Undergraduate Research Symposium: Summer 2023

Every semester, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosts the Undergraduate Research Symposia (URS). URS provides an opportunity for University of Utah and summer research program students to present their work in a scholarly setting to students, faculty, and other members of the U community. Undergraduate students from all disciplines at the University of Utah are invited to present their research and creative work.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

9:00AM - 12:00PM
In person - Alumni House
155 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Session I: 9:00am - 10:25am
Session II: 10:35am - 12:00pm

Co-Transfection of Envelope-free HIV and Cleavable TEV/HIV Constructs

Benjamin Schneider
Poster
# 40

Faculty Mentor: Wes Sundquist

Medicine

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Synthesizing and Testing Glycoprotein Mutants to Increase Sindbis Virus Infectivity

Alfonso Zavala
Poster
# 120

Faculty Mentor: Justin English

Science

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Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Vapor-Phase and Solution-Phase Silanization Reactions to Functionalize Porous Silica Surfaces

Maran Sardoni
Poster
# 107

Faculty Mentor: Joel Harris

Science

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Just Because You’ve Saved It Doesn’t Mean It’s There: The Effects of Video Compression on Data Quality

Irenka Saffarian-Deemyad
Poster
# 105

Faculty Mentor: Michael Vershinin

Science

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Addressing Discrepancies Within Emission-Line Modeling Using a Machine Learning Approach

Darshika Ravulapalli
Poster
# 103

Faculty Mentor: Kyle Dawson

Science

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Achieving a Deeper Understanding of E. coli Acid Resistance Through Multiscale Kinetic Modeling

Jonah Pratt
Poster
# 100

Faculty Mentor: Jessica Swanson

Science

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Diketone Investigation in C-N Ullmann Coupling.

Emmanuel Odogwu
Poster
# 101

Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Samha (Graduate Student)

Science

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The Role of B-Cells in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Diabetes

Celina Ng
Poster
# 99

Faculty Mentor: Arabella Young

Science

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Improved Pointing Tracking for the VERITAS Gamma-Ray Telescopes

Espen Nelson
Poster
# 92

Faculty Mentor: David Kieda

Science

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Depression: A Comparative Analysis of Brain Structure

Shakiba Sedigh
Poster
# 41

Faculty Mentor: Brian Mickey

Medicine

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Results of Increased Surface Area on Impedance in Multi-Contact Cardiac Pacing Electrodes

Benjamin Seamons
Poster
# 108

Faculty Mentor: Derek Dosdall

Medicine

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Quantifying Somatic Instability in Huntington’s Disease Using Long Read Sequencing Data

Emily Sagstetter
Poster
# 107

Faculty Mentor: Aaron Quinlan

Medicine

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Investigating the Role of skNAC in Cultured Cardiomyocytes

Maya Roland
Poster
# 106

Faculty Mentor: Sarah Franklin

Medicine

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Practical Implementations Overcoming Household Barriers to Achieve Total Food Control in Prader-Willi Syndrome

Christopher Rich
Poster
# 38

Faculty Mentor: David Viskochil

Medicine

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Exploring Genetic Variation at the Duffy Gene and Infection Prevalence of Hepatocystis, a Malaria-Like Parasite, in Wild Baboon Species.

Anayansi Ramirez
Poster
# 102

Faculty Mentor: Ellen Leffler

Medicine

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PROMs in Emergency General Surgery: Increasing Response Rates

Nathan Ramey
Poster
# 121

Faculty Mentor: Joanna Grudziak

Medicine

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Exploring Drug Repurposing and Genetic Modifiers in a DPAGT1-CDG Drosophila Model

Sydney Peterson
Poster
# 98

Faculty Mentor: Hans Dalton

Medicine

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Validation of Clinical Data Mining Algorithms for the Extraction of Diabetes and Other Metabolic Disease Diagnoses from Electronic Medical Records

Emon Parry
Poster
# 95

Faculty Mentor: Maci Winn (Graduate Student)

Medicine

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Gene Expression in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Cells and Time to First Treatment

Deeandria Nafrere
Poster
# 91

Faculty Mentor: Nicola Camp

Medicine

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Investigation of Ceramide Synthesizing Genes

Amaya Pfannenstiel
Poster
# 102

Faculty Mentor: Scott Summers

Health

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Post-Hurricane Recovery and Relocation of Small Businesses in Puerto Rico

Wyn Jarvinen
Poster
# 25

Faculty Mentor: Divya Chandrasekhar

Architecture & Planning

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Angular Diameter of TYC 2924-02100-1 from Asteroid Osculation Event Detected by VERITAS Telescopes

Jennifer Yuan
Poster
# 122

Faculty Mentor: David Kieda

Science

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Bromination of Phenylalanine via Organic Electrosynthesis

Robert Winzerling
Poster
# 119

Faculty Mentor: Henry White

Science

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Deconvoluting Moment of Inertia Contributions in Isotopic Shifts with High-Resolution Cyclic Ion Mobility Separations

Haisley Windsor
Poster
# 117

Faculty Mentor: David Williamson (Graduate Student)

Science

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Natural Killer cells are activated by 𝘉. 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴, reducing tumor growth in mouse models of Colorectal Cancer

Alicia Velazquez
Poster
# 118

Faculty Mentor: Allison Weis

Science

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Does gut microbiome diversity affect parasite success?

Anastasia Varela
Poster
# 44

Faculty Mentor: Maggie Doolin (Graduate Student)

Science

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IceCube Upgrade Hole Ice Study

Minji Shin
Poster
# 109

Faculty Mentor: Carston Rott

Science

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Studying the most energetic explosions in the universe: Standard afterglow modeling of Gamma Ray Burst 050802

Gianlucas Sherrill Velarde
Poster
# 110

Faculty Mentor: Tanmoy Laskar

Science

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Differential expressions of BIN 1 Isoforms using H9C2 cells treated in C2 Ceramides.

Josiah Silafau
Poster
# 20

Faculty Mentor: TingTing Hong

Pharmacy

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Genetic screen to identify E3 ligases necessary for zebrafish development

Raven Sevilleja
Poster
# 108

Faculty Mentor: Randall Peterson

Pharmacy

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