Student Oral Presentations

Presentations will be conducted on Zoom and both rooms begin at 11:15 HST / 2:15 PST.

PhD Student Oral Presenters

  • Aquena Ball

    Aquena Ball

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - JABSOM

    Characterizing Protective Antibody Responses to a Recombinant Subunit Ebola Virus Vaccine

    Presentation time:
    HST: 11:15 am - 11:30 am
    PST: 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

  • Stefanos Giannakopoulos

    Stefanos Giannakopoulos

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - JABSOM

    SARS-CoV-2 does not establish productive infection in human testicular cells: Infection-derived Inflammatory cytokines mediate testicular cytopathic effects

    Presentation time:
    HST: 11:30 am - 11:45 am
    PST: 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

  • Aneesa Golshan

    Aneesan Golshan

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - JABSOM

    Investigating the use of ultra-small iron oxide nanoparticles as a vaccine delivery platform with adjuvant-like properties

    Presentation time:
    HST: 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
    PST: 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

  • David Maison

    David Maison

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - JABSOM

    Genomic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Circulating in Hawai’i to Facilitate Public-Health Policies

    Presentation time:
    HST: 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
    PST: 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

  • Endrei Marcantonio

    Endrei Marcantonio

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - UH Manoa

    The Secret Weapon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Adaptation to Zinc Limitation

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
    PST: 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Olivia Smith

    Olivia Smith

    Graduate Student (Ph.D) - JABSOM

    Humoral responses to SARS CoV-2 vaccine platforms in diabetic mouse models

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    12:30 pm - 12:45 pm
    PST: 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm


Masters/Undergraduate Student Oral Presenters

  • Thomas Awamura

    Thomas Awamura

    Graduate Student (MA/MSc) - JABSOM

    Inhibition of Type I IFN Pathway by West Nile Virus NS4A and NS4B Proteins

    Presentation time:
    HST: 11:15 am - 11:30 am
    PST: 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

  • Michael Faundo Oral Presentation

    Michael Faundo

    Graduate, Masters - JABSOM

    Elucidating the Antimicrobial Activity of a Novel Class of Organobismuth Compounds

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    11:30 am - 11:45 am
    PST: 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

  • Bryan Rios

    Bryan Rios

    Graduate Student (MA/MSc) - JABSOM

    Repurposing screening of clinically approved drugs to attenuate Flavivirus NS3/NS2B interaction by using protein complement luminescence reported assay.

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    11:45 am - 12:00 pm
    PST: 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

  • Mallory Wilson

    Mallory Wilson

    Graduate Student (Ma/MSc) - JABSOM

    SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein induces TLR2-dependent cytopathic effects and Inflammatory response in human testicular cells

    Presentation time:
    HST: 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
    PST: 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

  • Luz Maria Deardorff

    Luz Maria Deardorff

    Undergraduate Student - UH Maui College

    Sulfite preservatives effects on the mouth microbiome: changes in viability, diversity and composition of microbiota.

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
    PST: 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Michaela Kop and Mona Hirose

    Michaela Kop and Mona Hirose

    Undergraduate Students- UH Manoa

    Characterization of Hypothetical Protein, MSMEG_0370

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    12:30 pm - 12:45 pm
    PST: 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

  • Cole Whitney

    Cole Whitney

    Undergraduate Student - UH Maui College

    The Effect of Common Food Preservatives on Human Recombinant Lysozyme

    Presentation time:
    HST:
    12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
    PST: 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm