The 5th Annual BMB Undergraduate Poster Symposium was held on April 17, 2025. We would like to thank all of those who presented posters and attended the event. A special thank you to the Office of Graduate Education and the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology for sponsoring this event!
Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Undergraduate Poster Award
Rachel Lee
Time Restricted Feeding Does Not Alter Cortical Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 in Male Adult Mice
Faculty Advisor: Michelle Gumz & Ryan Crislip
2nd Place Poster Award
Grant Porch & Abbigail Renger
Metabolomics Analysis of Cerebral Spinal Fluid and Serum in Lafora Disease (LD) Patients: Unveiling Metabolic Dysregulation and Potential Biomarkers
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Gentry
Lab Mentor: Pankaj Singh, Olivia D’Agati, Alex Cantrell, Mattieu Colpaert
3rd Place Poster Award
Diego Medina
Cutting Costs and Maintaining Reproducibility in Quantitative Metabolomics Using a Custom Nitrogen Blowdown Apparatus
Faculty Advisor: Ramon Sun
Lab Mentor: Cameron Shedlock
Posters
| Presenter(s) | Faculty Advisor | Lab Mentor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Porch & Abbigail Renger | Matthew Gentry | Pankaj Singh, Olivia D’Agati, Alex Cantrell, Mattieu Colpaert | Metabolomics Analysis of Cerebral Spinal Fluid and Serum in Lafora Disease (LD) Patients: Unveiling Metabolic Dysregulation and Potential Biomarkers |
| Yu Ju Tseng | Linda Bloom | Investigating the protein-protein interaction of the Escherichia coli DinG helicase with single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) | |
| Sophia Florea | Ramon Sun | Cameron Shedlock & Terrymar Medina | Less Stress, More Success: Optimizing Cryostat Thaw Times in Spatial Metabolomics |
| Camden Lerner | Melike Caglayan | Erick Castro | Preparation and Purification of Cancer-Associated dRP Lyase Domain DNA Polymerase β Variants |
| Alexander Gannon, Victoria Rabacchi, & Gabrielle Salvador | Joanna Long | Maria Luiza Caldas Nogueira | Protein Expression Trials for Difficult Proteins |
| Queenie Wang | Matthew Gentry | Matthieu Colpaert | Evaluation of a novel brain-targeting therapeutic for the treatment of multiple neurological Glycogen Storage Diseases |
| Shea Baran | Mingyi Xie | Zehui Zhang | Measuring Telomere Length: Insights from Southern Blotting and Implications for Medical Diagnosis |
| Rachel Lee | Michelle Gumz & Ryan Crislip | –– | Time Restricted Feeding Does Not Alter Cortical Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 in Male Adult Mice |
| Diego Medina | Ramon Sun | Cameron Shedlock | Cutting Costs and Maintaining Reproducibility in Quantitative Metabolomics Using a Custom Nitrogen Blowdown Apparatus |
| Ryan Smith, Nehal Dwaram, & Neel Shah | Joanna Long | James Collins | NMR Metabolomics |
| Isabel Bruckmeyer | Matthew Gentry | Brittney Gurda | Bio-Distribution and Safety of an Antibody-Enzyme Fusion Val-1221 to Treat Lafora Disease |
| Jared Gavsie, Tyler Pinkowski, & Anish Amin | Joanna Long | –– | Functional amyloid in bacterial biofilm |
| Mackenzie Ulisse | Ramon Sun | Alexander Carbonell | Optimizing Conventional and Spatial Mass Spectrometry: Enhancing Precision, Speed, and Insight |
| Lavi Madjar | Mingyi Xie | Conner Traugot | Mapping and profiling N6-methyladenosine sites in 7SK small nuclear RNA |
| Reece Larson | Ramon Sun | Borhane Ziani & Roberto Ribas | Glycomic Alterations Between Different Stages of Giant Cell Tumor |
| Caden Schmidt | Robert McKenna | Kevin Busuttil | Structural characterization of Chipmunk Parvovirus |
| Haeyeon Choi | Ramon Sun | Borhane Ziani & Alex Carbonell | Using High Resolution LCMS to generate accurate target list for MALDI TOF Imaging minimizing False Positive annotation |
| Thien-Y Nguyen | Robert McKenna | Matthew Patney | Unraveling the Dynamics of AAV Binding to AAVR |