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GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS

1.

LOCKED OR FLEXIBLE? HETEROGENEITY IN THE PLASTICITY OF SEXUAL STATE IN THE C. ELEGANS NERVOUS SYSTEM 

JIARUI RYAN ZHANG, Carlos Diaz-Balzac, Douglas S. Portman 
Biology

2.

OBELISKS: PLASMID-LIKE RNA ELEMENTS WHICH REPLICATE IN PROKARYOTES 

MAEDEH AGHAHOSSEINI‡, Michael Lutz ‡, Keegan Proctor, Paul Boutz, Kai-Lieh Huang, Eric Wagner and Andrew Varble* 
Microbiology & Immunology

3.

I-DO OR I-DO NOT: DECIPHERING THE ROLE OF TRYPTOPHAN CATABOLISM IN IMMUNE TOLERANCE DURING PREGNANCY 

JACKIE AGYEMANG, Jasmine Reed, Phillip Spinelli, Harshavardhan Lingegowda, and Martha Susiarjo 
Environmental Medicine

4.

ELUCIDATION OF GLUTATHIONE-RELATED DIPEPTIDE METABOLISM IN CANCER 

FATEMEH ALIMOHAMMADI, Fabio Hecht, Marco Zocchi, Emily Tuttle, Gloria Asantewaa, Nathan Ward, Gina DeNicola, Joshua Munger, Isaac Harris Biomedical Genetics

5.

DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF INTEGRATOR SUBUNIT11 EFFECTS ON INTEGRATOR FUNCTION AND NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT 

ALISSA C. BEAM, MaryClaire Haseley, Kai-Lieh Huang, Eric J. Wagner 
Biochemistry 
Environmental Medicine

6.

PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID: A POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MODULATOR OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS

KNICKOLE L. BERGMAN, Mary Jerred, Ashley Fields, Phillip Spinelli, Clementina Mesaros, Martha Susiarjo 

7.

DEVELOPING AN ASPARTATE SENSOR FOR IN VIVO VISUALIZATION OF METABOLIC CHANGES DURING CELL LINEAGE DIFFERENTIATION 

CARL BERGGREN, Marlies Rossmann 
Biomedical Genetics 

8.

UNVEILING IDO1-IDO2 IMPRINTING REGULATION IN THE PLACENTA-KEY PLAYERS OF MATERNAL-FETAL IMMUNE TOLERANCE 

NEHA BIJU, Madeline O'Connell, Phillip Spinelli, Jasmine Reed, Martha Susiarjo 
Biomedical Genetics 

9.

IMPORTIN 9'S ROLE IN HISTONE REGULATION DURING DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS AND EMBRYOGENESIS  

M.NADUNI DE SILVA, Asmita Dutta, Michael A. Welte 
Biology 

10.

THE INFLUENCE ON TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION BY THE TRMT1 TRNA MODIFICATION ENZYME  

CHENGHONG DENG, Kejia Zhang, Dragony Fu
Biology

11.

SEGREGATION DISTORTER AND THE REGULATION OF SATELLITE DNAS 

LOGAN EDVALSON, Xiaolu Wei, Amanda Larracuente
Biology

12.

DEPLETION OF THE LONG NON-CODING RNA NEAT1 INCREASES PANCREATIC CANCER CELL SENSITIVITY TO FERROPTOSIS 

DAKARAI ESGDAILLE, Zamira Guerra Soares, PhD, Krista Pipho, Fabio Hecht Castro Medeiros PhD, Sara Blick-Nitko PhD, Kai-Lieh Huang PhD, Eric Wagner PhD, Isaac Harris PhD, Paul Boutz PhD, Stephano Spano Mello PhD
Biomedical Genetics

13.

EFFECT OF CHROMATIN STRUCTURE ON TRANSCRIPTIONAL DYNAMICS AT CGI PROMOTERS 

MCKAYLA FORD, Paula Vertino
BGG

14.

THE ROLE OF CROSSTALK BETWEEN MDS CELLS AND THE BONE MARROW ENDOTHELIAL NICHE ON DISEASE PROGRESSION 

EDGARDO I. FRANCO, Christina M. Kaszuba, Benjamin J. Rodems, Sonali Sharma, Omar Abdel-Wahab, and Jeevisha Bajaj
Biomedical Engieering

15.

NATURAL AND NON-NATURAL TRNA SUPPLEMENTATION INDUCES FUNCTIONAL CHANGE IN ENDOGENOUS CFTR CHANNEL EXPRESSION 

JEFFREY GABELL, Joseph Porter, John Lueck
Biochemistry & Biophysics 

16.

