Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Fair Directory

The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair provides an opportunity for our undergraduates to share their work in a campus-wide celebration of undergraduate student research. The fair is sponsored by the Office of Experiential Learning and Immersion Vanderbilt and the Office of the Provost.

The Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Fair will be held on Thursday, October 30th from 3:30-6:00pm in the Student Life Center Commodore Ballroom.

Name	Presentation Time	PosterNumber	Faculty adviser first name	Faculty adviser last name	Faculty adviser primary department	Project Title	Descipline
Aaron Wilkinson	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	1	Katrin	Karbstein	Biochemistry	Role of snoRNAs in rRNA Folding during Ribosome Biogenesis	Basic and Natural Sciences
Adith Kotha	Both Sessions	2	Tina	Iverson	Pharmacology	Characterization of the Interaction between Flagellar Brake Protein YcgR and the Uropathogenic E. coli Flagellar Motor	Basic and Natural Sciences
Abigail Faulhaber	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	3	Alexander	Schuppe	Chemistry	Unlocking Chromium Decarboxylative Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer	Basic and Natural Sciences
Alara Weitkamp	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	4	Christopher	Williams	Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition	Selenoprotein P Expression is Enhanced by Selenomethionine and Secreted Via Exosomes	Basic and Natural Sciences
Allison Westerbeek	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	5	Katherine	Friedman	Biological Sciences	Investigating the role of the SIR proteins in DNA repair in the absence of UBP10	Basic and Natural Sciences
Antony George	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	6	Katherine	Friedman	Biological Sciences	Validating candidates identified from a genetic screen that promote de novo telomere addition	Basic and Natural Sciences
Eldaah Shekina Paulraj	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	7	Kasey	Vickers	Cardiovascular Medicine	Plasminogen Drives Innate Immune Training Through DNA Methylation	Basic and Natural Sciences
Albert Wang	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	8	Jeffrey	Johnston	Chemistry	Development of Potent, RyR2-Selective Flecainide Analogs to Treat CPVT-Induced Arrhythmias	Basic and Natural Sciences
Beatriz Oliveira Antunes	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	9	Seth	Zost	Vanderbilt Center for Antibody Therapeutics	Dissecting the evolutionary pathway of a shared antibody response targeting the H1N1 subtype of influenza A virus	Basic and Natural Sciences
Cooper Valentine	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	10	Allison	Walker	Chemistry	Machine Learning Approaches for Identifying Biosynthetic Gene Clusters with Antibiotic Potential	Basic and Natural Sciences
Benjamin Joo	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	11	Sun	Peck	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Beyond the Skin: Reduced Bone Quality and Bone Marrow Dysregulation in the KC-Tie2 and KLK6+ Mouse Models of Psoriasis	Basic and Natural Sciences
Zhongan (Aaron) Xu	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	12	Daria	Kim	Chemistry	Efforts Toward the Total Synthesis of Plazomicin	Basic and Natural Sciences
Callie Tuck	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	13	Larisa	DeSantis	Biological Sciences	Reconstructing the Dietary Niches and Ecology of Pliocene-aged Peccaries from Eastern Tennessee	Basic and Natural Sciences
David Han	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	14	Fiona	Yull	Pharmacology	The Role of Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Breast Cancer Development and Progression	Basic and Natural Sciences
Anna Harris	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	15	Yash	Choksi	Medicine	Sodium selenite promotes naïve CD4+ T cell proliferation and Th2 polarization	Basic and Natural Sciences
Guy Grisham	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	16	Lars	Plate	Chemistry	The impact of synonymous codon mutations on BAG6-mediated protein folding and degradation of FMDV structural proteins	Basic and Natural Sciences
Yijin Shen	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	17	Lars	Plate	Chemistry	Assessing Enzymatic Activity of Adenosine Deaminase 2 (ADA2) and Its Variants via Nano Luc-Integrated Indophenol Blue Assay	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sofia Belisario	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	18	Lars	Plate	Chemistry	Investigating the Fate of Thyroglobulin: Retention, Secretion or Degradation	Basic and Natural Sciences
Isaac Tamayo-Sarver	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	19	Jim	Goldenring	Surgery	Dysplastic Progression in Gastric Precancer is Supported by Stromal Environment and SPON2	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jillian Zhu	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	20	Fiona	Harrison	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Acute changes in tau pathology due to sepsis in the P301S Alzheimer’s mouse model​	Basic and Natural Sciences
