Room E

Research Day presenters discussed their work and took viewer questions during a 20-minute question-and-answer session. This year's poster presentations can be found on the Research Day homepage or on the EVMS YouTube channel.

Watch the Room E Q&A session from Research Day 2020.

Room E Schedule

2:30 - 2:50 p.m.

• Danielle Bryner, Biomedical Sciences student: Androgen Receptors Are Dynamically Expressed in the Ovulatory Follicle of Non-Human Primates
• Katharine Hawkes, DHSc student: "Racial Disparities in Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Gestational Diabetes: Results from 2009-2018 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Data" and "Characteristics and health status of Virginia mothers who received progesterone treatment for prematurity prevention-findings from the 2016-2018 Virginia Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System"
• Andrew Pearson, Biomedical Sciences student: "Is Ovarian Angiogenesis Directly Regulated by LH and Local Oxygen Concentration?"

2:50 - 3:10 p.m.

• Sezgi Arpag-Mcintosh, Research Assistant: "Effects of Sleep Fragmentation on metabolic phenotype in two animal models of diabetes and NASH"
• Caitlin Jefferson, Undergraduate student: "Conducting A Youth Engagement Program Promoting Positive Lifestyles and Relationships Among High School Students in Public Housing in Norfolk, Virginia"
• Tori Murray, Employee: "Widespread E-cigarette Use Among Cigarette Smoker Sample Unrelated to Gender or Race"
• Gracielle Resurreccion, Undergraduate student: "Student The effects of economic disparity on online engagement among students"

3:10 - 3:30 p.m.

• Maimoona Bhutta, Biomedical Sciences student: "Protective effect of Ginkgolic acid against Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) Infection"
• Caitlin Clark, Biomedical Sciences student: "Identification and Characterization of Clinical Staphylococcus aureus Isolates"
• Megan Sage (Golliher), Biomedical Sciences student: "An investigation into the effect of a virulence factor-targeted immuno-fusion protein on complement-mediated opsonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus"

3:30 - 3:50 p.m.

• Phillip Gauronskas, Biomedical Sciences student: "Characterization of 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase overexpressing b cells in a novel mouse model"
• Coles Keeter, Biomedical Sciences student: "The AAV-PCSK9 mouse model of hypercholesterolemia does not serve as a useful model of metabolic syndrome"
• Shelby Ma, Biomedical Sciences student: "Investigating the role of CD45-dependent B-cell functions in atherosclerosis"
• Ian Pepper, Biomedical Sciences student: "Structural Characterization of a Cardiac Troponin C Mutation Associated with Altered Calcium Sensitivity and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"

3:50 - 4:10 p.m.

• Michael Brown, Biomedical Sciences student: "Imaging Flow Cytometry as a method to explore extracellular vesicle internalization and cellular fate"
• Nigeste Carter, Biomedical Sciences student: "Modulation of endothelial cell angiogenic potential via extracellular vesicles"
• Tyree Hamilton, Biomedical Sciences student: "Visualizing extracellular vesicle-cell interactions using high-resolution microscopy"
• Alli Mathiesen, Biomedical Sciences student: "Extracellular vesicles From Adipose Tissue Microvasculature Modulate the Metastatic Potential of Prostate Cancer Cells"

4:10 - 4:30 p.m.

• Austin Adkins, Biomedical Sciences student: "Stressor Controllability and the Regulation of Fear Memory, Neuroimmune Signaling, and Sleep"
• Diana Bohannon, Biomedical Sciences student: "Pericyte Subsets are Linked with altered amyloid beta distribution in the Alzheimer's brain"
• Ravin Fisher, Biomedical Sciences student: "Changes in liver fibrosis and islet morphology in response to sleep fragmentation in murine models of NASH and diabetes"
• Alina Moriarty, Biomedical Sciences student: "Prolonged Sleep Fragmentation Amplifies Atherosclerosis And Destabilizes Plaques"