NEI Poster Day Participants. Kneeling: Dr. Cesar Perez-Gonzalez, Summer Program Coordinator. First Row (left to right): Lauren Killingsworth, Alexandra Pietraszkiewicz, Ali Allahdina, Juliet Hartford, Laken Shumate, Margaret Starostik, Christina Stevens, Lena Bakalian, Shaimar Gonzalez Morales, Sarah Chwiki, Angela Zhou, Rebecca Xi, Sonia Chen, Sohee Shim, Danielle Horridge, Kirubel Belay, Amanda Ray, Jenny Yoon. Second Row: Jason Alvarez, Mohammad Yazdanie, Eric Kudiwu, Anesu Nyawata, Howard Nicholson, Kaifa Boyce, Brianna Stroud-Williams, Melissa Lester, Laura Keehan, Dahlia Wilson, Caitlyn McCafferty, Jose Salazar, Iain Forrest, Jackson Gao, Jerry Mi, David Noursi, Siqi Chen.
The NIH Summer Poster Day provides an opportunity for summer interns to share their accomplishments with the NIH community as well as family and friends. The following thirty-six students from the NEI presented their research:
Allyshah Allahdina
Anatomic and Functional Measures of Plaquenil-induced Retinal Toxicity
Howard University College of Medicine (District of Columbia)
Dr. Catherine Cukras, Dr. Wai Wong, Dr. Emily Chew, Preceptors
Lena Bakalian
The Effects of Pigment Epithelium Growth Factor in the Retinas of RD10 Mice
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart (Maryland)
Dr. Federica Polato, Dr. Patricia Becerra, Preceptors
Kirubel Belay
DIVRO
Ocular Commensal Bacteria and its Regulation of Immunity at the Ocular Surface
University of Texas at Austin (Texas)
Dr. Anthony St. Leger, Ms. Phyllis Silver, Dr. Rachel Caspi, Preceptors
Gabriella Belmarez
DIVRO
A Neural Code for Vision Decays in Retinal Degenerative Models: Quantifiable Spike Train Coherence in Rd1 and Rd10 Mice Retinal Ganglion Cells
Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts)
Dr. Steven Stasheff, Preceptor
Kaifa Boyce
DIVRO
Proinflammatory Cytokines Induce Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland)
Dr. Michael Redmond, Dr. Krishnan Kutty, Dr. William Samuel, Preceptors
Xiaoyu Cai
Expression Pattern of KCNJ13 Knock-in Reporter in the Mouse Brain and Eye
Duke University (North Carolina)
Dr. Lijin Dong, Preceptor
Siqi Chen
Interferon Gamma is Critical for Regulating IL-18/IL-18BP Axis in Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
Johns Hopkins University (Maryland)
Dr. Guangpu Shi, Dr. Igal Gery, Preceptors
Sonia Chen
OCT Imaging of Mutant Mice
Walt Whitman High School (Maryland)
Dr. Haohua Qian, Preceptor
Sarah Chwiki
The Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Vessels
University of Virginia (Virginia)
Dr. Mones Abu-Asab, Dr. Maria Campos, Mr. Chris Ardeljan, Preceptors
Iain Forrest
Genetic Screening of Uveal Coloboma and Other Developmental Ocular Defects in Zebrafish via CRISPR-Cas9 Mutagenesis
University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland)
Dr. Brian Brooks, Dr. Sunit Dutta, Preceptors
Jackson Gao
Mutational Analysis of the Oculocutaneous Albinism 2 Gene
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York)
Dr. Xinjing Wang, Preceptor
Shaimar González Morales
DIVRO
Increased CX3CR1 Signaling by Exogenous CX3CR1 Rescues Retinal Degeneration: Implication of New Treatment for Renitis Pigmentosa
Marshall University (West Virginia)
Dr. Matthew Zabel, Dr. Lian Zhao, Dr. Yikui Zhang, Dr. Wai Wong, Preceptors
Juliet Hartford
DIVRO
The Fundus Autofluorescence Pattern Associated with Progression to Geographic Atrophy
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York)
Dr. Emily Chew, Preceptor
Danielle Horridge
Modulation of Mucosal Lymphoid Tissue of the Ocular Surface by Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC3s)
College of William and Mary (Virginia)
Dr. Anthony St. Leger, Dr. Rachel Caspi, Preceptors
Laura Keehan
Single Point Alterations in Pigment Epithelium-derived Factor (PEDF) Modify Receptor Binding Affinity and Retinoprotective Activity
Rice University (Texas)
Dr. S. Patricia Becerra, Dr. Preeti Subramanian, Preceptors
Lauren Killingsworth
Modeling Leber Congenital Amaurosis and Joubert Syndrome Using Patient Fibroblasts and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Stanford University (California)
