Welcome to the 2026 SRC Program! Here you will find a schedule of presentations for the day including the "Who?", "What?", "When?", and "Where?". If you need a hand on site, find a volunteer in a green fleece, and they will be happy to help!
Check out this year's Special Sessions!
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| Special Session: | Time and Location: |
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| CURE: Undergraduate Research in Biology | Rosa Parks Room - All Day |
| Semiconductor Certificate Program | 9:00-10:30 Main Poster Session |
| MIGOS (Machine Learning, Immunology, Genomics, Oncology, and Synthetic Biology) | 9:00-10:00 in Handy |
| Critical Approaches to News Discourse: Linguistic Representations in the Media | 10:00-11:00 in Fireplace Lounge |
| Understanding DEI Discourse In Environmental Education Research: Knitting Together Two Honors College Theses and a Ph.D. Dissertation | 11:00-12:00 in Handy |
| [2025 Vermont Climate Assessment] Vermont Communities in a Changing Climate: Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Pathways to Resilience | 12:00-1:00 in the Fireplace Lounge |
| Vermont Policy Institute on COGS: Exploring Council of Governments Implementation in the Vermont Context & Rebuilding Access to Knowledge in the Vermont Data Landscape: A Vermont Data Collaborative | 1:00-2:00 in Handy |
| Genetics and Society | 1:00-2:30 Main Poster Session |
| Justice Research Center | 1:00-3:00 in Williams |
| Students Advancing Water Research | 2:00-3:00 in Fireplace Lounge |
| Solutions for Vermont's Housing Shortage | 2:00-4:00 in Handy |
| Researches in Fungi. Advanced Mycology Lab, Research Experience Course | 3:00-4:30 Main Poster Session |
Poster Session 1
9:00am-10:30am - Main Poster Session 1 - Grand Maple Ballroom
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| Presenter: | Project Title: |
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| Madiha Akbar | A Hierarchical Nonlinear Predictive Controller for Ramp-rate Mitigation in Hybrid Energy Systems with Solar Photovoltaics |
| Muhammad Hamza Ali | A Waveform Relaxation Approach for Coupling Faster and Slower Time Domain Simulation in Inverter-Dominated Power grids |
| Ryan Anderson | Design and Layout of Silicon on Insulator (SoI) GaN MEMS Resonators |
| Alena Annunziata | Integrating Multi-date, High-resolution Topography and Flood Frequency Data to Quantify River Erosion Hazards in Vermont |
| Beyzanur Aydin | Dynamic Hosting Capacity for Unbalanced Three-Phase Networks |
| Pawan Babu Bastola | A Laboratory Approach for Understanding the Formation and Behavior of Hydrophobic Soil Layers under Wildfire Conditions |
| Emmanuel Badmus | PowerChain to PowerDAG: Reliable and Verifiable Agentic AI for Automating Distribution Grid Analysis |
| Ryan Baird | Wireless Localization |
| Amine Barzegar Tilenoie | Charging on the Margins: Behavioral Patterns of Rural Electric Vehicle Users |
| Edward Buckser | Protein-Protein Interactions Govern Rheological and Mechanical Properties in Whey Protein Isolate-Gum Arabic Hydrogels: A Ratio-Dependent Structural Transition |
| Vivian Burr | Methodological Recommendations for Accurate and Precise Sourcing of Obsidian Using pXRF |
| Ian Cassidy | SAW Design for Snow Water Equivalent Measurement Systems |
| Swarup Chakraborty | 28/39 GHz Dual-Band GaN Power Amplifier Design |
| Malihe Davari | Open-Source Modelica Models for the Optimal Design of Urban and Community Scale Multi-Energy Systems |
| Jordan Donovan | Perturbed Initializations in CNNs Improve Optimization Efficiency and Resulting Accuracy |
| Benjamin Drillings | Re-envisioning Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program Solvers Through GPU-Based Parallel Processing |
| Prakash Dulal | Phase-Field Fracture in Multiphase Materials: An IFENN Approach |
| Finn Duncan, Brandon Johnson, Luke O'Brien, Finn Dabash, & Ginger Thralow | Water Quality Monitoring Systems for the Intag Valley, Ecuador |
| Tanmoy Dutta, Ehsan Ghazanfari, & John Lens | Rainfall Induced Shallow Slope Failure Analysis in Vermont |
| Josh Dykas | Temperature-Dependent Behavior of TaN Thin Film Resistorses |
| Mazen Elsaadany | Characterizing Demand Response Capability of Thermostatically Controlled Loads with Reach and Hold Sets |
| Brook Hodgeman | A Bayesian Framework for Data-Driven Modeling of Myosin Exchange in the Cardiac Sarcomere |
| Benjamin Howe | Voltage-Dependent Stability and Degradation Pathways in Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Sabir Husnain | Decoupled Robust State Estimation and Disturbance Rejection in Model-Free Formation Control |
| Amelia Huxley | Characterizing Relationships between Muscle Coordination and Walking Neuromechanics in Stroke Survivors |
| Margaret Jaynes | Optimization of Open Loop Thermal Energy Networks: Assessing Lake Champlain as an Alternative Thermal Source |
