Projects & Presentations

NSURP 2021 Presentations

Applied & Environmental Microbiology-1

Speaker	Title
Arely Herrera	“Mitigating Changes in the Epithelial Gut Barrier During Menopause in Mice with Prebiotic Treatment”
Natalia Contreras	“Computational Analysis of Human Microbiota During Parasite Infection”
James Rosas	“Novel Estimated Max Growth Rates from the Deep Ocean”
Leandra Depina	“Fusarium Oxysporum”
Lissangel Martinez	“Analyzing Viral Detection Tools”
Leticia Zikpi	Recorded
Kamau Richardson	“Reanalysis of Fecal Microbiome Transplant Data”
Felipe Ferreira	“Streptomyces and Novel Antibiotic Production”
Neptali Flores	“A Viral Anaylsis of Terrestrial Cyanobacteria”
Joyce Njabi	“Streptomyces”

Applied & Environmental Microbiology-2

Speaker	Title
Shayla Johnson	“Howler Monkey Energy Balance in the Gut Microbiome”
Julissa Larios	“The Microbiome of Eelgrass- What Lies Beneath?”
Jocelyn De Paz	“The Influence of Riboflavin-Producing Bacteria on Women’s Health”
Andrea Cortes	“Analyzing Host-Microbiome Interactions in Drosophila melanogaster with Lactobacillus planatarum through Genome Analysis”
Caylah Griffin	“Intergenerational Transmission of Immunity through the Gut Microbiome”
Imani Appleton-Renfro	“Elucidating host-microbiome interactions through genome sequencing analysis of Drosophila melanogaster gut bacteria”
Allison Walker	“Nutrient enrichment modifies soil bacterial composition and plant productivity to disrupt wetland carbon storage”
Yoshua Cintron	“Investigating Pseudomonas fluorescens ascommon species found in Maple Sap”
Ana Oyola	“Analysis of  Dickeya Metabolic Fitness Determinants through TnSeq”
Anne Marie Pulaao	Recording

Applied & Environmental Microbiology-3

Speaker	Title
Deyvis Mejia Zmbrana	“Asessing 4 Legionella Genes for Signatures of Host-Pathogen Conflict ​”
Hannah Huapaya	“Evaluation of AMR Genes in Lung Cancer Patients Using Metagenomic Analysis”
Trinity Howell	“Identifying Sources of Fecal and Sewage Contamination in the San Francisco Bay”
Mikayla Lopez	“Are Pathogens In Permafrost Soil? “
Caitlyn Middleton	“Siderophore production in the bacterium Penicillium raistrickii”
Kamryn Henderson	“Using Python to visually replicate the virus-host interactions in aquatic organisms”
Murielle Tembunde	“Does tobacco smoking and COVID-19 symptoms and impact decisions for receiving the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine?”
Madison Robinson	“Diversity and Evolution of PAS domains in Streptomyces cyclic-di-GMP signaling”
Glorimar Jaramillo	Recording

Clinical & Diagnostic Microbiology, Public Health Microbiology, and More

Speaker	Title
Christina Kant	“The Isolation of Propionibacterium (renamed Cutibacterium) from the Human Skin Microbiome Linked to Acne”
Bryan Díaz Meléndez	“Development of highly specific and sensitive biomarkers for diarrheal pathogens”
Morgan Bracket	“The Future of SARS-CoV-2 & Wastewater Surveillance”
Jonathan Valentin	“Divergent Mechanisms in Capsid Assembly and Decoration between Herpesvirus Subfamilies”
Vera Arenas	“The Bacteria-lorette: Exploring the Relationships between Streptococcus Pneumoniae with Corynebacteria and Respiratory Syncytial Virus”
Darin Denton	“Latency of Herpes Simplex Viruses”
Topanga Ronan	“Predicting VOC Flux using Depth Trends and Expected Locations of Productions to Understand a Greater Soil Metabolomic State”
Emile Saad	“Challenges, Opportunities and Potential Utilization of Resistin Mouse Model in Atherogenesis”
Kylah Loftin	“Outcomes of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in Microbial Ecology and Molecular Evolution”
Anisa Seller	“The Secret Life of tRNA Anticodons”
Omnia Soliman	“Surveillance of Human Rhinovirus during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Novel Next Generation Sequencing Methods’
Michael Jimenez Sandoval	“Longitudinal Analysis of Metabolomic changes in Plasma, Saliva, and Urine in Chagas Disease”

Computational Microbiology and Immunology

Speaker	Title
Katie Castro	“A study of the infectivity and persistence of Hafnia phages within cheese microbial communities”
Kiana Mitchell	“How do immune cells respond differently to M.tuberculosis and M. avium infection”
Trinity Bolton	“Differentiation of Cryptosporidium invasion from adherence and quantification after pharmacologic modulation of PKC-alpha”
Yanely Bolanos	“A transcriptomic analysis of the cGAS/STING pathway in HPV infected cells”
Ariana Thakurdyal	“Health risk assessment of global resistome”
Sita Sadia	“Sensitivity of long read RNA sequencing expression analysis in cancer cell lines in relation to bioinformatic parameters”
Anna Marie Puaala	“Analyzing Tumor Infiltrating T cell Developmental Trajectories in Single Cells”
Lucas Clement	“Identifying Pathways Involved in Colon Inflammation Induced by Cancer Immunotherapy by scRNAseq Analysis”
Lizbeilyn Ozoria	“Learning Differential Gene Expression in R”
Elizabeth Suvias	“Variability in public RNA seq experiments”

Medical Microbiology

Speaker	Title
Kaylee Lino	“Protein identification in cystic fibrosis lung microbiota”
Adriana Gutierrez Camacho	“The functionality of a megaplasmid of the gut community symbionts and its spread across species, geographic locations, and time”
Christina Alexandre	“Building a co-expression network for gene function prediction in Cryptococcus neoformans”
Carlos Koudouovoh	“RNA-Seq analysis of a conserved DNA-binding protein in B. subtilis”
Zaria Ferguson	Recording
Alexis Ayuketah	“Application of the Competitive Lottery-Based Theory to the Cystic Fibrosis Microbiome”
Lauryn Martin	“Characterization of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cell Envelope Proteome”
Roslynn Soto	“Identification of host interaction factors required for Neisseria colonization of AJ mice”
Emily Afriyie	“A comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of Leptospira interrogans genes related to environmental sensing, signal transduction, and transcription regulation”
Chiamaka Okonkwo	“Bioinformatic analysis of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Ngo1049”
Daniela Solis	“The Evolution of HIV restriction factors TRIM5 and TRIM34 in Primates”
Brayan Ruiz	Recording

