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Spring 2025 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Minan Abdin, Psychology; Filsan Mawlid, Biology  
The use of chemogenetic approach to determine the role of dopamine D1 receptors in the DLS in reducing fear renewal
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

Fahiima Abdullahi, Biology
The Role of Mitochondria Metabolism in CD8 Cell Motility
Mentor: Mercedes Rincon, Immunology and Microbiology

Thomas Asefa, Biology
Assessing novel PI3K inhibitors for efficacy in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus.
Mentor: Britton Barbee, Psychiatry

Elizabeth Chung, Psychology
Therapeutic Contact Lens for Corneal Diseases
Mentor: Jungjae Lee, Chemistry

Muyang Cui, Economics 
An Investigation of The Prevalence of The Use of Hallucinogens in a Period of Decriminalization
Mentor: Laura Argys, Economics

Angellina Fioretto, Film and Television Production; Alex Tyler, Film and Television Production
Long Way Home
Mentor: Hans Rosenwinkle, Film and Television

Maliyah Gallien, Psychology; Aaliyah AJ Valdez, Psychology 
Does the time of day of exercise influence its stress-protective effects?
Mentor: Ben Greenwood, Psychology

Ryan Ha, Biology; Roberto Jacobo, Biology; Anh Gia Le, Biology
Applications of Nanoparticles in Cancer Imaging
Mentor: Jung-Jae Lee, Chemistry

Deveyn Hainey, Computer Science; Ashlynn Hainey, Computer Science
PhishSense
Mentor: Zhengxiong Li, Computer Science and Engineering

Nikola Hilderbrand, Mechanical Engineering
Properties of continuous fiber-reinforced cellular structures.
Mentor: Guoying Dong, Mechanical Engineering

Flint Holmes, Illustration
Performance Art Week Performance Project (Sacrifice)
Mentor: Rian Kerrane, Visual Arts

Stephanie Karas, Psychology 
Studying the Role of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition on Microglial Activation
Mentor: Lindsay Osso, Cell and Developmental Biology

Lo Bailey Laboda, Physics
Electron-impact Excitation of Neutral Gold
Mentor: Kathryn Hamilton, Physics

Maria Londono Cano, Psycholog 
Optimizing a method for Nucleus Accumbens Inhibition
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

Isaiah Lowe, Biochemistry 
Inhibition of Insulin Secretion Induced by Oxidative Stress Compounds
Mentor: Jefferson Knight, Chemistry

Isabella Luna, Sociology 
Exploring the Social Identities of First-Born Latinas: Examining the Influence of Familial Roles on Romantic Relationships and Mental Health
Mentor: Edelina Burciaga, Sociology

Arthur Mason, Psychology 
Psychedelic Anthropology: Research and Creative Work on Legalized Psilocybin Mushrooms in Colorado
Mentor: Marty Otañez, Anthropology

Faiz Minhajuddin, Biology 
The Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Macrophages in a Iron-rich Environment
Mentor: Joseph Onyiah, Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Sachiel Oberto, Psychology
Identifying Animals associated with Limber Pine Damage in Yellowstone National Park
Mentor: Diana Tomback, Integrative Biology

Madison Revier, Education & Human Development; Chaeli Hobbs, Sociology; Daniel Torres Diaz, Political Science
Through the Lens of Pauper Graves: Understanding Colorado History From Below
Mentor: James Walsh, Political Science

Daniel Skhisov, Biology 
Tracking Immune Cell Biomarkers in RET + Lung Adenocarcinoma-Bearing Mice
Mentor: Lynn Heasley, Craniofacial Biology

Kyley Stalker, Biology 
ChemEd 2025
Mentor: Priscilla Burrow, Chemistry

Ven Talley, Sociology/ Illustration 
Graphic Medicine: Applying the Graphic Novel Approach to Liberatory Harm Reduction With People Who Use Drugs (PWUD)
Mentor: Marty Otanez, Anthropology

