Each year, the Division of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs’ Summer Research Training Program (SRTP) welcomes outstanding undergraduate students to UCSF to work with faculty members on graduate-level research projects. Join us as this year's 39 students conclude their 10-week experience with 3 days of oral and poster presentations.
Schedule at a Glance
Participants may attend in person or remotely via Zoom. Remote attendees can submit questions through the chat feature. Please note that only presentations from students with pre-authorization from research labs will be livestreamed and recorded. Sessions will be recorded for internal purposes only and shared with students and SRTP staff.
Timing
Each student session will begin promptly at the time listed in the schedule. If breaks occur between sessions, we will pause and resume at the next scheduled time. Each student will have a total of 15 minutes:
- Presentation: 10-12 minutes
- Q&A: 3-5 minutes
Judging
Presentations will be evaluated by graduate student judges. The top three presenters will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony on Wednesday.
Monday, August 3, Mission Bay
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations 1A, Byers Hall 212
Oral Presentations 1B, Genentech Hall N114
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 1 Oral Presentations 2A, Byers Hall 212
Day 1 Oral Presentations 2B, Genentech Hall N114
Tuesday, August 4, Parnassus
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations 3A, CS 1111
Oral Presentations 3B, CS 1113 & 1114
Wednesday, August 5, Mission Bay
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Day 3 Poster Session 1, Genentech Hall Atrium
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Day 3 Poster Session 2, Genentech Hall Atrium
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Day 3 Poster Session 3, Genentech Hall Atrium
Detailed Schedule
Monday, August 3
Oral Presentations 1A – Byers Hall 212
Watch the presentations on Zoom
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Nicholas Cormas | Preclinical stem cell transplantation for a genetic neuroimmune disorder |
| 9:20 a.m. | Joy Murioga | Causal Impact of Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Mechanisms on Vascular Disease Risk in East Asian Populations |
| 9:40 a.m. | Vincent Le | Characterizing the intramolecular dynamics of PARP14 through computational and biochemical approaches |
| 10:00 a.m. | ||
| 10:20 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m. | Rylee Chaisongkram | Mapping neuronal activity in a novel genetic model of frontotemporal dementia |
| 11:00 a.m. | Hannah Paige | Migration of Interneurons During Development in the Human Hippocampus |
| 11:20 a.m. | Lukas Hammett | Songbird Synchrony: Linking Behavioral Variation and Preference in Female Finches |
| 11:40 a.m. | Sambhav Jain | Restoring acidic pH in neuronal lysosomes extends C. elegans healthspan |
Oral Presentations 1B – Genentech Hall N114
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Diego Carranco | Mapping the Epigenetic Landscape of Cancer Initiation and Resistance |
| 9:20 a.m. | Kaitlyn Du | Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Invigorate Movement |
| 9:40 a.m. | Liam Davis | Characterization of candidate human disease variants in 5′ untranslated regions |
| 10:00 a.m. | Perrine Changkuon | Investigating the Effects of Steroid Hormone Signaling on Nervous System Physiology |
| 10:20 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m. | Keith Gardner | Mapping Hippocampal Dopamine Receptors to Identify New Targets for Schizophrenia Treatment |
| 11:00 a.m. | Catherine Giles | Performing High-Throughput Behavioral Assay for Screening Novel Anxiolytics in Larval Zebrafish |
| 11:20 a.m. | Lisandro Herrera Galvez | Characterization of Designed Binders to BclxL Transmembrane Domain |
| 11:40 a.m. | Diego Velazquez Vargas | An AI-Guided Design Framework Toward De Novo Multipass Membrane Proteins |
Oral Presentations 2A – Byers Hall 212
Watch the presentations on Zoom
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. | Alexandra Jose | Genetic Identification of Bacteriophage Anti-Defense Components in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| 1:20 p.m. | Jakai McCoy-Morton | Lower Extremity Health and Advanced Glycation End Products in Type 2 Diabetes and CKD |
| 1:40 p.m. | Melissa Perez-Rodriguez | Optimizing iPSC Initial Conditions for Reproducible Small Intestinal Organoid Differentiation for 3D Bioprinting |
| 2:00 p.m. | Alexander Wilson | Lower extremity anthropometrics and knee joint loading as predictors of clinical symptoms and structure in patella-femoral joint osteoarthritis |
| 2:20 p.m. | Cesar Estrella | Designing a Survival – Based Gene Editing Reporter |
