Fellow | Fellow’s Institution | Research Mentor | Project Title |
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Ashley Boatright | Austin College | Prof. Caitlin Davis | Mimicking the cellular environment for RNA folding studies |
Hannah Chen | Vanderbilt University | Prof. Tony Koleske and Prof. Jessica Cardin | Impact of TRIO mutations on the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical activity |
Andres Cubero Cruz | University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez | Prof. Jing Yan | Half-space cavity expansion theory with application to the growth and morphogenesis of confined biofilms |
Aliza Fisher | Yale University | Prof. Corey O’Hern | Comparing the differences in jammed packing vibrations between disconnected disks and polymers |
Carolyn Fulton | Schreiner University | Prof. David van Dijk | Developing machine learning frameworks to study brain dynamics and its role incomputation |
Saachi Grewal | Yale University | Prof. Corey O’Hern | Weighted laplacian smoothing method for the enhancement of porous 3D biological meshes |
Judith Landau | Califfornia State University, Los Angeles | Prof. Michael Murrell | The role of mechanical feedback on biochemical oscillations in Xenopus Oocytes |
Karlaes Morales | Yale University | Prof. Corey O’Hern | Athermal, quasistatic simple shear of a purely repulsive amorphous materials under constant pressure |
Rithvik Nalamalapu | College of William and Mary | Prof. Farren Issacs | Designing versatile genetic systems to engineer diverse microbes |
Irene Pak | Yale University | Prof. Gunter Wagner | Investigating the role of proteasomes in TGFB1 signaling and human vulnerability to cancer malignancy |
Alexander Plonski | University of Colorado, Denver | Prof. Corey O’Hern | Protein core formation in molecular dynamics simulations |
Jorge Urbina | University of Chicago | Prof. Zachary Levine | Utilizing coarse-grained simulations to deduce the size and diffusion of amyloid oligomers |
In 2021, we ran our REU Site remotely.