Welcome to our virtual poster session! To ensure the privacy of everyone’s data, you will be asked to enter your UIC credentials to access the posters, which are hosted on Box. Posters will be open for viewing from Monday, October 4th to Monday, October 11th. Please note that not all posters have audio.

1. Luis Aponte Cofresi – The role of PICALM in regulation of the hippocampal neurogenic niche in Alzheimer’s disease
2. Thilinie Bandara – Investigating the role of Notch-signaling in Extramedullary Hematopoiesis within the Adult Liver
3. Ally Bennett – Mechanism of lymph node stromal cell activation during an acute viral infection and age-dependent decline of the immune response
4. Philippa Burns – Investigating the Response of Breast Cancer Cells to Serine Starvation
5. Shreya Deb – Upregulation of Sorting Nexin 27 in Colorectal Cancer Progression
6. Jason Devlin – Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium expresses chitinases that promote gastrointestinal infection through interactions with the intestinal glycome
7. Joseph Dominguez – Depletion of Lyve-1+ macrophages within fat-associated lymphoid clusters decreases B cell containment
8. John Geary – Arginine and Ornithine Catabolism in Acinetobacter baumannii
9. Lisa Gutgesell – Investigating the Role of SOX2 in Cell Cycle Regulation and Enzalutamide Resistance in Prostate Cancer
10. Soeun Kang – Metabolic reprogramming of cells during the transition from proliferative to quiescent state
11. Dara Kiani – Proteus mirabilis kills competing Enterobacteriaceae species using a contact-dependent killing system
12. Kaitlyn Kiernan – Structural characterization of Cas9-mediated DNA editing and single-turnover kinetics
13. Jeff Kim – Optimization of Lysis Buffer Selection and Lysis Buffer to Blood Volume Ratio on Lysis-on-Chip
14. Jieun Kwon – Elucidating the role of Tcf7l1 in pluripotency progression
15. Sarah Martin – Sonic hedgehog signaling in corpora cavernosal cells from prostatectomy, diabetic, hypertension and Peyronie’s patients with erectile dysfunction
16. Jorge Mendez – Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium chitinases facilitate invasion of small intestinal IPEC-1 cells
17. Jacob Neethling – Targeting the Notch1 Transcriptomal Activation Domain in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
18. Chioma Nnyamah – The Gut Microbiome Regulates Adipose Tissue Expansion via the Action of FFA2
19. Olamide Olayinka – A New Method for Studying Lymphatic Vessel Function During Edema Formation and Resolution in Zebrafish
20. Aisha Qazi – Intestinal Epithelial specific AhR deficient mice exhibit increased severity of experimentally induced chronic colitis via altered barrier function
21. Hyunsoo Rho – The role of hexokinase 2 in the regulation of histone lactylation
22. Tanner Roach – The Role of Endothelial ACKR1 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis
23. Anara Serikbaeva – Hyperglycemia induces mitochondria adaptation in endothelial cells
24. Amanda Snead – Modulation of autophagic and lysosomal pathways as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer’s disease
25. Arvind Sridhar – NOX2 mediates increased oxidative stress and ROS production leading to atrial ion channel and structural remodeling in obesity-induced AF
26. Phoenix Toboz – GCN2 regulates RBC production and clearance via translational control of tissue resident macrophages
27. Katarina Vlajic – Protein Tyrosine Kinase 6 (PTK6) regulates type 2 immunity in the intestine in a sex-dependent manner
28. Xinge Wang – Evaluation of gene expression dynamics in COVID-19 and following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination using TrendCatcher
29. Hyerim Yang – Activation of RMTg afferents during acute withdrawal from chronic ethanol exposure
30. Yaping Zhang – Direct inhibition of the Gα13-p115RhoGEF interaction and consequent RhoA activation by the integrin β3 and its role in regulating platelet granule secretion