Poster Session 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Add to my favorites The Future of a Malaria Vaccine: Generating a Late Liver-Stage Arresting Genetically Attenuated Plasmodium falciparum Parasite Vaccine
Presenter
  • Carolyn Brager, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Stefan Kappe, Global Health
  • Debashree Goswami, Global Health, Seattle Childrens Research Institute

Add to my favorites Establishing an Air Monitoring Network in the Methow Valley
Presenter
  • Amanda Durkin, Senior, Environmental Health
Mentors
  • Nicole Errett, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Tania Busch Isaksen, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Fabrication of a High-Throughput Whispering Gallery Mode Dip Sensor for Peptide Characterization
Presenters
  • John Taylor (John) Hamann, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
  • Willem L Weertman, Graduate,
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences
  • Richard Lee, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Plants over Poultry: Recommendations and Guidelines for Replacing Chicken Processing with Plant-Based “Meat”
Presenter
  • Hanna Nicole Peterson, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentor
  • Megan Herzog, Community Environment & Planning, Community, Environment & Planning

Add to my favorites Identifying Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on Parkinson's Disease using Voice Samples
Presenter
  • Huy Phi, Senior, Neurobiology
Mentor
  • Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Neurology

Add to my favorites Stepping Stones: An Analysis of Grand Ronde Lithic Traditions
Presenter
  • Megan Allison Racine, Sophomore, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Illuminating the Rain Shadow: Characteristics of Clouds and Precipitation on the Lee Side of the Olympic Mountains
Presenter
  • Jamin Kurtis (Jamin) Rader, Senior, Atmospheric Sciences: Climate, Atmospheric Sciences: Meteorology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Lynn McMurdie, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Angela Rowe, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Joseph Zagrodnik, Atmospheric Sciences

Add to my favorites Automation of Budget Microscopes for Microfluidic Yeast Replicative Lifespans
Presenter
  • Toby Nathan Ven, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Kenneth Chen, Genome Sciences
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology

Add to my favorites Evaluating Natural Threats to the Grays Harbor PUD’s Power System
Presenter
  • Blake Donald (Blake) Rose, Junior, Electrical Engineering
Mentor
  • Daniel Kirschen, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Using Patient Reported Outcome Measurements in Assessing Disease Activity of Chronic Non-Bacterial Osteomyelitis
Presenters
  • Sumaya Aden, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Thuan Thi Bui, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Claire Yang, Junior, Environmental Health
  • Pola Soliman, Senior,
Mentors
  • Yongdong Zhao, Pediatrics
  • Chessie Snider, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Assessing a Method of Quantifying Foam-Causing Filamentous Bacteria in Anaerobic Digesters
Presenter
  • Aden Yohannes Afework, Sophomore, Pre Public Health
Mentors
  • Kota Nishiguchi, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Kota Nishiguchi, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Accuracy of Reporting of Primary Care Physicians in Medical Research
Presenters
  • Abhinav Santosh Agnani, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Harish Sivakumar Thoppe, Senior, Biology (General)
  • Angela Yang, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Andrea Mai (Andrea) Diep, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentor
  • William Phillips, Family Medicine

Add to my favorites Diving into Paralysis: Understanding How Genetic Variation Affects Mutant ND2 Gene Phenotypes Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster
Presenter
  • Valeria Aizen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Add to my favorites Map of Marine Terraces on Haida Gwaii
Presenter
  • Gabrielle Therese Bugayong (Gabby) Alampay, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentors
  • Philip Schoettle-Greene, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Alison Duvall, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Stability of Tetramerized Viral Proteins
Presenter
  • Dillon Lateef Alwan, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Justin Taylor, Immunology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  • Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Analyzing the Effects of Arhgap29 and Arhgap35 on Zebrafish Embryonic Morphogenesis and Mesodermal Cell Migration in Posterior Body Elongation
Presenter
  • Charlotte An, Senior, Biochemistry, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Kimelman, Biochemistry
  • Natalie Smith, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Dissolution of the Foraminifera Elphidiella hannai as an Indicator of Changes in Acidity of Water in Puget Sound
Presenter
  • Fleur P Anteau, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Nesbitt, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Ruth Martin, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Global Warming and Energy Conservation Knowledge in a University Population
Presenter
  • William Nevin Appel, Senior, Global Studies (Bothell)
Mentor
  • Martha Groom, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UW Bothell

Add to my favorites Method Validation of Hemoglobin A1c on the Vitros 4600
Presenter
  • Cindy Au, Senior, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentor
  • Rhona Jack, Laboratory Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital

Add to my favorites A Loveless Generation?
Presenter
  • Olivia Bakken, Sophomore, Communication , Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Brooke Zimmers, Communication, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites Cemeteries as Cultural (Re)Production Sites in the Green River Valley
Presenter
  • Emily Renee Barrick, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology

Add to my favorites A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study of Barriers to Preventative Healthcare Access among African-Born Individuals in the Seattle Area
Presenter
  • Guiomar Basualdo, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentor
  • Rena Patel, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

Add to my favorites Narrow Band Filters for LSST
Presenter
  • Steven Marshall Bet, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics
Mentors
  • Peter Yoachim, Astronomy
  • Jessica Werk, Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle

Add to my favorites An Extensible Software for Whole-Skeleton microCT Analysis of Zebrafish
Presenter
  • Rehaan Minh Bhimani, Junior, Pre Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Ronald Kwon, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, UW School of Medicine/Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Add to my favorites Biosolids and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Forest Plantations
Presenter
  • Jyoti Bodas, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sally Brown, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites I’ll Just Work This Off Later: Compensatory Health Beliefs, Considerations of Future Consequences, and Personal Health Perceptions
Presenters
  • Taylor Boles, Junior, Pre-Major, UW Tacoma
  • Kaylen Tianna Vine, Recent Graduate,
Mentor
  • Leighann Chaffee, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

Add to my favorites Investigating the Functional Role of N-Taf1 in Neuronal Development and Neurodegenerative Disease
Presenter
  • Alexander Matthew (Alex) Bouterse, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Edith Wang, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Effects of Different Vagus Nerve Stimulation Protocols on Cortical Plasticity in Non-Human Primates
Presenter
  • Hayley Michelle Boyd, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Eberhard Fetz, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Irene Rembado, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Creation and Control of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers for Magnetic Particle Imaging
Presenter
  • Nicholas Alan (Nick) Brunelle, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Engineering & Physical) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Kai-Mei Fu, Electrical Engineering, Physics

Add to my favorites Advanced Composite Design and Production Application to the Hyperloop Prototype
Presenter
  • John Benjamin Buffalo, Senior, Mechanical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Marco Salviato, Aeronautics & Astronautics

Add to my favorites Marine Insects of Puget Sound
Presenter
  • Tristan Carette-Meyers, Junior, Entomology, The Evergreen State College
Mentor
  • Pauline Yu, Biological Sciences, Evergreen State College

Add to my favorites Coming to Agreement: The Promise of Consensus Governance “There was an election, and there was a winner, and a loser.” -The Hundred-Foot Journey  
Presenter
  • Aidan James Carroll, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentor
  • Megan Herzog, Community Environment & Planning, Community, Environment & Planning

Add to my favorites Modeling Nephrotoxicity of Aristolochic Acid Using Microphysiological Systems
Presenters
  • Phoenix Chen, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Jacelyn Danielle Bain, Junior, Engineering Undeclared
Mentors
  • Kendan Jones-Isaac, Pharmaceutics
  • Edward Kelly, Pharmaceutics

Add to my favorites Evolution of Metabolic Defects to Restore Balanced Growth
Presenter
  • Alex Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Wenying Shou, Biological Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Loss of Vacuolar Acidity and Iron-Sulfur Cluster Production Affect Yeast during Aging
Presenters
  • Dexter Euwen Chen, Senior, Biochemistry, Philosophy
  • Rachael Kate Tran, Senior, Spanish
  • Justin Drake (Justin) Dillard Telm, Sophomore, Engineering Undeclared
Mentors
  • Kenneth Chen, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology

Add to my favorites Identification of a Causal Gene for a Novel Form of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Presenter
  • Olga Sarby Cherepakhin, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Dong-Hui Chen, Neurology

Add to my favorites Black and White Spouse Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Differences and Similarities
Presenters
  • Eliana Vaughn Claps, Senior, Psychology
  • Keenan Blaine Solomon, Junior, Pre-Social Sciences
Mentor
  • Peter Vitaliano, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites A Metabolomic Study of Sex Variation in Drosophila melanogaster
Presenter
  • Rene Coig, Fifth Year, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Ben Harrison, Pathology

Add to my favorites Seguro con Pesticidas/Safe with Pesticides: Formative Evaluation of the Beta Phase 
Presenter
  • Idanis Cruz, Senior, Public Health-Global Health CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Kit Galvin, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Pacfic NW Agricultural Safety & Health Center
  • Michael Yost, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites The Foundation of Biomineralization via Genetically-Designed Peptide-Ion Interactions
Presenters
  • Andrea Ming Hwei Dao, Senior, Chemical Engineering Levinson Emerging Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Aniruddh Saxena, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Yousef Mohammed Baioumy, Senior, Chemical Engineering
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences
  • Deniz Tanil Yucesoy, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites From Sulfate to Neurotoxin: the Presence of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria as an Indicator for Methylmercury within the Duwamish/Green River Watershed
Presenters
  • Teagan Darmody, Sophomore, Environmental Science and Resource Management, North Seattle College
  • Benjamin Roberts, Non-Matriculated, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Sarah Fenton
  • Elise Littell, Non-Matriculated, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Jay Hyun Um, Junior,
  • Scott Stedman
Mentors
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Magnetic Properties of Palouse Loess
Presenter
  • Eric De Sart, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Peter Selkin, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

Add to my favorites Characterizing the Effects of CRISPR/Cas-mediated Disruption of PTPN11 in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma  
Presenter
  • Henna Angel Di, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Eleanor Chen, Pathology
  • Terra Vleeshouwer-Neumann, Pathology

