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4:30 - 5:30
1 - Andrew Behrens
Three-Dimensional Coverage Maps in the Assessment of Chopart Subluxation in Progressive Collapsing Flatfoot Deformity
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Dibbern (Orthopedics)
3 - Scott Bell
Macrophages harbor a Cryptococcus neoformans mutant with irregular extracellular proliferation
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. J. Muse Davis (Pediatrics)
5 - Esmee Belzer
Interaction of humic acid and uranyl cations in aqueous environments
Majors: Chemistry | Statistics
Mentors: Dr. Tori Forbes, Dmytro Kravchuk (Chemistry)
7 - Reese Bobitt
Who Should Be Should Held Accountable For the Climate Refugee Crisis?
Major: Political Science
Mentor: Dr. Brian Lai (Political Science)
9 - Cecelia Bonilla
Juvenile Justice: The Incarceration of Youth in the U.S.
Major: Criminology
Mentor: Dr. Karen Heimer (Sociology & Criminology)
11 - Hunter Briggs
Coronal bone rotation of the medial column in hallux valgus: A retrospective case control study with Weight-Bearing-CT assessment.
Major: Health & Human Physiology
Mentors: Drs. Cesar de Cesar Netto, Matthieu Lalevee, Dr. Kevin Dibbern (Orthopedic Functional Imaging Laboratory)
13 - Joshua Brown
Laying the groundwork for identifying neurodevelopmental impacts of PCB exposure during adolescence
Majors: Public Health
Mentor: Dr. Hans-Joachim Lehmler (Occupational & Environmental Health)
15 - Theodore Byrnes
Operationalizing Email Informality in the Flint Water Crisis
Majors: Chinese | Linguistics (TESL)
Mentor: Dr. Louise Seamster (Sociology & Criminology)
17 - Megan Christianson
Legislating the Landscape: The Battle for a Federal Wilderness Bill for Montana, 1979-1988
Majors: History | International Relations
Mentor: Dr. Tyler Priest (History)
19 - Maddy Daley
Probing Structural Evolution of Stationary Phase in Chemical Separations with Free Energy Imaging
Majors: Chemistry | Music | Science Education
Mentors: Dr. Max Lei Geng, Hong Bok Lee (Chemistry)
23 - Samuel Eliasen
Cypermethrin Induces Changes in Fetal Microglia Populations and in Placental Immune Cells
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Hanna Stevens (Psychiatry)
25 - Laura Evans
Facial Twitching In Sleeping Human Infants: Expression Of Emotion Or Mere Movement?
Major: Neuroscience
Mentors: Drs. Mark Blumberg and Greta Sokoloff (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
27 - Jordan Ewald
Toxicity of Novel Radiopeptides on Stem Cells
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentors: Drs. Sue O'Dorisio and Claudia Robles (Pediatrics)
29 - Meghan Funk
Determining whether aberrant vasopressin concentrations persist postpartum
Major: Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Donna Santillan (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
31 - Bailey Garnica
The Role of ARHGAP29 in Keratinocyte Migration
Major: Health & Human Physiology
Mentor: Dr. Martine Dunnwald (Anatomy & Cell Biology)
33 - Sophia Gilbert
The Direction of Lesbian Organizing During the Reagan-Bush Era
Majors: History | Political Science
Mentor: Dr. Leslie Schwalm (History)
35 - Noah Gilkes
The role of type I interferon signaling in mice following experimental traumatic brain injury.