He Zi Xin Lewellan	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	21	Julia	Velkovska	Physics & Astronomy	High Pressure and High Temperature Treatment of CVD Diamonds to Make Colorful Diamonds and Tranparent PCD Diamonds	Basic and Natural Sciences
Harrison Burns	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	22	Matthew	Tyska	Cell & Developmental Biology	Sperm Flagellar 1 influences both actin and microtubule dynamics in the intestinal epithelium.	Basic and Natural Sciences
Hunter Smith	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	23	Amanda	Doran	Cardiovascular Medicine	CaMK4 As A Novel Mediator Of Immune Memory In Atherosclerosi	Basic and Natural Sciences
Hundaol Huluka	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	24	Raymond	Blind	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Comparative Analysis of LRH-1 Genetic Influence in Hap-1 CellsÂ	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jack Schultz	Both Sessions	25	David	Cortez	Biochemistry	Proteomic analysis of nascent DNA upon perturbation of lagging strand synthesis	Basic and Natural Sciences
Elizabeth Grimm	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	26	Ela	Knapik	Cell & Developmental Biology	The Role of ap3d1 in Seizure Activity and Drug Response in Zebrafish	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jade Smith	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	27	Laura	Dassama	Chemistry	Toward Targeted Therapies for Bacterial Vaginosis: Structural and Biochemical Insights into the HMG-CoA Reductase from G. vaginalis	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jessica Martin	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	28	Raymond	Blind	Medicine	PROTAC-Driven Degradation of Steroidogenic Factor-1 Demonstrates Therapeutic Potential in Adrenal Cancer	Basic and Natural Sciences
Gabriele Barrocas	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	29	William	Nobis	Neurology	Investigating differential effects of odorants on seizures and mortality in a Dravet Syndrome mouse model	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jayne Miner	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	29	William	Nobis	Neurology	Investigating differential effects of odorants on seizures and mortality in a Dravet Syndrome mouse model	Basic and Natural Sciences
Jiang Chen	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	30	Kalman	Varga	Physics & Astronomy	Time-dependent Density Functional Investigation of the Formation of H3+ from Alkanes	Basic and Natural Sciences
Kalina Stoyanova	Both Sessions	31	Mark	Wallace	Psychology	Modality-Specific Serial Dependencies for Auditory and Visual Motion Direction	Basic and Natural Sciences
Hannah Bertisch	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	32	Mark	Wallace	Psychology	Can humans discriminate congruent and incongruent audiovisual motion direction?	Basic and Natural Sciences
Kathryn Shapiro	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	33	Fiona	Harrison	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Inflammation and manganese exposure drive CNS metal dyshomeostasis in mice ​	Basic and Natural Sciences
Joyce Luo	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	34	Ethan	Lee	Cell & Developmental Biology	Chondrogenic ATDC5 Cell Differentiation	Basic and Natural Sciences
Michael Witherspoon	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	35	Ralf	Bennartz	Earth & Environmental Sciences	Development of a Weather Balloon Package for Vertical Profiling of Carbon Dioxide	Basic and Natural Sciences
Julian Rosenberg	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	36	Douglas	Kojetin	Biochemistry	Investigating the Structural Dynamics of PPARᵧ Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations	Basic and Natural Sciences
Justin Oh	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	37	Prashant	Donthamsetti	Pharmacology	Synapse-Specific Control of Neurotransmission	Basic and Natural Sciences
Norbu Shastri	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	38	Julian	Hillyer	Biological Sciences	Warmer temperature and aging delay the development of male mosquito reproductive tissues and decrease male survival and reproductive gene expression.	Basic and Natural Sciences
Puspa Shah	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	39	Julian	Hillyer	Biological Sciences	Understanding the Role of Pericardin and Lonely Heart in Circulatory Physiology of Anopheles Gambiae	Basic and Natural Sciences
Orianna Bernal-Assis	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	40	Marcela	Brissova	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Defining cellular compartments of human pediatric pancreatic islets by spatial proteomics	Basic and Natural Sciences
Olivia Merriman	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	41	Lawrence	Marnett	Biochemistry	Investigating the Cause of 12-HHT Increase in GSK872' Treated Mouse Raw264.7 Macrophages	Basic and Natural Sciences
Ria Mirchandani	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	43	Julio	Ayala	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics	Regulation of weight loss by GLP-1R agonists via a non-canonical PKA-mTORC1 pathway	Basic and Natural Sciences
Quinlan Hinerfeld	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	44	Kevin	Schey	Biochemistry	Optimization of Sample Preparation for Imaging of Metabolites in the Lens and Retina using MALDI-IMS	Basic and Natural Sciences