| Prithvi Kalkunte | Optimizing Utility-Scale Batteries: Seeking Profit Under Uncertainty. |
| Alireza Kashani Lotfabadi | Adaptive Weight Building Energy Optimization: Thermal Comfort Flexibility |
| Farzan Kaviani | Data-Driven Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions |
| Nathan Kellison-Miller | Environmental Payback of Wind Turbines Across the United States: A Combined LCA and Dynamic Energy Modeling Approach |
| Bishal Koirala | Strength-Based Orthotropic Phase-Field Fracture Model for 3D-Printed Materials |
| Erik Lagerquist | A Comprehensive Review of Power System Strength: Definition, Solutions, and Practical Experiences |
| Chris Leppla | Co-Optimizing Battery Dispatch for Seasonal Rates and Demand Response Events: A Markov Decision Process Approach for a Vermont Commercial Building |
| Aria Lindberg | Deposition and Annealing of RF-Sputtered, Thin Film Gallium Oxide |
| Thomas Lynch | Additive Manufacturing for Whey Protein Microcarriers |
| Birasa Malla | Spatiotemporal Clustering of Induced Seismicity in Enhanced Geothermal Systems |
| anne mara | Synthesizing Circuits from Tableaus |
| Tyler Meadows | NASA JPL Autonomous Open Source Rover |
| Anastasija Mensikova | Mapping the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Life Cycle Assessment Using Large Language Models |
| Omid Mokhtari | Optimal Kron-based Reduction of Networks (Opti-KRON) for Three-phase Distribution Feeders |
| Mia Jane Moline | Mineralogical Mapping of Gale Crater: Integrating MRO and Curiosity via Machine Learning clustering Algorithm |
| Abigail O'Connor | The Development and Optimization of Biogenic Molecular Imprinted Electrodes for Peptide Detection in Complex Matrices |
| Arash Omidi | Experimental Multi-site Testbed for Advanced Control and Optimization of Hybrid Energy Systems |
| Bikram Panthee | Solving Distribution Grid State-Estimation to Near-zero Optimality Gap |
| Annie Papazoglou | Potential of Phosphate-Capturing Filter Media for Reuse as Slow-Release Fertilizer |
| Christian Paul | Characterizing associations between simulated muscle coordination constraints and data-driven representations of human walking dynamics |
| Seide Saba Rafiei | Activate the Dual Cones: A Tight Reformulation of Conic ACOPF Constraints |
| Binaya Rajbanshi | Rural vehicle electrification: Insights on plug-in electric vehicle adoption and use in an urban-rural context |
| Max Ritter | Impact of annealing on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of atomic layer deposited aluminum-doped zinc oxide |
| Nicole Roode | Enzyme-Driven Biofilm Dispersal Through Central Carbon Metabolism Disruption |
| Daniel Russell | Improved Voltage Regulation with Optimal Design of Decentralized Volt-VAr Control |
| Peng Sang | Solar PV digital twin -- a real-time simulation-based research platform |
| Hailey Sanphy | Anaerobic Digesters as Biorefining Hubs: A look at sustainable resource recovery in Vermont |
| Ryan Siegel | Modeling Emergent Metabolic Interactions within Microbial Communities |
| Kieran Stokes | Building and Validating a Center-of-Mass Perturbation Device to Study Neuromechanics |
| Marzia Sultana | Process Optimization for Exfoliation of α-In₂Se₃ for Acoustic Device Applications |
| Eren Tekeler | Quantifying the Worst-Case Projection Error in DC-OPF Proxy Neural Networks |
| Lanhjamin Tran | Robotic Arm Automation |
| Mariano Ugaz | mRNA-Based Endothelial Production of a Cytoprotective 3K3A-Activated Protein C Variant via Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery |
| Nathan Younce | Substrate Oxidation in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD): Role of Temperature and Precursor Selection |
| Alex Zaccardi | Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of High-K Dielectrics |
Poster Session 2
11:00am-12:30pm - Main Poster Session 2 - Grand Maple Ballroom
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| Presenter: | Project Title: |
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| Saadatu Abdul-Rahaman | Plant-based diets: A forced choice for socially disadvantaged rural adults |
| Florence Abraham | Acculturation, Dietary Behaviors and Cancer Risk Perspectives of African Immigrant Communities in Vermont |
| Meron Abraham | How Preserving UVM’s Bird Specimens Preserves Vermont History |
| Sevda Alvirdizadeh | Family Expectations are Associated with Plant-Based Diets in Rural America |
| Amberley Bailey | Student Coaches Enhance the Walk with Ease Program |
| Casey Baker | The Special Needs Planning Gap: Barriers to Financial Decision-Making |
| Alana Bauer | Crisis of Rural Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Morocco and Senegal |
| Calla Beauregard | Archetypes and gender in fiction: A data-driven mapping of gender stereotypes in stories |
| Matthew Bishop-Gylys, Gabby Spagnuolo Chawla | Development of a Rat Trachea Explant Model for Cystic Fibrosis Research |
