PULSE Seminar Series

September 2026 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Axel Correa-Licea
“Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of neodymium doped aluminum metal organic framework for theranostics ”

JHU: Iris Zheng
"Structural basis for inhibition of SpyCas9 by the anti-CRISPR protein AcrIIA26"

November 2025— Biological & Cell-Based Sciences 

MSU: Jasmine Windham
“The effects of  H. erinaceus administration method on neuroprotection from methamphetamine-induced neurobiological and behavioral changes” 

September 2025— Computational Sciences

MSU: Julian Gordon
“Quantum Computing: Fundamentals and Future Directions”

JHU: Sidharth Raghavan
“Computational Models for Sedation Decision-making in the Pediatric ICU”

CSU: no speaker

April 2025— Chemical & Biochemical Sciences

MSU:  no speaker

CSU: Monique Hines
“Hydrothermal Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots from Biomass Waste and their Applications in the Fabrications of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”

JHU: William Chavez
“Manifestation and Evolution of 3D Chromatin Conformation Throughout Mice Embryogenesis”

March 2025— Biological & Cell-Based Sciences 

MSU: Hawa Konate
“Investigating Lamb Senescence: Comparative Ontogeny in Normoxic vs Hyperoxic Environments”

JHU: William Li, 
"Mouse Blastocyst-like Structures Derived from a Single Tankyrase/PARP1-Inhibition Reverted Naive Stem Cell"

CSU: No speaker

November 2024 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Paityn-Amor Brooks
“Investigating the molecular and physiological mechanisms of hERG channel mutation that is associated with Long QT Syndrome and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)”

JHU: Olivia Arbogast
"Metabolic Glycoengineering of Human Neural Stem Cells through Treatment with a Thiol-modified ManNAc Analog"

CSU: Vansh Kapoor  
“Effects of Oxidative Stress on Glycolytic Enzyme Activity in the Neural Retina; Modulatory Effects of Pyruvate”

October 2024 — Computational Sciences

MSU: Tomisin Adebari
"Analyzing Sex Difference between Glioblastoma and low grade glioma with PANDA"

JHU: Jiwoo Noh
“Predicting Cardiac Electrophysiology on Patient-Specific Hearts Using Deep Learning”

CSU: Alexis Ausberry-Brooks
“Controlled Lithiation Experiments using MOF-808 for Li-S Batteries.”

Sept 2024 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Praise Agwobesan
"Differences in Lipid Metabolism in Parental Vs Therapy Resistant Breast Cancer Cell Lines"

JHU: Maanya Bajaj 
“Testing the impact of the novel association of Grik1 overexpression with Atrioventricular Septal Defect”

CSU: Kyara Parham  
“Optimization of Zebrafish Oocyte Collection for Stage-Specific Gene Expression Analysis”

April 2024 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Anaya Van Heyningen
"Titanium Dioxide Exhibits Cytotoxicity on OECM-1 Squamous Carcinoma Cells"

JHU: Kevin Nguyen
"Spatiotemporal Regulation of Transcription Factors at Single-Molecule Resolution"

CSU: Genesis Hernandez and Andrea Serrano
"Qualitative Analysis of Fatty Acids and Lipids in Liver Tissue using GCMS"

March 2024 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Jahari Nelson
"Phosphorylation of sarcomeric protein cTnl protects the heart against ischemia/reperfusion in both young and old mice"

JHU: Susan Kim
“Studying the heart’s pacemaker activity with optical mapping”

February 2024 — Computational Sciences

MSU: Adonnis Price
"Extractive Text Summarization using a Similarity Matrix"

JHU: Ojas Chahal
“Multimodal Deep Learning for Predicting Acute, New-Onset Heart Failure in COVID-19 Patients”

November 2023 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

JHU: Sneja Raj
“Mechanical Property Characterization of WE43 and ZX10 Magnesium Alloys for 3D Fabrication and use in Biomedical Applications”

CSU: Angelo Chatmon
"Semi critical CO₂-ethanol assisted extraction of photoinduced bioactive pigments from seaweed micro algae"

October 2023 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

CSU: Mariam Allison
“Chaperoning of Asparagine repeat-containing proteins in Plasmodium falciparum” 

JHU: Amanda Looi
“ChAT (Choline Acetyltransferase) expression on CD4+ T cells”

September 2023 (Computational Sciences)

MSU: Mariah McMichael
"Exploring the Impact of Student Learning and Programming Pedagogy while Adjusting to COVID-19 (An HBCU Case Study)"

JHU: Ryan Chou
“Correcting for Rater Effect in Surgical Skills Assessment”

April 2023 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Emma Gudmundsson
"Exploring Physiological Changes Caused by a Novel CACNA1A Mutation"

JHU: Sean Healy
“Vaso-lock: A Bio-inspired Suture-less Anastomosis Device”

March 2023 — Computational Sciences

MSU: Teqwon Norman
"Intro to Quantum Computing and Security"

CSU: Chika Iwuji
"Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis and their Antibacterial Applications"

JHU: Ann Jiang

February 2023 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Trinity Bolton
"Engineering enzymatic activity in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W capsule polymerase to make novel polysaccharides"

