Poster Session 2

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Add to my favorites Geological Evolution of Western Anatolia during the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleogene
Presenter
  • Gui Guenther Aksit, Fifth Year, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Megan Mueller, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Timeline of Care for Veterans With Melanoma in Store-and-Forward Teledermatology (SFT)
Presenter
  • Samuel Joseph (Sam) Byrne, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentor
  • Gregory Raugi, Medicine

Add to my favorites Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating of the Ephrata Fan to Determine the Span of the Grand Coulee's Flood History
Presenter
  • Nolan Charles Conway, Junior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentors
  • John Stone, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Joel Gombiner, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Low Temperature Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology Analysis Along the Seattle Fault Zone, Washington
Presenter
  • Monica R. Hill, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Alison Duvall, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Investigation of Vitamin B12 Vaping Products
Presenter
  • Lilliana Lopez, Senior, Health Science, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Robert Strongin, Chemistry, Portland State University

Add to my favorites The Effects of Chronic L-DOPA on Operant Responding for Alcohol in Rats
Presenters
  • Ivan Soto, Junior, Pre-Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
  • Kayla Wang, Senior, Psychology
Mentor
  • Nathan Holtz, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Detection of 8-Oxoguanine Lesions in Plastid DNA of Maize Plants
Presenter
  • Ardizon Cajuguiran Valdez, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Diwaker Tripathi, Biological Sciences, Biology

Add to my favorites Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication: Using the Extended Parallel Process Framework to Determine Risk and Efficacy of Public Health Messaging during a Statewide Smoke Event
Presenters
  • Darcy Meade Van Deventer, Senior, Environmental Health
  • Justine Noemie Marecaux, Senior, Environmental Health
Mentor
  • Tania Busch Isaksen, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Depth-Related Skeletal Reduction in Snailfishes (Liparidae)
Presenter
  • Abigail Andrea (Abby) Von Hagel, Senior, Biology (General), Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Adam Summers, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Biology
  • Mackenzie Gerringer, Friday Harbor Laboratories

Add to my favorites Examining Gender Differences in Student Perceptions of Strategies to Establish, Maintain, and Restore Student-Teacher Relationships
Presenter
  • Nuradin J Abdalla, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Jessica Coifman, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Stephanie Brewer, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Larissa Gaias, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UW Medicine

Add to my favorites The Effects of Isoflurane Exposure, Length of Surgery, and Rest before Hypoxia on Ferret Mortality and Gross Brain Injury
Presenter
  • Vivienne Etain Riggs Acuna, Senior, Biology (General), Sociology
Mentors
  • Thomas Wood, Pediatrics
  • Kylie Corry, Pediatrics
  • Daniel Moralejo, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Development of an Environmental and Occupational Health Training Curriculum for Promotores
Presenter
  • Jannah Asirah Amaly, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Jennifer Krenz, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • June Spector, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Introductory Physics Students Share Insights for Improving the Culture in Physics
Presenters
  • Acacia Arielle, Sophomore, Geophysics, Astronomy, South Seattle College
  • Kai Bretl, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, South Seattle College
Mentor
  • Abigail Daane, Physics, South Seattle College

Add to my favorites Toxic Rubble: The Physical, Social, and Psychological Impact of the Palestinian Occupation
Presenter
  • Noor Ashraf Awad, Senior, Architectural Design UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ann Marie Borys, Architecture

Add to my favorites How is Germination Affected by Identity and Concentration of Leaf Extracts?
Presenter
  • Sophia Basil, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management, Biology (Plant)
Mentors
  • Jonathan Bakker, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Loretta Rafay, Biological & Environmental Sciences

Add to my favorites You CAN Sit with Us: Do Moral and Non-Moral Norms Translate across Group Boundaries?
Presenter
  • Anna Elisabeth Baumann, Recent Graduate, Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology
Mentors
  • Jessica Sommerville, Psychology
  • Rachel Horton, Psychology
  • Kelsey Lucca, Psychology

Add to my favorites Agrobacterium and Polyethylene Glycol-Mediated Transformation of P. ostreatus with the Human Insulin Gene
Presenters
  • Noah Biru, Junior, Biochemistry, North Seattle College
  • Sarah Fenton, Sophomore, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Amelia Reesman
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Estimating the Upper Bound of Crustal Heat Flow under Antarctica
Presenter
  • Surabhi C. Biyani, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics), Atmospheric Sciences: Climate NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentor
  • T.J. Fudge, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites “Can I Count On You?” Infants’ Expectations of Prosocial Behavior Across Contexts
Presenter
  • Aarti Devadatta Bodas, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jessica Sommerville, Psychology
  • Kelsey Lucca, Psychology

Add to my favorites Neuromodulation of Sensory and Motor Feedback in Honeybees
Presenter
  • Andrea Borrero, Junior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Claire Rusch, Biology

Add to my favorites Brain Activation Changes under Anesthetics in Mice
Presenters
  • Madison A Bravo, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Annamarie Christina Lahti, Senior, Neurobiology Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentor
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery

Add to my favorites Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Zebrafish Cone Photoreceptors
Presenter
  • Daniel Brock, Senior, Biochemistry Levinson Emerging Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Susan Brockerhoff, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Ideological Differences between Asians and Asian Americans
Presenter
  • Linh Bui, Recent Graduate, Psychology, Seattle University
Mentor
  • Jin Xun Goh, Psychology