Marley Tremmel, Film and Television; Jack Kabel, Film and Television
The William Tell Act: A Short Film
Mentor: Andrew Bateman, Film and Television

Stephanie White, Biology/Psychology 
Syt 7 and 9 Protein Interactions Related to Insulin Secretion
Mentor: Jefferson Knight, Chemistry

Xiaoyan Zhang, Economics; Tiange Yu, Economics; Jingzhu Ji, Economics
Does relaxing anti-natalist policy increase fertility? An examination of the impact of the two-child policy in China on women’s fertility behavior.
Mentor: Laura Argys, Economics

Keira Zito, Anthropology
Indigenous Perspectives on Legal Psychedelics in Colorado
Mentor: Marty Otañez, Anthropology

Austin Zuber, Computer Science
Artificial Harmonies: The Ethical Debate Over AI and Music
Mentor: Greg Harris, Music and Entertainment Studies

 

Fall 2024 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Remla Abdul, Integrative Biology

Drug dependence and avoiding alcohol relapse through drug

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Asma AlMasyabi, Creative Writing

Colorado History Research Poetry

Mentor: Brian Barker, English

 

Layla Blair, Bioengineering

Developing 3D Bioprinted Hybrid Hydrogels to Model Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering

 

Savannah Brassell, Film and Television; Rowan Taylor Laska, Film and Television; Matteen Saremi, Film and Television

Angel of Envy

Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television

 

Sam Blessen Fredrick, Biology and Computer Science

Understanding the role of macrophages in A. nidulans induced granulomatous inflammation

Mentor: Atif Shaikh, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

 

Gale Khayut, Psychology

Blood and Ghosts on my Typewriter (collection of short stories manuscript).

Mentor: Eliot Wilson, English

 

Giuliah Kramer, Biology

Inheritance of Trauma: Investigating Epigenetic and Transgenerational Marks on the Human Genome

Mentor: Christopher Phiel, Biology

 

Analuisa Larson, Biology

Benchmarking study and application of data analysis tools in metatranscriptomics

Mentor: Chris Miller, Biology

 

Maria Londono Cano, Psychology

Uncovering the neural circuit responsible for exercise-induced stress resilience

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Cadence Marsolek, Film and Television; Marley Tremmel, Film and Television

Survivor's Guide to True Crime

Mentor: Thomas Kolicko, Film and Television

 

William Navarrete Moreno, Public Health

Association Between Discrimination in Medical Settings and Increased Allostatic Load: Evidence from the ‘All of Us’ Cohort Study

Mentor: Frank DeGruy, Family Medicine

 

Maleeha Shah, Public Health

Navigating perinatal mood disorders: A qualitative interview study of mothers and maternal health providers in the United States

Mentor: Hyeyoung Nelson, Health and Behavioral Sciences

 

Christiana Smith, Psychology and Criminal Justice

Assessing the Effect of Environmental Safety on Criminality Judgments

Mentor: Carly Leonard, Psychology

 

Aaron Tran, Biochemistry

Intermittent Fasting Improves Endochondral Fracture Healing in Obese/T2D Mice

Mentor: Honey Hendesi, Orthopedics

 

Jose Uribe Lopez, Film and Television; Stefanie Olivan, Film and Television; Jada Hogg, Film and Television

Day Of My Death

Mentor: Andrew Bateman, Film and Television

 

 

Ione Larson, Biochemistry

Establishing the Goal Oriented to Habit Based Behavior in the Exercise of Rats

Mentor: Margaret Tanner, Psychology

 

Dien Thinh Nguyen, Biology

Therapeutic Contact Lens for Corneal Diseases

Mentor: Jung-Jae Lee, Chemistry

 

Sachiel Oberto, Psychology

Exercise, the Stress Protective Effect, and the NAc-DRN Pathway

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Lauren O'Brien, Film and Television; Drew Bouchard, Film and Television; Malakye Tsosie, Film and Television

Woven Together

Mentor: Andrew Bateman, Film and Television

 

