2023 Alumni
KEYS Slam
Research Showcase Booklet
High School: Hamilton High School
City: Chandler
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Marty
Research Project: Expressing and Purifying Membrane Proteins
High School: BASIS Phoenix
City: Paradise Valley
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lingling An
Research Project: Understanding the Relationship Between the Microbiome and Autism Spectrum Disorder
High School: BASIS Tucson North
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Hutchinson
Research Project: Validation of Microstructural MRI Markers in Alzheimer's Disease
High School: ASU Prep Digital
City: Marana
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Walker
Research Project: Determining Brown dog tick preference for different dog breeds using petri dish assays
High School: Flowing Wells High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alicia Allen
Research Project: Observing Study Participant Satisfaction Surveys at Week 1 to Increase Recruitment and Retention of At-Risk Participants
High School: BASIS Tucson North
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anita Koshy
Research Project: Is Apoptosis a Mechanism of Death induced by T.gondii in TINS?
High School: University High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leif Abrell
Research Project: Expanding the Scope of UA's PFAS Research: FHxSA as a First Example of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening
High School: Sahuaro High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Euan McLeod
Research Project: Germanium Nanoparticle Synthesis and Modification For Photonic Devices and Materials
High School: Desert Vista High School
City: Phoenix
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie LaFleur
Research Project: Evaluation of Medication Use Pathways Relating to Cognitive Aging
High School: BASIS Oro Valley
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Meredith
Research Project: Water Harvesting's Effects on Physiochemical Indicators of Soil Health in a Semi-Arid Urban Environment
High School: Santa Rita High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Malak Tfaily
Research Project: Culturing bacteria from Saguaro National Park to see how the microbes in the soil are reacting to the extreme climate the desert
High School: BASIS Tucson North
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Haiquan Li
Research Project: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Segment Anything in Plant Identification
High School: Sunnyslope High School
City: Phoenix
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gondy Leroy
Research Project: The Use of Electronic Health Records to Analyze Valley Fever and Pneumonia Patients
High School: Desert Christian High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Frank Duca
Research Project: The Effect of a High Fat Diet on Inflammatory Signaling in the Mediobasal Hypothalamus
High School: City High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tyson Swetnam
Research Project: Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Epidemic Heatmapping and Data Visualization
High School: University High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Capaldi
Research Project: Exploring the Mechanisms of PKA Activation in Glycerol in Budding Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
High School: Chaparral High School
City: Phoenix
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Hutchinson
Research Project: Using Imaging to Validate Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment
High School: University High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael F. Brown
Research Project: Understanding Environmental Impact on the Energy Distribution of G-Protein Coupled Receptors
High School: Cienega High School
City: Vail
Faculty Mentor: Dr. George Sutphin
Research Project: Synergism of Osmotic and Heavy Metal Stress Response in Caenorhabditis Elegans
High School: Cactus Shadows High School
City: Scottsdale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Andrews
Research Project: Single-cell RNA analysis in skin of individuals with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
High School: Arizona College Prep High School
City: Chandler
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Hammer
Research Project: Female Metabolism Before and After Seizure
High School: Paradise Valley High School
City: Phoenix
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nirav Merchant
Research Project: Extracting Information From Video Using Deep Learning Methods
High School: Flowing Wells High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jason Karnes
Research Project: Warfarin Pharmacogenomics in a Hispanic & Latino Population: Copy Number Variation and Warfarin Dose
High School: BASIS Chandler
City: Chandler
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eli Chapman
Research Project: Examining Characteristics of the Hsp70 Chaperone Protein to Find Viable Drugs for Anticancer Therapy
High School: BASIS Oro Valley
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anna Dornhaus
Research Project: Do Bumble Bees Show Directed Exploration?
High School: Sahuaro High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Russell Witte
Research Project: Data Reproducibility of Hands-Free Photoacoustic Skin Imaging System
High School: Ironwood Ridge High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alicja Babst-Kostecka
Research Project: The Role of SvHMA5II in Silene Vulgaris' Copper Tolerance
High School: Palo Verde High Magnet School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marielle Wälti
Research Project: Investigating chaperon protein GroEL with/without Tails
High School: Tanque Verde High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg
Research Project: How to Count Wasp Neurons
High School: Hamilton High School
City: Chandler
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Limesand
Research Project: Determining How Modulating the Inflammatory Response in Salivary Glands Post-Radiation Treatment Affects Wound Healing
High School: BASIS Scottsdale
City: Scottsdale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Barton
Research Project: Comparison of Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging to Histology at the Uterotubal Junction
High School: Sabino High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melanie Culver
Research Project: Conservation of Mountain Gorillas in Uganda through Monitoring Microbiome, Genetics, and Ecology in using Non-Invasive Methods
High School: BASIS Oro Valley
City: Oro Valley
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Fei Yin
Research Project: Weight Loss is Coupled with Elevated Lipid Catabolism in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
High School: Canyon Del Oro High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Harris
Research Project: Genomic Analysis of Patients with Dysautonomia
High School: University High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ross Bucan
Research Project: Characterization of Novel Gene Regulators of TDP-43 Abundance in S.cerevisiae
High School: Marana High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pascale Charest
Research Project: Role of Phosphorylation of the Chemoattractant Receptor cAR1 on its function in Dictyostelium Chemotaxis
High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jil Tardiff
Research Project: Optimizing a drug screen to identify therapeutic treatments for HCM
High School: Tucson High Magnet School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marielle Wälti
Research Project: Purification of Chaperone GroEL to Investigate the Importance of the Tails
High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Riehle
Research Project: Using NIRS to Determine Quantity of Bloodmeals in Aedes aegypti
High School: Cibola High School
City: Yuma
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst
Research Project: The Importance of Modeling Low-Coverage Sequencing on Demographic Inference
High School: Hamilton High School
City: Chandler
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gondy Leroy
Research Project: Using Regular Expressions in Python to Analyze Valley Fever and Pneumonia Electronic Health Records
High School: Corona del Sol High School
City: Tempe
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nancy Horton
Research Project: Investigating the Ability of a Novel Compound to Inhibit the Cleavage Activity of the Human Parvovirus B19 NS1 Nuclease Domain
High School: University High School
City: Green Valley
Faculty Mentor: Dr. L. Daniel Latt
Research Project: Studying the Compressive Forces Attained and Retained between Bone and Screws
High School: Flowing Wells High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Duke Pauli
Research Project: Roots for Resilience: Developing Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) for a Hotter, Drier Tomorrow
High School: Rincon High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tyson Swetnam
Research Project: Integrated Large Language Models for reproducible research
High School: Sedona Red Rock High School
City: Sedona
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Meredith
Research Project: Smart Tree Watering for Arid Landscape
High School: Desert Vista High School
City: Phoenix
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael F. Brown
Research Project: Impact of Residues and Water on Energy Absorbance of Rhodopsin
High School: Tanque Verde High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sean Limesand
Research Project: Effects of Oxygen and Glucose Therapy on Beta-Cell Area in FGR Sheep Fetuses
High School: Mica Mountain High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Craig Aspinwall
Research Project: Developing a Hybrid Sensor for Electrochemical & Spatial Mapping of a Single Cell
High School: University High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christopher Banek
Research Project: Using Total Renal Denervation to Mitigate the Effects of Polycystic Kidney Disease
High School: Palo Verde High Magnet School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sadhana Ravishankar
Research Project: The Importance of Food-Based Antimicrobials against Food-Borne Pathogens
High School: Southern Arizona Community Academy
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tai Kong
Research Project: The Synthesis and Characterization of Magnets with Geometrical Frustration
High School: Pueblo High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alicia Allen
Research Project: Analyzing and Comparing Participant Satisfaction Surveys at Week 12 to Increase Retention and Recruitment in Research Studies
High School: BASIS Scottsdale
City: Scottsdale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Arvinder Sandhu
Research Project: Comparing the Efficiency of a Hollow Core Fiber and a Quartz Multi Plate Setup for Pulse Compression
High School: Wang Homeschool
City: Gilbert
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Philipp Gutruf
Research Project: Evaluating Chronic Wireless Implantable Device Encapsulation Durability through Mechanical and Chemical Stress
High School: Saguaro High School
City: Scottsdale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie LaFleur
Research Project: Evaluating Metabolic Biomarkers in Transition to Mild Cognitive Impairment