The UW Summer STEM Undergraduate Research Poster Session highlights the work of our partner Summer STEM programs and other summer programs/REUs across campus.
Event Details
August 14, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
UW Campus, Seattle – Mary Gates Hall Commons
Presenter Schedule:
9:00 am to 10:30 am – Poster Session 1 (Last names A – K)
10:30 am to 12:00 pm – Poster Session 2 (Last names L – Z)
Presenter and Program Listing
Presentations are split between 2 sessions. Presenter information can be found below, including easel number, presenter name, project title, and mentors.
2024 Presenters
Session 1
Session 1
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 1 |
Mariana Garcia |
Impact of Niclosamide on Antibiotic Induced Cell Death and Persistance in Bacteria |
David Sherman, Laarni Aguila |
| 2 |
Jazlen Garza |
Activation of dopamine neuron subpopulations by neurotensin inputs |
Marta Soden |
| 3 |
Evelyn Herrera |
The Role of Endocytosis in Adenovirus-Mediated Antagonism of Inflammasome Signaling |
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| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 4 |
Angela Andres Zuniga |
Intercalation of compounds into porous perovskite |
Doug Reed, Connor Dalton |
| 5 |
Desiree Joy Dykstra |
Grain Boundary Labeling Methods to Enable Machine Learning of Metal and Battery Microstructures |
Corie Cobb, Zack Leandowski |
| 6 |
Biniyam Gebreyohannes |
Investigating the Influence of Weather Patterns on Minigrid
Electricity Payment Behaviors: Insights from Katiirwe Solar Minigrid in
Western Uganda |
June Lukuyu, Miquilina Anagbah |
| 7 |
Audrey Harveaux |
Catalytic Strategies for Efficient Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics |
Julie Rorrer, Maddie Soltani |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 8 |
Yuvraj Belani |
De Novo Macrocycle Design against NSP1 of SARS-CoV-2 |
Stephen Rettie |
| 9 |
Jie Chen |
De Novo Design of an Azide-Alkyne Cyclase |
Declan Evans |
| 10 |
Ellliot Cole |
Design of conformationally changing hinge proteins for peptide cage and release |
Cullen Demakis |
| 11 |
Rose Duong |
Design of hinge protein binders to biologically relevant peptides |
Cullen Demakis |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 12 |
Alejandra Anderson |
Testing Different Sterile Techniques for the Germination of Bald Cypress Seeds |
Sharon Doty, Sunshine Van Bael, Robert Tournay |
| 13 |
Nathan Bekele & Mekias Kebede |
Enhancing QIceRadar’s data accessibility and usability |
Laura Lindzey, T.J. Fudge |
| 14 |
Jaden Benitez |
Exploring Downstream Signaling Components of a Receptor to Detect Herbivory |
Adam Steinbrenner, Di Wu |
| 15 |
Nolan Clayton |
Elucidating the Gut Microbial Production Pathway of Delta-Valerobetaine and Its Impact on Fatty Liver Disease |
Lauren Rajakovich |
| 16 |
Nyomi Douglas |
Effect of Ru Structures on Selectivity for Catalytic Degradation of Model Polyethylene |
Chris Torres, Julie Rorrer |
| 17 |
Colby Elvrum |
Analyzing Oysters Response to Environmental Stressors Using a Resazurin Assay |
Steven Roberts |
| 18 |
Guadalupe Guadarrama |
Spatial Cognition of Sunbirds During Foraging |
David Cuban, Alejandro-Rico-Guevara |
| 19 |
Ana Luisa Gutierrez |
Analyzing Body Shape Allometry in Rabbits and Hares |
Chris Law |
| 20 |
Joseph Gutierrez |
Photothermal Properties of Photonic Crystal Lattices |
David Masiello |
| 21 |
Ermias Habte |
Studying the Performance of Polymer Semiconductors in Neuromorphic Devices |
David Ginger |
| 22 |
Sofia Kaiaua |
Investigating annual and seasonal diet preferences of southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea: a genetic metabarcoding approach |
Amy Van Cise |
| 23 |
Mekias Kebede |
Mapping Unconformities in East Antarctica’s Stratigraphic Record using Ice Penetrating Radar |
TJ Fudge, Laura Linzey |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 24 |
Damien Bradley |
Characterization of Oxidation Timescale of WTe2 in an Argon-Filled Glovebox |
Matthew Yankowitz, Toby Chu |
