bioscience day 2018 poster winners
Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Sciences
Chaitra Surugihalli, Animal Sciences doctoral student, Adaptation of hepatic mitochondrial metabolism and lipogenesis during embryonic to post-hatch transition in chicken
Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology & Evolution/ Environmental Science
Anshuman Swain, Biological Sciences doctoral student, Mathematical model of the Warburg effect:Effects of cell size, shape and substrate availability on growth and metabolism in bacteria
Brenna Friday, Biological Sciences: Ecology & Evolution, Replacement of a Foundation Species in the Lower Intertidal
Biochemistry/Biophysics
Jackie Liu, Biochemistry and Women’s Studies, Unlocking the Hidden Defense Mechanisms of Flaviviruses
Bioengineering - Biomaterials and Nanoscience/Nanotechnology
Chris Kuffner, Bioengineering, PETNET: Advancing Solutions for PET Bioremediation
Education/Curricular Innovation
Alleigh Keyes, Biological Sciences: General Biology and Communication, and Darrah Speis, Biological Sciences: General Biology and Psychology, ULA Review Sessions - Peer to Peer Learning - Fall 2018
Family, Community and Public Health
Vivek Ravichandran, Public Health Science, Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution (TRAP) in Langley Park, Maryland
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Proteomics
Reynold Yu, Biological Sciences doctoral student, Progerin expression leads to splicing mis-regulation
Eliana Herman, Biological Sciences: Cell Biology & Genetics, Conservation of Intron Positions between Marsilea vestita and Azolla filiculoides
Microbiology and Immunology
Jurriaan van Haaren, Biological Sciences doctoral student, Repair of plasma membrane wounds caused by BCR-antigen interaction is mediated by lysosomal exocytosis and promotes B cell activation
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Rini Pek, Biological Sciences doctoral student, Dissecting the Genetic Role of HRG1 in Mammalian Heme Transport
Lyra Morina, Biological Sciences: Cell Biology & Genetics and Economics, Characterizing Cytoplasmic Incompatibility induced by Wolbachia Prophage Insertions in Culex pipiens Complex Mosquitoes
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Justin Buck, Biological Sciences: Cell Biology & Genetics and Psychology, Mapping the Mouse Brain: An Investigation of Dopamine Circuitry