Joseph Oler, Electrical Engineering; Jordan Forestell, Electrical Engineering; Luis Sandoval, Electrical Engineering

Dietary Sensing via Gustatory Pathway using EEG Wearable Device

Mentor: Nam Bui, Electrical Engineering

 

Leia Rockhold, Sociology

The Impact of Contemporary Antisemitism on Jewish Identity, Presentation, and Personal Security

Mentor: Keith Guzik, Sociology

 

Celestine Swehla, Human Development and Family Relations

An exploration of the representation of mixed college students at minority serving institutions: Webpage exposure, present or non-existent

Mentor: Jennifer Camacho Taylor, Education and Human Development

 

Kimmy Van, Psychology

Mindful Wellness, Emotional Alignment, and inTergenerational Healing (WEALTH) Program

Mentor: Soyon Bueno, Asian American Student Services

 

Trevor Walker, Civil Engineering

Geometric Mechanics of Hypar Metamaterials

Mentor: Shengzhe (Jackson) Wang, Civil Engineering

 

Yuki Wei, Communication

Alternative Sub-culture for Free Self-expression: Case study of Skateboarding Feminism in Mainland China

Mentor: Sarah Field, Communication

 

Antonia Yanez, Film and Television

Psilocybin mushrooms, health and culture: BIPOC video stories to destigmatize psychedelic fungi

Mentor: Marty Otanez, Anthropology

Fall 2023 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Ali Alnazzal, Political Science and International studies

The Demise of the Iraqi Women's rights After the US Invasion

Mentor: Bassem Hassan, Political Science

 

Mason Bruce, Public Health

Neuroplasticity and Binaural Beats: A Proposed Mechanism of Action

Mentor: Jason Watson, Psychology

 

Jesus Canales, Electrical Engineering; Samuel Steen, Electrical Engineering; Conner Beasley, Electrical Engineering; Ricky Bergquist, Mechanical Engineering

EV Team

Mentor: Jaedo Park, Electrical Engineering

 

McKaylyn Ervin, Anthropology

Psilocybin (‘magic mushrooms’) Use Among BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and Low-Income Individuals in Colorado

Mentor: Marty Otañez, Anthropology Department

 

Sam Fredrick, Biology and Computer Science

Construction of an Atomistic Model for the V319G mutant for CLCF F-/H+ Antiporter

Mentor: Hai Lin, Chemistry

 

Yuri Freitas Dos Santos, Psychology BA

Psilocybin Therapy in Advanced Cancer

Mentor: Vivian Shyu, Psychology

 

Kelly Karagias, Psychology BA

The effect of time-on task on the useful field of view

Mentor: Carly Leonard, Psychology

 

Mercy Kibet, Sociology

Black Maternal Health in Colorado

Mentor: Edelina Burciaga, Sociology

 

Kamryn Korth, Psychology

Exploring estrogen's role in fear extinction learning and memory

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Jason Lee, Biology

Effects of PFAS Exposure in the Cholesterol Content of the Liver

Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrated Biology

 

Brian Lim, Mechanical Engineering

3D Printing of Continuous Fibre Reinforced Composite

Mentor: Guoying Dong, Mechanical Engineering

 

Piper Malczewski, Physics

Dielectrophoretic Parameters of Self-assembling Cabron-based Materials

Mentor: Randall Tagg, Physics

 

James Martinez, Film and Television; Nicholas Hoffman, Film and Television; Lucas Milani, Film and Television

Business In Suits

Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television

 

Ariel Matthews, Biochemistry

CHOLESTEROL ENHANCES MEMBRANE BINDING BY SYNAPTOTAGMIN-7 C2 DOMAINS.

