Fall Research Symposium
The Fall Research Symposium allows students from all disciplines the opportunity to present their research or creative projects, including those undertaken in the previous summer or academic year.
The 2024 Symposium will include oral presentations and poster sessions on Wednesday, September 18 in Beck Hall from 3:30-5:00pm. See schedule listed below!
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Analyzing our Environment: A Look Inside an Environmental Testing Laboratory Ashley Barker ‘25 Investigating methods of fitting quasinormal modes in numerical-relativity ringdown signals Erin Coleman ‘25 Faculty Sponsor: Eliot Finch, Caltech Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy Antifungal Drug Resistance in Candida Albicans Marty Anderson ‘27, Laura Burrack Faculty Sponsor: Laura Burrack, Biology Effect of Column Length on Resolution for Separations of Complex Surfactant Mixtures Ella Sontowski ‘26, Tina Dahlseid Faculty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry Understanding Energy Conflicts: Wind Power in Southern Minnesota Laura Sunnarborg ‘27, Monarch Fuhrman ‘24, Ella Schwakopf ‘25 Faculty Sponsor: Tiffany Grobelski, Environment Geography and Earth & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION B Towards a Fair Comparison of LLMs on Multi-Perspective Narrative Analysis Using TELeR Taxonomy Leo Kampen ‘25 Faculty Sponsor: Dongji Feng, Computer Science
Hope Lesher ‘27 Faculty Sponsor: Yuta Kawarasaki, Biology Enhancing Data Collection and Predictive Modeling for Alkyl Phenone Retention Using the WikiChrom Method Sophia Smith ‘26, Emily Mills ‘26, Trevor Kempen, Zachary Kruger Faculty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry Understanding the role of bromodomains in gene expression Abigail Kugler ‘26, Laura Murillo ‘27, Alexander Bur Faculty Sponsor: Scott Bur, Chemistry and Biochemistry ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION C The Gustavus Radio JOVE project Jonathan Ryan ‘27 Faculty Sponsor: Darsa Donelan, Physics
Benjamin Ryan ‘27 Faculty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry The impacts of human conflict on soil erosion, the environment and land use change associated with the early Modern period Kaisa Whittaker ‘25, Kendall Wiggins ‘27 Faculty Sponsor: Erik Gulbranson, Environment Geography and Earth Induction of rapid cold-hardening in Drosophila melanogaster by ecologically-relevant, diurnal temperature fluctuations: is it promoted by transcriptomic changes? Maddie Chaplin ‘25 Faculty Sponsor: Yuta Kawarasaki, Biology Poster Presentations (3:30-5:00 pm) in Beck Atrium Stain Detection using Machine Learning Molly Stein ‘27, Pidge Witiak ‘24 Faulty Sponsor: Guarionex Salivia, Mathematics Computer Science Two approaches to Feed injection Method Development for the Injection of Strong HPLC Solvents Dasha Shyroka ‘27, Zach Kruger ‘23, Sarah Carr Faulty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry & Tina Dahlseid Inulin and responsiveness to anti-PD1 therapy against triple negative breast cancer in mice Rachel Trebesch ‘25, Melike Ozgul Onal Faulty Sponsor: Leena Hilakivi-Clarke Evaluation of Sexual Function in Spinal Cord Injury Patients Using the Orgasm Rating Scale in the E STAND Trial Lauren Rocheford ‘26, Ria Koppikar ‘26, Elizabeth Bottorff, Tara Nash, Nidhi Satish, David Darrow, Sam Cramer Faulty Sponsor: Heather Banks, Career Development Investigating the role of sOlincRNAs in abiotic stress response using genome engineering in Arabidopsis Thaliana Amelia Qualey ‘25, Zainab Syed ‘27, Egan Bedwell ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Katie Leehy Determining the Function of the Immune Checkpoint Molecule B7-H3 in Fibrotic Diseases Ava Farrell ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Fabrice Lucien-Matteoni Environmental controls on stromatolite morphology in the Ordovician Prairie du Chien Group Frances Monroe ‘27, Miranda Vizoso-Marino ‘27, Julie Bartley Faulty Sponsor: Julie Bartley, Environment, Geography and Earth Sciences Biomarkers of Therapy-Induced Senescence in Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer Grace McFarlane ‘25, Lena Batoon Faulty Sponsor: John Hawse, Mayo