RISE: Poster Symposium

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 Practicum track (2022)

Computational Neurobiology

Note: All students contributed equally to group projects.

• Modeling Nonlinear Dynamics of the Mammalian Respiratory Central Pattern Generator Using the Hindmarsh-Rose Model of a Neuron – A. Ambekar, K. Asija, K. Hua, I. Kar, R. Zhang
• The Effects of Gabapentin on Epileptic Seizures: A Computational Model – M. Azrak, V. Desai, W. Longtin, S. Nallapothula, A. Ramabadran
• Modeling The Effect Of Clozapine On Firing Rates Of Dopaminergic Neurons In The Midbrain – A. Chang, S. Fuchs, A. Luo, T. Ye, A. Zheng
• Increasing CREB Impacts Memory Recall in a Computational Model of Hippocampal CA1 Neurons Affected by Alzheimer’s Disease – A. Chaudhry, M. Graves, A. Kahn, S. Korff, I. Parikh
• Examining Functional Connectivity in the Language Processing Center through fMRI in Relation to the Onset of Psychosis in Schizophrenia – B. Chien, A. Huang, A. Le Roux, S. Medepalli, K. Wang
• Application of Tractography-Guided Deep Brain Stimulation to Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder – K. Ge, M. Gupta, S. Hoar, R. Marques
• Training a Convolutional Neural Network on MRI Scans to Differentiate Between PTSD & TBI – U. Joglekar, N. Lyum, E. Maliar, I. Shen, A. Taylor
• Using Machine Learning to Identify and Negate Electroencephalographic Markers of Central Neuropathic Pain – D. Krish, P. Krishna, A. Singh, N. Veeramachaneni
• Efficacy of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Disrupting Beta Oscillations with Application To Parkinson’s Disease – A. Lee, A. Lim, M. Shanmugam, A. Vo, J. Wen
• Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis Through Machine Learning CSF Molecular Biomarker Analysis – A. Wang, B. Weller, C. Chen, M. Kothari, N. Vuppalapati
• Therapeutic Properties of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide for Alzheimer’s Disease – Z. Belfort, N. Checoury, Z. Edelblum, J. Patterson, B. Stein

RISE Internship track (2022)

Astronomy

• Tracking Meteor Characteristics Using an Ablation Model – S. Diaz
• Estimating Meteoroid Trajectories in Earth’s Atmosphere Using an Ablation Model – W. Neeb

Biology

• Changes in Seasonality & Nitrogen Oligotrophication through Leaf Litter Chemistry in the Northern Forests of Hubbard Brook – R. Gutierrez
• Urban Greenspace Type Effects Soil Physicochemical Characteristics – V. Kouadio
• Modeling Nitrogen Cycling Using Snow Depth and Temperature Data – G. Malasani
• Gene Expression Analysis Of The Dlk1-Dio3 Non-Coding RNA Locus In C2C12 Cells – E. Nguyen

Biomedical Engineering

• Polydimethylsiloxane Tensile Moduli Optimization of Cardiac on-a-chip Models – L. Li
• Induction of Apoptosis with Staurosporine in Tendon Explants – L. Slootskaya

Chemistry

• Molecular Simulation of Ionic Liquids: From Molecular Interactions to Transport Properties – E. Bober
• Sulfated Polyamidosaccharides As Heparin Mimetics – E. Dai
• Engineering Recombinant Proteins for Surface Presentation in Synthetic Cells – A. Tate
• Studying the Effects of Divalent Metals on the Stability and Activity of His-SUMO-hAMPD2-2^Δ128 – C. Tian

Computer Science

• Critique Generation with Language Models for Code Generation and Arithmetic Reasoning Tasks – E. Pan
• Modeling Fast Delete in Log-Structured Merge (LSM) Trees – G. Sun

Dental Medicine

• Genetic Screen For Arsenic Signaling Mutants In Baker’s Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae – A. Liu

Earth and Environment

• The Impact Of Urbanization On Salt Marsh Greenhouse Gas Dynamics – R. Adler
• Effects of Changing Temperatures On Estuarine Carbon Cycling – R. Lee

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Web Application for HPC System Anomaly Diagnosis – R. Chen
• Designing Deep Neural Networks to Predict the Dynamics of an Unknown Robotics System – A. Cheng
• Mode Purity Analysis of OAM Fiber Modes with a Mobile Phone – G. Chitturi
• AI Based Classification of Cancer Data – E. Forrestel
• Navigation Policy Development using Imitation Learning From Rodent Foraging Data – A. Hashimoto
• Accelerating Coverage-based Greybox Fuzzing to Rapidly Identify Bugs in Processors – B. Ho
• MultiWienerNet: A Learning-Based Shift Variant Reconstruction Algorithm – V. Li
• Cybersecurity of Biomedical Capsules – M. Mao
• A Modular Housing System for a Novel, Automated Microfluidic Solution Testing and Toxin Detection System – R. Suresh
• Web Application For Identifying and Diagnosing Performance Anomalies – K. Terez
• Surface Normal Estimation from Noisy, Single-Photon Lidar Point Clouds – T. Zhang