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, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering
  • Jason Murray, Bioengineering, Biology, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Characterizing a Broad Sample of Variable Stars from Light Curves and SDSS Spectroscopy
Presenter
  • Sierra Alison Dodd, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Paul Green, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Searching for Outbursting Neutron Star Binaries in a Time Domain Sky Survey
Presenter
  • Priscilla Dohrwardt, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentor
  • Eric Bellm, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Nocturnal Cyclic Fear Entraining Circadian Rhythms in Peripheral Clocks
Presenter
  • Angeline Dovinh, Junior, Pre-Nursing
Mentors
  • Horacio de la Iglesia, Biology
  • Ivana Bussi, Biology

Add to my favorites The Impact of Small-Molecular Inhibitors on Error-Correction Mechanisms in Cricket Spermatocytes
Presenters
  • Lyda Ebadani, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Julia Tryon, Junior, Biology (General), Spanish
Mentor
  • Charles Asbury, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Effectiveness of Sterilization Methods in Virtual Reality Technologies
Presenter
  • Paul Elbert, Recent Graduate, Psychology, North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Archiving the Past: Methods of Archaeological Data Collection and Curation alongside Native Communities
Presenter
  • Anastasia Katrina (Ania) Filimonov, Senior, Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Yoli Ngandali, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Sports Parenting Interventions: A Narrative Review
Presenter
  • Natalie Fuller, Senior, Environmental Health, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Emily Kroshus, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Access to Crisis Intervention Resources and Outpatient Psychotherapy via Community Mental Health Clinics in Washington State
Presenter
  • Margaret Dujuan (Maggie) Gallagher, Junior, Psychology
Mentor
  • Christopher DeCou, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center

Add to my favorites Differences Between 2D and 3D Cell Modeling
Presenter
  • Jessica Giang, Senior, Public Health-Global Health, Linguistics
Mentors
  • Dorathy-Ann Harris, Pharmacology
  • Chris Hague, Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Eric Janezic, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Understanding the Relationship between Healthspan and Lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster   
Presenter
  • Forrest Thomas (Forrest) Golic, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Add to my favorites Effects of OPN3 on Circadian Rhythms
Presenter
  • Shannon Gordon, Senior, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Russell Van Gelder, Ophthalmology
  • Ethan Buhr, Ophthalmology

Add to my favorites A Super-Matrix Approach to the Bignoniaceae Phylogeny
Presenter
  • Mason Gosney, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Richard Olmstead, Biology, Burke Museum
  • Audrey Ragsac, Biology

Add to my favorites A Neural Network for Predicting Peptide Binding Affinity
Presenter
  • Francesca Caroline Green, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences
  • Siddharth Rath, Materials Science & Engineering, Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center

Add to my favorites Ice Crater Analysis Using Advanced Surveying Techniques
Presenter
  • Logan Schuyler Guillet, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentors
  • Mariah Danner, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Robert Winglee, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites C-di-AMP Regulation and Toxicity in Listeria monocytogenes
Presenter
  • Kimberly (Kim) Gutierrez, Non-Matriculated, Microbiology, University of Washington Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, UW Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program
Mentor
  • Joshua Woodward, Microbiology

Add to my favorites Role of 5’ UTR MYH3 Variant in Distal Arthrogryposis
Presenter
  • Kim Ha, Freshman, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Kathryn Shively, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites Diet and Gene Regulation in Arterial and Fat Tissues
Presenter
  • Matthew R. Harrington, Senior, Biology (General) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Noah Snyder-Mackler, Psychology

Add to my favorites Bon(e) Appetit: Faunal Analysis and Subsistence Patterns at Grand Ronde
Presenters
  • Abigail Harward, Junior, Anthropology
  • Taylor Leone (Taylor) Schlabs, Senior, Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology, Dance
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Variants in STUB1 Causes Autosomal-Dominant Late-Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Presenter
  • Elyana Lux Heigham, Senior, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Dong-Hui Chen, Neurology

Add to my favorites A High-Throughput Assay to Understand Lasso  Peptide Antibiotic Activity
Presenter
  • Ethan Charles Hills, Senior, Biochemistry Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Stanley Fields, Genome Sciences
  • Ben Brandsen, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Deletion of Inflammatory MicroRNA Regulates Behavioral Phenotypes in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Presenter
  • Rachael Annie Hu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Gwenn Garden, Neurology
  • Macarena Aloi, Pathology

Add to my favorites RNA-interference Screen for Genes Involved in JNK-Dependent Basal Cell Extrusion  
Presenters
  • Shannon J. Hu, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Walker Azam, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Eric Yongun So, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences) UW Honors Program
  • Sijia Zhang, Junior, Bioengineering
  • Anish Venumadhav Nagareddy,
Mentor
  • Young Kwon, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites A Bacterial ADP-Ribosyltransferase Toxin Promotes Interbacterial Antagonism by Inhibiting Cell Division
Presenter
  • Shuo Huang, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Joseph Mougous, Microbiology
  • See-Yeun Ting, Microbiology

Add to my favorites 3D Printed Polypyrrole Microneedle Arrays for Electronically Controlled Drug Release
Presenter
  • Joyce Huang, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Rajiv Saigal, Neurosurgery

Add to my favorites Putting the Poly Back in Polyamorous: How Social Backgrounds and Experiences of Individuals Impact Expressions of Jealousy and Excpectations of Need Fulfillment in a Polyamorous Relationship
Presenter
  • Cordelia Ilton, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Pepper Schwartz, Sociology

