Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - Memorial Union
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Breakfast, Networking, and Registration |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Introduction and announcements - Anurag Das, Mehak Kapoor, and Brian Zebosi - Directors of the Symposium Opening remarks - Dean William Graves, Dean of the Graduate College |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote speaker - Dr. Akhila Rajan - Associate Professor - Fred Hutch Cancer Center "Lard of the flies: Investigating how fat cells communicate with the brain" -Introduction by Anurag Das |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Alyssa Hohman - Genetics and Genomics "Human conserved drosophila miR-6 inhibition has profound impact on lipid accumulation in the heart while mitigating age-related cardiac dysfunction" - Advisor: Elizabeth McNeill, FSHN |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Ankur Kumar - Genetics and Genomics "The Interplay of peroxisome and mitochondrial dynamics during aging in Drosophila melanogaster" -Advisor: Hua Bai, GDCB |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Solomon Eshun - Applied Mathematics "Estimating Gender Differences in Glioblastoma Outcomes using Propensity Score Matching" -Advisor: |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Astha Tuladhar - MCDB "E3 ubiquitin ligase CUL3-KLHL41 regulates ER homeostasis in skeletal muscle" -Advisors: Jeff Essner, GDCB and Jinoh Kim, BMS |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Anurag Das - Neuroscience "Peroxisomal Gene Expression and protein import are regulated by circadian oscillations in Drosophila Glial cells:Title - Peroxisomal Gene Expression and protein import are regulated by circadian oscillations in Drosophila Glial cells" -Advisor: Hua Bai, GDCB |
Poster No. |
Presenters name, graduate/undergraduate program, poster title, and advisor |
1 | Sage Becker - Immunobiology "Impact of butyrate on short-chain fatty acid receptor expression in porcine monocytes" -Advisor: Crystal Loving, USDA-ARS |
3 | Molly Kroeger - Immunobiology "First detection of PCV4 in the United States and its association with PCV2 and OCV3 coinfection" -Advisor: Pablo Pineyro, VDPAM |
5 | Claudia Carrillo - Nutritional Sciences "Low to moderate doses of dietary resistant starch and a renin-angiotensin system inhibitor exhibit nephroprotective effects through similar mechanisms in a preclinical model of diabetes" -Advisor: Matthew Rowling, FSHN |
7 | Kelby Kies - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "Identifying key regulators of uterine function during pregnancy" -Advisor: Geetu Tuteja, GDCB |
9 | Fazhir Kayondo - Genetics and Genomics "A genome-wide association study of stress hormone levels in hair of young healthy pigs" -Advisor: Jack Dekkers |
11 | Leonora James - Genetics and Genomics "Fatty acids inferred from milk spectral are predictive of feed intake in lactating Holstein cows" -Advisor: James Koltes, Animal Science |
13 | Claudia Lorena Arriaga - Nutritional Sciences "Effects of corn-resistant starch consumption along with intake of ACE inhibitor, captopril, on metabolic syndrome biomarkers in a type-2 Diabetes rodent-model" -Advisor: |
15 | Manuela Chaves - Genetics and Genomics "Characterizing the Activating Transcription Factor 1 (ATF1)" -Advisor: Julien Roche |
17 | David Hall - Genetics and Genomics "Mosquito immune cells enhance dengue and Zika virus dissemination in Aedes aegypti" -Advisor: Ryan Smith, PPEM |
19 | Henri Chung - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "EpicTope: narrating protein sequence features to identify non-disruptive epitope tagging sites" -Advisor: Iddo Friedberg, VMPM |
21 | Catherine Fonder - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology "Electrical Stimulation Effects on Adult Rat Hippocampal Progenitor Cell Behavior" -Advisor: Don Sakaguchi, GDCB |
23 | Mubashrah Mahmood - Animal Science "Cross-Species Sperm Proteomic Analysis for Human Male Fertility Model Establishment" -Advisor: Karl Kerns, Animal Science |
25 | Allison Treibe - Genetics and Genomics "The Role of GAUT Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana Root Development" -Advisor: Dior Kelley, GDCB |
27 | Katherine Gisi - Electrical and Computer Engineering "Biomedical Imaging Datasets using PA as the Ground Truth" -Advisor: Pramanik Manojit |
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch (South Ballroom) ISU Dining - Classic Mediterranean
| 1:00 - 1:15 | Megan DeTemple - Plant Biology "Novel use of CWDEs as a tool to elucidate cell wall-mediated signaling during pathogenesis" -Advisor: Olga Zabotina, BBMB |
| 1:15 - 1:30 | Brian Zebosi - Genetics and Genomics "An effective and inexpensive maize seed chipping protocol using chipping piers: Its applications in small-scale genotyping laboratories and marker-assisted breeding" -Advisor: Erik Vollbrecht, GDCB |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Elizabeth Glynne - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology "The effect of miniaturization on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in geckos" -Advisor: Dean Adams, EEOB |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Panchali Chakraborty - Plant Biology "Investigating the dynamic regulation of plasmodesmata during bacterial infection" -Advisor: Kyaw Aung, GDCB |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Kaitlin Higgins - Genetics and Genomics "Time point analysis in maize reveals dynamic expression of imprinted genes and three imprinted zeins" -Advisor: Sarah Anderson, GDCB |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | Keynote speaker - Jacob Hoyle - Lead Research Scientist - Living Carbon "Biotech Trees for Carbon Storage" Introduction by Sabrena Rutledge |
Poster No. | Presenters name, graduate/undergraduate program, poster title, and advisor |
2 | Prathyusha Cheguri - Genetics and Genomics "Photothermal Effects on Inflorescence Development in Poa bulbosa" -Advisor: Shui-Zhang Fei, Horticulture |
