Life Sciences
Staying or Leaving STEM: Factors Influencing Undergraduate Major Decision
Presenters: Amanda Aamodt, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation
Presenters: Anna Everett, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience
Exploring the Effects of Oleate on Nr4a1 Transcriptional Activity and Binding
Presenter: Liana Leininger, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience
Does Gender Influence Participation and Performance in Bioinformatics?
Presenter: Mikaylie Parco, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Interviews of Undergraduate Bioinformatics Students Suggest Contrasting Reasons Why Men and Women Do or Do Not Participate in Cl
Presenters: Emilee Severe, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
Visualizing and Describing Science Identity Through an Image Association Survey
Presenters: Preston Carroll, Utah Valley University, Biology
Association of genetic polymorphisms of Cyclooxygenase II gene and prostatic diseases.
Presenters: Bryson Edwards, College of Science, Biology
DNA barcoding of Vietnamese Mayflies
Presenters: Jake Reed, College of Science, Biology
Feeding rate as a prediction tool for intraindividual variation in D. Melanogaster
Presenter: Tyler Burke, BYU, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
Effects of TMAO on Beta-cell Apoptosis
Presenter: Jordan Davis, College of Life Sciences, Physiology and Developmental Biology
Epigenetic Profiling of Human Peripheral Blood Monocytes
Presenter: Nolan Cole, Life Sciences, Micor-Molecular Biolody
The Effect of Glucotoxicity Induced ROS on Beta Cell Nkx6.1 Expression and Insulin Secretion
Presenter: Weston Elison, College of Life Sciences, Physiology and Developmental Biology
Evaluating Feature Correlation in Large Alzheimer's Disease Multi-Domain Datasets
Presenters: Erik Huckvale, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Acetobacter to Lactobacillus Ratios within Drosophila Melanogaster Microbiota, Diet and Environment Across a Latitudinal Range
Presenter: Amanda Morrison, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wild Life Sciences
ß-cell reduced proliferation under glucolipotoxic conditions are exacerbated by prolonged TMAO supplementation
Presenter: Kacie Russon, College of Life Sciences, Nutritional Science
Synaptic Plasticity: Learning and Unlearning
Presenters: Austin Stewart, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience
The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Limited Nkx6.1 Synthesis and Translocation
Presenter: Jared Wieland, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Correlation of Physical Activity with White Matter Hyperintensity Change
Presenter: Gauri Garg, College of Science, Biology
Lineage Tracing in Zebrafish with CRISPR Prime Editing
Presenter: Sahar Kanishka, College of Science, School of Biological Sciences
Bird Age and Likelihood of Fatal Collisions
Presenter: Taylor Kenyon, College of Science, Biology
Isolation and purification of bacterial species from rhizosphere of native plant Ceanothus velutinus (Snowbrush)
Presenters: Katherine Webb, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate
Green Fluorescent Protein Transfection for Enhanced Structural Differentiation of Mixed Cell Culture Images
Presenter: Tyson Hoyt, College of Science, Biology
COI barcoding in mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
Presenters: Avery Larsen, College of science, Biology
Effect of Inorganic Salts on the Growth of Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria
Presenter: Niharika Mishra, College of Science, Microbiology
The Ramp Atlas: A user-friendly online repository of tissue and cell-type specific ramp sequences
Presenters: Taylor Meurs, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Host acquisition on the effects of the geography specific microbiota of Drosophila melanogaster
Presenter: Shayna Scott, College of Life Sciences, Microbiology
A signaling pathway-driven bioinformatics pipeline for predicting therapeutics against emerging infectious diseases
Presenter: Tiana Scott, College of Life Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Biology
The Effects of NR4A1 on Insulin Secretion
Presenter: Drake Watkins, College of Life Science, Microbiology and Molecular Biology
The Utilization of Liposomes for Delivery of Gentamicin to Biofilms
Presenter: Nathan Buhler, College of Humanities and Life Sciences, Biology
DNA Comparison Within Owlfly Genus Ululodes Reveals New Species
Presenter: Jeremy Jensen, College of Science, Department of Biology
Effects of Celiac Disease and a Gluten-Free Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome
Presenters: Clayton Rawson, College of Science, Biology
Paucilactobacillus wasatchsensis WCD04 biofilm formation and adherence to stainless steel
Presenter: Lizell Mejias, College of Science, Microbiology
The Effects of Nr4a3 on Insulin Secretion
Presenter: Peter Ellsworth, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
Microbiome Effects on Drosophila melanogaster Metabolomics
Presenter: Sarah Gottfredson, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
Downstream Targets of Nkx6.1 and Pdx1 Present Targets for Inducing Beta-Cell Proliferation
Presenter: Daelin Jensen, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
PRSKB: A Web-based Polygenic Risk Score Calculator and Knowledge Base
Presenters: Ed Ringger, College of Life Sciences, Biology
Environmental Variation Shapes the D. Melanogaster Microbiota
Presenter: Ashton Tanner, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences
Reciprocal Peer Tutoring Homework Assignment on Student Learning: Effective Across Different Courses with Different Instructors?
Presenters: Madeleine Tullis, College of Life Sciences, Biology Science Education
Can students reap the benefits of reciprocal peer tutoring individually, or is the social interaction required?
Presenters: Inori Tsuchiya, College of Life Sciences, Bioinformatics
Assessing the Potential of Antimicrobial Blue Light and Combination Therapies to Treat Infections on Osseointegrated Implants
Presenter: Rose Godfrey, College of Medicine, Orthopaedics
Development of a Unique Antibiofilm Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Presenter: Marissa Badham, College of Science, Chemistry
Identification and characterization of PD-L1 in bovine placentas
Presenter: Andre Nguyen, College of Science, Biology
Competitive night-time stomatal response of Populus trichocarpa during drought
Presenter: Karrin Tennant, College of Science, School of Biological Sciences
Making Octahedral Particles
Presenter: Miles Robertson, University of Utah, Biochemistry
Can Little Changes Kill You? Using Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp to Examine Developmental Mortality
Presenters: Jessica Jones, College of Science, Biology
Contributions to an Insect Survey of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Presenter: Ernie Vilela, College of Science, Biology
Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 Role in Retinal Regeneration
Presenters: Landry Batis, College of Science, Zoology
Beta Cell Replication through Nkx6.1
Presenter: Connor Littlefield, College of Life sciences, Nutrition, dietetics and food science
Do Cocoa Flavanol Metabolites Induce Proliferation and Protect Against Apoptosis in Pancreatic β-cells?
Presenter: Chad Mourino, College of Life Sciences, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences