As the culminating event of the Iowa Sciences Academy Summer Program, twenty ISA students presented nineteen posters at the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) on July 24, 2024. ISA ran a mini poster competition with competitive judging. Five students placed as winners - Lily Schaefer (1st), Lee Flores (2nd), Natalie Kehrli (3rd) and Bhoomika Shettigar and Adriana Castellano tied for an Honorable Mention (4th). Congrats to all who presented!
Student Names | Poster Titles | Program | Mentor | Photo |
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| Lily Schaefer | Effects of Salt and Pathway Inhibitors on Trachea Epithelial Cell Differentiation First Place Winner! | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Tina Zhang |
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| Lee Flores | Automated Behavioral Training for Teacher-Student Interactions: Leveraging Large Language Models to Dynamically Generate Assessment and Feedback Second Place Winner! | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Tyler Bell |
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| Natalie Kehrli | Tracking Physical Activity in Severe Mental Illness: Insights From Pedometry-Based Studies Third Place Winner! | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Amanda McCleery |
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| Bhoomika Shettigar | Relations Between Green Space Access and Children’s Cognitive Performance Honorable Mention: Fourth Place (tie) | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Ece Demir-Lira |
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| Adriana Castellano | Putting Snails to Sleep for Science: Refining Anesthesia Techniques for Regeneration Research Honorable Mention: Fourth Place (tie) | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Maurine Neiman |
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| Arianna Escandon & Waad Abdella | Quantifying natural variation in algae elemental composition: testing a hypothesis linking ploidy and nutrient availability | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Briante Najev |
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| Seren Castellano & Zoe Marriner | Investigating the Impact of Genetic Background on Evolutionary Potential | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Bin He |
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| Ainsley Rothgeb | Grooming Microstructure in Rats with Lesions of the Lateral Cerebellar Nucleus | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Krystal Parker |
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| Ana Barroso | Regulation and Expression of an Insulin Secretion-Enhancing Micropeptide in CFRD | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Tate Neff |
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| Andrea Medina | Neurophysiological Correlates of Visual Perspective Taking in Theory of Mind: A Literature Review | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Amanda McCleery |
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| Avery Wilson | DNA-RNA hybrids in the rDNA as a source of genomic instability in the C. elegans germline | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Sarit Smolikove |
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| Bhoomika Shettigar | Relations Between Green Space Access and Children’s Cognitive Performance | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Ece Demir-Lira |
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| Elizabeth Barroso | The Role of GSNOR in Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Ling Yang |
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| Jasmyn Hoeger | Translational Control of Cardiac Gene Expression through Alternative Open Reading Frames | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Ryan Boudreau |
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| Jessie Newbanks | Effects of the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine on innate immune response-driven seizures in a fly epilepsy model | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | John Manak |
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| Krishna Bharadwaj | phylogenetic TBR1 gene tree for primates | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Andrew Kitchen |
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| Luke Hawkins | Enhancing Feedback-Informed Group Therapy Using Machine Learning | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Martin Kivlighan |
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| Lydia Karr | Comparing and contrasting current methods used to assign behavior states to human infants aged 0-6 months | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Greta Sokoloff & Mark Blumberg |
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| Max Casini | The Effects of Stimulant Medication on the Social Behavior of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Matthew O'Brien |
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| Sunny Fieser | Methodology for Studying Alzheimer's Disease in Cultured Neurons | Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) | Marco Hefti |
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| Fabiola Castaneda-Santiago | How does proximity to old growth forests affect tree diversity in young forests? | Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Biology | Andrew Forbes |