screen of Drosophila melanogaster Germline Stem Cells 
Presenters
  • Bahar Sadat (Bahar) Heydari, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Beeta Sadat Heydari, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
  • Debra Del Castillo, , Huntington Study Group
Session

Oral Presentation 2

3:30 PM to 5:15 PM

Add to my favorites Fully Reversible Hydrogel Photopatterning for 4D Stem Cell Culture
Presenter
  • Gabrielle Myung Hui (Gabby) Benuska, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Cole DeForest, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering
  • Jared Shadish, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Vaccine for East Coast Fever
Presenter
  • Brian Hyung Chan Kim, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Neil King, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Differential Longitudinal Posterior Cingulate Cortex Connectivity Trajectories in Normal Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
Presenter
  • Briana Eugene Lee, Senior, Neurobiology, Biochemistry Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Tara Madhyastha, Radiology
Session

Add to my favorites Plant Hormone Behavior in Maize and Evolutionary Conservation of Transcription Factor Function
Presenter
  • Manraj Sahota, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Amy Lanctot, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Arabidopsis thaliana F-box Proteins Interact with 14-3-3 Proteins in the Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome System
Presenter
  • Ryan Apathy, Recent Graduate, Biochemistry, University of Puget Sound
Mentor
  • Bryan Thines, Biological Sciences, University of Puget Sound
Session

Add to my favorites Regulating Disorder with Disorder: Molecular Insights to the Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme, Ube2W
Presenter
  • Donovan Y Phua, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Rachel Klevit, Biochemistry
  • Tobias Ritterhoff, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Virtual Reality as an Alternative Therapy for Dementia Patients
Presenters
  • Olivia Jean Chicoine, Junior, Industrial Engineering
  • Qihua (Garret) Yang, Senior, Electrical Engineering
  • Thanika Painruttanasukho, Junior, Industrial Engineering
  • Vicky Yu Ju Tseng, Senior, Industrial Engineering
  • Katherine Justine Tran, Junior, Biochemistry
  • Evan Robert Kirkpatrick, Senior, Industrial Engineering
  • Deborah Jihye Huh, Junior, Industrial Engineering
Mentor
  • Tom Furness, Industrial Engineering
Session

Poster Presentation 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Add to my favorites In Active Learning Environments, Student Demographics Affect Random Call Participation
Presenters
  • Derek Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Elena Kolpikova, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jennifer Doherty, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Bioremediation Using Mushrooms
Presenters
  • Alyssa Liming, Freshman, Biology Chemistry, Bellevue College
  • Navya Garimella, Sophomore, Biology, Bellevue College
  • Tara Ghazanfari, Sophomore, Biochemistry, Biology, Oceanography, Bellevue College
Mentors
  • Michael Hanson, Botany, Bellevue College
  • Irene Shaver, Environmental Science, Bellevue College
Session

Add to my favorites Evaluating Growth and Quantifying Partitioned Cellular Production of EF-Tu Protein in Probiotic Bacteria
Presenters
  • Nicholas (Nick) Johnston, Sophomore, Biochemistry, Bellevue College
  • Nicholas Galanos
  • Zelie Roberts, Sophomore, Biology, Bellevue College
Mentors
  • Richard Glover, Chemistry, Lane Community College
  • Lucas Monkkonen, Chemistry, Bellevue College
Session

Add to my favorites Rapamycin and Acarbose Prevent Fat Accumulation in Adult Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet
Presenter
  • Nicole R. Tatom, Senior, Microbiology, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Alessandro Bitto, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cell Line fRPE #51 as a Potential Model for Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy (PVR)
Presenters
  • Megan Anne Manson, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Thomas H Khuu, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Jennifer Chao, Ophthalmology
Session

Add to my favorites Impact of Interactions with Eelgrass on Native and Aquaculture Oyster Essential Fatty Acid Composition
Presenter
  • Kristine Avygail Estrada (Kristine) Leano, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Michael Brett, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Alexander Lowe, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Interactions between the HIV-1 Env Glycoprotein and DC-SIGN are Influenced by Env Glycan Presentation
Presenter
  • Adam Nguyen, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Kelly Lee, Medicinal Chemistry
  • James Williams, Medicinal Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites The HSV-1 UL12.5 Gene Alters Proteostasis in a C. elegans Model of Huntington’s Disease
Presenter
  • Christina Tran, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jason Pitt, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Outcomes of Patients with Recurrent High-Risk Hematologic Malignancies after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation 
Presenter
  • Tess Margaret (Tess) Perez, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Krakow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Medicine, Fred Hutch
Session