| 25 |
Cesar Chavez |
Defect characterization of tungsten diselenide using photoluminescence and scanning transmission electron microscopy |
Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Essance Ray |
| 26 |
Jamie Chin |
Investigating the Effects of Different Parameters on the Morphology and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanocrystals |
Brandi Cossairt, Emily Miura-Stempel |
| 27 |
Shianne Freeman |
Optimization of Europium Based Metal Organic Framework Synthesis for Ensemble Quantum Sensing |
Dianne Xiao, Douglas Baumgardner |
| 28 |
James Gallegos |
Impact of mechanical and chemical-mechanical polishing on the PL properties of ZnO substrate |
Kai-Me Fu, Xingyi Wang |
| 29 |
Zach Harris |
Strain Effects on Fe3GaTe2 Anomalous Hall Resistivity |
Jiun-Haw Chu, Chaowei Hu |
| 30 |
Isabel Hunt |
Structural Analysis of Alloys of Chromium Thiophosphate with Indium and Aluminum |
Daniel Gamelin, Jacob Baillie |
| 31 |
Lore Krieg |
Investigating Configurations of Kagome Lattice and Breathing Kagome Lattice in Monolayer and Bilayer Nb3Cl8 |
Ting Cao, Tharindu Fernando |
| 32 |
Jirui Yang |
Indium-phosphide magic sized clusters |
Xiaosong Li, Ryan Beck |
| 33 |
Shayla Kaheaku |
Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Bayesian Optimization using Autonomous Experimentation |
Lilo Pozzo, Brenden Pelkie |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 34 |
Stella Anastasakis |
High-Efficiency Genome Engineering Using CRISPR Transposases |
James Carothers, Ryan Cardiff |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 35 |
Sydney Arnzen |
Analysis of OTA Renal Clearance by Transport Assay |
Ed Kelly |
| 36 |
Vincent Chan |
Hybrid nano-prodrug for distal gut delivery of short chain fatty acid |
Shijie Cao |
| 37 |
Elias Farhan |
Determining if drug-induced inhibition of CYP2J2 is responsible for QT prolongation |
Rheem Totah |
| 38 |
Keegan Gales |
Using digoxin, a cardiac glycoside, as a probe substrate of P-glycoprotein activity among transgender men |
Lauren Cirrincione |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 39 |
Leo Benevedes |
Expanding the Composition Space of Metal-Halide Double Perovskite Nanocrystals |
Daniel Gamelin, Faris Horani |
| 40 |
Ermias Erbte |
Studying the Performance of Polymer Semiconductors in Neuromorphic Devices |
David Ginger, Edison Cummings, Rajiv Giridharagopal |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 41 |
Momo Kihara |
Spatial Analyses of Synesthetic Color Distribution Associated with a Japanese Card Game: A Comparative Study of Innate and Acquired Synesthetes |
Daisuke Hamada, Noriko Nagata , Masayuki Itoh |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 42 |
Isaiah Garcia & Matthew Sylvester |
The impact of V44M variant on the calcium-binding affinity of human cardiac troponin C and its association with thin filament |
Wendy Thomas, PhD, An-Yue Tu, PhD, Jude Tunyi, 4th Year MD/PhD student |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 43 |
Noura Alghusson |
Impact of Rain on Wind-Generated Surface Waves |
Morteza Derakhti , Chris Chickadel |
| 44 |
Jood Almokharrak |
Exploring Evidence for Turbulent Mixing Variability During ENSO |
Caitlin Whalen |
| 45 |
Aisling Bailey |
Echos from the deep |
Barry Ma |
| 46 |
Luis Blas |
Investigating the Interaction Between Sea Ice and Waves Using microSWIFT Technology in the Bering Sea |
Jim Thompson |
| 47 |
Jocelyne Booth |
East Antarctic Basal Ice Analysis Using Ice-Penetrating Radar |
Laura Lindzey |
| 48 |
Chloe Buford |
Hidden Hiccups: Pressure Gauge Anomalies |
Dana Manalang , William Wilcox |
| 49 |
Elena Calderon-Aceituno |
Detecting Tectonic Shifts from Seafloor Pressure |
David Schmidt |
| 50 |
Usman Choudhary |
Under Pressure: Tracking Volcanic Movements at Axial Seamount |
William Wilcox , Maleen Wijeratna |
| 51 |
Jose Cornejo |
Analyzing the Influence of Chemosynthetic and Photosynthetic Productivity on Benthic Megafauna Abundance at Southern Hydrate Ridge |
