Student Research Poster Archive

Polluted sediments from Tijuana River delay medaka embryo heart development

Luu M., Ryou A., Narenda N., Munaim N.

Exposure to Polluted Sediment Elutriate from the Tijuana River Estuary Results in Developmental Delay and Deformities in Medaka Embryos

Lin, N., Yao, F., Yao, J., Jiang, S.

Medaka Embryos Eye Morphology Affected by Exposure to Polluted Tijuana River Estuary Sediment

Weng E., GC J., Santoro F., Matsumoto M., Ching H.

Exposure to Tijuana River Estuary Sediments Decreased Heart Rate in Developing Medaka Embryos

Chaudhari A., Kwee M., Mahone V., McArthur W.

Polluted Tijuana River Estuary Sediment Elutriate Exposure Results in Delayed Cardiac Morphogenesis in Oryzias latipes

Zonca, I., Jadidi, S., Ye, G., Muhammad, U.

Exposure to Polluted Sediment Elutriate in the Tijuana River Estuary Increased Deformity Rates in Medaka Embryos

Dasgupta A., Ding J., Garrow R., Lee C., Bunton J.

Slower development and heart rates in medaka fish embryos caused by polluted Tijuana river sediment

Pandit A., Lee L., Serrano A., Salazar A.

Potential dolphin pathogens detected at highly variable levels across individual bivalves

Shim I.,  Tehranchi R., Shah A., Yi R.

More potential pathogens, including Acinetobacter and Streptococcus species, were detected in oysters near heavily industrialized areas across the San Diego Bay

Tong, T., Macina, D., Ning, Z., Ching. H.

Bacterial Community Homogeneity Across Dolphin Enclosures in the San Diego Bay

Ye G., Pan S., Zhang K., Gage J.

Human Pathogens Consistently Detected in Bivalves Across San Diego Bay

Allen, N., Drcar, C., Lee, L., Pandit, A.

Potential dolphin pathogens detected at low and similar abundance levels across dolphin enclosures in the San Diego Bay

Malli, I., Fang, S., Mekhael, J.,

Delayed medaka embryos development and heart differentiation following exposure to Tijuana River Estuary sediment elutriate

Pelayo M., Adamson L., Roper, K., Gopinath, K.

Tijuana River Estuary Sediment Elutriate Exposure Results in Elevated Mortality and Slowed Heart Differentiation During Medaka Embryo Development

Kowieski Z., Wang C., Liu E.

High Abundance of Bacterial Families Associated with Pollutant Degradation Identified in Tijuana River Estuary Sediment

Taylor M., Belt M., Gaudet, J., Villarreal, A.

No Significant Heart Rate or Differentiation Effect was Observed in Medaka Embryos Following Short-term Exposure to Tijuana River Estuary Sediment Elutriate

Lopez-Nusser S., Nemati N., Basnet R., Ho N., Llanes Vaal L.

Tijuana River Estuary Sediment Exposure did not Induce Significant Effects on Developmental Rate or Morphology in Medaka Embryos

Shannon E., Lim R., Hatter C., Scagnetti J.

Bacteria from the Sphingomonas Genus was Discovered in Deep Sea Fish, which Could Help Them Degrade Toxicants

Young, V., Haese, C.

Two Bacterial Species Capable of Degrading Toxic Compounds are Among the Most Abundant Bacteria in the Gut of Deep-Sea Dragonfish, Owlfish, and Lanternfish

Callos, R., Zuniga, J.

Pollutant and Gut Microbiome Analyses of Deep-sea Fish from Oregon Coastal Waters

Brasted-Maki. M.

Gut Microbiome and Liver Pollutant Compositions in Lanternfish and Owlfish

Willaredt, C.

Dragonfish and medaka fish share similar bacteria that may benefit their digestive and immune systems

Kohns, K., Lee, B., Piquilloud, S., Oraz, A.

The deep-sea dragonfish have higher gut microbiome diversity but lower abundance compared to shallow-water medaka fish

Bharathwaj, S., Khare, A., Seo, Y., Muppirala, V.