Add to my favorites Introducing a Cost-Effective, Simple Hydrogen Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Lab to Bellevue College
Presenter
  • Megan Bui, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering, Bellevue Coll
Mentor
  • Richard Glover, Chemistry, Lane Community College

Add to my favorites Development and Validation of a Bivalirudin Assay Utilizing Plasma-Diluted Thrombin Time
Presenter
  • Kathleen Burke, Fifth Year, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentor
  • Wayne Chandler, Laboratory Medicine

Add to my favorites Antibody Titers in Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Immunotherapy Reflects Disease Burden
Presenter
  • Kelsey Cahill, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Paul Nghiem, Medicine

Add to my favorites Identification of Abiotic Stress Responsive Genes in Zea mays (Maize) Dependent on MOP1-mediated Epigenetic Regulation and the Plant Hormone ABA
Presenter
  • Rachel Christine Calder, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Thelma Madzima, Biological Sciences
  • Jesse Zaneveld, Biology, University of Washington Bothell

Add to my favorites Characterization of Dynorphin/KOR Circuitry in the Mouse Brain
Presenter
  • Sanne Marie Casello, Senior, Neurobiology
Mentors
  • Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
  • Antony Abraham, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Post-Statehood and Beyond: The Future of Honolulu, Hawaii
Presenter
  • Ireland Romana Castillo, Senior, Architectural Design UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ann Marie Borys, Architecture

Add to my favorites AeroSpec: A Portable and Cost-Effective Solution for Personalized Air Quality Monitoring
Presenter
  • Lerzan Cengiz, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentors
  • Sep Makhsous, Electrical Engineering
  • Alexander Mamishev, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Identification of Optimal Peptide Sequences for a Canine IFNγ ELISpot Positive Control
Presenters
  • Ai N. Che, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Leeseok (Lee) Song, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Julie Crudele, Neurology

Add to my favorites Delayed Wound Healing in Aging Mice is Prevented by SS20 Peptide
Presenter
  • Jessie Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Warren Ladiges, Comparative Medicine

Add to my favorites Role of Paraoxonase 1 in Induced Atherosclerosis
Presenter
  • Gabriela Claravall, Freshman, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
Mentors
  • Judit Marsillach, Medicine
  • Clement Furlong, Genome Sciences, Medicine
  • Nancy Nguyen, Medicine

Add to my favorites Genetic Analysis of the AP-3 Protein Complex
Presenter
  • Malia Clark, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Alexey Merz, Biochemistry
  • Rachael Plemel, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Characterization of Spectral Discrimination Strategies in the Octopus
Presenter
  • Natalie Marie Clay, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • David Gire, Psychology
  • Dominic Sivitilli, Psychology

Add to my favorites Method Development for Measurement of Diesel Exhaust Particulate Matter in Household Dust
Presenter
  • Mae Belle Coker, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Christopher Simpson, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Michael Paulsen, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Preparation of a Promoter Associated Non-coding RNA CDH1 -160(A) Using a Downstream HDV Ribozyme Sequence to Produce Homogenous Transcripts and Improve NMR Visibility
Presenter
  • Lauren Yvette Marie Cominsky, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Gabriele Varani, Chemistry
  • Matt Walker, Chemistry

Add to my favorites CoreView: A Novel Histology System that Rapidly Assesses Core Needle Biopsies to Modernize Pathology
Presenter
  • David Cooper, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mark Fauver, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Impact of Na+/H+ Antiporter on Asymmetric Cell Division in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells  
Presenter
  • Mackenzie Elizabeth Coston, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Clemens Cabernard, Biology
  • Tri Pham, Biology

Add to my favorites The Regional Variations in Russian Information Warfare
Presenter
  • Conor Charles (Conor) Cunningham, Senior, International Studies Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Jessica Beyer, Jackson School of International Studies

Add to my favorites Locating Red Supergiants in the Galaxy IC 10
Presenter
  • Tzvetelina Anguelova Dimitrova, Sophomore, Astronomy
Mentors
  • Kathryn Neugent, Astronomy
  • Emily Levesque, Astronomy

Add to my favorites The Consequence of Perceiving Sexual Harassment Victims as Prototypical Women
Presenter
  • Ananya Dontula, Senior, Psychology, Communication UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jin Xun Goh, Psychology

Add to my favorites Assessing Abiotic Soil Conditions in Two Subalpine Environments
Presenter
  • Lauren Kay Dorsch, Sophomore, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • Stuart Graham, Biology
  • Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Biology

Add to my favorites Virtual Environments in Stroke Rehabilitation
Presenter
  • Alvin B. Duong, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus)
Mentors
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery
  • Aaron Bunnell, Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Nina LaPiana, Biological Sciences, UW Bothell

Add to my favorites The Effect of Age on Spectro-Temporal Modulation Sensitivity 
Presenter
  • Erica Joanne Eng, Senior, Speech and Hearing Sci (Com Disorders)
Mentor
  • Christi Miller, Speech & Hearing Sciences

Add to my favorites Analysis of Sexual Dimorphism in Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus)
Presenter
  • Terrell J. Engmann, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Sharlene Santana, Biology, Burke Museum
  • Rochelle Kelly, Biology

Add to my favorites Role of Host microRNAs in Modulation of Alphavirus Replication
Presenter
  • Alina Ferguson, Senior, Biology (Physiology) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jennifer Hyde, Microbiology, University of Washington, School of Medicine