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Newell (Pediatrics)
37 - Will Golay
Spectroscopic Instrumentation for Small Optical Telescopes
Majors: Astronomy | Physics
Mentor: Drs. Robert Mutel, Caroline Roberts (Physics & Astronomy)
39 - Sean Michael Gomendoza
Validate PR regulators by CRISPR interference (CRISPRi)-mediated transcriptional repression
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Xiangbing Meng (Pathology)
41 - Maria Gorham
Language, Social Stratification, and “Vínculos:” How the paisa dialect constructs social identity in Medellín, Colombia
Major: Spanish
Mentor: Dr. Kristine Muñoz (Spanish & Portuguese)
43 - Wesley Hanson
Evaluation of Novel Receptors Facilitating Ebolavirus Infection of Human Keratinocytes
Major: Microbiology
Mentor: Dr. Wendy Maury (Microbiology & Immunology)
45 - Reagan Hart
“Injure Their Reputation, and Terminate Their Life”: Privacy for Venereal Disease Patients in Early Modern England
Major: History
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Yale (History)
47 - Bailey Hollis
Possible Neurodegenerative Impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) on the Human Brain
Major: Health & Human Physiology
Mentor: Dr. Li-Chun (Queena) Lin (Iowa Neurobank Core)
49 - Madi Holm
Comparing AHA gold standard blood pressure measurement in pregnant women to electronic home monitoring and clinical measurement
Major: Nursing
Mentors: Drs. Debra Brandt, Donna Santillan (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
51 - Hiatt Holman
The Effect of a State's Human Rights Record on Their Extradition Requests
Majors: Political Science | Ethics & Public Policy
Mentor: Dr. Brian Lai (Political Science)
53 - Lillian Jones
A scalable passive method for the quantification of airborne allergens
Major: Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Stone (Chemistry)
55 - Andrew Kain
Biological vs Artificial Intelligence: Can Either Solve the Subdivided Concentric Rings Categorization Task?
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Ed Wasserman (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
57 - John Kamp
“It Ought to Be Possible”: The Kennedy Administration, Black Radicalism, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1963
Majors: Political Science | History
Mentor: Dr. Landon Storrs (History)
59 - Hanna Konavaluk
Comparison between geochronologic and geochemical provenance models for Cretaceous sedimentary rocks in Southwestern Montana
Major: Geoscience
Mentors: Drs. Kenny Horkley, Emily Finzel (Earth & Environmental Science)
61 - Hannah McCumber
Tracking Bacterial Colonization In Association With The F508del Cystic Fibrosis Mutation
Major: Biology
63 - Abby Morrison
Measuring Differences in the Glucocorticoid Receptor’s Interactome Using APEX2
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Miles Pufall (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
65 - Jack Motz
“Rudy Thinks He’s Batman”: Koch, Giuliani, and Dinkins in the 1989 Race for Mayor Majors: English | History
Mentor: Dr. Tyler Priest (History)
67 - Sophia Nopoulos
Defining Clinical Progression of Juvenile-Onset Huntington’s Disease: An Enroll-HD Analysis
Major: Biology
Mentor: Dr. Jordan Schultz (Psychiatry)
69 - Rachel Orpano
Hormonal control of stem cell initiation in the fern Ceratopteris richardii.
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Chi-Lien Cheng (Biology), Chris Youngstrom (Biology)
71 - Benjamin Pappas
The role of iRhom2-dependent signaling pathways in colorectal cancer
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Thorsten Maretzky (Internal Medicine)
73 - Katherine Pauley
Exploring the Efficacy of Inhalation Aromatherapy in the Oncology Population: A Narrative Review
Major: Nursing
Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cherwin (Nursing)
75 - Cade Rahlf
Calmodulin Binds Conserved Motifs in Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factors
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Madeline Shea (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
77 - Olivia Rauzi
Retirement in the United States: Gender Gap, Covid-19 Impacts, and Solutions to Accumulate More Wealth
Major: Finance
Mentor: Dr. Catherine Zaharis (Finance)
79 - Ana Rodriguez
Simulating Molecular Diffusion in Separation Science
Major: Interdepartmental Studies
Mentors: Dr. Max Lei Geng, Hong Bok Lee (Chemistry)
81 - Grant Salvucci
Investigating genetic interactions between genes encoding the Myb oncoprotein and key repressive chromatin and insulator binding proteins.
Major: Biology
Mentor: Dr. John Manak (Biology)
83 - Sushma Santhana
Measuring Tunnel Placement in ACL Reconstruction from Weight Bearing CT
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Donald Anderson (Orthopedics & Rehabilitation)
85 - Sophia Shubatt
Best Practices for Teaching Higher Education in Iowa Prisons
Majors: Criminology, Law, & Justice | Political Science
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie DiPietro (Sociology and Criminology)
87 - Jack Smith
Cosolvent Effects on Crystallization of Novel Uranium Dimer
Majors: Neuroscience | Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Tori Forbes, Samantha Kruse (Chemistry)
91 - Michael Toops
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm sterilizing on Thermoelectric Devices
Major: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Eric Nuxoll (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
93 - Emerson Tran Lam
Potential Electrochemical Applications in Green Chemistry
Major: Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Christian Haas (Chemistry)
95 - Cally Tucker; Joshua Peterson
Mice with DRP1 Depletion in Skeletal Muscle are Resistant to Age-related Weight Gain Associated with Activation of Endoplasmic Reticulum-dependent Stress Response.
