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