First Place – Stacey Spadafore and Domenique Olesen | “Behavioral Response of Small Everglades Fish to Hydrological Variation, Predator Cues and Parasites”
Second Place – Keerthi Thallapureddy | “Evaluation of FAK and MDR1 Crosstalk in Platinum Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells”
Third Place – Brandon Golub and Rony Saleeb | “Fluorinated Porphyrin Interactions in Cancer Cells”
Honorable Mentions –
Kristi Njaravelil and Avidor Gerstenfeld | “The Effect of Sucralose on the Inhibition of Three Bacteria Species that Inhabit the Human Gut”
Shivani Wood, Victoria Rushia, and Natalie Bedell | “Improving Functional Movement Patterns Reduces Pathomechanics in Competitive Distance Runners”
Lauren Gispert, Alyssa Boltson, and Samantha Rodriguez | “Does stress hurt everyone? Individual differences in susceptibility to psychosocial stressors”
Samir Nacer, Kendall Mockridge, and Kevin Lujan | “Screening for Type III Secretion System Inhibitors”
Edward Zacka and Lindsay Craig | “Stress, cognitive functioning, mind wandering, and mindfulness: A latent variable examination”
Oral Presentations
First Place –
Adam DeRoss | “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: Sense or Cents?”
Christopher Garcia and Kyle Bolston | “Impact of MDM2 on the Expression Level of XIAP on Various Cancer Cell Lines”
Tom Abraham and Aimee Doiron | “Combating Cooperative Antibiotic Resistance”
Second Place –
Akshay Naraine | “The influence of a serotonin 2A receptor gene (HTR2A) on stress responsivity”
Mahnoor Asif | “Towards the Development of a 3-D Aortic Valve for Hydrodynamic Evaluation”
First Place – Ryan Dahm, Aidan Rivas, and Jas Anderson | “The Cinephile”
Second Place – Grace Ducanis and Brianne Bailey | “Dollar”
AAUW Award
Sri Moturu, Kevin Douglas, and Kaylin Huitsing | “The Psychological and Physiological Implications of Sleep Restriction: A Comparison of Voluntary and Experimental Sleep Restriction Groups”
