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Welcome to the 6th Annual Summer CI + UR Showcase Poster Symposium

August 22 from 11AM – 1PM in the Watt Center Atrium
Session 1 (11AM -12PM): Posters 1 – 32 (colored orange below)
Session 2 (12PM -1PM): Posters 33 – 63 (colored purple below)

Please scroll or search for posters below.
To view abstracts and/or copies of the poster, click the title.


Poster Title Co-Authors Mentors
1 1 Analyzing Collagen Patterns and Density in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Tumors Across Racial Groups
Zoe Dinkel - Bioengineering
Alannah Akins - Bioengineering
Kylie King - Bioengineering
Heather Dunn - Bioengineering
2 2 Drivers of Functional Redundancy Across Microbiomes
Jayda Gilliard - Microbiology
Nichole Giani - Biological Sciences
Barbara Campbell - Biological Sciences
3 3 Why Urchins Matter: Eliminating Algae and Sustaining Coral Communities
Alexandra Vallone - Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Kea Payton - Biological Sciences
Michael Childress - Biological Sciences
4 4 Developing a Testing Method for Evaluating the Relevant Performances of Bull Riding Helmets
Bianca Henline - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
Gregory Batt - Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences
Madysn Cardinal - Bioengineering
5 5 Responsive Transtibial Ankle Prosthetic for Amputees in Developing Countries
Joshua Londhe - Bioengineering
Ian Holmgren - Bioengineering
Melinda Harman - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
Delphine Dean - Bioengineering
6 6 Hermit Crabs, Shrimps, Crabs Oh My!: The Role of Salinity on Cryptic Invertebrates
Anna Marie Metzger - Biological Sciences
Kea Payton - Biological Sciences
Michael Childress - Biological Sciences
7 7 Aseptic Presentation of Medical Devices: Pilot Study of Handling Medical Packaging in a Clinical Simulation Environment
Leena Syed - Health Science
Hannah Gerlach - Bioengineering
Malinda Elammari - Healthmark Industries
Marketa Marcanikova - Bioengineering
Leslie Ravan - School of Nursing
Casey Hopkins - School of Nursing
Melinda Harman - Bioengineering
8 8 Design and Methodology of an Open Trial Evaluating E-Cigarettes as a Harm Reduction Tool Among Smokers with Opioid Use Disorder on Maintenance Treatment
Sarah Voss - Psychology
Jessica Sloyan - Psychology
Carrie Baldwin - Prisma Health
Jessica Arnett - Prisma Health
Briana Brophy - Prisma Health
Kacie Tyner - Prisma Health
Jessica Vassallo - Prisma Health
Lindsey Neal - Prisma Health
Kaileigh Byrne - Psychology
Alain Litwin - Psychology
Justin Barron - Prisma Health
Erik Ortiz - Prisma Health
Moonseong Heo - Public Health Sciences
Irene Pericot Valverde - Psychology
Snehal Lopes - Public Health Sciences
Deborah Kunkel - School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
9 9 Latex Sheaths for Reducing Contamination on Hand-held Surgical Instruments: A Pilot Study of Usability
Hannah Gerlach - Bioengineering
Abby Cicone - Industrial Engineering
Riley Collins - Bioengineering
Baylie Mazyck - Industrial Engineering
Brendan Schumm - Industrial Engineering
Melinda Harman - Bioengineering
Marketa Marcanikova - Bioengineering
David Neyens - Industrial Engineering
10 10 Impact Performance of Sports Protective Equipment
Coan Luquire - Bioengineering
Tanner Bouknight - General Engineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
Gregory Batt - Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences
11 11 CT Imaging of gold loaded polymersomes to detect Glioblastoma
Pranavi Thatavarthi - Chemical Engineering
Emily Barnett - Bioengineering
Joey Lavalla - Bioengineering
Jessica Larsen - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Angela Alexander - Bioengineering
12 12 Archaeological Excavation of Ft. Rutledge and Esseneca
Luke Garden - Anthropology
Rachel Rickborn - Anthropology
David Markus - Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
13 13 Changes in Depression and Anxiety After Receiving an Intervention Combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Recovery Coaching Among People With Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Data Analysis From a Randomized Pilot Trial
