Yueqi Ren, Stark Lab

Lab Affiliation: Craig Stark Lab Title: Screening for cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s using cost-effective data Abstract: Access to geriatric care is important for managing Alzheimer’s and related dementias, but expert time and clinical resources are limited....

Katrina Bartas, Beier Lab

Lab Affiliation: Kevin Beier Lab Title: Early Brain Changes in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease and Drug Addiction Abstract: In the progression of AD, changes in the brain occur before cognitive deficits are detectable. To better understand these early changes at a...

Jing Yan, Yale University

Lab Affiliation: Yale University Title: Bacterial biofilm as self-shaping active matter  Abstract: Biofilms, surface‐attached communities of bacterial cells, are a concern in health and in industrial operations because of persistent infections, clogging of flows, and...

Yanwen Gong, Kessenbrock and Shen Lab

Project Title:  scEpiLock: A Weakly-Supervised Learning Framework for cisRegulatory Element Localization and Variant Impact Quantification for Single-Cell Epigenetic Data   Project Summary: Recently advances in single-cell epigenetic sequencing allow cellular...

Jonathan Rodriguez, John Lowengrub Lab

Title: Predictive Nonlinear Modeling of Malignant Myelopoiesis and TKI Therapy Abstract: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a blood cancer in which there is dysregulation of maturing myeloid cells (granulocytes) driven by a chromosomal mutation which creates the fusion...