Student Poster Session 2021

Posters presented at the VBRN Undergraduate Career Day. More event information here.

Poster Session 1, 4:30 – 5:00

Table 1, Floor 1

“Genotyping Structural Variants with Deep Learning” Jacob Wallace, Alderik van der Heyde, Michael Linderman (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Jacob Wallace, Alderik van der Heyde

Table 2, Floor 1

“Demographics of CBD Use” Chris Butryn, Cannon Blanchard, Andrea Corcoran (Castleton University)

Presented by: Chris Butryn

Table 3, Floor 1

“Assessing Movement Quality in Collegiate Athletes” Patrick Parillo, Eleanor Beltz (Northern Vermont University-Johnson)

Presented by: Patrick Parillo

Table 4, Floor 1

“Likely Effects of Transmitter Co-expression and Diverse Synaptic Connectivity in the Invertebrate Model Organism Cupiennius salei” Grace Fornabia, Sophia Tedesco, Hana Kibe-Chartier, Ruth Fabian-Fine (Saint Michael’s College)

Presented by: Grace Fornabia, Sophia Tedesco, Hana Kibe-Chartier

Table 5, Floor 1

“Can Behavioral Countermeasures Modulate the Risk of Stress-induced Altered Immunity and Latent Virus Shedding?” Jenna Blain, Grace Fleming, Dagan Loisel, Melissa VanderKaay Tomasulo (Saint Michael’s College)

Presented by: Jenna Blain, Grace Fleming

Table 6, Floor 1

“Using the Bacterial Adenylate Cyclase Two-Hybrid System (BACTH) for Identification of Proteins Associated with the Sma0114 Response Regulator in Sinorhizobium meliloti” Anthony Laniewski, Breanna Babiarz, Preston Garcia (Castleton University)

Presented by: Anthony Laniewski

Table 7, Floor 1

“Chemical Stress Tests of Sinorhizobium meliloti” Jacob Henderson, Preston Garcia (Castleton University)

Presented by: Jacob Henderson

Table 8, Floor 1

“Photoredox Crosslinking as a Promising Approach to Target Identification” Ashley Mingyi Wang, Lindsay Repka (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Ashley Mingyi Wang

Table 9, Floor 1

“Designing a Photoredox Approach to Target Identification Using an Intramolecular Substrate” Nathaniel Klein, Lindsay Repka (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Nathaniel Klein

Table 10, Floor 1

“Malnutrition in Rural Older Vermonters” Nicole Mooney, Nancy Gell, Caitlin Eckert, Emily Tarleton (Northern Vermont University-Johnson)

Presented by: Nicole Mooney

Poster Session 2, 5:00 – 5:30

Table 13, Floor 2

“Missing Data and Its Impact on Statistical Analysis” Conner Lorenz, Daniel Fortier, Michael Larsen (Saint Michael’s College)

Presented by: Conner Lorenz, Daniel Fortier

Table 14, Floor 2

“Adventures in Chemical Synthesis: The Korich Research Group at Saint Michael’s College” Alexia Amaio, Richard Siracusa, Andrew Korich (Saint Michael’s College)

Presented by: Alexia Amaio, Richard Siracusa

Table 15, Floor 2

“CBD Use and Effects on Exercise Performance” Cannon Blanchard, Chris Butryn, Andrea Corcoran (Castleton University)

Presented by: Cannon Blanchard

Table 16, Floor 2

“Multiscale Entropy Fluctuation of Hippocampal Local Field Potential Over Infraslow Oscillations” Lyn Ackert-Smith, Michael Dash (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Lyn Ackert-Smith

Table 17, Floor 2

“Dual Regulation in the Signal Transduction System of Sinorhizobium meliloti” Dominick Kuziak, Preston Garcia (Castleton University)

Presented by: Dominick Kuziak

Table 18, Floor 2

“Sinorhizobium meliloti Gene Knockout Through a Triple Mating Protocol” Ryanne Mix, Preston Garcia (Castleton University)

Presented by: Ryanne Mix

Table 19, Floor 2

“Triparental Mating of Sinorhizobium meliloti” Alexander Williams, Preston Garcia (Castleton University)

Presented by: Alexander Williams

Table 20, Floor 2

“Exploring Photoredox Crosslinking for Target Identification” Anna Cox, Jeanelle Tsai, Lindsay Repka (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Anna Cox

Table 21, Floor 2

“The Effects of Malnutrition on Falls in Older Community-dwelling Vermonters” Jocelyn Pellerin, Nancy Gell, Caitlin Eckert, Emily Tarleton (Northern Vermont University-Johnson)

Presented by: Jocelyn Pellerin

Table 22, Floor 2

“The Role of GDE6 in Radial Glial Proliferation and Patterning” Francesca Napoli, Tahira Hasan, Katherine Beebe, Minori Kawano, Stephanie Soriano-Cruz, Maria Than, Clinton Cave (Middlebury College)

Presented by: Tahira Hasan