Undergraduate Research Spotlight

Undergraduate Research Spotlight

FALL 2022 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

December 5, 2022 5-6pm at the Cabot Science Library Discovery Bar
 

Come and meet your Harvard undergraduate peers and learn about their research projects and experiences conducting scientific and engineering research at Harvard and abroad. Students will present short "lightning" talks, followed by Q&A. This event is sponsored by the FAS Science Education. If you have questions about this event please contact Kate Penner.

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email Kate Penner to sign up. Deadline is December 2, 2022.

Past Presenters:

Presenter Title of the talk
Jennifer Wang Female mice exhibit novel responses to music following early-life exposure
Caleb Shi Retinal ganglion cells do not secrete regeneration-suppressing interleukin-22
Jay Lemon Restoration of endothelial barrier integrity in capillary malformation associated with Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Jenny Yao Inhibitor-guided Discovery of Novel Prodrug-Acting Natural Products
Bryan Seepaul Detectability of Wandering Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Milky Way Galaxy
Naomi Freilich From Base Pair to Bipedalism: Identifying Regulatory Networks Modulating Human Pelvic Development
Helen Wang Identifying Causal Genes in Fibroblast Aging
Shafi Rubbani Associations between childhood trauma, non-suicidal self-injury, and fear learning
Ariana-Dalia Vlad Dynamic 3D Simulations of Tree and Network Sea Fan Structures
Clare Morris Single cell RNA sequencing reveals required aberrant state in colorectal cancer initiation
James Chen Development of an Auxotrophic Selection System in Mammalian Cells
Emma Weller Dynamics of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Wandering in the Milky Way Galaxy
Jordan Robbiins Identification of Brain Targets and Behavioral Implications for Gastrointestinal Pain in Mice
Alexander Zhigalin Scalable Fragment-Based 3D Molecular Design with Reinforcement Learning

FALL 2021 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

October 13, 2021 12PM -1:30PM
Cabot Library Discovery Bar

 

Come and meet your Harvard undergraduate peers and learn about their research projects and experiences conducting scientific and engineering research at Harvard and abroad. Students will present 3-minute lightning talks, followed by Q&A. This event is co-sponsored by the FAS Science Education and Harvard Library. If you have questions about this event please contact Dr. Logan McCarty.

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email Dr. Logan McCarty to obtain application, abstract deadline is October 1, 2021.

SPRING 2021 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

March 24, 2021 12PM -1:30PM (zoom)
 

Come and meet your Harvard undergraduate peers and learn about their research projects and experiences conducting scientific and engineering research at Harvard and abroad. Students will present 3-minute lightning talks (zoom), followed by Q&A. This event is sponsored by the FAS Science Education. If you have questions about this event please contact Dr. Logan McCarty.

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email Dr. Logan McCarty to obtain application, abstract deadline is March 1, 2021.

 

FALL 2020 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

November 5, 2020 12PM -1:30PM
 

Come and meet your Harvard undergraduate peers and learn about their research projects and experiences conducting scientific and engineering research at Harvard and abroad. Students will present 3-minute lightning talks (zoom), followed by Q&A. This event is sponsored by the FAS Science Education. If you have questions about this event please contact Dr. Logan McCarty.

FALL 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

October 16, 2019 12PM
Cabot Library first floor

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Basil Baccouche
Human Evolutionary Biology, 2020

Giraffe Myocardial Hypertrophy: A Natural Model of Heart Failure Resistance for Humans
Dr. Natterson-Horowitz, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
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William Gao
Chemistry, 2020

Identification of novel, conserved RNA structures in budding yeast
Dr. Rivas, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

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Jason Shen
Neurobiology, 2022

Association of Anesthesia and Sedation Exposure with Brain MRI in Critically-Ill Infants
Dr. Bajic, Boston's Children's Hospital

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Gulenay Saydahmat
Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2020

Inflammatory Transcription Factor Regulation of Human Melanoma Initiation in a Zebrafish Model
Dr. Zon, Boston's Children's Hospital

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Sambuddha Chattopadhyay
Physics and Math, 2021


Quantum Many Body Scars from Periodic Dynamics of Entanglement Degrees of Freedom
Dr. Heller, Physics Department

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Truelian Lee
Chemistry and English joint, 2021


What governs the binding specificity of ShigellaOspC3 to human caspase 4?
Dr. Lesser, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Elizabeth Pachus
Human Evolutionary Biology, 2022


Exploration and Optimization of Trehalose Dimycolate Hydrolase in Permeabilizing the Cell Wall of Mycobacteria
Dr. Rubin, Harvard School of Public Health

