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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