2019-2020
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2018-2019
| Trisha Agarwal 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology Funding: Project: Modeling and Enhancing Mucociliary Clearance in Pulmonary Disease using Airway Basal Stem Cells |
| Jacob Alderete 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cahill Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Funding: Project: The Role of Peripheral Mu-Receptors in Mediating the Affective Dimension of Chronic Pain |
| Marianna Aslanyan 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Elucidating the Function of Critical Transcription Factors for Human Germline Formation |
| Nikoo Dalili 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Krantz Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Funding: Project: A Strategy for Mapping the Subcellular localization of a Serotonin Receptor |
| Zena Marie Del Mundo 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Bensinger Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Funding: Project: Reprogramming of Macrophage Mitochondrial Function Through Activation of Toll-Like Receptors |
| Luke Elissiry 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chong Liu Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Funding: Project: Encapsulation of Microbes in Inorganic Nanomaterials to Promote Plant Growth |
| Alexis May Elliott 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kent Hill Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Funding: Project: Determining the cAMP-dependent Phosphoproteome of the Trypanosoma brucei flagellum tip |
| Iris Feng 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Atsushi Nakano Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Glucose as a Promoter of Cardiac Regeneration |
| Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: In vitro generation of late stage primordial germ cell-like cells in xenogeneic reconstituted testis |
| China Hagstrom 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Spearrin Faculty Mentor Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Funding: Project: Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Combustion Efficiency in Hybrid Rockets |
| Jeffrey Huang 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Douglas Black Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Funding: Project: Evaluating the functional correlation between yeast PRP18 and human hPRPF18 splicing factors |
| Alina Lynn Kochocki 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rene Ong Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Funding: Project: Characterization of GAPS Time of Flight System |
| Priya Kohli 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Phelps Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Funding: Project: The Role of Reelin in the Olfactory System |
| Ming Suet (Isabelle) Kwan 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Isaac Yang Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Funding: Project: Bioengineered Nanoparticle Vault Coupled with NY-ESO-1 in Glioma Murine Model |
| Christian Lapitan 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nagendra Mishra Faculty Mentor Department: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center - Infectious Diseases Funding: Project: Staphylococcal Carotenogenesis in Resistance to Host Defense Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides |
| Karen Leung 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Dumesic Faculty Mentor Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology Funding: Project: "Reversing Altered Adipogenesis in Normal Weight PCOS Women Through Use of Anti-Androgen Flutamide" |
| Christy Luong 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Plath Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Funding: Project: A study of the dynamic behavior of Xist RNA by live-cell super resolution microscopy |
| Jane My Ly 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Wendie Robbins Faculty Mentor Department: Nursing Funding: Project: Multiple Vitamins and Supplement Combinations on Sperm Parameters in Infertility Patients |
| Shreya Mantri 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Utpal Banerjee Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Investigating the process of progenitor cell differentiation in the Drosophila larval lymph gland |
| Lior Peretz 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Naive Pluripotency Transcription Factors in Human Primordial Germ Cell Development |
| Andres Rodriguez 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Oliver Fregoso Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Funding: Project: Identifying Target Proteins Important for Vpr DNA Damage Response Activation |
| Kyle Sheu 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Graeber Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology Funding: Project: Mapping the Genetic Dependencies of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer Cells |
| Ashley Shirriff 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kelsey Martin Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Funding: Project: CREB-Regulated Transcriptional Coactivator 1 (CRTC1) Activity in Differentiated Neuronal Cell Lines |
| Rachelle Stark 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rachelle Watson Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Funding: Project: Elucidating sarcospan's role in cardiac tissue and heart physiology |
| Kristen Stefanescu 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Larry Hoffman Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery-Head & Neck Funding: Project: Cisplatin-Induced Inner Ear Epithelial Lesions: The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Afferent Dendrites |
