Faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt and partner institutions attended the 2021 VINSE NSF REU Summer Research Poster on Thursday, August 5, 2021.聽Posters were evaluated by both a panel of judges and the virtual poster session attendees for an opportunity to win travel grants to support the cost of presenting posters at a National Conference.聽The winners are:
Best overall 鈥� $1,000 travel grant
Alessia Williams, Prairie View A&M University (Jennings)
“Photoelectrochemical Polymerization of Pyrrole by Photosystem I”
Best overall 鈥� $1,000 travel grant
Thiago Arnaud, Florida International University (Caldwell)
鈥淢ulti-spectral Thermal Imaging with Inversely Designed Optical Filters for Material Recognition鈥�
Best layout
Amber Cui, Vanderbilt University (Lippmann)
鈥淚solation of Rodent Microglia to assess Gene Silencing and Drug Targeting鈥�
Best use of graphics
Brooke DeMarco, Vanderbilt University (Rosenthal)
“Tracking Individual Endogenous Dopamine Transporters Using Antagonist-Conjugated Quantum Dots”
Fan Favorite
Mina Aziz, Vanderbilt University (Wilson)
鈥淧olymersome formation via flash nanoprecipitation induces immunological activity to improve cancer immunotherapy鈥