Students Share Summer Lab Research at HARPS Poster Fair

On Thursday, October 27, the 2021-2022 class of HARPS students (Hopkins Authentic Research Program in Science) presented posters of their summer lab research. The 24 students spent the summer as interns in labs around the world. The open format of the poster symposium encouraged members of the Hopkins community, including parents, faculty, staff and students, and invited guests to explore all the projects and ask questions of the student presenters. Each student spoke passionately about the project they were involved with, as well as how the experience of taking HARPS last year and spending the summer in a real research environment have effected their plans for college study and their professional careers beyond. The current 2022-2023 class of HARPS students were keen to speak with the veteran students, and gain advice on how to approach the coming year in the course. 

These are the labs that students worked last summer:

Michael Lau '23 worked with Margaret Ackermano in the Engineering School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Attenuating Effector Functions in 1010-74 HIV-1 antibody via  LALA-PG Mutation

Sydney Matthews '23 worked with Adrienne Betz in the Psychology Dept. at Quinnipiac. Juvenile Behavior Patterns Observed in Rodents Following Maternal Separation and Chronic Unpredictable Stress

Aisha Nabali '23 worked with Ruslan Medzhitov in the Immunology Dept. at Yale. Expression of RELM-α in Wounded Mouse Skin

Esmé Olshan-Cantin '23 worked with Brian Gaensler in the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Simulating Satellite damage in Low Earth Orbit

Krishna Scholand '23 worked with Julie Zimmerman in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Dept. at Yale. Absorption of Copper Ions onto Lignin: A model for heavy metal decontamination of Drinking water

William Shaw '23 worked with Andrew Goodman in the Microbial Sciences Institute Dept. at Yale. Exploring the source and function of Fecal Trypsin

Ingrid Slattery '23 worked with Yu He in the Applied Physics Dept. at Yale. Reflective Mutual Inductance device for magnetic susceptibility

Nao Tomita '23 worked with Gary Rudnick in the Pharmacology Dept. at Yale. Exploring methods for quantification of conformational change in serotonin transporter

Rhea Ahuja '23 worked with Stafania Nicoli in the School of Medicine Dept. at Yale. microRNA-128 and its role in Development of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells

Arin Bhandari '23 worked with Shangqin Guo  in the Cell Biology Dept. at Yale. Designing a Fluorescent timer to measure cell cycle speed

Melody Cui '23 worked with Hilary Blumberg in the Psychology Dept. at Yale. Regularizing Daily Rhythms in Adolescent and Young Adults with Bipolar Disorder to Reduce Emotion Dysregulation, Mood Symptoms, and Risk of Suicide

Abigail Grauer Kruger '23 worked with Valerie Horsley in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Dept. at Yale.     Effect on Efferocytosis by Macrophages During Skin Wound Healing

Austin Koff '23 worked with Richard Bucala in the Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiolgy and School of public health Depts. at Yale. Effects of macrophage migration inhibitory factor inhibition on melanoma tumor growth

Nick Lee '23 worked with Ye He in the Applied Physics Dept. at Yale. Development and Implementation of a Novel Method for Ultra-High Vacuum Interlock

Cyrus Sadeghi '23 worked with Jean-Leon Thomas in the Cellular and Molecular Physiology  Dept. at Yale. Molecular Regulation and imaging of the blood brain barrier in the CNS 

Amanda Wang '23 worked with Alicia Che in the Psychiatry Dept. at Yale. Developmentally regulated layer-specific synaptic inputs to L2/3 Pyramidal Cells

Marco Buschauer '23 worked with William Bertsche in the Alpha Project at CERN. Single Axis Simulation of a Particle in a Paul Trap with different Integrators

Caterina Cassin '23    
            
Adam Hagens '23 worked with Kathleen Martin in the Pharmacology Dept. at Yale.    LM07 in Nuclear and Cytoskeletal Architecture

Rebecca Joseph '23 worked with Martina Brueckner in the Pediatric Cardiology Dept. at Yale. Effect of RNF20 on Ciliary Motility and Heart Defects

Aanya Panyadahundi '23 worked with Noah Palm in the Immunobiology Dept. at Yale. Bacteriocides Ovatus Effect on SOX10+ Neuronal Signalling

Nate Seluga '23 worked with Cynthia Reinhart-King in the Biomedical Engineering Dept. at Vanderbilt. Vinculin Mediates Migration in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Vivian Wang '23 worked with Michael Nitabach in the Cellular and Molecular Physiology Dept. at Yale. Multisensory Decision Making and Metabolic Information Integration in c. elegans

Joy Xu '23 worked with Peijun Guo in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Dept. at Yale. Development of Spatio-Temporal Thermal Imaging