RISE: Poster Symposium

The RISE application deadline has passed and applications are now closed.

At the end of the six-week program, RISE students will prepare an abstract and poster for the Poster Symposium. The symposium will give you the chance to practice the essential skill of science communication in front of an audience comprised of those familiar with research as well as the general public.

Interns will present a poster in one of these subject areas: astronomy, biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth & environment, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics & statistics, mechanical engineering, medical laboratory research, neuroscience, nutrition, physics, psychological & brain sciences, psychology, and public health.

Practicum students will present a poster based on a research project in the area of computational neurobiology. Please take a look at a selection of posters from past years:

RISE Internship track (2024)

Anatomy and Neurobiology

• The Association Between Sleep Efficiency and Cognitive Impairment Using Wearable Sleep Device – E. Chen
• The Association Between Unstable Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Duration and Cognitive Impairment Using Wearable Sleep Device – M. Chen
• The Association Between REM Sleep Duration and Cognitive Impairment Using Wearable Sleep Device – S. Raghavan

Biology

• Climate Clarity: Nitrogen Cycling in Soil Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles– M. Souza

Biomedical Engineering

• Modeling Robotic Digital Twins for Medical Application – A. Delale-O’Connor
• Metagenomic Screening of Environmental Samples for Novel Biosensors – A. Gupta-Rastogi
• Compact Surgical Navigation via Tool-Mounted Approach: Overcoming Line-of-Sight Limitations in Minimally Invasive Procedures – C. Cao
• Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Recapitulate Engraftment In Vitro – K. Chavez
• Investigating the Impact of Increased Afterload on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – M. Roseboro

Chemistry

• An Enzyme Characterization to Produce a Wearable Estrone Biosensor – C. Huynh
• Enzymatic Steroid Hormone Degradation: Purification of a Putative Estradiol-Degrading Protein for an Estrogen Biosensor – D. Sherman
• Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticle Formulation for Delivery of RNA-Based Therapies to Joint Cells – M. Rozenberg
• Utilizing an Asset-Based Model to Understand Historically Marginalized Students’ Experiences in a General Chemistry Course – P. Fertig
• Stacking Configuration Dependent Chemical Reactivity of Graphene – S. Kong
• Twist Angle Dependent Chemical Reactivity of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) in Nitridation Conversion – T. Bodducherla

Computer Science

• Comparative Analysis and Enhancement of Online and Offline Optimization Algorithms for Ad Allocation – A. Chadha
• Optimizing Advertising Impression Allocation: Comparative Analysis of Two Algorithms for Online and Offline Instances in Generalized Assignment Problems – I. De La Garza
• Analyzing and Optimizing Algorithms for Effective Online and Offline Ad Allocation – L. Kossoff
• Online and Offline Optimization Algorithms for High-Speed Ad Allocation and Performance Benchmarking – M. Zhang
• Exploring SIEVE: An Efficient Eviction Policy for Bufferpool Data – P. Shah

Earth and Environment

• Using an In-Situ Spectrophotometer for Study of Dissolved Carbon Dynamics in a New England Forest – H. Jin
• Retrieving Turbidity in Coastal Georgia Using Satellite Data – J. Zhou

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Temperature Prediction in Monolithic 3D Using Machine Learning Based Models – A. Zhou
• Beam Me Up: Implicitly Learned Neural Phase Functions for Point Spread Function Engineering in Optogenetics – A. Valouev
• Exploring Mid-IR Photothermal Microscopy with Bead Samples – E. Kuang
• Interpretable and Lightweight Machine Learning Approach for Autism Classification Using Biomarkers Derived from Multi-trial Resting EEG – M. Su
• Automated Classification of Electrocardiogram Data with Machine Learning – R. Alam
• Evaluation of the Reliability of Electro-Photonic Accelerators – S. Kashi
• Adaption of Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song (CKKS) for Practical Use in Computer Systems – S. Manchala
• Wavelet-Based Filter for Fluorescence Noise and Background Removal in Extended Depth of Field Imaging – S. Sharma
• An Exploration of the Residue Number System in Neural Networks – S. Srikanth
• Investigating the Security of PCIe Passthrough Connections with Fuzzing – S. Desai

Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

• Towards Coupled Magnetometers for Ultra-Sensitive Metrology – P. Harsdorf
• Roughness Tuning Techniques for Improved Soft Optical Shape and Contact Sensing – A. Schube
• Engineering Continuum Bodies for Navigation Assistance of a Millimeter-Scale Soft Robot for Tissue Biopsy Procedures – D. Burke
• A Neural Network for Real-Time Force Monitoring in a Soft Robotic Sleeve for Safer Colonoscopies – E. Capaldi
• Evaluating the Robustness of a Novel Output Feedback Controller Using Vision-Based Mapping of AprilTags – L T. Rivers
• Investigating Ion Transport in Silicon Dioxide Nanochannels – N A. Sanchez-Zarkos
• Vision Based Multi-Robot Coordination for Mapping – S. Liu

Medicine

• A Cross-Study Epigenetic Analysis of Diseases and Traits – N. Yang
• Leveraging VAE to Dissect Inter-individual Variation – R. Tong