Add to my favorites Mapping Economic and Socio-Cultural Inequality in Indiana
Presenter
  • Rebecca Fogel, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Kim England, Community Environment & Planning, Geography

Add to my favorites Sleep Deprivation-Induced Learning Impairment is Attenuated by the HDAC Inhibitor Phenylbutyrate
Presenter
  • Clarice E. Forbes, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Warren Ladiges, Comparative Medicine
  • Juan Wang, Comparative Medicine

Add to my favorites Refinement of Atomic Layer Deposition Parameters to Achieve Optimal Sidewall Coverage
Presenter
  • Mark Sterling Forsnes, Senior, Mat Sci & Engr: Nanosci & Moleculr Engr
Mentors
  • Fred Newman, Washington Nanofabrication Facility
  • Karl F. Bohringer, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites LRP10 Mutations in Familial Parkinson’s Disease
Presenter
  • Tarun Singh Gandhi, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Cyrus Zabetian, Neurology
  • Dora Yearout, Neurology, VAPSHCS

Add to my favorites Subjective Valence of Memory Associations and Exercise Behaviors
Presenters
  • Chuqing (Carrie) Gao, Senior, Economics, Psychology
  • Alina Zhang, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Yusuke Shono, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology
  • Brian Flaherty, Psychology

Add to my favorites Genetically Manipulating U2OS Bone Cells to Target Inhibitor Drugs to the Kinetochore during Mitosis
Presenter
  • Irvin Garcia, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
Mentors
  • John Scott, Pharmacology
  • Paula Bucko, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Phenotypic Plasticity and Transgenerational Epigenetic Modification of Arabidopsis thaliana in Response to Variable Conditions Predicted with Climate Change
Presenter
  • Jackelyn Tolentino Garcia, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Cynthia Chang, Biology
  • Thelma Madzima, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites The Relationship between Architecture and the Body: Studying Queer Identity and Theory and its Relationship to Architecture 
Presenter
  • Gray Garrido, Senior, Architecture
Mentor
  • Ann Marie Borys, Architecture

Add to my favorites Perinatal BDE-47 Exposure Altered the Developmental Trajectory of Gut Microbiota in Rats
Presenter
  • Joanna Linley Gillette, Junior, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
Mentor
  • Julia Cui, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Small Steps Toward Social Capital: How Can CPTED and Tactical Urbanism Benefit A Pop-Up Park In Downtown Renton?
Presenter
  • Brittany Healani Mendes Gillia, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentors
  • Megan Herzog, Community Environment & Planning, Community, Environment & Planning
  • Nico Martinucci, Community Environment & Planning

Add to my favorites Optimization of Canine Flow Cytometry Panel
Presenters
  • Griffen Tyler Girvan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Tommy Henry (Tommy) Taslim, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Julie Crudele, Neurology

Add to my favorites Developing and Validating a Method to Blind Immunoassays Results from End Users
Presenter
  • Charlie Denton Glaser, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Kamal G. Shah, Bioengineering
  • Paul Yager, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites A New Drepanosauromorph Species from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Presenter
  • Gabriel Stedman (Gabe) Goncalves, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Biology)
Mentors
  • Christian Sidor, Biology, Burke Museum
  • Brandon Peecook, Biology, Burke Museum, Field Museum

Add to my favorites Clinical Pathological Correlations and Re-Imaging Follow Ups for Teledermatology Patients
Presenter
  • Maya Kaveri Gopalan, Junior, Pre Public Health
Mentor
  • Gregory Raugi, Medicine

Add to my favorites Nuclear Culture in Latin America
Presenter
  • Briana Gutierrez, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Race and Emerging Adulthood: Looking at Mental Health and Racial Identity within a College Context
Presenter
  • Stephanie Van Ha, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jerald Herting, Sociology

Add to my favorites Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction, Likely Gene Disrupting Mutations and the Impact on ASD Severity
Presenter
  • Lauren Koko (Koko) Hall, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jennifer Gerdts, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Raphael Bernier, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus Dependence on Intracellular Glutathione and the Implications in Progeny Production
Presenter
  • Greyson Alexandre Hamilton, Senior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • John Scott Meschke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Erika Keim, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Physical and Climatic Influences on Streams in the Olympic National Forest
Presenter
  • Paul Oliver Heffner, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • David Butman, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Roxana Rautu, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Using C. elegans to Understand the Mechansims Linking Mitochondrial Function and Alzheimer's Disease
Presenters
  • Beeta Sadat Heydari, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
  • Bahar Sadat (Bahar) Heydari, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Josh Russell, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology

Add to my favorites Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating the Glaciation of the Waterville Plateau in Eastern Washington during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
Presenter
  • Elizabeth Jean Horton, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Stone, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Joel Gombiner, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Genetic Mechanisms of Accelerated Aging in Humans
Presenter
  • Deyin (Diana) Hou, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Junko Oshima, Pathology

Add to my favorites Methods for Improvement of Bone Conduction Auditory Brainstem Response Measurements
Presenter
  • Aoi Anne Hunsaker, Senior, Speech and Hearing Sci (Com Disorders) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Andrew Brown, Speech & Hearing Sciences

