The following undergraduate students were awardees at the Discover USC 2017:
- Morning Oral Presentation: U/P: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math A
First Place-Tie: Will Capell, Title: Identification of intramolecular signals controlling PDE11A4 subcellular compartmentalization - Morning Oral Presentation: U/P: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math B
Second Place: Ashley Davis, Title: Characterization of Carbonate Saturation Horizons Near Deep-sea Coral Beds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands - Morning Oral Presentation: U/P: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math C
First Place: Olivia Reszczynski, Title: The Role of Ovarian Function and Interleukin 6 in the Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Metabolism in Tumor Bearing Mice - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Biology, and Biomedical Sciences A
First place: Christine Reid, Title: The Role of COX2 on Cellular Senescence
Second Place: Joelle Strom, Title: The effect of PACT mutations that cause the neuromuscular movement disorder dystonia 16 (DYT16) on PACT-PKR interactions - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Biology, and Biomedical Sciences B
First Place: Shyam Desai, Title: Effect of Aspirin on Cellular Senescence - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Biology, and Biomedical Sciences C
Second Place Tie: Mariah Humphrey of Mythreye Karthikeyan's group, Title: The Role of Sox 2 in Ovarian Cancer - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Biology, and Biomedical Sciences D
First Place: Kevin Field, Title: The role of cyclooxygenase-2 in the late effects of chemotherapy - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Chemistry , Physics, and Math A
First Place: Vincent Esposito & Ashley Perkins, of Susan Richardson's group, Ttitle: Disinfection By-Product Removal Efficiency of Activated Carbon Filters for Home-Use
Second Place Tie: Nicholas Leschinsky, of Thomas Makris's group, Title: Assembly of a Pathway for Biofuel Synthesis in Escherichia coli - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Chemistry , Physics, and Math B
First Place: Thomas Moore, of Natalia Shustova's group, Title: Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Protein Mimics
Second Place: Julia Bian, of Thomas Makris's group, Title: Structural studies of Cytochrome P450 enzymes that generate Biofuels - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: Public Health B
Second Place: Rebekah Parris, Title: Osmolarity of enteral nutrition and medications and necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates - Morning Poster Presentation: U/P: USC Connection and Graduation with leadership Distinction
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Second Place: Gillian Levy, Title: Leading Through Service - Afternoon Oral Presentation: U/P: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math E
First Place: Katherine Castleberry, Title: Novel morphometrics establish mast cell-dependent angiogenesis in atopic dermatitis pathogenesis - Afternoon Oral Presentation: U/P: USC Connection and Graduation with Leadership Distinction
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First Place: Abhishek Malkan, Title: Serving the community - Afternoon Poster Presentation: U/P: Chemistry, Physics, and Math C
First Place: Caroline Schlee, of Caryn Outten's group, Title: Overexpression and Purification of Iron Regulators Aft1 and Yap5 from Yeast
Honorable Mention: Ian McGuire, Title: Computational models for Human memory, applications to problem-solving in low-memory situations - Afternoon Poster Presentation: U/P: Chemistry , Physics, and Math D
First Place: Ayi Eta, of Chuanbing Tang's group, Title: Sustainable Polymers from Plant Oils
Second Place: Gabriel D’Agostino, of Thomas Makris's group, Title: Redox, Substrate- and Ligand-Binding Properties of a Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase-Modifying P450 - Afternoon Poster Presentation: U/P: Psychology and Neuroscience G
First Place: Neema Patel, Title: Identifying which subcellular compartments in the brain express PDE9A and how that expression changes with age
Second Place: Courtney Strickland, Title: The contribution of visual cue synchrony to recognition of interrupted natural and vocoded speech - Afternoon Poster Presentation: U/P: USC Connection and Graduation with Leadership
Distinction RR
First Place: Nitaya McCormick, Title: Investing in Our Future