First Place – Miguel Portales Guemes | “A Search for Type III Secretion System Inhibitors Produced by Soil Bacteria”
Second Place – Kendall Jordan | “Impact of TAS2R38 Gene and Taster Status on Adiposity and Dietary Behaviors”
Third Place – Laura Enzinna | “The Effects of Growth Rate on Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Honorable Mentions –
Michael McDonough | “Investigating the anti-parasitic veterinary drug, Imizol, and its potential use for treatment of bacterial infections”
Stephanie Hernandez, Trixie Berthin, and Morgan Musgrove | “Do Bilinguals have an Advantage Over Monolinguals When It Comes to Executive Functions?”
Aimee Doiron, Rodrigo Muzquiz, and Tom Abraham | “The Balance of Public and Private Benefits Determines Sensitivity to Catastrophic Population Collapse in a Microbial Volunteer’s Dilemma”
Jay Patel and Vineela Nagamalla | “Identifying neuronal damage biomarkers in Bortezomib-induced peripheral neuropathy (BIPN)”
Oral Presentations
First Place –
Tanya Juneja, Emily Pope, and Pilar Ferdinando | “Multi-Decadal Assessment of Heavy Metals in Body Tissue and Vibrissae of Select North Pacific Marine Mammals
Samir Nacer and Michael McDonough | “Screening for Type III Secretion System Inhibitors”
Reaghan May | “Examining the Effects of Blue Light on Melatonin, Mood, and Neurobehavioral Performance”
Second Place –
Alexandra Cabanelas Bermudez | “Behavior of Eastern Mosquitofish from Areas of Varying Hydroperiod in the Everglades Ecosystem”
Rakin Khan | “Feasibility of using Bluetooth low energy beacon sensors to detect magnifier usage by low vision patient”
Morgan Will | “Pufferfish Corallivory on the Massive Coral Porites lobate in the Galapagos Islands”
Film Festival
First Place – Sarah Goltsman | “Masterpiece”
Second Place – Maha Barakat | “Just Like You: The Reality of Arab American Stereotypes”
