Twice yearly the Office of Undergraduate Research sponsors the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Students in all academic departments, programs and schools are encouraged to present their original research. In addition to poster sessions, the symposium program includes a keynote address, selected student talks, performances and demonstrations of projects.
Undergraduate Research Symposium contains research posters and abstracts from past symposiums.
Students who have participated in the Undergraduate Research Symposium, may submit their posters here, or click here for more information under the Author Corner.
Posters/Abstracts from 2018
Tortuosity calculations, blood flow simulations, and mechanical testing of mouse aortae, Shawn Pavey and Jessica Wagenseil
Can prescribed fire reduce tick parasitism of birds?, Leslie A. Sterling, Kim Medley, Katie Westby, and Solný Adalsteinsson
Posters/Abstracts from 2017
Treasures in the Salt Flats: Bolivian Perspectives on Lithium Extraction, Gillian Greenberg
Investigating Localization and Activity-Dependent Translation of Astrocyte mRNA, Rohan Khazanchi
Posters/Abstracts from 2016
The Role of Notch Signaling on Heart Rate and Atrial Conduction, Somya Bhatnagar
Trumpeting American Exceptionalism: The 2015 Revision to the AP U.S. History Course and Exam, Sophie Elliott
X-ray Flux/Spectral Variability of the Gravitationally Lensed Blazar PKS 1830-211, Christian Fogerty, Fabian Kislat, and Henric Krawczynski
Effects of S1P Mutation on ER Stress and Cholesterol Synthesis Markers in Human Epithelial Cells, Connie Gan, George G. Schweitzer, Rita T. Brookheart, Robert C. Bucelli, and Brian N. Finck
Robotic Arm Pile Sorting, Jonathan D. Gross
Investigating activity-dependent regulation of astrocyte local translation, Rohan Khazanchi
Organelle-Organelle Communication in Plant Growth and Development, Josephine S. Lee, Margaret E. Wilson, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
What Types of Flashcards Improve Science Test Performance?, Chelsea Lin, Toshiya Miyatsu, and Mark A. McDaniel
Patterns of fecal progestagens, estrogens, and androgens associated with reproduction in blue-throated piping guans (Pipile cumanensis), Leslie Ann Sterling, Helen Clawitter, Corinne P. Kozlowski, Michael Macek, and Anne Tieber
Posters/Abstracts from 2015
Colorism: More Than Just Color, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange
The Global Wars on Terror, Margaret Bavlsik
Effects of Early Life Stress on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in HIV-Positive Individuals, Jee Yoon Chang
Canada’s Stratford: Disentangling and Reimagining Imperial Inherence, David Davison
Understanding Malagasy Women's Preferences for Reproductive Health Care, Mackenzie Findlay
A novel GABAergic projection links central amygdala to frontal cortex and facilitates reward-like behavior, Samuel C. Funderburk
The C-terminal Linker of FtsZ Acts as an Intrinsically Disordered Peptide during Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis, Steven Grigsby
Patterning Arrays of Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles, Avi Grinberg
Barriers to Health Insurance Enrollment for Black Missourians, Rachel S. Hoffman
Formation of EpCAM oligomers and their potential effect in regulating breast cancer, Ryan Jacobs, Narendra Sankpal Ph.D., Piyush Sharma M.D., Lincoln Muhoro, Timothy Fleming Ph.D., and William Gillanders M.D.
Drug Inhibition in HER2-Mutant Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines as a Basis for Novel Treatments, Naveen Jain
Phenotype and symbiosis in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, Kai Jones, Debra Brock, David Queller, and Joan Strassmann
Selves Portrait: A Senior Thesis Portraying Schizophrenia Through Dance, Samantha Karlow
Using leaf wax biomarkers to constrain land-use changes associated with Mississippian settlements, Allison Karp
Is a Probabilistic Choice Really a Delayed Choice? Discounting of Repeated Gambles, Brian Katz
Investigating RNA Translation in Perisynaptic Astrocyte Processes, Rohan Khazanchi
The Effects of Massive Neutrino Self-Interactions on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure, Christina D. Kreisch, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Olivier P. Doré, and Kris Sigurdson
Predictors of different types of Happiness across the State-Trait Continuum, Seth Margolis and Randall Larsen
Fragments of Theatre’s Past: Reconstructing Euripides’ Phaethon, Alejandro Martinez Jr, McKenna Rogan, Ricardo Solis, Alexander David Booth, Alexander Mason, and Ji Hyun Ahn
Barriers to Access: An Analysis of Obstacles to Obtaining Services for Bosnian Immigrant Victims/Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in St. Louis, Christy N. Marx
Resolution of Telomere Fragility in Mammalian Celss, Mai R. Nguyen
Phylogenetically novel species are more successful due to high competitive ability at local and regional scales, Amy C. Patterson