FERROPTOSIS AS A CAUSE OF ANEMIA INDUCED BY DHODH INHIBITORS 

SALOME GHVINEPHADZE, Patrick R. Hodgson, Kathleen E. McGrath, Paul D. Kingsley, James Palis, Marlies P. Rossmann
Translational Biomedical Science

17.

THE STING OF THE NIGHT: GENETIC KEY TO BAT LONGEVITY? THE ROLE OF STING S357 IN CYTOSOLIC DNA RESPONSE 

JING GUO, Alice Lin, Vera Gorbunova
BGG, Biomedical Genetics

18.

INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 7 (IGFBP7) PROMOTES SKIN FIBROSIS AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND MAY SERVE AS A BIOMARKER IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS 

GAYATHRI GURU MURTHY, YeJin Jeong, Stacey Duemmel, Benjamin Korman
Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD Program
Department of Medicine- Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division

19.

CAV1.1 DYSFUNCTION WORSENS RESPIRATORY FUNCTION IN THE MBNL1KO MODEL OF DM1 

SAKURA HAMAZAKI, Matthew Sipple, Lily Cisco, Jennasea Licata, Katherine Lupia, Zhenzhi Tang, Charles Thornton, John Lueck
Biology

20.

DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF AAV5 COMBINED WITH GLYMPHATIC DELIVERY RESULTS IN SELECTIVE TARGETING OF HUMAN GLIAL PROGENITOR CELLS in vivo 

ALEXANDER CONA, Abdellatif Benraiss, Steven A. Goldman
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

21.

TAURINE CAN ACCELERATE ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PROGRESSION 

CHRISTINA M. KASZUBA, Sonali Sharma, Benjamin J. Rodems, Cameron D. Baker, Edgardo I. Franco, Laura M. Calvi, John M. Ashton, Jeevisha Bajaj.
Biomedical Engineering

22.

CHARACTERIZATION AND FUNCTION OF A NOVEL INTEGRATOR-ASSOCIATED COMPLEX 

ABBY L. MANNING, Kai-Lieh Huang Ph.D., Liang Tong Ph.D., Eric J. Wagner Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Biophysics

23.

HUNGER MODULATION OF A SENSORIMOTOR CIRCUIT 

GLADYS LEITCH, Gabriella Sterne
Biomedical Genetics

24.

DEFICIENCY OF A TRNA MODIFICATION ENZYME INDUCES GLIAL ABUNDANCE CHANGES IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN 

CAILYN LEO, Kejia Zhang, Hanna Wang, Grace Yang, and Dragony Fu
Biology

25.

MYC AND EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION INDEPENDENTLY PREDICT CIRCADIAN DISRUPTION IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA  

JAMISON B BURCHETT, Aslihan Petenkaya, McKayla Ford, Jacob Cody Naccarato, Fabio Hecht, Molly Hulver, Xueyang He, Brian J Altman
Biomedical Genetics

26.

STUDYING MODIFICATIONS IN A BRAIN-ENRICHED tRNA ISODECODER 

KAUSHANI MISRA*, Kejia Zhang,Dragony Fu
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

27.

VIRTUAL PATHOLOGY: AI APPROACHES TO IMAGE ANALYSIS IN QuPATH 

CODY NACCARATO, Brian Altman
Pathology

28.

PLACENTAL DNA METHYLATION OF STRESS-LINKED GENES PREDICTS INFANT STRESS RESPONSE 

NAFISA NAWAL ISLAM, Susan K Murphy, Carole Grenier, Qiuyi Wu, Xing Qiu, Jessica Brunner, Richard K Miller, Emily S Barrett, Junfeng Zhang, David Q Rich, Thomas G O'Connor
Translational Biomedical Science

29.

MATERNALLY EXPRESSED REPETITIVE DNAS REMAIN ACTIVE FOLLOWING FERTILIZATION AND THEIR SILENCING PERMITS GENIC EXPRESSION 

DUY NGUYEN, Patrick Murphy
Pathology, Biomedical Genetics

30.

THE CARDIAC LNCRNA CARDINAL CO-OCCUPIES SRF-REGULATED GENE PROMOTERS 

JESSICA PERCIACCANTE, Priyanka Shandilya, Tamlyn N. Thomas, Douglas M. Anderson
BGG

31.

DECONVOLUTING ANP32E FUNCTION IN H2A.Z-DEPENDENT GENE ACTIVITY DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT 

NOAH REGER, Patrick Murphy, Michael Welte
Biology

32.