NSURP 2020 Projects & Presentations

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	Last Name	First Name	Mentee School	Mentor Last Name	Mentor First Name	Mentor’s Institution	Project Title
NSURP Award Winners	Alvarado	Michelle	New York University	Ma	Kevin	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Association of variants in mtrD with antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
	Appah-Sampong	Akua	Harvard College	Nüsslein	Klaus	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Genomic Analysis of Recently Isolated Microbe from the Amazon Rainforest Shows Evidence of New Methanotroph Species
	Arenas	Vera	University of California, Los Angeles	Clark	Dr. Sarah E.	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	A Holistic Look At Antibiotic Resistance
	Arquilevich	Briana	Cornell University	Tsolis	Renee	University of California, Davis	Wild Type Salmonella Outcompetes acrAB Mutants to a Greater Extent in Plasmodium-Infected Mice
	Barracks	Khallela	Barnard College of Columbia University	Jarolimova	Jana	Massachusetts General Hospital	What is the prevalence of sexually transmitted infection (STIs) among women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa?
	Bayro Jablonski	Nikolai Emmanuel	Universidad de Guadalajara	Chaston	John	Brigham Young University	A Community Like No Otter: Exploring the composition of Lontra canadensis host-associated microbial communities.
	Bernal	Guadalupe	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Peralta	Ariane	East Carolina University	Flooding and plant effects on wetland soil microbial functional diversity
	Busby	Taylor	University of California, Davis	VanLeuven	James	University of Idaho	Honeybee Phages
	Flores	Neptali	San Jose State University	Leveau	Johan	University of California, Davis	A Study Of IAA Catabolizing Bacteria
	Inyama	Fechi	Harvard University	Peralta	Ariane	East Carolina University	Flooding and plant effects on wetland soil microbial functional diversity
	Martinez-Mejia	Carlos	New York University	Kisselstein	Breanne	Cornell University	Host-Microbe interactions: a case study of an obligate biotroph, Erysiphe necator, is influenced by its grape host types
	Nnuji-John	Emmanuella	Alcorn State University	Horner	Stacy	Duke University	EXPLORING THE ROLE OF UFMYLATION IN REGULATING ANTIVIRAL INNATE IMMUNITY
	Rodriguez-Torres	Ivanellis	University of Puerto Rico at Cayey	Peralta	Ariane	East Carolina University	Flooding and plant effects on wetland soil microbial functional diversity
	Samples	Kiara	University of California, Irvine	Kim	Brandon	University of Alabama	Brain endothelial cell transcriptome changes in response to meningeal pathogens – (non published)
	Watkins	Kimberlynne	Hampton University	Cucinotta	Christine	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Transcription Factors That Affect Gene Repression in Early Quiescent Entry and Activation in Late Quiescent Exit in S. cerevisiae
NSURP Honorable Mention	Adjagbodjou	Ededi	Columbia University	Athrey	Giri	Texas A&M University	Photoperiods and Gut Bacteria
	Billy	Justin	The University of Arizona	Morrison	Huntly	University of California, Berkeley	Evaluating DNA Induced Autophagy in Macrophages during a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
	Castro	Katie	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Dutton	Rachel	University of California, San Diego	Bacteriophage Interactions In The Cheese Microbiome
	Contejean	Zaria	Michigan State University	Ross	Benjamin	Dartmouth	Bacterial Genomes with mobile Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICE)
	Cortes	Andrea	New York University	Suter	Elizabeth	Molloy College	Meta-Analysis of the Pacific Oyster Hemolymph Microbiome In Response to Vibrio Infection and Temperature Stress
	Edmundo	Clarissa	University of California, Irvine	Pierce	Tessa	University of California, Davis	Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients – open & download to view
	Goodhew	Iliana	Cornell University	Tipton	Laura	Chaminade University of Honolulu	An Ecological Comparison of Mycobiota in Oahu versus Hawaii Islands
	Guerrero-Calderon	Michael	New York University	Coyne	Carolyn	University of Pittsburgh	Assessment of Different Cytokines Found in Placental Villi and Fetal Membrane Between Mid-Gestation and Full-Term Stages of Pregnancy
	Hackett	Nadia	University of Maryland, College Park	Kim	Brandon	University of Alabama	Bacterial Transcriptome Changes in Response to Interaction With Brain Endothelial Cells – (non published)
	Herrera	Jacqueline	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	De Leon	Marina	University of California, Davis	Identification of Violacein Genes by Comparative Analysis
	Huapaya	Hannah	University of California, Davis	De Leon	Marina	University of California, Davis	Identification of Violacein Genes by Comparative Analysis