Mentor: Jefferson Knight, Chemistry

 

Jennifer Nguyen, Chemistry Biochemistry and Psychology

Modeling of the E318Q mutant for CLCF F-/H+ Antiporter

Mentor: Hai Lin, Chemistry

 

Jacob Thompson, Film and Television; Tim Brown, Film and Television; Andrew Carr, Film and Television; Tommy Kubena, Film and Television; Leon Ryder, Film and Television; Antonia Yanez, Film and Television

Gunslingers

Mentor: David Liban, Film and Television

 

Jose Trevino, Film and Television; Robert Chenhall, Film and Television; Marley Tremmel, Film and Television

Analog, a short film by the Student Filmmaking Club

Mentor: Sidney Reed, Film and Television

 

Luis Vargas, Public Health; Stefanie Varghese, Public Health

El Nino Response in the U.S. and Peru

Mentor: Ivan Ramirez, Health and Behavioral Science

 

Zowie Werner, Biology

TINTO (Two and Three-dimensional Imaging for NMR sTrip Operation via CV/ML)

Mentor: Woonghee Lee, Chemistry

 

Chynna Whittaker, Film and Television

In The Gutter

Mentor: Cynthia Cazanas-Garin, Film and Television

 

Nicholas Wilson, Film and Television; Jackson Gould, Film and Television;Kira Brown, Film and Television

Red Plump Tomatoes

Mentor: Hans Rosenwinkel, Film and Television

 

Spring 2023 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Remla Abdul, Biology

Identification of dorsal raphe nucleus afferents potentially involved in exercise-induced stress resilience

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Hamza Ahmed, Biochemistry

Tagging and Expression of Candida Albicans

Mentor: Allison Swain Porman, Biochemistry

 

Hope Bailey, Psychology

Not the Same Anymore: Predictors of Exacerbated Self-Image in those with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Mentor: Dustin Goerlitz, Psychology

 

Alyssa Cruz, Public Health

Inference of bacterial pathogen load in US rivers from landscape-scale shotgun metagenomic sequencing

Mentor: Chris Miller, Integrative Biology

 

Annemarie Dupuy, Public Health

Examining How Exposure to Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Perceived Discrimination Affect Cardiovascular Health

Mentor: Jennifer Morozink Boylan, Health & Behavioral Sciences

 

Kirsten Gwin, Chemistry

Peptide NMR Analysis

Mentor: Liliya Vugmeyster, Chemistry

 

Megan Hassler, Art History and Photography

The Significance of Visual Pop Culture to Art History: An Analysis of Avatar: The Last Airbender

Mentor: Maria Buszek, Visual Arts

 

William Leary, Biology

Assessing Lead Tolerance in the fungus Suillus tomentosus

Mentor: Sara Branco, Integrative Biology

 

Ariel Matthews, Biochemistry

Effects of Cholesterol on Membrane Binding by Synaptotagmin-7 C2 Domains

Mentor: Jeff Knight, Chemistry

 

Makayla Mohr, Criminal Justice and Psychology; Michelle Vasquez Loya, Criminal Justice

Ethics Behind TrueCrime Podcasts

Mentor: Melissa Tackett-Gibson, Criminal Justice

 

Carolina Sanchez Mendoza, Biology

Effect of female estrous cycle on synaptic plasticity during fear extinction learning

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Jessica Valdez, Criminal Justice and Biology

Invisible Enemies: How COVID-19 Related Hate Crimes Against the AAPI Community Have Affected Police Perceptions

Mentor: Melissa Tackett-Gibson, Criminal Justice

 

Chynna Wittaker, Film and Television

Circus Foundry Documentary

Mentor: Christopher Beeson, Film and Television

 

Fall 2022 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Lareina Alvarez, Biology

Are D1 neurons in the dorsal lateral striatum a novel target for the prevention of fear relapse?

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Ema Arai, Biology

Matrix Metalloproteinase-Deactivating Contact Lenses: A Potential Treatment for Corneal Melting Disease

Mentor: Jung-Jae Lee, Chemistry

 

Vrishank Bikkumalla, Biology

Effects of Cholesterol on Membrane Binding by Synaptotagmin 7 C2 Domains

Mentor: Jeff Knight, Chemistry

 

Zachary Courter, Biology

The Value of Science Communication in schools and beyond

Mentor: Gregory Ragland, Integrative Biology

 

Brennan Cregan, Film and Television

Mixer Through The Roof - A Study of Film Musical in Film School

Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television

 

Angela Crum, Architecture

Wood Bending Techniques for Advancement in Design and Fabrication

Mentor: Matthew Gines, Architecture and Planning

 

Miles Dryden, Psychology

Is the activation of D1-expressing neurons in the dorsolateral striatum sufficient to recreate exercise-induced stress resilience?

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Gabrielle Dudek, Biology and Computer Science

An apple a day doesn't keep the flies away

Mentor: Gregory Ragland, Biology

 

Jonathan Enssle, Photography

Elements: Preservation through Photography

Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Photography

 

Ryan Eskola, Electrical Engineering; Edward Ma, Electrical Engineering

Driverless Logistic Solutions: Autonomous Convoy Prototype  for Long Range Delivery

Mentor: Jaedo Park, Electrical Engineering

 

Brady Graeber, Geography

RELAQS: Research and Education with Low-cost Air Quality Sensors

Mentor: Ben Crawford, Geography

 

Emily Irlbeck, Biochemistry

Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó Chemistry Club Event Supplies

Mentor: Nan Kim, Chemistry

 

Julio Jaime, Biology

Lifelong Analysis of alx3 Craniofacial Function in Zebrafish

Mentor: Jamie Nichols, Craniofacial Biology

 

Maydha Kumar, BioEngineering

Sex Related Gene Expression Differences for Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Mentor: Brisa Pena, Bioengineering and Cardiology

 

Anshu Mehta, Biology

Cell cycle biomarker response to PFAS exposure in fish testes

Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrative Biology

 

LaDoniea Nisbeth, Environmental Science

Refining & Regulating Financial Inclusion Using Technology.

Mentor: Esther Sullivan, Sociology

 

Alexandra Poland, Biology

Porphyrin Synthesis Mulit-Institute Research Collaboration

Mentor: Scott Reed, Chemistry

 

Tyler Russell, Recording Arts Non Audition

The Experimental Photography and Printing of the Individuals of Colorado

Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Photography

 

Sayra Salgado, Biology

Are C3 Proteins Leading to Disfunction in Context of ALD

Mentor: Rebecca McCullough, Pharmacy

 

Spring 2022 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Kyra Collins, Photography

Close to Home

Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Visual Arts

 

Andrew Colson, Bioengineering

Synthesizing photodegradable biomaterials to study chronic lung diseases

Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering

 

Cason Haffner, Biology

Complex-mixture uptake and integrated organismal effects in fish exposed to a Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances-contaminated hydrological gradient at Joint Base Cape Cod, MA

Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrative Biology

 

Rebecca Han, Psychology, Biology

Optogenetic Activation of the Substantia Nigra to Dorsolateral Striatum during Fear Extinction Prevents Fear Renewal

Mentor: Ben Greenwood, Psychology

 

Elizabeth Kuhn, Environmental Science

Establishing Seasonal Variation of Floral Resources for Honey Bees

Mentor: Christy Briles, Geography

 

Kaitlyn Lafferty, Art History

The Impact of Queer Media on Sex Education in the AIDS Era

Mentor: Yang Wang, Art History

 

Cody Lewis, Biology

Assessing Zinc Tolerance in Fungi of Colorado

Mentor: Sara Branco, Integrative Biology

 

Jacqueline Miller, Bioengineering

Evaluation of lung progenitor cell growth in 3D hydrogels

Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering

 

Saif Eldeen Noreldeen, Bioengineering

Engineering a device for high-throughput lung decellularization

Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering

 

Margaret Price, Biochemistry

Dopamine circuits underlying estrous phase modulation of fear extinction

Mentor: Ben Greenwood, Psychology

 

Summer Richman, Biology

Why do ravens and magpies spend time near captive wolves?

