Agenda
* see below for detailed session information| Time | Salon Gardenia |
Salon Jacaranda |
Salon Bougainvillea |
BLHSB 1.312 | BLHSB 1.314 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM |
Registration/Breakfast | ||||
| Biology | Chemistry | Environmental | Math & Statistics | Physics | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM |
S11-1 |
S21-1 | S31-1 | S41-1 | S51-1 |
| 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM |
S11-2 | S21-2 | S31-2 | S41-2 | S51-2 |
| 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM |
S11-3 | S21-3 | S31-3 | S41-3 | S51-3 |
| 9:36 AM - 9:48 AM |
S11-4 | S21-4 | S31-4 | S41-4 | S51-4 |
| 9:48 AM - 10:00 AM |
S11-5 | S51-5 | |||
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM |
Break | ||||
| Biology | Chemistry | Environmental | Math & Statistics | Physics | |
| 10:10 AM - 10:22 AM |
S12-1 | S22-1 | S32-1 | S42-1 | S52-1 |
| 10:22 AM - 10:34 AM |
N/A | S22-2 | S32-2 | S42-2 | S52-2 |
| 10:34 AM - 10:46 AM |
S12-3 | S22-3 | S32-3 | S42-3 | S52-3 |
| 10:46 AM - 10:58 AM |
S12-4 | S32-4 | S52-4 | ||
| 10:58 AM - 11:10 AM |
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| 11:10 AM - 11:20 AM |
Break | ||||
| Biology | Medical | Environmental | |||
| 11:20 AM - 11:32 AM |
S13-1 | S23-1 | S33-1 | ||
| 11:32 AM - 11:44 AM |
S13-2 | S23-2 | N/A | ||
| 11:44 AM - 11:56 AM |
N/A | S23-3 | N/A | ||
| 11:56 AM - 12:08 PM |
S13-4 | ||||
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
Keynote presentation by Dr. Gabriela González and lunch in El Gran Salon | ||||
| Time | El Gran Salon | Salon Gardenia | Salon Jacaranda | Salon Bougainvillea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Poster Session |
WISE Meeting | Career Fair | Graduate Info Session |
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Award announcements - El Gran Salon
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* Oral Session Descriptions:
Biology
- S11-1: Ellisah Patricia Famador - Interaction of mitochondrial OPA1 and transmembrane potential in NTera-2 cells
- S11-2: Adegboyega Fajemisin - Investigating the cascading effects of cover crops on the subsequent cash crop defense against a polyphagous herbivore
- S11-3: Anna Rose Mehner - Influence of Traffic on Bobcat and Coyote Behavior at Wildlife Crossing Structures Along Two Highways in South Texas
- S11-4: Avninder Kaur - Impact of temperature stressed Listeria monocytogenes on its growth and survival kinetics on fresh-cut salad during storage
- S11-5: Daphne Alcala-Zuniga - Shortening of telomeres caused by bacterial lipopolysaccharides in HIV-1 exposed Human Oral Keratinocytes (HOK)
- S12-1: Elizabeth Ann Gonzalez - Describing the root and tuber morphology of the endangered plant species Asclepias prostrata from extraction in South Texas
- S12-2: N/A
- S12-3: Harpreet Kaur - Understanding the Developmental Regulation of OPA1 Processing in C2C12 Myoblasts
- S12-4: Lance Santos - Relationship between soil texture and fine root density on border palo verde seedling growth, and effects on drought tolerance and growth
- S13-1: Madison Nadler - Camera Traps and Infrared Trip Wires Effectively Capture Herpetofauna and Small Mammals
- S13-2: Ruth Lilia Galan - Alternative net apertures for the exclusion of the Asian Citrus Psyllid from young citrus trees in South Texas
- S13-3: N/A
- S13-4: Sofia Ayala - Influence of light availability on the growth and morphology of Megathyrsus maximus
Chemistry
- S21-1: Aleida G. Gonzalez - Novel Strategy to Influence Reactivity of Ni-H-Al Subunit in Heterometallic Complexes by Addition of Varying Ancillary Ligands
- S21-2: Alitza Gracia - Density Functional Theory Investigations on the Conformational Landscapes of Symmetrically Fluorine-Substituted Benzoic Acids
- S21-3: David De Los Santos - Ni2 Complexes Supported By A Redox-Active Ligand Bearing An N-Atom Anchor
