SRTP 2019 Research Symposium Schedule

Each year, the Graduate Division's Summer Research Training Program (SRTP) welcomes outstanding undergraduate students to UCSF to work with faculty members on graduate-level research projects.

All are welcome to join us as this year's 54 students conclude their 10-week experience with 3 days of oral and poster presentations. This is a great chance to support their hard work and to learn about the range of research projects they have engaged in on campus.

Monday, July 29
Day 1 Oral Presentations, Genentech Hall Auditorium – 9 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Day 1 Oral Presentations, Genentech Hall N 114 – 9 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Day 1 Poster Session, Genentech Hall Atrium – 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 30
Day 2 Oral Presentations, Mission Hall 1401/1402 – 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Day 2 Oral Presentations, Genentech Hall N 114 – 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Wednesday, July 31
Day 3 Oral Presentations, Mission Hall 1401/1402 – 9:20 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Day 3 Oral Presentations, Genentech Hall N 114 – 9:20 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Day 3 Poster Session, Genentech Hall Atrium – 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Monday, July 29

Oral Presentations – Genentech Hall Auditorium

Time Name Title
9:00 a.m. Catherine Henderson RasGRP1 Signaling in Murine Intestinal Epithelial Organoids
9:20 a.m. Diego Martinez Mori Discovering miRNA Antagonists that Selectively Kill Triple Negative Breast Cancer
9:40 a.m. Diane Aguilar Investing Protein-Protein Interactions in the Chp Chemosensory System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
10:00 a.m. Neway Araya Characterizing Developing Neural Activity in Dissociated Cortical Neurons
10:20 a.m. Christopher (CJ)  Sarabia Primary Cilia and Its Regulation of Intestinal Development
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. Raina Sacksteder Deciphering the Role of the BAF Complex in ZIKV Replication
11:20 a.m. Yannah Melle Classification of Histopathology Whole Slide Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
11:40 a.m. Mariaelena Nabors Validating ALCAM and ITGAV as Potential Novel Therapeutic and Imaging Targets for Activated Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase
12:00 p.m. Eleanor Wang Molecular Mechanisms of E. Coli Susceptibility to the Type VI Secretion System
12:20 p.m. Ellen Wang Characterizing Synaptic Plasticity in a Model of Sensory Deprivation

Oral Presentations – Genentech Hall N 114

Time Name Title
9:00 a.m. Celeste Parra Bravo A CRISPRi Genome-Wide Screen to Identify Cellular Mechanisms that Regulate Tau Oligomerization
9:20 a.m. Viraj Upadhye Designing Probes for the Real Time Tracking of Heterochromatic Epigenetic Marks
9:40 a.m. Miguel A. Hernandez-Rovira CRISPRa-Based Identification of Novel α-Synuclein Aggregation Mechanisms
10:00 a.m. Hugo Pontes Chimeric Autoantigen Receptors (CAAR) T Regulatory Cell Therapy for Patients with Neurologic Symptoms Expressing Kelch-like Protein 11 Autoantibody
10:20 a.m. Aaron Halvorsen Small-Molecule Inhibitor Ameliorates Risk-Taking Behavior and Reduces Microgliosis Following Mild Repetitive Head Injury
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. Paige Hodges Stimulating Tau Protein Aggregation with Diverse Polyanionic Molecules
11:20 a.m. Anna Goddard DNA Replication Errors Activate ATR Signaling Resulting in DNA Repair
11:40 a.m. Vanessa Tran Characterization of iPSC Secreted Factors and Their Therapeutic Potential Toward Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs)
12:00 p.m. Gabriel Valdez-Cagua Design of Tractable Culture Model to Study the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Stiffness in Malignancy
12:20 p.m. Addison Roush Biophysical Characterization of the Amyloid β/TREM2 Interaction