Mentor: Diana Tomback, Integrative Biology

 

Nell Roberts, Art History

Joana Vasconcelos and her Journey Though the Art Market

Mentor: Yang Wang, Visual Arts

 

Fall 2021 EURÄ“CA! Grant Recipients

Nadja Brown, Biology

Neural circuits controlling voluntary physical activity

Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology

 

Alyssa Cruz, Public Health

Antimicrobial resistance genes from wetland ecosystems studied through multi-omics bioinformatic tools

Mentor: Chris Miller, Integrative Biology

 

Makayla De La Oliva, Psychology

Age Differences in Rats When Expressing Social Conditioned Fear or Social Buffering as a Result of Foot Shocks with a Social Cue

Mentor: Sondra Bland, Psychology

 

Daniela Gonzalez-Rivera, Biology

IRAK-M suppresses human melanoma cell invasion through upregulation of novel gene

Mentor: Eduardo Davila, Oncology

 

Jill Hoffman, Biochemistry

Modeling drug reactions with protein variants

Mentor: Scott Reed, Chemistry

 

Nikhitha Kastury, Biology

Senescence inducing processes and mechanisms in cardiomyocytes

Mentor: Edward Lau, Medicine

 

Naomi LaPointe, Psychology

A Social Behavior Comparison of Fear and Buffering of Adolescent and Adult Rats

Mentor: Sondra Bland, Psychology

 

Jae-Hwan Lim, Chemistry

Computational Analysis of CO2 Reduction Via Cystamine and Phenyl Constituent Protected Gold Nanoclusters.

Mentor: Emilie Guidez, Chemistry

 

Alexandra Ramirez, Psychology

High Pulse Energy, Low Damage: Optimizing 3-photon excitation for longitudinal in vivo imaging of mouse cortical gray and white matter

Mentor: Ethan Hugh, Cell and Developmental Biology

 

Haydee Ramirez, Biochemistry

Effect of PNPase on Oxidized RNA: A Structural and Mechanistic Analysis

Mentor: Marino Resendiz, Chemistry

 

Matthew Sawaged, Biology

Effect of Post-translational Modifications of Amyloid-ß fibril Dynamics at the N-terminal Domain

Mentor: Liliya Vugmeyster, Chemistry

 

Sandy Vang, Psychology

Investigating the Antiviral Response of the Olfactory Epithelium to HSV-1 Infection

Mentor: Diego Restrepo, Cell and Developmental Biology

 

Autumn Webster, Photography

Stuck in Motion

Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Visual Arts

 

Jacob Williamson, Illustration

Colorado Petroglyph: 2022

Mentor: Travis Vermilye, Vis

2020-2021 Recipients

2019-2020 Recipients

2018-2019 Recipients

2017-2018 Recipients

2019-2020 Abstracts

Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) – A Collaborative Timeline

Florence Blackwell – Recipient | Jeffrey Schrader  - Mentor

Contributor:

 

 

Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling

Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: 

The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation:  Evidence From Colorado

Lisette Martinez – Recipient | Safa Mechergui – Recipient | Sara Yeatman – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Associations between maternal depression and mother and infant oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR_rs53576) polymorphisms

Susan Kim – Recipient (page 502) | Peter Kaplan – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

Quantum Mechanical Modeling of the Interactions between Noble Metal (Ag and Au) Nanoclusters and Water with the Effective Fragment Potential Method

Anh Tran – Recipient | Emilie Guidez – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season

Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Determining Alternative Protein Isoform Expression Using RNA Sequencing and Mass Spectrometry

Julianna Wright – Recipient | Maggie Lam – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Chronic cannabinoid exposure produces tolerance to the dopamine releasing effects of WIN 55,212-2 and heroin in adult male rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Endocannabinoid modulation of dopamine release during reward seeking, interval timing and avoidance

Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

Does Palliative Care Utilization Facilitate Conversion to Hospice Care?  A Qualitative Study of the “Soft No”

