8:30am – 9:00am: Presenter check-in (presenters may also check-in right before your session) 9:00am – 10:00am: Session 1 10:05am – 11:05am: Session 2 11:10am – 12:10pm: Session 3
2026 Presenters
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Session 1
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
31
How much water ice is at the surface of the Moon?
Cassie Hu
Aditya Khuller
32
Detecting Historical Upwelling Events off the Oregon Coast using Regional Cabled Array Data
Chendi Luo
Deb Kelley, Wendi Ruef
33
Characterizing Ocean Current Signals in Seafloor Pressure Measurements
Ahma Masselink
David Schmidt
34
Measuring Bulk Temperature of the Ocean using a Remote Ocean Surface Radiometer
Isabella Loeffler
Andy Jessup
35
Exploring the importance of Ocean Currents in Landfast Sea ice breakout events
Lucas Htet
Jim Thomson, Laura Crews
36
Huddle Testing of Ocean Bottom Seismometers Before Deployment off Newport, Oregon
Ali Mousa
William Wilcock, Maleen Kidiwela
37
Optimization of the external and internal Oil reservior of ocean floor pressure gauges
Ivonne Salazar
Dana Manalang, William Wilcock
25
Investigating Complex Ocean Signals in OOI RCA Seafloor Pressure Recordings by Eliminating Sea Surface Height
Athena Tambanillo
David Schmidt
26
Tracking omission within Research : Case study on Culling Upwelling Data
Mica Wass de Czege
Caitlin Whalen, Wendi Ruef
27
How Ice Forms Coast and Culture — Changes in Landfast Ice Are Changing Lives
Finch Wilder
Caitlin Whalen, Laura Crews
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
1
El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity
Karolyn Marquez Garcia
Robert Wood
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
22
Model-Based Estimation of Starspot Properties from Stellar Light Curves
Ena Ueno
Hiroyuki Maehara, Takahito Nishikata
23
Isolation and Characterization of Biodegradable Plastic-Degrading Microorganisms from Cryptomeria japonica Leaves and Branches
Koyuki Kida
Shinji Takenaka, Hibiki Takahira
24
Impact of Trunk Cutting on Slope Stability: A Quantitative Evaluation of Sheet Erosion and Shallow Landslides
Chika Koh
Keitaro Yamase, Hibiki Takahira
28
Analysis of the Benefits of Using Emergency Docks for Everyday Use — Exploring the Potential of Multimodal Urban Logistics
Sousuke Nishio
Etsuko Nishimura, Takahito Nishikata
29
Molecular Dynamics Analysis of TPMS Graphene Foams for Hydrogen Storage
Shota Fujimoto
Hitoshi Washizu, Takahito Nishikata
30
Estimation of the distribution range of Lefua torrentis in Awaji Island by using environmental DNA analysis and capture surveys
Ayana Wakimoto
Toshifumi Minamoto, Hibiki Takahira
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
14
Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches for Pulsar Identification
Emily Calabaza
Joey Shapiro-Key
15
Modeling Flexible Aircraft Wings Using Virtual Simulations
Jostin Cuenca
Kristi Morgansen
16
Automating Nanopore Sequencing using Microfluidics and Laminar Flow
Sylvia Falwer
Andrew Laszlo
17
PEN Shroud Fabrication for LEGEND
Elena Fedrizzi
Jason Detwiler
18
Optimized Tactile Map Generation from Robot Data
Andrew Kang
Jon Froehlich & Daniel Campos Zamora
19
Comparing Parameter Estimation Uncertainties Across LIGO Observing Runs
Tri Lam
Joey Shapiro-Key
2
Ultrasonically Welding Thermoplastic Composites With Vitrimer Interlay For Space Applications
Vivian Meng
Aniruddh Vashisth
3
Leveraging NASA Satellite Observations to Characterize Observed Sea Level Change Along the Washington Coast
Kamila Nagle
Ian Miller
4
Argon Lock Development for LEGEND
Yvonne Nguyen
Jason Detwiler
5
Ultrasonically Welding Thermoplastic Composites With Vitrimer Interlay For Space Applications
Eduardo Ortega-Chavez
Aniruddh Vashisth
6
Facilitating sensemaking of large corpus of science literature
Lory Quiroz Estudillo
Jon Froehlich & Daniel Campos Zamora
7
Vibration-Based Damage Detection in Metamaterials
Marco Sanchez-Hernandez
Charles Dorn
8
Using robotics to physically validate docking simulation for pose estimation
Shrihan Thirunahari
Kristi Morgansen
9
Understanding UPF1 Movement Through Single- and Double-Stranded DNA Comparisons
Airiana Tindall
Andrew Laszlo
10
Modeling Flexible Aircraft Wings Using Virtual Simulations
Alex Wachira
Kristi Morgansen
Session 2
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
4
De Novo Design of Cyclic Peptide Antibiotics Targeting LptD
Rund Al-Kofahi
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Griffin Rangel
5
De novo design of T=3 quasisymmetric icosahedral nanoparticles