DOES MANGANESE TOXICITY REQUIRE PERMIT TO DESTROY? UNDERSTANDING THE CROSSTALK BETWEEN PEROXISOME AND MITOCHONDRIA IN METAL-INDUCED NEUROTOXICITY  

PABLO REINA-GONZALEZ, YUNJIA LAI, MUHAMMET AY, ABDULLA ABU-SALAH, AIESHA ANCHAN, SOUVARISH SARKAR 
Environmental Medicine 

33.

THE ROLE OF IMPORTIN ALPHA 2 IN ACTIN ORGANIZATION DURING DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS 

ALICIA SHIPLEY, Roger White, Pakinee Phromsiri, Michael Welte
Biology 

34.

EXAMINING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE KDM5 DEMETHYLASES IN LUMINAL BREAST CANCER 

ZACHARY SMITH, Christina Davidson, Ching-Hua Shih, Paula Vertino
Biochemistry

35.

ESSENTIAL ROLE OF ENDOTHELIAL MTORC1/RAPTOR IN MAINTAINING LUNG VASCULAR BARRIER INTEGRITY 

IMRAN TAHIR, Arshad Rahman
Pediatrics (Neonatology)

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ELUCIDATING THE DRIVERS OF SEX-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS SEX-SHARED SENSORY NEURONS 

ZACHARY C. WARD, Carlos A. Diaz-Balzac, Kelli A. Fagan, Douglas S. Portman
Biomedical Genetics

37.

INHIBITORY RECIPROCAL CIRCUIT MOTIFS IN TASTE PROCESSING 

JONATHAN WILLIAMS, Attilio Ceretti, Gabriella Sterne
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience

38.

EFFECTS OF IGE-MEDIATED ALLERGIC STIMULATION ON MEMORY CD4 T CELL ACTIVATION AND EFFECTOR FUNCTION 

JINGYI WU, Regina K. Rowe, Bailey Matthews
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

39.

TRANSIENT SPRR1A EXPRESSION DEFINES A POPULATION OF BORDER ZONE CARDIOMYOCYTES THAT SURVIVE ISCHEMIC INJURY 

EMILY H. MARSHALL*, Daniel A. Zuppo*, PhD, BS, Kimberly N. Burgos Villar*, PhD, Adwiteeya Misra,MD, PhD, Ronald A. Dirkx, Jr., BS, and Eric M. Small, PhD 
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics


POSTDOCS POSTERS

40.

SEX DIFFERENCES IN CONTEXT-DEPENDENT PERSISTENT BEHAVIORAL STATES IN C. ELEGANS 

CHANCE BAINBRIDGE, Gregory Reilly, Jinxin Wang, Douglas Portman
Biomedical Genetics

41.

REACHING TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF DIRECTED REACHING 

Attilio Ceretti, Gabriella Sterne
Department of Biomedical Genetics

42.

TREATMENT OF A SEVERE MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY TYPE I MOUSE MODEL WITH VERAPAMIL, AMLODIPINE, AND RANOLAZINE 

LILY CISCO, Sakura Hamazaki, Matthew Sipple, Katherine Lupia, Johanna Hamel, Charles Thornton, John Lueck
Pharmacology and Physiology

43.

ENHANCER EVOLUTION UNDERLYING PEA APHID WING DIMORPHISMS 

KEVIN DEEM, Jenn Brisson
Biology

44.

BISPHENOL A DISRUPTS IMMUNE HOMEOSTASIS IN THE UTERUS DURING THE PRE-IMPLANTATION PERIOD 

HARSHAVARDHAN LINGEGOWDA, Philip Spinelli, Jackie J. Agyemang, Martha Susiarjo
Environmental Medicine

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS POSTERS

45.

IMPROVING ACCURACY OF SEX IMPUTATION IN PEDIATRIC SINGLE-CELL DATASETS USING SPECIFIC Y-CHROMOSOME GENE EXPRESSION 

ASHAY NARAYANA, Rachel Simpson MD, PhD, Natalie Vance MS, Juilee Thakar PhD
Microbiology

46.

USE COEVOLUTION TO STUDY NOVEL PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND FUNCTIONS 

ZHI QU, John H. Werren
Department of Biology

47.

MODIFICATIONS AND ROLES OF IMPORTINA2 IN EARLY DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENT 

ZOE STANLEY, Alicia Shipley, Asmita Dutta, Michael Welte
Biology

48.

