Poster Presenters

Below are the 2024 Undergraduate Research Expo Poster Presenters and their corresponding information for Friday, April 12th.  Visit the virtual poster platform HERE to see their posters and read their abstracts.

Poster 1:  Legal Accessibility for Domestic Violence Survivors

Carly Zubrzycki 2026

DMS Digital Media Studies

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Rachel O'Donnell

Social Science 

Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

 

Poster 2:  Geo Mapping Analysis of GROW Childhood Screenings

Lindsey Brayer 2024

HBS Health, Behavior and Society

Mentor: Nancy Chin

Social Science 

Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

 

Poster 3:  Behavioral Analysis and Implementation: Building support networks for individuals with ASD

Mia Canning 2024

BCS Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Mentor: Glenn Cerosaletti

Social Science 

Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

 

Poster 4:  Decentralizing Hotline Response with the City-Wide Tenants Union of Rochester

Molly Gorman 2025

AMS American Studies

ENG English

Mentor: Stuart Jordan

Social Science 

Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

 

Poster 5:  Translating the Sage II Commission Report

Pearl Brosterman 2024

IPA Interdepartmental Program:  Sustainable Development

Mentor: Eve Tulbert

Social Science 

Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

 

Poster 6:  NAE- Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Aashee Budhwani 2024

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Jeevisha Bajaj

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 7:  GCSP-Cybersecurity

Bohan Cui 2024

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

Mentor: Emma Derisi

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 8:  Advance Personalized Learning

Christine Bednarzh 2024

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Faculty Sponsor

Natural Science 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 9:  Examining Rates of Pseudoprogression in Older Patients with Glioblastoma

Derek Chien 2025

BET Bioethics

CHM Chemistry

Mentor: Nimish Mohile

Natural Science 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 10:  Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

Jaclyn Dron 2024

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

Mentor: UG Research

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 11:  GCSP - Katelyn Freebern

Katelyn Freebern 2024

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: UG Research

Natural Science 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 12:  RoSynth - 3D Bioprinting Solution

Medha Pan 2024

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Emma Derisi

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 13:  Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Advancing Personalized Learning

Riley Prewett 2024

CHE Chemical Engineering

Mentor: UG Research

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 14:  Developing Carbon Sequestration Methods

Stephany Correa-Diaz 2024

ME Mechanical Engineering / Geomechanics

Mentor: UG Research

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 15:  Saptasense: A Synthetic Biology Based Novel Solution

Sudarshan Ramanan 2025

BCB Biological Sciences: Computational Biology

Mentor: Emma Derisi

Natural Science 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 16:  RocLab

Thanothii Ganesh 2024

BSB Business (College Arts & Sciences)

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

Mentor: UG Research

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 17:  National Academy of Engineers - Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Tochukwu Iyke-Nzeocha 2024

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: UG Research

Engineering & Mathematics 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 18:  Engineering Better Medicines Through Synthetic Biology: The Journey of the 2023 iGEM Team RoSynth

Xupei Ou 2024

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Anne Meyer

Natural Science 

Hajim Grand Challenges Scholar

 

Poster 19:  The Democratization of Art through Technology: A Viennese Case Study

Robert Marcinauskis 2024

FEC Financial Economics

Mentor: Peter Christensen

Humanities 

Meliora Scholar

 

Poster 20:  Uncovering the hidden trafficking trade with geographic data and natural language processing

Rusmiya Aqid 2027

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

Mentor: Clayton Greenberg

Engineering & Mathematics 

Meliora Scholar

 

Poster 21:  Designing Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs to Break the Symmetry in Hierarchical Fibrous Materials

Aiden Ward 2025

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Benjamin Partridge

Natural Science 

 

Poster 22:  Bridging Accessibility Gaps: Developing The First COVID-19 Health Chatbot Tailored to the Deaf

Akber Ahmed 2024

Clinical and Translational Sciences

Mentor: Jose Perez-Ramos

Social Science 

 

Poster 23:  Determination of the Effects of Repetitive Head Trauma and Physical Exertion in Brain White Matter Integrity in Collegiate Football Players

Angel-lee Randone 2024

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Jeffrey Bazarian

Natural Science 

 

Poster 24:  The Role of Protein Kinase D on Lung Epithelial Barrier When Exposed to Diacetyl

Annie Yang 2024

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Steve Georas

Natural Science 

 

