2024 REU/RET Poster Session
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 2-4PM
BU Photonics Center, 9th Floor Atrium
Light refreshments will be served
Photonics REU/RET Posters
NSF RET Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing:
Courtney Chavez (Ranzani): User Interface for Electronic Control of a Biospired Soft Robot
Daimean Solis (Coalesenz): Performance Optimization of iCoagLAB Sample Heating and Stabilization
NSF REU Engineering Research Center for Cellular Metamaterials:
Lea Hebert (Chen): Characterization of Cardiomyocyte Integration within an In Vitro Engraftment Platform
Genevieve Vega (Chen): Assessment of culture substrate functionalization in an inducible border zone culture platform
Sebastian Martinez (Bifano): Bio-Imaging Screening Systems for Sample Characterization
NSF RET Engineering Research Center for Cellular Metamaterials:
Christopher Alba (Bifano): High Throughput Calcium Imaging for Beating Heart Tissue Characterization
Marla Rhuma (Bishop): Creating and Optimizing Anisotropic Scaffolds for Cell Study
BU Materials Science & Engineering:
Haneen Ahmed (Lubner): Developing Hot Disk Measurement Capabilities in the Lubner Group
Victor Perez (Russo): Simulation of the Lung Environment for Validation of Soft Robot Bronchoscopy
BU Photonics Undergraduate Research Summer Undergraduate Experience:
Shanen Rose Arellano (Kamenetska): Developing a PCR protocol for preparing “sticky-end” DNA handles for single-molecule force spectroscopy measurements
Nathan Bérubé (Mertz): High-throughput, multi-plane, super-resolution imaging with dynamic speckle illumination
Evan Biller (Roblyer): Effect of Source-Detector Separation on Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy Measurements of Blood Volume and Flow
Anastasiia Rudaeva (White): Software Development For Fast and Accurate Cell Identification Across Multiple Imaging Modalities
Linrui Tan (Ramachandran): High Bandwidth Detection of Quantum Signals Using Parametric Optical Amplification
Chemistry REU Poster:
Hania Bandzou-Pedila (Elliott): Protein-based redox-carriers from methane producing archaea
Physics REU Posters:
Saimonth Munoz (Suarez): 4D Tracking at the Large Hadron Collider
Nowar Alashkar (Sharifzadeh): Investigating Mechanical and Electronic Properties of MgO From First-Principles
Henry Chuang (Ludwig): Analyzing Real Time Plasma Assisted Atomic Layer Epitaxy Growth of InN Using X-Rays
Gabriel Chavez (Sperka): A Search for a Very Low Mass Diphoton Resonance with CMS
Hannah Kramer (Jariwala/Duffy/Allen): Teaching optics in the 21st century
Faith Hines (Ludwig): Real-Time Stress Development of Thin Si During Low-energy Ion Bombardment by an In-Situ Optical Measurement Method
Baily May (Demiragli): Muon Trigger Efficiencies at the CMS at √s=13 TeV
Otis Fischer (Golf): Searching for Long-Lived Particles
Joseph Battistoni (Ludwig/Klein/Gould): Modeling Surface Growth with Neural Networks
Jaime Garcia (Brown): Flexoelectricity with Additive Manufacturing
William Torg (Kamenetska): Examining the structural dynamics of the theophylline RNA aptamer via optical tweezer single molecule force spectroscopy measurements
Alice Gaehring (Opher): Interstellar Dust Penetration of the Heliosphere in the Limiting Case of No Heliospheric Current Sheet
Payton Harvill (Kamenetska): Studying Gold Nanoparticle Dimer Dynamics by Using Optical Trapping and Darkfield Microscopy
Natalia Ramlogan (Larkin): How does the external environment affect the extracellular matrix of Bacillus subtilis?