Summer Science Research | 2020 Poster Session

Students at SSR poster session

Summer Science Research program research.

The Summer Science Poster Session typically features the research projects students conducted over the summer. Due to the pandemic, the work of more than 40 students is displayed here. Click on each title to open a PDF of the poster. For more information about the work, contact the various departments.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Alexis Boutchie ’20 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Patrick Melvin: “Deoxyfluorination Reagents from 1999-Present”

 

Rachel D’Emilia ’22 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: “Structural Basis of the Broad Variation of MK Feedback Inhibition”

Raining Huo ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Yan Kung: “Investigating the Structural Basis of HMG-CoA Reductase Cofactor Specificity”

Natalie Loui ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology), Sherry Liu '20 (chemistry), and Sharon Burgmayer: “Molybdenum Enzyme Cofactor Research During COVID-19”

Shaili Regmi ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology) and Tamara Davis: “The role of DNA methyltransferase1 in maintaining methylation at differentially methylated regions associated with imprinted genes”

Emma Nikols ’21 (biochemistry and molecular biology, fine arts) and Monica Chandler: “Phenotypic Analysis of Antibiotic-Producing Soil Bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor”

Biology Research Projects 2020

Vanessa Gitau ’22 (biology) and Adam Williamson: “Cell Biology of the Phosphor-tyrosine Signaling Pathway of CED-1”

Chemistry Research Projects 2020

Hiya Datta ’21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: “Electrophilic Fluorination”

 

Ruby Irani ’21 (chemistry) and Jennifer Skirkanich: “Inclusive Teaching in Primary and Post-Secondary Education”

Valerie Jin '22 (chemistry, mathematics) and Yan Kung: “Structural Investigation of Substrate Binding in Mevalonate Kinase”

Ellis McCarver ’21 (chemistry) and Patrick Melvin: “Palladium-Catalized Fluorination of Amino Acid Derivitives”

Claire Tuttle ’21 (chemistry) and Yan Kung: “Investigating the Role of the HMG-CoA Reductase C-Terminal Domain”

Geology Research 2020

Angie Bonanno ’22 (geology) and Selby Cull-Hearth: “Incorporating Human Histories into Geologic Field Trips”

 

Rebecca Britt ’21 (geology) and Pedro Marenco: “Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of the Tribes Hill Formation”

Carey Parker ’22 (geology) and Don Barber: “Using statistics to further study the impact of ditch construction in salt marshes”

Tianyi Zheng ’22 (geology) and Pedro J. Marenco: “Understanding Gaps within Studies of the Great Bank of Guizhou”

 

Mathematics Research Projects 2020

Esther Xu ’21 (mathematics) and Lisa Traynor: “Optimal Control Theory”

Liwei Yang ’21 (mathematics), Johnluca Fenton HC ’21 (mathematics), and Victor Donnay: “Pioneering a Path for Community Solar in Haverford Township”

Mallory Yu ’22 (physics, mathematics), Xiao Wang, Andy Clark, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, and Xuemei Cheng: “The effect of in-plane pulsed magnetic fields on antiferromagnetically-coupled bubble skyrmion pairs”

Psychology Research Projects 2020

Antonia Caffrey ’21 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: “The Effect of Music on Stress and Anxiety Behaviors in Male and Female Rats”

Brighid Fitzpatrick ’21 (psychology) and Dustin Albert: “Genetic Liability for Anorexia Nervosa: Exploratory Analysis of Behavioral and Emotional Indicators”

Yulia Iashmolkina ’22 (psychology) and Laura Grafe: “Stress-induced Cognitive Changes in Female Rats”

 

Mahek Nirav Shah ’22 (psychology), Zilan Ding ’23 (psychology), Ariel Wu '23 (psychology), and Anjali Thapar: “Young Brain, Old Brain: A Meta-analysis of Age Differences in Recognition Memory using ERPs” 

Physics Research Projects 2020

Lily Goltz ’23 (physics), Emmy Wisz '23 (physics), and David Schaffner: “Navigating Remote BMPL”

Shiksha Pandey ’22 (physics, mathematics) and Michael Shulz: “Compactification without Truncation of Yang Mills Action”

Yuqian Li ’23 (physics) and Xuemei May Cheng, et al: “Confocal Microscopy Imagining of Fe particle motion in Magnetorheological Elastomers”

Genevieve Love ’22 (physics, mathematics), Avalon Vanis ’23 (physics, mathematics), and Michael Schulz: “Instantons in Quantum Mechanics”

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