Mazyar Azmi	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	45	André	Bastos	Psychology	Intrinsic Neuronal Timescales in Visual Cortex May Underlie the Representation of Higher-Order Prediction Errors	Basic and Natural Sciences
Ketan Hoey	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	46	Alexander	Bick	Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology	SLAMF1 Modifies IL-6 Hypersensitivity in TET2 CHIP	Basic and Natural Sciences
Riley Togher	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	47	Denis	Mogilenko	Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology	The Role of Transferrin Receptor 1 (CD71) in Dendritic Cell Function and Tumor Suppression	Basic and Natural Sciences
Nikhil Partap Kahlon	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	48	Keith	Wilson	Medicine	Inhibitors of the Mammalian Reverse Transsulfuration Pathway Reduce Helicobacter pylori Survival and Associated Diseases	Basic and Natural Sciences
Patrick Watt	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	49	Kathleen	DelGiorno	Cell & Developmental Biology	Islet Morphology Alterations in IPMN-Associated Pancreatic Cancer	Basic and Natural Sciences
Shreeya Moolamalla	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	50	Kathleen	DelGiorno	Cell & Developmental Biology	The Role of Zfp800 in Cell Type Abundance and Function in the Liver	Basic and Natural Sciences
Lu Kuan	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	51	Yi	Chen	Physics & Astronomy	Jets and calibration with the archived ALEPH 𝒆+𝒆- data	Basic and Natural Sciences
Lydia Li	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	52	Yi	Ren	Biochemistry	Assessing the Function of Newly Identified Protein Complex Thp3-Csn12-Sem1 in Yeast Using AlissAID	Basic and Natural Sciences
Larissa Ramirez	Both Sessions	53	Steven	Goodbred	Earth & Environmental Sciences	Signals in the Snow: GPR Time Series of Density and Water Content on Vaughan Lewis Glacier	Basic and Natural Sciences
Mera Fayek	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	54	Wesley	Thayer	Plastic Surgery	Identification of a Novel Cartilage-Driven Mechanism in Human Craniosynostosis	Basic and Natural Sciences
Richard Zhang	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	55	Fabian	Bock	Department of Nephrology	βII-Spectrin Maintains Proximal Tubule Integrity after Injury	Basic and Natural Sciences
Qixiu Yao	Both Sessions	56	Lauren	Jackson	Biological Sciences	Biochemical & Structural Insights into Interactions between Retromer and Rab7A	Basic and Natural Sciences
Riley Buus	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	57	Julia	Bohannon	Anesthesiology	MPLA-mediated trained immunity requires mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1	Basic and Natural Sciences
Samirah Salifu	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	58	Ethan	Lippmann	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Investigation of Crosslinking and Peptide Conjugation Kinetics for Gelatin Based Hydrogels	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sahil Hemrajani	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	59	Sandra	Zinkel	Hematology/Oncology	TET2 loss on MyD88 and TRIF pathway activity	Basic and Natural Sciences
Saim Jehangir	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	60	Leigh	Scheer	Department of Psychology and Human Development	GLP1R agonist induced Weight Regulation by direct activation of the PKA-mTORC1 pathway in ARC POMC neurons	Basic and Natural Sciences
Riyanka Narasimhan	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	61	Craig	Duvall	Biomedical Engineering	Shear-Thinning Synthetic Polymer-Based Hydrogel Microparticles for Allogeneic Cell Delivery	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sumin Choi	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	62	Chin	Chiang	Cell & Developmental Biology	Investigating the Regulatory Role of Insm1 in the Development of Granule Cell Precursors in the Cerebellum	Basic and Natural Sciences
Skyler Tunc	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	63	Huize	Pan	Cardiovascular Medicine	JNK Inhibition Modulates EGFR-Mediated Atherogenic Pathways in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sydney Kong	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	64	Shan	Meltzer	Pharmacology	Intravital Two-Photon Imaging of Touch Sensory Axon Morphology in Mouse Skin	Basic and Natural Sciences
Elizabeth Donaldson	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	65	Kathryn	Humphreys	Psychology & Human Development	Links between postnatal dACC and dlPFC development and early inhibitory control	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sunny Chen	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	66	Neil	Dani	Cell & Developmental Biology	Investigating the Non-Neuronal Roles of SHANK3 in Choroid Plexus Endothelia	Basic and Natural Sciences
Sydney Severance	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	67	Chip	Norris	Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology	Progesterone and Sex Hormones Alter Mast Cell Behavior: Impacts on Degranulation, Cytokine Release, and Survival in LUVA Cells	Basic and Natural Sciences
