34th Annual UMBC McNair & Undergraduate Research National...

34th Annual UMBC McNair & Undergraduate Research National Conference

9:30am EDT

Registration Open Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

10:30am EDT

Meet for Pre-Conference Event - Museum Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

11:00am EDT

Pre-Con: Museum Excursion Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

3:00pm EDT

Registration Open Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

4:30pm EDT

PM Snack Break Calvert Ball Room

5:00pm EDT

Meet for Pre-Conference Event - MD Crab Experience Excursion Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

7:00am EDT

Morning Snack & Registration/Sponsors Setup Calvert Ball Room Poster Session I Set Up Versaille Registration & Sponsor Setup Calvert Ball Room Registration Opens Calvert Ball Room

8:30am EDT

Opening Session Calvert Ball Room

9:00am EDT

8th Annual Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture Calvert Ball Room

10:30am EDT

Parade of Presenters (All Oral and Poster Presenters) TBA

10:45am EDT

Poster Session I VersailleJaylen Hill • Allison Robancho • Udoka Chimah • Janayah Brown • Naomi Aruna • Saige Kenner • Sara Abbas • Rania Abunijaila • Damaris Alvarenga Agustin • Bryen Alvarez • Yanyu Arias • Dalaen Attle • Paloma Ayala • Shania Azeez • Alena Blankenbaker • Amritleen Brar • Joey Butcher • Saria Castillo • Lenora Chinedu • Abigail Dabre • Nathan Day • John De Hoyos • Wamda Elzubair • Saniyah Fullen • Ana Garcia Garibay • Damien Garcia-Myhr • Lydia Granados • Emily Hernandez • Lilian Hevron • Louise Hoff • Lekedric Hunter • Mica Jardine • Osvaldo Linares Gutierrez • Diamond Moore • Isabella Ramirez • Andrea Rivera • Grayson Rodgers • Carlos Sacerio • Joseph Tellis • Meghana Thondaiman

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Calvert Ball Room Registration Open Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

12:30pm EDT

Concurrent Group Photos Calvert Ball Room

2:30pm EDT

Workshop: Beyond the Bench: How Research Skills Become Career Capital Maryland Room Workshop: From McNair Scholar to Assistant Dean: What I Wish I Knew About Graduate School and Beyond Hanover B Workshop: Funding Your Graduate Education Caswell Suite Workshop: Navigating the NSF GRFP Fairmont Room Workshop: The HCM Compass: Reimagining Mentorship, Charting Your Graduate Pathway Hanover AMichael Hunt

3:30pm EDT

Poster Session II Set Up Versaille

4:00pm EDT

Poster Session II VersailleBeto Patino Luna • Ndeye Khadidiatou Mbodj • Stephanie Mendez • Hana Mesfin • Treyvon Moliere • Killian Moreau • Dianna Palacios • Trinity Patterson • Maria Scotti D'abussco • A'mia Simpson-Peebles • Friday Stout • Salaha Suleyman • Chole Tolle • Crissy Villasmil-Velasco • Nadia Vu • Liala Washington • London Williams • Bailyn Wood • Jada Yard • Izamar Martinez • Patcelia Gbor • Joshua James • Ayad Kheiri • Kinia Lawrence • Madisen Littles • Barbara Isabel Llongo Cueva • Ambar Lopez • Kim Luu • Grace Madianga • Mya Manns • Amanda Marrero Mayon

5:00pm EDT

Dinner- On Your Own Various

8:30pm EDT

Social Hour for Sponsors & McNair Staff

9:00am EDT

Registration & Sponsor Setup Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

9:30am EDT

Breakfast Keynote & Fireside Chat Calvert Ball Room

10:30am EDT

Recharge Space Maryland Room

12:50pm EDT

Oral Presentation Session I begins Various Breakout Rooms A Multiresidue Pesticide Analysis of Commercial Wild Bird Feed Hanover AVelinda Dionicio Perez TBD18 Fairmount RoomCitlalli Braulio-Madrid TBD19 Royal Board RoomAlexis Lewis The Impact of English Proficiency and Immigrant Status on Cancer Information Seeking and Understanding Among U.S. Adults Hanover BYosemith Hernandez

1:10pm EDT

From Pain to Power: The Role of Black Psychological Empowerment and Liberation in Fostering Sociopolitical Development Among Black Youth impacted by Community Violence Hanover BAanayah Trotman Manipulating Synthesis and Properties of Zeolite CHA Hanover AAshley Varesi TBD20 Fairmount RoomJohn Hall-Floyd TBD21 Royal Board RoomYishia Walton

1:30pm EDT

Influencer Culture, Moral Luxury Discourse, and the Social Vulnerability of Gen-Z Consumers. Hanover BDede Fioklou-Toulan Investigating the Role of Stress Granule Formation on Sleep Loss and TDP-43 Aggregation Hanover ADjina Awungnjia TBD22 Fairmount RoomNeyda Hernandez-Tejeda TBD23 Royal Board RoomArionna Maniego