Jessica Sloyan - Psychology
Sarah Voss - Psychology
Erik Ortiz - Prisma Health
Ashley King - Prisma Health
Trish Melling - Prisma Health
Carrie Baldwin - Prisma Health
Jessica Arnett - Prisma Health
Angelica Perez - Prisma Health
Irene Pericot Valverde - Psychology
Moonseong Heo - Public Health Sciences
Alain Litwin - Psychology
Snehal Lopes - Public Health Sciences
15 15 Developing a Standard Testing Procedure to Analyze the Performance of the SYDOR Technologies Tourniquet Testing Fixture
George Dunlap - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
16 16 Deep Eutectic Solvents based on Halogen Bonding for Energy Applications as Tunable Reaction Media
Connor Hudson - Chemistry
William T Pennington Jr - Chemistry
Colin McMillen - Chemistry
17 17 Effects of Acetyl-CoA Synthetase on Encystation of Entamoeba histolytica
Jenna Matthews - Biochemistry
Cheryl Ingram-Smith - Genetics and Biochemistry
18 18 Mitochondrial Dysfunction Occurs Before Transferrin Receptor Increases in Marginally Iron Depleted Mouse C2C12 Myoblast Cells
Abigail Zirbel - Food Science and Human Nutrition
Joanna Fiddler - Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences
19 19 Proof of Variation in Upright Bare Head Tests to Justify Variation in Inverted Bare Head Tests
Zachary Dolan - Bioengineering
Bianca Henline - Bioengineering
James Luquire - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
Madysn Cardinal - Bioengineering
Gregory Batt - Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences
20 20 Characterizing Triple Negative Breast Cancer Growth, Gene Expression, and Migration Between Racial Groups
Alannah Akins - Bioengineering
Zoe Dinkel - Bioengineering
Kylie King - Bioengineering
Heather Dunn - Bioengineering
21 21 Optimizing DNA Extraction for 16s rRNA Gene Analysis
Sofia Renner Andreu - Biological Sciences
Tzuen-Rong J Tzeng - Biological Sciences
Katelin Hanna - Biological Sciences
22 22 Optimizing a Protocol for Prevalence Surveys of HzNV-2 in Helicoverpa zea
Jolee Olsakovsky - Biological Sciences
Rachel Choe - Biochemistry
Madeline Bryan - Microbiology
Matthew Turnbull - Biological Sciences
23 23 Lepidoptera Presence in the Piedmont Prairie as an Indicator of Ecosystem Health and Vegetative Composition
Jackson Williams - Environmental and Natural Resources
Sarah Kolarik - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Althea Hagan - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Kacey Kai - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
24 24 Careful or Careless? Exploring Trusting Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Teams - Not in attendance
Sarah Mendoza - Psychology
Laine Mears - Clemson
Marissa Shuffler - Psychology
Sydney Begerowski - Psychology
25 25 Benefits and Perceived Barriers to Participation in Extracurricular Activities Among Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries
Marina Pietz - Industrial Engineering
Jessica Aviles - Industrial Engineering
26 26 Implant Metrology: A Multi-scale Approach for Distinguishing Wear
Devan Taylor - Bioengineering
Melinda Harman - Bioengineering
27 27 Characterizing the Functions of BRCA2 in Meiotic Recombination
Emily Peak - Biochemistry
Michael Sehorn - Genetics and Biochemistry
28 28 Piedmont Prairie Restoration: Influence on Avian Diversity
Sarah-jean Kolarik - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Jackson Williams - Environmental and Natural Resources
Althea Hagan - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Kacey Kai - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
29 29 State of the Art of Exoskeletons and its Application to Marathon Racing
Jordan McDowell - Industrial Engineering
30 30 The Effect of Eastern Hellbenders on the Spatial Use and Trait Selection of Their Prey
Ivy Bryan - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Eden Turek - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Cathy Jachowski - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Daniel Knapp - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
31 31 Developing Polymersomes to Deliver Nerve Regenerative Peptides to Treat Sciatic Nerve Injury
