2023 Postdoctoral Research Symposium: Program

Does space chemistry provide the building blocks of life?

Melisse Bonfand, PhD

Bodies in Flight: Afro-Colombian Women Imagining Lives Beyond the Sovereign Nation-State

Amber M. Henry, PhD

From gene, through cell, to color: The making of colorful fish

Pietro de Mello, PhD

Building an artificial model of the human lymph node

Tochukwu Ozulumba, PhD

Towards optimizing cortex-wide neural coordination in Parkinson's disease

Siva Venkadesh, PhD

Developing a Sex-Specific Treatment Recommendation for Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

Kelsey Watts, PhD

What does environmental justice look like for "climate change deniers"?

Jonna Yarrington, PhD

Lightning Talk: Using Geometric Similarity Metrics to Rank Auto-Delineation Models with Respect to Manual-Delineation

Jason Czak, PhD

How to miniaturize the Schrodinger's cat

Leandre Brunel, PhD

Deep learning-based Visual Sensing within an Adaptive Digital Twin Framework from Limited Data Using Transfer Learning

Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, PhD

Applications of color tracking using a smartphone to measure strain and displacement

Timothy M. Harrell, PhD

Generation of entanglement between light particles for quantum computing

Paul Renault, PhD

Adapting Nitroreductase Cell Ablation Assay to Drosophila

Gary Teeters, PhD

Lightning Talk: The role of coastal ecosystems in climate change mitigation

Carolyn Ewers Lewis, PhD

Biogas-to-Renewable Natural Gas Via Catalysis

Weijie Zhang, PhD

Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios: Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?

Vaska Atta-Darkua, PhD

Global declines in lake water storage

Fangfang Yao, PhD

Identifying the sources of air pollution inequalities in US cities using satellites

Xuehui Guo, PhD

Machine Learning Framework to Explain Complex Geospatial Simulations: A Climate Change Case Study

Tanvir Ferdousi, PhD

Lightning Talk: How red pigments are produced in fish

Delai Huang, PhD

AgRP Neurotrophin Signaling: Navigating Adaptations to Energy Excess and Scarcity

Yipkin Calhan, PhD

The Role of Cep55 in the Developing Brain

Hayley Dingsdale, PhD

Neuronal Morphology Segmentation using Swin Transformer

Mohammad Shafkat Islam, PhD

Development of In Vivo two-photon FLIM imaging system to investigate metabolism in Live Animals

Vijay Sagar, PhD

Role of FOXO in Drosophila neuroblast proliferation

Bharath Sunchu, PhD

Lightning Talk: Cryo-EM structure of Agrobacterium phage Milano

Ravi Raghavbhai Sonani, PhD

Not so simple: understanding the structure of cell membrane mimics

Christopher Baryiames, PhD

Three Gene Expression States during Chronic Viral Heart Infection

Cameron Griffiths, PhD

Model-driven characterization of functional diversity of clinically isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains with broad range of morphologies

Mohammad Islam, PhD

ACE-2-like enzymatic activity is associated with immunoglobulin in COVID-19 patients

Yufeng Song, PhD

Are all underimmunized clusters equally critical?

Sifat Moon, PhD

Trained Ensemble Models for Epidemic Forecasting

Gursharn Kaur, PhD

Lightning Talk: Gender Bias in Clinical Trial Enrollment: Female Authorship Matters

Shanen Mulles, PhD

The Sodomy Consultant of Paris: Education, Morality, and Sexuality in the Early Modern City, 1688 - 1737

Benjamin Bernard, PhD

Guerrilla Policy Makers: Inclusivity and Post-Conflict Educational System Planning in Newly-Independent Zimbabwe (1980-Present)

Naseemah Mohamed, PhD

Explicit and Implicit Verbal Support: A Case Study of the Integration of STEM+CS in Elementary Science Projects

Sarah Lilly, PhD

An Elementary Teacher's Learning and Experience of Integrating Scratch Programming into Instruction: A Phenomenological Single-Case Study

Ruohan Liu, PhD

From Mine to Ours: Methodological Reflections on a Community-Based Action Research Study

Jessica Forrester, PhD

Lightning Talk: Evaluation of Muscle Performance in Vibrational Environments with a Simulated Helicopter Flight

Ana Lorente, PhD

Direct electrodeposition of graphene on the copper substrate through aqueous media

Ali Akbarisehat, PhD

Harnessing the interfacial thermal conductance between graphene and substrate by mechanical loadings

Qingchang Liu, PhD

Co-electrocatalytic CO2 reduction involving a molecular chromium complex mediated by a dibenzophosphole oxide

Connor Koellner, PhD

Co-transport of methanol and formate in crosslinked phenyl acrylate-based ion exchange membranes: Effect of steric hindrance

Luca Kim, PhD

Loss of Membrane Asymmetry Facilitates Membrane Vesiculation Through Decreasing Membrane Stiffness

Hong-Yin Wang, PhD

Data-driven Dynamical Systems and Applications

Ali Tavasoli, PhD

Lightning Talk: Targeting ERG and DNA binding in ERG-TMPRSS2 fusion proteins in Prostate Cancer

Ashish Kabra, PhD

Non-muscle myosin II paralogs in intestinal homeostasis and pathogenesis

Guyzuin Hu, PhD

A novel immunotherapy to treat pediatric solid cancers

Amanda Lulu, PhD

Acute myeloid leukemia stratifies as two clinically relevant sphingolipidomic subtypes

Bishal Paudel, PhD

Intra-tumor heterogeneity of non-coding transcripts in luminal breast cancer using 10-cell RNA-seq

Roza Przanowska, PhD

ANKLE1 cleaves mitochondrial DNA and contributes to breast cancer risk by promoting apoptosis resistance and metabolic dysregulation

Piotr Przanowski, PhD

Perturbations of cellular interaction networks in the melanoma tumor microenvironment following immune checkpoint blockade

Anne Talkington, PhD

Lightning Talk: Tuning condensates: a new approach to treat diseases

Aleksandra Ulman, PhD

Unwinding the role of DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX39B in RNA alternative splicing

Shefali Banerjee, PhD

A Targeted Nanofiber Reduces Atherosclerotic Plaque Size

Vina Chhaya, PhD

Biomimetic materials for gynecological tissue engineering

Bev Miller, PhD

Wearable microneedle system for sampling and sensing of cortisol from interstitial fluids

Arjun Mohan, PhD

Reshaping Model Predictive Control Penalties for an Automated Insulin Delivery System in Type 1 Diabetes

Marcela Moscoso-Vasquez, PhD

Targeting joint iron and polyamine transporters as a new antibiotic strategy

Mohammad Sharifian, PhD