The Van Wickle Journal

Volume 2, Annual Meeting
Brown University, RI, USA
April 4th, 2026

Table of Contents

Oncology
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Shivi Kumar (1), University of Pennsylvania, Teryn Mitchell(1), Columbia University Medical Center, Osama Farany (2), Moffitt Cancer Center
Gayatri Bulsara (1) Joanna N. Modi, PhD Candidate (2) Alison M. Taylor, PhD (3) 1. Barnard College of Columbia University 2. Pathobiology and Mechanisms of Disease, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center 3. Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ziqi Cui ¹, Anjali Chauhan ¹, Grace Hey ², Nesrine Benslimane ³ , Michael Cameron ³ , Virneliz Fernandez Vega ³ , Nagheme Thomas ¹, Ravi Kumar ¹, Neel N. Patel ¹, Macaulay Tomdio ¹, Niccolò A. Rugger ¹, Marianne Kozuch ⁴, Siva Rama Raju Kanumuri ⁵, Frank Bova ¹, Timothy Spicer ³ , Maryam Rahman ¹ ² ¹ Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL ² University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL ³ Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL ⁴ Center for Environmental & Human Toxicology, Analytical Toxicology Core Lab, Gainesville, FL ⁵ Department of Pharmaceutics and CTSI-Translational Drug Development Core, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Grace Y. Lee(1), Lexi-Ann F. Golden(2) , Emma Kenna(2,4), Brynn Kaczkofsky(3), Yazan Ahlmadi(3), Amanda Shafer(3), Jodi Wilkowski(3), & Christina V. Angeles(2,3) 1. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2. Cancer Biology; University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 3.Department of Surgery; University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 4. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics; University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
"Phillip Park (1,3), Basel White (2,3), Dr. Deepraj Ghosh (1,3), Dr. Michelle Dawson (1-3) 1. Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University 2. Institute for Biology, Engineering, and Medicine, Brown University 3. Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University"
Clinical Research
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Jonah G. Ferber (1), Allison Campbell (1), Gopal Agarwal (1), Arun Wanchoo (1), Daniel Plant (2), Prodip Bose (2), Gregory Hudalla (1), Benjamin Keselowsky (1), Christine E. Schmidt (1), 1. J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Gainesville FL, 2. VA Research Service, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville FL
Rithikaa Rajendran BA (1,4), Adriana Bayron BA (2), Ilona Cazrola Morales MD (3), Yevgenia Shekhtman MD (4) 1. Department of Neuroscience, Rutgers University. 2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. 3. Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla NY. 4. Department of Neurosurger, HMH Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center
Public Health
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Ananya Uddanti (1), Erica Lamy (2) 1. Brown University 2. Rhode Island Department of Health
DNA, Gene Expression, Genomics
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Yashodhara Velayudam (1), Miguel A. Monreal-Gutierrez (5), Katherine G. English (1), Muthukumar Karuppasamy (1), Shelby Rorrer (1), Michael A. Lopez (1), Jodi Paul (8), Han C. Phan (1,7), Karen L. Gamble (8), Karyn A. Esser (5,6), Matthew S. Alexander (1-4) 1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology at Children’s of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 2. UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM), Birmingham, AL 3. Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 4. UAB Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Birmingham, AL 5. Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 6. Myology Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 7. Rare Disease Research, LLC, Atlanta, GA 8. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Yashodhara Velayudam (1), Miguel A. Monreal-Gutierrez (5), Katherine G. English (1), Muthukumar Karuppasamy (1), Shelby Rorrer (1), Michael A. Lopez (1), Jodi Paul (8), Han C. Phan (1,7), Karen L. Gamble (8), Karyn A. Esser (5,6), Matthew S. Alexander (1-4) 1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology at Children’s of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 2. UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM), Birmingham, AL 3. Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 4. UAB Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Birmingham, AL 5. Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 6. Myology Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 7. Rare Disease Research, LLC, Atlanta, GA 8. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Esha Kamath(1,2), Niele Dias Mendes(1), Cindy Song(1), Hsin-Ching Lin(1), Arnold B. Rabson(1) 1. Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), New Brunswick, NJ, 2. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Sai Harshith Kodali (1), Sam Peterson (2), 1. Rice University 2. Oregon Health & Sciences University
