POSTER HALL 5: Cell, Micro, & Molecular Biology
Rizelle Jugarap
The Reclaiming Nature, Hood to Woods Project to Protect Telomere Ends investigates walking in nature as a possible intervention for protecting telomeres against the negative effects of chronic stress in Black, Latinx
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Vanna Tran
During cell division, the cell must accurately segregate its chromosomes to its two daughter cells and errors in this process can lead to birth defects and diseases such as cancer.
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Mira Mastoras
Accurate genome assemblies are essential for biological research, but even the highest quality assemblies retain errors caused by the technologies used to construct them.
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Faye Orcales
Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease associated with a polygenic basis of inheritance.
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Madison Cuaron-Raub
How do cells decide what gets passed on to the next generation?
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Arthur Ramos Reyes
I investigate how toxic metals affect vacuole inheritance and structure in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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Tanner Stevenson
Dopamine is a crucial signaling molecule released throughout all animals’ brains that is involved in learning, motivation, and decision making—fundamental capacities that allow animals to behave flexibly.
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Chloe Wohlenberg
My research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying how the cell targets and degrades problematic mRNAs
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Benjamin Lesch
Global blood shortages highlight the urgent need for scalable, lab-grown red blood cells.
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Mika Matera-Vatnick
GLP-1 receptor agonists are highly effective treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes, but about one-third of patients do not lose a meaningful amount of weight
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Belmaliz Cardona Rodriguez
Sjogren’s disease and other autoimmune diseases are caused by immune cell hyperactivation, leading to tissue damage and organ dysfunction.
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Monet Yuan
The gut harbors the largest HIV reservoir and is distinguished from other tissue sites by its complex and diverse microbiome.
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Micah Fernando
I work on developing and characterizing small molecule Rab GTPase probes.
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Christine Boutros
Valley Fever is a fungal disease caused by Coccidioides that can disseminate to the central nervous system, leading to severe and often fatal meningitis.
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