Add to my favorites Adoptive T Cell Therapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Fas Ligand-Mediated Death Signaling in Solid Tumors
Presenter
  • Ayah Y Idris, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Philip Greenberg, Immunology, Medicine
  • Kristin Anderson, Immunology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Epigenetic Regulation of the Maize BTF3 Transcription Factor under Drought Stress
Presenter
  • Kiana Imani, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus)
Mentor
  • Thelma Madzima, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites Pneumococcal Vaccine Induces a Variable and Age-Dependent Antibody Stress Response in Mice
Presenter
  • Michali Izhaky, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Warren Ladiges, Comparative Medicine

Add to my favorites Integrated Point-of-Care Extraction and Detection of Nucleic Acids through Novel Isotachophoresis Design 
Presenter
  • David Curtis Juergens, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr
Mentors
  • Jonathan Posner, Chemical Engineering
  • Andrew Bender, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Effect of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Gut Microbiota in a Rat Model for Alzheimer's Disease
Presenter
  • Kara Jung, Junior, Health Informatics & Health Information Management
Mentor
  • Julia Cui, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Phased Array Wireless Power Optimization on a Planar Array of Coupled Resonators
Presenter
  • Usman M. (Usman) Khan, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering
Mentor
  • Joshua Smith, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Evaporative Resistance Equally Important to Albedo in High Latitudes Due to Cloud Feedbacks
Presenter
  • Jin Kim, Senior, Atmospheric Sciences: Climate
Mentor
  • Abigail Swann, Atmospheric Sciences, Biology

Add to my favorites Modeling Pulsar Red Noise to Detect Gravitational Waves
Presenter
  • Min Young Kim, Junior, Statistics, Physics: Comprehensive Physics
Mentors
  • Joey Key, Physical Sciences (Bothell Campus), University of Washington Bothell
  • Jeffrey Hazboun, Physical Sciences (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites New Evidence that Seasonal Flows on Mars are Dry, Windblown Sand Avalanches
Presenter
  • Sarah C. King, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics)
Mentor
  • Jonathan Toner, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Human Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Maturation is Regulated by Glucose Levels and Metabolic Hormone Supplementation
Presenter
  • Heather May Klug, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Charles Murry, Pathology
  • Elaheh Karbassi, Pathology

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of Sarcomere Structure in the Proliferative Capacity of Cardiomyocytes to Improve Methods of Cardiac Regeneration
Presenter
  • Anna Whitney Klug, Senior, Bioengineering Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Charles Murry, Pathology
  • Christine Yoo, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites The Search for Three-Body Final States With a Photon Following Neutron-Nucleus Scattering at Low Energy
Presenter
  • Megan E. Kokoris, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy
Mentor
  • Alvaro Chavarria, Physics

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

Add to my favorites Euphausiid Layer Homogeneity in Puget Sound
Presenter
  • Zeta Lai, Senior, Oceanography UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Julie Keister, Oceanography

Add to my favorites Child-Nature Interaction in a Hong Kong Nature Preschool Program: An Interaction Pattern Approach
Presenter
  • Ling Wai Lam, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Peter Kahn, Psychology, University of Washington, Department of Psychology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Understanding Methylmercury Accumulation in Rice: Experimental Control of Oxygenation and Root Carbon Levels in the Rhizosphere of Oryza sativa
Presenter
  • Sarah Katherine Larson, Senior, Biology (Plant) Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Rachel Strickman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Rebecca Neumann, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Chromosomal Mapping of the MOP1-FLAG Transgene in Zea mays (Maize)
Presenter
  • Ginger L. Lash, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus)
Mentor
  • Thelma Madzima, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites Analysis of Ride Share Bike Bacterial Load at Key Locations in Seattle
Presenters
  • Andy Le, Recent Graduate, Pre-PT, South Seattle College
  • Victoria Flores
  • Quan Nguyen
  • Juan Sanchez
Mentor
  • Henry Olson, Biological & Environmental Sciences, South Seattle College

Add to my favorites Impact of WI-FI on Exclusion Zone (EZ) Water
Presenter
  • Jay Lee, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentor
  • Gerald H. Pollack, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Effects of Ebf1 on Mouse Cochlear Differentiation
Presenter
  • Erica Airu Lee, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, Biological Structure
  • Brent Wilkerson, Biological Structure

Add to my favorites Effect of Levodopa on Fentanyl Oral Self-Administration in Rats
Presenter
  • Janet Suhjung Lee, Senior, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Paul Phillips, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Ryan Farero, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Domoic Acid on Infant Cognitive Development and Learning in a Nonhuman Primate Model
Presenter
  • Scyler Li, Junior, Environmental Health UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Thomas Burbacher, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Kimberly Grant, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Investigating Wetted Slope Streaks in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Do Similar Flows Form on Mars?
Presenter
  • Ping Chun Lin, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics)
Mentor
  • Jonathan Toner, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Characterizing Stem Cell Specific-Kinases as Regulators of Self-Renewal in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Presenter
  • Shelly Lin, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentors
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology
  • Thao Pham, Pathology

Add to my favorites Exploring the Role of a Novel Methylated Gene TUSC1 in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Presenter
  • Rachael Logan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • William Grady, Medicine

