2022-2023
| Michelle Ai 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guillaume Chanfreau Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Effect of Prp18p-related splicing factors on non-canonical splicing repression |
| Kaitlyn Shen-Wen Ang 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Olujimi Ajijola Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Neuronal and glial structural remodeling after myocardial infarction in the murine stellate ganglion |
| Enrico Ysmael Santiago Arambulo 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carla Koehler Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Restoring Protein Localization in a Human Cell Model of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 |
| Aaliyah Nicole Balagtas 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Shackelford Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care Project: Investigating mitochondrial remodeling as a mechanism of chemo-sensitization in lung cancer |
| Rodrigo Baltazar-Nunez 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Vallim Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Analyzing the effects of BAAT, AKR1D1, and AKR1C14 deficiency on lipid and bile acid metabolism |
| Noelia Barajas-Mendoza 2022-2023 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Crompton Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery Project: Reprogramming of Sarcoma Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| Soulaimane Bentaleb 2022-2023 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Wentai Liu Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Unsupervised Classification of Interictal iEEG Activity as Pathological or Physiological in Epilepsy Patients |
| Sarah Mina Bialo 2022-2023 Major: Mechanical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xiaochun Li Faculty Mentor Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Project: Developing Zinc Matrix Nanocomposites for Bioresorbable Stents (BRS) |
| Caitlyn Jodie Brahim 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Jacobs Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Characterization of Stress Response in Mice Colonized with Stress Reactivity-Associated Microbiota |
| Rebecca Anne Brown 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Koki Morizono Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: B-cell receptor specificities of lentivirally transduced B-cells |
| Noe Cazares Jr 2022-2023 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Zeiger Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: A Novel Vibrotactile Whisker Discrimination Task to Investigate Functional Remapping After Stroke |
| James Donald Chen 2022-2023 Major: Applied Mathematics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aaron Palmer Faculty Mentor Department: Mathematics Project: Fictitious Gradient Descent |
| Julia Chen 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Feng Guo Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: Dual Luciferase Reporters for SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitory Oligonucleotides |
| Reanne Joanna Coutinho 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor Department: Dr. Alexander Spokoyny Project: Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Hy Ba Dao 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Crompton Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery Project: Tissue regeneration with adipose derived stem cell in irradiated wounds of sarcoma |
| Mattias Sebastian De Los Rios Rogers 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Graeber Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Project: Effect of Aneuploidy on Oncogene Independence in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer |
| Emir Arda Deger 2022-2023 Major: Electrical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aydogan Ozcan Faculty Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Project: Training of Diffractive Optical Network Architectures |
| Jeffrey Kenneth Doeve 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Roxana Radu Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Project: Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Stargardt RPE Models |
| Rachel Dove 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Goldstein Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Project: Initiating oncogenesis in iPSC-derived prostate epithelium to assess tumor-immune cell interactions |
| Zoe Fu-Chen 2022-2023 Major: Marine Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Morgan Tingley Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Gender of Study Authors and Separation of Female and Male Bird Survival Rates |
| Jackie Gallardo Beltran 2022-2023 Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Correa and Dr. Ed van Veen Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology Project: The Role of ARC-Specific ERα expressing Kiss1 Neurons in Tamoxifen-induced Hot Flashes |
| Spencer Stephen Gaut 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Owen Witte Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism in Small Cell Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer |
| Hugo Pierre Greenhill 2022-2023 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cahill Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Project: The Contribution of Mu-Opioid Receptors in Noradrenergic Neurons to Opioid Reward and Withdrawal |
| Lucy (Lucinda) Holden-Wingate 2022-2023 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Physiology Project: Identification of Neuronal Ensembles Underlying Memory Retrieval and Maturation Across Development |
| Kevin Seokwoo Hong 2022-2023 Major: Astrophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Fitzgerald Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Assessing Detectability of Exoplanets Using High Resolution Cross Correlation Spectroscopy |
| Henry Hsieh 2022-2023 Major: Pre Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lindsay De Biase Faculty Mentor Department: Physiology Project: Uncovering the mitochondria of microglia in Parkinson models |
| Nicole Huang 2022-2023 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melissa Lechner Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Project: CD8+ T Cell-mediated Antigen-specific Attack in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-related Thyroiditis |