Ayush Patel
Neil King, Helen Eisenach
6
De novo design of charged asymmetric transmembrane β-barrel nanopores
Lazlo Camou
David Baker, Ria Sonigra
7
A transcriptional reporter system for de novo protein mediated endosomal escape
Anny Wang
David Baker, Stephanie Sansbury
8
De novo Motif Scaffolding for Accelerated Adenosine Binder Design
Kim (Joaquin) Anjarwalla
David Baker, Per Greisen
9
De Novo Binder Design of Indinavir, an HIV Protease Inhibitor
Katya Frazier
David Baker, Per Greisen
10
Epstein-Barr virus vaccine development: de novo tetrahedral nanoparticles
Miriam Silverstein
Neil King, Annie Rorick
13
De novo design of cyclic peptide antibiotics targeting LptD
Adrianne McCormick
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Griffin Rangel
12
Generating Synthetic Non-canonical Peptide Structures Using RoseTTAFold 3 for Model Training
Hiroto Hosokawa
Frank DiMaio, Tuscan Rock Thompson
11
Retrieval-Augmented RF3: Inference-Time Structure Search for Protein Multimer Prediction
Joon Hong Park
Frank DiMaio, Davi Nakajima An
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
17
Establishing a transcriptional activation-based readout for cytosolic delivery
Alan Talavera
David Baker, Stephanie Sansbury
18
Computational design of de novo steroid binders for pipeline validation and oracle comparison
Noah Mitton
David Baker, Per Greisen
19
Single-component Octahedral Nanoparticle Design for an Epstein-Barr Virus Vaccine
Celeste Litchfield
Neil King, Annie Rorick
21
Improving Modeling of Stereochemically Complex Ligands in de novo Small-Molecule Binder Design Paclitaxel as a Case Study
Steven Engelbretson
David Baker, Per Greisen
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
22
Microfluidic Chips for the Measurement of Red Blood Cell Deformability
Gavin Kim
Hongxia Fu
23
Live imaging of a human cellular model of Hailey-Hailey disease reveals dysregulation of actin and cadherins
Michael Martin
Cory Simpson, Jessica Ayers
24
Spatial Control of JAK-STAT: Role of Receptor Internalization and Trafficking
Josue Navarro
Ram Savan
28
Characterizing the Antiviral Response of Constitutively Oligomerizing RIG-I
Karalyn Gilbert
Andrew Oberst
29
Mass Spectrometry-based Phosphoproteomics Optimization
TJ Dukes
Devin Schweppe
30
The role of the lipid-immune crosstalk in the central nervous system
Caren Miranda
Autumn York
31
Mechanically receptive promoter activity as a function of cell crowding
Arisa Cunningham
Jen Davis
32
Mapping Receptive Fields from Local Field Potentials in Macaque Visual Cortex
Blake Unger
Anitha Pasupathy
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
25
Structural Elucidation of Phase I and Phase II Metabolites of 6PPD and 6PPD-Quinone via LC-MS/MS
Kim Nguyen
Libin Xu, Ryan Nguyen
26
Designing Peptide Enhancers of Small Heat Shock Protein Chaperones
Sondra Vo
Abhi Nath
27
Interstitial Fluid Pressure Effect on Paclitaxel Delivery to Solid Tumors: Modeling the Contrast between Nanoparticle and Nanoengineered MSC Formulations In Silico
Aalaa Hassan
Swayam Prabha, Casey Propst
33
Targeted proteomics of placental transport proteins across gestation
Nana Halane
Sam Arnold, Eric Weaver
34
Developing microbiome-mimicking nanoplatforms
Saron Mulugeta
Shijie Cao, Giulia Stewart
35
Optimization and Application of Human Intestinal Enteroids
Shreeya Pavani Lakshmi
Ed Kelly, Eimear T. O’Mahony
36
Osmolality and pH optimization of a long-acting injectable drug product for HIV treatment
Kennedy Stone
Rodney Ho, Zach Stephen
37
Financial Behaviors of Pre-Dementia Populations and their Impacts on Wealth
Zayna Badr
Jing Li
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
14
Modulation of Cardiac Fibroblast State by Individual Matrix Components
Nawal Ahmad
Jennifer Davis, Charlie Thel
15
Understanding Platelet – Leukocyte Interactions in thromboinflammation
Elaine Huang
Li Amily Guo
16
Macrophage-Mediated Fibroblast Activation Induced by Extracellular Mitochondria in HFpEF Hearts
Hansley Wang
Rong Tian, Yujun Wang
1
Quantitative Morphometry Demonstrates No Differences in Mast Cell Infiltration of Airway Smooth Muscle in Asthma
Jonathan Lee
Teal Hallstrand, Ryan Murphy
2
Association Between Peak Third-Trimester von Willebrand Factor Levels and Postpartum Bleeding Outcomes in von Willebrand Disease
Andra Smith
Barbara Lam
3
Immunohistochemical Mapping of Fear Entrained BMAL1 Knockout Mice
Lizette Vazquez-Perez
Horacio De la lglesia, Guadalupe Rodriguez-Ferrante
Session 3
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