| Sky Boiros | Records of Earth History: Cataloguing UVM’s Underutilized Geology Collections |
| Griffin Brown | Regional Planning for Sustainable and Equitable Goods Movement: Identifying Barriers and Best Practices from a Study of 48 Metropolitan Planning Organizations |
| Sophia Cheever & Caitlin Wizda | Structural and Health-Related Factors Associated with Loneliness in Older Vermonters |
| Kyan Chipman | Irular Community in India: Political Representation and forest Conservation |
| Lauren Coleman | American Hindutva: The Presence of Hindu Nationalism in the United States |
| KC Collier, Avery Rosenbloom, Faith Skerritt, Barbara Hannon, & Trace Worobe | Health care utilization in patients with moderate to severe asthma: does payor status predict usage? |
| Kathryn Cramer | The NADJA Project: LLMs That Think More Like Humans |
| Kyla Davidson | Title: Which evidence-based psychotherapies are offered by early psychosis services in the United States and Canada? |
| Isabella DeNault | The Contributions of Phonological Complexity to Individual Differences in Word Learning in Late-Talking Toddlers |
| John DePalma | The Halo and Horn Effects as Measures of Health Stigma |
| Alexa Divers, Emma Renwick, Avinabo Poddar, Rachel Lamb, & Alexis Brieant | Reviewing the role of community cohesion in youth mental health |
| Jeremy Elliott | Classifying Emotional Dynamics In Short Narratives: Techniques and Applications |
| Ashley Fehr | Fictional Archetypes: A Straight-Queer Story |
| John Foster | Characterizing Ambulance Response Times in Vermont |
| Madeleine Fox | Factors Supporting Continued Running in Older Adults |
| Molly Galin | Effects of a home-delivered meal-kit intervention on diet quality health symptoms in rural, food-insecure households. |
| Jordan Galin & Lillian Girod | “Decoding the Emotional Map of Climate Change” |
| Callia Gilligan | Navigating Language and Belonging: The Experience of Adult English Learners in Burlington |
| Nox Giordano | Natural History Museums Breathe New Life to Otherwise Discarded Specimens: A Focus on Small Mammals |
| Emily Jones | Assessing the Impacts of the Manufactured Home Improvement and Repair Program |
| Jessica Kennedy, Ellie Lang, Cy Stavros, & Sauria Stewart | Flora in Folklore: Mythical Plant Identification and What we can Learn from the Search |
| Stephen Marshall | The Failure to Coordinate; Epistemology of Relational Sovereignty |
| Liv Mastandrea | “I feel music with my whole being”: A Qualitative Exploration on the Musical Experiences of Autistic Adults |
| Ashton McClintock | Thermochemical Heating Pack Applications in Varroa Mite Treatment |
| Ashton McClintock | Organization and Digitization of the UVM Orthopteran Collection |
| Caroline McGlinchy | Using a Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Perspective to Revise a Preschool Physical Activity Program |
| Ainsley McKay | Geospatial dimensions of housing, social capital, and wellbeing in a Housing First program in Chittenden County, Vermont |
| Stasha Medeiros, Kevin Elliot, Hannah Humphreys, & Eva Owens | The apple of my (mind’s) eye: Exploring the relationship among autistic traits and cognitive introspection patterns |
| Ava Metzger | Motivating Climate Action: The Effects of Intrinsic Motivation on Willingness to Pay for Clean Energy Policy |
| Will Oliver | The Misalignment of MS-13's FTO Designation |
| Avinabo Poddar | Analyzing the Relationship Between Parental Warmth and Depression in Adolescents Through the Lens of Amygdala Reactivity |
| Livi Poon | Preliminary Findings: Leveraging Machine Learning Models to Analyze Statewide Chronic Disease Measures that Predict Geographic Regions Across U.S. States |
| Tabia Tanzin Prama | Global brain drain and gain in high-potential student mobility |
| Katie Robie | Associations between Food Insecurity and Executive Functioning among Caregivers in Rural Vermont |
| Nat Robtoy | Analyzing the Equity of Flood Resilience in Vermont Communities |
| Alicia Rosato | Evaluating Vermont's Diet and Physical Activity: A Comparison to National Guidelines |
| Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias | False memories to fake news: The evolution of the term "misinformation" in academic literature |
| Kat Rutkowski | Human Health vs Ecological Function? Testing Conservation Framing in Vermont |
| Olivia Sauve | Diffusion or Confusion: Examining Heterogeneity in Socially Responsible Investing. |
| Olivia Seiler | Federal Food Assistance Programs and Health Outcomes Among Older Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review |
| Taylor Seitz & Perry Donovan | Platelet Extracellular Vesicles Restore Plasma Membrane Integrity Following Endothelial Cell Trauma |
| Taylor Seitz & Stephanie Yarnall | Dexamethasone Conjugated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Theranostic Platform for Inflammation Imaging & Corticosteroid Delivery |
