{"id":871,"date":"2023-06-06T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2024-12-02T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:22:01","slug":"past-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/past-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spring\u00a02024 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair Award Winners<\/h2>\n<h4>Basic and Natural Sciences<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>:\u00a0Liudmyla Arifova<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Receptor PPARg for Diabetes and Bladder Cancer Therapeutics<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Douglas Kojetin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Sana Fatah<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0Investigating the Effect of RANKL Signaling on Bone Marrow Derived Monocytes<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Jim Cassat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Norbu Shastri<br \/>\nTitle: Characterizing the Effects of Temperature, Age, and Their Interaction on Lytic Immunity in Anopheles gambiae<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Julian Hillyer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Joshua Park<br \/>\nTitle: Screening CD33-targeting siRNA Sequences for Treatment of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Ethan Lippmann<\/p>\n<h4>Clinical and Translational Research<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Isabelle Smith<br \/>\nTitle: Effects of Hypertensive Endothelial Cell Stretch on the Formation of exTregs<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Matt Alexander<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Jacob Myers<br \/>\nTitle: Blocking Purine Biosynthesis Prevents Diet-Induced Obesity Through Futile Cycle Upregulation<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Elma Zaganjor<\/p>\n<h4>Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics including Data Science<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Ada Novak<br \/>\nTitle: Interactive Map of Risk Indicators for Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Case Study of Greater Houston Power Infrastructure<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Hiba Baroud<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Abihith Kothapalli<br \/>\nTitle: Stereographic Spherical Sliced Wasserstein Distances<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Soheil Kolouri<\/p>\n<h4>Social Sciences, Humanities, and Public Health<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Nandi Zhang<br \/>\nTitle: Parasympathetic Regulation and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Blythe Corbett<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Casey Carrow<br \/>\nTitle: Maternal prenatal anxiety and infant negative affect: Investigating the moderating role of caregiving sensitivity<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Kathryn Humphreys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong>: Zoe Abel &amp; Lily Baker<br \/>\nTitle: From \u2018helping peers succeed\u2019 to \u2018struggling to develop research questions\u2019<br \/>\nFaculty Mentor: Cynthia Brame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a02024 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair Award Winners Basic and Natural Sciences Winner:\u00a0Liudmyla Arifova Title:\u00a0Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Receptor PPARg for Diabetes and Bladder Cancer Therapeutics Faculty Mentor: Douglas Kojetin Runner-Up: Sana Fatah Title:\u00a0Investigating the Effect of RANKL Signaling on Bone Marrow Derived Monocytes Faculty Mentor: Jim Cassat Runner-Up: Norbu Shastri Title: Characterizing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9778,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}