Thank you for joining us LIVE for the VIRTUAL 2021 Research In Science & Engineering Symposium!
Summer RISE Research Presentations
All presentations were held LIVE and the schedule is below. Most presentations were recorded and are available on the symposium website. We congratulate the student presenters who have worked very hard on their research during a particularly challenging summer for accomplishing undergraduate research.
2021 RISE Symposium Tabs
Summer RISE Research Presentations
All presentations were held LIVE on August 25, 2021, and the schedule is below. Most presentations were recorded and are available on the symposium website. We congratulate the student presenters who have worked very hard on their research during a particularly challenging summer for accomplishing undergraduate research.
| 2021 RISE Symposium | |
| 9:00am - 9:15am |
Welcome & Opening Ceremony - Dr. Connie Nugent |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | Student Speakers |
| Emily Kusumoputro Alberto Munoz Simrithi Septhupathi Cheyenne Darrow Vinayak Gajjewar Ginny Winters | |
Room 10-Alpha:
- William Burgess (Dr. Hoori Ajami): Groundwater Response to Drought is Defined by Evapotranspiration, Antecedent Conditions, and Precipitation Characteristics
- Juelle Ford (Dr. John Franchak): The Impact of Home Environment on Infant Motor Development
- Mahnur Bharucha (Dr. Fedor Karginov): Generating Dicer Knockouts Using CRISPR/CAS9 Technology by Golden Gate Cloning, Transfection & Single-Cell Cloning
- Albert Munoz (Dr. Monica Carson): Data Analysis for Microglia Inflammation Studies
Room 10-Beta:
- Alena Pham (Dr. David Reznick): X and Y Chromosome Recombination in Poecilia Reticulata
- Sudipto Paul (Dr. Jason Stajich): Exploring Viral Communities in Terrestrial Cyanobacteria Metagenomes
- Andrew Nguyen, Crystal Tangayong (Dr. Jeffrey Bachant): Mitotic Spindle Structure in Different Strains of Yeast
Room 10-Delta:
- Miguel Rodriguez (Dr. Aaron Sietz): Analyzing Human Behavior with Facial Micro-Expressions in Different Contexts
- Ingrid Morales (Dr. Vagelis Papalexakis): Tensor Decomposition for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
- Cindy Ho (Dr. Ray Anderson): Machine Learning in Crop Classification
- Maximillian Denys (Dr. Margarita Curras-Collazo): Altered Activation of Cortico-Amygdalar Circuit in Mice Developmentally Exposed to Brominated Flame Retardants
Room 10-Omega:
- William Do (Dr. Xuemei Chen): Annotations of LTR Regions in Retrotransposons
- Esmeralda Rivera, Maricela Toops (Dr. Edward Korzus): Using Calcium Imaging to Map Out the Neural Mechanism Underlying Fear Modulation
- Ronit Krovidi (Dr. Katayoon Dehesh): Corepressor Genes Assist Calmodulin to Induce the MECPP Retrograde Signaling Stress Response in Arabidopsis Thaliana
- Marissa Diaz (Dr. Quinn McFrederick): Investigating the Bacteria Burkholderia in the Guts of Sweat Bees
Room 11-Alpha
- Hannah Rose Hoover (Dr. Wei Liu): An Ocean of Current Concerns: Understanding the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Impact of Increasing Greenhouse Gases
- Kevin Urrutia Avila (Dr. Konstantinos Karydis): Autonomous Soil Moisture Mapping
- Emily Kusumoputro (Dr. Pingyun Feng): Crystal Engineering Porous Materials for C3H8/C3H6 Separation
Room 11-Beta
- Adrian Akhuetie (Dr. Chia-en Chang): Finding Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Complexes and Identifying Similarities in Binding
- Gustavo Ramirez (Dr. Mona Eskandari): Development of a Novel Pulmonary Healthcare Device
- Karan Bhakare, Jared Feliciano, Sofia Hormaza, Alex Ngo, and Sarah Wu (Dr. James Burnette, Dr. Venkateswari Chetty, Alejandro Cortez, and Dr. Susan Wessler): Verification of mPING Insertion in Oryza sativa
- Yu Wei (Chris) Chang, Sabrina Chavez, Nathaniel Co, Jacob Jauregui, Soo Yon Lim, and Yuvraj Singh (Dr. James Burnette, Dr. Venkateswari Chetty, Alejandro Cortez, and Dr. Susan Wessler): Assessing Expression Levels of Transposable Element Burst Lines in Rice
Room 11-Delta
- Shafaq Syed (Dr. Francesca Hopkins): Characterizing a Floating Chamber for Measurements of Methane Fluxes from Dairy Lagoons
- Carolina Acevedo (Dr. Dawn H Nagel): Investigating the Functional Role of an Arabidopsis Transcription Factor in Abiotic Stress Responses and Plant Growth
- Seo Ha Leem (Dr. Maurizio Pellecchia): Analysis of EPHA2 Mutations in Breasts and Pancreatic Cancers
- Sara Doering (Dr. Alison Marklein, Dr. Francesca Hopkins): Tulare County, California Dairy Farm Size Data and Methane Emissions Data
Room 11-Omega
- Angela Soliman (Dr. Jessica Purcell): Harvester Ant Workers Vary in Their Investments in Subterranean Tasks
- Jackie Torres (Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres Lab): Enhanced Nutrition in Plants with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) Symbiosis
- Nathan Llamas (Dr. Kurt Anderson): Effects of Habitat Dimensions and Competition on Native and Invasive Southern California Mosquitoes
- Cheyenne Darrow (Dr. Quinn McFrederick): Crithidia Bombi and Cadmium on Mortality and Gut Health of Bombus Impatiens
Room 1-Alpha
- Miguel Lujan (Dr. Kerry Mauck): Influence Of Plant Immunity Elicitors Towards Lettuce Quality And Resistance To Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus
- Aaron E Huang (Dr. Huinan Liu): Optimal Internal Structure for Artificial Human Myocardium
- Sasha Merrill (Dr. Peter Atkinson and Dr. Linda Walling): Preventing Insect Egg Death Due to Fungal Overgrowth
- Borena Lonh (Dr. Erica C. Heinrich): The Impact of High Altitude Acclimatization on Ventilatory Chemoreflexes
Room 1-Beta
- Crystal Kuong, Kailyn Lai, Diane Nguyen, Simrithi Sethupathi, Yongyi (Winnie) Wen, and Timothy Yang (Dr. James Burnette, Dr. Venkateswari Chetty, Alejandro Cortez, and Dr. Susan Wessler): Genotyping TAS2R38 Using Restriction Enzymes to Target Polymorphic Alleles
- Alondra Contreras, Alisa Gadkari, Paxton Guy, Alexandra Keen and Ibrahim Maaz (Dr. James Burnette, Dr. Venkateswari Chetty, Alejandro Cortez, and Dr. Susan Wessler): Improving Salinity Tolerance in Alfalfa
- Tasfia Bari (Dr. Erica Heinrich): Hypoxemia at Admission in Covid-19 Patients as a Predictor of Outcome
- Sandy Perez (Dr. Christopher Clark): Understanding the Production of Wing Trill in Male Black-Chinned Hummingbirds
Room 1-Delta
- Ashley Trinidad (Dr. William C. Porter): Air Pollution Impact of Covid-19 Lockdowns in California
- Raul Isaac Gonzalez (Dr. Samantha Ying): Assessing the Mycobiome of Mixed-Metal-Contaminated Sites in an Arid Area
- Andreas August-Hernandez (Dr. Cengiz Ozkan): Sol-Gel Synthesis Utilizing Renewable Precursors of Carbon-Metal Foams for Various Applications
- Luis Garabito Ruiz (Dr. Roya Zandi): How the Size of a Virus Particle is Determined: Thermodynamics vs. Kinetics
Room 1-Omega
- Manuel Barcenas (Dr. Qixuan Wang): Stochastic Modeling of Hair Follicle Regenerative Dynamics
- Alexis Acosta (Dr. Qixuan Wang): Bayesian Inference of a Hair Follicle Regeneration Model
- Samantha Ramirez (Dr. Qixuan Wang): Modeling Study of Hair Follicle Cell Lineage Dynamics
- Leroy Stumps (Dr. Cengiz Ozkan): Electrospun Nanofiber Incorporated Lithium-Sulfur Cathodes
Room 2-Alpha
- Ginny Winters (Dr. Andrey Bekker): Impacts of Redox Conditions and Nutrient Cycling on Earth’s Atmosphere-Ocean System Recorded by the `1.7 GA Jhamarkotra Formation of the Aravalli Supergroup, India
- Luis Campoy (Dr. Margarita Curras-Collazo): Maternal Transfer of Flame Retardant Toxicants Produces ASD-like Phenotype in C57BI/6 in Mice
- Stephanie Martinez-Beltran (Dr. Adler R. Dillman): Immune Response Study of Drosophila Melanogaster Crispr Mutants
- Daniel Gonzalez II (Dr. Samantha Ying): Managing Plant-Microbe Interactions in Various Production Systems to Promote Plant Health & Sustainable Agriculture
Room 2-Beta
- Yanina Aldao Galvan, George Echeverria and Melvin Hodanu (Dr. Dawn Nagel): Characterization of Clock Regulated Heat Shock Factor Genes in Rice
- Adrian Garcia (Dr. Kurt Anderson): Dispersal Patterns of Adult Aquatic Insect in an Intermittent Alpine Stream
- Daniel Khan (Dr. Elia Scudiero): Use of Proximal Soil Sensing to Characterize Citrus Orchards in Central California
- Hovanness Dingilian (Dr. Alexander I. Putman): Detecting Damage from Nematodes in Crops Using Remote Sensing
Room 2-Delta
- Ryan Quaal (Dr. Sydney Glassman): Exploring the Best Culturing Practices for Pyrophilous Soil Microbes After Severe Wildfire
- Kenny Garcia (Dr. Boris Baer): Effects of Nutritional Composition on Honeybee Immunity
- Abigail Cordero (Dr. Quinn S. McFrederick): Comparing Bees and their Microbes Between Two Regions in Southern California
- Min Chang (Dr. Jessica Purcell): The Effects of Colony Size on Architecture and Excavation
Room 3-Alpha
- Marina Zaza (Dr. Emma Aronson): Microbial Communities in Different Sample Types
- Cindy Nguyen (Dr. Rachel Wu): The Effect of Living Arrangements of Emotional Intimacy in Middle-aged Adults During Covid-19
- Chelsea Berganza (Dr. Timothy Lyons): Exploring Seasonal Dynamics of Sulfidic Conditions in the Drying Salton Sea, CA
Room 3-Beta
- Walker Woodard (Dr. Fedor Karginov): Generation of Pumilio 2 Knockout Cell Model Uti-lizing Prime Editing
- Brian Zhang (Dr. Fedor Karginov): Generation of Pumilio 1 Knockout Cell Line Using Pegrna
- Kennedy Lincoln (Dr. Monique Rivera): Use of Artificial Intelligence for Asian Citrus Psyllid Detection on ACP Sticky Traps
- Giselle Gonzalez (Dr. Kevin Kou): Synthesizing Isoalantolactone from Inula Helenium
Room 3-Delta
- Sulaiman Ahmed (Dr. Milt McGiffen): Big Satellite Data Analytics on Crop Growth in California
- Vinayak Gajjewar (Dr. Ahmed Eldawy): Increasing the Efficiency of Geospatial Data Processing
- Andrea Garnica (Dr. Kerry Mauck): Effects of Various Diets on Black Soldier Fly Larvae as Effective Converters of Food Waste
5:00pm - 5:30pm Closing Remarks