Poster Session - Genentech Hall Atrium, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Name Title
Diane Aguilar Investing Protein-Protein Interactions in the Chp Chemosensory System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Neway Araya Characterizing Developing Neural Activity in Dissociated Cortical Neurons
Matthew Cattle Exploring Parameter Space for the Heterodimer Feedback Model
Joseph (Jia-Shu) Chen Immunomodulatory Gene Therapy Mediates Anti-Tumor Response in SB28 Glioblastoma Model
James Corbitt Characterizing Oxygen Release from Perfluorodecalin Emulsions for Islet Encapsulation
Ishani Deshpande Folic Acid Partially Rescues the Growth Inhibitory Effects of Methotrexate on Human Gut Bacteria
Joe Faryean Treatment-Related Changes in Striatal Activity in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease
Raghav Ganesh Leveraging Transcriptomics to Profile Response to Cyclophosphamide Treatment Among Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Anna Goddard DNA Replication Errors Activate ATR Signaling Resulting in DNA Repair
Michelle Grunberg DASH to Increase Sensitivity of Next Generation Sequencing for TB Meningitis
Aaron Halvorsen Small-Molecule Inhibitor Ameliorates Risk-Taking Behavior and Reduces Microgliosis Following Mild Repetitive Head Injury
Catherine Henderson RasGRP1 Signaling in Murine Intestinal Epithelial Organoids
Miguel A. Hernandez-Rovira CRISPRa-Based Identification of Novel α-Synuclein Aggregation Mechanisms
Maya Hirano Identification and Validation of Microglia Subtypes in Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice
Paige Hodges Stimulating Tau Protein Aggregation with Diverse Polyanionic Molecules
Reecan Juarez The Neuroprotective Effects of Olmesartan in Parkinson’s Disease Zebrafish Models
Eun (Lauren) Kim Characterizing Biocompatibility of Silicon Nanopore Membrane Based Bioreactors to House Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Acute Graft Versus Host Disease
Charles Lin Reporter of TCR Signaling Identifies Arthritogenic T cells in Autoimmune Arthritis
Thaybeth I. Malava Mendez Off-Target Effects of Prescription Drugs: Inhibition of Vitamin Transporters
Diego Martinez Mori Discovering miRNA Antagonists that Selectively Kill Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Mariaelena Nabors Validating ALCAM and ITGAV as Potential Novel Therapeutic and Imaging Targets for Activated Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase
Maya Ng-Yu The Progression of Rheumatology Images from the 1960s Through the 1990s for Present-day Medical Education
Julia Ostrowski A Data-Driven Analysis of Ventral Hippocampal-Prefrontal Cortex Interactions in PogZ Mutant Mice
Allyson Park Double Trouble: Discovery of Dual Function CRISPR-Cas Inhibitors
Celeste Parra Bravo A CRISPRi Genome-Wide Screen to Identify Cellular Mechanisms that Regulate Tau Oligomerization
Mario Rodriguez How are some Human Deleterious Mutations Tolerated in Other Species?
Christopher (CJ)  Sarabia Primary Cilia and Its Regulation of Intestinal Development
Kelsey Sennett Immunomodulation and Cardiac Remodeling Post Myocardial Infarction in SKG Mice with Inflammatory Arthritis
Vanessa Tran Characterization of iPSC Secreted Factors and Their Therapeutic Potential Toward Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs)
Viraj Upadhye Designing Probes for the Real Time Tracking of Heterochromatic Epigenetic Marks
Gabriel Valdez-Cagua Design of Tractable Culture Model to Study the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Stiffness in Malignancy
Eleanor Wang Molecular Mechanisms of E. Coli Susceptibility to the Type VI Secretion System
Ellen Wang Characterizing Synaptic Plasticity in a Model of Sensory Deprivation

