Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) Abstracts

Advisor	Title	Author	Major	College
Dr. Paul Arnold	7T versus 1.5T or 3T MRI in the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury and Cerebrovascular Diseases: A Meta-Analysis	Victoria Blaiotta-Vazquez	Biology	University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
Dr. Rashid Bashir	A Mechanistic Study of the Positive Effect of Cryopreservation on Skeletal Muscle Tissue Differentiation	Lourdes Marinna Caro Rivera	Industrial Microbiology	University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Dr. Rabin Bhattarai	A Review of Biodegradable Mesh Nettings as an Alternative to Plastic Mesh Netting to Prevent Wildlife Entanglement and Damage to Machinery	Kabir Fakoya	Agricultural & Biological Engineering	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Ann Witmer	A Review of Electric-Fired Cardamom Dryer as a More Efficient and Cost-Effective Alternative to Wood-Burning Cardamom Dryers in Guatemala	Fina Healy	Agricultural & Biological Engineering	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Megan Mahoney	An Investigation of Anxiety-Like behavior in Male and Female Mice that were Prenatally Exposed to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) Specially a Mixture of Phthalates	Alma Avila Oropeza	Biochemistry	California State University San Marcos
Dr. Christopher Fennell	Colonialism, Rebellion and Autonomy: An Analysis of the Conditions Conducive to Grand Marronage in Colonial Brazil	Terrence Freeman	Anthropology (Archaeology)	Lawrence University
Dr. Ryan Dilger & Dr. Angela Green-Miller	Does proximity to a conspecific alter social behavioral patterns in artificially reared pigs?	Laxaviera Elphage	Animal Poultry & Veterinary Science	Tuskegee University
Dr. Catherine Murphy	Effect of gold nanoparticle surface chemistry on chemotaxis	Nicole Southey	Bioengineering	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Taher Saif	Effects of Tumor Microenvironment Stiffness on Colon, Breast, and Pancreatic Cancer Progression and Metastasis	Desiré Rivera Borges	Chemical Engineering	University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Dr. Martha Gillette	Endogenous circadian rhythm of claudin-5 and occludin and their effect on micro-solute permeability of in vitro endothelial cells	Mimi Weary	Biology	College of the Desert
Dr. Issam Moussa	Evaluating Autonomic Response to Exercise in Post-Heart Transplant PatientsLearning and Photovoice	Chelsea Prudent	Biology	New York University
Dr. Michael Spinella	Gene Expression Alterations Associated with PFOS treatment of Testicular Cancer Cells	Yazmin Romero-Sanchez	Animal Sciences	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Kai James	Generative Adversarial Networks for Topology Optimization of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters	Priyanka Sarangabany	Aerospace Engineering	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Kevin Poh Hiong Tan	How Do Youth Understand Their Identity, Agency, and Belonging During The Recovery Process Of The Covid-19 Pandemic? A Pilot Study on Transformative Social Emotional	Adrian Brown	Social Work	Northeastern Illinois University
Dr. Isabel Molina-Guzmán	Microtargeting and Latinx Voting Behavior in the 2020 Election: An Analysis of the Latinx Electorate in Arizona and Florida	Viviana Ayala Sandoval	Politics/Spanish, Latin American, & Caribbean Literatures & Cultures	Scripps College
Dr. Martha Gillette	Phosphorylated ezrin expression in the dentate gyrus of the rat hippocampus	Rachel Orpano	Biochemistry/Biology	University of Iowa
Dr. Lori Raetzman	Polychlorinated Biphenyl Exposure in Female Rats During Critical Development Windows Alters Gene Expression in the Pituitary Gland	Bella Guardado	Chemistry	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dr. Ido Golding	Recreating the Gene Regulation Model of Bacteriophage Lambda	Leiana-Lavette Woodard	Chemistry and Mathematics	Fisk University
Dr. Hyun Joon Kong	Regulating Oxidative Stress in C2C12 Skeletal Muscle Cells Using ROS-responsive N-acetylcysteine Crystals	Jared Ian Gadia	Chemical Engineering	University California, San Diego
Dr. Wilfred van der Donk	Similarities in the Amino Acid Sequence of Class I Lanthipeptide Nisin and Protein Variants Have the Potential for Increased Antibiotic Properties	Jalen Spain	Biology	Tuskegee University
Dr. Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk	The Effects of Neonicotinoid Insecticide Imidacloprid (IMI) in a Murine Liver Model and its Functions With Comparison to a Known Hepatotoxin, 3,5-Diethoxycarbonyl-1, 4-Dihydrocollidine (DDC)	Madison Goforth	Microbiology/Nutrition & Food Systems	University of Arizona
Dr. Nidia Ruedas-Gracia	The Latinx College Student’s Cultural Sense of Belonging: Assessing the Role of Collegiate Multicultural Resources & Programs	Lourdes Carteño	Psychology & Latina/o Studies	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan	The Relationship between BMIs, the risk of cardiovascular disease, and PFAS levels in Post-Menopausal Women	Jacqueline Romero	Food Science & Human Nutrition	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Edward Lochocki	Using BioCro to model soybean plant growth, and testing the accuracy of the model by comparing it to data within the SoyNAM database	Terrance Hawkins	Biology	Fisk University
Dr. Edward Lochocki	Utilizing BioCro for modeling light transmission in a soybean canopy by separately calculating PAR and NIR light bands	Daniel Davies	Physics	Fisk University