SURP Multidisciplinary Seminar Schedule


You are invited to join us at these seminars where you will have the opportunity to hear SURP Fellows provide an update on their projects. It is also an excellent opportunity for all participants to network and develop new collaborations. These seminars will be held during the Fall and Winter Quarters and will be announced in early Fall.


Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Wednesday, February 23
2:00pm-3:30pm
Winter Quarter-Week 7

Location: UCI Student Center,
Lido Meeting Room (C132)

Nicholas Whitley

2:15pm

Defining Pathways of T-Cell Development in Cryptopatch Aggregates in the Small Intestine of the Laboratory Mouse, Mus Musculus

Victoria Camerini
(Pediatrics)
Melissa Hill 2:30pm Effect of Strain Background in Mouse Models of Huntington’s Disease Oswald Steward
(Anatomy & Neurobiology)
Vasudev Bailey 2:45pm Strain Sensitive Array for the Study of Bone Surface Mechanics William Tang (Biomedical Engineering)
Anh Le 3:00pm Cell Encapsulation on Microfluidic Platform Abraham Lee
(Biomedical Engineering)
Kaveh Azartash 3:15pm Chemotaxis Noo Li Jeon
(Biomedical Engineering)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Monday, February 28
11:30am-1:00pm
Winter Quarter-Week 8
  
Location: UCI Student Center,
Emerald Bay D (A106D)

Michelle Chen

11:45am

Stem Cells: Are They Mechanosensitive?

William Tang
(Biomedical Engineering)
Thong Nguyen 12:00pm Silylcarbonylation of Terminal and Internal Alkynes Keith Woerpel (Chemistry)
Erik Montes 12:15pm Regulation of NFkB by CK2 in melanoma Susan McNulty (Cancer Center)
Erin Curtis 12:30pm Quantification of Human Stem Cells in a Mouse Model of Spinal cord Injury Aileen Anderson (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Beth Pineles 12:45pm Response of Infants in the NICU to a Repeated Nociceptive Stimulus Curt Sandman (Psychiatry and Human Behavior)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Wednesday, March 2
2:00pm-3:30pm
Winter Quarter-Week 8
  
Location: UCI Student
Center, Balboa Meeting Room (C133)

Sara Ghazi

2:15pm

Brain Mechanisms in Auditory-Visual Speech Perception

Fan-Gang Zeng, Greg Hickock, Ginger Stickney (Otolaryngology)
Mercedes LaVoy 2:30pm Effect of Picture Similarity on Recognition Memory Mark Steyvers
(Cognitive Sciences)
Shabnam Shenasi Azari 2:45pm Seizing the Opportunity: Women in Iran, a Century of Struggle Lina Kreidie
(Social Sciences)
Jacqueline
Chattopadhyay
3:00pm Representation and Rhetoric: An Exploratory Study of Descriptive Representation of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Government Institutions and Popular Discourse Mark Petracca
(Political Science)
Kristen Hunsberger 3:15pm Moving From Culture Shock to Cosmopolitanism: The Position of Students Immersed in Educational, Cross-Cultural Experiences Elizabeth Guthrie, Glen Levine (French and Italian)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Friday, March 4
2:00pm-3:30pm
Winter Quarter-Week 8
  
Location: UCI Student Center, Lido Meeting Room (C132)

Jessica O’Connell

2:15pm

The Protohuman Project

Bill Tomlinson (Informatics)
Man Lok Yau 2:30pm The Protohuman Project Bill Tomlinson (Informatics)
Karl Isenberg 2:45pm Web-Based PDF Document Creation and Editing Tool Pai Chou
(Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Chao Li 3:00pm Assessment of Collagen Expression During Nd:YAG Laser Mediated Repair of Hyaline Cartilage Brian Wong (Otolaryngology)
Khin Win 3:15pm Characterization of Tau Isoforms Expressed in Cultured Human Cortical Neurons on Poly-L-lysine and Laminin Substrates Jorge Busciglio
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Monday, March 7
11:30am-1:00pm
Winter Quarter-Week 9
  
Location: UCI Student Center, Emerald Bay A (A103)

Martin Vega

11:45am

The Development of a Radical Postcolonialist Theory from Traditionalist Beginnings

Jane Newman (English & Comparative Literature)
Evan Anderson 12:00pm Tasting Tourism: The New Sugar in Paradise Teresa Caldeira (Anthropology)
Sean Sepulveda 12:15pm Injury, Stress, and Aging Michael Rose (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Samuel Thorpe 12:30pm Visual Cortex: An Investigation of the Effects of Delay on Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators. Ramesh Srinivasan
(Cognitive Sciences)
Sean Rosenbaum 12:45pm Clustering the Web Padhraic Smyth
(Computer Science)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Thursday, March 10
12:30pm-2:00pm
Winter Quarter-Week 9
  
Location: UCI Student Center, Salt Creek A & B (A125/A126)

Margaret Rottman-Hipps

12:45pm

How a Small Town California Girl Can Transform Into a Hollywood Star?

Myrona Delaney
(Drama)
Gregoria Barazandeh 1:00pm Attitudes Toward Disabilities and Reasonable Accommodations and a Workable Communication Solution: Disability Fact Sheet Handbook Caesar Sereseres
(Political Science)
Kevin Loutherback 1:15pm Synthesis of Nanowire Heterojunctions for Advanced Nanoelectronic Devices Philip Collins
(Physics & Astronomy)
Tuong Mai 1:30pm mRNA Study of Hair Growth Associated Genes Bogi Anderson
(Biological Chemistry)
Arsen Akopyan 1:45pm Analysis of Mammary Gland Development in Sys Mice Grant MacGregor (Developmental & Cell Biology)
   

Seminar Date/Time

SURP Fellow Presenter

Presentation
Time

Project

Faculty Mentor(s)

Friday, March 18
12:00am-1:00pm
Winter Quarter-Week 10
  
Location: Student Services II, Classroom 1010A/B

Dirk Groeneveld

12:15pm

VizION: The VizClass Interface Operating Network

Falko Kuester (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Zamaneh Zamanian 12:30pm Retinoid X Receptor Activation and Endocrine Disruption by Environmental Organotins Bruce Blumberg (Developmental & Cell Biology)
Evamarie Rodriguez 12:45pm The Growing Effect of Baseball Cards Alice Fahs (History)

Food and drinks will be provided for your enjoyment.