| 2:40 p.m. | Brianna Freeburg | Uncovering the Genetics Driving Variation in Human Body Temperature |
Oral Presentations 2B – Genentech Hall N114
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. | Lilah Gibson | Molecular mechanisms by which m6A RNA modifications regulate tau turnover in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias |
| 1:20 p.m. | Fabrizio Malatesta | Isoform-Aware Variant Annotation: Mapping Genetic Variants Across a Gene's Full Transcript Landscape |
| 1:40 p.m. | Angel Manzur-Torres | Investigating how Hydrophobic Interactions Between Rpt2 and a Conserved Arginine Impact Human Proteasome Activation |
| 2:00 p.m. | Adela Song | Isolation and comparative structural analysis of cilia |
| 2:20 p.m. | Michelle Voong | Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) for FSP1 Inhibitor FSEN13 |
| 2:40 p.m. | Hailey Weintraub | Examining the Impact of TBK1 Haploinsufficiency on Glial Cells in Familial ALS |
Tuesday, August 4
Oral Presentations 3A- Clinical Science 1111
Overflow Room CS 1107 & 1108
Watch the presentations on Zoom
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | Aryan Singh | Evolutionary Determinants of Protein Stability Across Diverse Proteases |
| 10:20 a.m. | Grace Pantoja | Identifying Prenatal Maternal Fecal Metabolites Associated with Epithelial Barrier Integrity and Childhood Asthma Prevention |
| 10:40 a.m. | Aadya Penchala | Marker-less Spine Pose Estimation Model |
| 11:00 a.m. | Tiffani Armand | Analyzing the Oral Microbiome in Rel |
| 11:20 a.m. | Zarek Moore | Developing a pooled screening platform for evaluating CRISPR knock-in loci |
| 11:40 a.m. | Logan Jones | Engineering a Coin-Flip CRISPR system in T-Cells |
Oral Presentations 3B - Clinical Science 1113 & 1114
Overflow Room CS 1116 & 1117
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | Ash Rosales | Establishing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in the disease-associated gut bacterium Eggerthella lenta |
| 10:20 a.m. | Alexa Rios | Characterizing chemical exposures in agricultural communities and their associations with preterm birth |
| 10:40 a.m. | Yazmin Ortega | Characterization and Modeling of Neural Cells in the Human Brain |
| 11:00 a.m. | Franklin Okey-Iwobi | Temporal Signaling Dynamics of Type I and Type III Interferons in Human Lung Epithelial Cells |
| 11:20 a.m. | Khady Gaye | Cooking fuel links malaria susceptibility to microbiome composition in pregnancy |
| 11:40 a.m. | David Martinez | Fibrosis-Driven Neural Reprogramming in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) |
Wednesday, August 5
Poster Session 1 - Genentech Hall Atrium, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
| # | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicholas Cormas | Preclinical stem cell transplantation for a genetic neuroimmune disorder |
| 2 | Cesar Estrella | Designing a Survival – Based Gene Editing Reporter |
| 3 | Brianna Freeburg | Uncovering the Genetics Driving Variation in Human Body Temperature |
| 4 | Lilah Gibson | Molecular mechanisms by which m6A RNA modifications regulate tau turnover in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias |
| 5 | Alexandra Jose | Genetic Identification of Bacteriophage Anti-Defense Components in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| 6 | Logan Jones | Engineering a Coin-Flip CRISPR system in T-Cells |
| 7 | Angel Manzur-Torres | Investigating how Hydrophobic Interactions Between Rpt2 and a Conserved Arginine Impact Human Proteasome Activation |
| 8 | Fabrizio Malatesta | Isoform-Aware Variant Annotation: Mapping Genetic Variants Across a Gene's Full Transcript Landscape |
| 9 | Zarek Moore | Developing a pooled screening platform for evaluating CRISPR knock-in loci |
| 10 | Jakai McCoy-Morton | Lower Extremity Health and Advanced Glycation End Products in Type 2 Diabetes and CKD |
| 11 | Grace Pantoja | Identifying Prenatal Maternal Fecal Metabolites Associated with Epithelial Barrier Integrity and Childhood Asthma Prevention |
| 12 | Melissa Perez-Rodriguez | Optimizing iPSC Initial Conditions for Reproducible Small Intestinal Organoid Differentiation for 3D Bioprinting |
| 13 | Adela Song | Isolation and comparative structural analysis of cilia |
| 14 | Aryan Singh | Evolutionary Determinants of Protein Stability Across Diverse Proteases |
| 15 | Michelle Voong | Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) for FSP1 Inhibitor FSEN13 |
| 16 | Hailey Weintraub | Examining the Impact of TBK1 Haploinsufficiency on Glial Cells in Familial ALS |
| 17 | Alexander Wilson | Lower extremity anthropometrics and knee joint loading as predictors of clinical symptoms and structure in patella-femoral joint osteoarthritis |
Poster Session 2- Genentech Hall Atrium, 10:45 - 12:00 p.m.
| # | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiffani Armand | Analyzing the Oral Microbiome in Rel |
| 2 | Diego Carranco | Mapping the Epigenetic Landscape of Cancer Initiation and Resistance |
| 3 | Perrine Changkuon | Investigating the Effects of Steroid Hormone Signaling on Nervous System Physiology |
| 4 | Rylee Chaisongkram | Mapping neuronal activity in a novel genetic model of frontotemporal dementia |
| 5 | Liam Davis | Characterization of candidate human disease variants in 5′ untranslated regions |
| 6 | Kaitlyn Du | Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Invigorate Movement |
| 7 | Keith Gardner | Mapping Hippocampal Dopamine Receptors to Identify New Targets for Schizophrenia Treatment |
| 8 | Catherine Giles | Performing High-Throughput Behavioral Assay for Screening Novel Anxiolytics in Larval Zebrafish |
| 9 | Lukas Hammett | Songbird Synchrony: Linking Behavioral Variation and Preference in Female Finches |
| 10 | Lisandro Herrera Galvez | Characterization of Designed Binders to BclxL Transmembrane Domain |
| 11 | Sambhav Jain | Restoring acidic pH in neuronal lysosomes extends C. elegans healthspan |
| 12 | Hannah Paige | Migration of Interneurons During Development in the Human Hippocampus |
| 13 | Aadya Penchala | Marker-less Spine Pose Estimation Model |
| 14 | Diego Velazquez Vargas | An AI-Guided Design Framework Toward De Novo Multipass Membrane Proteins |
| 15 | Ahlam Ibrahim Community College Research Training Program | Development of PRMT5-BRD4 Based RIPTACS for MTAP-Deleted Cancers |
| 16 | Pricilla De Anna Guillen Community College Research Training Program | Investigating CD8+ T Cell Phenotypes during Acute SIV Infection as Predictors of Viral Control Post-ART Cessation |
Poster Session 3- Genentech Hall Atrium, 1:00 - 2:15 p.m.
| # | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khady Gaye | Cooking fuel links malaria susceptibility to microbiome composition in pregnancy |
| 2 | Vincent Le | Characterizing the intramolecular dynamics of PARP14 through computational and biochemical approaches |
| 3 | David Martinez | Fibrosis-Driven Neural Reprogramming in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) |
| 4 | Joy Murioga | Causal Impact of Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Mechanisms on Vascular Disease Risk in East Asian Populations |
| 5 | Franklin Okey-Iwobi | Temporal Signaling Dynamics of Type I and Type III Interferons in Human Lung Epithelial Cells |
| 6 | Yazmin Ortega | Characterization and Modeling of Neural Cells in the Human Brain |
| 7 | Alexa Rios | Characterizing chemical exposures in agricultural communities and their associations with preterm birth |
| 8 | Ash Rosales | Establishing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in the disease-associated gut bacterium Eggerthella lenta |
| 9 | Christiene Dulay Community College Research Training Program | From Cysteine to Serine to Threonine: Expanding Switch-II Pocket Inhibitors Beyond K-Ras |
| 10 | Annaliese Phipps Community College Research Training Program | RBMS Proteins Regulate CD69 Expression in T Cells |
| 11 | Ibraheem Al-Shammaa Arthritis Foundation Intern | Mapping IgM Antibody Signatures in Immune-Mediated Myocarditis |
| 12 | Reza Ashrafi Arthritis Foundation Intern | Rotator Cuff Tear: A Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of the Cellular Landscape of Human Muscle Degeneration |
| 13 | Madison Gensler Arthritis Foundation Intern | Investigating the Role of TLR7 Deficiencies on Autoimmunity in Grn and C9orf72 deficient mice |
| 14 | Ethan Greenberg Arthritis Foundation Intern | Runx1R188Q/+ mutation does not appear to alter Alveolar Type II cell abundance in murine lung |
| 15 | Leena Liang Arthritis Foundation Intern | Characterizing Demodex Mite Prevalence and Association with Acne and Type 2 Immune Responses in Adolescent Skin |
| 16 | Roshan Trivedi Arthritis Foundation Intern | Microbial Metabolism of Related Antifolates, Methotrexate and Aminopterin |