Poster 25:  ACROSS: Accessible Country-Relevant Outlier Selection System

Ben Noe 2024

DSC Data Science

Mentor: Cantay Caliskan

Social Science 

 

Poster 26:  The 3D bioprinting solution: harnessing microbes for sustainable compound synthesis

Catherine Xie 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

STT Statistics (College Arts & Sciences)

Mentor: Anne Meyer

Natural Science 

 

Poster 27:  How Red is a Ladybug? Examining Students' Beliefs about Variability in Biological Species

Cecelia Betts 2026

BCS Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Mentor: Karl Rosengren

Social Science 

 

Poster 28:  Probing Correlations between Different Types of Feature Selectivity in Inferior Colliculus of Awake Rabbit

Chenyang Li 2024

BCS Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Mentor: Laurel Carney

Natural Science 

 

Poster 29:  Clarifying the Heterogeneous Relationship Between Children’s Callous-Unemotional Traits and Their Externalizing Problems: The Moderating Role of Social Problem Solving

Christina Zhang 2024

PH Public Health

Mentor: Patrick Davies

Social Science 

 

Poster 30:  A Palette of Points: Color Analysis at the Haynie Site

Clarice McKee 2024

HIS History

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Kate Hughes

Social Science 

 

Poster 31:  Growth Properties of Suppressors of S. pombe pus1Δ  mutants

Conor Matz 2025

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Eric Phizicky

Natural Science 

 

Poster 32:  Rochester BLM Archive Project

Dania Flores Lopez 2026

CLT Comparative Literature

Mentor: Miranda Mims

Social Science 

 

Poster 33:  Modeling the Neural Encoding of Vowel Formants in the Midbrain

Daniel Pyskaty 2025

BCS Brain & Cognitive Sciences

LIN Linguistics

Mentor: Laurel Carney

Natural Science 

 

Poster 34:  Changes in Click Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions Reflect Cochlear Gain Changes That may Underlie Forward Masking

Daniela Matute 2025

CHE Chemical Engineering

Mentor: Laurel Carney

Natural Science 

 

Poster 35:  Insight Into Mambalgin Modulation of human ASIC1a: An Analysis of  Binding Affinity

Dante Hovancik 2024

BBC Biological Sciences: Biochemistry

Mentor: David MacLean

Natural Science 

 

Poster 36:  Health Disparities Between English and Non-English speakers in Rochester, NY

David Del Valle Ortiz 2025

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

HBS Health, Behavior and Society

Mentor: Courtney Jones

Social Science 

 

Poster 37:  Assessing the Accuracy of Electrical Resistivity Tomography at Modeling Subsurface Void Spaces of Varying Depths and Surroundings

Div Patel 2024

GEO Geological Sciences

PHY Physics

Mentor: R Shane McGary

Natural Science 

 

Poster 38:  Perceived Effectiveness of the Sources of Strength Intervention

Elaina Flynn 2025

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Karen Schmeelk-Cone

Social Science 

 

Poster 39:  Reproduction-Related Health Barriers to Women’s Successful Re-Entry After Incarceration: A Policy Literature Review

Elana Greenberg 2024

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Molly McNulty

Social Science 

 

Poster 40:  Preliminary Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Cas13b Accessory Csx27 Protein in Acrylic Acid-Co-Styrene Native Lipid Nanodisks

Elina Roshchupkina 2026

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Mitchell O'Connell

Natural Science 

 

Poster 41:  Hemithioindigo as a Photoswitch for Dissipative Self-Assembly

Eline van der Meer 2025

CHM Chemistry

Mentor: Benjamin Partridge

Natural Science 

 

Poster 42:  Pleistocene era population expansions and on-going gene flow between subspecies of the flame-rumped tanager inferred from demographic modeling

Elizabeth Croyle 2024

BEB Biological Sciences: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mentor: Al Uy

Natural Science 

 

Poster 43:  My English Fine: How Asian Americans Respond to Language Microaggressions

Elizabeth Zhang 2024

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Jeremy Jamieson

Social Science 

 

Poster 44:  Maternal Milk and Infant Fecal IgA Levels Positively Correlate with Rural Lifestyle and Protection Against Food Allergy in Infancy

Ellie Ponko 2025

BIO Biology

Mentor: Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo

Natural Science 

 

Poster 45:  Analysis of Cell Junctions in JAG1-Deficient Cochleae

Erin Esposito 2025

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Amy Kiernan

Natural Science 

 