- S21-4: Tamanna Zakia - ZnSnO3 Hollow Nanorod/PDMS Based Piezoelectric Nano-generator for Harvesting Mechanical Energy
- S22-1: Tanzida Zubair - On-water green synthesis of spiroindolinepyranopyrazoles
- S22-2: Elvira Alanis - Rational Design of an Antimicrobial Peptide
- S22-3: Edgardo De Leon - Amplifying Reactivity of Metal Hydrides: A Heterotrimetallic NiAl2(μ2-H)2 Catalyst for the Dearomatization of N-Heterocycles
Medical & Health
- S23-1: Olivia Mackey - Microbiome dysbiosis and its possible association with inflammatory complications and progression of Type II Diabetes: A pilot study in Mexican-American cohort from Rio Grande Valley
- S23-2: Jaqueline Quintanilla - Minocycline-loaded PLGA Microparticles with Targeting Agents for the Treatment of Glioblastoma
- S23-3: Emily Jordan - The Dual Delivery of Y15 and Metformin in a PLGA Scaffold for the Treatment of Platinum Resistant Ovarian Cancer
Environmental
- S31-1: Audrey Hicks - No Title Provided
- S31-2: Esmirna Cantu - Pesticides Induce Oxidative/Nitrative Stress, Disrupt Renal System and Impair Swimming Behavior in Goldfish
- S31-3: Esther Oginni - Efficacy of novel interventions to mitigate the risk of Salmonella spp., in hydroponic systems.
- S31-4: Jerald Thomas Garrett - Factors influencing Tamaulipan thornforest restoration outcomes
- S32-1: Manish Gautam - Cover crop impacts on soil moisture dynamics influenced by soil texture and rooting depth in semi-arid South Texas
- S32-2: Marissa Lamb - Sonar Mapping and Fish Biomass Estimates of East Bank Ridge, Gulf of Mexico
- S32-3: Sai Deepak Pinakana - Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Pollution Monitoring at port of entries along the US-Mexico border with Sentinel-5P Satellite Imagery
- S32-4: Samantha Lynn Colunga - Reforestation Impacts on Carbon Sequestration Rates: Thorn Forest Chronosequences within the Rio Grande Valley
- S33-1: Aaliyah Garcia, Selma Mendez, Jesus Villalvazo - Living shorelines as a sustainable solution to shoreline erosion at the UTRGV Port Isabel campus
- S33-2: N/A
- S33-3: N/A
- S33-4: N/A
Math & Stat
- S41-1: Kristen Hallas - Optimizing Battery Recycling Network: A Modeling Approach
- S41-2: Tania Vargas - A machine learning approach to obese-inflammatory phenotyping
- S41-3: Theophilus Baidoo - Survival Modeling of Breast cancer Patients using Random Survival forests and Cox Proportional deep neural network (DeepSurv)
- S41-4: Dora Reyes - Logistic equation and applications in population dynamics
- S42-1: Changyan Shi - Bright and Dark soliton solutions to a vector Sasa-Satsuma equation
- S42-2: Omar Saldana, Aaron Puente - Resonant soliton solutions to the KP equation and beach waves
- S42-3: Rosa María Serrato - Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in Spring Systems
- S42-4: N/A
Physics
- S51-1: Bhawana Sedhai - Detection and parameter estimation of unknown Supernova signals by using Convolutional Neural Network model
- S51-2: Elnaz Hamdarsi - No Title Provided
- S51-3: Luis Salazar Manzano - Time-domain analysis of the outbursts of AM CVns with TESS
- S51-4: Manoj Chhetri - Thermodynamic Feasibility of Potential Nano-energetic Systems based on Oxynitride
- S51-5: Md Habibur Rahman - A Novel Technique to Solve Fractional Differential Equations Using Fractional-order B-polynomial Basis Set
- S52-1: Michael Gale Benjamin - Efficiency of Core Collapse Supernova models in the on-source window of SN2019ejj using network analysis and a convolutional neural network
- S52-2: Raghav Girgaonkar - Effect of Alternative Model Parameters on Gravitational Wave searches
- S52-3: Shahrear Khan Faisal - Search for Gravitational Waves from Core Collapse Supernovae in LIGO's observation runs using a network of detectors
- S52-4: Andrea Pelayo Carvajal - Erbium doping of Lithium Tantalate nanoparticles for infrared detectors
Poster Session Descriptions
Biology
- SA-1: Alessandra Perry - Learning and Memory in Bees: Prioritizing Taste or Nutrition?