| Spenser Talkington 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rahul Roy Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Funding: Project: Towards Analytic Chern Numbers, and Critical Exponents in the "Quartic Hofstadter" Model of Solids |
| Xinran Tang 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yung-Ya Lin Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Funding: Project: Enhanced r1, r2 in Nanostructure |
| Kimberly Uehisa 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tamara Horwich Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine-Cardiology Funding: Project: A Text-Messaging Program to Promote UCLA Student Heart Health and Wellness |
| Sara Varadharajulu 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edward Lee Faculty Mentor Department: Radiological Sciences Funding: Project: Examining the Trajectory of post-TIPS HE Patients with ePTFE Covered vs Bare Stents |
| Brandon Vong 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Jacobsen Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: "Targeted Demthylation of FWA promoter with SUNTAG-TET1 using Tobacco Rattle Virus to deliver gRNAs" |
| Emily Wang 2018-2019 Major: Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Lu Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Funding: Project: The role of somatostatin in the cervical spinal respiratory circuit |
2017-2018
| Milad Azimi 2017-2018 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Kamei Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Funding: Project: Incorporation of Iron Oxide Nanozymes in LFA for Signal Enhancement and Detection of Malaria Antigen |
| Alis Balayan 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sophie Deng Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Funding: Project: Mesenchymal stem cells for corneal repair |
| Justin Buchanan 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Hoffmann Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Funding: Project: Exploring differential transcription factor activation in response to interferons |
| Danielle Cadena 2017-2018 Major: Chemistry-Material Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Caram Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Funding: Project: Self-Assembly of Nanowires by Dye Aggregate Substrates |
| Vicente Capistrano 2017-2018 Major: Biophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Caprioli Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Funding: Project: Comparing Algorithms of Glaucoma Rate Index and Guided Progression Analysis |
| Nitika Chellappa 2017-2018 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Song Li Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Funding: Project: Small Molecule and Biophysical Control Over Adult Mouse Neuronal Reprogramming Efficiency |
| Daphne Chen 2017-2018 Major: Biophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Giovanni Zocchi Faculty Mentor Department: Physics & Astronomy Funding: Project: Classifying Kosmotropes and Chaotropes Using Nano-Rheology |
| Shelley Cheng 2017-2018 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Smadar Naoz Faculty Mentor Department: Physics & Astronomy Funding: Project: On the triple nature of the binary star system Par 1802 in the Orion Nebula |
| Jessica Chern 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Bradley Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Funding: Project: Characterizations of Novel Components of the Toxoplasma Inner Membrane Complex |
| Jacqueline Do 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mario Deng Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Cardiology Funding: Project: Potential Cognitive Biomarkers in Predicting Heart Failure Patient Outcomes |
| Saeed Fathi 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Harley Kornblum Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences Funding: Project: The effect of reactive oxygen species on the enhancement of proliferation of IDH I mutant glioblasto |
| Kristen Fernandez 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Miller Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Funding: Project: Antibiotic induced frameshift mutagenesis in E. Coli |
| Kartik Garg 2017-2018 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics Funding: Project: Ciliary Dysfunction and its Possible Effects on Bronchiolization in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| Tatsuya Ishikawa 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ram Raj Singh Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Funding: Project: Role of Sex Chromosomes in Conferring Sex Dimorphism in Angiotensin II-Induced Fibrosis |
| Gerardo Javier 2017-2018 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matteo Pellegrini Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Digital Quantification of Immune Cell Subsets using Methylation Patterns from Adjacent CpG Islands |
| Matthew Ji 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Weiss Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Funding: Project: Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces for Cell Deformation Microfluidic Devices and Cargo Delivery |
| Joyce Samson 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guillaume Chanfreau Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Funding: Project: The Importance of PRP18 in RNA Splicing Specificity and Fidelity |
| Tiffany Ju 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Kitchen Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Hematology-Oncology Funding: Project: Improving Efficacy of Anti-HIV CD4-Chimeric Antigen Receptor Through Cytokine Expression |
| Emily (So Youn) Lee 2017-2018 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Kamei Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Funding: Project: Fundamental Investigation of Aqueous Two-Phase Systems in Hydrogels |