Deborah Kelley, Katie Bigham |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 52 |
Yirui Chen |
Selection Scan Identifies Putative Pseudomonas aeruginosa Adaptations to Post-Treatment Lung Environment |
Alison Feder, Tongqiu Jia |
Session 2
Session 2
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 1 |
Julia Milovich |
Characterization of KLF9 domains linked to viral suprression |
Tristan Jordan |
| 2 |
Maria Sanchez |
A novel Mechanism of Action for JWT-101 |
Benjamin Land, Mickey Ruiz |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 3 |
Deseree Lai |
Advancing Accessibility in Next-Generation Solar Cells: Open-Air Synthesis of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) by Undergraduates for Organic Photovoltaics in Under-Resourced Learning Environments |
James Patterson, Liam Wrigley, Cody Schlenker, and Christine Luscombe |
| 4 |
Maria Shvets |
Optimizing RF Heating for Battery Manufacturing Applications |
Aniruddh Vashisth, Mahsa Shabani |
| 5 |
Zoe Unica Solaris |
|
Xiaodong Xu, Dhan Bautista |
| 6 |
Moses Sullivan |
Engineering Design of a Portable Environment Control Chamber |
Devin MacKenzie, Ethan Schwartz |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 7 |
Thong Nguyen |
Understanding Perovskite Thin Film Heterogeneity using Computer Vision |
Shijing Sun, Shuan Cheng |
| 8 |
Lillian Nguyen |
Climate Injustice: Race and Income Disparities in Access to Indoor Comfort |
Ahana Mukherjee, Kwame Donkor, Miquilina Anagbah |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 9 |
Gregory Mikol |
Testing Pseudogene Expression in Human Cells |
Andrew Stergachis, Ben Mallory |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 10 |
Aaliyah Villa, Jari Tavira, & Virginia Yelechchin |
Involving Communities in Overcoming Barriers to Wildfire Smoke Protection |
Corbin Schuster, Javier Silva, Aileen Andrade-Torres |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 11 |
Grace Li |
Small Molecule Dataset Expansion for RoseTTAFold All-Atom |
Davi Nakajima An |
| 12 |
Octavius Louis |
|
Sebastian Ols |
| 13 |
Nadya Lumy |
Generating high-quality protein-small molecule complexes for RoseTTAFold All-Atom training |
Davi Nakajima An |
| 14 |
Summer Solis |
De novo design of disulfide stapled peptides against PD1 |
Gizem Gokce |
| 15 |
Hannah Stewart |
Design of conformationally switching Y/W hinge proteins to bind α-helical peptides |
Kathryn Shelley |
| 16 |
Arisa Uchida |
Testing a new pipeline to generate binders toward polar epitopes |
Sebastian Ols |
| 17 |
Max Witwer |
High-Throughput Prediction of Antibody-Antigen Complexes Reveals Novel Immunodominant Binding Modes to SARS-CoV-2 RBD |
Ellen Shrock, DeJenae See |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 18 |
Angelique Madrigal |
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Model Lipid Membranes and in Yeast Vacuole Membranes |
Sarah L. Keller |
| 19 |
Donte Moore |
Investigating the Formation of Cyclic Peroxyhemiacetals in Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol |
Christopher Kenseth, Joel Thornton |
| 20 |
Evelyn Oliveres Fernandez |
Investigating the inhibition of a mutated SARS-COV-2 helicase with nanopore tweezers |
Andrew Laszlo, Jonathan Craig |
| 21 |
Yabets Onkiso |
Electrospinning of Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) Solutions with Varying Weight Concentrations |
Dr. Samson Jenekhe, Dr. Duyen Tran |
| 22 |
Michelle Rogers |
Utilizing data analytics for enhancing mobility and safety in Urban and Rural Environments through Connected and Automated Vehicles |
Xuegang (Jeff) Ban |
| 23 |
Marcial Romero |
Advanced Propulsion Systems: Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine |
Carl Knowlen |
| 24 |
Wendy Sanchez Garcia |
The combined effects of heavy metal pollution and freshwater salinization on the olfactory system of amphipod crustaceans |
Andrea Durant |
| 25 |
Jerusalem Sintayehu |
Characterizing Subsurface Compositions of PINGOs in Canadian Tundra using Ground-Penetrating Radar Data Analysis. |