- SA-2: Bianca Jimenez - FOXO4 regulates the NOTCH pathway in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
- SA-3: Elizabeth Estrada - Cactoblastis cactorum and the Utilization of R Models to Monitor this Destructive Species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
- SA-4: Megan Samantha Solis - One, Two or Three species? Using an integrative approach to taxonomy to clarify species boundaries in spring snails
- SA-5: Michelle Rada - Optimization of DNA transformation into algae cells
- SA-6: Sarah P Gutierrez - Investigating Role of FOXO factors in the nucleus of Basal Breast Cancer (BBC) and Glioblastoma Multiform (GBM) through gene expression of ADAMTS2
- SA-7: Alma Nelly Lopez - Role of Foxo Transcription Factors in Glycolisis and the Developmental Wnt Pathway
- SA-8: Bianca Farrell - Exofacial thiol levels on various Trichomonas vaginalis isolates
- SA-9: Daphne Zapsas - Exploring the relationship between soil properties, microbial communities, and crop productivity in dryland farming systems of south Texas
- SA-10: David Uribe - No Title Provided
- SA-11: Dikshanta Vinaya Luitel - Unveiling Xenophagy: The Secret Weapon of Colon Epithelial Cells Against Intracellular Bacteria
- SB-1: Emily Medelez - Sustainable Farm Management For Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Fields
- SB-2: Gabriella Garza - Prebiotic RNA Oligonucleotide Polymerization on Mineral Surfaces using Microfluidics
- SB-3: Jamie Langbein - Preliminary Results of the Effectiveness of Redesigned Wildlife Exits Along a South Texas Highway
- SB-4: Mia Martinez - Exploring the effects of cover crops on soil nutrient availability: An On-farm research study
- SB-5: Millat Jahan - Investigating the localization of FOXO4 in U87MG Glioblastoma cell lines
- SB-6: Rebecca Flores - Do honey bees develop tolerance to ethanol?
- SB-7: Adhira Tippur - Nature's Chemical Defenders: Exploring Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Protection
- SB-8: Abdallah Galal - Evaluation of Multi-Session Temporary Anesthesia to Improve Upper Limb Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury
- SB-9: Andrew P Guerra - Screening of Antimicrobial Candidates against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- SB-10: Aracely Balderas-Leal, Ana Medellin, and Vicky Pena-Moreno - An Anthropological, Financial, and Medical Analysis of Opuntia ficus-indica Consumption in Areas of South Texas
- SB-11: Yahia Al-Qudah - No Title Provided
- SC-1: Arianna Hernandez - Effect of bacterial growth stage on the antimicrobial activity of ZnO nanoparticles
- SC-2: Christine Vega - Tarantula Toxin Transcripts and Toxin Structure Prediction by Alpha Fold
- SC-3: Gustavo Othon Estrada Jaimez - Monitoring the Lower Rio Grande Valley to prevent the possible spread of the Cactus moth
- SC-4: Jolie Gonzalez - Monitoring the Effects of Wildlife Crossings on Bobcat Range in South Texas
- SC-5: Jonathan R Dominguez - DNA identification of a small wolfsnail population (Euglandina sp.) in downtown San Antonio.
- SC-6: Marco A Silguero - Evaluating The Ecology of North America Lace Bug, A Potential Biocontrol Agent of Silverleaf Nightshade
- SC-7: Mariana Gonzalez-Tiscareno - Determining the relationship between two species of Central Texas cave snails
- SC-8: Natalia Salazar-Lozano - Building a molecular phylogeny of cave snails of Central Texas to better understand their diversity
- SC-9: Roberto Davila - Exploring the Traits of AMF Spores: Implications for Fungal Ecology
- SC-10: Roel Castaneda - Identification of unknown phreatic snail populations (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cochliopidae) from Central Texas
- SC-11: N/A
- SC-12: Joshwa Gandy - No Title Provided
Chemistry
- SD-1: Chioma Chinwe Nwakanobi - Electrolysis degradation of Cyanuric Acid in Waste Water at Cu/GO Cathodes
- SD-2: Christopher Munoz - NanoDesign With Intent:
Controlling Dimension, Porosity & Morphologies of ZnSnO3 Perovskites (ABX3) For Enhanced Piezoelectric Activity via Combination Synthesis Methods - SD-3: Eloy Garza, Hassan Ahmad - Attachment of Papain to Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using Polydopamine as Covalent Linker
