IBB rewards top posters by summer interns

From left, Jane Grande-Allen, the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and chair of the Rice bioengineering department; Lucia Zhang, whose poster won the American Heart Association Summer Cardiovascular Research Internship Program prize, and Zachary Ball, a professor of chemistry and faculty director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering.

Posters by nine summer interns were chosen as best at this year’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at the BioScience Research Collaborative Aug. 2. The students presented 91 posters inspired by their summer projects, representing 11 bio-related Rice undergraduate research programs.

The winners:

Anh Vo for “Expansion of Gene Network Underlying Mitochondrial Sensitivity.”

Gabriela Diaz Figueroa for “Evaluating the Stability of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Containing Protein from a Cyanophage.”

Haidar Ahmed for “Recombinase Mediated Method for Multi-Scale Genomic Arrangement.”

Lucia Zhang for “Modeling the Effects of Disease Initiators in Engineered Mitral Valve Tissue.”

Tanya Roysam for “Automated Calculation of Extravasated Platelet Density in Ovarian Cancer Images to Derive Prognostic Gauge of Treatment Response.”

Matthew Brun for “Analysis of Ovarian Tissue Histopathology using Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging.”

Sarah Bradford for “Structural Investigation of Arabidopsis thaliana Peroxins: Purifying PEX4 and PEX22 for Crystallization.”

Arya Shetty for “A Novel Organoid Approach for Neuromodulation of Neurons and Astrocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.”

Angelica Torres for “Characterization of a Gelatin Methacrylate/Beta-Tricalcium Phosphate/Hyaluronic Acid Bioink for Bioprinting of Mesenchymal Stem.”

Posters by 91 undergraduate interns competed for prizes at the annual IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.