Curious about past supported projects?
This is the place to fully understand the impact the Education Through Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities ( EURēCA!) Grant Program and historic Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) have on student research ambitions and creative endeavors and to imagine your own funded project. From achieved project abstracts to the student and mentor grantees and their publications, our archives include it all. Read through and be inspired!
Fall 2024 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Remla Abdul, Integrative Biology
Drug dependence and avoiding alcohol relapse through drug
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Asma AlMasyabi, Creative Writing
Colorado History Research Poetry
Mentor: Brian Barker, English
Layla Blair, Bioengineering
Developing 3D Bioprinted Hybrid Hydrogels to Model Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering
Savannah Brassell, Film and Television; Rowan Taylor Laska, Film and Television; Matteen Saremi, Film and Television
Angel of Envy
Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television
Sam Blessen Fredrick, Biology and Computer Science
Understanding the role of macrophages in A. nidulans induced granulomatous inflammation
Mentor: Atif Shaikh, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Gale Khayut, Psychology
Blood and Ghosts on my Typewriter (collection of short stories manuscript).
Mentor: Eliot Wilson, English
Giuliah Kramer, Biology
Inheritance of Trauma: Investigating Epigenetic and Transgenerational Marks on the Human Genome
Mentor: Christopher Phiel, Biology
Analuisa Larson, Biology
Benchmarking study and application of data analysis tools in metatranscriptomics
Mentor: Chris Miller, Biology
Maria Londono Cano, Psychology
Uncovering the neural circuit responsible for exercise-induced stress resilience
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Cadence Marsolek, Film and Television; Marley Tremmel, Film and Television
Survivor's Guide to True Crime
Mentor: Thomas Kolicko, Film and Television
William Navarrete Moreno, Public Health
Association Between Discrimination in Medical Settings and Increased Allostatic Load: Evidence from the ‘All of Us’ Cohort Study
Mentor: Frank DeGruy, Family Medicine
Maleeha Shah, Public Health
Navigating perinatal mood disorders: A qualitative interview study of mothers and maternal health providers in the United States
Mentor: Hyeyoung Nelson, Health and Behavioral Sciences
Christiana Smith, Psychology and Criminal Justice
Assessing the Effect of Environmental Safety on Criminality Judgments
Mentor: Carly Leonard, Psychology
Aaron Tran, Biochemistry
Intermittent Fasting Improves Endochondral Fracture Healing in Obese/T2D Mice
Mentor: Honey Hendesi, Orthopedics
Jose Uribe Lopez, Film and Television; Stefanie Olivan, Film and Television; Jada Hogg, Film and Television
Day Of My Death
Mentor: Andrew Bateman, Film and Television
Spring 2024 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Tim Comstock, Physics; Isabella Adolf, Physics; Ana Gevorgian, Physics
Design of a Liquid Helium Detector
Mentor: Anthony Villano, Physics
Madjelyn de Jesus, Film and Television
Psilocybin Use Among BIPOC Community Members in Colorado
Mentor: Marty Otañez, Anthropology
Ian Espinoza, Biochemistry
SAEM Conference Attendance for Post-Stroke Infection Abstract Presentation
Mentor: Layne Dylla, Emergency Medicine
Sam Fredrick, Biology and Computer Science; Faith Montemayor, Biochemistry; Muhamadjon Dzhalolov, Chemistry
Enhanced VMD Plugin for QM/MM Input Preparation
Mentor: Hai Lin, Chemistry
Juliet Freund, Psychology
Exploring the relationship between the dorsolateral striatum and the hippocampus in contextual gating of fear extinction
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Ruth Hundie, Public Health
Climate Justice Undergraduate Hybrid Lab
Mentor: Ivan Ramirez, Health & Behavioral Sciences
Matt Johnson, Integrative Biology; William Leary, Biology
Lead tolerance in fungal-plant mutualism
Mentor: Sara Branco, Integrative Biology
Lynden Joslin, Film and Television; Emily Carisch, Film and Television; Robert Chenhall, Film and Television
Cherry Baby
Mentor: Walter Chaw, Film and Television
Cheyenne McGregor, Anthropology; Jane Miller, Anthropology; Chase Ochoa, Anthropology