| Ethan Hung 2022-2023 Major: Precomputational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aaron Meyer Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Monitoring and reactivating endogenous anti-tumor responses through cancer systems serology |
| Akash Jain 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicolaos Palaskas Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: An LC-MS method to quantify coenzyme Q10 and alpha-tocopherol in cancer cells |
| Naman Jain 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Bensinger Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: The Effects of Statin Medication on T Lymphocyte Regulation |
| Palak Jayesh Jariwala 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry-Material Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miguel Garcia-Garibay Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Observing a Solid-State 1,2-Methyl Migration Through Crystalline Photochemistry |
| Alexandra Yang Jensen 2022-2023 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alice Soragni Faculty Mentor Department: Orthopedic Surgery Project: Investigation of hypoxic conditions on drug efficacy for tumor Organoids |
| Catherine Suhyun Kang 2022-2023 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yirong Peng Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Project: Delineating the Molecular Mechanism Underlying Retinal Circuit Formation |
| Euibin Kim 2022-2023 Major: Computer Science; Physics and Astronomy Faculty Mentor: Dr. R. Michael Rich Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Characterizing Populations of Lyman-alpha emitting Galaxies near Giant Lyman Alpha Nebulae |
| Tyler Sangmin Kim 2022-2023 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Diana Marquez-Garban Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: |
| Brianna Monique Kramer 2022-2023 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shaily Mahendra Faculty Mentor Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Project: Biodegradation Kinetics of 1,1-Dichloroethane and 1,2-Dichloroethane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans |
| Ryan Joseph Lamkin 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry-Material Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Tolbert Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Synthesis of Nanostructured Li2FeS2 for High Energy Density Battery Materials |
| Hillary Nguyen Le 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alice Soragni Faculty Mentor Department: Orthopedic Surgery Project: Investigation of p53 Aggregation in Sarcoma |
| Mélia Leclercq 2022-2023 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shaily Mahendra Faculty Mentor Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Project: Optimizing bacteria and algae ratios in a Combined Aerobic Membrane Bacterial Algal Reactor (CAMBAR) |
| June Won Lee 2022-2023 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Antoni Ribas Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Interferon Gamma and its Effects on the CHORDC1 Gene |
| Yunqi Li 2022-2023 Major: Astrophysics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tuan Do Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Learning Galaxy Evolution with Generative Machine Learning Models |
| Hannah Liu 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Caram Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Change Point Analysis of Photoluminescence Blinking in Semiconductor Nanoplatelets |
| Jianwen Lu 2022-2023 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Ellingson Faculty Mentor Department: Radiological Sciences Project: Contrast-Enhanced T1 Subtraction Maps for MRI of Brain Metastases Acquired at Half and Full Doses |
| Juhi Mehta 2022-2023 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Song Li Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Optoelectronic Biomaterials for Enhancement of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming via Photo-Stimulation |
| Koray E Mentesoglu 2022-2023 Major: Electrical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aydogan Ozcan Faculty Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Project: Deep Learning Enabled Virtual Histological Staining |
| Jonathan Theodore Moore 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Prins Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery Project: Investigating T-Cell Phenotypes in PD1 Blockade and Dendritic Cell Vaccination Treated Glioblastoma |
| Leo Aiden Morag 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paula Diaconescu Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide Coupling Utilizing Multimetallic, Redox-Active Catalysts |
| Mursall Mostamand 2022-2023 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sharmila Venugopal Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology Project: Assessing Astrocyte Reactivity in Selectively Vulnerable MN as Marker for Neurodegeneration in ALS |
| Christopher James Oh 2022-2023 Major: Pre Cognitive Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jocelyn Kim Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Engineering NK Cells with LVs Pseudotyped with Recombinant Baboon Retroviral Envelope Glycoprotein |
| Sidharth Panda 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Zeiger Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: Measuring Axon Survival and Outgrowth in the Peri-infarct Cortex After Administration of Ellipticine |
| Jonathan Phan 2022-2023 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey J. Hsu Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Division of Cardiology Project: The Mechanistic Role of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Fragments in Endothelial Cells Inflammation |
| Stuti Chirag Pradhan 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: In Vivo and In Vitro Effects of Empagliflozin on Osteoblastic Differentiation |
| Vikram Seenivasan 2022-2023 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alvine Kamaha Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: Characterizing an Americium-Beryllium Neutron Source |
| Cheyanne Shariat 2022-2023 Major: Physics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Smadar Naoz Faculty Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy Project: A Comprehensive Investigation of Triple Stellar Evolution |
| Neel Sharma 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Harley Kornblum Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Project: Investigating the Role of Endocan in Conferring Radioresistance in Glioblastoma |
