RISE: Poster Symposium
The 2024 session of RISE was a great success. Please check back on December 15 for details about next summer’s program and to submit an application. Sign up for an email reminder.
At the end of the six-week program, RISE students will prepare an abstract and poster for the Poster Symposium. The symposium will give you the chance to practice the essential skill of science communication in front of an audience comprised of those familiar with research as well as the general public.
Interns will present a poster in one of these subject areas: astronomy, biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth & environment, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics & statistics, mechanical engineering, medical laboratory research, neuroscience, nutrition, physics, psychological & brain sciences, psychology, and public health.
Practicum students will present a poster based on a research project in the area of computational neurobiology. Please take a look at a selection of posters from past years:
RISE Internship track (2023)
Anatomy and Neurobiology
- Glial Responses To Neural Devices – C. Reddy
- Microglial Fate in Neurodegeneration – E. Choi
- The Association Between Fasting Blood Glucose and Cognition in Cognitively Healthy Adults in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) – J. Madero
- Multilingualism in Prefrontal Cortex Activity when Confronted by Nonsensical Speech Patterns – L. Shi
- Comparing the Lateralization of Prefrontal Cortex Activity of Speaking/Singing to Listening in Dynamic Adaptive Speech Reconstruction (DASR): A fNIRS Study – S. Kalavapalli
- Testing the Effectiveness of Dynamic Adaptive Speech Reconstruction (DASR) in Eliciting Brain Activation in the Right Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex – T. Mehta
Biomedical Engineering
Chemistry
- Rational Design and Characterization of a Bacterial Redox Enzyme – S. Zappetti
- Addressing Inequity in Student Outcomes Through Interventions to Help Student Preparation for College Chemistry: Adaptive Question-Embedded Videos and Atomic-Level Conceptions – A. Xu
- Exploring Ways to Combat Learning Inequities in College Chemistry Through Question-Embedded Videos and an Asset-Based Evaluation Of First-Generation Students – B. Lu
- Raman Spectroscopy Study of Ultrathin Tungsten Nitride (W5N6) – R. Nguyen
Computer Science
- Benchlex: A Benchmark for ALEX– A. Song
- Relational Memory – B. Bethune
- BenchLex: A Sorted Benchmark for ALEX– C. Henzinger
- Online Ad Allocation With Predictions – M. Zhou
Earth and Environment
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- MultiWienerNet for Computational Miniature Mesoscope (CM2) Measurement Reconstruction– A. Chau
- Efficient 2D Image Reconstruction with Modified CM2Net: Enhancing Fluorescence Microscopy for Large-Scale Biological Dynamics– J. Xie
- Resolving Voltage Peaks in Particle Beam Microscopy – A. Mehta
- Automated Classification of Electrocardiogram Data Using Machine Learning – S. Hong
- Advancing Autonomous Vehicles through Robust Lane Detection and Real-Time Video Processing – T. Gaddam
- Towards Design Guidance of Reservoir Computing – An Empirical Study – C. Lee
- Characterizing Nanopattern Formation of Polymer Thin Films on Silicon Substrates with Ion Beam Sputtering – J. Zhang
Mechanical Engineering
- Unlocking High-Speed Data Tracking: Leveraging Affordable IMUs as a Replacement for Costly Systems – H. Aibel
- Development of a Magnetically Induced Stiffening Soft Robotic Glove for Effective Motor Rehabilitation – S. Aufrichtig
- Mechanosensitive Ion Transport in Nanoparticle-Blocked Nanopores – I. Park
Medicine
- Investigating the Effects of Active Vitamin D on Insulin Secretion from Clonal Pancreatic Beta Cells (INS-1)– A. C. Yeung
- Investigating the Effects of Crosstalk between Adipocytes and Pancreatic B-Cells on Insulin Secretion – A. S. Chung
- JQ1 Epigenetic Modulation of Pancreatic B- Cells (INS-1) Normalizes Glucose Sensitivity under Hyperglycemia Therapeutic Preventive Implications for Type II Diabetes Mellitus – M.H. Hernández