Ariana Talaie – Recipient | Karen Lutfey Spencer – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Anion pathways in CLCF fluoride/proton antiporters

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations:  6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

Dynamics of Serine-8 Side-Chain in Amyloid-β Fibrils and Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl Serine Amino Acid, Investigated by Solid-State Deuteron NMR

 

Dillon Rickertsen – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor | Liliya Vugmeyster – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Computationally inexpensive enhanced growing neural gas algorithm for real-time adaptive neural spike clustering

John Kincaid – Recipient | Tim Lei – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats

Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling

Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

The power of price compels you:  Behavioral economic insights into dopamine-based valuation of rewarding and aversively motivated behavior

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A characterization of behavior and monoamine interactions during conditioned avoidance maintained in a within-session behavioral economic avoidance task

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A nonspatial sound modulates processing of visual distractors in a flanker task

Cailey Salagovic – Recipient | Carly Leonard – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Exercise increases mTOR signaling in brain regions involved in cognition and emotional behavior

Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear

Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood

Published Paper:

 

Running from fear:  Exercise modulation of fear extinction

Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood

Published Paper: 

 

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats

Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

The Impact of Post-War Japanese Fashion on Contemporary New York Fashion Design

Khoa Nguyen– Recipient | Yang Wang - Mentor

The synaptotagmin C2B domain calcium-binding loops modulate the rate of fusion pore expansion

Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor |Jefferson Knight – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles and FRET Allow Sensitive Monitoring of Liposome Clustering Mediated by the Synaptotagmin-7 C2A Domain

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles as Probes for Membrane Binding

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Book Chapter: 

 

Polymer mediated layer-by-layer assembly of different shaped gold nanoparticles

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season

Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Acute exercise enhances the consolidation of fear extinction memory and reduces conditioned fear relapse in a sex-dependent manner

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Natalie Haddad – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A transient dopamine signal encodes subjective value and causally influences demand in an economic context

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:

 

A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

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Effect of Exercise to Enhance Fear Extinction Memory Is Dependent on Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (Mtor) Signaling

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

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PIP2 Head Group Behavior in Granuphilin C2A Mutations

Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin - Mentor

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QM/MM Simulations of Chloride Translocation Through the Ecclc CI-/H+ Antiporter

MacKenzie Zarecki – Recipient| Hai Lin - Mentor

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Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations:  6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

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Membrane Binding Cooperativity and Co-insertion by C2AB Tandem Domains of Synaptotagmins 1 and 7

Hai T. Tran – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor

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Late Holocene climate and human impacts on a tropical ecosystem in northern Vietnam. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

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Neurochemical and behavioural indices of exercise reward are independent of exercise controllability

Nathan Gray – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

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Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear

Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood

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Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

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A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

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Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

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Exploring Vietnamese History Through A Charcoal Lense

Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

 

Product Labeling and Geographic Origins of Colorado Honeys

Ashley Bouck – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

 

Combined QM/MM Dynamics Simulations of Proton Transfer in E. Coli CICI Chloride Ion Transport Protein

Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

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Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

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A transient dopamine signal encodes subjective value and causally influences demand in an economic context

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

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In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: 

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

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Soil Sampling and Sky Exposure from Leeward Microsite in Treeline Ecotones

Holly Bevency – Recipient | Liana Boggs – Recipient | Diana Tomback – Mentor

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Membrane Docking of the Synaptotagmin 7 C2A Domain: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Measurements Show Contributions from Two Membrane Binding Loops

Favinn Maynard – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor

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Interplays of Membrane and Ligand Docking of Granuphilin C2A Domain: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Jack Henderson – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor | Jefferson Knight - Mentor

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Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations of The Eccic Chloride Transport Protein

Christal Davis – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

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Synthesis and Incorporation of Photoactive Proves to Study RNA Structure and Reactivity

Justin Townsend – Recipient | Joseph Nguyen – Recipient | Marino Resendiz – Mentor

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