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 3

Computational analysis of UBS109 and murine double minute 2 (MDM2) in pancreatic cancer

Veda Muppala

Department: Heersink school of Medicine (UAB)
Faculty Mentor: Purnachandra Nagaraju Ganji

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Session 2

Identifying patterns in predicted binding probabilities of different proteins with Xist lncRNA

Arsh Madhani

Department: School of Data Science and Society, School of Medicine - Genetics.
Faculty Mentor: Keriayn Smith

87
Session 3

MARCER: A Multimodal Augmented Reality System for Composing and Executing Robot Action Plans

LillyAnn Nekervis, Bryce Ikeda, Maitrey Gramopadhye

Department: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Szafir

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Session 1

Analyzing the Accuracy of SWOT's Data at Mono Lake

Hope Martin, Nina Levret de Melo, Juliana Lewis, Sarah VanHorn

Department: Geology
Faculty Mentor: Drew Coleman

88
Session 1

Associations between socioeconomic status, income, and birth outcomes: Results from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey

Onyinyechukwu Mazi, Vaden Grigg, Sara Hijer

Department: Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Thompson

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Session 3

Site Selective Conjugation for Protein Therapeutics

Benjamin Nguyen, Samantha Clouthier

Department: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Wei You

89
Session 2

Comparing Provincial Carbon Emission Regulation Policies in Canada: Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Production, and Labor Measures

Pallavi Maladkar

Department: Economics
Faculty Mentor: Klara Peter

89
Session 1

The Docile Peasantry: Che Guevara's Failure in Bolivia Chase McNeill

Chase McNeill

Department: History
Faculty Mentor: Miguel La Serna

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Session 3

Analysis of Spiking Activity in the Frontoparietal Network of the Ferret during Optogenetic Stimulation

Abdulaziz Norbekov

Department: Psychiatry
Faculty Mentor: Flavio Frohlich

90
Session 2

Serotonergic Influence on Leptin and BDNF in the Amygdala

Srinidhi Manivasagam, Vanika Mehta, Monica Macharios, Taylor Jones

Department: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh

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Session 3

Predicting the Evolution of Dark Matter Halos Using Neural Networks

Naomi Ovrutsky

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Adrienne Erickcek

90
Session 1

Is Full federal Recognition The Answer? Improving Health For The Lumbee Tribe Of North Carolina Through Federal Policy

Daiana Mendoza-Acosta

Department: Public Policy
Faculty Mentor: William Goldsmith

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Session 3

Exploring the Relationship Between Race, Class, and Transit Usage among Triangle, NC Residents

Sneha Pasupula

Department: Public Policy
Faculty Mentor: Malissa Alinor

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Session 2

Play to Learn: How a board game is able to teach memory to children (Neuroquest)

Esey Haile, Atallia McDowell, Husna Kider, Esey Haile, Patrick Deloach, Tamera Waters

Department: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Penton

91
Session 1

Controlled Timelines of Gene Regulatory Networks

Jason Menjivar-Hernandez

Department: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Brian Kinney

92
Session 2

Simulations and Testing of a Rapid Surface Characterization Scanner for the LEGEND Experiment

Andrew Mattson

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Reyco Henning

92
Session 3

Natural Variation in Norovirus Strains Impacts Breadth of Virus-Ligand Interactions

Dev Patel

Department: Epidemiology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ralph Baric

92
Session 1

Effects of Predator Odor Stress on Habit Learning in Long-Evans Rats

Alejandro Mosera

Department: Alcohol Studies, Neuroscience, Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Brooke Bender

93
Session 3

Standardized Plasma microRNA Quantification Protocol for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Detection

Kabir Pathak

Department: UNC School of Medicine - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Faculty Mentor: Adam Akerman

93
Session 2

Artificial Intelligence Research Could Empower Pharmacovigilance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erin Mazur

Department: UNC SLATE
Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Current

93
Session 1

Adolescent binge ethanol exposure produces protracted consequences on adult brain neuronal and innate immune ethanol sensitivity in male rats.

Aldrin Mosqueda, Aaron Wei, Victoria Macht, Sarrah Ankeny, Ryan Vetreno, Fulton Crews

Department: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking In Adulthood, UNC School of Medicine
Faculty Mentor: Victoria Macht

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Session 1

Sex Differences of TH Expression in Norepinephrine Neurons in the Locus Coeruleus

Sydney Mudd, Mohana Mishra, Nidia Pineda, Nikita Elkin, Sabrina Robertson

Department: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Robertson

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Session 3

Predicting the Conformational Change of the 5-HT-2C Receptor in Response to CTW0415: Applications in Treating Substance Use Disorder

Connie Pei, Elizabeth Seith, Nolan Frankel, Katelyn Feinsmith

Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Penton

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Session 2

Vertical Ground Reaction Force Differs by Maturation Stage in Pediatric Patients Following an ACL Reconstruction

Anna McDermott

Department: Pietrosimone Lab Group
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bjornsen

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Session 3

CHIP Mutations and Hsp70 C-terminal Phosphorylation Regulate Specific Binding in the Protein quality Control System

Ivy Peng

Department: Biology, Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh

95
Session 1

Sexual and Spatial Relations: How Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals Navigate Sexuality and Sexual Satisfaction

Abhi Mukku

Department: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Fitzgerald

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Session 2

Religious Transitions and Depressive Symptomology Outcomes Within Community Contexts

Madelyn McLain

Department: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Su

96
Session 3

The Test-Retest Reliability of a Low-Cost, Portable Tension Dynamometer

Skyler Peterson

Department: Exercise and Sport Science
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Turner

96
Session 1

Investigating microglia-mediated engulfment of astrocyte processes during brain development

Valerie Muzyka

Department: Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Neuroscience Center
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Baldwin

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Session 2

The Role of the CXCL16-CXCR6 Pathway in the Migration of Human-Induced Spheroidal Neural Stem Cells in Vitro

Clara Mellows

Department: Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty Mentor: Shawn Hingtgen