- Effect of ⍺-MSH and NPY on M1 Macrophages – S. Fineman
- The Effect of ⍺-MSH on the Recovery of Ischemia/Reperfusion Retinal Muller Cells– Z. Xu
- Real Time Needle Tracking with NeedleGAN: A CGAN and Mask-RCNN based Architecture for Automatic Generation, Segmentation, and Localization of Physical Needles for MR-guided Percutaneous Hepatic – G. Tadina
- Temperature-Enhanced Delineation of the Lethal Ablation Zone in Prostate Cryoablation Treatment using UTE Spiral VIBE MRI – K. Parikh
- Increased Adaptation, Response Amplitudes, and Dynamic Range in Light Responses of Mouse Rod Photoreceptors with Bicarbonate – S. Lee
- The Role of IRF5 in Innate Immune Sensing of HIV-1 icRNA – A. Joseph
- Capturing HIV-1 Envelope Diversity: Preventing Recombination in Bulk PCR using Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) and Q5 High-Fidelity Polymerase – N. Chandrakanth
Molecular and Cell Biology
Neuroscience
- Optogenetic Modulation of Dopamine Neurons Induces Changes in Sleep and Activity in Fruit Flies – M. Zhou
- Exploring the Efficacy of Machine Learning Integrating DTI Biomarkers and Classification Techniques to Facilitate Timely Detection and Precise Stratification of Discrete Stages in Alzheimer’s Disease – I. Gunawan
- Intra-Rater and Inter-Rater Reliability of Manually Quantifying Neurological Outcome of Stroke Patients to be Used for Machine Learning Models – C. Chong
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- The Role of Zhx2 in Opioid-Induced, Naloxone-Precipitated Withdrawal Phenotypes – A. Anthati and I. Donnelly
Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Mobile Eye-Tracking: a Novel Measure of Attention During Parent-Child Interaction Tasks – E. Park
- Culture, Parenting Practices, and Child Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic – S. Lam
- Modeling LGN Selectivity and Neural Excitation Shifts Through Dynamic Activation in Curvature Detection – E. Gandhi
- Bridging Human and Machine Perception: Curvature Detection through Convolutional Neural Networks – L. Zhang
Sargent, Occupational Therapy
- The Relationship Between Sensory Reactivity and Executive Functioning in Autistic Young Adults – A. Kanner
- Community Participation and Executive Functioning in Autistic Young Adults – K. Chang
RISE Practicum track (2023)
Computational Neurobiology
Note: All students contributed equally to group projects.
- Exploring Pathological T Cell-Neuron Functionality through the Modulation of CRAC Channel Dynamics: A Conductance-based Model– A. Gurram, A. Zhong, I. Jiang, K. Desai, T. Alvarez Saavedra
- An Examination of Basolateral Amygdala (BLA) Astrocyte Calcium-Signaling Dynamics Involved in Fear-Memory Recall – S. Agarwal, A. Acharya, A. Ramesh, O. Simon, D. Viswanathan
- In Silico Analysis of Dysregulated Glutamate Dynamics in the Somatosensory Cortex after Traumatic Brain Injury – J. Dalal, H. Ji, A. Khanna, E. Kipnis, S. Satheesh
- Modeling Chronic Stress-Induced LTD on the CA1 Hippocampal Microcircuit – S. Alvazzi, F. Bean, A. Duffey, C. Fore, A. Tian
- Mathematical Dynamics of Nystagmus in an Oculomotor Neural Network Model – M. Boyer-Paulet, A. Espelien, Z. Leong, K. Weng
- Modeling ionic mechanisms of GABA-mediated excitation through the expression of NKCC1 and KCC2 – A. Chen, X. Lin, D. Miao, A. Sun
- Modeling the Effects Of Propranolol On Memory Reconsolidation For PTSD in the Lateral Amygdala – D. Gallagher, H. Kim, S. Li, E. Luo, M. Morris
- The Correlation Between the Activity of Resting State Networks in the Limbic System and the Self-Reported Magnitude of Emotions – T. Brennan, M. Chosed, J. Gil-Marin, E. Kothavale, I. Lee
- Optimizing Neuronal Efficiency During Experiential Neural Darwinism: A Computational Model – A. Li, A. Liang, S. Song, J. Wang-Bai
- Modeling the Effect of D4R Agonists on Gamma Power and Schizophrenic Symptom – C. Chen, A. Kowalczyk, E. Kwan, S. Surendar, B. Wang
- Simulating a Novel Use of Fluoxetine for Enhancing Neuronal Excitability in Demyelinated Axons Present in Multiple Sclerosis – G. Bao, T. Krasner, J. Long, A. Miller, Y. Saha