INFLAMMATORY AND OXIDATIVE EFFECTS DUE TO COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE BRANDS OF PROPYLENE GLYCOL (PG) AND VEGETABLE GLYCERIN (VG) - COMMON HUMECTANTS IN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES 

YEHAO SUN, Gagandeep Kaur, Felix Effah, and Irfan Rahman
Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA

49.

THE WHEN AND HOW OF PARASITIC MANIPULATION 

NATASHA VACCA, Valeria Padilla-Choy, Juan Martín Ferro, Floria M.K. Uy
Biology

50.

NOTCH1 ACTIVATION IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS DRIVES HEART FAILURE AND METABOLIC DISORDERS 

TENGGE WANG, Laith Awad Mohamad, Shumin Wang, Jasmine J Xu, Ryan Chen, Sofia Gonzalez Landa, Yara Rose, Sara Ture, Craig N. Morrell, Jinjiang Pang
Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute

51.

INVESTIGATING CANDIDATE MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN INTERACTIONS PREDICTED BY COEVOLUTION 

YINGJIA WU, John H. Werren, Alec Kingsley
Department of Biology, University of Rochester

STAFF POSTERS

52.

NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SENSORY QUALITY IN VALUE-BASED DECISION MAKING 

SARAH CHIARADONNA, Yoshinori Aso, Gabriella Sterne
Biomedical Genetics

53.

EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES PREDICT NOVEL NUCLEAR-MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN INTERACTIONS 

John H. Werren, ALEC KINGSLEY, Zhi Qu, and Yingjia Wu
Biology

54.

A PIPELINE TO ANALYZE UNTARGETED METABOLOMICS DATA 

PATRICK R. HODGSON, Carl A. Berggren, Salome Ghvinephadze, Carter Long, Xiaolu Wei, Julie A. Reisz, Angelo D'Alessandro, Seong-Hwan Jun, Paul S. Brookes, Phillip Seitzer, Matthew McCall, Marlies P. Rossmann
Biomedical Genetics

55.

DELETION OF MTOR IN TYPE I EPITHELIUM VIA A GENE TRANSFER APPROACH MITIGATES ACUTE LUNG INJURY 

MOHAMMAD SHADAB, Michelle. W. Millar. Rauf A. Najar, Imran Tahir, Fabeha Fazal, David A. Dean, Arshad Rahman
PEDIATRICS

56.

THE ROLE OF DYNEIN AXONEMAL HEAVY CHAIN 2 IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION 

SHUMIN WANG, Saquib Lakhani, Kate Ackerman, Joseph Kuebler, Philip Katzman, Ryan Chen, Tengge Wang, Tiffany Nguyen, Sofia Gonzalez Landa, Jinjiang Pang
CVRI

 FACULTY POSTERS

57.

NTEGRATIVE GENOMICS AND EPIGENOMICS REVEAL CONVERGENT CODING AND REGULATORY VARIANTS 

HONGBO Liu, Amin Abedini, Eunji Ha, Ziyuan Ma, Xin Sheng, Bernhard Dumoulin, Chengxiang Qiu, Tamas Aranyi, Shen Li, Nicole Dittrich, Hua-Chang Chen, Ran Tao, Der-Cherng Tarng, Feng-Jen Hsieh, Shih-Ann Chen, Shun-Fa Yang, Mei-Yueh Lee, Pui-Yan Kwok, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Atlas Khan, Nita A Limdi, Wei-Qi Wei, Theresa L Walunas, Elizabeth W Karlson, Eimear E Kenny, Yuan Luo, Leah Kottyan, John J Connolly, Gail P Jarvik, Chunhua Weng, Ning Shang, Joanne B Cole, Josep M Mercader, Ravi Mandla, Timothy D Majarian, Jose C Florez, Mary E Haas, Luca A Lotta, Regeneron Genetics Center, GHS-RGC DiscovEHR Collaboration, Theodore G Drivas, Penn Medicine BioBank, Ha My T Vy, Girish N Nadkarni, Laura K Wiley, Melissa P Wilson, Christopher R Gignoux, Humaira Rasheed, Laurent F Thomas, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Ben M Brumpton, Stein I Hallan, Kristian Hveem, Jie Zheng, Jacklyn N Hellwege, Matthew Zawistowski, Sebastian Zöllner, Nora Franceschini, Hailong Hu, Jianfu Zhou, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Marylyn D Ritchie, Matthew Palmer, Todd L Edwards, Benjamin F Voight, Adriana M Hung, Katalin Susztak
Department of Biomedical Genetics

58.

BIOBANK SHARED RESOURCE 

BRADLEY MILLS, Jennifer Twardowski, Zoe Tomlinson, Irena Stefankiv
Wilmot Cancer Institute