Student Scholars

2020

Ryan Cho

Investigation of the Mechanism by which the Host Protein WDR5 is Targeted to the Viral Replication Factory

Noah De Los Santos

Sigma-Delta/FPGA Accelerated Controller Design

Miranda Duron

Quantitative Behavioral Technology

Caroline He

Finding proteins and pathways responsible for tau oligomer mediated neuron death in Alzheimer's Dementia

Robert Hickman

Marine Heatwaves and the Intertidal Zone

Alan Lim

Developing a Dynamic MRI-Optogenetics Imaging Phantom

Jeffrey Pham

Creating an ImageJ Macro to Automatically Determine the Nuclear: Cytoplasmic Florescent Intensity Ratio of YAP in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Adriana Rodriguez

Utilizing Stem Cell Derived RPE Cells to Study Danon Disease

Ernesto Torreblanca

Automated Humidity Control System

2019

Buyanzaya BuyanUrt

Examining the Effects of Varying pH Conditions on the Early Development of the Painted Sea Urchin, Lytechinus pictus

Allyson Ee

Developing sustainable synthetic routes to lithium-ion battery electrodes

Corey Kerdman-Andrade

Leveraging Microscopy to Characterize the Morphology and Autofluorescence of Lignocellulose Degrading Microbes

Michael Meneses

Determining the Role of Epigenetics in the Variations of Thermal Tolerance and Plasticity Between Populations of Tigriopus californicus

Victoria Rubio

Aggregation Induced Emission in Stereospecific, Photoluminescent Polymers

Abel Semma

Hardware Efficient Image Reconstruction for Two-Photon Microscopy

Erfan Zeyaei Kajbaf

Optogenetic Tool to Control Kinase Signaling

2018

Yash Chitgopekar

Designing Markov Chain Algorithms for Enhanced Robotic Surveillance

Sebastian Gonzalez

Investigating How Active Fluid Flow Shapes Embryos

Neda Kajbaf

Identifying the Caspases that Initiate Programmed Cell Death in Response to Toxic RNAs

Sophia Kekchidou

Investigating the Mechanism of Action Behind Novel Anti-Cancer Drugs

Nikola Malinov

Developing DNA Transformation Methods for Non-model Anaerobic Gut Fungi

Yash Nagpal

Improvements to Single-cell mRNA Sequencing Technology

Lia Yeh

Robust Autonomous Assignment of Rigid Rotors

2017

Tselmeg Amarlkhava

Diet and Polycystic Kidney Disease

Ezra Kosviner

Interactions of the Zika virus 3’ UTR with Host Cellular Proteins

Zephyr Li

Understanding Characterization Mechanisms of Advanced Magnesium Alloys

Brandon Luu

Designing and Optimizing Snake Robot Locomotion

Eric Pang

Quantifying the Energy Within Protein-Surface Interactions

Mathew Wanees

Microplasma-based Synthesis of Nanostructured Pt

2016

Meital Carmi

Shear Flows of Dense Suspensions

Ian Jenkins

New Apparatus for Double Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments

Fernando Mendoza Rincon

Enhancing Spectral Usage Through Full Duplex Communication

David Nakazono

Increasing Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) Efficiency

Amanda Singleton

Separating Particles Using Tangential Flow Filtration and Inertial Microfluidics

Rafael Smith

Identifying the antibody specificity repertoire