Add to my favorites Observations of PTFS1623al: A Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable
Presenter
  • Ryan P. Jackim, Junior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy
Mentor
  • Eric Bellm, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Optimization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Safe Contrast Agent for MRI
Presenter
  • Matthew Michael (Matt) James, Senior, Mat Sci & Engr: Nanosci & Moleculr Engr
Mentors
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Richard Revia, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Accessible Design on Mobile Apps for Elders
Presenter
  • Han (Hannah) Jiang, Junior, Information Technology & Administrative Management, Central Washington University
Mentors
  • Naomi Petersen, Education, Central Washington University
  • Josh Welsh, English, Central Washington University
  • Ellen Bjorge, Information Technology & Systems

Add to my favorites Deconstructing Transcriptional Repression: How Does Multimerization Influence the Dynamics of a Conserved Corepressor?
Presenter
  • Samuel Juarez Solis, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology

Add to my favorites Creating a Lloviu Pseudotype Virus Using Modified VSV Plasmids
Presenter
  • Molly Kanagy, Junior, Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Whitman College
Mentors
  • Dan Vernon, Biology, Whitman College
  • Steven Bradfute, Global Health, University of New Mexico

Add to my favorites Financing of Noncommunicable Diseases: Socioeconomic and Health Indicators of Development Assistance for an Emerging Global Health Crisis
Presenter
  • Caroline Anne Kasman, Senior, Economics, International Studies UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Melissa Knox, Economics

Add to my favorites Mycofiltration of Antibiotics Using White-Rot Fungi
Presenters
  • Aspen Katla, Sophomore, Biology, North Seattle College
  • Alison Erin Snyder, Fifth Year,
  • Jillian Lotti, Sophomore, Environmental Conservation, Public Health, North Seattle College
Mentors
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Ann Murkowski, Biological Sciences, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Understanding UW Students’ Experiences with and Perceptions of Capacity-Constrained Majors
Presenters
  • Marlowe Lee Keller, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
  • Nathan Ji, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences) UW Honors Program
  • Vera Onyekachi Okolo, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Camila Valdebenito, Senior, Biology (General)
  • Sanchita (Sanch) Narayan, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Dianne Laboy, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Howard Hughes Scholar, Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Scott Freeman, Biology

Add to my favorites Interhomolog Recombination in Human Cells
Presenter
  • Nicholas Quan Khoo, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Nancy Maizels, Biochemistry
  • Luther Davis, Immunology

Add to my favorites Improving Rocket Performance with a Modular Fuselage and Adjustable Ring Fin Design
Presenters
  • Ariana Kim, Junior, Biochemistry, North Seattle College
  • Christopher Johnson
  • Donna Coyle
Mentors
  • Kalyn Owens, Chemistry, North Seattle College
  • Ann Murkowski, Engineering, North Seattle College

Add to my favorites Formalizing Care for the Caregiver in Hospice
Presenter
  • Sandra Renae (Sandy) Kolberg, Fifth Year, Nursing Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Tatiana Sadak, Nursing
  • Emily Ishado, Psychosocial & Community Health

Add to my favorites Ammonium By-Product Remediation during a Meter-Scale Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation Experiment
Presenter
  • Colin Michael Kolbus, Senior, Environmental Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Michael Gomez, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Signal Speeds and Root Response: Roles of Auxin Receptors in A. thaliana Root Growth
Presenter
  • Alexandra True (Alex) Koriath, Sophomore, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
  • Roman Ramos Baez, Biology

Add to my favorites Multiplex Single-Molecular Protein Interaction Profiling of De Novo Designed Heterodimeric Proteins
Presenter
  • Shohei Finn Koshiro, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of PTEN Variants in Cell Growth and Genome Stability
Presenter
  • Zach Andrew Krieger, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Douglas Fowler, Genome Sciences
  • Nicholas Hasle, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Disaster Perceptions and Preparedness Behaviors among U.S. Older Adults
Presenter
  • Melissa Krook, Recent Graduate, Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Peter Vitaliano, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Classifying X-ray Sources with Optical Variability
Presenter
  • Rebecca Kyer, Junior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Eric Bellm, Astronomy
  • Meredith Rawls, Astronomy

Add to my favorites How to Discriminate Signs of Life from Ocean Loss on Earth-like Exoplanets Using High Resolution Ground Based Spectroscopy
Presenter
  • Michaela Wei Jun Leung, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Biology) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Victoria Meadows, Astrobiology, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Characterizing the “Stress-Reward” Pathway: The Effect of α-CRF Injection on Decision-Making Behavior in Male and Female Mice
Presenter
  • Kevin H. Li, Senior, Economics, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Paul Phillips, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Rapheal Williams, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Neuroscience Graduate Program

Add to my favorites The Impact of a Novel Combinatorial Immunotherapeutic Regimen on Polyfunctional CD8+ T-Cell Responses in SHIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques
Presenter
  • Jessica Li, Senior, Microbiology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Deborah Fuller, Microbiology
  • Sandra Dross, Microbiology

Add to my favorites Characterizing Human-Specific Tandem Repeat Expansions in Primate Genomes
Presenter
  • Ruiyang Li, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Evan Eichler, Genome Sciences
  • Arvis Sulovari, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Bilingual Brains Versus Monolingual Brains: How Does the Resting-State EEG Predict Learning Rates?
Presenter
  • Kari Li, Senior, Early Childhood & Family Studies, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Peiyun Zhou, Psychology