Poster 46:  The Hunger Games: Neuronal Regulation of Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

Esther Lee 2026

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Gabriella Sterne

Natural Science 

 

Poster 47:  Aquaporin 4 Expression and Size Dependent Solute Movement in the Brain

Ethan Chang 2025

APM Applied Mathematics

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Maiken Nedergaard

Natural Science 

 

Poster 48:  Effect of 4-Aminopyridine on Chemotherapy-Induced Nephrotoxicity and Gastrointestinal Inflammation

George Ashji 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Mark Noble

Natural Science 

 

Poster 49:  Promoting Religious Empathy Through a Dance Experience

Giovanni Correa-Quinones 2024

BMK Business: Marketing

DSC Data Science

Mentor: Anne Wilcox

Humanities 

 

Poster 50:  Characterizing the Role of PRDM3 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Grace Widjaja 2026

BBC Biological Sciences: Biochemistry

MUS Music

Mentor: Archibald Perkins

Natural Science 

 

Poster 51:  Rooting for Equality: A Geospatial Analysis of Rochester’s Equitable Tree Planting Initiative

Graham Murphy 2024

ESP Environmental Studies (Bachelors)

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Karen Berger

Social Science 

 

Poster 52:  FTC vs Xerox: Examining the effects of compulsory licensing of patents

Ha Nguyen 2024

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Dan Alexander

Social Science 

 

Poster 53:  Effect of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum on dental caries prevention using a rat model

Hafeza Chowdhury 2026

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Yan Wu

Natural Science 

 

Poster 54:  The Effect of Framing on Climate Change Perception

Hanna Felber 2024

ESP Environmental Studies (Bachelors)

Mentor: Karen Berger

Natural Science 

 

Poster 55:  Cognitive Trajectories Post-Chemotherapy: A Comparative Study of BTACT Completion and Cognitive Recovery Pattern Implications in Breast Cancer and Lymphoma Patients

Hannah Teets 2024

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Michelle Janelsins

Natural Science 

 

Poster 56:  Dy(e)namics of Respiratory Defense: Profiling Tracheal Submucosal Gland Biology with Evans Blue

Hannah Zerman 2024

BIO Biology

Mentor: Taylor Jones

Natural Science 

 

Poster 57:  Virus candidate screening for gene therapy delivery targeting inner auditory structures

Jack White 2024

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Evan Newbold

Natural Science 

 

Poster 58:  Catalytic Dimethyl Ether Steam Reforming by Density Functional Theory

Jason Richards 2025

ME Mechanical Engineering

Mentor: Claire Yang

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 59:  Outer Retinal Blood Barrier On A Chip

Jordan Jones 2025

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: James McGrath

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 60:  Impact of the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Renal Gene Regulation in Mice

Jules Koudouovoh 2025

BBC Biological Sciences: Biochemistry

Mentor: Kavaljit Chhabra

Natural Science 

 

Poster 61:  The Contemporary Choreographic Process: Comparing Concert Dance and Social Media Performances

Julia Martin 2024

DCE Dance: Creative Expression & Performance

ESP Environmental Studies (Bachelors)

Mentor: Anne Harris Wilcox

Humanities 

 

Poster 62:  Dolomite Dilemmas: a Case Study of Social Justice and Tourism at a World Heritage Site

Julia Schiavoni 2025

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Nancy Chin

Social Science 

 

Poster 63:  Causal Dataset Discovery with Large Language Models

Junfei Liu 2024

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

Mentor: Fatemeh Nargesian

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 64:  Effects of Spartin on Lipophagy During Drosophila Oogenesis

Justin Anderson 2025

ENH Environmental Health

Mentor: Michael Welte

Natural Science 

 

Poster 65:  Microbe-Mediated Protection and the Effect of B. infantis on Intestinal Barrier Function

Justine Lam 2025

BIO Biology

Mentor: Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo

Natural Science 

 

Poster 66:  BOO! From Green to Grey: Using High-Resolution Imagery to Improve Remote Sensing of Ghost Forests and Coastal Forest Degradation from Space – NASA SARP East 2023

Kathleen Hall 2024

EVS Environmental Science

Mentor: Matthew Marcus

Natural Science 

 

Poster 67:  New Microseepage Measurements Imply Limited Geologic Methane Emissions from Appalachian and Michigan Sedimentary Basins.