| Protiva Sen | Witchcraft as Narrative Contagion: Modeling the Diffusion and Mutation of Transmission Mechanisms in the 1692 Salem Crisis |
| Protiva Sen | Ethical Frameworks for Conducting Social Challenge Studies |
| Abigail Sinha, Alex Fronczek, Lily Siciliano, & Emma Scott | Selecting and Sequencing in the Classroom |
| Kalman Slater | Whose Ambulance Is It, Anyway? A National Analysis of Emergency Medical Services System Delivery and Response times |
| Jonathan Slowey, Alec Eschholz, Nila Sabetfakhri, Mirella Fernandez, David Kolb, Sabrina Herzberg, & Krista Millar | Understanding communication barriers between physicians and patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) |
| Gabriel Sutton | Gaps and Opportunities in Food Insecurity Screening and Referral Practices in Rural Oncology Settings |
| Olivia Teare | An Examination of Barriers to Vermont Women’s Access to Healthcare Services |
| Elise theriault | Policy limitations for farmers transitioning to plant-based proteins. |
| Eva Therrien | I Just Feel Like Everything's Against Us': Undergraduates' Beliefs Surrounding the Use of Oral Contraceptives for Menstrual Suppression |
| Tanzila Tabassum Tonny | Rethinking Transportation Planning in Vermont: Current Practice and Better Alternatives |
| Thi Thanh Thanh Tran & Shan Shan Zheng | Schelling-like model and Residential dynamics: A simulation of neighborhood segregation. |
| Erin Troiano | The Box Project: Mapping Relationships Across Race and Distance |
| Rachel Trokenheim | Geocaching in Vermont: Where, why, and Does it Matter? |
| Ava Trueworthy | Geographic Access to Perinatal Care |
| Camille Tucker | Vermont Crop Cash Program |
| Rowan Tuffner | Assessing the Transfer of Student Knowledge from the Physics to Statics Course Across Two Years |
| Caroline Van Hemel | Showcasing Historical Childhood: StoryMaps as a Way to Visualize Geographic and Historical Data |
| Susan Whitman | “Bringing Health Coaches Into the Doctor’s Office: Building Consensus on Their Role in Primary Care” |
| Tommy Wondrasek, Izzy Srivastava, Max Grayzel-Ward, Sanjna Chalasani, Richard Zhang, Dani Callard, & Kieran Kozlowski | Substance Use Patterns and Harm Reduction Needs Amongst Vermont Queer Community |
| Lillian Wyatt | Consumer Perceptions of Insurance Practices in St.Lucia |
Poster Session 3
1:00pm-2:30pm - Main Poster Session 3 - Grand Maple Ballroom
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| Carlos Amissah | Direct and Indirect Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Variables on Human Incidence of Tick-Borne Diseases |
| Abigail Arbogast | Aiding the Functional Eradication of Japanese Knotweed through a Herbaceous Plant Mixture |
| Jakani Baker | Self-fertilizing crops |
| Christopher Baran | A Comprehensive Review of PFAS and Their Prevalence in Fish |
| Olivia Blanchard | Genomic and Biosynthetic Analysis of the Purple Pigment Guaiazulene and its Production in Lactarius indigo |
| Samantha Boutilier | Differences in Snail Utensils: Drilling into Intraspecific Variation in Rocky Shore Snail Predatory Ability |
| Sophia Brusch | Biogeographic and Temporal Diversity of Phyllosphere Fungal Communities Across Alpine Sites in the Green Mountains |
| Mia Cannizzaro | When Environment Meets Genetics: Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease |
| Kaiden Capsey | Freshwater Systems and Warmth: Response Dynamics in L. sicilis and Potential Future Insights |
| Annalena Chavrier | Applying Machine Learning to study the social network of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Bocas del Toro, Panama using photographs of their dorsal fins. |
| Blair Christensen | Role of Histone Modifications in Insecticide Resistance and Response of Insect Pests |
| Sydney Collet-Callahan | Identifying Small Mammal Hosts of Vermont Tick-Borne Pathogens |
| Madelynn Edwards | Invasive Jumping Worms (Amynthas spp.) Alter Aphid Abundance and Ant-Aphid Mutualism on Golden Alexander (Zizea aurea) |
| Gwen Ellis, Sophia Azzaro, Stephanie Iwinski, & Amanda Richardson | Identifying spatial patterns of CWD-resistant genotypes in New England white-tailed deer populations |
| Jack Facemire | Beyond CRISPR: Targeting Single Nucleotide Variants |
| Olivia Fisher | Just Right: Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing |
| Finn Flynn | Spotting Lady Beetles: Using zoological collection and citizen science records to assess Coccinellid biodiversity loss in Vermont. |
| Nicole Gorman | Defining Retriever-Mediated Protein Recycling Pathways that Regulate Root Growth in Arabidopsis |
| Emma Griffith | Macrofungal Biodiversity and the Maple Sugarbush: Building a Baseline for Vermont’s Iconic Ecosystem |
| Paityn Hartsell | CRISPR: Rewriting Life's Script Too Soon? |