Tuesday, July 30

Oral Presentations - Mission Hall 1401/1402

Time Name Title
9:00 a.m. Joe Faryean Treatment-Related Changes in Striatal Activity in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease
9:20 a.m. Christian Lopez Nullomers as a Route to Personalized Cancer Therapeutics
9:40 a.m. Joseph (Jia-Shu) Chen Immunomodulatory Gene Therapy Mediates Anti-Tumor Response in SB28 Glioblastoma Model
10:00 a.m. Reecan Juarez The Neuroprotective Effects of Olmesartan in Parkinson’s Disease Zebrafish Models
10:20 a.m. Thaybeth I. Malava Mendez Off-Target Effects of Prescription Drugs: Inhibition of Vitamin Transporters
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. Abraham Saikley Effects of Acute Stress on Avoidance Behavior and Its Neural Correlates
11:20 a.m. Saul Cortez-Alvarado Fixation Optimization for MULTI-seq
11:40 a.m. James Corbitt Characterizing Oxygen Release from Perfluorodecalin Emulsions for Islet Encapsulation

Oral Presentations - Genentech Hall N 114

Time Name Title
9:00 a.m. Charlotte Wang A CRISPR-Cas9 Knock-in-Library Approach to Systematically Investigate All Single-Base Mutations on IL2RG Gene Exon 5 in Primary Human T Cells
9:20 a.m. Michelle Grunberg DASH to Increase Sensitivity of Next Generation Sequencing for TB Meningitis
9:40 a.m. Allison Woods Biochemical Characterization of the UPR Sensor Protein IRE1
10:00 a.m. Natalie Wu-Woods Development of an Oral Drug Delivery System for Protein Therapeutics Using 3D Printed Polymeric Microdevices and Nanotopography to Increase Bioavailability
10:20 a.m. Matthew Cattle Exploring Parameter Space for the Heterodimer Feedback Model
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. John Wang Characterizing the Heterogeneity of Cortical Astrocytes for GABAergic and Glutamatergic Signals
11:20 a.m. Marie Schulte-Bisping Oxytocin Modulated Pair Bonding in Prairie Voles
11:40 a.m. Jeffrey Nguyen Osteocytic-TGFβ Signaling Regulates Perilacunar/Canalicular Remodeling and Sclerostin Expression at the Subchondral Bone Plate

 

Wednesday, July 31

Oral Presentations - Mission Hall 1401/1402

Time Name Title
9:20 a.m. Maike Morrison Genome-Wide Association Study of Immune Response to 12 Common Pathogens
9:40 a.m. Zion Perry Semi-Explicit Solvation Improves Ligand Binding Site Design in an Allosteric Protein
10:00 a.m. Mario Rodriguez How are some Human Deleterious Mutations Tolerated in Other Species?
10:20 a.m. Mauricio Gomez Lopez Impact of Vacuole Morphology on Casein Production
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. Dianna Resto Santos How Does Separase Initiate Chromosome Segration?
11:20 a.m. Aadith Vittala Encoding of Ambiguous Stimuli in the Mouse Ventral Hippocampus
11:40 a.m. Charles Lomba In Vitro Reactivated Cilia in “Ghost Cells” Offer a Model System for Exploration of Cellular Hydrodynamics
12:00 p.m. Joseph Marte Using Molecular Dynamic Simulation to Determine a-Synuclein Structure
12:20 p.m. Madeline Ho PEAK3 Regulates Cell Proliferation and Viability Through Interaction with Adaptive Protein Crkll

