Fall vBio Day

Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Zoom (Register below to receive the link!)

Important Dates

  • Friday, November 21, 2025 – Abstract Submission Deadline
  • Monday, November 24, 2025 – Abstract Decisions Sent Out
  • Monday, December 1, 2025 – Poster Walkthrough Videos Due for those presenting
  • Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – Judging Begins
  • Thursday, December 4, 2025 – Registration Closes (Registration is currently closed. Please email nathan.fried@rutgers.edu if you would like the event’s zoom link!)
  • Friday, December 5, 2025 – vBio Day 

Abstract Submission Guidelines

Rutgers Camden students engaged in biology-related research within a lab or classroom have the opportunity to present their work. To be considered for this opportunity, students MUST register and submit their abstracts by the above deadline. Decisions on which abstracts are accepted will be sent out the following Monday.

Students submitting group presentations (i.e., those in PPBR or other course-based research experiences) should have only one person within their group submit their abstract details. However, ALL students in that group should register.

Poster Walkthrough Video Guidelines

  • Accepted presenters should record a 4-7 minute long video walkthrough of their poster. They will receive a link to submit the poster pdf and video. These will be posted online for the audience and judges to interact with.
  • During the presenter’s assigned time, audience members and judges will enter the presenter’s associated zoom break-out room for a Q/A session.
  • Poster templates can be found HERE.
  • Strategies for presenting your poster can be found HERE.
  • Repository of virtual posters and recorded presentations can be found in the previous vBIO Day archives HERE.
  • We use the judging rubric from the ABRCMS conference which can be found HERE. 

Prizes

  • Judge Pick: Judges including alumni, faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff from across multiple institutions in the Philadelphia area will review your posters and recorded presentations while also interacting with you during your zoom Q/A session.
  • Peer Pick: All presenters will review and vote on the favorite poster.

Schedule:

9:30 – 10:30: “Summer Research Internship Series: Narrowing down your list.” 

  • Nathan Fried, Ph.D. (Associate Teaching Professor at Rutgers Camden) will host a virtual workshop that helps undergraduates identify and narrow down their list of summer research programs to apply to.

10:30 – 10:40: Opening Remarks by Dr. Nathan Fried

10:40 – 11:25: Session A Presentations 

Poster Presenting Author Title
A1 Zarah Bacchus (Corbett Lab) Investigating the Mechanism by Which Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 3 (S1PR3)-Induced Galanin Mitigates Neuroinflammation in Stressed Mice
A2

Amisha Rastogi (Corbett Lab)

 Sex and Age-related Differences in S1PR3 Expression in Stress-related Brain Regions of Mice
A3 Aye Thinzar Htin Aung (Lee Lab) Characterizing Roles of Kinase stk-16 and Phosphatase pzl-1 in Photoperiodic Regulation in Neurospora crassa
A4 Kevin Bryan (Lee Lab) Circadian Compensation Range as Mechanistic Link Between Global Warming and Fitness Decline
A5 Flynn Semenuk (Klein Lab) Functional Evaluation of an Alternative SPT in a Δspt Δacp Caulobacter crescentus Mutant
A6 Kiyara Causey (Boehning Lab, Rowan) The hereditary deafness-associate protein BCAP31 is required for IP3-mediated calcium release
A7 Renuka Kumar (Corbett Lab) From venom to vision: Using Alpha-bungarotoxin to reveal muscle structure in mice.
A8 Angel Keifner (Solesio Lab) Metabolic Control of Polyphosphate Accumulation and Mitochondrial Physiology in PPK-Expressing Mammalian Cells
A9 Sophia LaPorta (Salas-de la Cruz Lab) Understanding the Molecular Interactions and Physicochemical Properties of a Carbohydrate/Clay Bio-Skin

11:25 – 12:10: Session B Presentations 

Poster Presenting Author Title
B1 Alan Rozenblit (Yakoby Lab) Midline patterning during oogenesis: enhancer deletion impacts Drosophila life cycle
B2 Ariana Santiago Ramirez (González Lab) Arthropod Diversity from Past to Present: Identifying Arthropod Species from Historical Data across a Latitudinal Gradient in the Atacama Desert
B3 Morgan Bartleson (Lee Lab) A Dual-Assay Platform for High-Throughput Screening of Circadian Modulators Using FDA-Approved Small Molecules
B4 Jacob Oblander (Weiner Lab, Wistar) Enhancing cutaneous MART-1 immunity With DNA-Encoded CTACK in mouse models of melanoma
B5 Abhinav Kotapati (Boehning Lab, Rowan) Investigating Nuclear and Cytosolic Calcium Dynamics in HeLa Cells Using Live-Cell Imaging
B6 Anh Ly (Corbett Lab) Investigating the effects of α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist on gut microbiome composition during stress
B7 Tiffany Chan (Kohout Lab, Rowan) Loss of Voltage-Sensing Phosphatase Disrupts Renal Solute Homeostasis in Mice
B8 Myo Thinzar Htin Aung (Lee Lab) Photoperiod History Modulates Aspartame’s Effects on Drosophila Circadian Rhythms

12:10 – 12:20: Intermission & Judge Scoring

12:20 – 12:30: Closing Remarks by Dr. Kwangwon Lee & Announcement of Prizes

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