Obafluorin: A Potential Inhibitor of Serine Hydroxymethyl Trasferase, Neha Prasad
St. Louis Delivers: Narratives on Cesarean Section and Vaginal Birth, Apoorva Ram
What the Hell was Ferguson: A People-Centered Approach to the Social Movement that Transformed St. Louis, Reuben L. Riggs-Bookman
Using Umbanda’s Holistic Healing Methods to Increase Access to Healthcare in Brazil, Alex E. Rosenthal
Anthropology of the First Puff: An Inquiry into the Beginnings, Cultures, and Contexts of Tobacco use in Students at Washington University in St. Louis, Kristoffer Thomas Sladky
The Changing Role of Plant-Soil Feedback Loops in Maintaining Coexistence in the Face of Drought, Amelia E. Snyder, Scott Mangan, and Alexandra N. Harmon-Threatt
Isolation and Genomic Analysis of Cluster O Mycobacteriophage Vorrps, Leslie Ann Sterling, Rahul Ramaswamy, Madeleine Mullon, and Peeti Sithiyopasakul
Visitor effect on captive white-faced saki monkeys (Pithecia pithecia) and golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia), Anna Villanyi and Amanda Melin
Social Behavior of Indri indri at Betampona Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar, Madeline G. Wilson
The Impact of Clothing Choice on Perceptions of Female Intelligence, Maxine K. Wright
Counter-regulation and Consumer Happiness, Xueer Yu
Much Ado About Commas: Completing a Corpus of Tagged Transcriptions, Lydia D. Zoells and Kate Needham
Posters/Abstracts from 2014
Malagasy Women's Preferences for Reproductive Health Care in Mahabo, Madagascar, Mackenzie Findlay
Tracing the origin of presolar grains: algorithms to parametrize supernovae, Justin M. Finkel
Track Separation in Stereophonic Music, Timothy D. Greer
Isolation & Characterization of the Novel Bacteriophage Gaius, Rohan Khazanchi, John A. Nahon, Anna M. Kolasa, and Elisa S. De Togni
A Proteomics Approach to Elucidate Enhancer-Mediated Gene Activation and Chromatin Topology, Grace Kroner
Universals in Conceptual Metaphors of Emotion, Anna Mai
Becoming common: Lack of competitors and of herbivores is not enough to explain invasiveness in Lamiaceae, the mint family, Amy C. Patterson
Effects of Anhedonia and Mood on Emotional Reactivity to Affective Stimuli, Abhishek Saxena
Efficacy of Films in Guided Mood Induction, Abhishek Saxena
The Effect of Relationship Satisfaction on One’s Reaction to Relevant Pictorial Stimuli, Xueer Yu
Posters/Abstracts from 2013
Is your immunity compromised by being nice to your bacteria? Insights from a social amoeba, William E. Callison
African-American Distrust of Health Care: Myth or Reality?, Grace F. Chao
Second Moment Analysis of Sodium Aluminohexahydride (Na3AlH6) NMR, Tim J. Ellis-Caleo
Localization of STK1 and Sub1 in Tetrahymena thermophila, Rahul Kant Goel, Grace Mahony Kroner, and Douglas Chalker
Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 as a Potential Target for the Treatment of Stroke, Glenn R. Harris
Risking It: An Examination of Risk Perception Amongst Obstetricians and Certified Professional Midwives in Missouri, Allison R. Horan
On Using Network Theory to Identify Significant Elements in Protein-Protein Interaction Networks, Rohan Khazanchi
Active, Disorienting, and Transitional: The Aesthetic of Boredom in the Works of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon
Radio Frequency Direction of Arrival Determination, Daniel A. Lazar
On-Road Driving Performance in Patients with Moderate and Advanced Glaucoma, Hannah Lin
Variation in GATA1 Moderates the Association Between Childhood Adversity and Amygdala Habituation, Seth Margolis, Caitlin E. Carey, Lindsay J. Michalski, Emily M. Drabrant, Ryan Bogdan, and Ahmad Hariri
Mechanisms of Invasion: How Invasive Species Eclipse the Competition, Amy C. Patterson
Macroeconomic Applications of Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk, Vaibhav Sharma
Role of leukocyte trafficking in cervicovaginal HIV-1 transmission, Tony Sun and Maud Deruaz
Change and Durabilty Within Senegalese Fashion and Identity, Camille L. Wright
Posters/Abstracts from 2012
Interactions Between Emotion and Semantics in Linguistic Processing, Emily C. Cokorinos
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Sodiumaluminohexahydride (Na3AlH6), Tim J. Ellis-Caleo
The Challenges in Chilean Intercultural Health, Abigail Korn
Identifying the Molecular Mechanism of Skin Barrier Formation: A Genomics Approach, Grace Kroner, Danielle Albea, and Cristina Strong
WBS Homologs Are Regulated with Behavioral Changes in Drosophila Females: Evidence of a Conserved Sociogenomic Program, Michael B. Schultz
Investigation of mRNA methytransferase proteins in Tetrahymena, Monirath Siv and Nicholas Nauman
Activation of FGFR1 in Adult Cardiomyocytes Leads to Development of a Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Joy I. Wang
Environmental Art: The Coevolution of Modern Art and Environmentalism, Siyang Yang