Molecular & Cell Biology

• Lipid Signaling Is Required for Glucose Stimulated Insulin Secretion: Type II Diabetes Mellitus – A. Siram
• Hyperlipidemic Modulation of Pancreatic 𝛽-cells Increases Calcium Sensitivity of the Insulin Exocytotic Machinery – A S. Lee
• Protein Phosphorylation and its Critical Role in Regulating Energy Dependent Glucose-Induced Insulin Secretion – D. Cruz-Loyde
• Vitamin D Enhances Insulin Secretion from the Pancreatic β-cell – H M. Rappaport

Neuroscience

• Metamaterials for Magnetic Field Enhancement and Electric Field Suppression – A. Bezbaruah
• Associations Between Spontaneous Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage Volume and Quantitative Pupillometry – A. Krishnaswamy
• Modulation of Serotonin Neurons Using Optogenetics Alters Negative Geotaxis Behavior in Male and Female Fruit Flies with Induced Depression – C. Ding
• The Neuromuscular Effects of Modulating Acetylcholine Neurons in Fruit Flies Using Optogenetics – D S. Goo
• Investigating Suicide Risk and Attempts in Behavioral, Cognitive Scores, and White Matter Tract Measures Using the ABCD Study – I W. Demiroska
• The Effect of Optogenetic Modulation of Serotonin Neurons on the Behavioral States of Restrained Drosophila Melanogaster – I. Kokkat
• Illness Severity and Cerebral Edema in Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients – K. Nguyen
• The Effect of Optogenetic Modulation of Dopamine Neurons on Feeding Behavior in Drosophila Melanogaster – K. Habibzadeh
• Spacing Extinction Trials Across Days Presents Lower Prefrontal Neuronal Activity in Adolescent Mice – M. Babu
• Functional Connectivity in Focal Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Interictal to Peri-ictal State Patterns – N. Pandey
• Differences in Threat and Reward Processing Between Adult and Adolescent Mice – R. Narahari
• Tuning of Magnetic Functionality through Proximity Exchange Coupling – R. Raman
• Optogenetic Modulation of Octopamine Neurons in Anesthetic Vulnerability in Drosophila Melanogaster – S. Ambekar
• Quantifying Water Exchange through the Blood Brain Barrier in Focal Temporal Lobe Epilepsy – S. Patel
• Electrical Field Switching of Magnetic Devices for Superconducting Electronics – S. Wimberly

Psychological and Brain Sciences

• Semi Real-time Processing and Post-hoc Quality Control of High-Density Neural Recordings – A. Shukla
• Exploring the Differences in Grasping from an Evolutionary Perspective – R. Nachnani

Virology, Immunology & Microbiology

• HERV Regulation in People Living With HIV-1: Analyzing Differential Expression and HIV-1 Related Inflammation – A. Parsa
• Investigation of Possible Vertical Transmission of HIV-1 Superinfection Using Single Genomic Amplification – S. Guru

RISE Practicum track (2024)

Computational Neurobiology

Note: All students contributed equally to group projects.

• Inhibiting Molecular Dynamics of Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress Pathways in Parkinson’s Neurodegeneration – C. Jin, A. Tomaszewski, A. Yan, I. Harbaugh
• Modeling Downregulated Astrocytic Glutamate Transporter GLT-1 in Combination with Therapeutic Agents on Tripartite Synaptic Glutamate Dynamics in ALS – R. Aluru, T. Kaczmarek, R. Kanchi, B. Narang, D. Stepanyan
• Reduced Activity in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus as a Possible Mechanism for Abnormal Sleep Spindles – A. Chandak, S. Li, S. Srinivasan, C. Wang, S. Yi
• Broadband Coupling to Slow-Wave Phase Acts as a Biomarker for Brain State in Ketamine-Induced Unconsciousness – A. Ao, P. Kudallur, V. Lee, A. Mittal, S. Sinha
• Modeling Associative Memory Deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease with NFT-Induced Synaptic Degradation Using an Asymmetric Hopfield Network – J. Dou, G. Jin, K. Lu, R. Si, A. Twede
• A Benchmark Study on the Effect of a Fixed Volatility Hyperparameter on Learning Curve Dynamics in State Space Models – E. Cui, X. Gong, I. Hong, A. Mello, S. Thaker
• Analyzing Desynchronizing Effects of Waveforms on Beta-Gamma Coupled Oscillations in Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease – A. Chadha, S. Malge, R. Raina, R. Wolk, E. Zastavnyuk
• Simulating the Spread of Misfolded Tau Proteins in a Three-Dimensional Model of the Brain – A. Cheng, N. Rudraski, M. Stick, A. Xu, E. Yao
• An Examination of Hearing Loss on Memory Formation: A Conductance Model of the Hippocampal CA3 Network – J. Tsaggaris, S. Yang, S Q Zhang, X. Song
• In Silico Analysis of CA3 Replay Prolongation and Naturalistic Sequence Activity Under Pulsatile Optogenetic Stimulation – P. Nathani, V. Shenoy, J. Turnidge, D. Wang