Majors: Neuroscience | Biochemistry; Biology | Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Marcelo Correia (Internal Medicine)
97 - Zach Vig
Using a Camsizer to improve grain-size based Hydraulic Conductivity Estimates
Majors: Physics | Geology
Mentor: Dr. Emily Finzel (Earth & Environmental Sciences)
99 - Rachael Volkman
Characterizing the role of indirect-projecting D1-MSNs in movement and interval timing
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Kumar Narayanan (Neurology)
101 - Matthew Wells
SETDB1 Promotes Tumor Growth Through Suppression of Macrophage Infiltration Into the Tumor Microenvironment
Major: Human Physiology
Mentor: Dr. Shujie Yang (Pathology)
103 - Amisha Mohanty; Isabel Meade; Allen Li; Maryam Mohammed
Foreign Policy - The Effective Use of Force in Human Rights Interventions
Majors: International Relations | Economics ; Political Science; Business; International Relations
Mentor: Brian Lai (Political Science)
5:30 – 6:30
2 - Kesten Anderson
Training and Certification in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Kanchna Ramchandran (Internal Medicine)
4 - Laxmi Annapureddy; Emily Severino
The Role of Parental Input and Dialogue in Children's Number Processing Development: A Behavioral Study
Majors: Neuroscience | Journalism & Mass Communication; Psychology | Criminology, Law, & Justice
Mentor: Dr. Ece Demir-Lira (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
6 - Shalini Birari
Tracking the dissemination of Leishmania Infantum in mice
Major: Microbiology
Mentor: Dr. Mary Wilson (Microbiology & Immunology)
8 - Daniel Bloch
Eastern Iowa Dune Orientation as a Proxy for Effective Wind-Direction During the Late-Wisconsinan
Major: Environmental Hydroscience
Mentor: Dr. Phil Kerr (Earth & Environmental Science)
10 - Nicole Boodhoo
The role of the 5-HT2c receptor on breathing and mortality following an induced seizure in amygdala kindled mice: the possible role of corticosterone
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Gordon Buchanan (Neurology)
12 - Christian Brandt
Computational Analysis of Mutation In Kv8.2
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Shelia Baker (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
14 - Brianna Brennecke
Establishment of the functional monolayer of human pancreatic beta cells as a model to study interactions of intracellular organelles
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Yumi Imai (Internal Medicine)
18 - Kalynn Culver
TRPM7 and TYRP1 detoxify melanin-synthesis: a shared pathway involving zinc?
Major: Biology
Mentor: Dr. Robert Cornell (Anatomy & Cell Biology)
20 - Cole Dorman
The Development of the MAGIC Magnetic Screening Apparatus
Majors: Physics | Astronomy
Mentor: Dr. David Miles (Physics & Astronomy)
22 - Joshua Doucette
Search for Dark Matter in mono-H(bb) channel with the ATLAS detector
Majors: Physics | Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Usha Mallik (Physics & Astronomy)
24 - Grace Drinane
Blood pressure measurements in pregnant women comparison of the American Heart Association guidelines to inpatient clinical measurement
Major: Human Physiology
Mentor: Dr. Donna Santillan (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
26 - Bridget Easler
Obtaining Baseline Characteristics of Longitudinal Study Participants with Clinically Isolated Syndrome and Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Major: Public Health
Mentor: Dr. Terry Wahls (Internal Medicine)
28 - Greg Eckley
Sensitivity of white oak growth to past climate variability in eastern and central Iowa
Majors: Environmental Science | Spanish
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Dannenberg (Geographical & Sustainability Sciences)
30 - Khalid Elhadi
Effect of the Morphine Metabolite M3G on VEGF Protein Expression in SPARC-null Intervertebral Discs
Major: Health & Human Physiology
32 - Hanlong Fan
Complex Rule Learning in Pigeons
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Dr. Leyre Castro (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
34 - Hope Fury
Regulatory T Cells Require the Transcription Factor GATA3 for Optimal Supprression of Graft-versus-Host Disease
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. M Nedim Ince (Internal Medicine)
36 - Alexandra Gilchrist
Consequences of Pay for Play
Major: Accounting
