Program Honors and Capstone Conference

Conference Schedule

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Opening Plenary and Meet-up Zoom Room


9:00 a.m. Opening and Welcoming Remarks

   Dr. Jason Keller, Interim Dean, Schmid College of Science and Technology 

   Dr. Lauryn E. DeGreeff, Research Chemist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

   Dr. Patricia Lopes, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

9:40 a.m.   Research Presentations, Session I (links below)

11:00 a.m. Coffee Break Meet-up with Faculty

11:20 a.m. Research Presentations, Session II (links below)

12:00-1:30 p.m. End of Conference Meet-up with Faculty


 

Zoom Room 1

9:40 - Kathleen Glasser - The Connection Between Telomere Length and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

10:00 - Emma Beale - Exploring the Effect of the Diarylpentanoid ca27 on the Degradation of the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Cells

10:20 - Abbigael Eli - CURE-Cumin: The Spice in Your Life Against Prostate Cancer

10:40 - Alexander Graden - Down Regulating the Androgen Receptor in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Break

11:20 - Sarah Hester - Exploring the Effect of the Diarylpentanoid ca27 on the Translation of the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Cells

11:40 - Avrita Brar - Exploring the Effect of the Diarylpentanoid Curcumin Analog 27 in Androgen Receptor-positive Breast Cancer Cells

12:00 - Priya Mistry - Comparative Analysis of Hyperosmotic Stress-mediated Modulation of Cytokine Gene Expression in Human Conjunctival and Corneal Epithelial Cells

12:20 - Jacob Baker - Type I Diabetes Mellitus Adversely Impacts Ocular Surface Glycocalyx and Mucins



 

Zoom Room 2

9:40 - Josh Goldfaden - Antibacterial Efficacy of the Novel Eastern Medicine-inspired by Toothpaste Compared to Commercial Formulations

10:00 - Haley Reinhard - Preliminary Study on the Extraction and Purification of Proteins from Mulberry Fruit

10:20 - Natalie Paterson - Genotype and Phenotype Testing to Predict Drug-Induced Toxicity in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

10:40 - Jordan Jernigan - Characterizing the Ganglioside Content in Caco-2 Human Intestinal Epothelial Cells and Extracellular Vesicles After Supplementation with Exogenous Gangliosides

Break 

11:20 - Kiersten Chong - Protection of Nitrogen Fixation by CowN in G. diazotrophicus

11:40 - Chloe Garcia - Analyzing Restored Nitrogen Fixation Through CowN in G. diazotrophicus

12:00 - Christine Lo Verde - Structural Biophysical Characterization of CowN from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

12:20 - Ahmad Alrusayes - Engineering a Prenyltransferase Enzyme for Biocatalytic Diversification of Bioactive Compounds


 

Zoom Room 3

9:40 - Emilie Sandfeld - Genomic Correction of Pompe Disease Knock-in Mouse Myoblasts via CRISPR-Cas9 Homology-Directed Repair

10:00 - Olivia Durant - Hybridization and Gene Flow Patterns in a Novel Contact Zone Between Two Species of Native California Sunflowers

10:20 - Lindsay Zumwalt - Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of Cysteine Oxidation by Bleach (HOCl) in the Zinc-Binding Core of Cytosolic Chemoreceptor Transducer-like Protein D (TlpD)

10:40 - Matthew Nwerem - Computational Investigation of the Lewis-Acid Mediated Activation of Sulfonyl Fluorides

Break 

11:20 - Christopher S. Moore - Large-Area Thermoregulatory Material Inspired by Cephalopods

11:40 - Bryn Merrill - Hot Electron Chemistry on Bimetallic Plasmonic Nanoparticles 

12:00 - Tiffany Vallejo - The Design & Building of a Surface Science Ultra-High Vacuum Chamber 

12:20 - Riley Kendall - Investigating the Interactions Between Individual Calmodulin and HIV-1 Matrix Protein Domains


 

Zoom Room 4

9:40 - Natanael Alpay- The Structure of Distributive Idempotent Weakly Conservative Lattice-Ordered Magmas

10:00 - Melissa Sugimoto - Characterization of II-Semilattices

10:20 - Natanael Alpay - Minimal Surfaces

10:40 - Melissa Sugimoto - Applications of the Inverse Function Theorem in Differential Geometry

Break 

11:20 - Michaela Montgomery - Investigating the Impact of Simulated Rain Events and Aging on Arsenic Bioaccessibility in Mine Waste

11:40 - Jacy Sera - Examining Spatiotemporal Associations Between Legal Drug Outlets and Crime Violence

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