Tammy Le	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	68	Walter	Chazin	Biochemistry	Developing Inhibitors for the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products (RAGE) Using Virtual Fragment Based Discovery	Basic and Natural Sciences
Udaykiran Vissa	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	69	Monica	Santisteban Calvo	Medicine	Sex Differences in i.c.v. Ang II Induced Cognitive Impairment and Tau Phosphorylation	Basic and Natural Sciences
Tejas Mahesh	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	70	Stephen	Taylor	Physics & Astronomy	Detecting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries using Light	Basic and Natural Sciences
Usma Sajid	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	71	Alexandre	Tiriac	Biological Sciences	Development and Organization of Hindlimb Proprioceptive Somatotopy in Clarke's Column	Basic and Natural Sciences
Xu Zishuo	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	72	Taha	Jan	Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery	Just EGFP Death Inducing CD8+ T cells Mediated Ablation of Outer Hair Cells	Basic and Natural Sciences
Michaela Flowers	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	73	Jared	Nordman	Biological Sciences	Developing an optimized labeling protocol in the Drosophila embryo	Basic and Natural Sciences
Hamilton Essex	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	74	Jared	Goldstone	Biology	Behavioral Effects of CYP1A Inhibition in Larval Zebrafish, Danio rerio	Basic and Natural Sciences
Yosenelys Fabian	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	75	1.Xiaoman, 2.John	1.Liu, 2.Adeleye	Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research	Investigating AKAP11’s role in ferroptosis in cultured astrocytes and brain tissue in psychiatric diseases	Basic and Natural Sciences
Yuxuan Hu	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	76	Mariama	Rebello Sousa Dias	Physics	Simulation of Néel-Type Skyrmion Generation via the Inverse Faraday Effect	Basic and Natural Sciences
You-hyun Noh	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	77	Colleen	Niswender	Pharmacology	Investigating mGlu4 Heterodimers as a Novel Drug Target for Parkinson’s Disease	Basic and Natural Sciences
Om Patel	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	79	John	Kuriyan	Biochemistry	Uncovering activating mutations in EGFR in a Proliferating Ba/F3 Assay	Basic and Natural Sciences
Yichen Li	Both Sessions	79	Antonis	Rokas	Biological Sciences	The evolution of the Gliotoxin BGC across the genus Aspergillus	Basic and Natural Sciences
Ayanna Desai	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	80	Amanda	Benson	Biological Sciences	OPTIMIZING MACROPHAGE COLLECTION & UTILIZING CYTOKINE ASSAYS TO ASSESS EFFECTS OF TET2-ASSOCIATED CLONAL HEMATOPOESIS ON THE BREAST CANCER TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT	Basic and Natural Sciences
Carly Doran	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	81	Mark	Magnuson	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics	Quantitative 3-D imaging of parasympathetic innervation of pancreatic islets	Basic and Natural Sciences
Franklin Udensi	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	82	Marcus	Watson	Software Developer, Psychology	Collecting Multisensory Stimulation Data Leveraging 3D Tracking Mechanisms	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Haiyun Guo	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	83	Jie Ying	Wu	Computer Science	Future Camera Pose Prediction for Autonomous Surgical Robots	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Hunter Shi	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	85	Bryan	Steitz	Biomedical Informatics	The Use of Large Language Models to Help Patients Understand Their Test Results	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Leo Zhang	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	86	Allison	Walker	Chemistry	Optimizing an Active Learning Model For Predicting the Therapeutic Effects of Natural Products	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Shansita Sharma	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	87	Catie	Chang	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Segment the Signal: Automated Physiological Quality Assessment	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	88	Regina G.	Russell	Nursing	RAG Chatbot for Nursing Content Review: Architecture, Model Benchmarking, and Reliability Testing	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Tobasum Mandal	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	89	Thomas	Palmeri	Psychology	Modelling object categorization at different levels of abstraction	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Qiao Li	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	90	Marcelo	Disconzi	Mathematics	General Relativity and Local Well‑Posedness	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Ramiel Martinez	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	91	Nicole	Creanza	Biological Sciences	Investigating Linguistic Change in The Philippines: Quantifying and Modeling Spanish Colonial Influence Using Machine Learning and Computational Methods	Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Alexis Mowrer	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	92	Krista	Mehari	Psychology & Human Development	Examining the Cross—Cultural Validity of Peer Delinquency Across the U.S. and India	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Andrew Tornatore	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	93	Sean	Polyn	Psychology	Modeling the episodic memory impairment in schizophrenia.	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Aujin Choi	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	94	Rankin	McGugin	Psychology	Exploring the association between sulcal depth, cortical thickness, and visual recognition ability	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Caroline Byrd	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	95	Justine	Hoch	Psychology & Human Development	Exploratory Variability Across the Transition from Crawling to Walking	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Che Yeon (Rachel) Yun	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	96	Justine	Hoch	Psychology & Human Development	Caregiver Support of Infant Toy Play Across Motor Development	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Xiaoyang He	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	97	Justine	Hoch	Psychology & Human Development	Investigating the Influence of Infant Temperament on Physical Activity and Exploratory Behaviors	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Chi Luo	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	98	Zonglei	Zhen	Psychology	whole brain functional connectivity changes across different participant groups	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and Humanities
Hugo Turro-Serrano	Both Sessions	99	Frank	Tong	Psychology	How Depth and Occlusion Affect The Brain's Ability To Complete Hidden Images	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Lana English	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	100	Sophia	Vinci-Booher	Psychology & Human Development	The impact of tool use during handwriting on visual recognition	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Cristian Umana Hernandez	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	101	Jonathan	Schaefer	Psychology	Socioeconomic Status, Cognition, and Alcohol Use: A Mediation Analysis	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Lillian Cochell	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	102	James	Booth	Psychology & Human Development	Examining the role of phonological and semantic mechanisms during morphological processing in five-year-old children	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Lily York	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	103	John	Geer	Political Science	Framing Climate Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. News Media Discourse	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Emily Benfield	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	104	Kristen	Granger	Special Education	Seats & Status: How Classroom Placement Shapes Peer Reputations for Students with/at-Risk for EBD	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Samantha DeLillo	Both Sessions	105	Kristen	Granger	Special Education	The Science of Where Students Sit: How Teacher Beliefs Shape Seat Assignments for Students with or at Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Luciana Lora	Both Sessions	106	Kristen	Granger	Special Education	Exploring the Classroom-Based Social Experiences of Students with risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders​	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Jacqueline Huang	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	107	Christina	Rennhoff	Economics	How Much Does Cost Transparency Matter? A Quantitative Analysis of Cost Transparency and Service Cost Across Hospitals in the US	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Ella Weeks	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	108	Geoffrey	Woodman	Psychology	Potentials indexing long-term memory are the first to detect changes during short-term memory tasks	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Mackenzie Ringo	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	109	Jason	Chow	Special Education	Scoping Review of Special Education in the Juvenile Justice System: Preliminary Findings	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Hanyan Sun	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	110	Jason	Chow	Special Education	Linking Early Language and Behavior to Later Academic Success	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Yipeng Zhong	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	111	Autumn	Kujawa	Psychology & Human Development	Culturally Adapting a Brief Positive Emotion Intervention for Chinese International Students: Focus-Group Insights and Preliminary Results on Adults’ Positive Affects and Post-Intervention Satisfaction	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Terra Lee	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	112	Shawniqua	Williams Roberson	Neurology	Seizure Type and Quality of Life Among Epileptic and Nonepileptic Patients	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Sorin Caldararu	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	113	Ari	Joskowicz	Jewish Studies	