
Aneesha Dasgupta
11:30AM - 12:30PM: Poster session B
This research was supported by funding from the NIH in the form of award R25CA269039 and 1K99CA283277-01A1 awarded to AD.
Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, killin...

Sarah Blackwell, Ryan Stees
10:10AM - 11:00AM: Lightning Talks 1a (BH 160)
Sarah Blackwell, Ryan Stees, Louisa Liles, Yangxiao Luo, Thomas Koberda, Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia Topology REU
Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formu...

Lauren Johnson
1:00PM - 2:00PM: Poster session C
Susan Flowers and the Tyson Research Program
Human activities have significantly altered natural landscape...

Matthew R. Bersi
10:00AM - 11:00AM: Poster session A
This work was supported, in part, by the American Heart Association Career Development Award (941138 to MRB). I would like to thank Dr. Matthew Bersi for giving me the opportunity to work and learn in his lab. Special thanks to Yujun Xu, who has let me assist her in her research on the mechanobiology of the interactions between adipose tissue and fibroblasts. In addition, she has been a great research mentor, I couldn’t have done this project without her help.
Vascular fibrosis is a pathological condition characterized by reduced lumen diameter and arterial wall thickening attributed t...

Nicole Brossier
10:00AM - 11:00AM: Poster session A
I would like to thank Sabiha Bano, Dr. Brossier, and the rest of the Brossier Lab at Washington University in St. Louis for their continued support throughout this process. This project would not be possible without them. This project is funded by the Department of Defense (DOD).
Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) is a rare genetic condition that in...

Shanti Parikh
10:00AM - 11:00AM: Poster session A
Khadijah, Ruth, Aisha, Lydia
The Soiled Dressed Project, based in Uganda, East Africa, is dedicated to improving menstrual hygiene and raising awareness abo...