Undergraduate Participants

Aging Enhances Ethanol-Mediated Bone Toxicity in Male and Female Mice

Epiphany Baker, Dillard University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach to Biomarker Discovery in Pancreatic Cancer

Thomas Blair III, Loyola University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Analyzing Seasonal, Annual, and Diurnal Dew Point Variability Along a North–South Transect in the Eastern United States

Efrain Granados, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Analyzing Tobacco Use and Opioid Misuse Regarding Urban vs. Rural Areas

Kaylie Nguyen, Xavier University of Louisiana

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

ATP synthase assembly factor 2 is essential for maintaining heart function

Luther Bishop IV, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Cartography of Dynorphin Expressing Neurons in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus: Projections to the BNST and Activation by Social Stress

Sara Mirza, Tulane University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Characterizing Dopaminergic Innervation to the Central Amygdala across Brain Development

Eman Harrison, Xavier University of Louisiana

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Design and Development of an Advanced Tissue Imaging Device for Surgical Oncology

Trinity Tanner, University of Alabama

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Detection of Tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease brain tissues using deep learning

Walt Wilber, University of Alabama

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Developing a Foundation Model of the Vaginal Microbiome: Early Prediction of Bacterial Vaginosis

Unmesh Chakravarty, Carnegie Mellon University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Development of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) in Usher Syndrome Type 1C Murine Retina

Layla Cage, New York University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Development of Opioid Withdrawal as a Discriminative Stimulus in Rats

Naima Bocage, Howard University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Differentially Expressed miRNAs Linking Transportation Infrastructure to TNBC Stages at DiagnosisDifferentially Expressed miRNAs Linking Transportation Infrastructure to TNBC Stages at Diagnosis

Nathan Xiang, Tulane University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Impact of Chronic Binge Alcohol on Hepatic Immune Infiltration in SIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques

Balseba Tewelde, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Impact of Conditional Deletion of Microglial ADAM17 on Kidney Fibrosis in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

Ellie Menszer, University of Mississippi

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Inhibiting HDAC1-4 in DSRCT cells via CRISPR-Cas9 Genomic Editing

Marie Howe, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Intersecting Risks: Food Insecurity, Cigarette Smoking, Rurality and Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis in the U.S.

Tessa Peterson, Tulane University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Ivermectin synergizes with interferon-gamma to overcome resistance in renal cancer

Cheyenne Roberts, University of California Los Angeles

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Lead and Fluoride Monitoring in Water and Soil Samples from Claiborne Corridor

Dontrel Wilright, Dillard University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Left atrial dysfunction is an early and transitional driver in the development of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Jasmine Matsuda, Mount San Antonio College

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Modeling Early Life Risk Factors for Alcohol Use Disorder Later in Life

Zoe Toups, Auburn University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Navitoclax does not alter genes related to blood-brain barrier proteins, Aβ and tau production in the hippocampus of a porcine model of familial hypercholesterolemia

Abdallah Jwayyed, Xavier University of Louisiana

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Optimizing CRISPR-Cas9 for Rhizopus delemar: sgRNA Screening via Bacterial On- Targeting Assays

Rayion Smith, Illinois Wesleyan University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Protein S Facilitates Clot Retraction Through Tyro3 Signaling on Platelets

Parijat Basak, Tulane University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Requirement of Endothelial Ovol1-Slug for Tumor Angiogenesis in Colorectal Cancer

Shawn Sutherland, Syracuse University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

RNAi Knockdown Screen Reveals Genes Required for Non-Professional Phagocytosis in Drosophila melanogaster

Elinor Romaguera, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Survival Outcomes by Histologic Subtype in Ovarian Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using Louisiana Tumor Registry Data

Ari Li, Yale University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The effect of TLE1 in drug resistance in Lung Adenocarcinoma

James Bailey, Xavier University of Louisiana

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The efficacy of RJ-22, RJ-23, and AT-13 against the MCF7-Y537S mutation of ERapositive breast cancer cells

Sihyoung Kim, Xavier University of Louisiana

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Influence of Alcohol Consumption on Tobacco-Associated Cancer: An All of Us Research Program Analysis

Luke Schlegel, Auburn University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Those Diagnosed with Colorectal Cancer

Margeaux Morial, Howard University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Using machine learning to analyze individual differences in stress coping in C57BL/6J Mice

Anderson Happel, Louisiana State University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Utilizing Androgen Receptor Degraders for Breast Cancer Therapy

Lockley McElroy, Tulane University

Lions Eye Building

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM