2019 Awardees

Name Year Major Poster Title Award Sponsor
Jacqueline Welday Senior Neuroscience Regulation of c9orf72 FTD/ALS pathology by Ubiquilin-2 The Program in Biology
Anati Azhar Junior Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Visualizing Spatial and Temporal Expression Patterns of microRNAs in
Drosophila Melanogaster
The Program in Biology
Anna Argento Junior Biophysics Role of the Extracellular Matrix in High-Grade Glioma Self-Organization The Department of Physics
Camille Phaneuf Senior Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The Need for TLC (Tender Loving Cellphone) The Weinberg Institute of Cognitive Science
Sarah VanDiepenbos Senior Cellular and Molecular Biology Heterochromatin Anchoring and Male Rescue in the hpl-1;hpl-2 Double Mutants of
C. elegans
Rackham Graduate School
Jessica Jana Senior Chemical Engineering Detecting Ferroptotic Death in Lung Cancer Cells Central Student Government
Sanika Kulkarni Senior Biospychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience Children’s Inferences about Digital Tracking as a Result of Ingroup and Outgroup Differentiation The Department of Psychology
Michael Petterson Sophomore Chemistry Exploring Student Mechanistic Reasoning in Organic Chemistry Through Alchemie The Department of Chemistry
Noor Ghali Senior Biomolecular Science Rare Pathogenic Variants Uncover a Critical Role for Histone H2A Mono-Ubiquitination in Neurodevelopment The LSA Honors Program
Vinayak Ahluwalia Junior Computer Science Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Robust Medical Decision-Making Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society


2019 Honorable Mentions

Name Year Major Poster Title
Lauren Hirth Senior Biomedical Engineering Fire and Burn Risk Associated with Fiberoptic Cords
Theodore Endresen Senior Industrial and Operations Engineering Using Integer Programming to Build Block Schedules for Medical Residents
Gillian Rubenstein Sophomore Gender and Health Testosterone Induced Changes to the Rete Ovarii in Adult Female Mice
Kiana Sadri Sophomore Biomedical Engineering Dysfunctional High Density Protein Lipoprotein and Exaggerated Heart Disease Risk in Kidney Disease
Kaitlin McKernan Senior Biochemistry TLR4 Mediates Inflammatory Responses to Diet-Induced Obesity and Free Fatty Acid Release in Adipose Tissue
Eli Tukel Senior Biology Inhibition of Bcl-2 Family Proteins as a Cancer Therapeutic
Sari Grossman Junior Biochemistry Mutagenesis of Key Histidine Residues of Bacterial Cytochrome P450 for Mechanistic Insights on the Epoxidation Step within an Iterative C-H Functionalization Pathway
Colleen Hadley Junior Cellular and Molecular Biology Effect of HDAC6 Inhibition on Energy Homeostasis
Nicole Smith Senior Anthropology Fragmented Realities: The Materiality and Memory of Child Migrants
Estelle Feider-Blazer
Maria Roma

Daniel Yuan
Senior

Senior

senior
Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering
Signal Processing for the Detection, Localization, and Classification of Transient Sounds and Material Properties
2019 Sponsors