| Alana Harty | Mutations in Medicine: Advances in CRISPR and Sickle Cell Disease |
| Noelle Hasan | Investigating Iron Variability Across Productivity Regimes in the California Current Ecosystem |
| Eva Hendrickson | Phytoplankton Responses to Nutrient Availability in Freshwater Mesocosm Systems |
| Ollie Hovermill | The Ethical Implications of Cloning |
| Maya Jhawar | CRISPR as a security risk: Exploring the Possibility of Bioweaponry |
| Mia Kalish | Amplifying mung bean diversity to support resettled refugee food security in Vermont |
| David Kantor | Pediatric Abdominal CT Scans to Diagnose Acute Appendicitis: A Risk Benefit Analysis |
| Masoumeh Khodaverdi | Evidence for Local Adaptation in Vernalization Sensitivity and Its Genetic Basis in Temperate Melica Grasses |
| Madeline Kilada | Stored Health Data and Informed Consent |
| Olivia Klaus | Engineered Strength: Steroids and Gene Expression in Muscle and Bone |
| Lincoln Kunkemueller | Rising Temperatures and Morphological Changes in New England Peromyscus |
| Iris Lawson-Ryan | A Computational Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Bat Echolocation Traits |
| Fiona Legg | Acoustic Characterization of the Caño Island Biological Reserve: Assessing Biological and Anthropogenic Drivers |
| Preity Mangar | The Marketization of Motherhood: Examining Commercial Surrogacy in the United States vs. India |
| Audrey Manning | Shifts in cyanobacteria bloom phenology and phytoplankton community structure in response to two phosphorus immobilization strategies in Lake Carmi, VT |
| Emma McBournie | Catching Breast Cancer Early Through Genetic Counseling and Testing! |
| Anna McPeak, Sydney Sharp, Chiara Cohen, Olivia Britton, & Katie Anthony | Ion-specific effects of road salt on survivorship and thermal tolerance in copepods |
| Ellie McSweeney | UVM Natural History Museum Specimen Accessioning and Skinning |
| Li Moavenian | Pathogen Presence in Historic Rodents of Vermont |
| Sarah O'Leary | Risk of Tick‑Borne Pathogen Exposure Among Outdoor Recreationists in UVM Natural Areas |
| Onome Ofoman | Mangrove Genetic Diversity and Impact on Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review |
| Mya Papouschek | Restoring Balance: Soil Invertebrates as Indicators of Native Riparian Regeneration around a Degraded Lake in New Zealand |
| Sienna Paup | Transcriptome Storage: TimeVault |
| Haley Peixoto | Is seed longevity influenced by past environmental stresses on the growth and fitness of hybrid and non-hybrid Arabidopsis Thaliana? |
| Avery Redfern | Going Batty: Using global trends in bat species diversity to predict species movement with climate change |
| Walt Regan-loomis | Exploring Sugaring's Effect On Mt. Mansfield's Bryophytes |
| Bridget Reiners | Biofluorescence in Wildlife |
| Kai Roberts-Speaker & Emma Griffith | Clarifying Regulation of Fungal Sex: Identifying B-locus Associated Transcription Factor in S. commune |
| Langdon Robinson & Kael Fitzpatrick | A Closer Examination of Bioluminescence in Mycenoid Fungi: Evolution and Application |
| Josie Russell | Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Amanita bisporigera: A Foundation for Future Toxicological Analysis |
| Lila Salois | Dissecting the Genetic Architecture of Virulence in Heterobasidion annosum via Integrative Genome–Transcriptome–Phenotype Mapping |
| Chanchal Saratkar | The Effects of Starvation on the Thermal Limits of Lake Champlain Copepods |
| August Schanno | Linking Psilocybin Biosynthesis to Antimicrobial and Larvicidal Activity in Psilocybe cubensis |
| Max Schibel | Searching for Squirrels: A Species Distribution Model of Flying Squirrel species in Vermont. |
| Lamija Semic | Phenotypic stress response of Colorado potato beetle unaffected by octopamine inhibition |
| Garrett Simon | Comparing temporal autocorrelation between NDVI-derived phenological metrics for Vermont forests using Sentinel-2 imagery |
| Acadia Smith | Wallin Beetle Collection and Presence of Invasives |
| Isabella Soddu | Investigating Hemoparasite Infection in Rusty Blackbirds: Could Avian Malaria Be Driving Their Decline? |
| Sonja Sojli | Can the same treatment be applied to the same type of cancer? |
| Alexander Steiner | Factors Influencing the Presence and Cover of Non-Cultivated Plants in Vermont Pastures |
| Ruth Stumpfoll | Tracking and discerning patterns in plant succession of restored riparian forested buffers; comparing endemically inoculated, uninoculated, and control plots. |
| Opal Sutton | Back to the Past: The Role of CRIPSR_Cas9 in Sickle Cell Disease |
| Phoebe Swartz | Investigating the potential of red spruce (Picea rubens) blue intensity chronologies to reconstruct past temperature for Vermont. |
| Vincent Tamakloe | Evaluating the Field Efficacy and Durability of Pheromone Mating Disruption Dispensers for Sustainable Swede Midge Management |
