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