Submissions from 2021
Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signal Arrests Phytoplankton Cell Division and Impacts Virus-Induced Mortality, Scott B. Pollara '19, Jamie W. Becker, Grayton Downing '18, Davis Chase '21, and Kristen E. Whalen
Find the Silver Lining or Ignore the Cloud? Cognitive Reappraisal Versus Visual Attention Training, Heather Robinson '19, Elisa Sheen '19, Rachel Silwinski '19, Jianing Mu '22, and Rebecca J. Compton
Probing the structure and function of acyl carrier proteins to unlock the strategic redesign of type II polyketide biosynthetic pathways, Ariana Sulpizio '21, Callie E.W. Crawford '22, Rebecca Koweek '22, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Predicting inorganic dimensionality in templated metal oxides, Davion M. Williams '23, Matthew Danielson '21, Joshua A. Engler '22, Zihui Ding '22, Alexander J. Norquist, and Joshua Schrier
Submissions from 2020
Hive minded: like neurons, honey bees collectively integrate negative feedback to regulate decisions, Talia Borofsky, Victor J. Barranca, Rebecca Zhou, Dora von Trentini '18, and Robert L. Broadrup
On the Mechanism of Self-Assembly by a Hydrogel-Forming Peptide, Gabriel A. Braun '19, Beatrice E. Ary '15, Matthew C.H. Rohn '20, Abigail M. Payson '17, David S.M. Lee '13, Robert C. Parry '16, Connie Friedman '15, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Deuterium-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Histidine pK(a) Determination in a pH-Responsive Hydrogel, Gabriel A. Braun '19, Brett H. Pogostin '18, Milda Pucetaite, Casey Londergan, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history, George Aaron Broadwell, Moisés García Guzmán, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Felipe H. Lopez, May Helena Plumb '17, and Mike Zarafonetis
Silicone Wristbands as Passive Samplers in Honey Bee Hives, Emma J. Bullock '19, Alexis M. Schafsnitz '17, Chloe H. Wang '17, Robert L. Broadrup, and Helen K. White
How sound are our ultralight axion approximations?, Jonathan Cookmeyer '17, Daniel Grin, and Tristan L. Smith
Estrogen withdrawal increases postpartum anxiety via oxytocin plasticity in the paraventricular hypothalamus and dorsal raphe nucleus, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, Claudia Amaral '17, Lauren E. Benedetto '18, Clio L. Bodie '17, Breanna I. D'Antonio '17, Dayana R. Davila Portillo '19, Rachel H. Lee '17, M. Taylor Levine '18, Emily C. O'Sullivan '19, Natalie P. Pisch '19, Shantal Taveras '18, Hannah R. Wild '19, and Laura Been
MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function, Satria A. Kautsar, Kai Blin, Simon Shaw, Jorge C. Navarro-Munoz, Louise K. Charkoudian, Samuel C. Epstein '19, and Ashley C. Sisto '20
Widening the bottleneck: Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of the Ktedonobacter racemifer minimal type II polyketide synthase in Escherichia coli, Joshua G. Klein '20, Yang Wu '19, Bashkim Kokona, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Probing the Chemical Transformation of Seawater-Soluble Crude Oil Components during Microbial Oxidation, Yina Liu, Helen K. White, Rachel Simister, David W. Waite, and Shelby L. Lyons '15
Robot-Accelerated Perovskite Investigation and Discovery, Zhi Li, Liana Alves '18, Alyssa Sherman '18, Peter Cruz Parrilla '20, Philip Nega '16, and Alexander J. Norquist
Rapid Identification of Marine Plastic Debris via Spectroscopic Techniques and Machine Learning Classifiers, Anna P. M. Michel, Alexandra E. Morrison, Victoria L. Preston, Charles T. Marx '20, and Helen K. White
A plasmid-encoded papB paralogue modulates autoaggregation of Escherichia coli transconjugants, Rubén Monnárez '14 and Iruka N. Okeke
A NICER View of Spectral and Profile Evolution for Three X-Ray-emitting Millisecond Pulsars, Dominick M. Rowan '20, Zaynab Ghazi '22, Leslie Lugo '19, Elizabeth Spano '21, and Andrea Lommen
Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML: Learning Fairly with Minimal Data, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, and Emile Givental '20
Iteration with intention: Project-based learning of computational thinking, Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh '21 and John Dougherty
