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
Emily Truong
Impact of Ethnic and Anglicized Birth Names on Ethnic Identity Among Second-Generation Vietnamese Americans
Gabrielle Ryu
Understanding Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) by Age of Presentation: ECHO Measurements
Hope Hawthorne
Using Arabidopsis thaliana Ecotypes to Investigate the Role of PSAE-I in Vegetative Phase Change
Katelyn G. Boese
Assessing the Role of CENP-T in Female Meiosis from Molecular and Evolutionary Perspectives
Gabriel Gonsalves Bertho
Adsorption of Wastewater Pollutants on Lignocellulosic Biomass – a Molecular Dynamics Simulations Viewpoint
Sarah Sterinbach
History of Philadelphia’s Extreme Heat Policies
Yuntong Fu
Occupations in the US
Kendall Owens
The Effect of PTSD on Reward-Based Effort
Nathan Gewant
Synthesis and Reactivity of a Gold(III) Pincer Complex
Alexis Singer
Cardiovascular and Cognitive Health in the Older Latinx Population
Faith Ryu
Generation of Erythrocyte Specific TLR7 Mice
Jerry Y Cai
A Fully Digitally Integrated Workflow for Brain MRI Point Cloud Generation and Augmented Reality 3D Model Visualization
Jeffry G. Alfaro
Comparing Subphonemic Errors of Primary Progressive Aphasia Subtypes
Naima Small
  • Safaya Smallwood
  • Taryn Flaherty
The MOVE Activist Archive
Sara Dedhia
Erk Signaling in KM12 Oncogenic Cells
William Joonho Lee
Towards Identifying the Genetic Pathways That Affect Stress-Induced Sleep in C. Elegans
Therese Jones
  • Juliana Yu
Using Animation to Compare the Climate Futures of Jakarta and The Netherlands
Mohammad Abunimeh
International Cooperation and International Organizations
Matthew Yin
Zinc’s Usage in Current Feeding Practices and Impact on Microbiome of Animals
Emily Bregou
Effects of Dark Matter Subhalos on Tidal Streams
Claire Jun
MiR-146a Encapsulated Liposomes Reduce Vascular Inflammatory Responses
Taehwan Kim
Comparison of Dynamic Contrast Enhancement Computed Tomography Analysis Models to Characterize Pulmonary Blood Flow in Pig Model of ARDS
Katherine Han
CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Target Gene B to Mediate Brain Tumor Angiogenesis In Vivo
Antoilyn Nguyen
Implementing a Standardized Labor Induction Protocol to Reduce Racial Disparities
Title First & Last Name Sort ascending Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Therapeutic effect of NKG7 splicing variant mRNAs in boosting the antitumor activity of CD8 cytotoxic T cells Annie Wu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Haidong Dong
Other
Bars in FIRE-3 Erica Wu Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Robyn Sanderson
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Revealing the Role of BCAAs in Macrophage Immune Response Aaron Wu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Will Bailis
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
N/A Lorry Wu Wharton, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Marina Niessner
Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund
The SPATA5-5L1 complex directs replisome proteostasis to ensure genome integrity Angela Wu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Roger Greenberg, MD PhD
  • Vidhya Krishnamoorthy
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, Other
Manipulating drug resistance in melanoma through pre-treatment with signaling molecule Phoebe White College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sydney Shaffer
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Improving p53Cinema: A Software for Cell Tracking Ethan Weisberg Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Lukasz Bugaj
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
SENSBIOM: Developing Aroma-Active Biomaterials Abby Weinstein
Shivani Chawla
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Camila Irabien
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laia Mogas-Soldevila
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research, PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Triggers of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Youth Amelie Warneryd College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Victoria Vetter
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CD5 depletion enhances Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells Michael Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marco Ruella
Other
Analysis of a machine learning model exploring the input space Max Wang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Pratik Chaudhari
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Detecting Supernovae Using Machine Learning Erica Wang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Masao Sako
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Are you good at Spot The Difference games? Understanding the neural substrates controlling behavioral pattern separation Elise Wallen-Friedman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amelia Eisch
  • Sanghee Yun
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Early Americanism: James Wilson; The Declaration of Independence Alyssa Noel Vossen
Allyson Nelson
College of Arts & Sciences
  • William Ewald
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Filamentous microbial growth through anaerobic chemosynthetic processes from the crustal subseafloor of the Juan de Fuca Ridge flank. Leah Van Dyke College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez
Hayden Scholars
Neural control of aggression during development Ella Valencia College of Arts & Sciences
  • Matthew Kayser
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Food Preference in Male Sprague Dawley Rats Based on Neural Mechanism Reconfiguration Following Exercise Contributing to Long Term Body Weight Maintaining Effects Syraj Uddin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nicholas J. Betley, Ph.D.
  • Lavinia Boccia, Ph.D.
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Epidemiology of Basketball-Related Fractures Treated in U.S. Emergency Departments Emily Tu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Chamith Rajapakse
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Investigating Red Blood Cell phenotypes in the absence of Tropomyosin 1 Victor Tsao College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Christopher S. Thom
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Impact of Ethnic and Anglicized Birth Names on Ethnic Identity Among Second-Generation Vietnamese Americans Emily Truong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Chenoa Flippen
University Scholars
Analyzing and Contextualizing CMIP6 Data in Observations Jonathan Tran Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Irina Marinov
Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund
Nuances of Womenomics: Continuity and change between Abe and Kishida's economic policies for women Jiani Tian College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
  • Ayako Kano
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Getting Away with Murder: Recognizing and Combatting Justice-Frustrating Doctrines and Practices in the Criminal Justice System Dushaun Thompson College of Arts & Sciences
  • Paul H. Robinson
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Validating MARK4 Inhibitors as Novel Inotropes Triloshan Thillaikumaran College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Pavan Atluri
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program