Mechanical Engineering

• Effect of Height of Nanochannels on Hydraulic Resistance and Water Evaporation – S. Dever-Mendenhall
• SLAM Based on a Single Plane Laser Sensor – M. Du
• Generating a Map of the Environment With a GMapping and Hector Mapping SLAM Robot – B. Wang

Medicine

• Examining The Effects Of Artificial Sweeteners, Sucralose and Steviol, On High-Density Lipoprotein Biogenesis – A. Furlan
• The Effects of 𝛼-MSH and NPY on CD14 Production by Phagocytizing Macrophages – C. Goldszmidt
• Designing and Evaluating an MRI-Compatible Biopsy Needle Force Sensor to Improve the Targeting Accuracy of MR-Guided Interventions – R. Hoki
• Preoperative Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Ultrasound: A Mapping Protocol To Minimize Cutaneous Nerve Damage During ACL Surgery – R. Hsi
• Outcomes of Comatose Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients: A Descriptive Study – L. Hwang
• Safety and Efficacy of Reperfusion Therapy for the Treatment of Ischemic Strokes in Patients with Covid-19 – H. Jung
• A Deep Learning Approach Using Transformers for MRI Reconstruction of Undersampled K-Spaces – K. Larsen
• Chronic Exposure to Excess Nutrients Alters Insulin Secretion From Pancreatic Beta-Cell and Promotes Insulin Hypersecretion – I. Lee
• The Safety and Efficacy of Reperfusion Therapy for the Treatment of Ischemic Stroke in COVID-19 Patients – J. Lee
• Chronic Exposure to Excess Nutrients Alters Insulin Secretion From Pancreatic Beta-Cell and Promotes Insulin Hypersecretion – E. Ryu
• Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy as Treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme and Retinoblastoma – J. Shapiro
• Effects of Artificial Sweeteners on High Density Lipoprotein Biogenesis – N. Sun
• Needle Force Sensor For Improved Accuracy during Prostate Biopsies through the Differentiation of Tissue – T. Tarnopolsky
• The Effects of 𝛼-MSH and NPY on the Expression of CD14 by Phagocytizing Macrophages – J. Wu
• Quantitative Analysis of Teaching Modalities on Autism Spectrum Disorder Student Engagement through Frontal Lobe Activation Using fNIRS – S. Yang
• Survival Analysis and Prediction of Discharge Outcomes of Ischemic Stroke Patients Stratified by Hemorrhagic Transformation Subtype – L. Yu

Microbiology

• Comparing DNA/RNA Levels in HIV-1 Positive Plasma Isolated Using Standard Centrifugation Procedure and HERMES Extraction – N. Pierce

Neuroscience

• Role of Octopamine Neurons in Heterospecific Aggressive Behaviors in Drosophila Melanogaster: Understanding Discriminatory Responses – J. Banuelos
• Optogenetic Regulation of 5-HT1A Autoreceptors Programming the Latency Period of Antidepressant Treatment in Drosophila Melanogaster – A. Deng
• Impact of Context Manipulation Prior to Fear Extinction in Adolescent Mice – O. Ganiyu
• Effect of Chronic Activation of Cholinergic Neurons in Olfactory Reception – L. Palutla

Nutrition

• Identifying and Narrowing Down Potential Causative Candidate Genes Associated with Mast Cell Hypersensitivity in Hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – J. Choi
• The Search for Potential Causative Gene(s) associated with Hypermobility Ehler-Danlos Syndrome – B. Liu
• Vitamin D-fense: The Balancing Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation and UV Exposure on Broad Gene Expression – E. Lu

Pharmacology

• Determining the Effect of DLST on CD4 Cell Development in MYCN-driven Neuroblastoma using Transgenic Zebrafish  – Y. Liu
• Effect of Liver Zhx2 Overexpression on Oxycodone Addiction Model Behaviors – G. Saavedra
• Determining the Interplay between Lymphocyte and Macrophage Development in Zebrafish – E. Whitlinger
• Examining the Effect of UFD1 on Thymus Development – S. Zhang

Physics

• Optimizing Data Collection for Terahertz Spectroscopy – I. Garg

Physiology and Biophysics

• Higher Rhodopsin Levels Enlarge Diameter of Rod Photoreceptors in Mouse Retina – P. Chakravarty
• Bicarbonate Enhances Maximal Response Amplitude and Absolute Sensitivity to Light in Mouse Rod Photoreceptors – A. Kossoff

Psychological and Brain Sciences

• The Bar in my Barber’s Bar Mitzvah: Examining Differences in Morphological Processing Between Typical and Dyslexic Readers – M. Cohen
• Using a novel self-report measure to quantify predictive skills in autistic adults – K. Mooney