July 19, 2022
By: Natalia Bojorquez
PI: Ru-Rong Ji, PhD; Department of Anesthesiology Mentors: Aidan McGinnis, Yul Huh Pain is good when it is short term but is a problem and serves no real purpose once it becomes long term or chronic. A form of chronic...
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July 18, 2022
By: Vidita Shah
PI: Zhiqing Huang, MD PhD Modern cancer research has been focused on how the tumor microenvironment (TME) affects cancer cell growth. This project’s purpose was to observe how the presence of the periostin (POSTN) protein as well as ascites in...
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July 17, 2022
By: Ashley Alcantar Magana
Mentors: Daichi Shonai, Scott Soderling, PhD, Cell Biology Interrogation of endogenous proteins is pivotal to the study of cell types and disease etiology. CRISPR-Cas9-based approaches allow the insertion of DNA sequences into genes of interest (GOI), providing an opportunity to...
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By: Piper Epstein
Mentors: Jun Zeng, Dr. David Lawrence The human gut microbiome performs several important services beneficial to host health. In hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients, who often undergo total parenteral nutrition (TPN), this microbiome can become disrupted. However, we do...
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By: Sid Ghanta
Mentors: Naveen Natesh, Sajeesh Kumar, Ph.D., Pankaj Mogha, Ph.D., Shyni Varghese, Ph.D. (Department of Bi0medical Engineering) Clonal heterogeneity is regularly observed in primary and secondary cancers, but the precise role of each of these cell populations in tumor evolution and...
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July 16, 2022
By: Rena Ouyang
Bugs as bioindicators: what aquatic macroinvertebrates reveal about ecotoxicology Rena Ouyang Mentors: Behrens, Jonathan, Bernhardt, Emily, Ph.D. Department of Biology Aquatic macroinvertebrates hold high importance in food webs, spending their larval and nymph stages in water before emerging out of the...
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By: Laura Scarpelli
Mentors: YingYu Lin, Dr. Sharon Gerecht (Department of Biomedical Engineering) A new protocol for cell differentiation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (h-iPSCs) into endothelial cells (h-iECs) has been created to increase efficiency and reduce procedure duration for EC generations. The...
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By: Amelia Cangialosi
Mentors: Anne Draelos, Ph.D., Liz O’Gorman, John Pearson, Ph.D (Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) The intersection of neuroscience and advanced computational software opens the door for increasingly complex and integrative experiments. Improv is a software platform that allows users to...
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July 15, 2022
By: Morayo Abbey-Bada
Mentors: Chengcheng Du, Shania Appadoo, Pelin Volkan, Ph.D. Department of Biology The social environment modulates animal behaviors in many aspects. Studies have shown that male Drosophila raised in social isolation perform differently from those presented in groups in the courtship...
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