Kathleen Hall 2024

EVS Environmental Science

Mentor: Vasilii Petrenko

Natural Science 

 

Poster 68:  Title: Identification of Mental Health and Lifestyle Behavioral Problems, and Mental Health Referrals Made Prior to and During a Family-Based Treatment Intervention to Improve Childhood Obesity in a Primary Care Setting

Kathy Mitchell 2026

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Anne Marie Conn

Natural Science 

 

Poster 69:  Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ERa) Signaling Mediates Pro-Tumor Neutrophil Activation in the Setting of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

Katie O'Leary 2025

BIO Biology

EST East Asian Studies

Mentor: Stephen Hammes

Natural Science 

 

Poster 70:  Dual Function Antibody Conjugate for Specific Imaging of Oral Tumor Cells

Kaylee Mai 2027

BBC Biological Sciences: Biochemistry

Mentor: Tayyaba Hasan

Natural Science 

 

Poster 71:  Changes in Accuracy and Precision of Fixational Eye Movements Over Time when performing the same visual task

Keerthana Danasekaran 2026

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

BSB Business (College Arts & Sciences)

Mentor: Martina Poletti

Social Science 

 

Poster 72:  Unveiling the Pixels: A Critical Analysis of Black Representation in Video Games

Kendal Jordan 2025

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Kristana Textor

Humanities 

 

Poster 73:  The effect of modifications to DNA structure on the architecture of condensed bacterial DNA with a nucleoid-associated protein

Kevin Zheng 2024

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Dr. Anne Meyer

Natural Science 

 

Poster 74:  A Right To Your Poop? A Scoping Review on the Ethics of Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19.

Krystal Ni 2025

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Katrina Korfmacher

Social Science 

 

Poster 75:  Expression of TRAF3 by mature osteoblasts protects mice from age- and menopausal-related osteoporosis

Leah Tang 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

HBS Health, Behavior and Society

Mentor: Zhenqiang Yao

Natural Science 

 

Poster 76:  Optimizing PHA assay for characterization of mouse tRNA-Tyrosine modification by TRMT1

Mackenzie Dillenbeck 2024

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Dragony Fu

Natural Science 

 

Poster 77:  Characterization of Geologic Methane Emissions via Microseepage in the San Juan Basin, USA

Margaret Scholer 2024

CHM Chemistry

EVS Environmental Science

Mentor: Vasilii Petrenko

Natural Science 

 

Poster 78:  Incorporation of Methionine Sulfoxides During Translation

Maria Ahmed 2026

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Sina Ghaemmaghami

Natural Science 

 

Poster 79:  The Effects Of Trauma Type On Arousal In A Threatening Environment

Mary Halvorsen 2025

BBC Biological Sciences: Biochemistry

Mentor: Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez

Natural Science 

 

Poster 80:  Democratic Norms and American Voters: Influence of Social Desirability Bias and Ideology

Matt Blyth 2024

PHY Physics

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Scott Abramson

Social Science 

 

Poster 81:  Do Anger and Anxiety Fuel Christian Nationalism? An Empirical Examination of Emotional Well-being’s Link with Social and Religious Beliefs

Meaghan Baker 2024

BIO Biology

PHL Philosophy

Mentor: Miron Zuckerman

Social Science 

 

Poster 83:  Pinpointing how parasitic manipulation mediates host gene expression during development

Natasha Vacca 2025

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy

Natural Science 

 

Poster 84:  Perception and adaptation of receptive prosody in autistic adolescents

Navya Soogoor 2025

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Chigusa Kurumada

Social Science 

 

Poster 85:  Role of PDE8B in pathological cardiac remodeling

Nichen Zhu 2025

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Si Chen

Natural Science 

 

Poster 86:  Reconstructing methane-related ocean acidification episodes in the Norwegian Sea

Norrie Ling 2026

EVS Environmental Science

Mentor: Chiara Borrelli

Natural Science 

 

Poster 87:  Tagmentation-based genomic mapping of Tol2 transgene insertion sites in zebrafish

Paige Schneider 2026

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Patrick Murphy

Natural Science 

 

Poster 88:  The Influence of Queer Identity on Political Beliefs and Behavior

Payge Vukelic 2024

PSC Political Science

WS Women’s Studies

Mentor: Scott Abramson

Social Science 

 

Poster 89:  Cas13b Accessory Protein Csx27 Localizes to the Inner Membrane

Pragathi Vivaik 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Mitchell O'Connell

