Symposium 2023

Undergraduate Research
Summer Institute Symposium

September 27, 2023

3:00

Introductory Remarks

Bill Hoynes, Dean of the Faculty

Ben Lotto, URSI Director

3:15

Students’ Oral Presentations on Summer Research

Brynn Conrad, Sharon Luong, and Autumn Cullinan (mentor: Professor David Esteban, Biology) 
Characterizing Diversity and AHR Activity in the Gut Microbiomes of ME/CFS Patients

Vaughn Ramsey and Alex Carr (mentor: Professor Andy Borum, Mathematics and Statistics) 
Discontinuities in the Curvature of a Thin Elastic Ribbon 

Chi Nguyễn and A.J. Erickson (mentor: Professor Evan Howard, Chemistry) 
Curve Balls of Epoxy Alcohols - Rearrangement or Fragmentation

4:00

Keynote Address

RIG-I Receptors: The Tiny Nanomachines that Protect Us Against RNA Viruses

Anna Marie Pyle, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University

5:00

Poster Session A (odd numbered posters)

5:30

Poster Session B (even numbered posters)

6:30

Dinner Celebration for Faculty and Students