| Mabel Song 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Clubb Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Structural Characterization of Activated Sortase Enzyme Complexes in Corynebacteria diphtheriae |
| Yang Sun 2022-2023 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shulamite Green Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Project: Sex Differences in Thalamic GABA Levels in Autistic Youth and Associations with Autistic Traits |
| Sohan Talluri 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: Armoring CAR-T cells with DAMPs to Overcome Solid Tumor Antigen Heterogeneity |
| Tiao Tan 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Plath Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: Underpinning the molecular changes in X chromosome reactivation during iPSC primed to naïve reprogramming |
| Julia Tang 2022-2023 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marcus Horwitz Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Designing a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Toxin-Antitoxin Kill Switch System for Vaccine Development |
| Jordan Alexander Tatang 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Roxana Radu Faculty Mentor Department: Ophthalmology Project: Characterizing the Conditional Abca4 Knockout Mice: biochemical and morphological approaches |
| Nicholas Kaiwen Tien 2022-2023 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anjie Zhen Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: The Effects of STING agonist on Improving Functions of CAR-T and CAR-Macrophages |
| Gulesin Tunali 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hilary Coller Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: Investigating the role of bone marrow-derived immune cells in autophagy-dependent wound healing |
| Shreya Vajragiri 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: Optimizing IL-12 expression in CAR T cells with TGF-beta inducible response elements |
| Shreya Vajragiri 2022-2023 Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Project: Optimizing IL-12 expression in CAR T cells with TGF-beta inducible response elements |
| Faith Nicole Veenker 2022-2023 Major: Pre Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Project: The Role of the Anterior Cingulate-Dorsal Striatum Pathway in Effort-Based Decision-Making |
| Jesus V Velazquez 2022-2023 Major: Pre Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dean Buonomano Faculty Mentor Department: Neurobiology Project: Differential Expression of Somatostatin and Parvalbumin Interneurons Across the Neocortical Hierarchy |
| Gabby Vilchez 2022-2023 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kate Wassum Faculty Mentor Department: Psychology Project: The Role of Amygdala-Cortical Circuitry in Reward Memory and Decision Making |
| Emma Grace Villinski 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry-Material Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Tolbert Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Designing Silica-Cellulose Composite Aerogels for Efficient Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling |
| Lucas Ross Willey 2022-2023 Major: Chemical Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Samanvaya Srivastava Faculty Mentor Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Project: Covalently Cross-Linked Polyelectrolyte Complexes |
| Yuxuan Xia 2022-2023 Major: Precomputational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yin Tintut Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Effects of Exercise Intensity on Morphological Changes of Cardiovascular Calcification |
| Priscilla Yang 2022-2023 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shaily Mahendra Faculty Mentor Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Project: Characterizing the effects of varying growth conditions on fungal enzyme activities: implications for environmental cleanup |
| Geon Yim 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aydogan Ozcan Faculty Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Project: Systemic validation of vertical flow assay for highly sensitive and reproducible assay development. |
| Wenshu Zhang 2022-2023 Major: Computational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Boutros Faculty Mentor Department: Human Genetics Project: External Data Registration and Figure Generation Methods for Landscape Recharacterization of Sarcoma |
| Xiangyin Zhao 2022-2023 Major: Chemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Timothy Deming Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Effect of Chain Length and Side-Chain Molecular Features on Coacervate Formation of Homopolypeptides |
| Charlie Zhi-Lin Zheng 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tzung Hsiai Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine Project: Role of Snail-Expressing Cardiomyocytes in Zebrafish Bulboventricular Valve Development |
| Wilson Zheng 2022-2023 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Utpal Banerjee Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Project: Exploring the role of aldolase in a Drosophila tumor model |
| Zikang Zhou 2022-2023 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maureen Su Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecuar Genetics Project: Determining the role of epigenetic regulator UTX in the development of autoimmune CD8 T cells |
2021-2022
| Mariana Arino 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elaine Hsiao Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: Determining the effect of lipid content in the clinical ketogenic diet on the human gut microbiome |
| Aishwarya Atmakuri 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Goldstein Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Project: Effect of Metabolic Modulation on Lineage Identity and Response to Androgen Blockade in the Prostate |
| Tiffany Ying Wen Chen 2021-2022 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: Cost-Benefit Decision Making Through The Role of Medial Prefrontal Neurons |
| Karen Dutko 2021-2022 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elsa Ordway Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Analysis of Deforestation and Degradation in Southern Cameroon using Sentinel-1 and Landsat derived data products |
| Aracely Garcia Romero 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elissa Hallem Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Project: Effect of Aging on Carbon Dioxide Sensing in C. elegans |
