2020-2021
| Aaron Ahdoot 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Jacobs Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Effect of Stress on Microbial Diversity in Individuals with Ulcerative Colitis |
| Misa Belser 2020-2021 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Walker Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology Project: How mitophagy receptors affect lifespan and potential therapies for age-onset diseases |
| Anisha Chandra 2020-2021 Major: Pre Human Biology and Society (BS) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elaine Hsiao Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology Project: Determining Effects of Bacterial Complex Carbohydrate Utilization on Host Food Preference Behavior |
| Poojita Dasika 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Clubb Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Characterization of CR domains in heme-binding proteins of Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
| Ezekiel Delgado 2020-2021 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Claudio Villanueva Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology Project: Understanding the impact of altered pyruvate metabolism in adipocytes |
| Sarah Enayati 2020-2021 Major: Mechanical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Raymond Spearrin Faculty Mentor Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Project: Adaptive Camless Engine for High-Efficiency Power Generation |
| Vera Fan 2020-2021 Major: Biophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dan Ruan Faculty Mentor Department: Radiation Oncology Project: Synergizing deep learning and model driven method in synthesizing MRA for clinical evaluation |
| Michelle Fu 2020-2021 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Tripati Faculty Mentor Department: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Project: Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Environmental DNA in Determining Aquatic BiodiveMeta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Environmental DNA in Determining Aquatic Biodiversityrsity |
| Jacqueline Fuentes 2020-2021 Major: Human Biology and Society (BS) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Adam Schickedanz Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Clinical Developmental Delay in Young Children at Harbor-UCLA Pediatrics |
| Rohit Ghosh 2020-2021 Major: Precomputational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pavak Shah Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Method for C. elegans Gene Annotation in Neuronal Development with Single-Cell Data/Genetic Screens |
| Charles Gu 2020-2021 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andreas Schwingshackl Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics Project: Regulation of alveolar epithelial and endothelial cell activation by large conductance K+ channels |
| Vanessa Hilo 2020-2021 Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Fanselow Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Project: |
| Celine Hoh 2020-2021 Major: Precomputational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Gandal Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Project: Expression quantitative trait loci in the human fetal brain during first and second trimester |
| Kelly Huang 2020-2021 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justine Lee Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery Project: Long-Term Psychosocial Development of Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate |
| Aarshi Jain 2020-2021 Major: Marine Biology Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Modelling bacteria-enhanced thermal tolerance in Pseudo-nitzschia |
| Kevin Jiang 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Hoffmann Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Project: Predicting mRNA expression features and kinetic parameters with Histone ChIP-seq Data |
| Thomas Lai 2020-2021 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Prins Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Project: Re-expression of NY-ESO-1 via demethylation for adoptive T-cell therapy in glioblastoma. |
| Ethan Lam 2020-2021 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lawren Sack Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Is the Plasticity of California Tree Species Related to their Climatic Ranges? |
| Courtney Lau 2020-2021 Major: Computational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chao Peng Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: Molecular mechanisms behind the distinct spreading patterns of different a-synuclein conformations |
| Lucia Liu 2020-2021 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Madhuri Wadehra Faculty Mentor Department: Pathology Project: Investigating the Oncogenic Role of EMP2 in Invasive and In Situ Ductal Carcinoma |
| Kristopher Ngo 2020-2021 Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Lieberman Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Project: |
| Will Sander 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Albert Courey Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: SUMO and its Role in the Ras/MAPK Pathway |
| Melodie Sloneker 2020-2021 Major: Astrophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Smadar Naoz Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Supernova kicks: effects on stellar and compact object density distributions at the galactic center. |
| Mika Sonnleitner 2020-2021 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Caram Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Characterizing the energy transfer between mercury-chalcogenide quantum dots and nanoplatelets |
| Menna Sun 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margot Quinlan Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Candidate-based Screen of Protein Components of Actin Mesh Regulation in Drosophila Oogenesis |
| Laurie Tan 2020-2021 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Caram Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Investigating the Photophysics of SWIR Emitting HgTe Nanocrystals |
| Justin Tso 2020-2021 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim-Lien Nguyen Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Analyzing Tetralogy of Fallot Using Computational Fluid Dynamics and Statistical Shape Analysis |
| Vicente Velasquez 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margot Quinlan Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Determination of methylation site in purified FHOD3L mammalian formin C-terminal tail region |
| Amy Vichaidit 2020-2021 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kent Hill Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Project: Monitoring cAMP levels during Trypanosoma cruzi host infection |
| Jianping Ye 2020-2021 Major: Applied Mathematics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Samy Wu Fung Faculty Mentor Department: Math Project: Adaptive Uncertainty-Weighted ADMM for Optimization |
| Lorena Zhang 2020-2021 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Silverman Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology Project: Using FDG-PET Scans to Predict The Likelihood of Falling of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| Shannon Zhuang 2020-2021 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Juli Feigon Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Structural Characterization of Tetrahymena Telomere-Binding Proteins |
2019-2020