William Montgomery - Biochemistry
Kayleigh Trumbull - Campus Recreation
Jessica Larsen - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
32 32 Characterization of Food Additive Misinformation on TikTok
Ashley Verdonk - Food Science and Human Nutrition
Elliot Ennis - Chemistry
33 33 Molecular Interaction between TDP-43 and Amyloid-β Drives the Exacerbation of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
Adam Gatch - Biochemistry
Feng Ding - Physics and Astronomy
34 34 Honoring Clemson's History Through the Implementation of Public Art
Megan Tapley - Visual Arts
Joey Manson - Art
35 35 Histology of Adventitious Root Formation on Recalcitrant Cuttings of American Chestnut and Golden Camellia
Mary Sherman - Genetics
Ashton Pluchinsky - Genetics
Bianca Hylton - SPRI Governor's School
Ella Williams - SPRI Governor's School
Haiying Liang - Genetics and Biochemistry
Sky Lu - Genetics and Biochemistry
36 36 Get Your Head in the Game: a Qualitative Exploration of Student-athletes Experiences With Injury and Burnout
Riley Heffernan - Psychology
Marissa Shuffler - Psychology
Marlee Johnson - Psychology
Ally Wentworth - Psychology
37 37 Tracking Wild Hogs on Clemson's Experimental Forest
Tucker Cribb - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Greg K Yarrow - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Erin Buchholtz - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
38 38 Dynamic Destabilization of Granular Rafts
Ned Whitesell - Mechanical Engineering
Joshua Bostwick - Mechanical Engineering
39 39 All Talk? Participant Speaking Time as a Predictor for Leader Emergence
Carson Goodier - World Cinema
Marissa Shuffler - Psychology
Marlee Johnson - Psychology
Annamaria Wolf - Psychology
40 40 Mapping Microhabitat Usage for Cryptobranchus alleganiensis in North Carolina
Dalton Everette - Environmental and Natural Resources
Cathy Jachowski - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
41 41 Scrubbing into the Future: Evaluating Exoskeleton’s Effect on Healthcare Workers’ Energy Expenditure and Fatigue
Hope Lanier - Industrial Engineering
Alec Gonzales - Industrial Engineering
Tyler Haselman - School of Medicine- University of South Carolina
Shuvagnee Dhar - School of Medicine- University of South Carolina
Jackie Cha - Industrial Engineering
Anjali Joseph - School of Architecture
Divya Srinivasan - Industrial Engineering
Dechristian Franca Barbieri - Industrial Engineering
Alfredo Carbonell - School of Health Research
42 42 Enrichment, Isolation, and Classification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microorganisms in Soil Samples
Jessica Trayhan - Biological Sciences
Dinuka Lakmali Jayasuriya Patabandige - Biological Sciences
Barbara Campbell - Biological Sciences
43 43 Peptide Based Nanoplatform for Cas9/gRNA Ribonucleoprotein Delivery and Gene Editing
Alyson Schwartz - Bioengineering
Angela Alexander - Bioengineering
Joey Lavalla - Bioengineering
Jessica Larsen - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
44 44 Gene Knock-Outs for the Genetic-Biochemical Characterization of Putative Plasma Membrane-Associated Fatty Acid Binding Proteins in Trypanosoma Brucei
Sunny Ennis - Biochemistry
Joshua Saliutama - Genetics and Biochemistry
Kimberly Paul - Genetics and Biochemistry
45 45 Cloning Truncations of TbSET to Test Mitochondrial Targeting Sequences
Jessica Mason - Biochemistry
Meredith Morris - Genetics and Biochemistry
46 46 Controlling Protein Coronas of Polymersomes in Response to Ions
Daniel Nichols - Chemical Engineering
Owen Tabah - Bioengineering
Jessica Larsen - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
47 47 Injectable Hydrogel for Spinal Cord Repair: Antioxidant and Iron Chelation Strategies for Neural Progenitor Cell Delivery
Samuel Helenbrook - Chemical Engineering
Mason Morris - Chemical Engineering
Jessica Larsen - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Mark Pitman - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
48 48 Analyzing the Targeting and Stimuli-Responsive Components of a Multi-Functional Peptide to Induce Gene Knockdown in Glioblastoma Cells in vitro.
