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Oral Presentation 1

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Add to my favorites Wnt and mTOR Pathway Upregulation Promotes Cardiaomyocyte Proliferation during Zebrafish Heart Regeneration
Presenter
  • Gargi Sivaram, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
  • Shiri Levy, Biochemistry
  • Elisa Clark,

Session O-1G: Molecular Regulation of Development and Regeneration
  • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Epigenetic Regulation of Injury Induced Quiescence in Drosophila Germline Stem Cells
    Presenters
    • Shuozhi (Aaron) Liu, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Physiology) UW Honors Program
    • Stuart D. (Stuart) Harper, Senior, Neuroscience
    • Jimmy Dang, Sophomore, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry

    Session O-1G: Molecular Regulation of Development and Regeneration
  • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Critical Role for Nutrition in Xenopus tropicalis Tail Regeneration
    Presenter
    • Madison Williams, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentors
    • Andrea Wills, Biochemistry
    • Anneke Kakebeen, Biochemistry

    Session O-1G: Molecular Regulation of Development and Regeneration
  • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Epigenetic Computational Protein, EED binder, Modulates PRC2 Requirements in Zebrafish Embryos and Fin Regeneration
    Presenter
    • Ginger Kwak, Senior, Neuroscience, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
    • Shiri Levy, Biochemistry

    Session O-1G: Molecular Regulation of Development and Regeneration
  • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Poster Presentation 1

    9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

    Add to my favorites Investigating the Relationship Between Hif1α and Wnt During Xenopus tropicalis Tail Regeneration
    Presenter
    • Preston Schattinger, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Andrea Wills, Biochemistry
    • Jeet Patel, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology

    Session T-1B: Biochemistry, Chemistry, & Biophysics
  • 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

  • Add to my favorites Analyses of Hinge-Ear Domains in the AP-3 Coat Complex
    Presenter
    • Malia Clark, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Alexey Merz, Biochemistry, Physiology & Biophysics
    • Rachael Plemel, Biochemistry

    Session T-1B: Biochemistry, Chemistry, & Biophysics
  • 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

  • Add to my favorites  Immunosense: Detecting Small Molecules Using a Chemically-Induced Dimerization System
    Presenters
    • Natalie Murren, Junior, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    • Hannah F. (Hannah) Cheung, Senior, Computer Science Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    • Chi Truong, Senior, Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, UW Honors Program
    • Malia Clark, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry

    Session T-1B: Biochemistry, Chemistry, & Biophysics
  • 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

  • Add to my favorites Recovering the Solubility of a Self-Assembling Protein Cage for use towards Vaccine Design
    Presenter
    • Gargi Kher, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Neil King, Biochemistry
    • Karla-Luise Herpoldt, Biochemistry

    Session T-1B: Biochemistry, Chemistry, & Biophysics
  • 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

  • Add to my favorites Optimizing Expression, Cleavage, and Assembly of Protein Platforms for mRNA vaccines
    Presenter
    • Chelsea Shu, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Neil King, Biochemistry
    • John Wang, Biochemistry, Institute for Protein Design

    Session T-1B: Biochemistry, Chemistry, & Biophysics
  • 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM

  • Oral Presentation 2

    1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Insights into the N-Terminal Region Binding Interactions of the Small Heat Shock Protein, HSPB5
    Presenter
    • Miriam Al-Saedy, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
    Mentors
    • Rachel Klevit, Biochemistry
    • Maria Janowska, Biochemistry

    Session O-2E: Protein Biochemistry
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Modeling Buried Unsatisfied Polar Atoms in the Citizen-Science Game Foldit
    Presenter
    • Neil Gupta, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    Mentor
    • Brian Koepnick, Biochemistry

    Session O-2E: Protein Biochemistry
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Conserved Patterns and Interactions in the Unfolding Transition State Across SH3 Domain Structural Analogs
    Presenter
    • Cullen Demakis, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Valerie Daggett, Biochemistry
    • Matthew Childers, Bioengineering

    Session O-2E: Protein Biochemistry
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Oral Presentation 3

    2:45 PM to 4:15 PM

    Add to my favorites Design of a Protein Nanoparticle-Based Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine
    Presenter
    • Rose Fields, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Neil King, Biochemistry
    • Karla-Luise Herpoldt, Biochemistry

    Session O-3G: Cancer, Virus, Vaccine, and Gene Targeting
  • 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM

  • Poster Presentation 3

    10:55 AM to 11:40 AM

    Add to my favorites Artificially Oligomerizing the Kinetochore Ndc80 Complex using Designed Proteins
    Presenter
    • Peter Ch'en, Senior, Microbiology
    Mentors
    • Luke Helgeson, Biochemistry
    • Trisha Davis, Biochemistry

    Session T-3C: Biochemistry & Chemistry
  • 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM

    Add to my favorites Flanking Fluorescent Proteins with Chemically Induced Dimerization Systems to Design Drug Biosensors
    Presenter
    • Dennis Toepker, Senior, Biochemistry Levinson Emerging Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry
    • Yuxin Pan, Biochemistry

    Session T-3C: Biochemistry & Chemistry
  • 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM

  • Add to my favorites Chemically Induced Dimerization System in Designing The Novel Cannabidiol Biosensor
    Presenters
    • Chi Truong, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    • Emi Nakashima, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Liangcai Gu, Biochemistry
    • Xiao Zhang, Biochemistry

    Session T-3C: Biochemistry & Chemistry
  • 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM

  • Add to my favorites A Hierarchical Approach to Designing Three-Dimensional, Symmetric Protein Assemblies
    Presenter
    • Radhika R. Dalal, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentors
    • David Baker, Biochemistry
    • Una Nattermann, Biochemistry

    Session T-3C: Biochemistry & Chemistry
  • 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM

  • Poster Presentation 4

    11:45 AM to 12:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Bivalent genes TBX18 and p16 maintain epigenetic memory after using Computationally Designed Novel Inhibitor Protein EEDbinder-dCas9
    Presenter
    • Diego Ic Mex, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry
    • Shiri Levy, Biochemistry

    Session T-4C: Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Poster Presentation 6

    1:50 PM to 2:35 PM

    Add to my favorites Aspartate as a Metabolic Constraint in Cancer Cell Proliferation
    Presenter
    • Ian A (Ian) Engstrom, Senior, Biochemistry Levinson Emerging Scholar
    Mentor
    • Lucas Sullivan, Biochemistry, UW/Fred Hutch

    Session T-6C: Biomedical
  • 1:50 PM to 2:35 PM

  • Add to my favorites Understanding Mitochondrial Respiration Defects in SDH Impaired Neuroendocrine Tumors
    Presenter
    • Sairandri Sathyanarayanan, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentors
    • Lucas Sullivan, Biochemistry, UW/Fred Hutch
    • Madeleine Hart, , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Session T-6C: Biomedical
  • 1:50 PM to 2:35 PM

  • Add to my favorites Screening for Genes Involved in Cancer Cell Dissemination by Overexpressing Rasv12 Using the Model Organism Drosophila Melanogaster
    Presenters
    • Ho (Daniel) Kim, Sophomore, Microbiology
    • Vikram Gill, Junior, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
    • Ken Ning, Senior, Biochemistry
    • Heejin Han, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
    Mentor
    • Young Kwon, Biochemistry

    Session T-6H: Chemistry, Environmental Science
  • 1:50 PM to 2:35 PM