School of Systems Biology Fall 2019 Student Research Day
Graduate Student Research Presentations, Fall 2019
December 5, 2019
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Bull Run Hall, Prince William Campus
Poster Session
Jad Alchoubassi
“Specificity of Exosomes Derived from Rift Valley Fever Virus Infected Cells for Rift Viral Infection”
Raghad Almofeez
“Novel Trypanosoma cruzi Specific Urinary Peptides Identified in Chagas Disease Congenitally Infected Infants Using Nanoparticle-based Mass Spectrometry”
Sarah Alobaid
“Investigation of The Role of pgsBCA (capBCA) in Francisella novicida”
Kelly Arias Cardenas
“A study of the Humanized Monoclonal Antibody CT109 In combination with Folfiri and Bortezomib as a treatment for Colorectal Cancer”
Rachel Carter
“Hotspot interfaces between immune-oncology targets PD-1 & PD-L1 and between Hippo pathway targets YAP2 & ZO-1”
George Dimitrov
“Metagenomic Marker of Pain Management In Mouse Model Of Partial Bone Resection Followed By Prolonged Musculoskeletal Unloading”
Marissa Howard
“Extracellular Vesicles with Autophagosome properties”
Jennifer Jones
“Mycobacteriophage Cluster Identification Using The Minor Tail Protein Gene”
Mia Keady
“Characterizing the Zoo-Managed Elephant Gut Microbiome”
Thomas Lattanze
“Detection and Assessment of Nuclear Material Associated with Extracellular Vesicles from HTLV-1 Infected Cells”
Faisal Madkhali
”Secreted proteins of Francisella novicida ”
Tabinda Muzaffa
“Antimicrobial peptide systemic review and data analysis against Gram-positive bacteria”
Lauren Panny
“Discovering Antivirals Targeting E1 Protein of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitic Virus Utilizing Interactome Analysis”
Hallie Rauch
“The Role of the Type Three Secretion System of Y. pestis on Exosome Mediated Modulation of the Innate Immune Response”
Ngoc Vuong
“Discovery biomarkers for predicting breast cancer in women with suspicious mammograms”
Melisa Wilson
“Replacing In Vivo MAP/HAP Assay with Rapid Testing”
Ruth Zhang
“Targeting Rab6-Km23-1 Mediated Compartmentalized Trafficking as a Novel Therapeutic Approach”
Oral Presentations
Victoria Callahan
“Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus capsid interactome analysis identifies potential therapeutic targets”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kylene Kehn-Hall
Bryan Delfing
“Binding of G281-1485 inhibito to importin IMPa”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dmitri Klimov
Kianoush Jeiran
“Human ApoB-100 Structural Assembly: Homology Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Theoretical Domains”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ancha Baranova
Mitra Kashanchi
“Assessing the impacts of oil and gas wastewater spills on microbial communities of the Permian Basin”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ancha Baranova
Graham Matulis
“Role of p38 MAP kinase in exosome-mediated innate immune response during Yersinia pestis infection”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ramin Hakami
Eric Munger
“Analysis of Non-calcified Coronary Burden in Psoriasis Cohort using Machine Learning for Biomarker Identification and Discovery”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Saleet Jafri