Streptococcus thermophilus, a probiotic bacteria, was detected in the intestine of deep-sea dragonfish

Morin, R., Srivatsa, A., Patel, S., Zhao, M.

Bacteria degrading toxic aromatic and sulfur compounds identified in Dragonfish (Stomiidae) near hydrothermal vents

Abas, O., Mei, A., Odisho, J.

Staphylococcus and Psychrobacterare the most abundant bacteria genera identified in deep-sea viperfish stomach and intestine

Kowieski, V., Wang, C., Arista, J., Ortiz., I.

Methodology Challenges of 16S rRNA Bacteria Identification in Viperfish

Thomas, M., Nelson, B., Hasso, R., Crabtree, H.

Pollutant-degrading bacteria identified from viperfish gut via 16S rRNA sequencing

Delgado, T., Downing, J., Peng, C.

Drosophila melanogaster microbiome increased in diversity after exposure to Benzo [a] pyrene in females more than males

Kim, Y., Vein, M.

eDNA extraction of marine water samples with the DNeasy PowerSoilTM Pro Kit but not DNeasy PowerWaterTM Kit , leads to successful detection of Haliotis rufescens COX1 gene

Wang, A., Kuruvadi, K., Kochar, S.

Benzo[a]pyrene decreases the abundance of two pathogens from the genus Providencia in Drosophila melanogaster

Lee, B., Su, E., Grubbs, N., Moreau, L.

Successful Haliotis rufescens cytochrome c oxidase I gene detection in environmental DNA samples when using DNeasy PowerSoil™ Pro Kit compared to DNeasy PowerWater™ Kit

Byun, L., Khan, R., Levine, E., Li, D.

Exposure to Benzo[a]pyrene leads to sex differences in top 3 abundant bacteria species in Drosophila melanogaster

Hernandez, M., Wagaman, A., Downing, J., Floirendo, P.

Increasing doses of Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) decreased bacterial diversity in male Drosophila melanogaster

Lee, J., Farooqi, L.

The expression levels of clockwork orange in Female vs. Male D. melanogaster

Tripathi, S., Han, E., Pandit, N.

foxo gene was upregulated by 1.234-fold in female flies compared to males

Keertipati, S., Atto, M., Yoon, E.

The COX1 gene reveals that species relatedness corresponds to habitat similarity

Ovalle, M., Lee, A., Traylor, L.

The COX1 gene sequence indicates Oryzias latipes is more closely related to the endangered black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii , than Danio rerio

Lam, K., Patil, M., Gao, S., Tapia, T.

The COX1 gene sequence of human is more similar to Oryzias latipes than Caenorhabditis elegans

Lee, J., Fries, W., Bhagvat, C.

CCR4-NOT complex subunit twin is downregulated in Drosophila melanogaster females vs. males

Rao, P., Park, M., Martínez, A., Gilmartin, C., He, A., Griffin, L.

Fmr1 is upregulated by 1.14-fold in standard conditions of female vs. male Drosophila melanogaster

Bokka, R., Odanlumen, E., Shamoun, S., Srinivas, V., Wang, E., Griffin, L.

Identifying Endangered H. crocherodii, the Black Abalone, through Environmental DNA Isolation and COX1 DNA Barcoding

Yang, H., Zakar, M., Robo, G., Gambhirrao, S., Wang, A., Zhang, J., Vazquez, A., Feng, Z.

Female D. melanogaster up-regulation in Cyp18a1 gene in controlled conditions

Griffin, L., Attar, M., Daido, R.

Abalone COX-1 Gene Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis

Tashin, S., Chaubey, S., Clark, K., Özmen, S., Jain, R.

eDNA Sequencing Proves Accuracy in the Analysis of the COX1 Gene Coding Region of Red Abalone

Andrade, S., Ekmekçiler, O., Hingorani, S., Huynh, L.

Mitochondrial encoded COX-1 DNA and eDNA in Haliotis rufescens is more similar to the Oryzias latipes than the Danio rerio

Cao, S., Lane, H., Carruthers, N., Siddiqui, I., Eisan, S., Griffin, L.

The genetic relatedness between red abalone; blacklip and greenlip abalone; medaka and zebrafish

Turhan, E., Noshin, F., Akat, E., Sharma, I.

DNA Barcoding Oryzias latipes, Haliotis, C. elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and Homo sapiens to find species proximity with Haliotis cracherodii using the COX1 gene

Liang, J., Fei, K., Eachambadi, V.

Species relatedness to Haliotis cracherodii (black abalone)

Thontepu, T., Lewis, E., Jiang, C.

Effects of heat stress on heat shock gene expression in C. elegans

Choe, A., Oh, J., Park, C., Wu, S.

Exposure to HFPO-DA in C. elegans reveals increased gene expression levels for genes gcs-1 and lmd-3

Alondra, S., Logan, O., Deanna, G., Dana, O.

Gene Expression of epg-3, gcs-1, and swan-2 were upregulated and dnj-13 and ragc-1 were downregulated in C. elegans under heat stress compared to C. elegans under normal conditions

Eliana, S., Rosa, H., Seemal, H., Anirudh, R., Monique, S.

Gene expression of swan-2 , involvement in response to heat stressors, is expressed ~ 1.2 fold higher in C. elegans exposed to heat shock than those that were not, under controlled laboratory conditions

Quach, E., Wu, W., Shaikh, N.

Heat exposure to C. elegans at 33 °C results in induction of genes dnj-13-14 and ragc-1 and repression of genes gcs-1, swan-2 and epg-3

Liang, J., Whetstone, M., Suratwala, M., Cobaj, E., Vo, A.

HFPO-DA Causes for Impactful Regulation of Aging and Damage Control Genes 

Dylan, G., Nadia, S., Krishnadev, L., Isai, R.

HFPO-DA exposure has a statistically significant effect on gene expression in C. elegans roundworms

Das, P., Shoaib, J., Naidu, A.

Varied gene expression levels after HFPO-DA exposure across ten target genes involved in biological aging processes in Caenorhabditis elegans

Yang, K., Quiaoit, J., Pantoja, S., Rao, R., Zheng, D.

hpo has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female fruit flies

Davies A., Rockson B., Tran R., Jensen A.

hpo has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female Drosophila Melanogaster

Murakami K., Yang K.,  Kim E., Ghosh M.

Dop2R does not have altered expression in female D. melanogaster exposed to GenX, a potential toxicant 

Osumanu A., Ramos A., Martinez J., Blandy M., Sanchez R.

Female Drosophila melanogaster do not exhibit differences in Dop2R gene activity in the brain after exposure to GenX

Rodriguez D., Phelps S., Tyagi S., Maharem O.

brat is significantly expressed 107.5 fold more in male than in female Drosophila melanogaster at baseline

Duckett C., Kimura C., Long L., Duarte K., Pasumarthy S.

A tumor suppressor gene, brat, has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female D. melanogaster

Zhao A., Presnall I., Hyler I., Cann E., Yamoah B.

The dopamine regulatory gene torsin is sexually dimorphic in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.

Dela Cruz A., Guerrero K., Noda T., Vargas A.

Torsin is significantly upregulated in Male fruit fly brains compared to Female fruit fly brains

Kotamarti A.,Contreras J., Zida S., Perez Orozco D.

tay does not have a sexually dimorphic expression in female and male D. melanogaster

Sawaya A., Truong K., Cobbinah M., Benyamin M., Baidoo M.

No significant change in expression of tay in Drosophila melanogaster after exposure to GenX

Wang J., Kobayashi C., Fowzy Z., Cassel N., Quiaoit J.,

Expression of Pink1 in fruit fly brains does not have a significant change when exposed to GenX , a potential toxicant

Gonzalez A., Owusu-Hienno V., Essein D., Hayford M.

Expression of Pink1 in male and female D. melanogaster is unaffected by GenX treatment

Gonzalez C., Parelius S., Ng C. , Su J.

Expression of mitochondrial metabolic regulation gene Sirtuin 2 significantly downregulated in female compared to male D. melanogaster

Sinha A., Valencia I., Gonzalez E., Myers C.