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William Wang
Integrative Biology, 2020


Motion-Capture Based Phenotyping of a Rat Model of Fragile X Syndrome
Dr. Olveczky, Center for Brain Science

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Rachel Chen
History of Science, 2022


3D Reconstruction of the Elephant Ear: Towards development of finite element models
Dr. Puria, Harvard MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

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Mauricio Garcia
Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2020


A Novel Technology for Transcriptional Profiling of Specific Cell Types in Frozen Tissue
Dr. Cepko, Harvard Medical School

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Esther Elonga
Chemistry, 2021

Synthesis of AGN192403/BRD4780 from rac-(1S,4R)-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one
Dr. Greka, Broad Institute

 

SPRING 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

March 1st, 2019 12PM 
Cabot Library first floor

Undergraduate Research Spotlight

 

Sarah Horne
Psychology, 2019

The Effects of Affective Expectations on Experience in Individuals with and without Anhedonia
Dr. R. McNally, Dept. of Psychology

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Tom Pilvelait
Physics and Mechanical Engineering, 2019

Visualizing Contact Area Growth in Frictional Interfaces
Dr. S. Rubinstein, SEAS

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Una Choi
Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2019


FLT3-ITD Activates Malic Enzyme 2 and Reprograms Acute Myeloid Leukemia Metabolism
Dr. D. Scadden, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

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Michael Xie
Chemistry and Physics, 2020


Accurate and efficient separation of cellular signals from background for in vivo voltage imaging datasets
Dr. A. Cohen, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics

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Katherine Ho
Chemistry and Physics, 2020 


The Origin of Life: Investigating the Kinetics of Non-Enzymatic RNA Replication
Dr. J. Szostak, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Kevin Bao
Integrative Biology, 2019


Greater Resolution of the Diversity and Evolution of Surface Protein Pfs47 in Plasmodium falciparum
Dr. D. Hartl, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology

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Cindy Chau
Neurobiology, 2019


The Long-Term Glial Response to 56Fe Radiation in APP/PS1 Transgenic Mice
Dr. C. Lemere, Brigham and Woman's Hospital

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Sayo Eweje
Bioengineering, 2019


Endothelial Cell Pairs as a Minimalistic Model for Studying Nanomaterial Vascular Toxicity
Dr. K. Parker, Wyss Institute at Harvard

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Vismaya Kharkar
Human Evolutionary Biology, 2021


Novel functions of the mitotic motors Ase1 and Klp9 in fission yeast
Dr. T. Toda, Reischauer Institute, Japan

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Tom Osborn
Psychology, 2020


Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Kenyan Adolescents: Prevalence, Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Correlates
Dr. J. Weisz, Laboratory for Youth Mental Health

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Mark Czeisler
Neurobiology (MBB), 2019

3-dimensional Digital Reconstruction of Mouse Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neurons
Dr. J. Lichtman, Molecular and Cellular Biology

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FALL 2018 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

October 10, 2018 12PM 
Cabot Library first floor

 

Undergraduate Research Spotlight


Anthony Henriquez
Chemistry, 2020

Finding Lost JAK2 Driver Cancer Mutation on First Reported Cured Patient with Polycythemia Vera
Dr. Sahad Homoz, HMS

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Shivani Aggarwal
Integrative Biology, 2021

Pulmonary Localization of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC2s) in Asthma
Dr. Kazuyo Moro, RIKEN IMS, Yokohama Japan

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Benjamin Lee
Computer Science, 2020

Programmatic Framework for Continuous Flow Process Description, Analysis, and Automation
Dr. George Church, HMS

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Brenda Chiang
Molecular and Cell Biology, 2019

Homophilic Specificity of Clustered Protocadherin Interactions
Dr. Rachelle Gaudet, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS

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Armeen Barghi
Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, 2021

Adherence to periconception HIV risk-reduction among uninfected women in rural Uganda
Dr. Lynn Matthews, MGH

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Matthew Farber
Human Evolutionary Biology, 2020

The Effects of Exercise on Murine Modeled Colitis and the Role of IAP
Dr. Richard Hodin, MGH

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Mary Katherine DeWane
Integrative Biology, 2020

Using Remote Sensing Data to Analyze Plant Drought Stress
Dr. Paul Moorcroft, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS

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Ben Rhee
Undeclared, 2021

Characterizing the Proviral Landscape in HIV-1-infected Elite Controllers, Viremic Controllers, and HAART-treated Patients
Dr. Xu Yu, Ragon Institute

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Henna Hundal
Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, 2019