Benjamin Hills, T.J. Fudge |
| 26 |
Sephora-Clotilde Zoro |
Quantitating Anti-Streptococcal IgG in Human Plasma: Implications for Infective Endocarditis Research |
Wendy Thomas |
| Easel |
Presenter(s)(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 27 |
Thomas Richichi |
PDMS Microstructure Fabrication for Shear Force Experiments in vdW Heterostructure Devices |
Arthur Barnard, Morgan Sherer |
| 28 |
Melissa Sanchez |
Selective Adsorption of Fullerene on Graphene/hBN: Evaporation vs. Solution Deposition |
Alexandra Velian, Michael Riehs |
| 29 |
Jack Theiss |
Machine Learning Force Field Based Molecular Dynamics |
Scott Dunham, Yijun Tong |
| 30 |
Ethan Thy |
Optimization of Interdigital Transduces to Maximize Strain in Surface Acoustic Wave Devices |
Mo Li, Adina Ripin |
| 31 |
Blaine Mauri-Newell |
Fabrication and Optical Characterization of a Twisted TMD Nanodevice Stack Incorporating a 2D Antiferromagnet |
Xiaodong Xu, Julian Stewart |
| 32 |
Shelby Mitchell |
A Density Functional Theory Study of Yb Doped van der Waals Magnet CrPS4: Magnetic States and Canting |
Xiaosong Li, Ryan Beck |
| 33 |
Duke Vierra |
Optimizing Jubilee for Lab Automation |
Lilo Pozzo, Brenden Pelkie |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 34 |
Sarah Stone |
Impact of luciferase on the effectiveness of EGFR-binding antibodies against pancreatic cancer |
Rodney Ho |
| 35 |
Claire Truongdang |
Analyzing Cell-Type and Gestational Age-Dependent Expression of SLC Transporters in Human Placenta |
Joanne Wang, Mary Hebert, Amelia Shan |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 36 |
Becca MacGillvray |
Substrate dependence on Blinking and Bleaching in colloidal CdSe Quantum Dots |
Kai Mei Fu, Tommy Nguyen |
| 37 |
Kevin Perez-Haro |
Defect Passivation in Halide Perovskite Semiconductors for Light Emission |
David Ginger, Farhad Akrami, Julisa Juarez |
| 38 |
Jediah Thomas |
Enhancing Photoluminescence of Atomically Precise Nanocrystals through Phosphine Ligand Exchange |
Brandi Cossairt, Hunter Ripberger |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 39 |
Ayako Nakatani |
Effects of Plant Nutrition on Aphid Competition and Behavior |
Tatsuya Saga, Masayuki Itoh |
| 40 |
Moa Shibata |
Composition of single-phase medium-entropy alloys containing elements with low corrosion resistance |
Katsusi Tanaka, Naoko Ikeo, Masayuki Itoh |
| 41 |
Liu Ximan |
Sensor Combination Analysis for Taekwondo Illegal Kick Classification |
Tsutomu Terada, Masayuki Itoh |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 42 |
Sebastian Lorete & Lizette Vazquez-Perez |
The Impact of L29Q Variant on the Calcium Binding Affinity of Human Cardiac Troponin C and Its Association with Thin Filament |
Wendy Thomas, PhD, An-Yue Tu, PhD, Jude Tunyi, 4th Year MD/PhD student, JT Rimorin |
| 43 |
Fune Tautala-Ceridon |
Mutant SF3B1 mis-splices specific hematopoietic stem cell genes |
Sergei Doulatov, PhD, Laura Baquero Galvis, PhC |
| 44 |
Jamarr Watson |
Isolation and Characterization of a Novel 25 nm IDL Particle |
Tomas Vaisar, PhD, Carissa Thornock, B.S., Aaron Boyce, B.S., Illona Babenko, B.S. |
| Easel |
Presenter(s) |
Project Title |
Mentor(s) |
| 45 |
Zachary Hammond |
Methods of De-Tiding Moored Profiler Data from the Vema Fracture Zone |
Sabine Mecking |
| 46 |
Ella Jones |
Observations of Estuarine Exchange in Hood Canal, Washington |
Amy Larsen, Seth Travis |
| 47 |
Lucy Grace Kao |
Polar Bear Phenology In A Changing Arctic |
Jaynise Perez Valentin |
| 48 |
Megan Kolenski |
Coasts—Cameras—Action: Analysis of Shoreline Change on Willapa Bay’s North Shore |
Roxanne Carini |
| 49 |
Marky Mayanja |
Investigating the Long-Term Influence of the Oceanic Mixed Layer on the CLAW Hypothesis |
Zoltan Szutz |
| 50 |
Suni McMillen |
Environmental Monitoring Around a Tidal Turbine |
Chris Bassett |
| 51 |
Mikayla Morris |
Investigating the variability in proglacial melange conditions and relation to glacier calving at Upernavik Isstrøm, western Greenland” |
Michalea King |