| Faizan Anwar 2019-2020 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Keith Nuechterlein Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences Project: Changes in regions of Broca's Area of First Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
| Melissa Bu 2019-2020 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Willy Hugo Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Dermatology Project: The Effect of Interferon Gamma on Melanoma Progression under MAPK Inhibitor Therapy |
| Daniel Callos 2019-2020 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zhongbo Kang Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Extracting Polarizing Fragmentation Functions from Recent BELLE Data |
| Jovian Cheung 2019-2020 Major: Cognitive Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry Project: The Role of Medial Prefrontal Neurons in Cost-Benefit Decision Making |
| Michelle Chiang 2019-2020 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Huan Meng Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Nano Medicine Project: Evaluating the Tumor Targeting Effects of Novel, pH-Sensitive Chemo-Immunotherapy Nanocarriers |
| Raymond Chu 2019-2020 Major: Applied Mathematics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marcus Roper Faculty Mentor Department: Mathematics Project: Inertial Migration of Particles |
| Alana Dodero 2019-2020 Major: Mathematics/Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jasper Kok Faculty Mentor Department: Atmospheric And Oceanic Science Project: Correcting meas. of dust particle size to better determine their effects on Earth's radiation budget |
| Andrew Evans 2019-2020 Major: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Blumstein Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Project: A test of producer-scrounger dynamics and associated traits in marmots (Marmota flaviventer) |
| Garret Guyot 2019-2020 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Teitell Faculty Mentor Department: Pathology Project: Establishing Neuronal Models for Mitochondrial Disorders |
| Yuqing Huang 2019-2020 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Fanselow Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Project: Effect of Increased AMPAR Subunit Expression Within the BLA on Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning |
| Laila Khorasani 2019-2020 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Neil Harris Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Project: Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in rat upper limb function following traumatic brain injury. |
| Caroline Koloff 2019-2020 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology Project: The effects of E-Cigarettes on lung epithelial cells |
| Adira Kruayatidee 2019-2020 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gal Bitan Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: "Biomarkers in brain-derived blood exosomes for improved parkinsonian disorders diagnosis " |
| Ling Ho Lam 2019-2020 Major: Electrical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jean-Luc Margot Faculty Mentor Department: Earth, Planetary, And Space Sciences Project: A Machine Learning Solution for Modeling Shapes and Spins of Near Earth Asteroids |
| Kalsuda Lapborisuth 2019-2020 Major: Computational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matteo Pellegrini Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: A Modified Entropy-Based Approach to Investigate the Variation of Epigenetic Landscape Overtime |
| Jiani Li 2019-2020 Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Lieberman Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Project: Does Self-Affirmation Shape Emotions in the Brain? |
| Shiqing Liao 2019-2020 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hong Zhou Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Project: Investigate Glycoprotein B, D and H/L of Pseudorabies Virus by Cryo Electron Tomography |
| Daniel Mashiach 2019-2020 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey H Miller Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Project: Using 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide for a Mutation Detection System in the ThyA gene of Escherichia coli |
| Hieu Nguyen 2019-2020 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jorge Torres Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Project: Identifying Chemical Targets to Modify Senescence |
| Minh Nguyen 2019-2020 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Graeber Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology Project: Characterization of the Evolutionary Trajectories of Tumors in Glioblastoma Model Systems |
| Zhengyang Sun 2019-2020 Major: Human Biology and Society (BS) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hilary Coller Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: Explore if anti-TCRβ treatment rescues smaller size melanoma tumors in autophagy deficient mice |
| Corisa Wong 2019-2020 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Paulson Faculty Mentor Department: Atmospheric And Oceanic Science Project: Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter from Brake and Tire Wear |
| Coco Wu 2019-2020 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chong Liu Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Project: Photocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen by a CdTe:Xanthobacter Autotrophicus Biohybrid |
| Keqin Yan 2019-2020 Major: Astrophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Hudson Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: The Investigation of Ba-133 as Qubit |
| Grace Yang 2019-2020 Major: Human Biology and Society (BS) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elaine Hsiao Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: Defining the role of hydrogen sulfide-producing bacteria in mediating cognitive deficits |
| Lekha Yaramada 2019-2020 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey H Miller Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Project: Exploring Mutagenic Synergy between the Base Analog 2-Aminopurine and Azidothymidine |
| James Yoon 2019-2020 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jochen Stutz Faculty Mentor Department: Atmospheric And Oceanic Science Project: Investigation on the atmospheric chemistry of nitrous acid, HONO, in the polluted atmosphere |
| Timothy Yu 2019-2020 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Vallim Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Cardiology Project: Deconstructing the combinatorial effects of proteins in hepatic lipogenesis regulation |
2018-2019
| Trisha Agarwal 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology Project: Modeling and Enhancing Mucociliary Clearance in Pulmonary Disease using Airway Basal Stem Cells |
| Jacob Alderete 2018-2019 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cahill Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: The Role of Peripheral Mu-Receptors in Mediating the Affective Dimension of Chronic Pain |
| Marianna Aslanyan 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Elucidating the Function of Critical Transcription Factors for Human Germline Formation |
| Nikoo Dalili 2018-2019 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Krantz Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: A Strategy for Mapping the Subcellular localization of a Serotonin Receptor |
| Zena Marie Del Mundo 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Bensinger Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Project: Reprogramming of Macrophage Mitochondrial Function Through Activation of Toll-Like Receptors |
