Natural Sciences

Hannah J. Asquith
Ash Robles
Keeli Moore
Richard Alvey, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 21

The Isolation and Characterization of Rhodobacter capsulatus Phages Lkye and Aqua

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Steven Burkett
Miles C. Keeton
Rebekah Harden
Given Harper, Faculty Advisor
Environmental Studies

CNS Atrium, Easel 27

Determining the Distribution and Abundance of Wintering Red-tailed Hawk Subspecies in Illinois

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Gnandeep Chintala
AUG Ningombam
Richard Alvey, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 15

Exploring Phages Affecting Rhodobacter capsulatus: RcSwan and RcKeef

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Yossif Elmadny
Bhavin Koirala
Gabe Spalding, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 33

On the Creation of Optical Bottle Beams

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Hannah Johnson
David Bollivar, Faculty Advisor
Biochemistry

CNS Atrium, Easel 25

Expression and Purification of the BciE Protein from Dinoroseobacter shibae

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Madison M. Monk
Marie Nebel-Schwalm, Faculty Advisor
Psychology

CNS Atrium, Easel 35

An Analysis of Commentary in Men’s and Women’s Olympic Basketball

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Anjali Patel
Tyler Schwend, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 11

Investigating the Development of Blood Vessels in Avian Eyes

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Venkat Manish Pathuri
Tyler Schwend, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 13

Investigating Scarless Tissue Regeneration in Embryonic Wounded Chick Corneas

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

John P. Schmidt II
Brian R. Senn Jr.
Richard Alvey, Faculty Advisor
Mansi S. Shah
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 19

Exploring the World of Phages with Dora and Explorer

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Srija Voore
Yash Patel
Alika Rakhimova
Richard Alvey, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 17

World of Bacteriophages: The Discovery and Genomic Analysis of Microbacterium foliorum Phages Big4 and Potty

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Samantha Wilcox
Megan Knoll
Joe Williams, Faculty Advisor
Neuroscience

CNS Atrium, Easel 37

Examination of Differential Target Reduced Energy Spinal Cord Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain in an Animal Model

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Jason Wilkening
Tim Rettich, Faculty Advisor
Chemistry

CNS Atrium, Easel 29

Spectroscopic Solubility Study of Citric Acid in n-Propanol

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Evan Beilfuss
Edgar Lehr, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 14

A new species of rain frog (Pristimantis) or a new distributional record with an unknown variation of Pristimantis kiruhampatu Venegas, García-Ayachi & Catenazzi, 2022?

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Brianna E. Fleury
Will Jaeckle, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 18

The effect of particle size on feeding rates in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Rebekah Harden
Steven Burkett
Meredith Fraker
Miles Keeton
R Given Harper, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 12

Sex Determination of Eastern Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis borealis) Using Morphological Measurements

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Nathan P. Killough
Alex Sentowski
Ali Khatai
Azeem Sundrani
Ben Cortes
Gabe Spalding, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 36

Simulating Crystallography with Programmable Spatial Light Modulator Devices

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Matt Kubas
Ben Racelis
Jaz Belz
Ethan Lowder
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 34

Collimation of Electromagnetic Pulses

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Joselyn M. Molinar
Richard Alvey, Faculty Advisor
Biology

CNS Atrium, Easel 16

Antiviral Properties of Fruit Juices on Bacteriophages

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Katie Morgan
Brenda Drury, Faculty Advisor
Nursing, BSN

CNS Atrium, Easel 32

Non-Pharmacological Comfort Measures for Laboring and Postpartum Women

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Jacqueline R. Rupprecht
Alex Sentowski
Narendra Jaggi, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 38

Some Subtle Effects in the Measured Frequency Response of Passive Electronic Filters

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Viktoriya Salgalova
Caroline Abenroth
Abigail L. Kerr, Faculty Advisor
Neuroscience

CNS Atrium, Easel 28

Effects of Traditional and Modified Rehabilitation on Functional Improvement Following Stroke in a Mouse Model

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Thomas I. Sheehan
Ethan Ruth
Ali Khatai
Christofer Nelson, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 42

Modeling the Heat Capacitance of Leuco Dyes

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Kylie F. Spiegel
Joe Williams, Faculty Advisor
Neuroscience

CNS Atrium, Easel 30

Spinal cord stimulation in a rat model of neuropathic pain: Evidence for a segmental spinal mechanism of pain relief

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Emilija Stankute
Lydia Bertschi, Faculty Advisor Dr.
Nursing, BSN

CNS E 103

Accurate Methods in Pulse Rate Assessment by Palpation: Pilot Study

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Valeria C. Viteri-Pflucker
Dr. Tian-Xiao He, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS E 103

Computational construction and visualization of non-uniform B-splines and their wavelets

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Chester Wallace
Ronnie Washington
Emma Korzyniewski
Narendra K. Jaggi, Faculty Advisor
Physics

CNS Atrium, Easel 22

Novel Materials for Photovoltaic Solar Cells

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM