Eleven awards recognizing excellence in research innovation were presented at s annual symposium last week.
More than 100 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty members from , and presented their research at the event. Leaders from regional businesses and industry partners also attended.
Winners were selected in five categories:
Sensing, Actuation, Intelligence and BioInspired Systems
First Place: Rohit Jakkula
Graduate researcher, (ECS)
, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, adviser
“Transformable Modular Robots”
Second Place: Silverio Johnson
Postdoctoral scholar, (A&S)
, assistant professor of physics, adviser
“Quenching Variability of Drosophila Larval Behavior Using Multi-Sensory Stimulation”
Development and Disease
First Place: Anthony Watt
Graduate researcher, ECS
, associate professor, Samuel and Carol Nappi Research Scholar and biomedical and chemical engineering graduate program director, adviser
“Machine Learning Analysis of Multimodal Waveforms and Synthetic Data Augmentation for Predicting Cardiotoxicity in Single Cell hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes”
Second Place: Anton Jayakodiarachchige
Doctoral student, A&S
, assistant professor of biology, adviser
“Investigating the Dual Role of Mediterraneibacter Gnavus in the Small Intestine: Friend or Foe?”
Honorable Mention: Arpan Banerjee
Doctoral student, SUNY Upstate Medical University
, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, biochemistry and molecular biology and cell and developmental biology, adviser
“The Role of USP10 in Corneal Angiogenesis via YAP/TAZ Signaling”
Designer Biology
First Place: Daniel Fougnier
Doctoral student, A&S
, professor of biomedical and chemical engineering, adviser
“Voxelated Assembly of Large-Scale Tissue Constructs”
Second Place: Paul Sagoe
Doctoral student, ECS
, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering, adviser
“Tailoring Polymeric Nanoparticles Properties for Enhanced Targeted Delivery to Macrophage Subpopulation”
Function Without Form
First Place: Nirbhik Acharya
Postdoctoral scholar, A&S
, associate professor of biology and chemistry, adviser
“STI1 Domain Engages Transient Helices to Drive Phase Separation of Yeast Ubiquilin”
Second Place: Jess Niblo
Postdoctoral scholar, A&S
, assistant professor of chemistry, adviser
“Profiling Structural Sensitivity Across Human Transcription Factor”
Adaptive Energy and Infrastructure Materials
First Place: Vanshika Vanshika
Doctoral student, A&S
, associate professor of chemistry, adviser
“Turn on the Lanthanide NIR Emission of Non-Fluorescent Lanthanide-Based Double Perovskite Nanocrystals by Incorporating a Fluorescent Sensitizer”
Second Place: Ruosi (Joyce) Qiao
Doctoral student, ECS
, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, adviser
“Binder-Free Dry-Processed Electrode Enabled by a Porous Carbon Current Collector for Lithium-Ion Batteries”
BioInspired supports research on complex biological systems and the development and design of programmable smart materials to address global challenges in health, medicine and materials innovation. 聽Associated faculty come from life sciences, engineering, physics and chemistry.
