MARC AT UNM

 3rd Annual MARC Summer Research Symposium 
(virtual)


August 19th & August 21st
        (4pm - 5:30pm)         (3:30pm - 5:00pm)


This two day event will feature presentations communicating early research findings from our MARC scholars.  Our presentations  will be brief talks that will be 12 minutes with 3 minutes of Q&A, which will include a slide deck 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


Wednesday, August 19th

*Brittney Love (4:05pm-4:20pm)
Level of Cancer Knowledge in Parents with Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Cancer Patients

Danielle Vigil (4:20pm-4:35pm)
Inflammatory Macrophages Contribute to Gut Inflammation through Continuous Notch Signaling

*Durante Pioche-Lee (4:35pm-4:50pm)
Understanding Surface Tension of Vesicles using Micropipette Aspiration Analysis

Nora Caglar (4:50pm-5:05pm)
Molecular Mechanisms That Regulate Navigational Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

*Levi Doyle (5:05pm-5:20pm)
Global transcriptome and alternative splicing analysis of Zika virus infections in pediatric patients

Friday, August 21st
Misha Lockamy (3:35pm-3:50pm)

Astrocytic Involvement with Glutamatergic Excitotoxicity following Cortical Spreading Depolarization

*Megan Barber (3:50pm-4:05pm)
Differential gene expression to explore the up and down regulation of genes in the Hippocampus and Frontal Cortex of DM1 and DM2 patients

Raven Otero-Symphony (4:05pm-4:20pm)
Impact of State Mandates On Reduction of COVID-19 Cases Counts and Mortality in the United States Southwestern Region

*Selina Montoya (4:20pm-4:35pm)
Screening Hispanic/Latino Patients for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease using Butterfly iQ Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Anthony Abetya-Lopez (4:35pm-4:50pm)
CX3CR1 As a Therapeutic Target in Multiple Sclerosis


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Mailing Address:
Department of Biology
MSC 03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001


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