2020 Undergraduate Summer Research Award Recipients
William A. Lee Awardees
Megha Aepala
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Examination of the Oncogenic Fusion Protein LMNA-NTRK1
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Donoghue
Francis Alipranti
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Kinetic regulation of full-length NFκB RelA-p50 heterodimer bound to DNA in the presence of Ribosomal Protein S3
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Komives
Eunice Choi
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: New Method to Quantify Esterified Eicosanoids in Complex Lipids
Faculty Advisor: Edward Dennis
Molly Cohn
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Ribosome Sequence Analysis within Yeast Cells
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid
Arlina de Lugo
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Proteomic Analysis of O-GlcNAcylated Mitochondrial Proteins
Faculty Advisor: Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Emma Deters
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Molecular Dynamic Simulation of TRM10
Faculty Advisor: Alexis Komor
Tommy Le
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Recombinant expression of a novel virion RNA polymerase for structural studies
Faculty Advisor: Tatiana Mishanina
Jori Mills
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Group A Streptococcus M1 protein's interaction with human immunoglobulin G and its role in immune Evasion
Faculty Advisor: Partho Ghosh
Yuqing (Lily) Pan
Mathematics
Research: Time-Series Clustering with Application to Finance
Faculty Advisor: Caroline Moosmueller
Emi Sanchez
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: The Role of Glycoproteins in Viral Attachment of Influenza A
Faculty Advisor: Kamil Godula
Tara Shammas
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Whole cell microarray as a tool to evaluate glycan microenvironment
Faculty Advisor: Kamil Godula
Kunyang Sun
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Construct Feynman Diagrams for an existing research on quantum field
Faculty Advisor: Joel Yuen-Zhou
Dagoberto Valdes
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Corrosion of Stainless Steel in Simulated Marine Environments
Faculty Advisor: Mark Thiemens
Nga (Swan) Van
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: MD Simulation of Trm10 enzyme
Faculty Advisor: Alexis Komor
Amalia Villagran Suarez
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Characterization of the effect of DNA sequence on interactions between NFkB and coactivator proteins
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Komives
Alexander Weyant
Mathematics
Research: Effects of Climate Change on Atmospheric River Driven Events
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Gershunov
Nicholas Wong
Mathematics
Research: Stochastic Simulation of Bacterial Virus Adsorption and Infection
Faculty Advisor: David Meyer
Lufan Xiao
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Role of the EGF and Kringle Domains in the Dynamics of the Protease Domain of uPA
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Komives
Don Eigler Awardees
Zhehao Zhang
Physics
Research: Phase transition in frustrated Kondo Lattice Model
Faculty Advisor: Tarun Grover
Yuan Zhu
Physics
Research: An investigation of the surface conducting state in single crystalline YbB12
Faculty Advisor: Brian Maple
General Atomics Awardees
Celso Carrasco
Physics
Research: Designing Flow Tracers Suitable for Active Matter
Faculty Advisor: Jérémie Palacci
Mara Casebeer
Physics
Research: Investigating interactions between pulsed electric fields and bioluminescence in brittle stars
Faculty Advisor: Dimitri Deheyn
Yuhong Chen
Mathematics
Research: Develop novel deep learning methods to perform semantic segmentation of lungs from chest X-rays, based on self-supervised learning
Faculty Advisor: Pengtao Xie
Orianna Kou
Physics
Research: Paintbrush Experiment
Faculty Advisor: Suckjoon Jun
Brandon Momanyi
Physics
Research: Search for new superconductors by means of electrochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frañó
Frederick Rajasekaran
Mathematics
Research: Existence of Efficient Mixers
Faculty Advisor: Andrej Zlatos
Yunhao Sun
Physics
Research: Diffusion Analysis and Evaluation of Single Particle Trajectory on ER Network
Faculty Advisor: Elena Koslover
Kin Yau James Wong
Mathematics
Research: Existence of Efficient Mixers
Faculty Advisor: Andrej Zlatos
Yiming Yang
Physics
Research: Non-BCS Superconductivity
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frañó
Xinkai Zhou
Mathematics
Research: The Theory of Fractals
Faculty Advisor: Luca Spolaor
Geoffrey Hueter Awardees
Khryztopher Mena
Physics
Research: Analysis of Archival SpeX Spectra of Ultracool Dwarfs
Faculty Advisor: Adam Burgasser
Jeffrey Marks Awardees
Isaac Canada
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Modeling Studies of Organic Nitrates in a Mixed Forest Envionrment and the Role of Deposition and Aerosol Multiphase Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Slade
Sarah Schwab
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Applications of Programming and CAD Design in Indoor Surface Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Vicki Grassian
Vanessa Tian
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Applications of Programming and CAD Design in Indoor Surface Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Judy Kim
Yu Xuan Lin
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Investigating the Disease Link Between LRRK2 and Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty Advisor: Andres Leschziner
Kenneth Abeloe Awardees
Aashay Arora
Physics
Research: Benchmarking Davix, GridFTP, and XRoot protocols between WAN distributed servers in the Pacific Research Platform
Faculty Advisor: Frank Wuerthwein
Miguel Hernandez
Physics
Research: Developing Machine Learning Techniques for Dark Matter Search in XENON1T
Faculty Advisor: Kaixuan Ni
Connor Vancil
Physics
Research: Preparing for the Next Generation of Radial Velocity Detection of Exoplanets
Faculty Advisor: Quinn Konopacky
Tianxing Wang
Physics
Research: Classifying the Libraray Spectral Data of Nearby Very Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Faculty Advisor: Adam Burgasser
Michelle Youngers Awardee
Elanor Sievers
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Structure and Dynamics of a Cysteine-Less Intein for Building Proteins
Faculty Advisor: Galia Debelouchina
Richard Shen Awardees
Calvin Huang
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Vimentin-GAS5 Binding Site Interactions
Faculty Advisor: Colleen A. McHugh
Tianyao Xu
Mathematics
Research: Investigate multiple protein-protein interactions in parallel in vivo using designed synthetic oligonucleotides
Faculty Advisor: Alon Goren