Spring 2023 Presentation Schedule

Tuesday, April 18  8:55am to 2:15pm
Thursday, April 20 8:55am to 2:45pm

Location:  Cameron Williams Lecture Hall in the Plant Science Building
Please contact Esther Fleming, efleming@uky.edu, for more information.

Tuesday, April 18
8:55am   Aardra Kachroo  Welcome and Introductions

9:00am  Hanna Conklin     Repurposing FDA-approved drugs to resensitize p53 mutant diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) cells to irradiation
Mentor:   Jessica Blackburn, Ph.D., Department of Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, College of Medicine

9:15am  Lily Berry    Interactions between DNA mismatch repair and postreplication repair
Mentor:  Eva Goellner, Ph.D., Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, College of Medicine

9:30am     Evaluating the performance of three techniques for diagnosing equine tapeworm infection
Mentor:   Martin Nielsen, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

9:45am  Mary Beth Matocha  Targeting lipid metabolism to improve efficacy of BRAF-targeted therapy in colorectal cancer
Mentor:  Yekaterina Zaytseva, Ph.D., Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, College of Medicine

10:00am  Izzy Lytle  Molecular barcode analysis of culturable yeast in Kentucky native plants
Mentor:  Carlos Rodriguez-Lopez, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

10:15am  Trevor Reid  The effects on root phenotypes from breeding dwarf corn varieties 
Mentor:  David McNear, Ph.D., Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

10:30-12:55 PM Lunch Break      

1:00pm  Virginia Lyle  Serum and saliva insulin responses of insulin dysregulated horses after an oral sugar test
Mentor: Amanda Adams, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

1:15pm  Justin Wong  Surface level sterilization techniques and its effect on DNA sampling within Cannabis sativa
Mentor:  Nicole Gauthier, Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

1:30pm  Megan Dakoske  Optimizing Clostridium perfringens for validation of cooling processes for meat products
Mentor:  Melissa Morgan, Ph.D., Department of Animal and Food Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

1:45pm  Shanna McClung  Assessing the toxicity of nano-mediated nitrogen fertilizers and surfactant in C. elegans 
Mentor:  Olga Tsyusko-Unrine, Ph.D., Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

2:00pm  Maddie Sample  Identifying potential reversal agents for heparin 
Mentor: Jeremy Wood, Ph.D., Department of Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, College of Medicine

Thursday, April 18

8:55am   Aardra Kachroo  Welcome and Introductions

9:00am  Gio DeSantiago Carrera  Protein-protein interactions in the systemic acquired resistance signaling pathway
Mentor:  Aardra Kachroo, Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

9:15pm  Meghana Gazula  Investigating the pathological effects of TDP-43 on brain metabolism and neurovascular coupling in a TDP-43 transgenic mouse model
Mentor:  Maj-Linda Selenica, Ph.D., Department of Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, College of Medicine

9:30am  Madeline O’Daniel   Targeting nicotinamide N-methyltransferase to enhance aged skeletal muscle regenerative capacity
Mentor: Christopher Fry, Ph.D., Department of Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition, College of Health Sciences

9:45am  Afeef Shaik  Sensory organization test scores in equestrians and concussion history
Mentor:  Kimberly Tumlin, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology & Environmental Health, College of Public Health

10:00am  Michael Schlueter  Inhibiting expression of CPSF30 in Trifolium pratense with dCas9 interference
Mentor: Arthur Hunt, Ph.D., Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

10:15-12:55 PM Lunch Break    

1:00pm  Trinity Love  Utilizing Agrobacterium rhizogenes to induce hairy roots in red clover with a gene knockout involved in nodulation
Mentor: Randy Dinkins, Ph.D., Forage-Animal Production Research Unit, USDA-ARS

1:15pm  Ava Crawford  The relevance of PRL-3 in T-ALL  
Mentor:  Jessica Blackburn, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, College of Medicine

1:30pm   Phocheng Ngy  Response of Caenorhabditis elegans to two stressors, silver nanoparticles and Klebsiella pneumoniae
Mentor:  Olga Tsyusko-Unrine, Ph.D., Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

1:45pm   Gretchen Ruschman  Breeding for a more sustainable agriculture: Elucidating the role of DNA methylation on soil microbial community assembly
Mentor:  Carlos Rodriguez-Lopez, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

2:00pm   Alicia Harriman  Effect of organic matter type on formation of chlorinated drinking water disinfection byproducts in the presence of elevated bromide concentrations
Mentor: Jason Unrine, Ph.D., Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

2:15pm   Caitlynn Bryant  Biochemical analysis of novel DNA binding proteins in the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori
Mentor:  Carrie Shaffer, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment

2:30pm  Sai Deepshikha Bassetti Nayakwadi  LEA 14 and ABI3 effects on the completion of seed germination
Mentor: Bruce Downie, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment