Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Data-rich strategies for elucidating hammerhead ribozyme sequence-function relationships and engineering ribozyme switches
Event: The 22nd Annual Meeting of the RNA Society

Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Constance Chu
Talk Title: Males And Females Differ In Biochemical Composition Of Platelet-Rich Plasma
Event: 11th ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine) Biennial Congress

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Photoinactivation of pathogenic bacteria: mechanisms and cellular response of Staphylococcus aureus
Event: University of North Carolina Water Microbiology Conference 2017

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Gerald Fuller
Talk Title: Dilatation mechanics and bubble coalescence of monoclonal antibody interfaces
Event: Annual European Rheology Conference 2018

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Interfacial viscoelasticity of therapeutic protein solutions and The influence of protein- polymeric surfactant interfacial co-adsorption on thin film drainage and bubble coalescence
Event: The Society of Rheology 88th Annual Meeting and the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Amit Etkin
Talk Title: Knowing How I Feel: The Role of Interoception in Emotion Processing and Regulation
Event: 29th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer McNab
Talk Title: Comparison of Double Diffusion Encoding and NODDI
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting - Grant also presented a PowerPitch titled “Visualizing Axonal Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Using Double Diffusion Encoding MRI in a Clinical Setting”, which received a Magna Cum Laude Merit award, given to abstracts that score in the top 15% within a major subject review category.

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Surmounting the Aged Niche to Improve Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Event: International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Novel IL6 Family Member is an Inducer of Quiescence that Augments Muscle Stem Cell Engraftment and Regeneration
Event: The International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) 2017 Conference

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Neurobiology
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Huberman
Talk Title: Connecting the retina to the brain: specificity of subcortical targeting
Event: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2017 Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisors: Adam de la Zerda and Steven Chu
Talk Title: Landing the first private robotic mission on the moon and Developing imaging device for recording cancer cell communication
Event: Forbes Under 30 Summit EMEA - Yonatan was invited to this event as one of Forbes Israel's 30 Under 30 in 2017.

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Telomere shortening as a hallmark of lethal dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: 2017 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Telomere Conference
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family