Oral Presentations - Genentech Hall N 114

Time Name Title
9:20 a.m. Matthew Barraza Deletion of a Conserved Tbr1 Enhancer Decreases Tbr1 mRNA Expression
9:40 a.m. Raymond Tjhia Independent and Interactive Effects of Sex and Autism on Gene Expression in Post-Mortem Human Brain
10:00 a.m. Eun (Lauren) Kim Characterizing Biocompatibility of Silicon Nanopore Membrane Based Bioreactors to House Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Acute Graft Versus Host Disease
10:20 a.m. Rebecca Eliscu A Genetic Blueprint for the Human Central Nervous System
10:40 a.m.   BREAK
11:00 a.m. Daisy Palomera Investigating the Origin of Fragile X Syndrome
11:20 a.m. Jasmine Zamora Perceptions of Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among Clients Enrolled in a Residential Treatment Program
11:40 a.m. Julia Ostrowski A Data-Driven Analysis of Ventral Hippocampal-Prefrontal Cortex Interactions in PogZ Mutant Mice
12:00 p.m. Brandon Courteau Structural Studies of Membrane Remodeling by the ESCRT-III Proteins Vps2 and Did2
12:20 p.m. Abdallah Mohamed Mechanisms of Interchromosomal Compartmentalization of Olfactory Receptor Genes

Poster Session - Genentech Hall Atrium, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Name Title
Matthew Barraza Deletion of a Conserved Tbr1 Enhancer Decreases Tbr1 mRNA Expression
Saul Cortez-Alvarado Fixation Optimization for MULTI-seq
Brandon Courteau Structural Studies of Membrane Remodeling by the ESCRT-III Proteins Vps2 and Did2
Rebecca Eliscu A Genetic Blueprint for the Human Central Nervous System
Mauricio Gomez Lopez Impact of Vacuole Morphology on Casein Production
Madeline Ho PEAK3 Regulates Cell Proliferation and Viability Through Interaction with Adaptive Protein Crkll
Charles Lomba In Vitro Reactivated Cilia in “Ghost Cells” Offer a Model System for Exploration of Cellular Hydrodynamics
Christian Lopez Nullomers as a Route to Personalized Cancer Therapeutics
Joseph Marte Using Molecular Dynamic Simulation to Determine a-Synuclein Structure
Yannah Melle Classification of Histopathology Whole Slide Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Abdallah Mohamed Mechanisms of Interchromosomal Compartmentalization of Olfactory Receptor Genes
Maike Morrison Genome-Wide Association Study of Immune Response to 12 Common Pathogens
Jeffrey Nguyen Osteocytic-TGFβ Signaling Regulates Perilacunar/Canalicular Remodeling and Sclerostin Expression at the Subchondral Bone Plate
Daisy Palomera Investigating the Origin of Fragile X Syndrome
Zion Perry Semi-Explicit Solvation Improves Ligand Binding Site Design in an Allosteric Protein
Hugo Pontes Chimeric Autoantigen Receptors (CAAR) T Regulatory Cell Therapy for Patients with Neurologic Symptoms Expressing Kelch-like Protein 11 Autoantibody
Dianna Resto Santos How Does Separase Initiate Chromosome Segration?
Addison Roush Biophysical Characterization of the Amyloid β/TREM2 Interaction
Raina Sacksteder Deciphering the Role of the BAF Complex in ZIKV Replication
Abraham Saikley Effects of Acute Stress on Avoidance Behavior and Its Neural Correlates
Marie Schulte-Bisping Oxytocin Modulated Pair Bonding in Prairie Voles
Raymond Tjhia Independent and Interactive Effects of Sex and Autism on Gene Expression in Post-Mortem Human Brain
Aadith Vittala Encoding of Ambiguous Stimuli in the Mouse Ventral Hippocampus
Charlotte Wang A CRISPR-Cas9 Knock-in-Library Approach to Systematically Investigate All Single-Base Mutations on IL2RG Gene Exon 5 in Primary Human T Cells
John Wang Characterizing the Heterogeneity of Cortical Astrocytes for GABAergic and Glutamatergic Signals
Allison Woods Biochemical Characterization of the UPR Sensor Protein IRE1
Natalie Wu-Woods Development of an Oral Drug Delivery System for Protein Therapeutics Using 3D Printed Polymeric Microdevices and Nanotopography to Increase Bioavailability
Jasmine Zamora Perceptions of Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among Clients Enrolled in a Residential Treatment Program