Analyzing the location of the infraorbital foramen and the connection to facial prognathism in ancient hominins, primates, and modern humans
Mentor: Charles Musiba, Anthropology
Mercy Kibet, Sociology
Black Maternal Health in Colorado
Mentor: Edelina Burciaga, Sociology
Angela Kirth, Psychology and Sociology
Understanding How Criminality Impacts Social Structures and Networks in a Rural Community
Mentor: Keith Guzik, Sociology
Ione Larson, Biochemistry
Establishing the Goal Oriented to Habit Based Behavior in the Exercise of Rats
Mentor: Margaret Tanner, Psychology
Dien Thinh Nguyen, Biology
Therapeutic Contact Lens for Corneal Diseases
Mentor: Jung-Jae Lee, Chemistry
Sachiel Oberto, Psychology
Exercise, the Stress Protective Effect, and the NAc-DRN Pathway
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Lauren O'Brien, Film and Television; Drew Bouchard, Film and Television; Malakye Tsosie, Film and Television
Woven Together
Mentor: Andrew Bateman, Film and Television
Joseph Oler, Electrical Engineering; Jordan Forestell, Electrical Engineering; Luis Sandoval, Electrical Engineering
Dietary Sensing via Gustatory Pathway using EEG Wearable Device
Mentor: Nam Bui, Electrical Engineering
Leia Rockhold, Sociology
The Impact of Contemporary Antisemitism on Jewish Identity, Presentation, and Personal Security
Mentor: Keith Guzik, Sociology
Celestine Swehla, Human Development and Family Relations
An exploration of the representation of mixed college students at minority serving institutions: Webpage exposure, present or non-existent
Mentor: Jennifer Camacho Taylor, Education and Human Development
Kimmy Van, Psychology
Mindful Wellness, Emotional Alignment, and inTergenerational Healing (WEALTH) Program
Mentor: Soyon Bueno, Asian American Student Services
Trevor Walker, Civil Engineering
Geometric Mechanics of Hypar Metamaterials
Mentor: Shengzhe (Jackson) Wang, Civil Engineering
Yuki Wei, Communication
Alternative Sub-culture for Free Self-expression: Case study of Skateboarding Feminism in Mainland China
Mentor: Sarah Field, Communication
Antonia Yanez, Film and Television
Psilocybin mushrooms, health and culture: BIPOC video stories to destigmatize psychedelic fungi
Mentor: Marty Otanez, Anthropology
Fall 2023 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
The Demise of the Iraqi Women's rights After the US Invasion
Mentor: Bassem Hassan, Political Science
Mason Bruce, Public Health
Neuroplasticity and Binaural Beats: A Proposed Mechanism of Action
Mentor: Jason Watson, Psychology
Jesus Canales, Electrical Engineering; Samuel Steen, Electrical Engineering; Conner Beasley, Electrical Engineering; Ricky Bergquist, Mechanical Engineering
EV Team
Mentor: Jaedo Park, Electrical Engineering
McKaylyn Ervin, Anthropology
Psilocybin (‘magic mushrooms’) Use Among BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and Low-Income Individuals in Colorado
Mentor: Marty Otañez, Anthropology Department
Sam Fredrick, Biology and Computer Science
Construction of an Atomistic Model for the V319G mutant for CLCF F-/H+ Antiporter
Mentor: Hai Lin, Chemistry
Yuri Freitas Dos Santos, Psychology BA
Psilocybin Therapy in Advanced Cancer
Mentor: Vivian Shyu, Psychology
Kelly Karagias, Psychology BA
The effect of time-on task on the useful field of view
Mentor: Carly Leonard, Psychology
Mercy Kibet, Sociology
Black Maternal Health in Colorado
Mentor: Edelina Burciaga, Sociology
Kamryn Korth, Psychology
Exploring estrogen's role in fear extinction learning and memory
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Jason Lee, Biology
Effects of PFAS Exposure in the Cholesterol Content of the Liver
Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrated Biology
Brian Lim, Mechanical Engineering
3D Printing of Continuous Fibre Reinforced Composite
Mentor: Guoying Dong, Mechanical Engineering
Piper Malczewski, Physics
Dielectrophoretic Parameters of Self-assembling Cabron-based Materials
Mentor: Randall Tagg, Physics
James Martinez, Film and Television; Nicholas Hoffman, Film and Television; Lucas Milani, Film and Television
Business In Suits
Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television
Ariel Matthews, Biochemistry
CHOLESTEROL ENHANCES MEMBRANE BINDING BY SYNAPTOTAGMIN-7 C2 DOMAINS.
Mentor: Jefferson Knight, Chemistry
Jennifer Nguyen, Chemistry Biochemistry and Psychology
Modeling of the E318Q mutant for CLCF F-/H+ Antiporter
Mentor: Hai Lin, Chemistry
Jacob Thompson, Film and Television; Tim Brown, Film and Television; Andrew Carr, Film and Television; Tommy Kubena, Film and Television; Leon Ryder, Film and Television; Antonia Yanez, Film and Television
Gunslingers
Mentor: David Liban, Film and Television
Jose Trevino, Film and Television; Robert Chenhall, Film and Television; Marley Tremmel, Film and Television
Analog, a short film by the Student Filmmaking Club
Mentor: Sidney Reed, Film and Television
Luis Vargas, Public Health; Stefanie Varghese, Public Health
El Nino Response in the U.S. and Peru
Mentor: Ivan Ramirez, Health and Behavioral Science
Zowie Werner, Biology
TINTO (Two and Three-dimensional Imaging for NMR sTrip Operation via CV/ML)
Mentor: Woonghee Lee, Chemistry
Chynna Whittaker, Film and Television
In The Gutter
Mentor: Cynthia Cazanas-Garin, Film and Television
Nicholas Wilson, Film and Television; Jackson Gould, Film and Television;Kira Brown, Film and Television
Red Plump Tomatoes
Mentor: Hans Rosenwinkel, Film and Television
Spring 2023 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Remla Abdul, Biology
Identification of dorsal raphe nucleus afferents potentially involved in exercise-induced stress resilience
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Hamza Ahmed, Biochemistry
Tagging and Expression of Candida Albicans
Mentor: Allison Swain Porman, Biochemistry
Hope Bailey, Psychology
Not the Same Anymore: Predictors of Exacerbated Self-Image in those with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Mentor: Dustin Goerlitz, Psychology
Alyssa Cruz, Public Health
Inference of bacterial pathogen load in US rivers from landscape-scale shotgun metagenomic sequencing
Mentor: Chris Miller, Integrative Biology
Annemarie Dupuy, Public Health
Examining How Exposure to Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Perceived Discrimination Affect Cardiovascular Health
Mentor: Jennifer Morozink Boylan, Health & Behavioral Sciences
Kirsten Gwin, Chemistry
Peptide NMR Analysis
Mentor: Liliya Vugmeyster, Chemistry
Megan Hassler, Art History and Photography
The Significance of Visual Pop Culture to Art History: An Analysis of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Mentor: Maria Buszek, Visual Arts
William Leary, Biology
Assessing Lead Tolerance in the fungus Suillus tomentosus
Mentor: Sara Branco, Integrative Biology
Ariel Matthews, Biochemistry
Effects of Cholesterol on Membrane Binding by Synaptotagmin-7 C2 Domains
Mentor: Jeff Knight, Chemistry
Makayla Mohr, Criminal Justice and Psychology; Michelle Vasquez Loya, Criminal Justice
Ethics Behind TrueCrime Podcasts
Mentor: Melissa Tackett-Gibson, Criminal Justice
Carolina Sanchez Mendoza, Biology
Effect of female estrous cycle on synaptic plasticity during fear extinction learning
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Jessica Valdez, Criminal Justice and Biology
Invisible Enemies: How COVID-19 Related Hate Crimes Against the AAPI Community Have Affected Police Perceptions
Mentor: Melissa Tackett-Gibson, Criminal Justice
Chynna Wittaker, Film and Television
Circus Foundry Documentary
Mentor: Christopher Beeson, Film and Television
Fall 2022 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Lareina Alvarez, Biology
Are D1 neurons in the dorsal lateral striatum a novel target for the prevention of fear relapse?
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Ema Arai, Biology
Matrix Metalloproteinase-Deactivating Contact Lenses: A Potential Treatment for Corneal Melting Disease
Mentor: Jung-Jae Lee, Chemistry
Vrishank Bikkumalla, Biology
Effects of Cholesterol on Membrane Binding by Synaptotagmin 7 C2 Domains
Mentor: Jeff Knight, Chemistry
Zachary Courter, Biology
The Value of Science Communication in schools and beyond
Mentor: Gregory Ragland, Integrative Biology
Brennan Cregan, Film and Television
Mixer Through The Roof - A Study of Film Musical in Film School
Mentor: Eric Jewett, Film and Television
Angela Crum, Architecture
Wood Bending Techniques for Advancement in Design and Fabrication
Mentor: Matthew Gines, Architecture and Planning
Miles Dryden, Psychology
Is the activation of D1-expressing neurons in the dorsolateral striatum sufficient to recreate exercise-induced stress resilience?
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Gabrielle Dudek, Biology and Computer Science
An apple a day doesn't keep the flies away
Mentor: Gregory Ragland, Biology
Jonathan Enssle, Photography
Elements: Preservation through Photography
Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Photography
Ryan Eskola, Electrical Engineering; Edward Ma, Electrical Engineering
Driverless Logistic Solutions: Autonomous Convoy Prototype for Long Range Delivery
Mentor: Jaedo Park, Electrical Engineering
Brady Graeber, Geography
RELAQS: Research and Education with Low-cost Air Quality Sensors
Mentor: Ben Crawford, Geography
Emily Irlbeck, Biochemistry
CU Denver Chemistry Club Event Supplies
Mentor: Nan Kim, Chemistry
Julio Jaime, Biology
Lifelong Analysis of alx3 Craniofacial Function in Zebrafish
Mentor: Jamie Nichols, Craniofacial Biology
Maydha Kumar, BioEngineering
Sex Related Gene Expression Differences for Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Mentor: Brisa Pena, Bioengineering and Cardiology
Anshu Mehta, Biology
Cell cycle biomarker response to PFAS exposure in fish testes
Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrative Biology
LaDoniea Nisbeth, Environmental Science
Refining & Regulating Financial Inclusion Using Technology.
Mentor: Esther Sullivan, Sociology
Alexandra Poland, Biology
Porphyrin Synthesis Mulit-Institute Research Collaboration
Mentor: Scott Reed, Chemistry
Tyler Russell, Recording Arts Non Audition
The Experimental Photography and Printing of the Individuals of Colorado
Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Photography
Sayra Salgado, Biology
Are C3 Proteins Leading to Disfunction in Context of ALD
Mentor: Rebecca McCullough, Pharmacy
Spring 2022 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Kyra Collins, Photography
Close to Home
Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Visual Arts
Andrew Colson, Bioengineering
Synthesizing photodegradable biomaterials to study chronic lung diseases
Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering
Cason Haffner, Biology
Complex-mixture uptake and integrated organismal effects in fish exposed to a Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances-contaminated hydrological gradient at Joint Base Cape Cod, MA
Mentor: Alan Vajda, Integrative Biology
Rebecca Han, Psychology, Biology
Optogenetic Activation of the Substantia Nigra to Dorsolateral Striatum during Fear Extinction Prevents Fear Renewal
Mentor: Ben Greenwood, Psychology
Elizabeth Kuhn, Environmental Science
Establishing Seasonal Variation of Floral Resources for Honey Bees
Mentor: Christy Briles, Geography
Kaitlyn Lafferty, Art History
The Impact of Queer Media on Sex Education in the AIDS Era
Mentor: Yang Wang, Art History
Cody Lewis, Biology
Assessing Zinc Tolerance in Fungi of Colorado
Mentor: Sara Branco, Integrative Biology
Jacqueline Miller, Bioengineering
Evaluation of lung progenitor cell growth in 3D hydrogels
Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering
Saif Eldeen Noreldeen, Bioengineering
Engineering a device for high-throughput lung decellularization
Mentor: Chelsea Magin, Bioengineering
Margaret Price, Biochemistry
Dopamine circuits underlying estrous phase modulation of fear extinction
Mentor: Ben Greenwood, Psychology
Summer Richman, Biology
Why do ravens and magpies spend time near captive wolves?
Mentor: Diana Tomback, Integrative Biology
Nell Roberts, Art History
Joana Vasconcelos and her Journey Though the Art Market
Mentor: Yang Wang, Visual Arts
Fall 2021 EURēCA! Grant Recipients |
Nadja Brown, Biology
Neural circuits controlling voluntary physical activity
Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, Psychology
Alyssa Cruz, Public Health
Antimicrobial resistance genes from wetland ecosystems studied through multi-omics bioinformatic tools
Mentor: Chris Miller, Integrative Biology
Makayla De La Oliva, Psychology
Age Differences in Rats When Expressing Social Conditioned Fear or Social Buffering as a Result of Foot Shocks with a Social Cue
Mentor: Sondra Bland, Psychology
Daniela Gonzalez-Rivera, Biology
IRAK-M suppresses human melanoma cell invasion through upregulation of novel gene
Mentor: Eduardo Davila, Oncology
Jill Hoffman, Biochemistry
Modeling drug reactions with protein variants
Mentor: Scott Reed, Chemistry
Nikhitha Kastury, Biology
Senescence inducing processes and mechanisms in cardiomyocytes
Mentor: Edward Lau, Medicine
Naomi LaPointe, Psychology
A Social Behavior Comparison of Fear and Buffering of Adolescent and Adult Rats
Mentor: Sondra Bland, Psychology
Jae-Hwan Lim, Chemistry
Computational Analysis of CO2 Reduction Via Cystamine and Phenyl Constituent Protected Gold Nanoclusters.