- SD-4: Jose Vega, Sophia Villa - Antimicrobial Properties of Mixed Metal Oxides
- SD-5: Islam Uddin Shipu - Functionalization of Polyvinylidene Difluoride (PVDF) with LiTaO3 and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) for Advanced Piezoelectric Nanogenerator
- SD-6: Jesus Gamez - Designing Lewis acid-base interactions in a Substituted Phosphine Ligand Towards Ethylene-CO2 Coupling
- SD-7: Joe Lara - Synthesis, characterization, and application of vanadium phthalocyanines as a mixed heterogeneous catalyst for low temperature coupling reactions
- SD-8: Joseph A Felix - Detection of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution Utilizing Fluorescent Dye
- SD-9: Katherine Wright - Electrolysis for Degradation of Bisphenol A Via NiS/GO and CoS/GO
- SD-10: Maria Irene Myers Armas - Catalytic activity of Porphyrin Metalated Complexes in Coupling Reactions
- SD-11: Rigobert Ybarr - Synthesis of Nanostructured BaTiO3 and Enhancement of PVDF/PEO
- SE-1: Dave Philips - Photoluminescence properties of Mixed Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Textile Industry
- SE-2: Adhira Tippur - Perovskites for biomedical and solar cell application
- SE-3: Amber Garcia, Juan Garcia - Characterization of Photoluminescence Properties, shape and size of Gold, Silver, Silicon, Copper Nanoparticles Synthesized Using High Energy Ball Milling
- SE-4: Claudia Garza - Structural Exploration of PSD-95 Regulating the Surface Stability of NMDARs at Postsynaptic Membranes
- SE-5: Fernando Gonzalez - Modulating Cooperative Reactivity in Catalysis: Synthesis of Novel Heterometallic Hydride Complex
- SE-6: N/A
- SE-7: Sergio Gonzalez - Synthesis of Ni-bisphosphine complexes that support Lewis acids in coupling of CO2 and ethylene
- SE-8: Yolanda Gutierrez, Joaquin Rivera - New ways to improve dispersibility of Nanotubes: Approaching from the formation of silica nanoparticles by High Energy Reactive Ball Milling (HEBM) in polar solvents
- SE-9: Asif Shahriar - Structural and functional insight of Helicobacter pylori Translation Initiation Factor IF1 (HpIF1) in protein biosynthesis and rational design of new antimicrobial candidate
- SE-10: Ihssan Al-Qudah - Case Study of Steglich Esterification: Applying Modern Physical Organic Techniques to Study the Catalytic Cycle and Formation of Acylpyridinium Ion
- SE-11: Zachary Siehr - Green Chemistry: One-Step Wet Synthesis of Amino Acid Functionalized Silver and Silica Nanoparticles Derived from Recycled Pulverized Glass Via Chemical Reduction
Environmental
- SF-1: Allison White - Estimation of Fish Biomass on the RGV Reef Using Split Beam Sonar
- SF-2: Alyssa Alvarado - Development of a low-cost method for concentrating microalgae using a freshwater overlay
- SF-3: Angel Salinas - Greenhouse Gas Emission and Redox Potential Dynamics Affected by Water Saturation Conditions in Biochar/Compost Amended Soil
- SF-4: Angelica R. Tamayo - Assessing Effectiveness in Habitat Connectivity of Different Designs of Wildlife Underpass Crossing Structures
- SF-5: Annie Zeiler - Impacts of Bathymetry and Current Velocities on Fish Assemblages of the RGV Reef
- SF-6: Asif Ahmed - Effects of short-term exposure to pesticides mixture on tissue architecture and body fluid conditions of American oyster
- SF-7: Christopher J Austin - A Comprehensive Analysis of Fish Assemblages and Flow Regimes Upstream and Downstream of Falcon Reservoir / Un Analisis comprensivo sobre ensemblajes de peces y Corrientes en el Falcon Reservoir
- SF-8: Michelle King - The potential for Carbon Sequestration in a Nearshore Artificial Reef
- SF-9: Amanda Hernandez - Comparing adaptation to Climate Change in a U.S. and Pakistani Border Community
- SG-1: Odile Umuhoza - Reference Plant Available Water for Semi-Arid Cover Cropping and Restoration Studies
- SG-2: Rupesh Maharjan - Habitat Suitability analysis of Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) in Northern sector of Chitwan National Park using a geospatial approach
- SG-3: Sakib Tahmid Rishan - Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect subterranean and aquatic invasive species: Prospects and challenges of eDNA metabarcoding