Investigating the Essentiality of Ras-Related Protein Rab11a in Fructose Uptake
Dr. Richard Lee, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

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Joshua Stern
Neurobiology, 2021

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: Belief State in Virtual Foraging
Dr. Naoshige Uchida, Center for Brain Science

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Carolyn Wong
Applied Mathematics, 2021

Investigation of the role of srrA in eDNA release during biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus
Dr. Richard Losick, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, FAS

 

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SPRING 2018 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

April 6, 2018 12PM 
Cabot Library first floor

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Kai Trepka
Chemistry and Physics, 2020

Synthesis of Metallic Rare-Earth Nanowires as Magnetic Field Gradient Sources
Ye Tao, Rowland Institute

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Shreya Menon
Mathematics, 2020

Investigating the molecular basis for infertility associated with abnormality in SYCP2
Cynthia Morton, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham's Women's Hospital

Michelle Ko

Michelle Ko
HDRB, 2019

In vivo Perturb-Seq: convergent and divergent mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders
Paola Arlotta, HDRB

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Gha Young Lee
Physics and Chemistry, 2019

Noninvasive Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis By Protein Corona Pattern Recognition
Omid Farokhzad, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for Nanomedicine
 

Sabrina Devereaux


Sabrina Devereaux
Env Sci and Public Policy, 2018

Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Small-Scale Fisheries Management in Antongil Bay, Madagascar
James McCarthy, Environmental Science and Public Policy Concentration, Planetary Health Alliance

Dalton Brunson
Dalton Brunson
HDRB, 2-ry Global Health and Health Policy, 2019

Zebrafish Avatars of Human Cancer: Growing Xenografts in Adult Immune Compromised Zebrafish
David Langenau ,Molecular Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and HMS
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Vaibhav Mohanty
Chemistry & Physics, 2-ry Music, 2019

Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
Eric Heller, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 

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MCB, 2-ry History of Science, 2019

Elucidating Adeno-Associated Virus Assembly-Activating Protein Binding Interactions
Luk Vanenberg, Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and MEEI
 

Vikram Sundar

Vikram Sundar
Math & Physics, 2-ry in Chemistry, 2018

Accounting for Nuclear Quantum Effects at the Speed of Classical Molecular Dynamics
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Maria Brouard
Biomed Eng and Chemistry, 2018

Development of DNA Double-Strand Cleaving Compounds
Christina Woo, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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FALL 2017 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

October 11, 2017 12PM 
Cabot Library first floor

Catherine Hua
Catherine Hua
MCB, East Asian Studies, 2020

Is Anatrachyntis another insect radiation onto cycads?
Dr. Pierce, Department of Organismic Evolutionary Biology
Akshaya Annapragada
Akshaya Annapragada
Applied Mathematics, Global Health and Health Policy, 2020

Quantifying the impact of poultry vaccination programs for Malagasy communities
Dr. Christopher Golden, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Yi Chen Yi Chen
Chemical and Physical Biology, 2ry in CS, History of Science, 2020

Addressing the role of G1 phase length on genetic instability in S. cerevisiae
Dr. Murray, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Clara Cousins
Clara Cousins
Chemical and Physical Biology, Computer Science, 2020

Nailfold capillary morphology in exfoliation syndrome
Dr. Pasquale, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Harrison Satcher
Harrison Satcher
Psychology, Statistics, 2019

Implicit attitudes and reinforcement learning: a first investigation
Dr. Banaji, Department of Psychology
Hakeem Angulu
Hakeem Angulu
Joint concentration between Computer Science + Statistics, African American Studies, 2020

Human networks and health: social determinants of health in Madagascar
Dr. Christopher Golden, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Gabrielle Sejourne
Gabrielle Sejourne
Physics, Global Health and Health Policy, 2018

A mechanical basis for gyrification in the ferret brain
Dr. Mahadevan, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Shreya Menon
Shreya Menon
Mathematics, 2020

Investigating the molecular basis for infertility associated with abnormality in SYCP2
Dr. Morton, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cynthia Chang Cynthia Chang
History of Science, Global Health/Health Policy, 2020

Effects of Endothelial Shear Stress on Plaque Progression in HIV Patients based on Coronary CT Angiography Images
Dr. Hoffman, Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology/Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Yu Mi Kim
Yu-Mi Kim
History of Science, English, 2020

Assessment of Lake Balkhash phytoplankton community structure using FlowCam Imaging flow cytometer
Dr. Barteneva, Harvard Microbiology Initiative and PCMM-Boston Children’s Hospital