Neuroscience
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Jonah G. Ferber (1), Allison Campbell (1), Gopal Agarwal (1), Arun Wanchoo (1), Daniel Plant (2), Prodip Bose (2), Gregory Hudalla (1), Benjamin Keselowsky (1), Christine E. Schmidt (1), 1. J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Gainesville FL, 2. VA Research Service, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville FL
Wyatt DeBord (1), Arina Kucinskaja (1), 1. Georgia Institute of Technology
Sophia Bililies¹, Yumna Magzoub¹, Nicola Sharp¹, Eva Franks¹, Sanne van Rooij², Jessica Maples-Keller², Barbara O. Rothbaum², Kerry Ressler¹, Mohammad Sendi¹ ¹McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA. ²Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Rohan Reddy (1), Carly Immerman (2), Kathryn Ditrano (3), Siena Brazier (4), Reagan Dennett (5), Lindsay Walsh (6), Illeana Soto (LAST, PI) 1. Brown University, Department of Biology 2-LAST. Providence College, Department of Biology
Julia Wong (1), Jake Yoshimoto (1), Ian Schiller (1), Allen Shen (1), Corresponding Author: Xinyi Wu (2). 1. University of California, Santa Cruz 2. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Meredith Jenkins (1), Morgan G. Thomas, Ph.D. (1), Bess Frost, Ph.D. (1) 1. Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Robert J. & Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University
Chris Lin ¹, Hanna Dobson ², Brenna Hammond ³, and Joseph Lonstein ² ³. ¹ Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Trio Program, Hunter College, New York City, New York 10065, United States ² Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States ³ Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
Navya Gullapalli (1), Alana Colafrancesco (1), Micah Simmons (1, 2), Jamil Saad (3), Rita Cowell (1, 2); 1. Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 2. Southern Research, Birmingham, AL 3. Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Daniel Alter, Undergraduate Student [1], Hridya Rajesh, Undergraduate Student [2], Aryan Suri, Undergraduate Student [2], Uchisda Ratheesh, Undergraduate Student [1] [1] Faculty of Science, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 [2] Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7
Chelsea Ohanaga (1), Mayon Machaiah Merianda (2), Rafael Rodriguez (3), Pearl Lin (4), Sajiri Wani (5), Lauren Gonzalez-Perez (6), Hazel Tran (7), Alisha Singh (8); 1. University of California, Los Angeles 2. Independence High School 3. New York University 4. Bel Air High School 5. North Penn High School 6. Math and Science College Preparatory 7. University of California, Davis 8. Parkway West High School
Dylan Heinstein (1), Sophie Jones (1), Sofia Torre (1), You ""Yoyo"" Zhang (1), Sonia Mayoral (1), 1. Brown University Carney Institute for Brain Science, Providence, RI
Molecular, Cell, & Microbiology
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Charles Heinz*, Max Peng*, Dr. Anuradha Goswami**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame *Presenting author(s) **Corresponding author(s)"
Eli Groothuis (1), Tingyi Zhu (1), Michael Harris (1) 1. Division of Chemical Biology, University of Florida
Shreeya Moolamalla (1). Vanderbilt University. Amelia Cephas (2), Vanderbilt University. Kathleen DelGiorno (3) Vanderbilt University
Anna Casarino (1), Mary Jo Ondrechen (1), Darrin Bath (1), Sam Shroff (1) 1. Northeastern University
Emily Prins (1), Sevednima Ajayebi (1), Carl Denard (1,2) 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida 2. UF Health Cancer Center
Chloe Caven (1), Nupur Sehgal (2), Michael E. Harris (3), 1. Division of Chemical Biology 2. University of Florida
Nilesh Malavia (1), Kellen Maurus (1), Melissa Sabatella (1), Quanying Bao (1), Khondoker Alam (2), Yan Wang (2), Diane J. Burgess (1). 1. University of Connecticut, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Storrs, CT 06269 USA; 2. Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