	Iñigo	María	University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez	Nitabach	Michael	Yale School of Medicine	Decision making in Drosophila melanogaster larvae
	Kidane	Feven	Towson University	Dill-McFarland	Kimberly	University of Washington	Genetic determinants of immune cell function
	Langarica	Vanessa	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Matty	Molly	Salk Institute	Honeymoon Phase in Type 1 Diabetes as an Intervention: A Review
	Maldonado Serrano	Ariana M.	University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus	Caslake	Laurie	Lafayette Collage	What is a Biofilm?
	Kassama	Francis Jacob	Bowdoin College	Sorg	Joe	Texas A&M Univeristy	Development of a Genetic System for Clostridium scindens open & download to view
	Medrano	Hector	New York University	Wright	Alonna	University of California, Davis	Ionophore Usage Linked to Cross-Resistance in Enterococci
	Murinda	Kudakwashe	Alcorn State University	Beggs	Grace	Duke University	The Role of QacR Repressor in Multidrug Resistance and Its Induction Method
	Olanipekun	Tobi	University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria	Santos Junior	Celio	Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China	AzuC: an unusual AMP
	Pereira	Nicolas	University of Michigan	Dill-McFarland	Kim	University of Washington	Anti-IL5 Therapy Mediates Transcriptional Responses to HRV infection in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Asthmatic Donors
	Sanlatte	Cristian	University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez	Helmann	Tyler	Cornell University United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service	Transposon Genetic Analysis of Pseudomonas syringae Redundant Efflux Transporters
	Uwaifo	Eseosa	Brown University	Cucinotta	Christine	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Examining Genes and Transcription Factors Following Exit From Quiescence
	Yonas	Noah	University of Maryland College Park	Breitbart	Mya	University of South Florida	Analysis and Report of the Complete Genome Sequences of Vibrio Phage Aquatic Killer and Bdellovibrio Phage VAMPYR and WEREWLF
Amazing NSURP Presentations	Aborisade	Gabriel	University of Maryland, College Park	Ahannach	Sarah	University of Antwerp	When a commensal becomes a pathogen: the role of microbe-microbe interactions with GBS as a model organism
	Acosta	Manuel	University of California, Irvine	Dhillon	Jaapna	University of Missouri- Columbia	Microbiome Analysis of Almond Snacking Using Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology (QIIME2)
	Afolabi	Favour	Alcorn State University	Todd	Peter	University of Michigan School of Medicine	Roles of nucleotide repeats expansion in neurodegenerative disorders and RAN translation in neuronal toxicity.
	Agbim	Chinaza	Harvard College	Duncan	Mara	University of Michigan	Duncan Lab Summer 2020 Internship
	Agyemang	Nana	University of Maryland-College Park	Morrison	Shatavia	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Retrospective Data Mining Analysis to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Sequences in a Metagenomics Sequencing Data Set
	Alam	Tahsin	CUNY Hunter College	Kalan	Lindsey	University of Wisconsin- Madison	Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus by Bacterial skin Isolates
	Alonso	Priscilla	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus	Arnold	Elizabeth	University of Arizona	Defining the evolutionary origins and host shifts of reptile-infecting pathogens in the Eurotiomycetes (non published)
	Alston	Robert	North Carolina Central University	Whelan	Fiona	University of Nottingham	Cystic Fibrosis: A deeper look into the poly microbial environment of an infected lower respiratory tract
	Andrade	Maria Jose	Swarthmore College	Imperiale	Michael J.	University of Michigan	The Polyomavirus Episteme
	Armanus	Emy	University of California Irvine	Chattopadhyay	Suhana	University of Maryland.	Evaluating the Impact of Smoking Status on the Risk of COVID-19
	Barrera	Wendy	California State Polytechnic University of Pomona	Hamblin	Meagan	Standford University	NSURP Summer Research
	Batres	Isabel	Moravian College	Wuyts	Sander	European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Constructing An E.coli ‘Encyclopedia’ Through Transcriptomics Experiments
	Betnun	Jonathan	University of Maryland at College Park	Eswara	Prahathees	University of South Florida	Identifying an inhibitor of the essential S. aureus cell division protein: GpsB
	Bolton	Trinity	Morgan State University	Speare	Lauren	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Analyzing gene clusters required for the type VI secretion system killing in the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri
	Brackett	Morgan	University of Central Florida	Poleatewich	Anissa	University of New Hampshire	Assessing the Phylogenetic Relationships of the TP53 Gene in Different Organisms