| Rebecca Thompson | Nature's Flytrap: A New Approach to Combating the Spread of Malaria |
| Kayla Timas | Pharmacogenetics and Race |
| Regina Visconti | VTI13 and VPS26C:?The Intersection of Trafficking, Cell Wall Organization, and Root Growth in Arabidopsis |
| Alyssa Warbeck | Accumulation of Microplastics on Lake Champlain Beaches: Spatial and Temporal Patterns |
| Maddy Weaver | DNA in Dentistry: Genetic Impacts on the Oral Microbiota |
| Sophie Williams | Investigating the relationship between moisture and temperature in northern New England through a 500-year tree-ring reconstruction |
Poster Session 4
3:00pm-4:30pm - Main Poster Session 4 - Grand Maple Ballroom
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| Ihsan Shawki Akili | Diet, Binge Drinking, or Both? What Results in the Most Advanced Form of Liver Disease in Male and Female Mice? |
| Samantha Alexander | Toward a Natural Alternative: Whey–Pectin Scaffolds for Breast Tissue Reconstruction |
| Nanna Atake & Ana Carissa I. Lorenzo, | Association Between Food Security and Mental Health Outcomes in Vermont Youth: Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2023 |
| Whitney Barbour | Testing a novel, translatable Western diet in a mouse model |
| Charlotte Bennett | Purine Sensing and Starvation Response in Toxoplasma gondii |
| Lena Bromberg & Erika Araujo | Using a novel T-Trap assay to investigate olfactory attraction behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Laura Brooks | R-loop accumulation promotes transcription-associated mutagenesis in SETX-deficient cells |
| Brody Brown, Lejla Pasic, Erin Fogarty, Molly Fahey, & Ella Church | Rural–Urban Inequities in Cardiovascular Health and Access to Preventive Care in the United States |
| Ashley Bush-Nickerson | A Hearing-Associated Gene is Unexpectedly Unregulated During Dengue Virus Infection |
| Elle Cunningham | Patient Attitudes Toward GLP-1 Receptor Agonists |
| Kaylin Dahlberg | Assessment of Tissue Lysis Methods for DNA Extraction from Murine Spleen |
| Sasha Dailey | Effects of PFOS, a member of the PFAS chemical family, on Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta (TRβ) Molecular Signaling in Thyroid Cells |
| Emma Danza | Determining the Role of the LATD/NIP Gene in Nodule Development in Lotus japonicus |
| Marenn Ek | Structural Characterization of Cancer-Associated Human Endonuclease III-like Protein 1 Variants |
| Colby Filosa | Impacts of Housing Density on Liver and Brain Health in a Mouse Model of MASLD |
| Lily Fryer | Creating a CRISPR-engineered Polo-like kinase 4 mutant sensitized to small molecule inhibitors in Drosophila |
| Alannah Garrison | Comparative Evaluation of a Dopamine-Conjugated Alginate Sealant Patch for Pleural and Tracheal Injury Repair |
| Reva Gill | Investigating the impacts of SRC-1 SH2 domain phosphorylation on cell migration |
| Benjamin Ginsberg | Synthesis and Antioxidant Characterization of Trolox Conjugates |
| Alexander Grayzel | Phosphomimics of Cytosolic Human Malate Dehydrogenase 1 Alters Enzymatic Activity |
| Jake Grenon | The Combination of Western Diet and Binge Drinking on Brain Health in Mice |
| Vihit Gupta | REV1 Depletion Sensitizes Colorectal Cancer Cells to Chemotherapeutics in an Autophagy Dependent Manner |
| Madison Guyette | Enhancing Efficacy of Tubulin Inhibitors in Colorectal Cancers via Translesion Synthesis Inhibition |
| John Hayward, Evan Marshall, & Mateo Sulpiziop | Establishing a Proteomics Workflow to Elucidate Disulfide Bonds While Minimizing Disulfide Scrambling |
| Seamus Heney | Novel REV7 Inhibitors Radiosensitive Cancer Cells |
| Mallie Higgins | A role for PACAPergic LPBn afferents in the BNST in anxiety-like responding |
| Rebecca Hill-Larsen, Celia Heath, Grace Hilton, Francesca Scaramuzzo, Christel Tonoki, Chris Zuidema, & Elzerie de Jager | Associations Between Food Insecurity and Asthma: Findings From the 2024 Adult National Health Interview Survey |
| Joshua Koduvalil | The Effects of Candid#1 on the Autophagy Pathway |
| Sadie Korzec | RUNX1-mediated Breast Cancer Suppression |
| Naveen Kothandaraman | REV1 inhibition enhances trinucleotide repeat mutagenesis |
| Jacob Lacy | Quantifying Taxonomic Uncertainty in Metabolic Modeling using Bayesian Inference Method |
| Ian Lee, Gabriella Fontana, & Elyse Jusseaume | Ralstonia insidiosa Significantly Improves Biofilm Attachment of Listeria monocytogenes on Low-nutrient Dairy Processing Surfaces |
| Ian Lee, Gabriella Fontana, & Elyse Jusseaume | Regeneration of bioifilms of Listeria monocytogenes and Ralstonia insidiosa 24 Hours Post-sanitizer Application Varies by Growth Temperature and Maturity |
| Eliana Lesser | Knee Flexion Symmetry Is Related To Return-To-Sport Criteria After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction |
| Kayla Liebeskind | Predicting Pathogenicity of Missense Variants in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases Using Structural Information |
