Neuroscience & Health Disparities |
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Board | Title | Presenter |
A1 | The Neural Development of Mandarin Lexical Tone Processing in Bilingual English-Mandarin Children | Angela Cheng, Faith Chai, Andres Diaz |
A2 | The Neurophysiology of Multi-Feature Music Processing in Children with Different Language Backgrounds | Kristal Reyes, Faith Chai, Angela Chen |
A3 | Sex differences in knee joint pain in relation to joint pathology and innervation | Tamara King |
A4 | Enhancing Extinction of Morphine Place Preference with Extinction Training and Deep Brain Stimulation | Wilma Richiez-Mateo, Jennifer Barreto-Estrada |
A5 | Structure-activity relationship study of novel sEH/FAAH dual inhibitors for the treatment of chronic pain | Anesa Mesic |
A6 | Dual inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase and soluble epoxide hydrolase differentially alleviates acute inflammatory pain in the paw compared to the trigeminal region in rats | Madison Mercado |
A7 | Estrous cycle does not influence locomotor responses to oxycodone in rats | Ana Rey Caldera, Mark Bardgett |
A8 | Stiffness and Topography Modulates TRPV4 Activation in AF Mechanotransduction | Johannes Hasler, Mikkael Lamoca |
A9 | Renal Effects Following Central Administration of Nociceptin in Heart Failure Rats | Roodabeh Askari, Helmut Gottlieb |
A10 | Sex- and brain-region specific changes in c-Fos in limbic brain structures following in adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure male and female C57BL/6J mice | Dashear Hill |
A11 | Sleep, Awakenings & Postpartum Blues in Minority Moms | Ellen Tatevosyan |
A12 | Extracellular Vesicle-Based Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease in In Vitro Tauopathy Models | Samaneh Ghadami, Kristen Dellinger |
A13 | Determinants of Added Sugars Intake in Individuals of African and East Asian Ancestry Groups Living in the United States | Lauren Zami, Caren Ghali, Janel Clovis |
A14 | Food Liking, Body Appreciation, and Eating Behaviors on Dietary Quality in Women | Caren Ghali, Janel Clovis, May Cheung |
A15 | Identification of new Dopamine D4 receptor selective ligands for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders | Edith Besegni Kuudaar |
A16 | Early Life Pain and its Impacts on Cell Population Phenotype in the Amygdala and Hypothalamus | Brooklyn Merrill |
A17 | Pacific Islander Community (PIC) Health: Using Technology Innovation to Combat NHPI Health Disparities | Amy Alexandre |
A18 | Community-Driven Innovation to Reduce Health Disparities in NHPI and Latinx Communities | Diane Hoang |
A19 | Exploring the effects of personal identity and nationality, legal status, and religious belief on disparities in social well-being and mental health among Korean immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area, California: A qualitative study | Airi Trisnadi, Briyana Costa |
A20 | Empowering Latinx Health: Bridging Research and Community for Equity | Rosalva Romero Gonzalez |
A21 | Sure Resource Center |

Poster Sessions
There will be three poster sessions during the conference.
- Tuesday morning (A)
- Tuesday afternoon (B)
- Wednesday afternoon (C)
The boards will be 4'H x 6'W, and you may use any style of poster you like, so long as it fits on the board. View the charts below to see your poster session and assignment.