Natural Science 

 

Poster 90:  Neural Mechanisms Contributing to Auditory Processing Disorders in Developmental Disabilities

Sarah Mehta 2025

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Emily Knight

Natural Science 

 

Poster 91:  Ki67 Regulates Inflammatory Signaling in Acute Lung Injury

Sarah Vesecky 2024

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Michael O'Reilly

Natural Science 

 

Poster 92:  Measuring Data Access Latency in Large CPU Caches

Shaotong Sun 2024

BSB Business (College Arts & Sciences)

CSC Computer Science (Bachelors Level)

PHL Philosophy

Mentor: Chen Ding

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 93:  Deciphering the Mechanism of Microglia-Driven Remodeling in Brain Extracellular Space Using SFA-FRAP Imaging

Showmick Paul 2025

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Edward Brown

Natural Science 

 

Poster 94:  Harnessing Tourism for Sustainable Development in Ladakh

Smit Kothari 2025

BIO Biology

HBS Health, Behavior and Society

Mentor: Nancy Chin

Social Science 

 

Poster 95:  The Role of BAG3 in Regulating Tau Accumulation in Response to Circadian Rhythm Disruption

Sofia Kaplan 2026

BCB Biological Sciences: Computational Biology

Mentor: Gail Johnson

Natural Science 

 

Poster 96:  Diagnosis and Tracking of Spinal Staphylococcus aureus Orthopaedic Implant Infections Using Chip-Based Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry (StaphAIR)

Sophia Lenigk 2024

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan

Natural Science 

 

Poster 97:  Synergistic Effects of an HDAC Inhibitor, a Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine, and an Immunocytokine in an HPV Tumor Model

Sreejato Chatterjee 2026

BCB Biological Sciences: Computational Biology

Mentor: Jeffery Schlom

Natural Science 

 

Poster 98:  Role of dopaminergic signaling in PDE10A-mediated regulation of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

Sumin Xu 2025

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Si Chen

Natural Science 

 

Poster 99:  High Levels of MSC Efferocytosis Causes Myeloid Skewing

Swachi Patel 2025

BCS Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Mentor: Laura Calvi

Natural Science 

 

Poster 100:  Local Wallets, Global Consequences: Investigating U.S. Taxpayers' Willingness to Finance Climate Action Abroad

Syeda Mahnoor Raza 2022

ENG English

PSC Political Science

Mentor: Scott Abramson

Social Science 

 

Poster 101:  Hospital predictors of participation in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) initiative

Tiana Grosskreuz 2025

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Caroline Thirukumaran

Social Science 

 

Poster 102:  Evaluating Follow-up Rates in Cancer Screening Interventions Among  Emergency Department Patients

Trisha Mondal 2027

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Beau Abar

Social Science 

 

Poster 103:  Dancing Between Languages: How Dance Training Can be Used as a Tool for Hearing ASL Students to Improve Their Role Shifting Skills

Tsipora Gil 2024

ASL American Sign Language

DST Dance Studies

Mentor: Anne Harris Wilcox

Humanities 

 

Poster 104:  Investigating How Acoustic and Musical Features Impact Perceptual Similarity with a Novel Corpus of Popular Songs and Covers

Vahni Tagirisa 2024

BME Biomedical Engineering

MUS Music

Mentor: Elise Piazza

Social Science 

 

Poster 105:  Comparative review of Bermudian Concrete With Varying Proportions of Ingredients Examining Tensile, Compressive, and Reparative Properties.

William Shaw 2025

ME Mechanical Engineering

Mentor: Michael Jarvis

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 106:  Serglycin Regulates Azurophilic Granule Formation in Neutrophils

Wimeth Dissanayake 2026

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Julia vom Blume

Natural Science 

 

Poster 107:  The role of D2R β-arrestin2-biased signaling in cardiomyocyte hypertropy

Xinyue Fan 2025

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Si Chen

Natural Science 

 

Poster 108:  Deciphering Smoke and Mirrors in Pancreatitis: Impact of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure

Xuke (Christina) Wang 2026

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

STT Statistics (College Arts & Sciences)

Mentor: Stephano Mello

Natural Science 

 

Poster 109:  Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Guided Gastrostomy to Prevent Colonic Injury

Yeidi Yuja Vaquiz 2025

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Mohammad Merhmohammadi

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 110:  The Impact of Social Media Use in Parent-Child Relationships