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Hosmanek (Management & Entrepreneurship)
38 - Megan Grunst
Carbon Fiber Ankle Foot Orthoses in Individuals with Impairments: A Systematic Review
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Jason Wilken (Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences)
40 - Henry Hammer
Frequency Correlation Measurements of Wavefront-shaped Light in Round, Square, and Rectangular Multimode Fiber Core Geometries
Majors: Physics | Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Ravitej Uppu (Physics & Astronomy)
42 - Maxwell Herrmann
Automation and Quality Control for Upgrades to the CMS Outer Tracker
Majors: Physics | Mathematics
Mentors: Drs. Jane Nachtman, Yasar Onel (Physics & Astronomy)
44 - Ben Hinz
In silico and in vivo analysis of amino acid substitutions that cause laminopathies
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Lori Wallrath (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
46 - Madeleine Hodgson
Acceptability of mHealth blood pressure monitoring in pregnant women
Major: Communication Studies
Mentors: Drs. Debra Brandt, Donna Santillan (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
48 - John Horne
Detection of emerging Volatile Organic Compounds using infrared spectroscopy
Majors: Physics | Astronomy
Mentor: Dr. Tom Folland (Physics & Astronomy)
50 - Brandon Hu
A Novel Treatment Strategy for Drug Resistant Melanoma Cells
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Mentors: Drs. Christopher Stipp, Maurine Neiman (Biology)
52 - Lauren Johnson
Holding Out For a Hero(ine): A Postfeminist Analysis of Superhero Stories from the 1980s
Major: History
Mentor: Dr. Tom Midtrød (History)
54 - Spenser Johnson
Superoxide dismutase mimetic GC4419 sensitizes head and neck cancer to conventional fractionated and stereotactic body radiation therapy combined with cisplatin.
Major: Biochemistry
Mentors: Drs. Melissa Fath, Doug Spitz (Radiation Oncology)
56 - Preston Johnson
Examining the Effects of Mood and Anxiety on Functional Outcomes in Schizotypy
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Amanda McCleery (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
58 - Allysa Jones
Effect of stimulation of serotonergic terminals in the PPT on arousal
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Gordon Buchanan (Neurology)
60 - Jack Lauer
Breaking Bread: The Equal Rights Amendment and the Politicization of Foodways, 1972-1982
Majors: History | Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies
Mentor: Drs. Landon Storrs (History) and Caroline Radesky (History | Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies)
62 - Linette Leng
Radiation-induced long-term endothelial senescence and barrier damage.
Majors: Spanish | Interdepartmental Studies - Health Sciences
Mentors: Drs. Karima Ait-Aissa and Isabella Grumbach (Internal Medicine)
64 - Bin Rui Li
Establishment of Two Patient-derived Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Spheroid and Xenograft Models for Drug Testing
Majors: Medical Anthropology | Music
Mentor: Dr. Po Hien Ear (Surgery)
66 - Haley Lightfoot
Exploring the Synthesis and Formation of Extended Uranyl Solid Materials Though a Mild Temperature Flux Reaction
Major: Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Tori Forbes (Chemistry)
68 - Alexandra Loren
Early Timepoint Prenatal Stress and its Effects on GABAergic Migration
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Hanna Stevens (Psychiatry)
70 - Haley Losh
Overcoming aggressive p53 mutations in gynecologic cancer
Major: Neuroscience
Mentors: Drs. Kimberly Leslie and Kristi Thiel (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
72 - Pedro Marra
Mortality among patients with sepsis associated with a bispectral electroencephalography (BSEEG) score
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentors: Drs. Gen Shinozaki (Psychiatry), Sangil Lee (Emergency Medicine)
74 - Katie McAllister; Yuvraj Thakor
Theory-based, Student-Delivered Health Coaching Intervention Improves Physical Activity
Majors: Health & Human Physiology; Health & Human Physiology
Mentor: Drs. Lucas Carr, Erin Litton (Health & Human Physiology)
76 - Delia Mozqueda
Digitization of the Switching Stroop Task
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Kanchna Ramchandran (Internal Medicine)
78 - Claire Murphy