| Luke Elissiry 2018-2019 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chong Liu Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry And Biochemistry Project: Encapsulation of Microbes in Inorganic Nanomaterials to Promote Plant Growth |
| Alexis May Elliott 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kent Hill Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Project: Determining the cAMP-dependent Phosphoproteome of the Trypanosoma brucei flagellum tip |
| Iris Feng 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Atsushi Nakano Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Glucose as a Promoter of Cardiac Regeneration |
| Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: In vitro generation of late stage primordial germ cell-like cells in xenogeneic reconstituted testis |
| China Hagstrom 2018-2019 Major: Aerospace Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Spearrin Faculty Mentor Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Project: Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Combustion Efficiency in Hybrid Rockets |
| Jeffrey Huang 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Douglas Black Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Project: Evaluating the functional correlation between yeast PRP18 and human hPRPF18 splicing factors |
| Alina Lynn Kochocki 2018-2019 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rene Ong Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Characterization of GAPS Time of Flight System |
| Priya Kohli 2018-2019 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Phelps Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: The Role of Reelin in the Olfactory System |
| Ming Suet (Isabelle) Kwan 2018-2019 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Isaac Yang Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Project: Bioengineered Nanoparticle Vault Coupled with NY-ESO-1 in Glioma Murine Model |
| Christian Lapitan 2018-2019 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nagendra Mishra Faculty Mentor Department: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center - Infectious Diseases Project: Staphylococcal Carotenogenesis in Resistance to Host Defense Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides |
| Karen Leung 2018-2019 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Dumesic Faculty Mentor Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology Project: "Reversing Altered Adipogenesis in Normal Weight PCOS Women Through Use of Anti-Androgen Flutamide" |
| Christy Luong 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Plath Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: A study of the dynamic behavior of Xist RNA by live-cell super resolution microscopy |
| Jane My Ly 2018-2019 Major: Nursing Faculty Mentor: Dr. Wendie Robbins Faculty Mentor Department: Nursing Project: Multiple Vitamins and Supplement Combinations on Sperm Parameters in Infertility Patients |
| Shreya Mantri 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Utpal Banerjee Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Investigating the process of progenitor cell differentiation in the Drosophila larval lymph gland |
| Lior Peretz 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amander Clark Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Naive Pluripotency Transcription Factors in Human Primordial Germ Cell Development |
| Andres Rodriguez 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Oliver Fregoso Faculty Mentor Department: MIMG Project: Identifying Target Proteins Important for Vpr DNA Damage Response Activation |
| Kyle Sheu 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Graeber Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology Project: Mapping the Genetic Dependencies of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer Cells |
| Ashley Shirriff 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kelsey Martin Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: CREB-Regulated Transcriptional Coactivator 1 (CRTC1) Activity in Differentiated Neuronal Cell Lines |
| Rachelle Stark 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rachelle Watson Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: Elucidating sarcospan's role in cardiac tissue and heart physiology |
| Kristen Stefanescu 2018-2019 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Larry Hoffman Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery-Head & Neck Project: Cisplatin-Induced Inner Ear Epithelial Lesions: The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Afferent Dendrites |
| Spenser Talkington 2018-2019 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rahul Roy Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Towards Analytic Chern Numbers, and Critical Exponents in the "Quartic Hofstadter" Model of Solids |
| Xinran Tang 2018-2019 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yung-Ya Lin Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Enhanced r1, r2 in Nanostructure |
| Kimberly Uehisa 2018-2019 Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tamara Horwich Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine-Cardiology Project: A Text-Messaging Program to Promote UCLA Student Heart Health and Wellness |
| Sara Varadharajulu 2018-2019 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edward Lee Faculty Mentor Department: Radiological Sciences Project: Examining the Trajectory of post-TIPS HE Patients with ePTFE Covered vs Bare Stents |
| Brandon Vong 2018-2019 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Jacobsen Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: "Targeted Demthylation of FWA promoter with SUNTAG-TET1 using Tobacco Rattle Virus to deliver gRNAs" |
| Emily Wang 2018-2019 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Lu Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery 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 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 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 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 Project: Self-Assembly of Nanowires by Dye Aggregate Substrates |
| Vicente Capistrano 2017-2018 Major: Biophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Caprioli Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology 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 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 Project: Classifying Kosmotropes and Chaotropes Using Nano-Rheology |
| Shelley Cheng 2017-2018 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Smadar Naoz Faculty Mentor Department: Physics & Astronomy 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 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 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 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 Project: Antibiotic induced frameshift mutagenesis in E. Coli |
| Kartik Garg 2017-2018 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Project: Sleep Homeostasis in Socially Enriched Flies |
| Nikitha Pothireddy 2017-2018 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Dumesic Faculty Mentor Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology 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 Project: Slow-release fertilizer using waste materials |
| Harjas Sabharwal 2017-2018 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Williams Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Project: The Study of Gaze Fixation and Upper Body Movements to Improve the Development of Assistive Robotics |