ARCS Scholars present scientific research in a variety of ways: publications in distinguished peer-reviewed journals, competitively-selected speaker events and poster presentations at professional conferences, and successful dissertation defenses. The members of the Oregon Chapter are proud of our scholars and delighted to showcase their research. ARCS scholars, please contact us at arcspdx@me.com to submit a copy of your poster or publication.
Timothy Bates - Farming for Pharmaceuticals: Alpaca Nanobodies as a Tuberculosis Treatment Strategy
Sydney Weber Boutros - Assessing a Novel Therapy for Synucleinopathies using an alpha-synuclein
Erik Burlingame - SHIFT: Speedy Histological-to-Immunofluorescent Translation of Whole Slide Images Enabled by Deep Learning
Sami Friedrich - Songbirds Help Us Understand Brain Mechanisms of Alcoholic-Induced Speech
Kyle Gustafson - Fluorescence Quantification of Extracellular Vesicles Collected from Human Plasma via Dielectrophoresis
Charles Heller - Arousal Enhances Discrimination of Natural Sounds in Auditory Cortex
David Jacobs - Is it Worth It? Assessing How the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Processes Risky Actions
Dakota Kliamovich - Reduced White Matter Microstructure is Associated with Escalating Depressive Symptoms in Female Adolescents
John Koberstein - Development of Metabolite Biosensors Using Massively Parallel Assays of Domain-Insertion Variant Libraries
Alexandria Lassetter - What Role Do Glia Play in Long-Term Axon Maintenance?
Emily Leff - Role of Phosphorylation in Acute Desensitization and Tolerance of the µ-Opiod Receptor
Mollie Marr - A History of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment is Associated with Neonatal Amygdala and Hippocampal Resting State Function Connectivity; Clinical Reasoning - Attending to the Story
Dan Miller - Neuronal Dystroglycan Regulates CCK/CB1R Interneuron Development
Luci Moore - Anatomical and Functional Mapping of the Central Auditory System
Tom Navis - Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning: A Model of Comorbid PTSD and Substance Use
Alex Quackenbush - Investigating Tumor Promotion in the Postpartum Liver Mestastic Niche
Mariya Shapiro - Early Treatment with Neutralizing Antibodies is Critical for Preventing Persistent Infection in a Macaque Model of Pediatric HIV-1
Gail Stonebarger - Diet, Aging, and Menapause: Effects on Alzheimer's Pathology
Jenny Firkins - Impact of Financial Security on Physical and Mental Health and Symptoms in Cancer Survivors
Mary Davis - Mid and Later Life Reproductive Factors are Not Associated with Physical Frailty Among Women with Heart Failure
Holly Dixon - Assessing PAH Exposures with Multiple Approaches Including Silicone Wristbands
Daniel Elson, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology - Utilizing the Zebrafish Xenograft Model to Evaluate Anticancer Drug Efficacy Overcoming Therapeutic Resistance with Bcl-2 Functional Converters
Christine Ghetu, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology - Assessing Wildfire Influence on Indoor and Outdoor Chemical Concentrations and Diffusive Flux Between Soils and Air of PAHs in the Western United States
Lizz Schuyler - The Influence of Wildfire on Mule Deer Habitat Selection in Eastern Oregon
Matthew Slattery, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology - Keeping Pace with Pesticides: Nano-Sized Particles Can lead to Big Changes
Sheanna Steingass, Fisheries and Wildlife - Under the Waves - Tracking At-Sea Habitat Use and Dietary Composition of the Pacific Harbor Seal in Oregon
Cedric Hagen - The Sulphate Capacitor Hypothesis for Carbon Cycle Dyanmics at the Dawn of Life
Kaitlin McConnell - Reef Microbiomes of Mo'orea, French Polynesia, a Socio-Ecological Island System
Brendan Reilly - Regionally Consistent Western North America Paleomagnetic Directions from 15 to 35 ka: Assessing Chronology and Uncertainty with Paleosecular Variation (PSV) Stratigraphy; Middle to Late Pleistocene Evolution of the Bengal Fan: Integrating Core and Seismic Observations for Chronostratigraphic Modeling of the IODP Expedition 354 8 Degrees North Transect
Shea Steingass - Harbour Seals: Population Structure, Status, and Threats in a Rapidly changing Environment
Daniel Watkins - Temperature Inversions in the Arctic Atmosphere
Sophia Wensman - Uranium in Oysters: An Inexpensive and Accessible method of measuring Ocean Corrosivity?
Anthony Alberti - Reduced Order Modeling of Nuclear Reactor Core Kinetics
Michael Boller - Zonal Resource Adequacy for Voltage Control
Patrick Clary - Motion Planning with Efficient Spring-Mass Behavior
Lucas Freiberg - Process Intensification Principles for Competitive Solar Fuels
Paige Hovenga - Drivers of Alongshore Varying Dune Evolution
Jennifer Leaf - Resilience in Robotic Collectives
Calvin Lee - Analog-to-Digital Data Converter Design
Peter Rindal - Private Set Intersection
Jennifer Ventrella - Sensor-Based Impact Monitoring
Logan Berner - Forest Response to Water Availability and Disturbance in the Western United States
Gretchen Engbring - Management and Marginalization: Organizational Structures and Associated Trade-offs in Oaxacan Community Forest Enterprises
Christal Johnson - Factors Impacting Resin Production: Quantifying Potential Bark Beetle Resistance in Burned, Harvested, and Untreated Ponderosa Pine Forest
Sean Boulanger, Chemistry - Investigaton of Photochemical Organic and Organometallic Systems in Solution by Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Claire Clouch, Integrative Biology - The Host as an Ecosystem: Exploring the Role of Microbial Communities in Wildlife Health
Dallas Foster, Department of Mathematics - Decadal Predictability of Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
Caroline Glidden, Integrative Biology - Using High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing to Uncover Crytic Variation in African Buffalo Piroplasm Communities
Gisela Gonzalez-Montiel, Department of Chemistry - Chemical Exploration of Douglas Fir Tree Associated Fungi
Shannon Hennessey, Integrative Biology - Matching Spatial Scales of Predator Movement and Community Variation
Martijn Oostrom Department of Mathematics - Methods for Analyzing Resistances of Directed Graphs
Bryce Penta, Department of Microbiology - Combined Field and Lab Study to Determine the Effects of Storm-Induced Mixing on Primary Production
Katja Kasimatis, Department of Biology - Untangling Reproductive Success: Caenorhabditis Nematodes as a Model System for Fertilization
Andrew Morris - Linking Microbial Communities to Ecosystem Function: What We Can Learn from Genotype-phenotype Mapping in Organisms
Erik Toraason - Elucidating Mechanisms Directing meiotic DNA Repair Decisions
Michael Crawford - Exciton Self-Trapping in [n] - Cycloparaphenylenes
Amber Rolland - Investigating the Size and Stoichiometry of Pore-Forming Toxins Using Native ESI-MS