JHU: Joshua Devier
“Fractionation, Characterization, and Fusion of Immune Cell Organelles for Synthetic Cellular Biology”

November 2022 — Computational Sciences

MSU: Shaimeira Meekins
"Dreadphobia: Evaluating the Usability of a Virtual Reality Application to Support Mental Health In Black Communities"

CSU: Carolina Pellicier
"Drought tolerance of Camelina, Sorghum, and Switchgrass Biofuel crops"

JHU: Kiki Zhang
“ImagingR: An Interactive Web Application for Visualizing Multimodality Imaging Data Using R and Shiny”

October 2022 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Iyana Gross
"Outcomes of Patients with Accelerated/Blast-Phase Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs)"

JHU: Sarah Bortel
"Elucidating the Mechanisms of Systemic Immunosuppression in HPV-Induced Cancers”

CSU: Nya Erin Hursey
"Super Resolution Imaging of DNA Damage Response"

September 2022 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: MaryAgnes Balogun
"Molecular Biology and Bioinformatic Studies of the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W Capsule Polymerase"

JHU: Alejandro Soto
"Rational Design of a Sustained Release Nanodelivery System for Semaglutide to Treat Type 2 Diabetes"

CSU: Olaide Akintade 
"Magnetite nanoparticles for microplastics removal: synthesis and characterization"

April 2022 — Computational Sciences

MSU: John-Paul Akinbami
"Insights Into SIADW Enzyme Reaction Mechanism Through Molecular Modeling"

JHU: Nehali Gupta
"Tissue Engineering Approaches for Cultivated Meat"

CSU: D’Angelo Thompson 
"Inductive Sol-Gel Crystallinity Associated with Shape and Size of bi-metallic Ca-Mg-Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds: A Synergistic Study"

March 2022 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Micaela Fleetwood
"Correlating PSMA PET Imaging with Clinical and Pathologic Results in High-risk Prostate Cancer"

JHU: Ranjani Ramasubramanian
"Computational Methods for the Evaluation of de novo Antibody Designs"

CSU: Kaylah Castillo & Ashley Roman 
"Extraction and Qualitative Analysis of Lipids from Plasma Tissue"

February 2022 — Computational Sciences

MSU: Ime Essien
"Differential Morphing Attack Detection in Respect to Age and Gender"

CSU: Elijah Williams
"Theoretical calculations of graphene oxide"

JHU: Kesavan Venkatesh
"Trustworthiness of Saliency Maps for Explainable AI in Medical Imaging"

November 2021 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Barrington Henry
Topic: "Mechanochemistry in Pharmaceutical Industry: Getting Molecular Insight"

JHU: Lucas Zhou
"Higher Serum Cholesterol Levels Are Associated With Reduced Systemic Inflammation and Mortality During Tuberculosis Treatment Independent of Body Mass Index"

CSU: Chika Iwuji
"CREST Summer Research Accomplishments on Sediment and Soil Plastic Determination: Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Microscopy Preliminary Results"

October 2021 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: LaDonna Wyatt
"Nanofer-25s Nanoparticle-mediated Growth and Particle Distribution in a Cyanobacterial Model"

JHU: Dennis Gong
"Machine Guided Structure Function Predictions Enable In-Silico Nanoparticle Screening for Polymeric Gene Delivery"

CSU: Jawaun Harris
 "Storage Stability of Nanoparticles"

September 2021 — Computational & Data Sciences

MSU: Teddy Wimberly
"CS=Me: Exploring Psychological and Social Factors that Impact How Black/African American Women Identify with the Field of Computer Science"

CSU: Olaide Akintade
"Magnetite nanoparticles for microplastics removal: synthesis and characterization"

JHU: Joseph Boen
"Inferring Copy Number Variation from Gene Expression Data: Methods, Comparisons, and Applications to Oncology"

April 2021 — Biological & Cell-Based Sciences

MSU: Christopher Taylor
"Neural correlates of attention during gambling predict cumulative winnings"

JHU: Sandeep Kamhampti
"Estimating DNA methylation potential energy landscapes from nanopore sequencing data"

March 2021 — Computational & Data Sciences

MSU: Myles Lewis
"Exploring the Impact of Exposing Coding Interview Practices to Early CS Majors"

CSU: Tobi Olutimehin
"Creating a Chatbot using Python and Flask"

JHU: Vivek Gopalakrishnan
"Multiscale Comparative Connectomics: Linking brain networks to neurological phenotypes"

February 2021 — Chemistry & Biochemical Sciences

MSU: Dolapo Nurudeen
"The Synthesis of Fac-tricarbonyl (Pentylcarbonato)(α-dimine) Rhenium Complexes"

JHU: Jody Mou
"Deep Learning Guided Design of Peptide Binders"

CSU: Nathaniel Witt
"Characterization of carbonaceous compounds formed from Fischer-tropsch reaction at the Solar Nebula"

December 2020 - 

MSU: Rolling Zebaze
"Effects of Wealth on COVID-19 Mortality and Morbidity"

JHU: Christopher Shallal
"Advancing Prosthesis Comfort & Control through Novel Sensors & Materials"

CSU: Alanna Newby
Topic: "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Palmitoyl Carnitine by LC-MS"