30
Exploring the Bounds of CsPbI_xBr_3-x Perovskite Quantum Dot Nucleation and Growth
Luisa Grutz-Bianchi
Brandi Cossairt, Elise Skytte
31
Design of Scalable Electrical Control and Modeling of Nanophotonic Devices
Nacho Obando
Arka Majumdar, Gokul Nath SJ
22
Investigating CdSe quantum dot-in-rod superlattices for collective emission
Hope Applegate
Kai-Mei Fu, Tommy Nguyen
23
High-Throughput Single Particle Characterization of CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots for Elucidation of Ligand Effect on Blinking
Bennett Hrala
David Ginger, Melika Javanmardi
24
Physics-Informed Control for High-Speed LED-Based Optical Communications
Olivia Lee
Lih Lin, Dylan Jones
Easel #
Project title
Pesenter(s)
Mentor(s)
10
Enhancing scHi-C Pseudobulk Matrices for Fine-Resolution Analysis of Rare Cell Types
Amir Momoh
Bill Noble, Ghulam Murtaza
11
Unraveling the genome: Measuring chromatin accessibility to characterize insulator function in Arabidopsis
Keon Louie
Christine Queitsch, Josh Cuperus, Molly Perchlik
12
Estimating bottleneck sizes induced by a cystic fibrosis treatment in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections
Kyla Kirkpatrick
Alison Feder, Elena Romero, Iris Jia
13
Pedigree-Based Direct Mapping of Recombination Breakpoints in Florida Scrub Jays”
Tisya Panchal
Kelley Harris, Georgia Tsambos
17
Investigating the long-read chromatin architecture and structural variant landscape in rare diseases
Brandon Sun
Andrew Stergachis, Christy LaFlamme
18
Improving resolution of deep mutational scanning fitness measurements in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
Diana Berry-Escobar
Maitreya Dunham, Joe Armstrong
19
using 3-color POCA FISH to develop a new method for multiplex FISH
Thea Layman
Brian Beliveau, Nicolas Longhi, Lidan Li
20
U-Turn: Depleting Dead-ends to Optimize Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry
Bayley Walker
Devin Schweppe, Kyle Brandt
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
1
Operando Imaging of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Semiconductors
Ben Caplan
David Ginger, Rajiv Giridharagopal
2
Seebeck coefficient measurements on organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors
Justice Yeast
David Ginger, Edison Cummings
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
14
Aidan Etterer
Chinmay Nirkhe
15
Eian McNamar
Maxwell Parsons
16
Fahad Raihan
Boris Blinov
3
Haocheng Zhang
Andrea Coladangelo
4
Julian Green
Sara Mouradian
5
Kyle Yin
Xiaodong Xu
6
Mia Trenbeath
Kai-Mei Fu
7
Pascale Carlson
Boris Blinov
8
Ria Haapala
Sara Mouradian
9
Theo Cahall
Mo Chen
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
28
Effects of Additives on Indium Phosphide Magic Sized Cluster Conversion
Griffin Sirek Galaday
Brandi Cossairt, Emma Coester
29
L. plantarum 1092 Esterase Activity on Cinnamic Acid Esters Observed via Fluorescent Tetrazole Probe
Eric Thompson
Lauren Rajakovich, Jayden Eppley
Easel #
Project title
Presenter(s)
Mentor(s)
25
Optical Properties of Twisted Bilayer MoTe2 Within Aligned BN
John Bannon
Xiaodong Xu, Weijie Li
26
Towards 1D Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers from bis-Catechol Quaterphenyls
Elijah Berg
Dianne Xiao, Adrian Guerrero
32
Understanding the Effects of Moisture on the Mechanics of Algal Bioplastics
Ian Forehand
Eleftheria Roumeli, Richard Colwell
33
Molecular Layer Depostion Membranes for PFAS Removal
Katherine Fowler
David Bergsman, Joelle Scott
34
Automation of a Microscope Stage for Exfoliated 2D Material Identification
Emily Gallardo
Mo Li, Ameya Velankar
35
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Styrene Mediated by Rhodium Immobilized Black Phosphorus
Carrick Jensen
Alexandra Velian, Hailey Akins
36
Shifting Band Gap Length of Bilayer Graphene by Inducing Interlayer Sliding
Krish Kohir
Arthur Barnard, Morgan Sherer
37
Influence of Benzened-derived Intercalants on the Photoluminescent Properties of Perovskite APOSS[MnCl4]4
Sequoia Post-Leon
Doug Reed, Connor Dalton, Viviana Glick
38
Synthesis and Magnetism of Silver-Alloyed Zinc Chromium Chalcogenide Spinels
Joyce Chen
Daniel Gamelin, Carmelita Ro-Mendez
39
Effects of Temperature Programmed Carburization on Antiperovskite Carbide Synthesis
Edward Kuoha IV
Julie Rorrer, Leo Brody
40
Development of Electrical Conductivity Measurements for Comparison of Algal biochar from Thermal Pyrolysis
Robert Johnson
Eleftheria Roumeli, Brandon Lou
27
Visualizing In Situ Peptide Exfoliation of Assorted 2D Materials