When Does it Become History? Romanian Jewish Memory of the Holocaust in the Communist Era	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Wang Yandan	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	114	Karim	Nchare	Economics	The Socioeconomic Impact of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Taylor Ditsworth	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	115	Amy	Booth	Psychology and Human Development	Visual and Phonological Working Memory as Predictors of Scientific Literacy	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Shana Lee	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	116	Elizabeth	Biggs	Special Education	Naturalistic Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Intervention	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Xixuan Li	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	117	David	Demeritt	Earth and Environment	Assessing Wildfire Risk in Massachusetts Using Administrative Data	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Xing Zitian	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	118	Andrea	Nicholas	Neurobiology and Behavior	The Role of Visual Imagery and Learning Modality Preference in Predicting Learning Performance	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Megan Grosse	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	119	Angus	Galloway	Art	(non)conformity	Social, Behavioral, Educational Sciences, and HumanitiesÂ
Hanabi Geiger	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	120	John	Phillips, III	Pediatrics	Effectiveness of Newborn Screening for X-Linked Disorders in Females: A Scoping Review	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Isabella Peng	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	121	Nadia Markie	Sneed	Nursing	Cost Comparison Analysis of a Whole Foods Eating Pattern vs. USDA MyPlate Eating Pattern	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Kidan Yefru	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	122	Renã	Robinson	Chemistry	Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis Notifications in Brazilian Prisons	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Lisa Kim	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	123	Julie	Ward	Medicine, Health, & Society	Exploring the Relationship Between Public Library Use and Preventive Health Engagement Among Black Adolescents with Adverse Childhood Experiences	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Michaela Wolfe	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	124	Meredith	Gruhn	Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	From Trauma to Physiology: How Early Life Adversity Links to Adolescent Stress and Coping Reactivity	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Diane Song	Both Sessions	125	Amanda	Lea	Biological Sciences	Cell-Type Resolution of Orang Asli PBMC Bulk RNA-seq Reveals Age, Sex, and Urbanity-Linked Immune Shifts	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Rachel Lakowsky	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	126	Julio	Ayala	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics	Role of chronic activation of Glucagon-like-peptide-1 producing neurons in preventing and reversing obesity in mice	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Sam Rahbin	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	127	Mahnaz	Motevalli	Johns Hopkins University Clinical Trials Unit	Stigma, Accessibility, and Other Barriers to Healthcare in Uganda	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Pat Phisitkul	Both Sessions	128	April	Barnado	Rheumatology	Factors Influencing Time to Diagnosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Real-World Retrospective Study	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Aminta Permpoonwiwat	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	129	Yolanda	McDonald	Human and Organizational Development	PFAS Scoping Review to Inform Data Variables for Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Risk of PFAS in Community Water Systems	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Kennedy Cross	Both Sessions	129	Yolanda	McDonald	Human and Organizational Development	PFAS Scoping Review to Inform Data Variables for Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Risk of PFAS in Community Water Systems	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Vera Powell	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	129	Yolanda	McDonald	Human and Organizational Development	PFAS Scoping Review: Informing Data Variables for Machine Learning Approach to Predict Risk of PFAS in Community Water Systems	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Anjuli Irvin	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	130	Yolanda	Mcdonald	Human and Organizational Development	PFAS Scoping Review to Inform Data Variables for Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Risk of PFAS in Community Water Systems	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Ethan Paik	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	130	Yolanda	McDonald	Human and Organizational Development	PFAS Risk in Tennessee Drinking Water Supply: A Data-Driven Risk-Informed Approach to Identify Communities At-Risk to PFAS Exposure	Public Health, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences
Alyaan Salman	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	132	Saurubh	Mehandru	Gastroenterology	Discovery of a Novel Integrin as a Predictive Biomarker for Ulcerative Colitis Activity	Clinical and Translational Research
Angelica Harris	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	133	Mulubrhan	Mogos	Nursing	Evaluating DASH-Based Postpartum Interventions for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction After Hypertensive Pregnancy: A Systematic Review	Clinical and Translational Research
Carolina DePaula	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	134	Angela	Jefferson	Neurology	Neighborhood disadvantage modifies associations between cardiac output and cognition among aging adults over a 5-year follow-up period	Clinical and Translational Research
Anika Shah	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	135	Ko Un	Park	Medicine	Leveraging Generative AI for Lymph Node Metastasis Predictions in Breast Cancer Patients	Clinical and Translational Research
Declan McSherry	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	136	Joseph	Schlesinger	Anesthesiology	Utilizing Eye Tracking and Pupillometry in order to Improve Visual Displays in the ICU	Clinical and Translational Research
Brinda Ambal	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	137	Amy	Brown	Neurology	Associations between parenthood and mental health outcomes in Huntington’s Disease carriers	Clinical and Translational Research
Omar Adada	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	138	Ruth	Kleinpell	Nursing	Perception of Therapeutic Music in Community Settings	Clinical and Translational Research
Rajkumar Fitzpatrick	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	138	Ruth	Kleinpell	Nursing	Perception of Therapeutic Music in Community Settings	Clinical and Translational Research
Chengze Li	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	139	Jessika	Boles	Psychology & Human Development	Examining the Effects of a Facility Dog Intervention on Young Children’s Anxiety During Outpatient ECHO and EKG Procedures	Clinical and Translational Research
Zhang Renwen	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	139	Jessika	Boles	Psychology & Human Development	Examining the Effects of a Facility Dog Intervention on Young Children’s Anxiety During Outpatient ECHO and EKG Procedures	Clinical and Translational Research
Catherine Wang	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	140	Justin	Balko	Hematology/Oncology	Investigating the Role of Tumor-Expressed Cardiac Antigens​ in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Myocarditis	Clinical and Translational Research
Conner Difilippo	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	141	Blythe	Corbett	Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	"Perceived Stress and Suicidal Ideation: A Comparative Analysis Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurotypical Youth"	Clinical and Translational Research
Elizabeth Wayman	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	142	Sean	Davies	Pharmacology	NAPE-PLD Protects Efferocytosis by Hydrolyzing NAMPs	Clinical and Translational Research
Jacqueline Strain	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	143	Fatemeh	Adelnia	Institute of Imaging Science	Evaluation of B₀/B₁-Insensitive Spin-Lock Preparations for Robust R₁ρ Dispersion Imaging at Low Locking Frequencies	Clinical and Translational Research
Ge-Ho Yang	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	144	Antonia	Kaczkurkin	Psychology	A Path Analysis Linking Anxiety to Quality of Life through Agitation and Insomnia	Clinical and Translational Research
Lucas Martinez	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	145	Scott	Zuckerman	Neurological Surgery	Return to Golf After Degenerative Spine Surgery: How Does Type of Surgery Impact Sports Participation?	Clinical and Translational Research
Isaac Schultz	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	146	Jessica	Cardin	Neuroscience	Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Contributions to Cortical Circuit Dynamics	Clinical and Translational Research
Joshua Tan	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	147	Matt	Alexander	Cardiovascular Medicine	Hypertensive endothelial cell stretch promotes regulatory T cell instability	Clinical and Translational Research
Liam Marshall	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	148	Tonia	Rex	Opthamology and Visual Sciences	Resting-state EEG and machine learning to investigate cortical connectivity as a biomarker in chronic mild traumatic brain injury	Clinical and Translational Research
Megan Wang	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	149	Allison	McCoy	Biomedical Informatics	PEN-PAL: A Hybrid EHR-Conversational AI Agent for Penicillin Allergy Risk Assessment	Clinical and Translational Research
Michael Ackon	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	150	Amanda	Doran	Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology	Paired Immunoglobin-like Receptor B in Macrophages Regulates the Pro-resolving Response to Efferocytosis	Clinical and Translational Research