Identification of persistent oil residues in Prince William Sound, Alaska using rapid spectroscopic techniques, Helen K. White, Alexandra E. Morrison, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez '21, Michelle Luu '20, Camille Samuels '21, and Charles T. Marx '20
Submissions from 2019
Sex Experience Increases Delta FosB in Male and Female Hamsters, but Facilitates Sex Behavior Only in Females, Luis Acaba '16, David Sidibe '16, John Thygesen '16, Harrison Van der Kloot '16, and Laura Been
Towards a neurobiology of female aggression, Laura Been, Alisson Gibbons '19, and Robert L. Meisel
Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. I. The Millisecond Pulsar X-Ray Data Set, Slavko Bogdanov, Wynn Ho, Andrea Lommen, Reilly Milburn '19, Sergio Montano '21, and Jesse Zeldes '22
The wandering mind oscillates: EEG alpha power is enhanced during moments of mind-wandering, Rebecca J. Compton, Dylan Gearinger '19, and Hannah Wild '19
Size Analysis of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using Semidenaturing Detergent Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Nicole R. Cunningham, Bashkim Kokona, Jeanne M. Quinn '16, and Robert Fairman
Tracking carrier protein motions with Raman spectroscopy, Samuel C. Epstein '19, Adam R. Huff, Emily S. Winesett '16, Casey H. Londergan, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Ghosting and destiny: Implicit theories of relationships predict beliefs about ghosting, Gili Freedman '09, Darcey N. Powell, Benjamin Le, and Kipling D. Williams
A comparative study of fairness-enhancing interventions in machine learning, Sorelle Friedler, Sonam Choudhary, Carlos Scheidegger, Evan P. Hamilton '17, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Making Physics Courses Accessible for Blind Students: Strategies for Course Administration, Class Meetings, and Course Materials, Megan Holt '14, Daniel Gillen '17, Kevin Setter, Paul Thorman, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Templated vanadium tellurites: Identifying the effects of low density attractions on inorganic layer topology, Xiwen Jia '19, Jessica L. Dixon '16, Matthias Zeller, Joshua Schrier, and Alexander J. Norquist
Anthropogenic biases in chemical reaction data hinder exploratory inorganic synthesis, Xiwen Jia '19, Allyson Lynch '21, Yuheng Huang '19, Matthew Danielson '21, Alexander J. Norquist, and Sorelle Friedler
How conspicuous are peacock eyespots and other colorful feathers in the eyes of mammalian predators?, Suzanne Amador Kane, Yuchao Wang '20, Rui Fang '18, and Yabin Lu '18
Colorimetric Assay Reports on Acyl Carrier Protein Interactions, Acheampong K. Koki '19, Bashkim Kokona, Gabriel Braun '19, Danielle Jacobsen '19, Karl A. Johnson, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Aggregation Profiling of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Transgenically Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using an Analytical Ultracentrifuge Equipped with Fluorescence Detection, Bashkim Kokona, Nicole R. Cunningham, Jeanne M. Quinn '16, and Robert Fairman
Automated congressional redistricting, Harry A. Levin '14 and Sorelle Friedler
Energy Usage Reports: Environmental awareness as part of algorithmic accountability, Kadan Lottick '20, Silvia Susai '20, Sorelle Friedler, and Jonathan P. Wilson
Disentangling Influence: Using disentangled representations to audit model predictions, Charles T. Marx '20, Richard Lanas Philips, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Working with Worms: Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism, Philip M. Meneely, Caroline L. Dahlberg '01, and Jacqueline K. Rose
Rapid Identification of Deepwater Horizon Oil Residues Using X-ray Fluorescence, Anna P. M. Michel, Alexandra E. Morrison, Charles E. Marx '20, and Helen K. White
A large self-transmissible resistance plasmid from Nigeria contains genes that ameliorate a carrying cost, Rubén Monárrez '14, Molly Braun '12, Olivia Coburn-Flynn '13, Jose I. Otero-Vera '14, Naa Kwarley Quartey '11, and Iruka N. Okeke
