Keck Summer Research Symposium 2017

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2017 Keck Science Summer Research Symposium

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Program at a Glance

Start Time 12:30 Poster session First floor of Keck

12:45 Poster session

1:00 Poster session Seminar rooms Burns Keck 127 Keck 101 Keck 137

1:15 break/talks Neuro I MolBio I Chem I 1:30 Talks Bio/EA 1:45 Talks 2:00 Talks 2:15 Talks 2:30 Talks 2:45 BREAK 3:00 talks II Neuro II MolBioII Chem II Physio I 3:15 talks II

3:30 talks II

3:45 talks II 4:00 talks II

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Poster Presentations

12:30 12:45 1:00 41 Booker 42 Theiss 43 Freimuth 44 Vitomirov 45 Sun 46 47 Chaderjan 48 Snell 49 Liu 50 Ngo 51 Thibodeaux 52 Rittiron 53Tyler 54 Hartz 55 Barrett 56 Bogle 57 Rong 58 Lu 59 Gallagher 60 Lodge 61 Rangaswami 62 Bekele 63 Wu 64 Jones 65 Ochoa 66 Ornelas 67 Myung-Hae Chun 68 Kaur 69 70

41 - 70

1st Floor

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Poster Presentations

Poster # Poster Presenter(s) Title

41 Aleah Booker (SCR), Julia Sun(SCR)

Working on the cure to traumatic brain injury via mTBI models and mapping neuronal death & regeneration

44 Ana Vitomirov (SCR) Effect of compression rate on reversibility of lung tissue

47 Aria Chaderjan (SCR), Victor Ginelli (CMC), Margrethe Jebsen (CMC), Nicholas LaBerge (CMC)

An Extension of Axelrod’s Model of the Dissemination of Culture - Investigating the effect of introducing regions of higher interaction frequency and larger interaction range

50 Cat Ngo (MUDD) Immune system response in zebrafish with disrupted sleep

53 Conrad Tyler (PIT) Chemical abundances of infalling planetary material on white dwarf PG1015+161

56 Corinne Bogle (CMC) Phase Resetting Behaviors of Three-Legged Walking in Humans

59 Timothy Gallagher (CMC), Ellen Berkley (CMC)

Development of an Enantioselective Allenoate Claisen Rearrangement.

62 Emma Bekele (SCR) Investigating if cell shape is an adaptation to bee pollination

65 Gabriela Ochoa (SCR), Sabrina Wu (SCR)

Drastic Population Decline of Nephila clavipes at Firestone Center Reserve

68 Guneet Kaur (SCR) Oligomeric Ethylene Oxide Mediated N-Formylation of Amines

42 Julia Ashlyn Theiss (SCR)

Disentangling the Genetics of Flowering Time in Wild Flowers

45 Julia Sun (SCR), Aleah Booker (SCR)

Assessing Behavior in a Novel Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Model of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)

48 Katherine Snell A model experimental system for polymer interactions

51 Khadijah Thibodeaux (POM), Bethany Reim (PIT)

Manufacturing Vast Lipid Bilayers

54 Lauren Hartz (SCR) Carbon and nitrogen storage in native sage scrub and non-native grassland soils along a coast to inland gradient in Southern California

57 Lude Rong (CMC) Radiocarbon Dating Coralline Algae to Decode Oceanic Dynamics 60 Madison Lodge (CMC) Making Errors: Examining Neural Responses in Individuals with

Anxiety, Depression, and Comorbidity measured through Event-related Potentials

63 Maria Wu (SCR) The Formation of Ooids in Carbonate Soils

66 Marya Ornelas (PIT) Engineering Firefly Luciferase for Improved Brightness Using Modified Substrates

43 Sara Freimuth (CMC), Leta Ames (SCR)

Camera Trapping as a Method for Comparing Species Frequencies in Neighboring Properties in Barú, Costa Rica

49 Siyuan Liu (Kitty) (PIT) Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coralline Algae

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52 Supasiri Rittiron (PIT) Color Variation of Laminae in Carbonate soils: Implications for carbonate micromorphology

55 Susanna Barrett (SCR) Development of a Method to Quantitatively Determine the Fidelity of Mutant Taq Polymerases

58 Vicky Lu (SCR) Investigating how CHD1 Affects Gene Expression through Position Effect Variegation in Drosophila melanogaster

61 Xenia Rangaswami (SCR), Gretchen Kioschos (SCR), Jaime Martin (CMC), Oakmont Elementary

The effect of water temperature on feeding rates of the barnacle Balanus glandula

64 Zachary Jones (PIT) Anatomy and taxonomic affinities of new ichthyosaur (Diapsida, Reptilia) material from the Middle Triassic of Nevada

67 Elizabeth Myung-Hae Chun (SCR)

Development of Lumpy Skin Disease subunit vaccine using Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

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Oral Presentations

Neuro I Melissa Coleman Chair Burns 1:15 Amanda Wen (SCR) Histological Characterization of the Damselfish Retina Schmitz 1:30 Chris Papatheofanis (PIT) Revisiting Walls' retinal photoreceptor transmutation

theory: A gecko all-cone retina? Schmitz

1:45 Madison Wiltse (PIT) Effects of pupil shape on peak retinal ganglion cell density in reef fishes

Schmitz

2:00 Karen Chisholm (SCR) Retinal Ganglion Cell and Photoreceptor Topography in the Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius)

Schmitz

2:15 Lauren Eisenman (SCR) Quantification of striatal dopamine receptors in a monogamous bird