Add to my favorites Controlling Amyloid-Beta Protein Aggregation by Auxin-Induced UL12.5 Expression
Presenter
  • Keong Mu Jason (Jason) Lim, Junior, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jason Pitt, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Brock Johnson, Pathology

Add to my favorites Beach Plastic Analysis of Pacific Atoll
Presenter
  • Amelia Lingle, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Julie Masura, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus), University of Washington Tacoma

Add to my favorites Linguistic Knowledge and Transferability of Contextual Word Representations
Presenter
  • Nelson Liu, Senior, Linguistics, Computer Science Goldwater Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Noah Smith, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Visualizing the Past: A Photogrammetric View of a Grand Ronde Archeological Site
Presenters
  • Bay Elaina Loovis, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences, Anthropology: Indigenous Archaeology UW Honors Program
  • Sophie Muro, Junior, Anthropology
  • Ethan Alexander Mofidi, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology

Add to my favorites The Accuracy of Positron Emission Tomography to Guide Treatment of Patients with Relapsed Extramedullary Acute Myeloid Leukemia After Transplant
Presenters
  • Mitchell David (Mitchell) Lopes, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Alec Warrier, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Adam Alayli
  • Tess Perez
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Krakow, Medicine, Fred Hutch

Add to my favorites Respiratory Dynamics of Soft Palate in Obese OSA Minipigs
Presenter
  • Jessica Lu, Senior, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Zi-Jun (Zee) Liu, Orthodontics

Add to my favorites Nurturing Emotional Well-Being: The Effects of Mindfulness on New Moms and their Babies' Socioemotional Development
Presenters
  • Tiffany Luu, Senior, Psychology
  • Nancy Ly, Senior, Psychology
  • Lauren Nicole Fielder, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentors
  • Liliana Lengua, Psychology
  • Liliana Lengua, Psychology
  • Dannielle Whiley, Psychology

Add to my favorites Optimization of Stimulus Selection for V4 Neuron Classification
Presenter
  • Timothy Ma, Senior, Neurobiology, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Biological & Life Sciences)
Mentor
  • Wyeth Bair, Biological Structure

Add to my favorites Using the Fruit Fly as a Model to Map Genes for Resistance to Alzheimer’s Disease
Presenter
  • Deja Monet Machen, Senior, Extended Pre-Major Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Add to my favorites Risk Factors for Conditioned Pain Modulation Deficiencies in Fibromyalgia
Presenter
  • Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Magill, Senior, Bioengineering Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentor
  • Kushang Patel, Anesthesiology

Add to my favorites Irrelevant Stimuli on Performance in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Presenter
  • Natalie Mala Maharaj, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Raphael Bernier, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Anne Arnett, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children's Hospital

Add to my favorites Investigating the Presence of Carbapenem-Resistant Enteribacteriaceae in Possession Sound 
Presenter
  • Lucy Maki-Fern, Freshman, Biomedical Engineering, Everett Community College
Mentor
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College

Add to my favorites M-health in Asia
Presenter
  • Shraddha (Shay) Malla, Sophomore, Public health : global health, Pre-medicine , Public health : environmental health, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Kira Wennstrom, Biological Sciences, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites Reducing Tag Identification Time in a Molecular Tagging System
Presenter
  • Aishwarya Mandyam, Senior, Computer Science, Philosophy
Mentors
  • Katie Doroschak, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Luis Ceze, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Jeff Nivala, Computer Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Natural Variation of Reproductive Output in Drosophila melanogaster
Presenter
  • Meghna Manoj, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentors
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Xiaqing Zhao, Pathology

Add to my favorites Characterization of the Sinorhizobium meliloti HslUV and ClpXP Protease Systems in Free-Living and Symbiotic States 
Presenter
  • Jacqueline Marie Mc Aleer, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Michael Kahn, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University
  • Aaron Ogden, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Pacific northwest national labs

Add to my favorites Eco-nomy GO: An Augmented Reality App that Focuses on Environmental Education
Presenters
  • Andrew Lutrell (Andrew) Mc Donald, Senior, Interactive Media Design (Bothell)
  • Reginald D. King, Sophomore, Pre-Major, UW Bothell
Mentor
  • Dargan Frierson, Atmospheric Sciences

Add to my favorites Magnetic Properties in Puget Lowland Lahars
Presenter
  • Thomas Kenji Melot, Senior, Environmental Sci: Geosciences (Tacoma)
Mentor
  • Peter Selkin, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

Add to my favorites Recognizing Base J from Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) Sequencing
Presenter
  • Ivan S. (Ivan) Montero, Junior, Computer Science, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Discrete Mathematics & Algorithms)
Mentors
  • Peter Myler, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics
  • Aakash Sur, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics

Add to my favorites Reorientation of Quantum Defects in Diamond at 1050 Celsius
Presenter
  • Christopher Jonathan (Chris) Moore, Junior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Kai-Mei Fu, Electrical Engineering, Physics

Add to my favorites Intra-Observer Concordance in Assessment of Patient Performance Status 
Presenter
  • Nicki Mostofi, Senior, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Elihu Estey, Medicine
  • Carole Shaw, Hematology, Fred Hutchinson

Add to my favorites The Role of Chaperones at the Misfolded Protein Dance
Presenter
  • Kaitlyn Ellyse (Katie) Mostoller, Senior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Richard Gardner, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Value of Mobile Health Technology to Improve Patient Care
Presenter
  • Jason Michael Muncy, Senior, Healthcare Leadership (Tacoma Campus)
Mentor
  • Sharon Laing, Nursing (Tacoma Campus), University of Washington Tacoma

Add to my favorites The Role of Hox A13 on Body Plan Formation Along The Anterior-Posterior Axis in Zebrafish 
Presenter
  • Yasin Najibi, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • David Kimelman, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites ConCodeIt: Enabling End-Users to Program Concurrent Robot Behaviors
Presenter
  • Sai Harshita Neti, Senior, Computer Science (Data Science)
Mentors
  • Maya Cakmak, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Wendy Xu, Computer Science & Engineering, Human Centered Robotics Lab

Add to my favorites Fragile Race Avoiding and Overall Racism In White Undergraduates
Presenters
  • Priscilla C. Nguyen, Sophomore, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Grace Bahn, Junior, Psychology
  • Oluwapelumi Emmanuella (Pelumi) Ajibade, Senior, Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Jonathan Kanter, Psychology

Add to my favorites Dual HIV Prevention and Contraceptive Intrauterine Device
Presenter
  • Hienschi V. Nguyen, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Kim A. Woodrow, Bioengineering
  • Jamie Hernandez, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Operationalization of Resilience for Family Care Partners of People Who Are Living with Dementia
Presenter
  • Avery O'Hara, Fifth Year, Nursing Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Tatiana Sadak, Nursing

Add to my favorites AGL42 in Lateral Root Specification 
Presenter
  • Erika Amy Oki, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology

Add to my favorites Study of Nitrogen-Vacancy Formation in Diamond through High Temperature Annealing
Presenter
  • April Marie Opsvig, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentor
  • Kai-Mei Fu, Electrical Engineering, Physics

Add to my favorites Matrix Factorization on Total Similarity Scores for Peptide Binding
Presenter
  • Chris Laing Pecunies, Senior, Mat Sci & Engr: Nanosci & Moleculr Engr
Mentor
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Oral Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Regulation of Insulin Transport versus Receptor Endocytosis at the Blood-Brain Barrier
Presenter
  • Sarah Pemberton, Junior, Extended Pre-Major UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Elizabeth Rhea, Medicine

Add to my favorites Deficiency of the Sheddase ADAM17 Alleviates Pro-Inflammatory Effects of HDL by Preventing Cholesterol Depletion in Macrophages
Presenter
  • Minh Tam Pham, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Karin Bornfeldt, Medicine, Pathology
  • Vishal Kothari, Medicine

Add to my favorites Project 8's Long-term Monitoring of the Magnetic Field  
Presenter
  • Elliot Russell (Elliot) Phillips, Junior, Physics: Biophysics
Mentor
  • Walter Pettus, Physics

Add to my favorites Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Gene Inactivation in Xenopus tropicalis during Regeneration
Presenter
  • Ellie Pickering, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Andrea Wills, Biochemistry
  • Hannah Arbach, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Glutamylation and the Role of Tubulin Tyrosine Ligase-like (TTLL) Enzymes in Caenorhabditis elegans
Presenter
  • Adrian Pun, Senior, Molecular Biosciences, Bellevue Coll
Mentor
  • Jacqueline Miller, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Bellevue College

Add to my favorites Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Occurrence Patterns in Washington State
Presenter
  • Kristina Randrup, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Sarah Bassing, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Beth Gardner, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Role of STING in Latent and Lytic KSHV Infection of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells
Presenter
  • Alice Ponsawarn Ranjan, Senior, Microbiology, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology
  • Danny Vogt, Microbiology

Add to my favorites The Buffering Effect of Social Support on Internalizing Symptoms in Transgender Youth
Presenter
  • Sophia Robinson, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Kristina Olson, Psychology
  • Lily Durwood, Psychology

Add to my favorites Determining the Age of the Irrawaddy River (Myanmar) Using Zircon Geochronology and Petrographic Analysis of River Sands
Presenter
  • Aida Amirah Rusman, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Prevention of Cellular Senescence through Late-Age Mitochondrial Dysfunction Intervention
Presenter
  • Tara Asal Saleh, Freshman, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Mariya Sweetwyne, Pathology
  • Bicong Wu, Pathology
  • Peter Rabinovitch, Pathology

Add to my favorites Investigating Pairwise Bonding Between JAZ and MYC Isoforms
Presenters
  • Sairandri Sathyanarayanan, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Xavaar Chayton Quaranto, Junior, History: Empire and Colonialism, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Calista Lawver, Freshman, Pre-Sciences
  • Lauren Peterson, Sophomore, Engineering Undeclared
  • Draven Gage Somers Kunnap, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Orlando de Lange, Electrical Engineering
  • Eric Klavins, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Automating Quantitative PCR for Gene Expression Analysis
Presenters
  • Theodore Stockton Schrimshire, Sophomore, Engineering Undeclared NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Hieu Ngoc Do, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Vaidehi Chudgar, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Gloria Kim, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Orlando de Lange, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Describing Changes in Intermuscular Fat in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy
Presenter
  • Jordan Paul Schuelzke, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Kerryn Reding, Nursing