Mentor: Emilie Guidez, Chemistry
Alexandra Ramirez, Psychology
High Pulse Energy, Low Damage: Optimizing 3-photon excitation for longitudinal in vivo imaging of mouse cortical gray and white matter
Mentor: Ethan Hugh, Cell and Developmental Biology
Haydee Ramirez, Biochemistry
Effect of PNPase on Oxidized RNA: A Structural and Mechanistic Analysis
Mentor: Marino Resendiz, Chemistry
Matthew Sawaged, Biology
Effect of Post-translational Modifications of Amyloid-ß fibril Dynamics at the N-terminal Domain
Mentor: Liliya Vugmeyster, Chemistry
Sandy Vang, Psychology
Investigating the Antiviral Response of the Olfactory Epithelium to HSV-1 Infection
Mentor: Diego Restrepo, Cell and Developmental Biology
Autumn Webster, Photography
Stuck in Motion
Mentor: Carol Golemboski, Visual Arts
Jacob Williamson, Illustration
Colorado Petroglyph: 2022
Mentor: Travis Vermilye, VisBlackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) – A Collaborative Timeline
Florence Blackwell – Recipient | Jeffrey Schrader - Mentor
Contributor: Journal 18 (2020)
College of Arts and Media News
Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling
Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2020)
The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado
Lisette Martinez – Recipient | Safa Mechergui – Recipient | Sara Yeatman – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Adolescent Health (2020)
Associations between maternal depression and mother and infant oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR_rs53576) polymorphisms
Susan Kim – Recipient (page 502) | Peter Kaplan – Mentor
Published Paper: Developmental Psychobiology (2019)
Quantum Mechanical Modeling of the Interactions between Noble Metal (Ag and Au) Nanoclusters and Water with the Effective Fragment Potential Method
Anh Tran – Recipient | Emilie Guidez – Mentor
Published Paper: ACS Omega (2020)
Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season
Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor
Published Paper: PLoS One (2019)
Determining Alternative Protein Isoform Expression Using RNA Sequencing and Mass Spectrometry
Julianna Wright – Recipient | Maggie Lam – Mentor
Published Paper: Star Protocols (2020)
Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats
Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology Reports (2020)
Chronic cannabinoid exposure produces tolerance to the dopamine releasing effects of WIN 55,212-2 and heroin in adult male rats
Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Neuropharmacology (2020)
Endocannabinoid modulation of dopamine release during reward seeking, interval timing and avoidance
Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (2021)
Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events
Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal 33 (2019)
Does Palliative Care Utilization Facilitate Conversion to Hospice Care? A Qualitative Study of the “Soft No”
Ariana Talaie – Recipient | Karen Lutfey Spencer – Mentor
Published Paper: American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (2020)
Anion pathways in CLCF fluoride/proton antiporters
Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor
Published Paper: Chemical Physics Letters (2021)
Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations: 6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel
Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2019)
Dynamics of Serine-8 Side-Chain in Amyloid-β Fibrils and Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl Serine Amino Acid, Investigated by Solid-State Deuteron NMR
Dillon Rickertsen – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor | Liliya Vugmeyster – Mentor
Published Paper: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2020)
Computationally inexpensive enhanced growing neural gas algorithm for real-time adaptive neural spike clustering
John Kincaid – Recipient | Tim Lei – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Neural Engineering (2019)
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats
Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Physiology and Behavior (2019)
Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling
Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2020)
The power of price compels you: Behavioral economic insights into dopamine-based valuation of rewarding and aversively motivated behavior
Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Brain Research (2019)
A characterization of behavior and monoamine interactions during conditioned avoidance maintained in a within-session behavioral economic avoidance task
Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal (2019)
A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement
Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal (2018)
A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats
Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor
Published Paper: Developmental Psychobiology (2020)
A nonspatial sound modulates processing of visual distractors in a flanker task
Cailey Salagovic – Recipient | Carly Leonard – Mentor
Published Paper: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020)
Exercise increases mTOR signaling in brain regions involved in cognition and emotional behavior
Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Behavioural Brain Research (2017)
Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear
Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood
Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology (2018)
Running from fear: Exercise modulation of fear extinction
Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood
Published Paper: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2018)
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats
Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Physiology and Behavior (2019)
The Impact of Post-War Japanese Fashion on Contemporary New York Fashion Design