Coleman

2:30 Mara Burns (PIT) Neural Dopamine Mechanisms in Monogamous Zebra Finches

Coleman

Molecular Biology I Jennifer Armstrong Chair Keck 127 1:15 Mauri Sysko (SCR) The Response of Linker Histone H1 to Chromatin

Remodeling Factor CHD1 Expression Armstrong

1:30 Elliot Warner (CMC) Efforts towards an orthogonal translation system Liu 1:45 Briana Halle (CMC) Production of a Cost-Effective, TMV-Based Rabies

Vaccine through Recombinant DNA Technology Grill

2:00 Marcus Curl (PIT) Plant Produced Monoclonal Antibodies Grill 2:15 Lukas Schwarz (CMC) Generating isogenic mutant cell lines in

adenocarcinoma models with CRISPR-Cas9 Holmes

Biology/EA Findley Finseth Chair Keck 137 1:30 Leta Ames (SCR) Camera Trapping as a Comparison Method of

Species Frequencies in Neighboring Properties in Barú, Costa Rica

McFarlane

1:45 David Atilano (CMC) Disentangling the genetics of flowering time in wild flowers

Finseth

2:00 Anya Krause (SCR) Induced plant response to herbivory by generalist vs specialist herbivores on monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus)

Smith

2:15 Stephanie Lim (SCR) Assessing loss rates of a developing red tide at a population level

Brosnahan, WHOI

2:30 Dafna Bimstein (CMC) Coralline algae calcification: impacts of changing seawater alkalinity

BWilliams

Chemistry I Mary Hatcher-Skeers Chair Keck 101 1:15 Ben Mitchell (PIT) Salicylaldehyde derived ligands for asymmetric

hydroamination catalysts Johnson

1:30 Marly Coe (SCR) The Real Tryptophan Synthase: Using NMR Crystallography to Gain New Insights on an Old Enzyme

Hatcher-Skeers

1:45 Mira Liu (CMC) Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Cysteine-Cyanobenzothiazole Condensation at the Single-Molecule Level

Bayley

2:00 Nicole Rishwain (SCR) Intramolecular Hydroamination of Dienes using an Organocatalyst

Wenzel

2:15 Ellen Berkley (CMC) Development of an Enantioselective Allenoate Claisen Rearrangement

Wenzel

2:30 Eric Thvedt (CMC) ? Wenzel

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Neuro II Rory Spence Chair Burns 3:00 Anastasia Ibrahim (CMC) Cell Proliferation in Zebrafish (Danio Rero) Brains

After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Spence

3:15 Helen Thomason (SCR) Microglia cell response to mild traumatic brain injury in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Spence

3:30 Vanessa Gill (CMC) Behavioral Assay of a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Zebrafish

Spence

3:45 Lauren Clubb (CMC) The role of Interleukin-6 during the Reconsolidation Phase of Fear Memory

Marver, GWU

4:00 Juan Castillo (CMC) Adhesion and Engulfment of Altered Red Blood Cells to Brain Endothelial Cells

Sumbria, KGI

Molecular Biology II Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert Chair Keck 127 3:00 Ben Cowan (PIT) Improving Chimeric Antigen Receptor modified T cell

efficacy and proliferation through inducible sensor cell activation

Jensen, SCRI

3:15 Naomi Shroff-Mehta (SCR) Modulation of Double-Flash Illusion Using tACS

Yun, Caltech

3:30 Anisha Loeb (PIT) When Cancer Cells Die – Mechanistic Insights from CRISPR-Cas9 Screens

Feldman, Fred Hutch

3:45 Devin Cavero (CMC) Development of a Flow Cytometric Panel to Identify Functional and Phenotypic T Cell Exhaustion Markers for HIV-1 Vaccine Evaluation

Frahm, Fred Hutch

4:00 Laine Goudy (SCR) BCL-2 Family Protein Inhibitors Synergize to Kill Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

O’Steen, Fred Hutch

Physiology Jenna Monroy Chair Keck 137 3:00 Lindsay Piwinski (PIT) Understanding muscle force during cyclic movements:

Does titin play a role? Monroy

3:15 Blair Thompson (SCR) Atomic Force Microscopy of Titin Ig Domains 80-84 in the Presence and Absence of Calcium at Different Pulling Velocities

Monroy

3:30 Daisy Brambila (PIT) Ubiquitination at the Drosophila NMJ: A Novel System for Understanding Synaptic Dysfunction

Schweizer, UCLA

3:45 Caitlin Gaylord (SCR) Researching High-Altitude Physiology, Exercise Science and Cerebral Vascular Function

Ainslie, UBC

4:00 Clare Dawson (CMC) NOD2's Role in Autoimmune Arthritis

Chemistry II Nancy Williams Chair Keck 101 3:00 Roxanna Kiessling (CMC) A model experimental system for polymer interactions Sanii 3:15 Elisa Stephens (PIT) From methane to methanol: a mechanistic study of a

Shilov-type conversion of a metal alkyl to a free alcohol through isotopic labeling

Williams

3:30 Evelyn Zepeda (SCR) Mechanistic Study of Reductive Elimination from a Platinum (IV) Complex

Williams

3:45 Carly Roleder (CMC) Synthesis of a Novel Platinum Ligand Complex and Analysis into its Sigma-Complex Product

Williams

4:00 Micheal Chen (CMC) Hydroamination Reaction of Metal Catalysts Wenzel