| Diane Lee 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Bradley Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Funding: Project: Function of One-Sided Proteins on Inner Membrane Complex in Toxoplasma gondii |
| Alan Li 2017-2018 Major: Biophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ke Sheng Faculty Mentor Department: Radiation Oncology Funding: Project: Monte Carlo calculations of Cerrobend to brass conversions for total-body irradiation |
| Jesus Lopez Baltazar 2017-2018 Major: Chemical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Kaner Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Funding: Project: Chemical Sensors from Common Polymeric Waste Material Reusing Eraser Shavings |
| Shaili Mathur 2017-2018 Major: Computational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Van Savage Faculty Mentor Department: Biomathematics Funding: Project: Explaining Eagle Effect:Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, Drug Self-suppression and Cell Response |
| Tatiana Mengistu 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Carmichael Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Funding: Project: Molecular mechanisms of white matter repair after white matter stroke and rehabilitation |
| Julia Nakamura 2017-2018 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julienne Bower Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Funding: Project: Childhood Adversity in HPA-Axis Mechanisms and Inflammatory Responses |
| Matthew Obusan 2017-2018 Major: Human Biology and Society (BS) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matteo Pellegrini Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Funding: Project: Eaf3 recruits splicing factors to influence splicing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Claire Page 2017-2018 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yi Tang Faculty Mentor Department: Chemical Engineering Funding: Project: Engineering of Polyketide Synthase-Carnitine Acyl Transferase Fusion Proteins |
| Lucia Page-Harley 2017-2018 Major: Cognitive Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peyman Golshani Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Funding: Project: Effect of Hippocampal Cell Deletions on Theta Oscillations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy |
| Ethan Pak 2017-2018 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joanne Weidhaas Faculty Mentor Department: Radiation Oncology Funding: Project: miRNAs regulate EMT in MCF10A KRAS-variant cells |
| Amara Pang 2017-2018 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Chute Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Funding: Project: Discovery of a small molecule inhibiting the Lin28/Let-7 Axis in Hematological cancers |
| Nisha Patel 2017-2018 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim-Lien Nguyen Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Funding: Project: Left Atrial Function in Children and Young Adult Cancer Survivors Treated with Anthracyclines |
| Patricia (Yu-Chun) Peng 2017-2018 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Donlea Faculty Mentor Department: Neurobiology Funding: Project: Sleep Homeostasis in Socially Enriched Flies |
| Nikitha Pothireddy 2017-2018 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Dumesic Faculty Mentor Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology Funding: Project: Implications of Cumulus Cell Resistance to Stress on Oocyte Developmental Competence |
| Merrick (Md) Rahman 2017-2018 Major: Civil Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sanjay Mohanty Faculty Mentor Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering Funding: Project: Slow-release fertilizer using waste materials |
| Harjas Sabharwal 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Williams Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Funding: Project: Analysis of the Time Course of Photoreceptor Outer Segment Shedding in the CD-1 Mouse |
| Baochen She 2017-2018 Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robijn Bruinsma Faculty Mentor Department: Physics & Astronomy Funding: Project: Investigation of Landau Theory in HIV virion Budding Process |
| Lauren Ton 2017-2018 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sophie Deng Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Funding: Project: The Role of DLL1 in Human Limbal Stem Cells |
| Dana Tran 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Carmichael Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Funding: Project: Effects of Drug Treatment on Post Stroke Recovery in MCAO Mouse Model |
| Jerry Trinh 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Huiying Li Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology Funding: Project: Computational Analysis of Propionibacterium acnes Strain Populations in the Skin Microbiome |
| Xinyi Yan 2017-2018 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nathan Kraft Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Funding: Project: Incorporating Plant-soil feedback into plant coexistence theory |
| Jessica Zhao 2017-2018 Major: Chemical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yi Tang Faculty Mentor Department: Chemical Engineering Funding: Project: Maximizing Fungal Biosynthetic Potential for Novel Drug Leads with CRISPR |
| Kevin Zhao 2017-2018 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ekihiro Seki Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Funding: Project: Role of IL-22 in a therapeutic effect of a new TLR7 ligand 1Z1 on mouse alcoholic steatohepatitis |
| Daniela Zokaeim 2017-2018 Major: Linguistics and Computer Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Veronica Santos Faculty Mentor Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Funding: Project: The Study of Gaze Fixation and Upper Body Movements to Improve the Development of Assistive Robotics |