Kay Russi - Bioengineering
Riley Blassingame - Summer Intern
Angela Alexander - Bioengineering
Jessie Boulos - Bioengineering
49 49 Immune Responses Profiling Through Antibody Detection and Immunosequencing
David Forsman - Biological Sciences
Congyue Peng - Bioengineering
Delphine Dean - Bioengineering
50 50 I Know What You Did Last Summer... In Your Car
Hayden Roof - Computer Science
Yusuf Civan - Computer Science
Nicholas DiGennaro - Computer Science
Bulut Gozubuyuk - School of Computing
Mert Pese - School of Computing
51 51 Mars Science Helicopter (MSH) - 1/3rd Scale Test Stand Rotor Head System Identification
Arun Chandler - Physics
52 52 Substrate Integrity and Behavioral Responses in Arboreal Lizards
Trevor Brewington - Biological Sciences
Richard Blob - Biological Sciences
David Munteanu - Biological Sciences
53 53 Has the Eastern Box Turtle Adjusted to City Living? Home Range and Habitat Selection of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) Across a Developmental Gradient - Not in attendance
Maddie Stephens - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Russell Kyle Barrett - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Emma Rogers - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
54 54 The Effects of Compression Wrapping Techniques and Primary Wound Dressings on Leg Skin Interface Pressure
Grace Boone - Bioengineering
Aidan Quinn - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
James Cox - Bioengineering
55 55 Effects of Fish on the Faunal Communities of Amphibians and Macroinvertebrates in Isolated Wetlands
Reece Jackson - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Joshua Holbrook - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Russell Kyle Barrett - Forestry and Environmental Conservation
56 56 Transcript Characterization of H19 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Mya Beasley - Microbiology
Congyue Peng - Bioengineering
57 57 Advancements in Nanopore Long Reads Analysis for Breast Cancer RNA Sequencing
Susan Li - Computer Science
Noah Klimkowski Arango - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Gaura Sinha - Computer Science
Congyue Peng - Bioengineering
58 58 Role of the Mitochondrial Carriers in Cryptococcus neoformans
Alanna Scoggins - Microbiology
Kerry Smith - Genetics and Biochemistry
59 59 Conservative Employee’s Perception of Diversity and Inclusion Training Methods
Lauren Desing - Psychology
Allison Traylor - Psychology
60 60 An Atomistic Study of the Radiation Resistance of Grain Boundaries in High Entropy Alloys
Sarah Paguaga - Mechanical Engineering
61 61 Investigation of Autoclave Sterilization on Hydrogel Viability - Not in attendance
Halli Wall - Bioengineering
Kendra Boyd - Chemistry
Katherine Traver - Bioengineering
John D DesJardins - Bioengineering
Jeffrey Anker - Chemistry
Rong Wang - Chemistry
62 62 The Expression of Heterologous Proteins in Trypanosoma brucei
Chisom Emetu - Microbiology
Meredith Morris - Genetics and Biochemistry
63 63 Effects of Nemertean Egg Predator Carcinonemertes Conanobrieni on Active Parental Care of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus Argus
Rose Grace Porter - Biological Sciences
Juan Antonio Baeza Migueles - Biological Sciences
Alyssa Baker - Biological Sciences
Natalie Stephens - Biological Sciences