- SG-4: Ana Yarely Casillas Rodriguez - Evaluation of biochar metal impregnation methods: Post-pyrolysis vs. Pre-pyrolysis treatments
- SG-5: Donavuan Salazar - Effect of Hyposalinity on Physiology of Marine Algae of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas
- SG-6: Johnathan Robert Gonzalez - Measurement of personal exposure to Black Carbon using mobile measurement techniques : A case study in Lower Rio Grande Valley
- SG-7: Zachary Rivera - Investigation of Hydraulic Parameters and Their Roles in Soil Greenhouse Gas and Water Exchange Under Climate Extremes
- SG-8: Edgar Garcia, Maximiliano Bettini - Soil redox potential (Eh) measurements affected by wetting-drying cycle
- SG-9: Lorraine M. Lozada Reyes - Developing Genomic Tools for Underutilized Crops of Puerto Rico
Engineering
- SH-1: N/A
- SH-2: Robert Alexander Perez - Novel Nanofiber Manufacturing Process: Collection System
- SH-3: Shadman Sakib - Cellulose/Chitosan Composite Aerogel Based Triboelectric Nano-generator for Harvesting Mechanical Energy
- SH-4: N/A
- SH-5: Kevin Zhou - Identifying Citrus diseases using A.I. learning
Math & Stat
- SI-1: Dipok Deb - Optimal Quantization for Discrete Distributions
- SI-2: Nicholas Niako - Effects of missing data imputation on univariate time series forecasting using ARIMA and LSTM
- SI-3: Saikou Jawla - Data Science for Antibiotic Stewardship
- SI-4: Solomon Eshun - A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluate the Effect of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors (SGLT2) on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Patients with Diabetes
- SI-5: Dora Reyes - Logistic equation and applications in population dynamics
Physics
- SJ-1: Miranda Molina - No Title Provided
- SJ-2: Aleshintsev Aleksey- ParB promotes DNA sliding at the C-terminal domain through flexible DNA binding lysine motif
- SJ-3: Aram Flores - Solar Simulator
- SJ-4: Francisco D. Santillan - Rabi Oscillations and Entanglement between two Rydberg Atoms in an Optical Cavity studied by the Jaynes-Cummings Model and Quantum Circuits on Qiskit
- SJ-5: Francisco Llamas - Photon Calibrator Power Sensor Temperature Sensitivity
- SJ-6: Miriam Ramos Arevalo - Ultracompact White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters
- SJ-7: Wendy Mendoza - Enhancing Convolutional Neural Networks for Accurate Detection of
Optical Astronomical Transients through a User-Friendly Web Application - SJ-8: Andrea Pelayo Carvajal - On Polyethylene Oxide – Fluorinated Polymers Blends
- SJ-9: N/A
- SJ-10: Rock Mason - Measuring Flux of Cataclysmic Variable Stars:
Photometry of SS Cygni Using IRAF - SJ-11: Victoria Delgado - Speed of Sound of a Dense Medium of Massive Fermions
Computer
- SK-1: Randy De Leon, Sebastian A. Torres - Determining Reachability in 1-Source 1-Consuming Chemical Reaction Networks Simulator
- SK-2: N/A
- SK-3: Isaac Manuel Bernal, Hamza Awan, Benjamin Alvarado - Optical Detection of Exoplanets using Transit Method with CTMO and McDonald Observatories
- SK-4: Asher Haun - The Effect of Cellular Regeneration on Viral Infections
Medical & Health
- SL-1: Ashily Chemplayil - Correlation between the anatomy and biomechanics of the ankle joint involving the etiology of lateral ankle sprain (LAS)
- SL-2: Isabella Victoria Strash - Pre and Post Operative Analysis of Forefoot Plantar Pressure During Walking in Patients with Hammertoe Deformities
- SL-3: James Mcclure Hughes - Plantar Pressure Analysis of Patients with Isolated Gastrocnemius Tightness
- SL-4: Jordan Danielle Escobar - Effects of Psychological Stress on Health Status and Lifestyle in College Students
- SL-5: Nicholas Obias - Energy Cost of Walking in Diabetic Partial-Foot Amputees as Related to Amputation Levels
- SL-6: Olivia Mackey - Epidemiology Biomechanics and Patient Outcomes for Lateral Ankle Sprains in Athletes
- SL-7: America Prado - Rio Grande Valley Frontiers in Nutrition: The impact of nutritional labels on consumer food choices
Arts & Science
- SX-1: Cecilia Sierra - Stimulated Flight from a Visual Arts Perspective
- SX-2: Josue Rubio - Visual Arts rendition of a stringed instrument and research to understand waves and energy