	Bran	Javier	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Krist	Maxwell	University of Washington School of Medicine	NSURP 2020
	Bruzzese	Adam	New York University	Rakoff-Nahoum	Seth	Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology/Boston Children’s Hospital	Genetic variability among the gut microbiome
	Bryan	Jordan	Cornell University	Ettinger	Cassie	University of California, Davis	Aquarium Microbial Communities
	Buelna	Raymundo	University of Arizona	Dinshaw	Kayla	University of California, Berkeley	Tuberculosis for Dummies
	Butts	Britanie	San Jose State University	Fontana	Mary	University of Washington	Age-Associated B cells in mice exhibit characteristics that resemble human Atypical Memory B cells
	Calderon	Stephanie	Amherst College	Ross	Benjamin	Dartmouth College	Into the Gut Microbiome
	Camara	Driss	Lafayette College	Routh	Andrew	University of Texas Medical Branch	Two Approaches of Alphaviruses Genomic Sequencing
	Carlton	Tyler	Boston College	Guimarães	Ana	University of São Paulo	Study of Mutations in the Genome of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex; Mycobacterium Capre
	Chin Cheong	Jonathan	Cornell University	Suria	Andrea	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Phylogenetic Analysis of Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (Euprymna scolopes) Light Organ Symbionts
	Dada	Lola	Lafayette College	Burton	Nick	Univeristy of Cambridge	Visualizing Adaptive Neuronal Connectivity in the Sensory Neurons of C.elegans in Response to Bacterial Pathogens
	Daramola	Oluwasegun Isaac	University of Ibadan	N/A	N/A	N/A	The Role of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
	Denver	Dayna	California Polytechnic State University, Pomona	Lowe-Power	Tiffany	University of California, Davis	Identifying Type VI Secretion System Auxiliary Gene Clusters within the UA-1617 Strain of Ralstonia solanacearum
	Eberhard	Alissa	Northeastern State University	Visick	Karen	Loyola University Chicago	Bioinformatics of Vibrio fischeri Domains Associated with Control of the Signaling Molecule c-di-GMP
	Estrada	Rafael	California State University of Northridge	Vogel	Gregory	Cornell University	Annotating effectors in the Phytophthora capsici genome
	Gamboa	Alan	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Veach	Allison	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Extreme Drought increases pathogen abundance in Poplar tree microbiomes
	Gabby	Jenah	Tufts University	Helms	Louisa	University of Washington	Using viral vectors to deliver functional CTNS genes: Gene therapy
	Georgewill	Onimitein	University of Maryland, College Park	Simmons Jr	Glenn	University of Minnesota Duluth	The Role of Lipid Metabolism in African American Prostate Cancer Patients
	Gomez	Jimmy	University of California Santa Cruz	Sokolov	Nina	University of California Berkeley	Prevalence of Self-Medication in Insects
	Gonzalez	Mariangelis	Saint John Fisher College	Feeney	Morgan	University of Strathclyde Glasgow	Metal Resistance in Streptomyces
	Guerrero	Adler	New York University	Murphy	Erin	Ohio State	Identifying the Conservation and Comparisons Between the Ryf locus in the Shigella genus
	Herrero	Gabriela	University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez	Whelan	Fiona	University of Nottingham	Methods for identifying co-occurring microorganisms in patients with Cystic Fibrosis
	Hinton	Shawn	Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University	Dillon	Jaapna	University of Missouri Columbia	Summer Research
	Hugger	Junnis	University of Arizona	Chevee	Victoria	University of california, Berkeley	Mechanism for Listeria Monocytogenes dissemination
	Ibeabuchi	Brian	Harvard University	Rakoff-Nahoum	Seth	Harvard Medical School	Deletion of a subset of Enteric Neurons Modulates the Structure of the Mouse Gut Microbiome
	Ibeabuchi	Tobenna	University of Pennsylvania	Zhong	Grace	Stanford Univeristy	Trichoplax Adhaerens – (non published)
	Ibrahim	Vanessa	Harvard University	Ahannach	Sarah	University of Antwerp	Microbial fingerprinting of trace evidence in forensic research with a focus on sexual assault cases
	Jana	Nayid	University of Puerto Rico at Cayey	Brun	Yves	Universite de Montreal	Gene Transfer Agent Presence in Diverse Orders of α-proteobacteria
	Johnson	Chelsea	Hampton University	Johnson	Donna	Leeds Beckett University	The role of DAM (DNA adenine methylase) on the development of resistance to chloramphenicol in E.coli
	Johnson	Shayla	Texas State University	Manan	Sharma	Research Microbiologist Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory USDA	JOHNSON_SHAYLA_MPN WATER
	Jones	Truman	Harvard College	Shane	Roesemann	University of Wisconsin – Madison	The Relationship between the Gut Microbiome, Atopic Dermatitis, and Food Allergies.