Roman Thomas	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	151	Jonathan	Nelson	Nephrology	A Practical Framework for Processing, Annotating, and Reporting on Whole Kidney Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Datasets	Clinical and Translational Research
Cooper Donovan	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	152	Charles	Caskey	Radiology & Radiological Sciences	Superposition Allows Embarrassingly Parallel Acoustic Simulations for Multi-Element Arrays in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound	Clinical and Translational Research
Sasha Barrera	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	153	David	MacPherson	Human Biology	Exploring the interaction of REST in murine SCLC cell lines with FHD-286 treatment	Clinical and Translational Research
Selma Alhajjaji	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	154	Danielle	Dean	Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism	Glutamine Metabolism Supports Alpha Cell Expansion	Clinical and Translational Research
Sally Nwider	Both Sessions	155	James	Jackson	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	Critical Care Medicine: Delirium and Self-Reported Driving Behaviors and Outcomes After Critical Illness	Clinical and Translational Research
Aryan Pandey	Both Sessions	156	Qiangjun	Zhou	Cell & Developmental Biology	Kinetic Profiling of Dye-Erasable Split-HaloTags to Enable High-Fidelity Imaging of Synaptogenic Adhesion Dynamics	Engineering
Benjamin Altman	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	157	Marjan	Rafat	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	The Role of CD4+ T Cells in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Recurrence after Radiotherapy	Engineering
Cindy Ho	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	158	Leon	Bellan	Mechanical Engineering	Characterizing the Distensibility of Gelatin Microvessel Models Under Simulated Physiological Flow	Engineering
Isabella Holtz	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	159	Leon	Bellan	Mechanical Engineering	Development of an Image Processing Workflow for Quantification of Smooth Muscle Cell Orientation in Engineered Microvessels	Engineering
Dawn Oh	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	160	John	Wilson	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	​​Engineering Multimeric Albumin Binding Proteins for Half-Life Extension of STING Agonists in Vivo	Engineering
Ella Jenner	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	161	Carlos	Silvera Batista	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Characterizing the Kinetics of Assembly of Colloidal Particles under AC Field	Engineering
Azeeza Syeda	Both Sessions	162	John	Wilson	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Assessing the Ability of a Nanobody–Drug Conjugate to Reprogram Regulatory T Cells	Engineering
Colleen Burke	Both Sessions	163	Rei	Ukita	Cardiac Surgery	Custom Cannula Engineering for Heart-Lung Perfusion and Transplantation Applications	Engineering
Laura Caroline Jung	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	164	Michael	Goldfarb	Mechanical Engineering	Easy Breezy? --- Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Wind Generator for Investigating the Biomechanics of Walking in Wind with an Above-the-Knee Lower-Limb Prosthesis	Engineering
Winston Nfor Kanjo Ndi	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	165	Jason	Valentine	Mechanical Engineering	Geometry-driven Structural Color Control In Silicon-rich Nitride (SRN) Metasurfaces	Engineering
Eden Teo	Both Sessions	166	Sharon	Weiss	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Radiation-Induced Gain Degradation of Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes in the Space Environment	Engineering
Zihan Sun	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	167	Shihong	Lin	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Selective Lithium Separation: Impact of Feed Li⁺/Na⁺ Ratio on Electrosorption using Intercalation Electrodes	Engineering
Lawrence Li	Both Sessions	168	Rei	Ukita	Cardiac Surgery	Wearable Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation System for Safer Patient Ambulation	Engineering
Neal Bagai	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	169	Brian	Sierawski	Electrical and Computer Engineering	An Investigation of TID Mitigation for Analog Inference Accelerators	Engineering
Remington Holder	Both Sessions	170	Moataz	Harb	Fusion and Fission Energy Science Directorate	Digital Reconstruction of SINBAD NEA-1553/27 (SBE 4.001) with OpenMC: CAD Modeling and Radiation Transport	Engineering
William Ho	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	171	Rick	Haselton	Biomedical Engineering	The Effects of Spaceflight on the Mechanical Properties of Articular Cartilage as Measured using Atomic Force Microscopy	Engineering
Evan Houser	Group B: 4:40-5:40 pm	172	Rick	Haselton	Biomedical Engineering	Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Efficient Cell Identification	Engineering
Yan Haiqi	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	173	Kevin	Leach	Computer Science	GenID: Software memory safety via generation counters	Engineering
Jieon Ki	Group A: 3:30-4:30 pm	174	John	Wilson	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Polymer-Driven Activation of Engineered Cells to Direct Cancer Immunotherapy	Engineering