12th Annual VINSE Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will host the Summer Research Poster Session on Thursday, August 3 from 1:30pm-3:30pm in the Engineering and Science Building lobby. Please join us to recognize our undergraduate students’ work as they share the results of their 10-week summer projects. All members of the Vanderbilt community are encouraged to attend.
- “Macrophage targeted Polymer-Drug Conjugates for STING Pathway Activation to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy” Jacqueline Anatot, University of Florida (Wilson)
- “Generality-Driven Catalyst Development: Enantioselective Nitroalkene Reductions for the Selective Synthesis of Diverse α- and β-Chiral Peptidomimetics” Rakel Ang, Pepperdine University (Johnston)
- “Inducible Gene Expression to Increase Brush Border Differentiation in In Vitro Renal Tubule Cells” Taylor Baugher, Georgia Institute of Technology (Fissell & Love)
- “Methylation of Selenium and Tellurium S-Adenosyl-Homocysteine Analogs Using Halomethyl Transferases” Aodhan Windler Beattie, Cornell University (Bachmann)
- “Wirelessly Actuated Soft Robots with Integrated Microfluidic Channels for Drug Delivery” Emily Buckner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Dong)
- “Creating More Efficient Solar Cells: A Study on Vanadium Oxide Thin Films” Erin Burgard, Arizona State University (Haglund)
- “Identifying Optimal Deposition Processes by Application for Thin-Film Materials” Eliam Chang, Vanderbilt University (VINSE Tech Crew)
- “Site selective sugar functionalization via pradimicin based xanthone catalyst” Kathy Rossy Colin, University of Richmond (Kim)
- “Design and Characterization Techniques to Advance Integrated Photonics for Space Missions” Andres Miguel Cotto, University of South Florida (Weiss)
- “Enhancing Material Identification and Precise Temperature Measurements through Multispectral Thermal Imaging and Machine Learning” Feven Mekete Desta, Vanderbilt University (Walker)
- “Precision Control of Fluid Flow for Microfluidic Devices” Ella Dzialowski, Vanderbilt University (VINSE Tech Crew)
- “Exploring Alternative Metalation Approaches for Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation” Anna Ermoian, Scripps College (Schley)
- “Optimizing Surface Preparation and Reactive Ion Etching Techniques for Fabrication Processes” William Ford, Vanderbilt University (VINSE Tech Crew)
- “Heat Transfer Across Metal/Metal Oxide Interfaces” Anya Kennedy Frazer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Walker)
- “Electron Beam Lithography: Mixed Aperture Patterning” Penelope Fries, Vanderbilt University (VINSE Tech Crew)
- “Scaling Sweet: optimizing the synthetic pathway of bacterial sugar 2-acetamido-4-amino-2,4,5-trideoxy-D-galactopyranose (AAT)” Jana Gaskin, Scripps College (Townsend)
- “Stimulating Collateral Arterial Growth Using Acellular, Growth-Factor Free Hydrogels for the Treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia” Raey Hunde, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Lippmann)
- “Standardizing Sample Preparation to Analyze Postmortem Brain Tissue in Alzheimer’s Disease” Alysha Johnson, University of Virginia ( Rena Robinson)
- “Irradiated Extracellular Matrix Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Invasion” Shereena Johnson, Rice University (Rafat)
- “Characterizing Effects of Coronavirus nsp2 on Lysosomal Acidification” Delyar Khosroabadi, California State University Channel Islands (Plate)
- “The Development of both an Electrochemical Sensor for IL-1B and a Fetal Membrane on a Chip” Jackie Martin, Lebanon Valley College (Cliffel)
- “Rediscovering lost rock art painting techniques” Deborah Oke, Northeastern University (Macdonald)
- “Nanoparticle Development For siRNA Delivery To Treat Osteoarthritis (OA)” Ellie Okonak, Bucknell University (Duvall)
- “Crystallization of XPA DBD with a DNA Substrate” Megan Pierce, The University of Alabama (Chazin)
- “Controlling Infrared Light Propagation at the Nanoscale Using α-MoO3 Geometry” Ethan Ray, Georgia Institute of Technology (Caldwell)
- “Microtubule-Mediated Behavior of Vinculin Knockout Breast Cancer Cells in Confined Migration.” Jonathan Gonzalez Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Reinhart-King)
- “Neutrophil-Mediated Transendothelial Delivery of E-selectin Liposomes for Targeting Inflammatory Sites” Laura Weinstein, University of Delaware (King & Zhang)
- “Engineering adenylation domain specificity through machine learning methods.” Lindsey Weissman, Binghamton University (Walker)
- “RT-PCR detection of fragmented tuberculosis DNA in urine” Charlotte Williams, University of Georgia (Haselton)