	Karshe	Beder	University of Maryland College Park	Smithers	Emily	Roberts Wesleyan College	The search for antibiotic-producing soil microbes
	Kimura	Kenzo	New York University	Faherty	Christina	Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital	A Literature-Based Analysis of Shigella in the Gastrointestinal Tract
	Kindell	Jonathan	College of Charleston	Bier	Raven	Stroud Institution/ University of Georgia	The Environmental Factors Surrounding the Abundance of Methanotrophs
	Koudouovoh	Carlos	University of Maryland-College Park	Burton	Nick	University of Cambridge	Identifying bacteria that produce or modify serotonin signaling pathways in C. elegans
	Kyllians	Emmanuella	Alcorn State University	Samuel	Buck	Baylor College of Medicine	The Role of Vitamins in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
	Lara	Crystal	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus	Kramp	Rachael	University of Pittsburgh	Gyrodactylus turnbulli infection Alters Microbial Diversity on Poecilia reticulata Skin
	Lara	Alexander	University of California Davis	Morrissette	Madeleine	Northeastern University	Drugs, Tools and Therapeutic Approaches that can be Transferred from Cancer to Target Bacterial Persister Cells
	Leon	Lizbeth	University of California Davis	Tipton	Laura	Chaminade University of Honolulu	Under Representation of Women in Psychobiotics
	Lepe	Adan	Amherst College	Pold	Grace	University of Mass. Aherst / California Polytechnic State University	Climate Change and Microbial Communities in the Arctic
	Liverman	Ashlyn	University of Maryland	Swanson	Michele	University of Michigan	All About the Gut Microbiome
	Loder	Kaitlyn	Cornell University	Newton	Irene	Indiana University	Presence of Enterococcus Bacteria on Garden Flowers
	Marin	Catherine	Drew University	Martin	Jessica	Northeastern University	The Effect of Various Sodium Chloride and Iron Concentrations on Cell Density and Siderophore Production in Halomonas cupida ATCC 35135 Cultures\
	Martin	Lauryn	Alcorn State University	Pollet	Rebecca	Davidson College	An Introduction to B.theta & The Sus Complex
	Mba-Madubuike	Ifeoma	Alcorn State University	Marshall	Chris	Marquette University	Mechanism of Urinary Tract Infections
	McCollum	Caren	Clemson University	Gallagher	Kelley	University of Montréal	Diversity of Penicillin-Binding Proteins in β-Lactam Producing Streptomyces Species
	Meka	Anthony-James	University of Maryland, College Park	Horner	Stacy	Duke University	An Exploration of ISG associated RBPs
	Meza	Mayra	California State University Northridge	Spencer	Brady	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	Analysis of virulence factor expression levels of Streptococcus agalactiae
	Mithani	Viraj	Cornell University	Hershberg	Ruth	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	A comparison between the mutation accumulation dynamics in long-term stationary phase and classical evolution
	Montenegro	Evelyn	University of California, Davis	Li	Danny	University of California, San Francisco	Review of neonatal gut microbiota and its association with childhood multi-sensitized atopy and T-cell differentiation
	Muniz Perez	Aranis	University of Texas at San Antonio	Shiloh	Michael	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Using Easi-CRISPR to Create Transgenic Mice with Cre-Expressing Microfold-Cells for Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
	Naana	Ugonna	University at Albany	Keogh & Zaph	Rebecca & Rachel	University of Ohio	The various small RNA in Staphylococcus aureus
	Nieves Garcia	Crystal	Yale University	Poleatewich	Anissa	University of New Hampshire	Evolution of Disease Resistance Genes in Horticultural Crops
	Nwego	Ruth	Alcorn State University	Lakdawala	Seema	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	The role of RNA binding proteins found in bond to RAB11A during influenza virus infection
	Okhuereigbe	Andy	University of Maryland, College Park	Van Leuven	James	University of Idaho	Genome sequencing of a widely-used E. coli strain used for bacteriophage growth
	Okigbo	Kamsi	University of Maryland	Holden	Victoria	Full Circle Microbes	A study of the max concentration of Atrazine
	Okogeri	Amaya	Cornell University	Meehan	Conor	University of Bradford, UK	Tuberculosis in Low Income Countries
	Olarinde	Oluwatomiwa Joy	Alcorn State University	Annavajhala	Medini	Columbia University	Utilizing publicly available genomic data to better understand the evolutionary history of and antimicrobial resistance in Serratia marcescens. open & download to view
	Omane	Habso	Smith College	Ernakovich	Jessica	University of New Hampshire	Analysis of permafrost thaw studies
	Ordoñez Jiménez	Fernanda	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Coelho	Luis Pedro	Fudan University	Output visualization for GMGC-mapper