Add to my favorites Epigenetic Evaluation of Human Retinal Organoids as a Disease Modeling Platform
Presenter
  • Kelsey Luu, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Tim Cherry, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Morphological Development and Photoluminescence Characterization of Solution-Processed Bismuth Rudorffites for Photovoltaic Applications
Presenter
  • Benjamin Riley (Ben) Magruder, Senior, Chemical Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Hugh Hillhouse, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Investigating Neurotoxicity and Endothelial Activation after Immunotherapy with CAR T-Cell Cancer Treatment
Presenter
  • Katie Kaur Mand, Senior, Neurobiology Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Juliane Gust, Neurology

Add to my favorites Characterizing the Growth Patterns of Thickened Synapsid Skulls via Osteohistology
Presenter
  • Lianna Molas Marilao, Senior, English (Creative Writing), Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentors
  • Christian Sidor, Biology, Burke Museum
  • Zoe Kulik, Biology

Add to my favorites What Happens during Classroom Interaction between a Spanish Heritage Language Learner and a Second Language Learner?
Presenter
  • Maria Martinez Alonzo, Senior, Spanish, Education, Communities and Organizations
Mentor
  • Ana Fernandez Dobao, Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Add to my favorites Bringing Light to The University of Washington’s Involvement in Human Radiation Experiments
Presenters
  • Corben Masterson, Junior, Microbiology
  • Dalena Kim Tran, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Maybeleen Lio Saephanh, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Perceptions of Friendliness of Visual Cues: A Focus on Latino and White Individuals
Presenters
  • Molly McCabe, Senior, Psychology, Humanities for Leadership, Seattle University
  • Andrea Martinez
Mentor
  • Elise Murowchick, Psychology, Seattle University

Add to my favorites The Effect of Wind Turbulence on Pollinator Visitation of Oenothera pallida
Presenter
  • Regina Renee (Regina) Mettey, Junior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentor
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology

Add to my favorites A Customized Program for the Identification of Conserved Protein Sequence Motifs
Presenters
  • Mohammad Mian, Sophomore, Microbiology , Bellevue Coll
  • Anthony Klobas
  • Jeffery Talada
Mentor
  • Reza Forough, Biology, Bellevue College

Add to my favorites Mutational Analysis of Potential Phosphorylation Sites on the Kinetochore-Associated Protein Stu2
Presenters
  • Angela Mitchell, Senior, Biomedical Sciences
  • Miranda Naniloa Makalena, Senior, Biomedical Sciences
Mentor
  • Jack Vincent, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus), University of Washington-Tacoma

Add to my favorites The Effect of Satellite Tracking Devices on the Behavior and Success of Nesting Long-tailed Jaegers (Stercorarius longicaudus) in Denali National Park
Presenter
  • Fletcher Moore, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation)
Mentor
  • John Marzluff, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Validation of a Brief Adolescent Insomnia Screening Questionnaire for Youth with Headache
Presenter
  • Sacha Moufarrej, Senior, Neurobiology Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology
  • Rocio de la Vega, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Deciphering the Dynamics of Nitrate Xport from a Brackish Tidal Marsh
Presenter
  • Arata Murakami, Junior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • David Butman, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Matthew Bogard, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Analysis of Oral Swabs for Universal Bacterial 16s rDNA to Optimize Diagnostic Application
Presenter
  • Divya Naidoo, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Gerard Cangelosi, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Rachel Wood, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Alaina Olson, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Detecting Post-Translational Protein Modifications Using Nanopore Sensing Technology
Presenter
  • Aerilynn Nha Chi Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Jeff Nivala, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Nicolas Cardozo, Computer Science & Engineering, Molecular Engineering and Science

Add to my favorites BioVizia - Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria and Biofilms by pH Measurement of Sugar Metabolism
Presenter
  • Ryan Manh Nguyen, Senior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering
  • Leonard Nelson, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Effect of SS-31 on SOD1KO Model of Sarcopenia
Presenter
  • Kevin Andrew Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Physiology) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Marcinek, Radiology
  • Matthew Campbell, Radiology

Add to my favorites What Does Grateful Mean to Adolescents: An Analysis of Emotion in Peer Interactions across Washington State
Presenter
  • Hannah Aihan Nguyen, Senior, Biochemistry, English (Creative Writing) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Karin Frey, Education, U of Washington

Add to my favorites Analysis of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in HEK 293 Cells
Presenter
  • Kevin Ngoc Nguyen, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Chris Hague, Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Dorathy-Ann Harris, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Using Business Intelligence to Predict Consumer Behavior: An Executive Approach
Presenters
  • Christine Ngoc Nguyen, Recent Graduate,
  • Arrido Arfiadi, Recent Graduate,
Mentor
  • Xiahua (Anny) Wei, Business Administration (Bothell Campus), University of Washington, Bothell

Add to my favorites Retinal Degeneration Mutations in Human IMP Dehydrogenase Affect Enzyme Structure
Presenter
  • Kevin Nie, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Justin Kollman, Biochemistry
  • Anika Burrell, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites The Effect of Snowline Rise on Chester Morse Lake 
Presenter
  • Claudiu (Claude) Nistor, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Terry Swanson, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Effect of the Pollutant Methanol on the Survival and Heart Rate of Daphnia magna
Presenters
  • Jacquelynn (Jacki) O'Maley, Sophomore, Biology Transfer Degree, Edmonds Community College
  • Isabella Chang, Sophomore, Biology, Edmonds Community College
  • Carla Talbaux, Sophomore, Biology, Everett Community College
  • Severin H. Robins, Junior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentor
  • Jennifer (Gwen) Shlichta, Biology, Edmonds College

