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:
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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.
Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2019 Gallery
Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Fall Gallery (Part 2)
FALL 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
October 16, 2019 12PM
Cabot Library first floor
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Basil Baccouche Dr. Natterson-Horowitz, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology |
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William Gao Identification of novel, conserved RNA structures in budding yeast |
| Jason Shen |
| Gulenay Saydahmat Inflammatory Transcription Factor Regulation of Human Melanoma Initiation in a Zebrafish Model |
| Sambuddha Chattopadhyay |
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| Synthesis of AGN192403/BRD4780 from rac-(1S,4R)-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one |
Undergrad Research Spotlight Spring 2019 Gallery
Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Spring Gallery (Part 2)
SPRING 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
March 1st, 2019 12PM
Cabot Library first floor
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Sarah Horne The Effects of Affective Expectations on Experience in Individuals with and without Anhedonia |
| Tom Pilvelait Visualizing Contact Area Growth in Frictional Interfaces |
| Una Choi |
| Michael Xie |
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| Vismaya Kharkar |
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| 3-dimensional Digital Reconstruction of Mouse Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neurons |
Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery
Undergraduate Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery (part 2)
FALL 2018 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
October 10, 2018 12PMCabot Library first floor
| Finding Lost JAK2 Driver Cancer Mutation on First Reported Cured Patient with Polycythemia Vera |
| Pulmonary Localization of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC2s) in Asthma |
| Programmatic Framework for Continuous Flow Process Description, Analysis, and Automation |
| Homophilic Specificity of Clustered Protocadherin Interactions |
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| The Effects of Exercise on Murine Modeled Colitis and the Role of IAP |
| Using Remote Sensing Data to Analyze Plant Drought Stress |
| Characterizing the Proviral Landscape in HIV-1-infected Elite Controllers, Viremic Controllers, and HAART-treated Patients |
| Investigating the Essentiality of Ras-Related Protein Rab11a in Fructose Uptake |
| Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: Belief State in Virtual Foraging |
| Investigation of the role of srrA in eDNA release during biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus |
Undergrad Research Spotlight Spring 2018 Gallery
Undergraduate Research Spotlight 2018 Poster Session
SPRING 2018 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
April 6, 2018 12PM
Cabot Library first floor
| Synthesis of Metallic Rare-Earth Nanowires as Magnetic Field Gradient Sources |
| Investigating the molecular basis for infertility associated with abnormality in SYCP2 |
| Michelle Ko In vivo Perturb-Seq: convergent and divergent mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders |
| Noninvasive Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis By Protein Corona Pattern Recognition |
| Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Small-Scale Fisheries Management in Antongil Bay, Madagascar |
| 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 |
| Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene |
| Elucidating Adeno-Associated Virus Assembly-Activating Protein Binding Interactions |
| Vikram Sundar Accounting for Nuclear Quantum Effects at the Speed of Classical Molecular Dynamics |
| Development of DNA Double-Strand Cleaving Compounds |
FALL 2017 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
October 11, 2017 12PM
Cabot Library first floor
| Catherine Hua MCB, East Asian Studies, 2020 Is Anatrachyntis another insect radiation onto cycads? Dr. Pierce, Department of Organismic Evolutionary Biology |
| 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 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 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 Psychology, Statistics, 2019 Implicit attitudes and reinforcement learning: a first investigation Dr. Banaji, Department of Psychology |
| 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 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 Mathematics, 2020 Investigating the molecular basis for infertility associated with abnormality in SYCP2 Dr. Morton, Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| 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 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 |
HUROS 2024
HUROS 2024 will be held on Friday, November 1, 2024, from 1:00-4:00pm at the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) first floor located at 59 Shepard St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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