U-RISE AT UNM

 5th Annual U-RISE Summer Research Symposium 


​Friday, August 26th, 2022
Castetter Hall, room 100
3:00-6:30 pm


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This event will feature presentations communicating early research findings from our U-RISE scholars. Our presentations will be brief talks that will be 10 to 12 minutes with 3 minutes of Q&A, which will include slides for visual aid purposes. These presentations are meant to disseminate early research findings to a large, diverse group for rapid feedback.

Symposium Schedule
*denotes 2nd year scholar

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1st SESSION PRESENTERS


*Julian Rojo  (3:15 pm)
Using pain-free microneedle skin patches to sample tissue-residing leukocytes

Marelessis Palomino  (3:30pm)
Introducing Y Chromosome Long Non-coding RNAs in Mouse Lung Cancer Cells to Induce Radiation Sensitivity
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Alexa Gonzalez  (3:45)
RNA Modifications Play a Role in Exit from Stem Cell State in the Drosophila Larval Brain
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*Daisy Belmares-Ortega ​ (4:00pm)
Enabling a Hepatoxicity Assay Platform Using HepG2 and HUH-7 Cells Through A Centrifugal Hydrogel Synthesis Method
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Brendan Sanders  (4:15pm)
Collagen V Exposure Prior to Chronic Hypoxia and Alters Inflammation and Pulmonary Arterial Remodeling

2nd SESSION PRESENTERS

*Diego DeMmon  (5:15pm)
Development of novel cyst-deficient strains of Toxoplasma gondii

Brandi Hess  (5:30pm)
Gene Disruption Project

*Brenda Ramos Villanueva  (5:45pm)
Understanding the role of Condensin II in genome compartmentalization

Adina Abudushalamu  (6:00pm)
MetAP2 expression is regulated by translation elongation 
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Castetter Hall Rm 200
219 Yale Blvd NE

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

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MSC 03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
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