Add to my favorites A Torsion Balance to Measure Gravitational Gradients
Presenter
  • Nicholas Orndorff, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentor
  • Charles Hagedorn, Physics, CENPA

Add to my favorites STUDIO: Foster Relationships in STEM Learning Community
Presenter
  • Noushyar (Noush) Panahpour Eslami, Senior, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Jiyoung Lee, Education
  • Katie H Taylor, Education

Add to my favorites Machine Learning on Frequency-Dependent Molecular Polarizabilities
Presenter
  • Isaac Yubeen Pang, Junior, Computer Science
Mentors
  • Andrew Wildman, Chemistry
  • Xiaosong Li, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Soak in the Rain: Designing for Our Climate by Engaging the Senses
Presenter
  • Ingrid Ann Pelletier, Senior, Architectural Design UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ann Marie Borys, Architecture

Add to my favorites Optimized Expansion Microscopy through Thermally Facilitated Digestion
Presenter
  • Jonathan Bryce (Jon) Perr, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Joshua Vaughan, Chemistry
  • Aaron Halpern, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Paleo Basemap to Investigate Flooding Patterns and Geomorphic Change from the Bridge of the Gods Flood 550 Years Ago
Presenter
  • Maxim Thomas (Max) Podhaisky, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology, Art
Mentors
  • Katharine Huntington, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Susannah Morey, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Optimizing Polymeric Nanoparticle Formulations for the Encapsulation of Enzyme Therapeutics
Presenter
  • Jessica Gin Pon, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering
  • Rick Liao, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Characterizing Microstructural Changes in Perineuronal Nets in the Presence of Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress
Presenter
  • Hugo F. (Hugo) Pontes, Senior, Chemical Engineering CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, UW Honors Program, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology
  • Mike McKenna, Chemical Engineering
  • Chad Curtis, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Geochemical Analysis of Lopez Complex Pillow Basalts in the San Juan Islands
Presenter
  • Kalpana Venu Prasad, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Bruce Nelson, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Retinal Regeneration from Müller Glia
Presenter
  • Nick Radulovich, Senior, Biology (Physiology), French Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Thomas Reh, Biological Structure
  • Nikolas Jorstad, Biological Structure

Add to my favorites Possible Role of Exosomes in Colon Cancer 
Presenter
  • Sharda Raina, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Peter Wu, Surgery
  • Daniel Wu, Medicine

Add to my favorites Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis to Extract Brain Region Features
Presenter
  • Emily Rachel (Emily) Rhodes, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology
  • Sarah Stansfield, Anthropology, Epidemiology
  • Mike McKenna, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Impact of Fetal Alcohol Exposure on Life Expectancy
Presenter
  • Kristina Rowlett, Senior, Psychology, Neurobiology
Mentor
  • Therese Grant, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Olfactory Learning and Memory in the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus
Presenter
  • Elizabeth Rylance, Senior, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Gabriella Wolff, Biology

Add to my favorites The Role of the RMR1 Protein in Phenotypic and Transcriptional Responses to Abscisic Acid
Presenter
  • Kaheerman (Sabira) Saibire, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Thelma Madzima, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites Reclaiming Identity through Space: Designing for the Multiracial and Multicultural
Presenter
  • Naomi Pepper (Naomi) Saito, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentor
  • Megan Herzog, Community Environment & Planning, Community, Environment & Planning

Add to my favorites Day-Night Variation in Floral Volatiles of Oenothera pallida and Their Impact on Pollinator Attraction
Presenter
  • Eleanore Cordia Sammeth, Junior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentors
  • Jeffrey Riffell, Biology
  • Jeremy Chan, Biology

Add to my favorites On the Right Track: Exploring TrkB Variants in the Oncogenesis of Multiple Tumor Types
Presenter
  • Gabriel Sanchez, Sophomore, Pre-Health, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Siobhan Pattwell, Human Biology

Add to my favorites Determining the Month of Soil Carbonate Formation for Paleoclimate Reconstruction
Presenter
  • Nicole Sarieddine, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentors
  • Katharine Huntington, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Julia Kelson, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Beyond the Banks of Columbia
Presenters
  • Sumaiya Sathar, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Microbiology
  • Jeanelle Marie Pascual Sales, Junior, Political Science (Internatl Security)
  • Henry Felix Kamkoff, Freshman, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Measuring Protein Conformations with EPR Spectroscopy
Presenter
  • Elizabeth Marie Sather, Senior, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Stefan Stoll, Chemistry
  • Elizabeth Canarie, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Diagnostic Ultrasound Can Modify Perception of a Visual Target, Increasingly So as a Function of Ultrasound Exposure, When Applied Transcranially to the Visual Cortex of Healthy Test Subjects
Presenter
  • Nels Schimek, Junior, Biochemistry NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentor
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery

Add to my favorites Distribution of Beached Pinnipeds on the Western Coast of the United States Using Effort-Based Surveys
Presenter
  • Bailey Marie Gilbert, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Mentors
  • Julia Parrish, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
  • Jackie Lindsey, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, COASST
  • Hillary Burgess, College of the Environment