4 | Joseph DeTemple - Genetics and Genomics "Incorporating gene network information into the prediction of maize flowering time " -Advisor: Jianming Yu, Agronomy |
6 | Ashley Paulsen - Genetics and Genomics "The MARS community: a synthetic community to identify rules governing maize rhizosphere microbiome assembly" -Advisor: Larry Halverson, PPEM |
8 | Marissa Roghair Stroud - Microbiology "Design and optimization of a robust CRISPR interference system to identify Pseudomonas putida genes essential for rhizosphere microbiome formation" -Advisor: Larry Halverson, PPEM |
10 | Laura Zinnel - Mathematics "Detection of Brain Midline Shift using 2D and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks" -Advisor: Sarah Bentil |
12 | Anna Maria Luciano - Postdoc "Characterization of a zebrafish model of MYC-driven acute myeloid leukemia" |
14 | Matthew Wendt - Genetics and Genomics "Multi-environment multivariate genome-wide association studies identify candidate loci underlying cuticular wax accumulation and composition on maize silks" -Advisor: Marna Yandeau-Nelson |
16 | Kassidy Sullivan - Biology and Statistics "Arabidopsis as a model for spontaneous haploid genome doubling in maize" -Advisor: Sarah Pfeffer |
18 | Claudia Carrillo - Nutritional Sciences "Disruption of Ovarian One-Carbon Metabolism in the Agouti Mouse" -Advisor: Kevin Schalinske, FSHN |
20 | Beatriz Pereira - Neuroscience "Single-nuclei RNA-Sequencing: heterogeneity of striatal astrocytes and the effect of stress" -Advisor: Elizabeth McNeill, FSHN |
22 | Anthony Sillman - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology "Identification of Hemogenic Endothelial Cells Through a Multi-omics Approach" -Advisor: Raquel Espin-Palazon, GDCB |
24 | Alexandra Keller - Genetics and Genomics "Identification of distinct proteome differences between fresh and cryopreserved bull spermatozoa" -Advisor: Karl Kerns, Animal Science |
26 | Xiaohan Jiang - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "Anomaly detection for breed purity analysis" -Advisor: Juan Steibel, Animal Science |
Thursday, April 4, 2024 - Hach Hall - Thiel Atrium- The Creative Arts Showcase will be located in the south side of the Thiel Atrium. | |
| 8:00 - 8:45 | - breakfast (Panera) and networking |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | - Welcome and opening remarks - Anurag Das, Mehak Kapoor, and Brian Zebosi - Directors of the Symposium |
| 3rd Session - Student Oral Talks - Hach Hall - Thiel Atrium | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Xiaoyi "Chelsea" Cheng - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology "Nod1-dependent NF-kB activation initiates hematopoietic stem cell specification in response to small Rho GTPases" - Advisor: Raquel Espin-Palazon, GDCB |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Pengxin Yang - Biochemistry "Definition of regulatory elements and transcription factors controlling immune cell gene expression at single cell resolution using single nucleus ATAC-seq" -Advisor: Chris Tuggle, Animal Science |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Chinmayi Gudi - Chemical Engineering "An Engineered Variant of E. coli Nissle Unveils Enhanced Transformation Efficiency and Versatility in Probiotic Engineering" |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Break |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Keynote speaker - Dr. Joan Lunney - Senior Research Scientist - USDA Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory "Combining immunology and genomics research to improve pig health and biomedical research" - Introduction by Vishesh Bhatia |
| 4th Session - Student Oral Talks - Hach Hall - Thiel Atrium | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | An Phan - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "A Longitudinal Analysis of Biases in Function Annotation and Publication Mentions in the Human Proteome" -Advisor: Claus Kadelka, Math |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Abbigail McCune - Genetics and Genomics "An investigation of Stat3 in Grna-driven myeloid differentiation" -Advisor: Raquel Espin-Palazon |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Sabrena Rutledge - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "Improving analysis and interpretation of single-cell sequencing approaches" -Advisor: Geetu Tuteja, GDCB |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Nicole Kling - Nutritional Sciences "Trust in nutritional science is moderately high but depends on political and religious beliefs" -Advisor: Lorraine Lanningham-Foster, FSHN |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch - Schonert's Corporate Catering (boxed lunches) |
| 5th Session - Student Oral Talks - Hach Hall - Thiel Atrium | |
| 1:00 - 1:15 | Parnal Joshi - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology "A comparison of protein function annotations of model species to orthologous proteins in humans" -Advisor: Iddo Friedberg, VMPM |
| 1:15 - 1:30 | Yuwei Zhang - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology "Development and Quantitative Analysis of a 3D Scaffold-Based Model for Simulating Tumor Microenvironment Using Light Sheet Microscopy" -Advisor: Jing Wang, Chemical and Biological Engineering |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Yunhui Qi - Statistics "Detection of Gene Expression Mid-parent Heterosis with Single Biological Replicate" -Advisor: Peng Liu, Statistics |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Keynote Speaker - Dr. Ming "Tommy" Tang - Director of Computational Biology at Immunita Therapeutics "Bridging the Gap: How To Learn Computational Biology the <s>Hard<s> Right Way" - Introduction by Mehak Kapoor |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Closing remarks by Associate Dean Heather Greenlee, Graduate College Awards Ceremony
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Thank you for your interest in the 2nd Annual Biological Sciences Symposium. Dates for the 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences will be announced soon!