| Daniel Gomez 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Edward Lowry Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Project: Determining the Effects of Senescence Inhibition on Molecular Phenotypes in Trisomy 21 Neurons |
| Madeline Harris 2021-2022 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peggy Fong Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Examining the Influence of Herbivore Identity and Behavior on Reef Recovery in Moorea. |
| Abraham Horrillo 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hilary Coller Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry Project: Characterization of H4K20me3 Cell Cycle Regulation |
| Shutong Hou 2021-2022 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: Astrocytic structure across the lifespan of adult mice: morphology, tiling, and interaction with the vasculature |
| Caroline Huynh 2021-2022 Major: Computational and Systems Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xia Yang Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: Trajectory Analysis of Endothelial Cells in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension |
| Christabelle Junaidi 2021-2022 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: The Role of ACC-to-NAc Projecting Neurons in Deliberative, Effort-Based Decision Making |
| Cathy Lu 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nasim Annabi Faculty Mentor Department: Chemical Engineering Project: Engineering a hydrogel that can be fabricated into structural constructs for surgical applications |
| Tracie Luu 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Gelbart Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Characterization of the Delivery of Self-Amplifying MicroRNA |
| Rachel Ma 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Jonas Faculty Mentor Department: Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology Project: OPTIMIZATION OF MECHANOPORATION WITH SLIPPERY LIQUID-INFUSED POROUS SURFACES |
| Ethan Mccarthy 2021-2022 Major: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maureen Su Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Project: Identifying Novel Autoantibodies in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy |
| Nico Pedroncelli 2021-2022 Major: Bioengineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Song Li Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Optimizing Synthetic Notch (synNotch) Activation with Mechanically-Tunable Alginate Hydrogels |
| Kristin Jean Pischel 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Teitell Faculty Mentor Department: Pathology Project: Describing the impact of mitochondrial mutations in B16 and 4T1 cells with a constant nuclear genome |
| Alex Qi 2021-2022 Major: Neuroscience Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Wilke Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Science Project: The Role of ACC to Anterior Insula Projections in Cost-Benefit Decision Making |
| Jeff (Songrong) Qu 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jose Rodriguez Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Understanding and Manipulation of Symmetry in the Amyloid State |
| Snehin Pramathan Rajkumar 2021-2022 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Kitchen Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Hematology-Oncology Project: Efficacy of dendritic cell vaccine with GPI anchor coupled with CAR-T therapy for HIV-1 infection |
| Sophia Roberts 2021-2022 Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elsa Ordway Faculty Mentor Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Project: Understanding Tree Phenology in the Congo Basin Rainforest |
| Leah Shamel 2021-2022 Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leonid Kruglyak Faculty Mentor Department: Human Genetics Project: Applying Yeast Genetics to Understand How Natural Variation Impacts Conserved Oncogenic Fitness |
| Jamilla Situ 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Jacobs Faculty Mentor Department: Medicine - Gastroenterology Project: A Pleiotropic Variant in SLC39A8 Amplifies Schizophrenia Severity in DiGeorge Syndrome Mouse Model |
| Layal Suboh 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Rowat Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology & Physiology Project: Understanding the Role of Mechanosensitive Genes in Cancer Cells |
| Rohan Tonk 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lachezar Nikolov Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Project: Characterizing Genetic Factors of Lignin Organization in Nectaries in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Robert Keith Tran 2021-2022 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Speier Faculty Mentor Department: Bioengineering Project: Applying Deep Learning to Decode Speech from Neural Signals |
| Manu Vohra 2021-2022 Major: Physiological Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jason Hinman Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology Project: Novel Inhibitors for Mark4 with Therapeutic Applications for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Lauren Q Vuong 2021-2022 Major: Biochemistry Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Weiss Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Studying Spin-dependent Electron Transport Through Chiral Molecules on Ferromagnetic Substrates by Spin-dependent Electrochemistry |
| Laura Walter-McNeill 2021-2022 Major: Psychobiology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leonid Kruglyak Faculty Mentor Department: Human Genetics Project: Characterization of a Maternal-Effect Selfish Genetic Element in C. elegans |
| Ruixiao Wang 2021-2022 Major: Mathematics of Computation Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mason Porter Faculty Mentor Department: Mathematics Project: Using Network Structures and Dynamical Systems to Model and Analyze Glass Ceilings and its Potential Interventions |
| Anna Dong Wu 2021-2022 Major: Human Biology and Society Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Anne DeNardo Faculty Mentor Department: Physiology Project: The Role of the Retrosplenial Cortex in Fear Memory Maturation Across Development |
| Kevin Xu 2021-2022 Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guillaume Chanfreau Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project: Inactivation of the Rrp6 nuclear exosome and the Nonsense-mediated decay complex |
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 |