| Collin MacLeod | ADAM17 regulates neurite outgrowth and visual system development with effects spanning optic vesicle morphogenesis to eye tracking |
| Rylee Masson | Investigating Neuropathology of Alcohol Use Disorder Using Simultaneous Neural Responses to Alcohol Cues |
| Caitlin McManus | Limosilactobacillus reuteri-Derived Tryptophan Metabolites Differentially Activate AhR Signaling: Implications for Neuroinflammation in Multiple Sclerosis |
| Wendy Memishian | Operating Room Management: Approaching the Performance Frontier |
| Devon Michaelson, Mya Boyd, & Maria McNeal | Identifying Genes That Affect Drosophila Food Choice Under Thermal Stress |
| Corina Miko | The Effect of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners and Alcohol on Gut Microbiome Composition |
| Harrison Morse | Impaired calcium wave propagation underlies gallstone disease in mice fed a lithogenic diet |
| Julia Neefe | Amino acid taste modulation by sweet and IR94e neural pathways in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Lucia Newman | Characterizing the Subcellular Localization of the Medicago truncatula LATD/NIP Gene |
| Marcos Ngo | From Structure to Motion: Studying the Conformational Changes of Human NTHL1 |
| Georgia Nourse | Healthy Eating in Balance: Psychosocial and Structural Predictors of Diabetes Eating-Related Stress among Youth with Type 1 Diabetes. |
| Armand Olteanu | Identifying Cell Adhesion Molecules (CAM) that respond to insulin signaling to modulate synapses in Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Madeline Orlowski | What’s your mixer of choice? Comparing the impact of sugar and sucralose mixed with ethanol on liver health |
| Justin Paluba | Combining AlphaFold and Sparse Experimental Data to Study Protein Dynamics |
| James Petersen | Structural and Functional Dissection of the PfBDP1 Ankyrin Repeat Domain as a Reader of Acetylated Histones |
| Chiara Petracek | Systematic Identification of RNA-Binding Proteins Required for Neuronal Survival and Oxidative Stress Resistance |
| Kripa Philip, Moe Paquette, Stephen Halsey, Brianna Najjar, Caroline Kagan, & Elzerie de-Jager | Association Between Physical Activity and Functional Limitations in Adults with Long COVID: Analysis of Vermont 2023 BRFSS Data |
| Isabella Piatek | Altered Theta-Gamma Coupling in the Dentate Gyrus of PTEN Knockout Mice |
| Owen Piper | Insulin binding proteins are required for the maintenance of the nervous system. |
| Norah Pride | Effects of the Tryptophan-Producing Bacterium Lactobacillus rhamnosus HA114 on Gastrointestinal Motility and Depression-Related Behaviors in Mice |
| Eli Rachimi | Characterizing Network Inhibition and Cognitive Deficit in Kcnt1 Mice |
| Cassie Rivers | Trusting the Timeline: Social Media Use in Making Health Decisions Across Race and Ethnicity |
| Owen Romeo | Functional Characterization of PURα and PURβ in ER+ Breast Cancer Using CRISPR Knockout and Transcriptomic Analysis |
| Gwenyth Roundy | Associations Between Neural Signature Scores and ROI-Based GLM Beta Weights in Alcohol Cue Reactivity |
| Elise Runnels | Receptor Tyrosine Kinases INSR and EGFR Promote Tyrosine phosphorylation of the Signaling Coreceptor DCBLD2 |
| Frederick Senya | Equation-Based Integration of Flux Balance Analysis with Diffusion for Spatio-Temporal Simulation of Microbial Communities |
| Patrick Shafer & Tess Strasser | Foods made with upcycled alcohol processing byproducts |
| Alanna Sherman | Mouse Mixology: Combined Effects of Alcohol and Sweeteners on Brain Health |
| Anna Showalter | STK11 loss enhances stress-adaptive programs supporting shear resilience in circulating tumor cells from KRAS-driven lung adenocarcinoma |
| Max Terraciano | Hunger, Diet, and Sex Impact Amino Acid Sensation and Response in Drosophila |
| Alec Thibeault | Effects of nonnutritive sweeteners and alcohol on renal functionality and biomarker variation in a mouse model |
| Sydney Vagg | A Whole-Embryo RT-qPCR Method for Measuring Human Gene Expression in Zebrafish Xenografts |
| Emily Van Beek | LCMV particle formation: There’s more than 1 way to make an arenavirus DIP |
| Julia Young | The Effect of Genetic Variation on Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity |
| Catherine Young | Diet, alcohol, or both; what's worst for the liver? |
Oral Presentations: 9:00am-10:00am
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| John DePalma | The Halo and Horn Effects as Measures of Health Stigma |
| Conor Fanuele | Role of Rab11 in Influenza B Virus Infection |
| Vihit Gupta | REV1 Depletion Sensitizes Colorectal Cancer Cells to Chemotherapeutics in an Autophagy Dependent Manner |
| Emery Harlan | The Role of the Nucleus Reuniens of the Thalamus in Operant and Pavlovian Appetitive Extinction and Renewal |
Jost Room:
