38th Annual Graduate Research Day
Graduate Student Poster Presentations
Post-Doctoral Fellow Oral Presentations
Post-Doctoral Fellow Poster Presentations
Emma Heisey
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Neuroscience
Presentation Title: Conditional deletion of Ace2 in taste buds alters peripheral taste function in male mice
Josue Zambrano-Carrasco
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Vascular Biology
Presentation Title: An indespensable role of RBX1 in cardiac development
Noah Watson
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Pharmacology
Presentation Title: Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase 3 Improves Functional Outcomes Post-Intracerebral Hemorrhage via Reduction of Neuroinflammation
Mercy Kehinde-Ige
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Biochemistry & Cancer Biology
Presentation Title: Single-cell Flux Estimation Analysis Reveals the Metabolic states of Tumor-specific CD4+ T cells
Candee Barris
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Physiology
Presentation Title: Ovarian-derived sex hormones do not mediate the sex-specific mechanism of hypertension in obese mice
Hiroko Tanaka
Graduate Program: Master of Science in Medical Illustration
Presentation Title: Adult Circumcision
Dominique Monroe
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Biochemistry & Cancer Biology
Presentation Title: Interplay Between the Cellular dNTP Pool and DNA Double-Strand Break Repair: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Refractory Glioblastoma
Theresa Akoto
Graduate Program: Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Cell Biology & Anatomy
Presentation Title: Unravelling the impact of cyclic mechanical stretch in keratoconus – A transcriptomic profiling study
David Hansen
Presentation Title(s): Design and Synthesis of Molecularly Hybridized Dienone Curcumin Mimics as Potential Anticancer Agents
Husam Bensreti
Presentation Title(s): Osteoblastic 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (Hsd11b1) activity regulates bone and tissue crosstalk in mice
Yin Zhu
Presentation Title(s): Long Noncoding RNA Lncenc1 Regulates Inflammasome Activation in Macrophage
Alyssa Zopff
Presentation Title(s): Comparison of simple and exchange transfusion on alloimmunization rates using phenotypically matched blood in patients with Sickle Cell Disease
Zihao Mo
Presentation Title(s): Approximate Bisimulation Relations for Convolution Neural Network
Shafisha Bamfield-Cummings
Presentation Title: Identification and validation of novel microRNA Predictive Biomarkers for acquired Bortezomib Resistance in Multiple Myeloma Patients Treated at AUMC
Stan Dodson (not pictured) & Mario Mohorn
Presentation Title: Civic discourse through arts-based, critical service learning
Stepan Budkin
Presentation Title: Proteomic alterations in retinal Muller glial cells lacking interleukin-6 receptor
Ogacheko Okoko
Presentation Title: Repurposing NSAIDs for chemo-immunotherapy: mechanisms beyond COX inhibition
Jacob Miller
Presentation Title: Up-regulation of synaptobrevin-2 to delay cognitive decline in brain aging
Danielle Gibson
Presentation Title: Diaper Dermatitis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Conceptual Model
Harshit Singhania
Presentation Title: EPS8 regulates SOX2, contributing to HNSCC Sternness
Desmond Moronge
Presentation Title: Increasing nitric oxide bioavailability attenuates vascular dysfunction and rescues fetal growth in rats with history of acute kidney injury prior to pregnancy
Maria Zulfiqar
Presentation Title: Daytime Assays of the Autonomic Nervous System to Distinguish Adults With and Without Insomnia Symptoms
James Kruse
Presentation Title: Effects of Mandated Tobacco Use History Documentation on Smoking Cessation Referral
Zsuzsanna Bordan
Presentation Title: PDZ-Binding Kinase, a Novel Regulator of Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Vadym Buncha
Presentation Title(s): Mice with Endothelial Cell-Selective Adhesion Molecule Deficiency Develop Coronary Microvascular Rarefaction and Left Ventricle Diastolic Dysfunction
Ahmet Korkaya
Presentation Title: Characterizing Myeloid NF-kB Impact on CXCR3/CXCL10 Axis in Breast Cancer Metastasis
Phylicia Allen
Presentation Title: Bicaudal-D is the main activating cargo adaptor for the Dynein motor in Drosophila
Kendra Bufkin
Presentation Title: Validation of Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker
Crystal Harrison
Presentation Title: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Insecurity
Johnson Alechendem
Presentation Title: Reducing Seclusion and Restraints at East Central Regional Hospital (ECRH) Using Enhanced Verbal Deescalation
Asif Elahi
Department: Georgia Cancer Center
Poster Title: Inhibiting the chaperone Hsp90 to unleash the immune system against triple-negative breast cancer
Perenkita Mendiola
Department: Department of Physiology
Presentation Title: High blood pressure variability induces cognitive and neurovascular dysfunction
Reem Atawia
Department: Vascular Biology Center
Poster Title: Type 1 Diabetes impairs endothelial-relaxant function through Advanced Glycation EndProduct (AGE) activation of the H1Fla-PFKFB3-Noxl pathway
Manish Kumar
Department: Department of Neurosurgery
Presentation Title: Traumatic brain injury accerlates Brain-Aging and Sensory declines
Vamsi Krishna Kommalapati
Department: Georgia Cancer Center
Poster Title: Capsaicin binds to the N-terminus of Hsp90 and induces lysosomal degradation of Hsp70
Xin Xu
Department: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Presentation Title: Sequence-directed concentration of G protein-coupled receptors in COPII vesicles
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