Participants
The Modeling the Dynamics of Biological Systems REU will welcome a new cohort for summer 2026! To be part of our team, please visit the application page.
Past Participants
2026
| Name | Home Institution | Poster Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natalie Artola | Mount St. Mary’s University | 3D Bioprinting Pipeline for Soybean Protoplast Constructs | Ross Sozzani |
| Jason Chan | Emory | Temperature-Optimized Staining Protocol for Thick Tissues | Alon Greenbaum |
| Nilia Francis | Binghamton University | Generating a fluorescent sensor for studying cell cycle under stress | Orlando Arguello-Miranda |
| Jason Kaufmann | Pennsylvania State University | Role of Aβ Peptide in Recovery From Dendritic Injury | Adriana San Miguel |
| Magnolia Myers | Allegheny College | Sequences-specific Prediction of MutSa-DNA Binding | Xingcheng Lin |
| Noah Roger | Binghamton University | Classification of Heart Failure Phenotypes | Mette Olufsen |
| Samson Skally | Mary Baldwin University | tdTomato cross-excitation compromises quantitative imaging | Caroline LaPlante |
| Sarah Stanley Lawrence | East Carolina University | Identifying Regulators of the CLB4 cell cycle protein | Orlando Arguello-Miranda |
| Grayson Steinbach | Pennsylvania State University | Brain Activity Mapping of Hypersensitivity in cyfip2 Mutants | Kurt Marsden |
| Alexis Tang | Cornell | Streamlining 3D Bioprinting Processes for Plant Material | Ross Sozzani |
2025
| Name | Home Institution | Poster Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Berger | Mount Holyoke College | Testing E3 DART’s Specificity in Plants | Marcela Rojas-Pierce |
| Brendan Donovan | West Chester University | FRET the Small Stuff: Measuring HEK-293 Expressed Constructs | Sharonda LeBlanc |
| Millie Hays | Xavier University | Generation of Holliday Junctions for AFM Imaging | Hong Wang |
| Kaitlyn Khalawan | SUNY College at Old Westbury | 3D Visualizations of MutLα Dynamics in Virtual Reality | Xingchen Lin |
| Olivia Laukat | Clemson | Generation of Holliday Junctions for AFM Imaging | Hong Wang |
| Charlotte Mankovich | College of Wooster | Defining Epilepsy Using Brain Activity and Behavior Analysis | Kurt Marsden |
| Isa Melians | Ohio State University | Mapping EndMT in Vascular Microfluidic Models | Sarah Shelton |
| Chris Needham | West Chester University | The Role of Motor Proteins in Spindle Elongation of S. Pombe | Mary Elting |
| Bryan Ortiz-Perez | NTID/RIT | Automating Microscope Focus with Multimodal AI | Alon Greenbaum |
| Yangdu Sherpa | NTID/RIT | An Occlusion-Aware Algorithm to Track Cancer and Stem Cells | Orlando Arguello-Miranda |
2024
| Name | Home Institution | Poster Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Chien | Brown | Synthesizing the Double Holliday Junction | Hong Wang |
| Kaelyn Coates | NTID/RIT | Investigating Temperature Effects on Mitotic Spindle Behavior in S. Pombe | Mary Elting |
| Aloha Das | ASU Tempe | Modeling Fire Ant Foraging Patterns: A Phermomonal Trail-Based Approach | Robert Riehn |
| Amadou Diallo | NTID/RIT | Impact of expression levels of Lifeact on actin labeling in fission yeast | Caroline LaPlante |
| Katya Frazier | CSU San Marcos | Neurodevelopmental Genes and Their Roles in Brain Activity and Behavior | Kurt Marsden |
| Ian Kriel | Christopher Newport University | Computational Prediction of Flow and Pressure with a 1D Fluid Dynamics Model | Mette Olufsen |
| Adam Nahor | University of Georgia | Discovering Novel Matrices for IR-MALDESI Imaging using Post-Acquisition Tools and Multivariate Statistics | David Muddiman |
| Resa Nelson | Hofstra University | Lymphocyte Migration in the Presence of a Tumor Microenvironment and Signaling | Sarah Shelton |
| Kayla Saychien | Meredith College | Coordinated Alternative Splicing in the Synaptic Gene Cadps | Javier Lopez-Soto |
| Nicholas Yeboah | UNC Greensboro | Analysis of Gliogenesis in the Mouse Brain Using Imaging and AI-assisted Quantitative Methods | Troy Ghashghaei |