Consuelo Sauceda University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA The proteomic atlas of the gut commensal Phocaeicola vulgatus uncovers key neutrophil antimicrobial peptide resistance proteins with previous unknown function Consuelo Sauceda, Carlos G. Gonzalez, Igor H. Wierzbicki, Jessica Raygoza Gut commensal, Phocaeicola vulgatus, is among the most abundantly isolated human microbes with increasing research […]

Isabel Corona Guevara University of Colorado Denver Denver, CO Data-driven surrogate modeling using sparse Bayesian machine learning with applications to uncertainty quantification Isabel Corona Polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is a surrogate modeling approach which uses an orthogonal basis of polynomials to approximate a model response. Normally, the polynomials are chosen so that they are orthogonal […]

Adam Andres Rosso University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX Investigating correlates of DNA content in reptiles Adam Andres Rosso, Matthew K. Fujita The genome is composed of all DNA that is found in an organism. In vertebrates the DNA content of the genome has far reaching implications such as gene density, strength of selection, […]

Gabriela Villalpando Torres University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Exploring the role of desmin and microtubules in cardiomyocyte remodeling: Insights from an hiPSC-CM model Gabriella Villalpando Torres, Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Sam Feinstein The heart is a dynamic organ that undergoes remodeling during health and disease. Cardiomyocytes, the cells responsible for heart contraction, are composed […]

Fatemeh Cheraghi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Using Caenorhabditis elegans to test the impact of 14-3-3 on Raf protein levels and localization Fatemeh Cheraghi Noonan Syndrome (NS) is a developmental disorder associated with increased Ras signaling. Gain-of-function mutations in RAF1, a member of Raf family kinases, are found in ~5% of NS patients. Raf kinases […]

Blanca Rodriguez University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Elucidating how quorum sensing reprogramming alters cooperativity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Blanca Rodriguez, Tom Chao, Nicole Smalley, Maxim Kostylev, Ajai Dandekar The gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum sensing (QS) to sense and respond to population density-dependent changes. One type of P. aeruginosa QS involves LasR, which activates cooperative […]