Glutamate Afferents From the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Nucleus Accumbens Activation by Female Sexual Behavior, Kelsey M. Moore, Wyatt L. Oelberg, Rose Glass '17, Matthew D. Johnson, and Laura Been
pKa Determination of a Histidine Residue in a Short Peptide Using Raman Spectroscopy, Brett H. Pogostin '18, Anders Malmendal, Casey H. Londergan, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Enantiomeric Analysis of Chiral Isotopomers via Microwave Three-Wave Mixing, Lincoln Satterthwaite '18, Cristóbal Pérez, Amanda L. Steber, Dylan Finestone, and Robert L. Broadrup
Fair Meta-Learning: Learning How to Learn Fairly, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, and Emile Givental '20
Assessing the Local Interpretability of Machine Learning Models, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Chitradeep Dutta Roy
Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean, Kristen E. Whalen, Jamie W. Becker, Anna M. Schrecengost '18, Yongjie Gao '20, and Nicole Giannetti '18
Examining Inputs of Biogenic and Oil-Derived Hydrocarbons in Surface Waters Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Helen K. White, Charles T. Marx '20, David L. Valentine, and Charles Sharpless
Submissions from 2018
Characterizing Accreting Double White Dwarf Binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Gai, Katelyn Breivik, Kyle Kremer, Michael Bueno '18, Shane Larson, and Scott Coughlin
Is attention enhanced following performance errors? Testing the adaptive control hypothesis, Rebecca J. Compton, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, and Averi Gaines
Applying parabolic Peterson: affine algebras and the quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, Jonathan Cookmeyer '17 and Elizabeth Milićević
Cyanylated Cysteine Reports Site-Specific Changes at Protein-Protein-Binding Interfaces Without Perturbation, Shannon R. Dalton, Alice R. Vienneau '12, Shana R. Burstein '15, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Sara Linse, and Casey Londergan
A standardized workflow for submitting data to the Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG) repository: prospects for research-based educational experiences, Samuel C. Epstein '19, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Marnix H. Medema
Iterator-Based Optimization of Imperfectly-Nested Loops, Daniel Fesbach '20, Mary Glaser '18, Michelle Strout, and David Wonnacott
A Forward Genetic Screen in Zebrafish Identifies the G-protein coupled receptor CaSR as a modulator of Sensorimotor Decision-making, Roshan A. Jain, Christina Szi '18, Amy Zamora '18, Keisuke Sawada '17, and Emilia Cobbs '17
Biomechanics of the peafowl’s crest reveals frequencies tuned to social displays, Suzanne Amador Kane, Daniel Van Beveren '20, and Roslyn Dakin
“So Now, I Wonder, What Am I?”: A Narrative Approach to Bicultural Identity Integration, Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, Margaret Bishop '10, Katharine Gilson '10, Lindsay Festa '09, Chloe Levenson '09, and Rena Rosenblum '09
Development and Characterization of Two Phenylalanine Derivatives for use as Raman Probes in Proteins, Joie Ling '20, Eliana von Krusenstiern '18, and Casey H. Londergan
Conformational Ensembles of Calmodulin Revealed by Nonperturbing Site-Specific Vibrational Probe Groups, Casey H. Londergan, Kristen L. Kelly, Shannon R. Dalton, Rebecca B. Wai, Kanika Ramchandani '14, and Rosalind J. Xu '18
Characterization of Membrane-Bound Alpha-Synuclein with the Thiocyanate Vibrational Probe Group, Casey H. Londergan, Franklin A. Kostas '18, Kavita Shroff '17, Kristen E. Fiore '17, and Daniel M. Konstantinovsky '16
Relating the Vibrational Lineshapes of the Thiocyanate (SCN) Probe to Structures and Dynamics in Calmodulin Ensembles via Computational Approaches, Casey H. Londergan, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Shannon R. Dalton, and Kristen L. Kelly
Vibrant symbiosis: Achieving reciprocal science outreach through biological art, Lindsey E. Lopes '16, Sarah J. Waldis '16, Stephanie M. Terrell '18, Kristin Lindgren, and Louise K. Charkoudian
A Cyfip2-Dependent Excitatory Interneuron Pathway Establishes the Innate Startle Threshold, Kurt C. Marsden, Roshan A. Jain, Marc A. Wolman, Ben Miltenberg '17, and Alberto E. Pereda
