#  Undergraduate Research Spotlight 

 



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### 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](mailto:penner@fas.harvard.edu).

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email [Kate Penner](mailto:penner@fas.harvard.edu) to sign up. Deadline is December 2, 2022.

Past Presenters:

SortPresenter

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](mailto:mccarty@fas.harvard.edu)[.](mailto:ababakhanyan@fas.harvard.edu)

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email [Dr. Logan McCarty](mailto:mccarty@fas.harvard.edu) 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](mailto:mccarty@fas.harvard.edu).

If you are a graduating senior and would like to present at the event, please email [Dr. Logan McCarty](mailto:mccarty@fas.harvard.edu) 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](mailto:mccarty@fas.harvard.edu).



 

 Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2019 Gallery Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Fall Gallery (Part 2) 

## Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2019 Gallery

 

 

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## Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Fall Gallery (Part 2)

 

 

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##  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

 

 





 

 Undergrad Research Spotlight Spring 2019 Gallery Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Spring Gallery (Part 2) 

## Undergrad Research Spotlight Spring 2019 Gallery

 

 

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## Undergrad Research Spotlight 2019 Spring Gallery (Part 2)

 

 

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##  SPRING 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

 **March 1st, 2019 12PM**   
Cabot Library first floor

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  **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

 

 





 

 Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery Undergraduate Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery (part 2) 

## Undergrad Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery

 

 

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## Undergraduate Research Spotlight Fall 2018 Gallery (part 2)

 

 

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##  FALL 2018 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

 **October 10, 2018 12PM**   
Cabot Library first floorSort      ![Undergraduate Research Spotlight](/sites/g/files/omnuum7836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/lifesci/files/anthonyhenriquez2.jpg?itok=1FhueUgb) 

 

 

    
**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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## Undergrad Research Spotlight Spring 2018 Gallery

 

 

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## Undergraduate Research Spotlight 2018 Poster Session

 

 

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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

 

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  **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

 

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**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

 

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**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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**Ana Karla Cepeda Diaz**  
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

 

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  **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

 

 





 

## FALL 2017 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

**October 11, 2017 12PM**   
Cabot Library first floor

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**Catherine Hua**  
MCB, East Asian Studies, 2020  
  
*Is Anatrachyntis another insect radiation onto cycads?*  
Dr. Pierce, Department of Organismic Evolutionary Biology

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**Harrison Satcher**  
Psychology, Statistics, 2019  
  
*Implicit attitudes and reinforcement learning: a first investigation*  
Dr. Banaji, Department of Psychology

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**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](/sites/g/files/omnuum7836/files/lifesci/files/sejourne.jpg)

 



  
**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

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**Shreya Menon**  
Mathematics, 2020  
  
*Investigating the molecular basis for infertility associated with abnormality in SYCP2*  
Dr. Morton, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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**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

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**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 

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