2024 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
2024 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
The 25th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research will be held on Monday, April 29, 2024, from 2:30-5:30pm in Alumni Hall at the Carolina Club (George Watts Hill Alumni Center) at 105 Stadium Drive.
Please scroll below for a full list of presenter details, including poster titles, session, and poster numbers.
The Celebration will consist of three sequential poster sessions starting at 2:30pm, 3:30pm, and 4:30pm, and it will be open to the public. Upon arrival, all attendees should be sure to check in via the QR code outside Alumni Hall. Presenters should plan to arrive approximately 15 minutes before the beginning of their session and pick up name tags at the table near the interior entrance. All attendees and presenters should scan the QR code at the entrance to check in and to get an online list of posters/presenters.
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Session 2
Dynamic Orexinergic Responses to Environmental Stressors in the Zebrafish Gut
Yingning Sang
Department: Oral and Craniofacial Health SciencesFaculty Mentor: Christina Graves
128
Session 2
CRISPR Cas9 Knockout and Knock-in of GNAQ Mutant Alleles for the Creation of Isogenic Uveal Melanoma Cell Lines (2024)
Emma Sawyer
Department: OphthalmologyFaculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Bower
128
Session 3
Associations Between Tibiofemoral Cartilage Proteoglycan Density and Knee Joint Stiffness During Walking 1 Month Post-ACL Reconstruction
Emma Tyndall
Department: Exercise and Sport ScienceFaculty Mentor: Troy Blackburn
128
Session 1
Acute MDMA Exposure Increases BDNF Expression in the Amygdala and Dorsal Hippocampus
Christian Scott, McKinley Windram Abigail Lanik Eden Bawden
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh
129
Session 2
ENDOTHELIAL NUCLEAR PROTEINS SUN1 AND SUN2 REGULATE MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Ricardo Scheufen Tieghi, Pauline Bougaran, Alexandra Neal, Danielle B. Buglak, Victoria L. Bautch
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Victoria Bautch
129
Session 1
Hippocampal Microglial Activation and TNF-𝛂 Expression in Response to Stress
Heidi Segars, Ashley Titus, Husna Kider
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh
130
Session 2
Skynet 2: Expansion and Improvement of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network
Donovan Schlekat, Andreas Buzan, Reece Clark
Department: Physics and AstronomyFaculty Mentor: Daniel Reichart
130
Session 3
A model system to study Kabuki syndrome utilizing KMT2D histone H3 lysine 4 methylase proteomics during cranial neural crest osteoblast differentiation.
Sara Vardabasso
Department: GeneticsFaculty Mentor: Karl Shpargel
130
Session 1
Taking the High Road: Moral Identity and Individual-Specific Determinants of Prosocial Purchasing Behavior
Dishita Sen
Department: Kenan Flagler Business SchoolFaculty Mentor: Timothy Kundro
131
Session 3
Psychedelic Receptor Dynamics: Unveiling the Molecular Insights of Synthetic LSD for Accelerated Drug Discovery
Elena Vargas, Fengjun Tian, Chethana Chennuri
Department: NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Rachel Penton
131
Session 1
Saccharomyces boulardii as a Treatment for Colonic-inflammatory Conditions such as Chemotherapeutic-induced Mucositis and Colorectal Cancer
Krithika Senthil
Department: Microbiology and Immunology, NutritionFaculty Mentor: Janelle Arthur
131
Session 2
Unveiling the Unique Mechanism of Allopregnanolone, a GABA-A Receptor Selective PAM, on Antidepressant Action
Aditi Shah, William Taft Stevens (tafts@email.unc.edu), Lillian Seymour (lseymour@unc.edu), Nikita Elkin (elnick@unc.edu), George Hayden Bullard (hayden23@live.unc.edu)
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Rachel Penton
132
Session 2
Early adolescents’ Attention to Emotion and Brain Network Integration Predict Later Depression
Yijing Lin
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Kristen Lindquist
132
Session 1
Effects of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) on Memory Recall in Elderly Participants
Kirina Shah
Department: PsychiatryFaculty Mentor: Flavio Frohlich
133
Session 2
Explainable Dementia Prediction Using Functional Neuroimages and Risk Factors
Zhuoyu Shi
Department: Computer Science, PsychiatryFaculty Mentor: Guorong Wu
133
Session 3
Analyzing Ion Dynamics in Muscle Contraction: Expanding on Electrophysiology in the 1981 Morris-Lecar Model​
Neha Venkatesh, Sophie Liu
Department: MathematicsFaculty Mentor: Karin Leiderman
133
Session 1
Optimization of Tissue Factor Measurement in Plasma
Nimra Shaik
Department: HematologyFaculty Mentor: Ana Sachetto
134
Session 2
Underutilization of Molecular Testing Contributes to Sub-Optimal Diagnosis of Ehrlichiosis and Poor Diagnostic Stewardship in a High-Incidence Area of North Carolina
Alexis Siegler
Department: Carolina Population Center, Institute for Global Health and Infectious DiseasesFaculty Mentor: Ross Boyce
134
Session 3
Political Engagement Among Second-Generation Latinos in the United States
Fiorela Villegas, N/A
Department: Political ScienceFaculty Mentor: Christopher Clark
134
Session 1
Cutting the Fluff: Characterizing levels of grimace induction in mouse laparotomy model
Minghao Shao
Department: UNC Neuroscience CenterFaculty Mentor: Eric McCoy
135
Session 3
Effects of acidic pH conditions on the survivability of varying Tigriopus Californicus populations to mimic ocean acidification​
Uma Volety, Emma Duguay, Dawn Carter
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Chris Willett
135
Session 1
Shark Mislabeling in America's Leading Cat Food Vendor
Jackson Shawen, Cassie Zehner, Harrison Qiu
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Savannah Ryburn
135
Session 2
Tackling Time Zones: Predicting International NFL Outcomes Amid Time Zone Changes​
Oliver Soto, Vishnu Patel, Lucas Ralls, Noah Daniels, Sanjana Sundhar
Department: Sports Administration UndergraduateFaculty Mentor: Jonathan Jensen
136
Session 1
Comparing Machine Learning to Evidence-Based Decision-Making Techniques for Identification of Mood, Trauma, and Behavior Disorders
Zhuoyu Shi
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Eric Youngstrom
136
Session 2
Exploring Resting State fMRI & Functional Connectivity Patterns in Chronic Pain
Ellora Srabani, Aryan Kodali
Department: Neurology - School of MedicineFaculty Mentor: Varina Boerwinkle
136
Session 3
Isolation of AAV-derived Inverted Repeats for Enhanced Gene Editing
Naveen Vridhachalam
Department: OpthalmologyFaculty Mentor: Matthew Hirsch
137
Session 1
Neuroimaging Preprocessing, Denoising, and Quality Control
Zhuoyu Shi, Wenfei Yu
Department: Computer Science, PsychiatryFaculty Mentor: Guorong Wu
137
Session 3
Quantifying lateral interactions in gold self-assembled monolayers: The effect of topography and surface concentration
Anna Vu
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Matthew Lockett
137
Session 2
Optimizing Attachment Methods and Ligand Properties for Solar Fuels
Madison Stewart
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Jillian Dempsey
138
Session 1
The Development and Analysis of a Framework for Culturally Competent CPR Instruction
Parth Shirolkar, Smaran Sivashankar
Department: Health Behavior, Health Policy and ManagementFaculty Mentor: Alexandra Lightfoot