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| Hannah Holst | Diet of American eels (Anguilla rostrata) in Lake Champlain |
| Aidan Jones | Evolutionary Rewiring of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Grasses (Poaceae) |
| Sydney Sharp | The Deadly Duo: How increased salt and temperature impact the survivorship of freshwater copepods |
| Emma Smith | Management of Aegopodium podagraria (Goutweed) Using Native Plants at the Intervale’s Silver Maple-Ostrich Fern Floodplain Forest |
Oral Presentations: 10:00am-11:00am
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| Lindsey Earle | Metabolic Modulation of Taste Sensitivity: Investigating the Role of Dopamine and Insulin Receptor Signaling in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Avinabo Poddar | Investigating the Effects of Changes in Perceived Discrimination on Cognition during Adolescence |
| Rishav Sood | Myloid Neoplasm and Acute Leukemia: The Difficulty of Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Pallas Ziporyn | The Demolition Loophole: A Policy Gap Undermining Efforts to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure |
Oral Presentations: 11:00am-12:00pm
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| Shahrzad Ahmadkaraji | Linking Thinness and Muscularity Drives to Mental Health through Body Appreciation and Self-Esteem in Men: The Moderating Role of Sexual Orientation |
| Rachel Lamb | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress, Coping, and Social Support |
| Prithaj Nath | Measuring Chronic Stress in College Students |
| Elissa Schuett | Harnessing intrinsic motivation to drive adoption of pro-environmental behaviors |
Oral Presentations: 12:00pm-1:00pm
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| Elliot Baird | Boy Talk: Audience Influenced Style Shifting in Transgender and Cisgender Men |
| Emory Gerlach | Artistic Process and Public Memory in Norman Rockwell’s The Babysitter |
| Erin Long | Birth Shattered Me: Traumatic Pregnancy and Childbirth as Self-Annihilating |
| Madison Taylor | Bragdon v. Abbott: Disability, Feminist, and Queer Activist Expansion of Anti-Discrimination Protections Through the Courts |
Handy Room:
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| Griffin Brown | Regional Planning for Sustainable and Equitable Goods Movement: Identifying Barriers and Best Practices from a Study of 48 Metropolitan Planning Organizations |
| John Foster | Characterizing Ambulance Response Times in Vermont |
| Hannah Gokaslan | From Diesel Dependency to Solar Power: How communities in Northwest Alaska are reshaping their energy futures |
| Carina Manitius | Stranded Assets and Stranded Livelihoods in Agriculture: Identifying Barriers to Change to Support Just Transformation |
Chittenden Room:
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| Farnaz Boudaghi | Re-centered Chen-Fliess Series: Convergence and Error Analysis |
| Ellie Lieberman | Construction and Characterization of Computationally Designed ComR Mutants |
| Ryan Siegel | Modeling Emergent Metabolic Interactions within Microbial Communities |
| Chhayank Srivastava | Three-dimensional leg kinematics improve burrowing performance in granular substrates. |
Oral Presentations: 1:00pm-2:00pm
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| Suzannah Buehler | Cross Talk: Language That Bridges America's Partisan Divide |
| Astrid Foster | The Unholy Marriage Between the Religious Right and Silicon Valley |
| João Franco | Bridging Simple and Complex Contagions in Belief Dynamics: A Voter Model Extension |
| Parisa Suchdev | Who Brought Easter Eggs to Eid? Cultural Translation of Math Word Problems Across Seven Languages |
Oral Presentations: 2:00pm-3:00pm
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| Yasmin Gasimova | Simulating the Father: University Discourse in Conspiracy Theories |
| Mohsen Ghasemizade | LLMs Take on Local Government Contracts |
| Julia Hart | Categorizing Key Elements of Interpersonal Grounding in Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy |
| Henry Schmidel | "They Had Some Rather Remarkable Successes": CIA Narratives in the Wake of the MKULTRA Cover-Up |
Oral Presentations: 3:00pm-4:00pm
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| Annika Lathrop | Mechanistic Insights into Chromatin Recognition by the SAND Domain of Speckled Protein 110C |
| Noah Leedom | An Efficient Parallelization of the Accelerated Imaginary Time Step Method for the Static Hartree-Fock Problem |
| Kehinde Makinde | Scope of the Chirality Transfer Allyl Cyanamide [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement to Afford Enantioenriched Carbodiimides that are Trapped by Amines as an Entry Into Enantioenriched Guanidines. |
| Ava Vitters | Investigating the Impact of Dietary Protein and Internal Nutrient Sensors on Taste Sensitivity |