Rapid Fire I: Graduate

5 minute research talks given by the graduate student finalists of the collegiate competition Saturday, October 26th

1. Piyashi Biswas - Comparison of neuromuscular features of voluntary ankle movement in chronic stroke and able-bodied populations

2. Ellen Frahm - Dynamic Granular Hydrogels for Studying Pancreatic Cancer Growth in the Developing Tumor Microenvironment

3. Katherine Heidi Fehr - Striding Confidently—Prosthetic foot clearance in free-living, unsupervised neighborhood walks

4. Sonji Lamichhane - A hydrogel microwell array culture platform for noninvasively screening hematopoietic stem cell fate decisions

5. Elise Barton - Lab Cultivated Chicken, No Longer Science Fiction; Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Microalgae for Sustainable Protein Production

6. Alexa Yeo - PRECIPITATION CORRELATION DISTANCE: CHARACTERIZING THE SPATIAL CORRELATION OF PRECIPITATION IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES

7. Oleksandra Fanari - Predicting evolutionary conservation of human Pseuoduridine modifications

8.Devanshi Mistry - Reversible Poisoning of Precious Metal Catalysts by Biogenic Impurities: Integrating Fermentation and Electrocatalysis for Decarbonized Chemical Manufacturing

9. Micheal Asama - Techno-economic Assessment of Biofuel Production from Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Macroalgae