1:50pm EDT

Moral Stress and Moral Distress among Alaskan Clinicians: A Qualitative Study Hanover BIsis Allen Piwi and piRNA in C. elegans: Investigating Their Impact on the Genome and PhenotypeThrough Stable Piwi Argonaute Development Hanover AZeinab Shah TBD24 Fairmount RoomEzra Figueroa TBD25 Royal Board RoomEphraim Chase

2:10pm EDT

Greener Does Not Mean Better: Analyzing the Benefits and Risks of Grass vs. Turf in the NFL Hanover AElijah Jones TBD26 Fairmount RoomMichelle Cox TBD27 Hanover BNadia White TBD28 Royal Board RoomDestynee Hemphill

2:30pm EDT

Developing Rodent Model Social Rejection Induced Drug Craving Hanover AFeyishayo Sogunro TBD29 Fairmount RoomSantell Martin TBD30 Hanover BMatthew McCray

4:00pm EDT

Orioles Game Check-In Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby Walking Groups Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

7:05pm EDT

Milwaukee Brewers at Baltimore Orioles

10:30pm EDT

Walking Groups back to Lord Baltimore Hotel

8:30am EDT

Registration Open Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

9:45am EDT

Oral Presentation Session II begins Various Breakout Rooms

9:50am EDT

A Software Architecture for Organism-Aware Automated Colony Counting in Clinical Microbiology Hanover AHynes Michael Birmingham II Building Positive Parenting Skills and Supporting School Readiness in Preschool Children Through an Evidence-Based Video Feedback Program Hanover BGreily Alejandra Rodriguez Medina Oxidative-Stress Induced Lysosomal Calcium Release Fairmont RoomMillie Belnekar TBD1 Caswell SuiteSilvia Benavides TBD2 Royal Board RoomBethany Butler

10:10am EDT

Challenges After Incarceration: The Roles of Anticipated and Internalized Stigma, Existential Isolation, and Psychological Well-Being in Recovery Capital Hanover BLayla McPhail Real-Time Monitoring of Critical Process Parameters for Cell & Gene Therapy Fairmont RoomFrancheska Burrola TBD3 Caswell SuiteImelda Hay TBD4 Hanover AJaden Martin TBD5 Royal Board RoomCoralie Fortune

10:30am EDT

A Mother's Touch: Synchrony Between Tactile Engagement and Joint Attention in Children who are D/deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Hanover BCooper Armogida CHARACTERIZING ADIPOSE TISSUE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN A DIET-INDUCED OBESE MOUSE MODEL Fairmont RoomIrene Teye TBD6 Caswell SuiteMiranda Ibarra TBD7 Hanover AOmowunmi Salami TBD8 Royal Board RoomLa'Destiny Lemock

10:50am EDT

Investigating The Influence of Entomoplasma Mollicutes on Winter Firefly Health Fairmont RoomEdyn Saavedra It’s not hysteria, it’s a neurological disorder. Emotional dysregulation in patients with Functional Seizures: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Hanover BEsther McCall TBD10 Hanover AJordan Davis TBD11 Royal Board RoomCorey Maniero TBD9 Caswell SuiteAmanda Martinez

11:00am EDT

Graduate School Representative and Sponsor Registration Lord Baltimore Hotel Lobby

11:10am EDT

On Mapping Incremental Language Comprehension via iEEG Fairmont RoomShadia Suha Sticks, Stones, and Broken Trust: How workplace microaggressions shape psychological safety, voice, and productivity among minoritized workers Hanover BDavid Buyan TBD12 Caswell SuiteJulieanne Pena TBD13 Hanover AMark Devereux TBD14 Royal Board RoomSimarah Jackson

11:30am EDT

Development and Characterization of an Electroconductive Chitosan–Alginate Hydrogel Film for Surface-Level Biosensing Royal Board Room Investigating a Novel Drug Target in HPV E6-Driven Cervical Cancer Cell Survival Fairmont RoomAndrew Hoang Investigating Basis Elements of Certain Exterior Algebras and Constructing Finite Free Complexes in Relation to Carlsson's Conjecture Hanover AAustin Brown TBD15 Caswell SuiteOlivia Ruiz Understanding Group Dynamics Using Sociological Theories Hanover BZaiden Smith

11:50am EDT

Implementation of Topological Data Analysis in Multimodal and Multiview Machine Learning Hanover ALuis Gonzalez Investigating AhR–ER Signaling in Response to Compound A in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Fairmont RoomMatthew Pinos TBD16 Caswell SuiteSirr Williams TBD17 Hanover BMakiya Wilson

12:30pm EDT

Networking Lunch (Grad Reps and McNair Staff) Maryland Room Networking Lunch (Student Attendees and Sponsors) Calvert Ball Room

2:30pm EDT

Graduate School Fair (Lobby, Mezzanine and Versailles) Various

4:45pm EDT

Time to Celebrate! Calvert Ball Room

8:00pm EDT