Add to my favorites Engineered Chemically Induced Dimerization Systems for Control of Cellular Processes
Presenters
  • Mina Nguyen (Mina) Dinh, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Karen Brittney Immendorf, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Luis Angel Gomez Castillo, Senior, Psychology, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry
  • Shoukai Kang, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Notch Signaling and Sox2 Expression in Mice Cochlear Cells
Presenters
  • Isabel Y. Lee, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Erica Airu Lee, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, Biological Structure
  • Brent Wilkerson, Biological Structure
Session

Add to my favorites Analyzing Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathy Patient Genomic Data to Detect Causative Copy-Number Variations
Presenter
  • Brian Kumar Strobel, Junior, Computer Science, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Heather Mefford, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites Do Diabetes and Myocardial Infarction have Synergistic Effects on Macrophage Accumulation in the Brachiocephalic Artery in a Mouse Model?
Presenter
  • Janice Nam, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Jenny Kanter, Medicine, UW Medicine Diabetes Institute
  • Karin Bornfeldt, Medicine, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites What is your Non-Emergency? Socioeconomic Factors Contributing to Misutilization of the South King County 911 System
Presenter
  • Ernie Tao, Senior, Political Science, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
  • Lucy Jarosz, Geography
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating the Effects of Splice Site Variants Associated with Developemental and Epileptic Encephalopathies 
Presenter
  • Apoorva Chowdhary, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Heather Mefford, Pediatrics
  • Alison Muir, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites Age Associated Activation of Msn2 Drives a Pathological Glucose Starvation Response
Presenter
  • Yen Chi (Travis) Feng, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Kenneth Chen, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites The Effects of Insulin on the Macrophage Activation States
Presenter
  • Alex Tzu Hao Tang, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Francis Kim, Medicine
  • Ryan McMahan, Cardiology
Session

Add to my favorites Improved Nanoscale Imaging Achieved by Index Matching with Expansion Microscopy
Presenter
  • Jonathan Bryce (Jon) Perr, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Joshua Vaughan, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites RNA Interference Screen for Genes Involved in JNK Dependant Basal Cell Extrusion of Drosophila melanogaster
Presenters
  • Catherine Baoanh Pham, Junior, Business Administration
  • Katherine Kaidi Zhao, Senior, Microbiology
  • Shannon J. Hu, Junior, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
  • Sung Ahn, Sophomore, Pre-Social Sciences
  • Brittney Renee Spooner, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Jiae Lee, Biochemistry
  • Young Kwon, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Evaluating Post-Surgical Memories in Parents and Adolescents
Presenter
  • Julia Ho Young Joo, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Jennifer Rabbitts, Anesthesiology, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Omomyc in Blocking Myc Transcription Factors in Pediatric Brain Cancer
Presenter
  • Savanna S (Savanna) Carmack, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jim Olson, Pediatrics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Session

Add to my favorites Low Doses of Ketamine Improve Cardiac and Respiratory Rhythms in Rett Syndrome: A Clinical Pilot Study
Presenter
  • Vy Yen Huynh, Junior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology
Mentor
  • Franck Kalume, Neurological Surgery, Pharmacology, UW/ Seattle Children's
Session

Add to my favorites Inducing Cellular Memory Effect in RUNX1 to Correct Abnormal Megakaryopoiesis
Presenter
  • Jasmin Jeffery, Recent Graduate, Biochemistry, University of Washington UW Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program
Mentor
  • Marshall Horwitz, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Analysis of the Role of TGF-β/BMP Signaling Pathway in C. elegans Adult Reproductive Diapause
Presenter
  • Shruti Nagesh Karanth, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Nikolay Burnaevskiy, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites A Screen for Differential Responses to mTOR Inhibitor Compounds among Wild and Domesticated Yeast
Presenters
  • Priya Anita Uppal, Senior, Biology (General), International Studies Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Katherine Ann (Katie) Grayden, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Yordan (Jordan) Elala, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Mitchell Lee, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites 2E01 Computationally Designed Protein and Differentiation in Stem Cells 
Presenter
  • Andrew Patrick Mc Alister, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Julie Mathieu, Comparative Medicine
  • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Exposure to BPA Induces Behavioral Changes in Mytilus trossulus
Presenter
  • Crystal Gar Wai Liu, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Physiology) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Jack Bell, Friday Harbor Laboratories
Session

Poster Presentation 4

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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
Session

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
Session

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

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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
Session

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

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
Session