Graduate Student Poster Session 2025

GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER SESSION

The Guarini School's 2025 Graduate Student Poster Session was held on Wednesday, April 9, from 5-7:30 pm in the Ballroom at the Hanover Inn.

Prizes of $200 were awarded for the top three posters.

POSTER PRESENTERS AND TITLES

2025 winners are bolded.

Rebecca Abraham, Sonic Practice (Bethany Younge)
Supporting Unhearsed, Collaborative Performance with Tiny Touch Instruments

Jonathan Alperstein, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Jesse Casana)
Woodland Villages in the Upper Connecticut River Valley

Brandon Balamut, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian)
Molecular Steganography Using Photoswitchable Hydrazone

Evan Cline, Chemistry (Katherine Mirica)
Multifunctional Electronic Textiles for the Simultaneous Detection and Uptake of Hydrogen Sulfide

Anthony Cressman, Physics and Astronomy (Rahul Sarpeshkar)
Analog Circuits Can Efficiently Simulate Quantum Systems

Patrick Damacet, Chemistry (Katherine A. Mirica)
Tailoring Microstructure in Copper-based Layered Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Chemiresistive Sensing and SO2 Adsorption

Elizabeth DeGaetano, Chemistry (Dean Wilcox)
Thermodynamics of Metals Binding to MXCXXC Motif Peptides And Ferredoxin-like Fold Proteins

Amel Docena, Computer Science (Alberto Quattrini Li)
Towards Multi-Agent Spatio-Temporal Environmental Property Restoration

Emily-Claire Duffy, Microbiology and Immunology (Edward Usherwood)
Burn Baby Burn: Leveraging Fatty Acid Oxidation to Improve CD8+ T Cell Efficacy Against Ovarian Cancer

Abigail Goen, Molecular and Cellular Biology (Todd W. Miller and Kimberley Samkoe)
Targeting Fatty Acid Dependency in HR+/HER2- Drug Tolerant Persistent Bone Model

Prabhat Hegde, Engineering Sciences (Vikrant Vaze and Klaus Keller)
Considering Retreat Can Lead to More Robust Adaptation Strategies in Nourishment-Dependent Coastal Communities

Anja Holtz, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel)
Tumor PDL1-Associated DNA Damage Response Inhibitor (DDRi) Resistance is STING Dependent

David Hunter, Engineering Sciences- MS or PhD (David J. Gladstone and P. Jack Hoopes)
A Pre-Clinical Study of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to Enhance the Radiosensitization of Glioblastom

Jessica Jones, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Matthew Ayres)
Utilizing Bioacoustics to Study the Elusive Habits of Bats in North-Temperate Forests

Elizabeth Jones, Molecular and Systems Biology (Dionna Kasper)
Dissecting the Regulation and Function of microRNA-223 in Vascular and Blood Development

Bavani Kathir, Earth Sciences (Marisa Palucis)
Coupling Orbital and Field-Scale Remote Sensing Data to Detect Biosignatures Within Atacama Salars

Siqi Ke, Engineering Sciences (Vikrant Vaze and Klaus Keller)
How Well Do Simple Heuristics Perform in Designing Urban Storm Drainage Systems Under Deep Uncertainties?

Bernice Leung, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel)
Adipocyte PDL1 Depletion Sensitizes NRASQ61R-Mutant Melanoma to  Anti-PDL1 Immune Checkpoint Blockade (ICB) Immunotherapy

Shan-Chang Lin, Physics and Astronomy (Yi-Hsin Liu)
The Spreading of Magnetic Reconnection X-line in Particle-in-Cell Simulations:  Mechanism and the Effect of Drift-Kink Instability

Mark Lovett, Mathematics (Feng Fu)
The Dynamics of Influencer Games

Abhishek Mangipudi, Microbiology and Immunology (Mary Jo Turk)
Deciphering the Mechanisms By Which Intratumoral Resident Memory T Cells Orchestrate the Response to Checkpoint Blockade Therapy

Shefali Patra, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian)
Engineering Redshifted Hydrazone Photoswitches with Tunable Half Lives

Rutuja Phatate, Engineering Sciences (Brittany Goods)
Polyamine Metabolism: A Potential Regulator of Gardrenella Vaginalis Associated Inflammation and Risk of Pre-Term Birth

Vedang Puranik, Chemistry (Prof. Ivan Aprahamian)
Competing Negative Feedback Loops for Molecular Information Processing

Luke Rein, Earth Sciences (Mukul Sharma)
An Oxygen Minimum Zone Model for Evaluating Proposed Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Approaches

Quin Shingai, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Kathryn Cottingham)
Do It Yourself: Applications of a Robust Autonomous Water Monitoring System by Non-Roboticists

Thomas Skipper, Molecular and Systems Biology (Xiaofeng Wang)
The Effect of ARID1A Mutation on SWI/SNF Function and Tumor Suppression in Colorectal Cancer

Kevin Willy, Engineering Sciences (David Gladstone)
Optical Solutions in Radiotherapy: Real-Time Camera-Scintillator Dosimetry Where Conventional Methods Fall Short

Yueyun Xia, Engineering Sciences (VIkrant Vaze)
Optimizing Pilot Training Schedule Under Fleet Transformation

Xinming Xu, Psychological and Brain Sciences (Jeremy Manning)
Temporal (A)symmetries in Cued rCecall of Naturalistic Events

Zhuoran Zhong, Chemistry (Katherine Mirica)
Scalable Templated Fabrication of Cu-based MOF on Textiles for Simultaneous Sensing, Filtration, and Detoxification of SO2