Tumor suppressor gene l(3)mbt shows 5.09-fold greater expression in males than females Drosophila melanogaster

Fmr1 is expressed 3.714-fold higher in male Drosophila melanogaster

GenX treatment resulted in unaltered expression of protein-modification gene sir-2.1 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Thontepu T., Hernandez Perez K., Gilbert-Aiu K.

Metabolic genes nhr-49 and pxmp-4 downregulated by 4.3 fold and 1.8 fold in GenX stressed Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)

Gaxiola S., Mesri L., Whall D.

prx-11, a gene coding peroxisome membrane protein, was upregulated by 1.7 fold in GenX-treated Caenorhabditis

Delouri P., Ranjan S.

Low-concentration GenX exposure did not significantly affect the expression of pqm-1 & daf-16, two lifespan-regulating genes, in Caenorhabditis elegans

Gupta K., Camacho J., Reece K.

Upregulation of oxidative stress-response gene lmd-3 by 2.4-fold in Caenorhabditis elegans after GenX exposure

Ilnytskyy D., Perez C., Kozik S.

Huazhong Agricultural University Students in partnership with Global Leadership Institute School of Global Policy and Strategy University of California San Diego

Expression ofepg-3 gene, a negative regulator of autophagosome assembly, changes inconsistently in heat-stressed Caenorhabditis elegans

Chu, F. Luan, S., Qu, C., Yang, H.

swan-2and gcs-1 genes, regulators of heat stress response, are 2-fold downregulated in Caenorhabditis elegans under heat stress

Dai, H., Gu, Y., Pan, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhou, Y.

matK Gene Sequencing Suggests High Genetic Diversity in Shaw’s Agave and Enzyme Activity Assays Reveal Diverse Microbial Activity Within Pt. Loma Ecological Preserve

Guo, L., Tang, Y., Yuan, X., Zhu, K.

Barcoding gene rbcLreveals genetic diversity of Shaw’s Agave while Biolog EcoPlate data suggests diversity in microbial carbon source utilization

Gong, Y., Wang, D., Xu, S., Xue, C.

gcs-1was upregulated by 1.5-fold, and epg-3 was downregulated by 2-fold in heat stressed Caenorhabditis elegans

Cruz R., Ordonio, T., Yacoby, T.

foxo, a major regulator of cell metabolism, is expressed 1.47-fold higher in female than male Drosophila melanogasterheads under standard laboratory conditions

Erwin Y., Perko L.

1.1-fold expression difference in spen, a gene involved in neural development, between D. Melanogastermale and female heads

Vogel, M., Lee, J.

Heat-stressed induced gene expression ofswan-2 gene in  elegans

Udata S., Wilson J.

Sid (stress-induced DNase type-I) gene in  melanogasterheads is more active in males than females by 4-fold under control conditions

O’Connell K.

hpo* and Sid* genes are expressed 2.91-fold and 4.49-fold higher, respectively, in  melanogastermale heads than female heads under standard laboratory conditions

Garcia, D., Pehrson A.

Gene expression of Cdk4, a regulator for cell division, is expressed ~ 1.4-fold higher in  melanogaster male heads than female heads under controlled laboratory conditions

Xie, S., Walia, E.,

1.72-fold upregulation of autophagosome-assembly regulatorragc-1 gene in heat-stressed Caenorhabditis elegans

Yilgin A., Suro E.

Barcoding genesrbcL and matK reveal Shaw’s Agave genetic diversity while Biolog EcoPlates quantify variation in microbial substrate utilization within Pt. Loma Cabrillo National Monument

Haagensen, S., Villa, A., Rogers, M.

Apoptosis -Inducing Factor gene (AIF) in fruit fly heads is significantly upregulated (>8x*) in males compared to females under standard laboratory conditions

Hine, A., Macchiarella, A.

Gender and head- specific gene expression study reveals thathpo* & sws genes are respectively 3x & 4x upregulated in males compared to females under standard conditions

Kadiyala, A. Vazquez, L.

Statistically Significant Upregulation (3.2-fold) of heat shock protein coding gene, dnj-13in heat-stressed C. elegans

Pingol A., Serrano D.