Khoa Nguyen– Recipient | Yang Wang - Mentor
The synaptotagmin C2B domain calcium-binding loops modulate the rate of fusion pore expansion
Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor |Jefferson Knight – Mentor
Published Paper: Molecular Biology of the Cell (2018)
Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles and FRET Allow Sensitive Monitoring of Liposome Clustering Mediated by the Synaptotagmin-7 C2A Domain
Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor | Scott Reed – Mentor
Published Paper: Langmuir (2017)
Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles as Probes for Membrane Binding
Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor
Published Book Chapter: Chemical and Synthetic Approaches in Membrane Biology (2017)
Polymer mediated layer-by-layer assembly of different shaped gold nanoparticles
Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2017)
A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats
Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor
Published Paper: Developmental Psychobiology (2020)
Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season
Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor
Published Paper: PLoS One (2019)
Acute exercise enhances the consolidation of fear extinction memory and reduces conditioned fear relapse in a sex-dependent manner
Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Natalie Haddad – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Learning and Memory (2017)
Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2018)
A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: eNeuro (2018)
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement
Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal (2018)
In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal (2018)
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: FASEB Journal (2018)
Effect of Exercise to Enhance Fear Extinction Memory Is Dependent on Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (Mtor) Signaling
Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: Behavioral Brain Research (2017)
PIP2 Head Group Behavior in Granuphilin C2A Mutations
Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin - Mentor
Published Paper: American Society for Cell Biology (2018)
QM/MM Simulations of Chloride Translocation Through the Ecclc CI-/H+ Antiporter
MacKenzie Zarecki – Recipient| Hai Lin - Mentor
Published Paper: Frontiers in Chemistry (2018)
Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations: 6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel
Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2019)
Membrane Binding Cooperativity and Co-insertion by C2AB Tandem Domains of Synaptotagmins 1 and 7
Hai T. Tran – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor
Published Paper: Biophysical Journal (2019)
Late Holocene climate and human impacts on a tropical ecosystem in northern Vietnam. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor
Published Paper: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2019)
Neurochemical and behavioural indices of exercise reward are independent of exercise controllability
Nathan Gray – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor
Published Paper: The European Journal of Neuroscience
Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear
Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood
Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology (2018)
Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats
Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology Reports (2020)
A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: eNeuro (2018)
Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events
Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal 33 (2019)
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: FASEB Journal (2018)
Exploring Vietnamese History Through A Charcoal Lense
Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor
University Communications News Article (2016)
Product Labeling and Geographic Origins of Colorado Honeys
Ashley Bouck – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor
University Communications News Article (2016)
Combined QM/MM Dynamics Simulations of Proton Transfer in E. Coli CICI Chloride Ion Transport Protein
Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor
Published Chapter 13: Methods in Enzymology, p. 342-358
Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2018)
A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: eNeuro (2018)
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats
Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: The FASEB Journal (2018)
Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor
Published Paper: FASEB Journal (2018)
Soil Sampling and Sky Exposure from Leeward Microsite in Treeline Ecotones
Holly Bevency – Recipient | Liana Boggs – Recipient | Diana Tomback – Mentor
Published Paper: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2016)
Membrane Docking of the Synaptotagmin 7 C2A Domain: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Measurements Show Contributions from Two Membrane Binding Loops
Favinn Maynard – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor
Published Paper: Biochemistry (2015)
Interplays of Membrane and Ligand Docking of Granuphilin C2A Domain: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Jack Henderson – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor | Jefferson Knight - Mentor
Published Paper: Biochemistry (2015)
Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations of The Eccic Chloride Transport Protein
Christal Davis – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2014)
Synthesis and Incorporation of Photoactive Proves to Study RNA Structure and Reactivity
Justin Townsend – Recipient | Joseph Nguyen – Recipient | Marino Resendiz – Mentor
Published Paper: Journal of Organic Chemistry (2016)
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