Add to my favorites Assessment of Nerve Sensitivity Associated with Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Surgery
Presenters
  • Madison Lee Selby, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences (Biology)
  • Chikodinaka K. (Chikodi) Ezeokeke, Recent Graduate, Biology (Physiology) NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery
  • Michael Bobola, Neurological Surgery

Add to my favorites Investigating Student Perceptions of Demonstrations in Large Undergraduate Chemistry Courses
Presenters
  • Roma Seo, Senior, Biochemistry
  • William Y. Mun, Senior, Chemistry
  • Beth Ann Cassidy, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Tam'ra-Kay Francis, Chemistry

Add to my favorites The Enigma of the Sentinels of Washington State: When Did the Olympic Mountains First Appear?
Presenter
  • Samuel Joseph Shekut, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentor
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites The Power of Art : A Mental Health Therapy
Presenter
  • Monica Shoemaker, Junior, Behavioral Health, Lake Wash Tech Coll
Mentors
  • Rex Rempel, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sharon Raz, Sociology

Add to my favorites Determination of Human Telomere Length by Quantitative RT-PCR
Presenters
  • Nicholas Patton (Nick) Shugart, Senior, Microbiology
  • April Lenae Suarez, Senior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Ernie Tolentino, Nursing
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Silicion Isolation
Presenter
  • Stephanie Tram Sin, Junior, Physics: Applied Physics
Mentors
  • Mark Brunson, Washington Nanofabrication Facility
  • Karl F. Bohringer, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Engineering Iron-oxide Nanoparticle-Based T1 Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Presenter
  • Manjot Singh, Senior, Bioen: Nanoscience & Molecular Engr, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Mike Jeon, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Human Rights and Forensic Anthropology in Latin America
Presenters
  • Roshni Sinha, Senior, International Studies UW Honors Program
  • Min Su Kim, Junior, Pre-Major Mary Gates Scholar
  • Elena Orlando
Mentor
  • José Antonio Lucero, International Studies

Add to my favorites Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation
Presenter
  • Chase Kenneth Smith, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentor
  • Mary Hebert, Pharmacy

Add to my favorites Genetic Population Differentiation at a Gamete Recognition Gene in Pacific Cod
Presenter
  • Rory Jerome Spurr, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Mentor
  • Lorenz Hauser, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Add to my favorites The Need to Belong as a Moderator of the Association between Anxiety and Social Comparisons on Facebook
Presenter
  • Kieran Steers, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentor
  • Mai-Ly Steers, Psychology, University of Houston

Add to my favorites Sonar Mapping of Higgins Eye Pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii) Habitat
Presenter
  • Erin Elizabeth Strand, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • L. Monika Moskal, College of the Environment

Add to my favorites Understanding the Role of Widespread Polymorphic Toxins in Bacterial Infection by Temperate Phages
Presenter
  • Elizabeth Daiyun Su, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Joseph Mougous, Microbiology
  • See-Yeun Ting, Microbiology

Add to my favorites Assessing DNA Damage by Single-Cell Gel Electrophoresis (Comet Assay)
Presenters
  • April Lenae Suarez, Senior, Microbiology
  • Nicholas Patton (Nick) Shugart, Senior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Ernie Tolentino, Nursing
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Modeling of von Willebrand Disease with Human Stem Cells
Presenter
  • Liam T. Sullivan, Junior, Extended Pre-Major UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Hongxia Fu, Hematology, Medicine

Add to my favorites Sterile Skin Injury Leads to Neutrophil-Assosciated Kidney Inflammation
Presenter
  • Joyce Chu I Tai, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Keith Elkon, Medicine
  • Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner, Comparative Medicine

Add to my favorites Determining the Extensive Factors Between Skill and Overconfidence in General Chemistry at the University of Washington
Presenters
  • Alice Tan, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Rayne Tineal Anderson, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering
Mentors
  • Michael Mack, Chemistry
  • Colleen Craig, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Using Engineered Macrophages to Promote Biomaterial Vascularization 
Presenter
  • Chaoyang Tang, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Marta Scatena, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites How Natural Remedies Act As Food: Examining Edible and Medicinal Plants from Grand Ronde, Oregon
Presenter
  • Chonnipa (Amp) Thanarugchok, Senior, Anthropology
Mentors
  • Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology
  • Ian Kretzler, Anthropology
  • Joyce Lecompte-Mastenbrook, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Bioinformatic Analysis of Autophagy Proteins in the Hematopoietic Hierarchy
Presenter
  • Neele Thom, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Massiel Stolla, Hematology
  • Sergei Doulatov, Genome Sciences, Medicine

Add to my favorites Asteroid Light Curves from the Zwicky Transient Factory
Presenter
  • Mercedes Sierra (Mercedes) Thompson, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics
Mentors
  • Zeljko Ivezic, Astronomy
  • Lynne Jones, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Understanding Risk Taking: The Role of Anhedonia as a Transdiagnostic Predictor
Presenter
  • Isabelle Amina Tully, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Lori Zoellner, Psychology
  • Rosemary Walker, Psychology

