Sidaard Gunasekaran, Barath Narayanan

"Deep Learning Algorithm for Atomization Characterization using Shadowgraph Images: A Novel Approach for Spray Drift Analysis"

Carissa Krane, Jeremy Erb

"Frozen Alive: How the Biochemistry and Biophysics of Cellular Membranes Enhance Freeze Tolerance"

Kristen Krupa, Jayne Robinson

"Combinatorial Antibacterial Effectiveness of Novel Therapeutics in an Enhanced Human Lung In Vitro Model"

Erin O'Mara Kunz, Jackson Goodnight

"Examining the Role of Pregnancy and Reproductive Experiences in the Onset of Autoimmune Diseases: A Test of the Pregnancy Compensation Hypothesis"

Chenglong Zhao, Ju Shen

"Machine Learning and Big Data for Rapid Drug Identification"

IMAD AGHA, ANDY CHONG

"Building an Ultrafast, Real-time Spectrometer"

MARY wagner, TAM NGUYEN

"Improving Math Skills with Adaptive E-Books"

ROBERT LOWE, PAUL KLADITIS

"Energy Harvesting from Mechanical Vibrations"

MARK NIELSEN

"Evolution: Why Do Some Features Evolve, While Others Do Not?"

POTHITOS PITYCHOUTIS

"Solving the Regeneration Puzzle"

JAY MATHEWS, CHRISTOPHER MURATORE

"Flexible low-cost optoelectronics via laser processing of 2D chalcogenide materials"

MARY FUHS

"Identifying the Mechanisms Underlying Mathematical Cognition to Design Innovative Games for Children"

OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH

Grants

• National Institutes of Health, $438,829, 2020-2023
• College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Fellowship program for undergraduate research, 2020

Conference Papers

• Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Baltimore, MD – “Flexible attention to numerical and spatial magnitudes in pre-k through first graders”
• Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society conference. Ottawa, Canada – “Early development of children's flexible attention to numerical and spatial magnitudes”
• Cognitive Development Society conference. Louisville, KY. – “Flexible attention to numerical and spatial magnitudes and children's development of math skills in preschool”

Undergraduate Support

• George Bommer – Psychology – May 2019
• Michaela Marshall – Psychology – May 2019

JAY MATHEWS

"Development of hyperdoped silicon for infrared focal plane array detectors"

CHRIS MURATORE, KRISTEN COMFORT

"Ultra-sensitive biotronic molecular sensors for applications in health care and security"

CHELSE PRATHER

"Toxic trees, crazy ants, adventive moths, and biocontrol beetles…oh, my! Verifying and predicting an invasional meltdown"

TIM REISSMAN, BOB LOWE, HAFEZ TARI, MARGIE PINNELL,
SUSAN HILL, MALCOLM DANIELS

 "Toward Additively Manufactured Soft Prosthetic Hands: Processing, Characterization, and Predictive Modeling of Ultra-Flexible 3D-Printed Materials"

JU SHEN, BEN KUNZ

"A Novel Behavioral Intervention System for Children with Autism"

YVONNE SUN, ERICK VASQUEZ, CHENGLONG ZHAO

"Collaboration toward food safety: Ultrasensitive detection and identification of pathogens"

OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH

Presentations

• Dayton ACS Section Poster Session – “Mechanistic Study of Listeria antibodies binding onto Au Nanoparticles at Different pH Conditions”
• TechConnect World Innovation Conference  & Expo Boston, MA – “Understanding the Effects of Solution Conditions on Antibodies Binding to Au Nanoparticles”

Publications

• Nanoscale 11:20589-20597 – “Optothermal Microbubble Assisted Manufacturing of Nanogap Rich Structures for Active Chemical Sensing”
• ACS Omega 4(12):15269-15279 – “Optimization and Structural Stability of Gold Nanoparticle-antibody Bioconjuates”

Undergraduate Support

• John Weis – Pre-Medicine – May 2019
• Robert Busch – Chemical Engineering – December 2019
• Jonathon Khumnark – Bioengineering – May 2019

Ph.D. Support

• Nathan Wallace
• Farzia Karim

ZELALEM BEDASO

"Establishing modern oxygen isotope baseline in terrestrial records to understand the climate and environment of human evolution"

KIM BIGELOW, KURT JACKSON, TIMOTHY REISSMAN,
JULIE WALSH-MESSINGER

"Fostering increased independence and health outcomes for older adults: development and adoption of a SmartWalker"

OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH

Conference Papers

• World Congress of Biomechanics -“Fostering increased independence and health outcomes for older adults through increased postural stability during ambulation: Development of a SmartWalker Posture Monitor”
• American Society of Biomechanics -“Positional and Postural Effect of a Visual Biofeedback Device during Rollator Walker Use: A Device Validation”
• APTA Combined Sections Meeting - “The Effects of a Positional Feedback Device on Rollator Walker Use”

Manuscript

• Journal Assistive Technology – “ Effect of a Visual Feedback Device on Posture and Position during Rollator Walker Use: A Device Validation”

Undergraduate Support

• Jack Schultz
• Lisa Stone – Psychology – May 201

Collaboration

•  Bethany Lutheran Village

AMY CIRIC, JUN-KI CHOI

"STAR: solar thermal adsorptive refrigeration"

TAM NGUYEN, PHU PHUNG

"A framework for object segment collage CAPTCHA"

POTHITOS PITYCHOUTIS

"Engineering of a cutting-edge transgenic mouse model to decipher novel calcium circuits implicated in the neurobiology of ADHD"

OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH

Grant

• A Novel Role for Phospholamban in the Reticular Nucleus

Conference Presentation

• 17th International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering – “Exploring novel calcium circuits in the mouse brain”

Manuscript

• Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology - SERCA2: A Gate-keeper of calcium homeostasis in the brain
  

Book Chapter 

• Calcium Signaling - A Role for SERCA pumps in the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
  

Undergraduate Fellowship – Barry Goldwater

• Joseph Saurine – Biochemistry – May 2019

CHELSE PRATHER, YVONNE SUN

"Maintaining coastal tallgrass prairies: grasshopper microbiomes, invasive ants and decomposition"

JU SHEN, BENJAMIN KUNZ

"A virtual reality based video self-modeling system for behavior intervention"

AMIT SINGH

"Finding new targets of amyloid plaque mediated neurodegeneration using Drosophila eye model"

OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH

Presentations 

• Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, India – “The Role of Signaling in Alzheimer’s disease: A Silver Tsunami of 21st century”
• Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Wright State University, Dayton, OH – “The role of signaling pathways in Alzheimer’s disease: A Silver Tsunami of 21st century”
• Midwest Drosophila – “Understanding the role of Wg Signaling pathway in Amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42) mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Manuscripts

• Scientific Reports – “ A soy protein Lunasin can block amyloid-beta 42 mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease”
• Drosophila Information Service, 100 - “An undergraduate cell Biology lab: Western Blotting to detect proteins from Drosophila eye”
• Drosophila Information Service, 100 – “Real time quantitative PCR to demonstrate gene expression in an undergraduate lab”
• PLOS One – “Characterization of a morphogenetic furrow specific Gal4 driver in the developing Drosophila eye”