Disaggregation of gold nanoparticles by Daphnia magna, Karin Mattsson, Ruben Aguilar '16, Oscar Torstensson, Diana Perry '15, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Probing Substrate Sequestration in Carrier Proteins using Vibrational Spectroscopy Labels and Molecular Dynamic Simulations, Caroline McKeon '18, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Casey H. Londergan
Identity development in cultural context: The role of deviating from master narratives, Kate C. McLean, Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, Chelsea Fordham, Elizabeth Alpert '13, Emma Marsden '13, Kathryn Szymanowski '13, and Dan P. McAdams
Chemical characterization of natural and anthropogenic-derived oil residues on Gulf of Mexico beaches, Alexandra E. Morrison '18, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, and Helen K. White
Aggregative Adherence and Intestinal Colonization by Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Are Produced by Interactions among Multiple Surface Factors, Iruka N. Okeke, Laura V. Blanton, Lawrence T. Wang, Joshua DuBow '11, Alexander Lafrance '16, Stephen Kwak '12, Levi Bowers '17, Mandara C. Levine '18, Charles O. Hale '17, and Philip Meneely
The effect of divalent cations on the thermostability of type II polyketide synthase acyl carrier proteins, Marco A. Rivas '18, Valentine C. Courouble '17, Miranda C. Baker '17, David L. Cookmeyer '16, Kristen E. Fiore '17, Alexander J. Frost '17, Kerilyn N. Godbe '16, Michael R. Jordan '17, Emily N. Krasnow '17, Aurelio Mollo '17, Stephen T. Ridings '17, Keisuke Sawada '17, Kavita D. Shroff '17, Bradley Studnitzer '17, Grace A. R. Thiele '17, Ashley C. Sisto '20, Saadia Nawal '16, Robert Fairman, Karl A. Johnson, Bashkim Kokona, and Louise K. Charkoudian
The Bend+Libration Combination Band Is an Intrinsic, Collective, and Strongly Solute-Dependent Reporter on the Hydrogen Bonding Network of Liquid Water, Pramod Kumar Verma, Matthew S. Puretz '13, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, Oriana S. Chegwidden '11, and Casey Londergan
The chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole induces rapid cellular stress and mortality in phytoplankton, Kristen E. Whalen, Christopher Kirby, Russell M. Nicholson '18, and Mia O'Reilly '18
A Direct, Quantitative Connection between Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Vibrational Probe Line Shapes, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Bartosz Blasiak, Minhaeng Cho, Joshua P. Layfield, and Casey H. Londergan
Understanding structural adaptability: a reactant informatics approach to experiment design' involves the use of machine learning to better understand structural and electronic adaptability in a vanadium selenite later topology, Rosalind J. Xu 18, Jacob H. Olshansksy '12, Yuheng Huang '19, Matthew D. Smith '16, Joshua Schrier, and Alexander J. Norquist
Submissions from 2017
Auditing black-box models for indirect influence, Phillip Adler, Casey Falk '16, Sorelle Friedler, Tionney Nix '17, and Gabriel Rybeck '16
Strategies for Transforming a Classroom into a Brave and Trusting Learning Community: A Dialogic Approach, Laura Been and Clara Abbott '18
Reductions in Negative Parenting Practices Mediate the Effect of a Family-School Intervention for Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Genery D. Booster, Jennifer A. Mautone, Jenelle Nissley-Tsiopinis, and Devin Van Dyke '14
Acyl Carrier Protein Cyanylation Delivers a Ketoacyl Synthase–Carrier Protein Cross-Link, Louise K. Charkoudian, Grace Thiele '17, Connie Friedman '15, Katie Tsai '16, and Casey H. Londergan
Intertrial interval duration affects error monitoring, Rebecca J. Compton, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, and Emily Ozer '16
Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions through a Team-based Undergraduate Biochemistry Course, David L. Cookmeyer '16, Emily S. Winesett '16, Bashkim Kokona, Adam R. Huff, Sabina Aliev '16, Noah B. Bloch '16, Joshua A. Bulos '16, Irene L. Evans '16, Christian R. Fagre '16, Kerilyn N. Godbe '16, Maryna Khromava '16, Daniel M. Konstantinovsky '16, Alexander E. Lafrance '16, Alexandra J. Lamacki '16, Robert C. Parry '16, Jeanne M. Quinn '16, Alana M. Thurston '16, Kathleen J.S. Tsai '16, Aurelio Mollo '17, Max J. Cryle, Robert Fairman, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Sedimentation Velocity Analysis with Fluorescence Detection of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1 Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, Robert Fairman, Surin Kim '15, Victoria D'Acunto '17, Jay Garcia '16, Nabeel Akhtar '13, Susanna Hoffman '14, Seema Doshi '16, and Kathleen Ulrich '18
Cyanylated cysteine as an infrared reporter of protein-peptide interactions: Experimental measurements, molecular dynamics simulations and semi-quantitative calculations of IR lineshape, Casey H. Londergan and Rosalind J. Xu '18
P450 monooxygenase ComJ catalyses side chain phenolic cross-coupling during complestatin biosynthesis, Aurelio Mollo '17, A. Nikolai von Krusenstiern '15, Joshua A. Bulos '16, Veronika Ulrich, Karin S. Akerfeldt, Max J. Cryle, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Sneak peek: Raptors Search for Prey using Stochastic Head Turns, Michael F. Ochs, Gustavo M. Gomes, Marjon Zamani '13, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Classes 1 and 2 integrons in faecal Escherichia coli strains isolated from mother-child pairs in Nigeria, Babatunde W. Odetoyin, Amy S. Labar '10, Adebayo Lamikanra, Aaron O. Aboderin, and Iruka N. Okeke
Psychological distress, attachment, and conflict resolution in romantic relationships, Julie Petersen '16 and Benjamin Le
Gas Separation through Bilayer Silica, the Thinnest Possible Silica Membrane, Joshua Schrier, Bowen Yao '17, and John Curry '15
Submissions from 2016
Probing structural adaptability in templated vanadium selenites, Phillip D.F. Adler, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Matthew Smith '13, Katherine Elbert '14, Yunwen (Helen) Yang '15, Joshua Schrier, and Alexander J. Norquist
Intracranial Hypertension Without Papilledema in Children, Shawn C. Aylward, Steve E. Roach, and Catherine Aronowitz 15
Does the Center Hold? Reflections on a Sociological Core, Jeanne Ballantine, Nancy Greenwood, Jay Howard, Edward Kain, Diane Pike, Michael Schwarze '18, and R. Tyson Smith
Mindfulness-of-breathing exercise modulates EEG alpha activity during cognitive performance, Hanaan Bing-Canar '15, Jacquelyne Pizzuto '15, and Rebecca J. Compton
Phonetic Symbolism and Memory for Advertisements, Marilyn Gail Boltz, Grace M. Mangigian '16, and Molly B. Allen '16
Terson's Syndrome in a Patient with von Hippel-Lindau Disease, Megan L. Chenworth, Aaron S. Gold, Andrea C. Wildner, and Luis A. Acaba '16
Bounds on the maximum number of minimum dominating sets, Samuel Connolly, Anant Godbole, Bill Kay, and Zachary Gabor '15
Studying polyglutamine aggregation in Caenorhabditis elegans using an analytical ultracentrifuge equipped with fluorescence detection, Robert Fairman, Lynn Richmond '13, Jay Garcia '16, and Kathleen Ulrich '14
Auditing Black-box Models for Indirect Influence, Casey Falk '16, Phillip D.F. Adler, Sorelle A. Friedler, Gabriel Rybeck '16, Carlos Scheidegger, and Brandon Smith '16
Self-association motifs in the enteroaggregative Escherichia coli heat-resistant agglutinin 1, Jessica Glaubman, Jennifer Hofmann, Megan E. Bonney '08, Sumin Park '13, Jessica M. Thomas, Bashkim Kokona, Laura I. Ramos Falcón '12, Yoonjie K. Chung '10, Robert Fairman, and Iruka N. Okeke
Using Hybrid Schedules to Safely Outperform Classical Polyhedral Schedules, Tian Jin '17
New Structural Data Reveal the Motion of Carrier Proteins in Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis, Tiia Kittilae, Max J. Cryle, Aurelio Mollo '17, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Probing the selectivity of beta-hydroxylation reactions in non-ribosomal peptide synthesis using analytical ultracentrifugation, Bashkim Kokona, Emily S. Winesett '16, A. Nikolai von Krusenstiern '15, Robert Fairman, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Higher rank ABJM Wilson loops from matrix models, James T. Liu, Leopoldo Zayas, and Jonathan Cookmeyer '17
