Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2022

Welcome to CURF’s Research Expo!

Over 350 undergraduates are eager to share their research with you, so enjoy learning about the array of opportunities embraced by students at one of the world’s leading research universities.

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Start Time: September 19 2022 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 19 2022 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Mengxiang Chen
Effect of Implant Placement on Local Inflammatory Response in Gingival Crevicular Fluid
Siena Lynn Nason
Modulation of the Epigenome of Tumor and Immune Cells to Enhance CAR-T Therapy against Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Anagha Gouru
DELongSeq: An Efficient Isoform Expression Detection Method for long-read RNA Sequencing Data
Ella Valencia
Neural control of aggression during development
Isabella T Mirro
Characterizing Bacterial Trafficking After Intravaginal Administration in a Mouse Model
Rachel Lin
Characterization of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) Producing E. coli Isolated from Canine and Feline Infections
Ryan Krumenacker
One-Shot Learning for the Solution Operators of Partial Differential Equations
Jessica Hao
ZIF-8 as a pH responsive nanoplatform for 5-fluorouracil delivery in the chemotherapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma
Emily Sheng
Establishing the Role of CXCR2 in Mammalian Tissue Regeneration
Katelyn Grace Jones
Heat stress drives pHi acidification in aiptasia, the model system for coral.
Saraswati Sridhar
Tumor Cell Prediction at the Single-Cell Level in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas
Alexandra Cordoba
Bioinformatic Analysis of Factors Recruited to the Replication Fork Following ATRi/WEE1i Treatment
Nicholas Manuto
The enzyme G6PC2 regulates glucagon secretion from pancreatic α-cells
Milana Korobko
A Look at Parent-Mediated Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Intervention
Serena Gao
The Role of Hindbrain GABA-ergic Signaling in the Modulation of Anorexia and Malaise
Shuze Liu
How Occam’s razor guides human inference
Gwendolyn Duncan
Relationship between context stability and arousal-driven pupil response in dynamic environments
Phoebe White
Manipulating drug resistance in melanoma through pre-treatment with signaling molecule
Aleana Nguyen
  • Cheryl Nnadi
Assessing Inequality in America’s Criminal Justice System: Disparities in the Punishment of Corporate Crime vs. Street Crime
Alex H Chen
Developing a Noninvasive Tracking Method using Click Chemistry to study Novel Cancer Immunotherapy
Jin Uk Byun
“If I have to be fiery, I'll be fiery”: Women’s Efforts against Harassment in Online Multiplayer Videogames
Ella Cho
Mapping a Cerebellar Nucleocortical Circuit for Hunger
Ruby H Nguyen
  • Henry Putney
  • Maya Hardy
Flourishing in Art Museums: A Survey of Visitors to Three Art Museums
Shannon Zheng
Effect of Missense Somatic Mutations on Surface HLA Expression in Patients with Immune-mediated Aplastic Anemia
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Socioeconomic Status and Transition Readiness in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Survivors of Cancer Rachel Yocom Nursing
  • Lisa Schwartz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Solving Stiff ODEs with Physics Informed Neural Networks Eric Myzelev College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lu Lu
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Spectacle and Time in Andy Warhol's Early Films (1963-1965) Rema Hort College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jonathan Katz
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Structural classification of peptide/HLA complexes Sagar Gupta College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nikolaos G. Sgourakis
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Studying the effect of bow vibration on violin sound production using an automated bowing machine Nathan Zhang
William Qi
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Chris Fang-Yen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Supporting IPV survivors: Medical school training, student beliefs, and later IPV screening use Paola Rodriguez Nursing
  • Dr. Millan AbiNader
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Synthesis and Reactivity of a Gold(III) Pincer Complex Nathan Gewant College of Arts & Sciences
  • Karen Goldberg
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Synthesis of Barcoded mRNA for High-Throughput Nucleic Acid Delivery Screening Ryann Joseph Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Michael J Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Synthesis of Protein Degrading IgG-M6P Compound Andrew Chiang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Andrew Tsourkas
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, US National Institutes of Health Grants
Targeting a “novel” circuit for depression: stimulation of inhibitory circuit from the entorhinal cortex ameliorates stress-induced social avoidance Hannah An College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amelia J Eisch
  • Sanghee Yun
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Testing the Power of Forecasting Tournaments to Foster Judgmental Accuracy, Intellectual Humility, Open-Mindedness, and Depolarization in Debates Over Human Progress Kevin Chen College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
  • Cory Clark
  • Philip Tetlock
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The Effect of Maternal and Child Health Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Jinja, Uganda Seungwon Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Lisa Levine
Gelfman International Summer Fund, Mazzatenta Award, Paul and Kathleen Barthmaier Award
The Effect of PTSD on Reward-Based Effort Kendall Owens College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elaine Boland, PhD
Other
The enzyme G6PC2 regulates glucagon secretion from pancreatic α-cells Nicholas Manuto Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Klaus Kaestner
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Evolution of the Federal Reserve during the Mid-Twentieth Century Christina Salas College of Arts & Sciences
  • Peter Conti-Brown
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Feasibility of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs. Bright Light Therapy to Treat Insomnia and Fatigue: an RCT Kristel Rambaud Nursing
  • Lea Ann Matura
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Genetic Tradeoff Between Rhizobia and Root-knot Nematodes in Medicago Truncatula Alison Chen
Adya Gupta
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Corlett Wood
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Impact of Culturally Concordant Care on African Immigrants: A Community Health Needs Assessment of African Immigrants in West and Southwest Philadelphia Cristle Ike College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kent Bream, MD
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, Hassenfeld Foundation Grant
The Life and Work of Charles Edward Stowe, the Son of Harriet Beecher Stowe Emma DeMonte College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Gronningsater
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Mechanical Role of Kinetochore Fibers in Metaphase Megan Chung College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Lampson
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Molecular Basis of Feline Xanthinuria Maya Kreger College of Arts & Sciences
  • Margret Casal
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Monster and The Cyborg: Unfurling Interiorities in Lee Bul's Early Work Cloe Cho College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jonathan D. Katz
Other
The MOVE Activist Archive Naima Small
Safaya Smallwood
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Taryn Flaherty
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Krystal Strong
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Psychological Effects of Meal Timing Among Individuals with Obesity Emily Xiong
Leanna Chen
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kelly Allison
  • Namni Goel
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program