Add to my favorites “How Can I Help You?”: Toddlers Utilize Others’ Needs When Helping
Presenters
  • Madison Ann Severson, Senior, Psychology
  • Vera Leung, Recent Graduate,
Mentors
  • Jessica Sommerville, Psychology
  • Elizabeth Enright (Ake), Psychology
  • Rachel Horton, Psychology

Add to my favorites The Effect of Gender Norms on the Acculturation of Arab American Young Adults
Presenter
  • Noor O Shahin, Senior, Community Psychology (Bothell), Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior (Bthl)
Mentor
  • Eric Stewart, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UWB

Add to my favorites Automated Methods of Classifying Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations into Discrete Categories
Presenter
  • Rachel Shi, Freshman, Center for Study of Capable Youth
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Kevin Coffey, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Technology Effects on Labor Force Market
Presenters
  • Grace Shi, Senior, Economics
  • Ju Eun (Esther) Ahn, Senior, Economics, Psychology
  • Ivana Kolinek, Senior, Economics
Mentor
  • Elaina Rose, Economics

Add to my favorites The Effects of Salinity Shifts and Compatible Solutes on the Growth of Bacteria
Presenter
  • Annie Shoemaker, Senior, Microbiology, Physics: Applied Physics
Mentors
  • Jody Deming, Oceanography
  • Shelly Carpenter, Oceanography

Add to my favorites Revolutionizing mRNA Vaccine Platforms with Self-Assembling Nanoparticles
Presenter
  • Chelsea Shu, Junior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Wang, Biochemistry, Institute for Protein Design
  • Neil King, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Decision Making in Prostate Cancer: Ethics in Healthcare Relating to Socioeconomic Factors
Presenter
  • Nadia Siddiqui, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Edward Goldenberg, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Defining the Pathology of Human Dandy Walker Malformation
Presenter
  • Tarika Sivakumar, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Parthiv Haldipur, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Kathleen Millen, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Examination of Molecular Mechanisms in Zebrafish Heart Regeneration
Presenter
  • Gargi Sivaram, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
  • Elisa Clark, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites The Role of Kinesins in Asymmetric Cell Division
Presenter
  • Varun Sridhar, Junior, Pre-Health Sciences
Mentors
  • Clemens Cabernard, Biology
  • Tri Pham, Biology

Add to my favorites Somalia: The Heartbreaking Shift From a “Nation of Poets” to a “Nation of Refugees” 
Presenters
  • Asia Kennee (Asia) Tamaami, Senior, Education, Communities and Organizations, American Ethnic Studies
  • Balqisa Omar (Balqisa) Hassan, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Ayan Hussein (Ayan) Mohamed, Senior, Pre-Sciences McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Danny Hoffman, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Numerical Evaluation of Flow Separation Control on a Two-Dimensional Augmented Wing Using Plasma Actuators
Presenter
  • Anthony Tang, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
Mentors
  • Igor Novosselov, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Washington
  • Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Increasing Conductivity in Nanocrystal Thin-Films through Post-Deposition Treatment Methods
Presenter
  • Mori Taylor, Senior, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Sid Creutz, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Characterization of Archaeal Communities in Anaerobic Digester Seeds for the Mt. Everest Biogas Project
Presenter
  • Benjamin George (Ben) Therrien, Junior, Environmental Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Heidi Gough, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Do Not Ignore the Role of Astrocytic Inwardly Rectifying K+ Channel (Kir4.1) In Targeting Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
Presenter
  • Eric Shaban Thorland, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Jing Zhang, Pathology
  • Lifu Sheng, Pathology

Add to my favorites Investigating Algorithmic Effects on Time Dependent Behavior of Quantum Molecular Systems
Presenter
  • Jeffery Fu Tian, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Andrew Wildman, Chemistry
  • Xiaosong Li, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Dynamics of Environmentally Independent Decision-Making in Invertebrate Movement Patterns
Presenter
  • Daniel Tibbles, Sophomore, Philosophy, Microbiology, North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Characterizing an LPS-Induced Rat Model of Pre-Adolescent Depression
Presenter
  • Dorsa Toghani, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Nance, Chemical Engineering, Radiology

Add to my favorites Do pH Levels Impact the Cis-Trans Isomerization Preference in Proline Attached Dipeptides?
Presenter
  • Stephanie Torres, Sophomore, Biochemistry, Bellevue Coll
Mentors
  • Sonya Remington-Doucette, Chemistry, Bellevue College
  • Grady Blacken, Chemistry, Bellevue College
  • Lucas Monkkonen, Chemistry, Bellevue College

Add to my favorites Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication Symposium: The Importance of Academic Practice Partnerships to Improve Health of Impacted Communities in Washington State
Presenter
  • Kim Anh (Kim) Tran, Senior, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Nicole Errett, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Assessment of Quantum Dots on Proliferating and Differentiating Male and Female Human Neural Progenitor Cells in Vitro
Presenters
  • Thanh (Tanya) Truong, Senior, Environmental Health
  • Youjun Suh, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Elaine Faustman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication
  • Sungwoo Hong, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Laboratory Architecture: The Role of Design in a Utilitarian Building Typology
Presenter
  • Ethan Li Shuan Tsai, Senior, Architecture
Mentor
  • Ann Marie Borys, Architecture

Add to my favorites Posture Change in Octopus rubescens during Locomotion in Diurnal and Nocturnal Conditions
Presenter
  • Joey Ullmann, Junior, Psychology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Dominic Sivitilli, Psychology
  • David Gire, Psychology

