2021 REU: Research Training in the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

Fellow Fellow’s Institution Research Mentor Project Title
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

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