College Science Scholars Research Symposium
September 27th, 2023, 4 - 6pm, 206 Chemistry
Noyanika Vattathara, 2nd Year CSS Student
“The telescoping effect: sex differences in the development of an addiction-like phenotype following intermittent-access fentanyl self-administration in rats”
Mentor: Dr. Wendy J. Lynch, UVa Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavorial Sciences
Topic Area: Neuroscience
Sara Kakatkar, 2nd Year CSS Student
“Urban Environmental Injustice as seen by Solar-Induced Fluorescence and Vegetation”
Mentor: Prof. Sally Pusede, UVa Department of Environmental Sciences
Topic Area: Environmental Injustice
Annie Zhao, 2nd Year CSS Student
“Lipofuscin and mitochondrial alterations in hippocampus CA3 neurons in normal aging and 3xTg-AD mouse”
Mentor: Prof. Alev Erisir, UVa Department of Psychology
Topic Area: Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
Sofia Megert, 2nd Year CSS Student
“Increasing stereogenic centers of eight-membered drug candidates via dihapto-coordination to a transition metal complex”
Mentor: Prof. Dean Harman, UVa Department of Chemistry
Topic Area: Organometallic Synthetic Chemistry