Yessica Arvizu 2024

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Jeremy Jamieson

Social Science 

 

Poster 111:  Enhancing Gene Delivery: Optimizing Non-Viral Transfection Methods for Lung Microvascular Endothelial Cells

Yu Re Nah 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: David Dean

Social Science 

 

Poster 112:  Cell morphology and calcium signaling relative to Osteoarthritis

Yufei Jiang 2024

BIO Biology

STT Statistics (College Arts & Sciences)

Mentor: Whasil Lee

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 113:  Analyzing Physical Parameters in Canandaigua Lake, 2005 to 2023

Yutong He 2025

CHE Chemical Engineering

Mentor: Karen Berger

Natural Science 

 

Poster 114:  Do hypoallergenic and lactose-reduced formulas contain more health-based structure-function claims than standard formulas?

Yuuna Miura 2025

Clinical and Translational Sciences

Mentor: Bridget Young

Natural Science 

 

Poster 115:  Photonic Bioassays Using the Miller Group Disposable Photonics Model

Zachary Greenwell 2027

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Benjamin Miller

Engineering & Mathematics 

 

Poster 116:  Using protein evolution tools to study protein interaction in coagulation cascade and complement cascade

Zhi Qu 2026

BCB Biological Sciences: Computational Biology

Mentor: John(Jack) Werren

Natural Science 

 

Poster 117:  Exploring the Functionalities of SIRT6 Self-Ribosylation and Enzymatic Activities

Zhihan Zhang 2024

BIO Biology

Mentor: Vera Gorbunova

Natural Science 

 

Poster 118:  The Effect of SBA Loans on Employment Growth

Ziyu Chen 2024

PSC Political Science

Mentor: David Primo

Social Science 

 

Poster 119:  ¿Quién es la mujer Nicaragüense? Identities and Expectations of the Revolutionary Period (1979-1990)

Amelia Kwak 2024

ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering

HIS History

Mentor: Molly Ball

Social Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 120:  Affect of N-Terminal Modifications on MSRs

Asghar Ali 2025

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Sina Ghaemmaghami

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 121:  Rapid Semi-Manual Annotation of Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis Using the ImageJ Plugin Seg2Tracks

Audrey Chung 2026

BIO Biology

Mentor: Charles Chu

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 122:  Impact of drug and light dose parameters on the efficacy of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

Darrian Hawryluk 2025

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Timothy Baran

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 123:  Uncovering the Effect of Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Phosphorylated Tau on Optineurin

Emily Chen 2025

PSY Psychology

Mentor: Gail Johnson

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 124:  C. albicans Enhances Keratinocyte-Mediated Epidermal Protease Activity

Flora Wang 2026

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Matthew Brewer

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 125:  Skeletal Muscle Wasting in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Joseph Malik 2025

BMG Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics

Mentor: Calvin Cole

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 126:  Precision Matters: Evaluating Blood Loss Quantification and Management in Neurosurgery

Julia Chrisbacher 2024

BNS Biological Sciences: Neuroscience

Mentor: Julia Chrisbacher

Engineering & Mathematics 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 127:  Defining the Factors that Determine Bacteriophage Infection in Staphylococcus aureus

Katherine Kaiser 2025

BMB Biological Sciences: Microbiology

Mentor: Andrew Varble

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 128:  Formylation facilitates the reduction of oxidized initiator methionines

Margaret Hoare 2024

BCH Biochemistry

Mentor: Sina Ghaemmaghami

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 129:  Chirality Transfer in Supramolecular Chaperones

Marvin Wu 2026

CHM Chemistry & CTS Clinical and Translational Sciences

Mentor: Benjamin Partridge

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 130:  DNA Repair, Epigenetic Regulation, Inflammation, and Senescence in cells isolated from SIRT6 S10 Mutant Mice

Mila Kaplan 2026

BCD Biological Sciences: Cell & Development

Mentor: Vera Gorbunova

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 131:  Dinuclear Iminopyridone Nickel Complexes and Their Reactivity

Rebecca Reagan 2025

CHM Chemistry

Mentor: Rose Kennedy

Natural Science 

Schwartz Discover Grant

 

Poster 132:  Incorporating Syntactic Features Improves the Ability to Model Electroencephalogram (EEG) Responses to Natural Speech

Sophea Urbi Biswas 2025

BME Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Edmund Lalor

Engineering & Mathematics 

Schwartz Discover Grant