Biology Poster Session
Location
Hogan, Ballroom (3rd Floor)
Start Date
22-4-2026 3:30 PM
End Date
22-4-2026 5:30 PM
First Advisor
William V. Sobczak
Second Advisor
Ben Stein
Third Advisor
PJ Torres
Fourth Advisor
Alimatu Acheampong
Department
Biology
Description
3:30 - 5:30 P.M. | Biology Poster Session
Olivia Dulac ’26, Flavio Oseguera ’26, Gianluca Bebber '27, Juliette Peel '26, Patrick Whitehouse '26 (Faculty Mentor: William V. Sobczak) Hidden Life Below Urban Streambeds: Hyporheic Resilience and Macroinvertebrate Recovery Following Extreme Drought
Flavio Oseguera ’26, Olivia Dulac ’26, Gianluca Bebber '27, Juliette Peel '26, Patrick Whitehouse '26 (Faculty Mentor: William V. Sobczak) Assessing Tatnuck Brook Water Quality using Macroinvertebrate Diversity and 20 Years of Streamwater Chemistry
Jack Petrus ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ben Stein) Binding Affinity of NtrX to Specific DNA Promoter Regions in "C. crescentus"
Jael Cruz ’27, Leah Curtin ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Ben Stein) NtrX phosphorylation and the role of downstream target genes in "Caulobacter crescentus"
Olivia Sirard ’26, Sydney Ting ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) From forest to city: how landscape development shapes stream oxygen dynamics in the Blackstone River watershed
Nicholas Champeon ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) Patterns of zooplankton diversity across urban and suburban freshwater lakes in Worcester MA
Sienna Moore ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) Identifying and mapping the distribution of Asian clams "Corbicula fluminea" and rusty crayfish "Faxonius rusticus" through environmental DNA in Worcester, Massachusetts
Emily Bulson ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Alimatu Acheampong) Effects of A Gamma Entrainment Treatment on Pigeon Gut Microbiome and Working Memory Performance
Peter Kehoe ’26, Ally Fetterman ’26, Colin Fahey ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin) A Growing Problem: Micro- and Nanoplastics in Soil Reduce Sunflower Growth and Nitrogen Availability
Russell Cleary ’26, Rosemary Knoll ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin) The Changing Campus Landscape: 2009 to 2025
Caroline Hubbard ’29, Caroline Martino ’29, Maya Pinto ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Dan Lu) Cancer Cell Signaling: Regulations and Functions of p53 Modifications
Eva Fava-Rodrigues ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Julia Paxson) Identifying the Effects of Age-Dependent Extracellular Matrix Composition on Canine Stem Cell Proliferation
Kara Battaglia ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Julia Paxson) The Effect of Varying PolyAcrylamide Stiffness On the Proliferative Functionality of Canine Lung Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Ashley Zilora ’26, Sarah Obrycki ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Geoff Findlay) Orthologs of a rapidly evolving male fertility gene vary in their capacity to condense sperm chromatin in "Drosophila melanogaster"
Junyi Wu ’26, Roselyn Pantoja-Ramirez ’27, Emma Murphy ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Geoff Findlay) Newly evolved genes required for "D. melanogaster" spermatogenesis are post-transcriptionally regulated through their 3' UTRs
Maguire Sturgis ’27, Natalia Perez, Sophia Suffoleto, Paula-Ashley Kong (Faculty Mentor: Harshada Sant) Mapping the Juvenile Nervous System of the Mollusc "Berghia stephanieae"
Ashley Giorgio ’26, Abigail Brown ’27, Alina Doolan ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Rob Bellin) Stromal cell shed syndecan-1 may serve as an epitheal cell growth factor co-receptor
Katie Laraia ’26, Mia Alverio ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Apobec3G Clinical Variant F119F Exhibits Elevated HIV Suppression and Unique Mutational Capabilities
Henry Argueta ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Assessing the Functional Activity of Hypercatalytic APOBEC3G Variants
Josel Perez ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Reassessing the antiviral mechanism of APOBEC3G in HIV restriction
Luke Shaughnessy ’28, Dana Ansah ’28, Mia Romo ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Michelle A. Mondoux) Studying "C. elegans" as a unique model for neurological disease, protein aggregation, and sex specificity
Bailey Baptista ’26, Mackenzi Banet ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Michelle A. Mondoux) Dietary Glucose has Sex-Specific Effects on Protein Aggregation in C. elegans Models of Human Aging and Disease
Angelina Lancey ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Alessandro Alessandrini) The Effect of Injectable Fgl2 mRNA on Donor-Specific Antibodies in Murine Skin Transplantation
Biology Poster Session
Hogan, Ballroom (3rd Floor)
3:30 - 5:30 P.M. | Biology Poster Session
Olivia Dulac ’26, Flavio Oseguera ’26, Gianluca Bebber '27, Juliette Peel '26, Patrick Whitehouse '26 (Faculty Mentor: William V. Sobczak) Hidden Life Below Urban Streambeds: Hyporheic Resilience and Macroinvertebrate Recovery Following Extreme Drought
Flavio Oseguera ’26, Olivia Dulac ’26, Gianluca Bebber '27, Juliette Peel '26, Patrick Whitehouse '26 (Faculty Mentor: William V. Sobczak) Assessing Tatnuck Brook Water Quality using Macroinvertebrate Diversity and 20 Years of Streamwater Chemistry
Jack Petrus ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ben Stein) Binding Affinity of NtrX to Specific DNA Promoter Regions in "C. crescentus"
Jael Cruz ’27, Leah Curtin ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Ben Stein) NtrX phosphorylation and the role of downstream target genes in "Caulobacter crescentus"
Olivia Sirard ’26, Sydney Ting ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) From forest to city: how landscape development shapes stream oxygen dynamics in the Blackstone River watershed
Nicholas Champeon ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) Patterns of zooplankton diversity across urban and suburban freshwater lakes in Worcester MA
Sienna Moore ’26 (Faculty Mentor: PJ Torres) Identifying and mapping the distribution of Asian clams "Corbicula fluminea" and rusty crayfish "Faxonius rusticus" through environmental DNA in Worcester, Massachusetts
Emily Bulson ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Alimatu Acheampong) Effects of A Gamma Entrainment Treatment on Pigeon Gut Microbiome and Working Memory Performance
Peter Kehoe ’26, Ally Fetterman ’26, Colin Fahey ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin) A Growing Problem: Micro- and Nanoplastics in Soil Reduce Sunflower Growth and Nitrogen Availability
Russell Cleary ’26, Rosemary Knoll ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin) The Changing Campus Landscape: 2009 to 2025
Caroline Hubbard ’29, Caroline Martino ’29, Maya Pinto ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Dan Lu) Cancer Cell Signaling: Regulations and Functions of p53 Modifications
Eva Fava-Rodrigues ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Julia Paxson) Identifying the Effects of Age-Dependent Extracellular Matrix Composition on Canine Stem Cell Proliferation
Kara Battaglia ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Julia Paxson) The Effect of Varying PolyAcrylamide Stiffness On the Proliferative Functionality of Canine Lung Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Ashley Zilora ’26, Sarah Obrycki ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Geoff Findlay) Orthologs of a rapidly evolving male fertility gene vary in their capacity to condense sperm chromatin in "Drosophila melanogaster"
Junyi Wu ’26, Roselyn Pantoja-Ramirez ’27, Emma Murphy ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Geoff Findlay) Newly evolved genes required for "D. melanogaster" spermatogenesis are post-transcriptionally regulated through their 3' UTRs
Maguire Sturgis ’27, Natalia Perez, Sophia Suffoleto, Paula-Ashley Kong (Faculty Mentor: Harshada Sant) Mapping the Juvenile Nervous System of the Mollusc "Berghia stephanieae"
Ashley Giorgio ’26, Abigail Brown ’27, Alina Doolan ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Rob Bellin) Stromal cell shed syndecan-1 may serve as an epitheal cell growth factor co-receptor
Katie Laraia ’26, Mia Alverio ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Apobec3G Clinical Variant F119F Exhibits Elevated HIV Suppression and Unique Mutational Capabilities
Henry Argueta ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Assessing the Functional Activity of Hypercatalytic APOBEC3G Variants
Josel Perez ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Ann Sheehy) Reassessing the antiviral mechanism of APOBEC3G in HIV restriction
Luke Shaughnessy ’28, Dana Ansah ’28, Mia Romo ’28 (Faculty Mentor: Michelle A. Mondoux) Studying "C. elegans" as a unique model for neurological disease, protein aggregation, and sex specificity
Bailey Baptista ’26, Mackenzi Banet ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Michelle A. Mondoux) Dietary Glucose has Sex-Specific Effects on Protein Aggregation in C. elegans Models of Human Aging and Disease
Angelina Lancey ’27 (Faculty Mentor: Alessandro Alessandrini) The Effect of Injectable Fgl2 mRNA on Donor-Specific Antibodies in Murine Skin Transplantation
Comments
Additional Faculty Mentors: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin, Dan Lu, Julia Paxson, Harshada Sant, Rob Bellin, Ann Sheehy, Michelle A. Mondoux