Fall 2015

Presentations

• Drake Dixion, 2nd Year CSS Student
  “Using 2-NBDG to visualize metabolic activity in murine lymph node slices”
  Mentor:Prof. Rebecca Pompano, UVa Chemistry;
  Topic Area: Immunometabolism
• Katherine Pardo, 2nd Year CSS Student
  “Characterizing the phenotype of Williams-Beuren Syndrome in diverse populations”
  Mentor: Dr. Maximilian Muenke and Dr. Paul Kruszka; Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health;
  Topic Area: Medical Genetics
• Hannah Kessenich, 3rd Year CSS Student
  "Studies in high efficiency cosmic ray veto detectors”
  Mentor: Prof. Craig Group, UVa Physics;
  Topic Area: Experimental High Energy Physics
• Renato Mazzei, 3rd Year CSS Student
  “Are all ULXs created equal? The globular cluster ULX in the S0 galaxy NGC 1380”
  Mentor: Prof. Craig Sarazin, UVa Astronomy;
  Topic Area: High-Energy Astronomy
• Samantha Heitsch, 3th Year CSS Student
  "Does presence of parasites contribute to Virginia bee decline?”
  Mentor: Prof. T’ai Roulston and Amber Slatosky, UVa Environmental Science
  Sciences; Topic Area: Ecology
• Ashley Ferguson, 4th Year CSS Student
  “The Role of the Ras-related protein, RalA in starvation-induced mitochondrial elongation: An important protein for cancer therapeutics?”
  Mentor: Prof. David Kashatus, UVa Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology;
  Topic Area: Cancer Biology