Conference Quick Links
Session A Tuesday Morning 10-11:30 am
Session B Tuesday Afternoon 3:15-4:45 pm
Environment, Stress, Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, Technology |
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Board | Title | Presenter |
B1 | Association of Combined PFAS and Heavy Metals Exposures on the Dietary Inflammatory Index | Augustina Odediran |
B2 | Association of Combined Metals and PFAS with Cardiovascular Disease Risk | Yvonne Boafo |
B3 | Association of Combined Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Metals with Chronic Kidney Disease | Issah Haruna |
B4 | Consequences of NanoplasticExposure in the C. elegans Model System | Chiara Maldonado, Paola Garcia |
B5 | Investigating the Interplay of Toxic Metals and Essential Elements in Liver disease | Aderonke Adetunji |
B6 | Building a Mouse Model of Gastrointestinal Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus | Maria Niamba |
B7 | A mechanistic examination of an alternative polyamine biosynthetic pathway common in human gut microbes | Jeffrey McFarlane |
B8 | Characterization of a high-affinity Cu-transporter in Pseudogymnoascus destructans | Alyssa Friudenberg |
B9 | Regulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by TNF-α during herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) latency establishment | Shao-Chung Hsia, Miguel Martin-Caraballo |
B10 | Dermal-Epidermal Junction Disruptors: Toxicodynamic Mechanisms | Blase Billack |
B11 | Molecular and Serological Detection of Rickettsia species phylotype G022 in the Blood of Domestic Dogs in Northern California | Nicholas Woronchuk |
B12 | A Drosophila tumor model reveals multiple pre-cachexic changes larval muscles | Mardelle Atkins |
B13 | Metabolic dysfunction in survivors of Blm-deficient development in Drosophila Melanogaster | Abigail Brown |
B14 | Lineage tracing and constitutively-active Protein Kinase A (PKA) expression in transgenic mouse models identify FOXD1 progenitor-derived cells and their potential role in gastric polyposis | Gabriella Turnipseed, Esraa Alnahrawy, Pawan Puri |
B15 | A novel splicing graph allows a direct comparison between exon-based and splice junction-based approaches to alternative splicing detection | Daniel Witoslawski |
B16 | Optimizing DNA nanostructures’ design to advance targeted gene delivery | Mahboubeh Ebrahimian |
B17 | Rapid Elimination Hindering Exosome-Assisted Carbon Dot Delivery | Mehrnoosh Bahadorani |
B18 | Self-emulsifying NanoPODS(Nano-PND Oral delivery systems) for Enhanced Oral Bioavailability of PND1186: In silico modeling approach | Drishti Rathod |
B19 | The influence of the polyol solvents on the continuous growth of water-dispersible iron oxide nanoparticles | Jing Qu |
B20 | Gold Nanorod-embedded PDMS micropillar array for localized photothermal stimulation | Nafis Mustakim |
B21 | Non-invasive Condition Monitoring of Ventricular Assistive Devices Using Automated Advanced Acoustic Methods | David Donahower |
Session C Wednesday Afternoon 1-2:30 pm
Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, Design |
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Board | Title | Presenter |
C1 | Pyk2 inhibition mitigates immunosuppressive environment and enhances therapeutic response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in GBM | Lilia Kucheryavykh |
C2 | In-vitro evaluation of synergistic efficacy of CDK4/6 and HDAC inhibitor in Pancreatic cancer | Shraddha Bhutkar |
C3 | Colorectal Cancer Screening Monitoring Study with African American Patients of Community Health Centers in North Florida | John Luque |
C4 | Intracellular PD-L1 promotes transcription of the anti-apoptotic genes IL-8, Bcl3 and STAT1 in IFN-stimulated ovarian cancer cells | Suprataptha Reddy, Ivana Vancurova |
C5 | Upregulation of MMP3 Promotes Cisplatin Resistance of Ovarian Cancer | Mariela Rivera-Serrano |
C6 | Targeting matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3) in high-grade serous ovarian cancer | Víctor Reyes-Burgos |
C7 | Multifunctional Targeted Nanotechnology Platform for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Treatment | Onyinyechi Obidiro, Gantumur Battogtokh |
C8 | New approach based on enzyme stimulating of peptides for targeting drug resistance breast Cancers | Neda Habibi |
C9 | Identification of new small molecule inhibitors of CK1δ or CK1ε via in-silico screening and hit-to-lead optimization | Shuai Ma |
C10 | Towards the isolation and identification of the bioactive principles with potential anticancer properties from an African plant | Ismail Jones |
C11 | High throughout characterization of mutations | Fergus Place |
C12 | Enhancing Drug Discovery via Physics-Guided Deep Generative Models | Ari Jasko |
C13 | Design and Synthesis of Dual 5-HT1Aand 5-HT7Receptor Selective Ligands as CNS Therapeutics | Matilda Adzimah |
C14 | Inhibition of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase by Natural Isothiocyanates | Baily Yee, Kaylen Soo |
C15 | The Inhibitory Effects of Natural Isothiocyanates on Human Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase | Kaylen Soo, Baily Yee |
C16 | Research opportunities in drug discovery for students at a primary undergraduate institution: Development of inhibitors of a Plasmodium calcium ATPase | Stefan Paula |
C17 | Analgesic Alkaloid Profiling of Different Processed Forms of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Aconitum | Lily Kharlamb |
C18 | Chemical and Bioactivity Analyses of the TCM Formula Sini Tang and Its Three Individual Plant Components | Gabriella Ravin |
C19 | Analyzing the Degradation Rates of Natural Polymer-Based Novel Materials for Use in Biomedical Applications | Tatum Smith |
C20 | Active flow control through a polypyrrole-coated macroporoussilicon membrane for chemical stimulations | Mayank Pandey |
C21 | Carboxyspermidine dehydrogenase of human gut microbe polyamine metabolism | Jeff McFarlane, Johnette Ostlund |