Decreased phosphatidylglycerol synthesis increases daptomycin resistance in C. difficile
Major: Microbiology
Mentor: Dr. Craig Ellermeier (Microbiology & Immunology)
80 - Stella Murphy
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among African Immigrant Populations in Johnson County, IA: A Qualitative Study
Major: Public Health
Mentor: Dr. William Story (Community & Behavioral Health)
82 - Ethan Page
Life along the Mississippian Corridor 900-1200 AD
Majors: Art History | Anthropology
84 - Ryan Parian
Cooling Tests for the Barrel Timing Layer of the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector
Major: Physics
Mentor: Dr. Jane Nachtman (Physics & Astronomy)
86 - Sydney Pearl
Mechanisms of COVID-19 Related Poor Pregnancy Outcomes
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Donna Santillan (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
88 - Isa Perales
Nuclear lamina distortion is not sufficient to cause checkpoint activation in Drosophila GSCs
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Pamela Geyer (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
90 - Camellia Pham
Antiquated Past and Storm-Tossed Modernity: Rethinking Comparative Modernisms through Intercultural Translation in Vietnam and China
Majors: Comparative Literature | Chinese
Mentor: Dr. Adrienne Rose (Comparative Literature, Classics)
92 - John Piaszynski
LESYMAP: A Statistical Tool For Analyzing Neurological Data
Majors: Statistics | Computer Science
Mentor: Dr. Kanchna Ramchandran (Internal Medicine)
bEvaluating concordance between patient self-reported and provider-documentation symptoms during treatment of cancer Major: Nursing
Mentors: Dr. Stephanie Gilbertson-White, Alaa AlBashayreh, Dr. Catherine Cherwin (Nursing)
96 - Amanda Qi
Dual PI3K/Akt and HDAC Inhibitor, CUDC-907, Effectively Inhibits Obesity-Driven Endometrial Cancer Tumor Growth
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Shujie Yang (Pathology)
98 - Salvatore Quaid
Projective Black Holes
Majors: Physics | Astronomy | Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Vincent Rodgers (Physics & Astronomy)
100 - Ajla Rahmanovic
The Impact of COVID-19 on Pregnant Women
Major: Public Health
Mentors: Drs. Donna Santillan, Debra Brandt (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
102 - Madeline Rhomberg
Calcium Signaling Involvement in Spiral Ganglion Neuron Pathfinding in Response to Biochemical Cues
Major: Health & Human Physiology
Mentors: Drs. Marlan Hansen, Ray Fagenbaum (Otolaryngology), Allen Guymon (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering), Joseph Vecchi (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)
104 - Jackson Russian
Memorialization of the Confederacy in Iowa - (1890-1920) vs. (1990-2020)
Major: History
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Yablon (History)
106 - Jacob Sindt
Development of Next Generation Mid-Infrared Sensors for Monitoring Emissions of Greenhouse Gases and Volatile Organic Compounds
Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Fatima Toor (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
108 - Regan Smock
The Impact of Sexual Assault Prevention Education on Bystander Intervention at Iowa
Major: Sociology
Mentor: Dr. Mary Noonan (Sociology & Criminology)
110 - Ayushi Sood
Ceramide Regulated Gene modulates adipose tissue metabolism
Major: Microbiology
Mentor: Dr. Bhagirath Chaurasia (Internal Medicine)
112 - Tuan Truong
The Roles Of The Dorsomedial Striatum & The Dorsolateral Striatum In Rat Category Learning
Majors: Neuroscience | Health & Human Physiology
Mentors: Dr. John Freeman, Matthew Broschard (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
114 - Demir Tuken; Eva Donnelly
The Acceptability and Efficacy of an Active Sitting Device among Sedentary Office Workers
Majors: Biomedical Engineering | Health & Human Physiology
Mentors: Drs. Lucas Carr, Nathaniel Jenkins (Health & Human Physiology)
116 - Joseph Verry
Heart Failure Medications are Associated with Long-Term Improvement in LV Systolic Function in Patients with Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Major: Biomedical Engineering
118 - Grant Welk
Innate Immune responses associated with viral, bacterial, and parasitic infection stress of the NAD metabolome
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Charles Brenner