Dr. Anand Swaroop, Dr. Hiroko Shimada-Ishii, Dr. Milton English, Dr. Tiziana Cogliati, Preceptors
Eric Kudiwu
DIVRO
STAT6 Confers Protection Against Development of Severe Uveitis
Georgetown Preparatory School (Maryland)
Dr. Charles Egwuagu, Dr. Cheng-Rong Yu, Mr. Rashid Mahdi, Preceptors
Melissa Lester
DIVRO
Utility of PCR from Ocular Fluid in Infectious Uveitis
Temple University School of Medicine (Pennsylvania)
Dr. H. Nida Sen, Dr. Bob Nussenblatt, Preceptors
Caitlyn McCafferty
Deep Mutation Analysis of Proteins for Inherited Eye Disease
University Of Maryland (Maryland)
Dr. Yuri Sergeev, Preceptor
Jerry Mi
Sanger Sequencing Based Multigene Mutation Screening for Achromatopsia
Thomas S. Wootton High School (Maryland)
Dr. Xinjing Wang, Mr. Keith Wetherby, Preceptors
Howard Nicholson
DIVRO
Intragenic SNP Haplotypes Associated a Mutation in PROM1 in Two Pakistani Pedigrees with Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Poolesville High School (Maryland)
Dr. Yabin Chen, Dr. J. Fiedling Hejtmancik, Preceptors
Anesu Nyawata
DIVRO
Elevated Levels of S100B Protein Promote the Development of Experimental Autoimmune Uveitis
Rhodes College (Tennessee)
Dr. Charles Egwuagu, Dr. Cheng-Rong Yu, Mr. Rashid Mahdi, Dr. Wanwisa Promsote, Preceptors
Alexandra Pietraszkiewicz
Assessment of Risk Alleles Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration
University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Connecticut)
Dr. Rinki Ratna Priya, Dr. Anand Swaroop, Preceptors
Amanda Ray
Retinoid Isomerase Activity in RPE65 Knockin Mouse Models
Shepherd University (West Virginia)
Dr. Yan Li, Mr. Todd Duncan, Dr. Michael Redmond, Preceptors
Jose Salazar
DIVRO
Facilitating Phylogenetic Interpretations of aCGH Analysis with New Software
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts)
Dr. Mones Abu-Asab, Preceptor
Sohee Shim
Effect of HDACi Givinostat on the Polarization of Th-17 Cells in Autoimmune Uveitis
George Washington University (District of Columbia)
Dr. Sarah Clarke, Dr. Baoying Liu, Dr. Robert Nussenblatt, Preceptors
Laken Shumate
Identification of Gut Microbial Protein Exhibiting Mimicry to Retinal Protein by RNA-seq. This is to be consistent with the rest of the format.
University of North Carolina (North Carolina)
Dr. Mary Mattapallil, Dr. Rachel Caspi, Preceptor
Margaret Starostik
Transcriptome Expression Analysis in Human Retina with Age-related Macular Degeneration
Georgetown University (District of Columbia)
Dr. Rinki Ratnapriya, Dr. Anand Swaroop, Preceptors
Christina Stevens
Cellular and Molecular Changes at the Wound Site of a Ground Squirrel Optic Nerve Crush
Holton-Arms School (Maryland)
Dr. Jingxing Ou, Ms. Tantai Zhao, Mr. Vincent Kunze, Dr. Wei Li, Preceptors
Brianna Stroud-Williams
DIVRO
Extracting a High-Dimensional Single Cell Data through Flow Cytometry Analysis of Eye Immune Cells with Novel Bioinformatics Tools
Gallaudet University (District of Columbia)
Mr. Rafael Villasmil, Dr. Rachel Caspi, Preceptors
Dahlia Wilson
DIVRO
Evidence for Cross Orientation Facilitation in Primate Area M
Richard Montgomery High School (Maryland)
Dr. Bruce Cumming, Preceptor
Rebecca Xi
Nitisinone as a Potential Treatment for Oculocutaneous Albinism Type 4 Using a Mouse Model
University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland)
Dr. Brian Brooks, Dr. Ighovie Onojafe, Preceptors
Mohammad Yazdanie
Rod-Mediated Dark Adaptation as a Functional Outcome Measure in the Study of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Stony Brook University School of Medicine (New York)
Dr. Catherine Cukras, Dr. Wai Wong, Preceptors
Jenny (Joo Hee) Yoon
Effects of Aberrant Splicing in Dominant-Acting RPE65 Mutation
University of Rochester (New York)
Dr. Eugenia Poliakov, Dr. T. Michael Redmond, Preceptors
Angela Zhou
B Cells Versus Dendritic Cells as Antigen-presenting Cells in Autoimmune Disease: Uptake of the Auto-antigen IRBP
Poolesville High School (Maryland)
Dr. Sophia Jeon, Dr. Rachel Caspi, Preceptors
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