Clinic Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mice hypomorphic for ALKBH5 develop fatty liver disease Brynn Johnson ‘26, Aurpita Shaha, Bing Bai, Wenming Bao, Ling Wang Faulty Sponsor: Ningling Kang, The Hormel Institute (UMN) Pathogenic Significance of NORSE Specific miRNAs Emma Stock ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Chuck Howe, Mayo Clinic Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology The wikiChrom Project – Principles, Results, and Knowledge Grace LaTourelle ‘27, Ella Sontowski ‘26, Zach Kruger Faulty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry & Tina Dahlseid Exosome Mediated Decay of mRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Samantha Anderson ‘27 Faulty Sponsor: Jeffrey Dahlseid, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Optimum Echo Time for Improved Contrast in T2-Weighted Fast Spin Echo Prostate MRI Ronard Pabi ‘24 Faulty Sponsor: Stephen J. Riederer, Ph.D. and Eric A. Borisch, M.S., Mayo Clinic Department of Radiology PrOF NMR and AlphaScreen for analysis of small molecule interactions with the PfGCN5 Bromodomain Allison Szalay ‘26, Janelle Sylvester ‘26, Amelia Pluth, Laura Murillo Faulty Sponsor: Scott Bur, Chemistry Impact of Ploidy on Antifungal Drug Resistance Kassidy Thomas ‘26 Faulty Sponsor: Laura Burrack, Biology Does antifungal drug exposure potentiate the evolution of antifungal resistance/tolerance in Candida albicans? Zethan Schultz ‘27 Faulty Sponsor: Laura Burrack, Biology Degradation of Telomere-Related Gene mRNAs by the Nonsense Mediated Decay Pathway Samara Goltz ‘26 Faulty Sponsor: Jeff Dahlseid, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Histological analysis of the U11-null growth plate reveals contributions of defective chondrocyte proliferation and death to micromelia Kaia Meyer ‘26, Saren Springer, Abigail Boria, Rahul Kanadia Faulty Sponsor: Rahul Kanadia, University of Connecticut, Physiology and Neurobiology Evaluation of the accuracy of simulations used for optimizing two-dimensional liquid chromatography methods Allison Power ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Dwight Stoll, Chemistry & Tina Dahlseid Photodegradation of pesticides in the liquid and gas phase Ross Hebel ‘26, Beau Supan ‘27 Faulty Sponsor: Amanda Nienow, Chemistry Characterizing the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in Seven Mile Creek (MN) Zoya Brenke ‘25, Jim Parejko Faulty Sponsor: Jim Parejko, Biology The Structural Organization of Acetyl-CoA Carboxyltransferase from Trichoplusia ni (Cabbage Looper) Hannah Brenke ‘25, Dong Wang, Ge Yang, Dmytro Kompaniiets, and Bin Liu Faulty Sponsor: Ge Yang, Dmytro Kompaniiets, and Bin Liu Impact of northern wild rice (Manoomin, Zizania palustris) site history on soil nutrient composition Rachel Lester ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Wesley Bickford, Biology Utilizing a novel electrode localization technique in Parkinson's disease patients that have implanted deep brain stimulation devices. Grayson Wieczorek ‘26, Kate Dembny ‘28, Ben Pobiel, Rachel Cole, Kevin J. O’Neill III, Rémi Patriat, Henry Braun, Jayashree Chandrasekaran, Stephanie L. Alberico, Meghan Hill, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Devyn Bauer, Brandon Parks Faulty Sponsor: Jerrold Vitek, U of M, Department of Neurology Determination of the Environmental Fate of Organic UV Filters (OUVFs) in Water Nathan Cole-Dai ‘25, Joy Amadi Faulty Sponsor: Michael Gonsior, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Isolation and Purification of MS2-MBP for Investigating sRNA Hierarchical Regulation of mRNA in Escherichia coli Alexander Johnson ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Janie Frandsen, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Identifying the Features Responsible for the Nonsense-Mediated Decay of the CEP3 mRNA Akwasi Amoah ‘26 Faulty Sponsor: Jeff Dahlseid, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Small RNA Regulation of Gene Expression in E. coli Joseph Ream ‘26, Amelia Butler ‘27, Alexander Johnson ‘25 Faulty Sponsor: Jane Frandsen, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Questions may be directed to Sarah Peterson (speterson@gustavus.edu) or the Director of Undergraduate Research.