Add to my favorites Silicon-Oxide Hard Mask Selectivity for Through Wafer Etch Application
Presenters
  • Ryan Van Der Hoeven, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering UW Honors Program
  • Robert Henri Biegaj, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics
  • Camila Hashimoto (Camila) Kang, Sophomore, Engineering Undeclared
Mentors
  • Mark Morgan, Molecular Engineering and Science, Washington Nanofabrication Facility
  • Karl F. Bohringer, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Developing Automated High-Throughput Plant Workflows to Investigate Jasmonic Acid Pathway Interactions
Presenters
  • Chelsea Wan, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Luana Paleologu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Microbiology UW Honors Program
  • Lina Park, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences UW Honors Program
  • Kendra L. Almeida, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Andrew Olander, Sophomore, Biochemistry
  • Mufaddal N, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Allison C. (Allie) Wells, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Vanessa Sze Kei Man, Senior, Biochemistry
  • Aria Rose Tornabene, Junior, Biochemistry NASA Space Grant Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Orlando de Lange, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites The Effect of School Programs on the School Prison Pipeline
Presenter
  • Jocelyn Faye Wang, Senior, Economics, Political Science
Mentor
  • Michael Mulcahy, Sociology, Central Washington University

Add to my favorites Digital Healthcare Technologies Can Improve Access to Care for Ethnically Diverse and Underserved Communities
Presenter
  • Peter Lewis Wangigi, Junior, Healthcare Leadership (Tacoma Campus)
Mentor
  • Sharon Laing, Nursing (Tacoma Campus), University of Washington Tacoma

Add to my favorites Yemen: Disastrous Civil War and U.S. Complicity
Presenter
  • Kenleigh Paige Weber, Senior, Media & Communication Studies (Bothell)
Mentor
  • Ron Krabill, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), University of Washington Bothell

Add to my favorites Control of Lateral Root Development: Insight from Defects of Auxin Response Factor (ARF) Mutants
Presenter
  • Meghan Wedeking, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology

Add to my favorites Life Cycle Analysis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Presenter
  • Edward Wei, Senior, Business Administration (Finance), Mat Sci & Engr: Nanosci & Moleculr Engr
Mentor
  • Kannan Krishnan, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Atlas of Zebrafish Craniofacial Skeleton and Image-Based Shape Analysis
Presenter
  • Samara Erin Williams, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Ronald Kwon, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, UW School of Medicine/Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Add to my favorites Peripheral Blood Stability in Analyzing T-Cell Subpopulations through Flow Cytometry
Presenter
  • Pearl Woo, Senior, Medical Laboratory Science
Mentors
  • Yasmin Marikar-Coplin, Pathology, Seattle Children's Hospital
  • Min Xu, Laboratory Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital
  • Claire van der Sluis, Flow Cytometry, Seattle Children's Hospital

Add to my favorites Introducing the Feminist Agenda to the Science World
Presenter
  • Piper Jomy Wright, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Iris Viveros, Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

Add to my favorites Investigating the Origins of the First Asian Grasslands
Presenter
  • Stokke Xu, Senior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology, Drama: Design UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Caroline Stromberg, Biology

Add to my favorites Stronger Together: An Efficient, Generalizable Approach to Design Biosensors for Small Molecules
Presenters
  • Jay Yung, Junior, Pre-Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Angel Tan (Angel) Wong, Senior, Bioengineering, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Chemay R. Shola, Junior, Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Aerilynn Nha Chi Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Renaldo Sutanto, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry
  • William Wei Wah (William) Kwok, Senior, Informatics Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Sairandri Sathyanarayanan, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Joshua C. Ip, Senior, Bioengineering
  • Charlie Fisher, Senior, Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Vera Onyekachi Okolo, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Kateka Seth, Senior, Informatics: Data Science, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Hannah Kim (Hannah) Redden, Senior, Biochemistry, Bioengineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry
  • Herbert Sauro, Bioengineering
  • Shoukai Kang, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites The Association Between Intermuscular Fat, Hypertension and Insulin Resistance in Cancer Patients
Presenters
  • Mars Wudma Zerfu, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Jordan Paul Schuelzke, Senior, Nursing
Mentor
  • Kerryn Reding, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Manipulation of the mPFC and Effects on Deliberation in Rodents
Presenter
  • Sherry Xi Zhang, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Kevan Kidder, Psychology, UW Psychology department
  • Sheri Mizumori, Psychology

Add to my favorites Connecting the Effects of Rapamycin on Lifespan and Development in Drosophila melanogaster
Presenters
  • Shufan Zhang, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Jjay Sukomol, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences
  • Kenneth Daniel (Kenneth) Han, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Vanessa L. Paus, Sophomore, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Mitchell Lee, Pathology
  • Ben Harrison, Pathology
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Add to my favorites The Need for Social Supports in Caregivers with Cancer Histories
Presenters
  • Yi Le (Ino) Zhang, Senior, Psychology
  • Echo (Qianying) Peng, Senior, Psychology
  • Ruitao Zhang, Senior, Psychology, English (Creative Writing)
  • Nuan Crystal (wen) Wen, Senior, Accounting, Psychology
Mentors
  • Peter Vitaliano, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Jin You, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Washington University