	Orea	Andres	California State University, Bakersfield	Prakash	Manu	Stanford University	Studying Behavior in Lacrymaria olor (non published)
	Oscar	Escobedo	University of California, Davis	Weissman	Jake	University of Southern California	Calculating Growth Rates for Prevetolla using gRodon
	Otero De Jesus	Jan	University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon	Nüsslein	Klaus	University of Massachusetts	Bin_36_1_1
	Owoeye	Boluwatife	New York University	Ziels	Ryan	University of British Columbia	Testimonial of a Reluctant Science Student
	Oyola	Ana	Cornell University	Hall	Rebecca	The University of Nottingham	The Spectrum of Secondary Symbiosis: A study on Sodalis
	Padilla-Rolón	Darwing	The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey	Lauer	Ana	Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC)	Glutathione may play a Role Activating the Virulence Factor AvrA in Salmonella enterica
	Pena	Laura	University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez	Kauffman	Anne Kathryn	School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	Main Categories of Internal Virion Proteins in Phages (non published)
	Persaud	Steven	Cornell University	Meredith	Laura	University of Arizona	Volatility Representation in Microbial Metabolic Pathways
	Piedra	Enrique	Texas State University	Matty	Molly	Salk Institute	Basics of the Connectome and its possible applications in research of Alzheimer’s Disease
	Pojim	Joy	Cornell University	Prakash	Manu	Stanford University	Growth and Size Control in Trichoplax Adhaerens (non published)
	Price	Joyce Njabi	University of Massachusetts Boston	Feeney	Morgan	University of Strathclyde	Analysis of metal resistant Streptomyces
	Ralph	Amethyst	California Polytechnic University of Pomona	Emerson	Joanne	University of California, Davis	Mesorhizobium and Phage Relations
	Reyna	Dante	University of Texas at El Paso	Olszewski	Emily	University of Washington	Elucidating Mechanisms of Fibrosis
	Rodrigues	Anita	University of British Columbia	Lane	Kate	University of California Davis	Nitrogen Acquisition in Pitcher Plants
	Rodriguez	Andres	University of California, Los Angeles	Van Doorslaer	Koenraad	University of Arizona	HPV18 Infection Upregulates Genes Involved in Wound Healing
	Rodriguez	Cristina	Texas State University	Ackley	Brian	University of Kansas	RNASeq and You Shall Find The Pathogen
	Rodríguez Martínez	Gilmarie	University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus	Hollingsworth	Margaret	University at Buffalo, North Campus	Online Reasearch and Publication on Wikipedia
	Romero	Hector	University of Puerto Rico at Cayey	Haney	Cara	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus	Isolation of Pseudomonas strains from plantain roots and comparison of their genomic islands
	Rosas	James	Laney College	Tully	Benjamin	University of Southern California	Novel Bacteria from the East Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents
	Rosas	Ashley	Santa Monica College	Koskella	Britt	University of California at Berkeley	Occupancy-Abundance Relationships in Ecology
	Russell	Kemuel	Georgia Institute of Technology	Wissel	Emily	Emory University	The Abundance and Diversity of the Maternal Gut Microbiome during Pregnancy
	Singh	Anjalye	University of Maryland, College Park	Todd	Peter	University of Michigan	The Facts on FXTAS
	Soliman	Omnia	New York University	Routh	Andrew	University of Texas Medical Branch	Next Gen Sequencing and Primer Design for HIV and Zika Virus
	Starks	Shirmarie	Hampton University	Pepin	Deanna	University of British Columbia	Novel Species S24-7
	Tambou Nzoutchoum	Olive	Macalester College	Wissel	Emily	Emory University	The Vaginal Microbiome During Pregnancy
	Taylor	Kira	Hampton University	Harris	Isaac	University of Rochester Medical Center	High-Throughput Screening Using a Unique Drug Library
	Tembunde	Murielle	University of Maryland	Murray	Rianna	University of Maryland	CONSERVE Water Supply
	Thakurdyal	Ariana	Cornell University	Feeney	Morgan	University of Strathclyde	The Relationship Between the Evolution of RpoB and the Cas1 Type-1E CRISPR-Cas System Amongst Streptomyces Species
	Thorpe	Shaniece	North Carolina A&T State University	Elfenbein	Johanna	University of Wisconsin-Madison	NSURP end of summer report
	Torres-Colon	Maria A.	University of Puerto Rico- Humacao	Bradley	Patrick H.	The Ohio University	Introduction to Phylogenize
	Torres-Mora	Katyria	University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus	Prakash	Manu	Stanford University	PuertoRican Tichoplax (non published)
	Trujillo	Jesus	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	Komeili	Arash	University of California-Berkeley	A blog for everybody: magnetotactic bacteria
	Uradu	Toochi	Harvard University	Johnson	Donna	Leeds Beckett University	Effect of DAM Knockout on Colistin-resistant Escherichia coli
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