Add to my favorites Defect Engineering of BiI3 to Enhance Photovoltaic Properties
Presenter
  • Annalisa Marie Ursino, Senior, Chemical Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Hugh Hillhouse, Chemical Engineering
  • Beibei Xu, Chemical Engineering

Add to my favorites Mechanistic Analysis of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Unfolded Protein Response XBP-1s Target Genes Involved in Tau Pathology Suppression in C. elegans
Presenter
  • Taylor Ann Vadset, Senior, Neurobiology
Mentors
  • Brian Kraemer, Medicine
  • Sarah Waldherr, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Add to my favorites Modeling Monsoon Flood Erosion in the Eastern Himalaya: Using GeoClaw to Simulate Velocity and Depth for High Discharge Annual Flows
Presenter
  • Max Philip (Max) Vanarnam, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics)
Mentors
  • Susannah Morey, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Katharine Huntington, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Nuclear Tourism and How It Affects Perception and Society
Presenter
  • Natalia Villamil, Freshman, Business Administration
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Inhibition of FKBP51 in the Dorsal Raphe Using SAFit2 Has Antidepressant Effects
Presenter
  • Emily K Vo, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Kevin Coffey, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Russell Marx,

Add to my favorites Design and Fabricate DNA Screening Tool Chip Holder and Gasket
Presenter
  • Xiange Wang, Senior, Mechanical Engineering CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Hal Holmes, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites "How Much Does this Cost?" Decision-Making Processes Driving Infants' Reaching Behavior
Presenters
  • Tessa Warheit Niemi, Senior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology
  • Merideth Kirry, Senior, Psychology, Individualized Studies
Mentors
  • Jessica Sommerville, Psychology
  • Kelsey Lucca, Psychology

Add to my favorites Investigating Mitotic Dynamics of Early Xenopus tropicalis Tail Regeneration
Presenter
  • Maddie Williams She.Her, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Anneke Kakebeen, Biochemistry
  • Andrea Wills, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Exploring the Metamorphic Impact of an Underrepresented Minority Support Program at a Public Selective University 
Presenter
  • Jaylen Willingham, Senior, Communication Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Kirsten Foot, Communication
  • Kenderick Wilson, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity

Add to my favorites Contextualizing Barriers in Natural Resource Management and Restoration for Native Lands in Washington
Presenter
  • Hannah Jarvis Wilson, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • Ernesto Alvarado, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Martha Groom, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UW Bothell

Add to my favorites Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors in Puget Sound Fungi
Presenters
  • Matt Wilson, Fifth Year, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Lisbeth Reed Unterschute, Non-Matriculated,
  • Anelese Allen, Sophomore, Biology, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Jacob Wojcik, Sophomore, Biology, North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Characterizing a Repeat Expansion in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Presenter
  • Kosuke Winston, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Paul Valdmanis, Medicine
  • Kathryn Gudsnuk, Medicine, Medical Genetics
  • Meredith Course, Medicine

Add to my favorites Developing a Nanofabrication Process for Manufacturing Integrated Passive Devices
Presenters
  • Julia L. Worden, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Lauren Arianna Mahdi, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering
Mentors
  • Fred Newman, Washington Nanofabrication Facility
  • Karl F. Bohringer, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Development of an Ultra Stable 6He Monitor
Presenter
  • Anni Xiong, Recent Graduate,
Mentor
  • Alejandro Garcia, Physics

Add to my favorites Wearable Gesture Sensing in an Industrial Setting
Presenter
  • Maxx Naoyuki (Maxx) Yamasaki, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentors
  • Rose Hendrix, Mechanical Engineering
  • Santosh Devasia, Mechanical Engineering

Add to my favorites Stay Silent or Blow the Whistle? Understanding the Motivations of Whistleblowers and Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Site
Presenters
  • Jackie Yeh, Senior, Business Administration, Microbiology UW Honors Program
  • Simreet Kaur Dhaliwal, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Rachel Nakamura, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Aditi Kumar, Sophomore, Engineering Undeclared UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Accelerated UV-Aging of a Wax-Based Binder used in a Synthetic Granular Composite Equine Sports Surface
Presenters
  • Cham Hang (Jacky) Yeung, Senior, Electrical Engineering (Bothell), Mechanical Engineering (Bothell)
  • Alan K. Kwiatkowski, Senior, Mechanical Engineering (Bothell)
Mentor
  • John Bridge, Mechanical Engineering (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Oxytocin Decreases Reaction Times for Eeriness Ratings in an Uncanny Valley Task
Presenter
  • Andre Zamani, Senior, Psychology, Neuroscience, University of Puget Sound
Mentors
  • David Andresen, Psychology, University of Puget Sound
  • Erin Colbert-White, Psychology

Add to my favorites Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patients with Concurrent Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Presenter
  • Lauren Zawacki, Senior, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Paul Nghiem, Medicine
  • Kristina Lachance, Medicine

Add to my favorites The Psychology of Cyberbullying
Presenter
  • Jesse Zesbaugh, Sophomore, Infomatics, Anthropology, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Diana E Knauf-Levidow, Psychology, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites A Nanopore-Based Molecular Tagging System Using DNA Barcodes
Presenter
  • Karen Zhang, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jeff Nivala, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Katie Doroschak, Computer Science & Engineering