Juliette Gaytan(1)(2)(6), Viral S. Shah(1)(3)(5), Jayraj Rajagopal(1)(3)(4)(5)(6), 1. Simches 4, Northeast Corridor, Massachusetts General Hospital 2. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame 3. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 4. Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 5. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 6. Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Biomedical Engineering
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Angela Zeng (1,2), Sayante Sen (1,3), Diandra Doppler (1,3), Mukul Sonker (1,3), Alexandra Ros (1,3) 1. Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281 2. School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 3. School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
Alina Sohail(1), Gaurav Sharma2 ( 1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2) Eigen Sciences, Apex, NC
Megan Salib (1), Mina Liao (2), Jason Berdia (3), Emily Elassal (4), Michael Scott (5), Jeremy Vo (6), Catherine Spirito (7), Shannon Hilton (8), 1-8. University of Maryland, College Park
Julia R. Miller (1), Jennifer Pollock (1), Sarah Planchak, M.S.(1) & Anubhav Tripathi, Ph.D. (1), 1 - Center for Biomedical Engineering and School of Engineering Brown University, Providence, RI
Computational Applications
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Punarvash V. Mitta (1,2), Yulun Chiu (2), Cassian Yee (2) 1) Wiess School of Natural Sciences (Undergraduate), Rice University 2) Melanoma Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Maya Julian-Kwong (1), Shane Poole, BS (1), Kyra Henderson, BA (1), Jaeleene Wijangco, BS (1), Nikki Sisodia, BS (1), Jeffrey Gelfand, MD (1), Chu-Yueh Guo, MD (1), Riley Bove, MD, MMSc (1) (1) University of California San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Neurology, San Francisco, CA, US"
Dimitar Bogoeski (1), Sai Korada (2), etc, 1. University of Arizona 2. University of California, Santa Cruz, etc
Anish Bhat (1), Angad Juneja Gupta (1), Zhaoting Hu (1), George Edakkara (2), 1. UC San Diego, 2. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
"Suin Jung (1,2), Sandhya Govindarajan (2), William Greer (2), Abigail Moore (3), Melissa Wong (3,4), Summer Gibbs (2,4), Young Hwan Chang (2, 4) 1. Brown University 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University 3. Department of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University 4. Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University"
Orthopedics
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Peter Ko (1), Li Yue (2), Brett D. Owens (2,3). 1. Department of Biology at Brown University, Providence, RI, 2. Department of Orthopaedics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, 3. University Orthopedics, Providence, RI
Tia Gandhi (1), Timauri-Lee Carby (2), Alessa Elkareh (2), Mateo Gonzales (3), Daniel Gutierrez (1), Thomas Xie (3), Yifan Zhou (4), Dr. Scott Keene (3) 1. Rice University Department of Bioengineering 2. Rice University Department of Electrical Engineering 3. Rice University Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering 4. Rice University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
"Tia Gandhi (1), Timauri-Lee Carby (2), Alessa Elkareh (2), Mateo Gonzales (3), Daniel Gutierrez (1), Thomas Xie (3), Yifan Zhou (4), Dr. Scott Keene (3) 1. Rice University Department of Bioengineering 2. Rice University Department of Electrical Engineering 3. Rice University Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering 4. Rice University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"
Behavior, Animals & Environment
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Wyatt F. Brooks (1), Huyen Nguyen (3), Scott R. Cleary (1), Runeem M. Al-Abssi (1), Wenda Hu (2), Vannessa Caballero (2), Caleb C. Curran-Velasco (1), Yong Wang (2), C. Michael McGuirk (1). (1) Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (2) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (3) Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI
Audrey J. Lee (1,2), Jake Greenberg(1,2) 1Department of Academic Communities, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Mexico 87131  2 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Mexico 87131
Tejaswani Datla (1), Dr. Manaswita Dutta (2) 1. Rice University 2. Portland State University