UROP Grant Project Archive

2020-2021 Recipients

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Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) – A Collaborative Timeline

Florence Blackwell – Recipient | Jeffrey Schrader  - Mentor

Contributor: Journal 18 (2020)

College of Arts and Media News

 

 

Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling

Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2020)

The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation:  Evidence From Colorado

Lisette Martinez – Recipient | Safa Mechergui – Recipient | Sara Yeatman – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Adolescent Health (2020)

 

Associations between maternal depression and mother and infant oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR_rs53576) polymorphisms

Susan Kim – Recipient (page 502) | Peter Kaplan – Mentor

Published Paper: Developmental Psychobiology (2019)

 

Quantum Mechanical Modeling of the Interactions between Noble Metal (Ag and Au) Nanoclusters and Water with the Effective Fragment Potential Method

Anh Tran – Recipient | Emilie Guidez – Mentor

Published Paper: ACS Omega (2020)

 

Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season

Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor

Published Paper: PLoS One (2019)

 

Determining Alternative Protein Isoform Expression Using RNA Sequencing and Mass Spectrometry

Julianna Wright – Recipient | Maggie Lam – Mentor

Published Paper: Star Protocols (2020)

 

Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology Reports (2020)

 

Chronic cannabinoid exposure produces tolerance to the dopamine releasing effects of WIN 55,212-2 and heroin in adult male rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: Neuropharmacology (2020)

 

Endocannabinoid modulation of dopamine release during reward seeking, interval timing and avoidance

Thomas Everett – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (2021)

 

Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: The FASEB Journal 33 (2019)

Does Palliative Care Utilization Facilitate Conversion to Hospice Care?  A Qualitative Study of the “Soft No”

Ariana Talaie – Recipient | Karen Lutfey Spencer – Mentor

Published Paper:  American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (2020)

 

Anion pathways in CLCF fluoride/proton antiporters

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper: Chemical Physics Letters (2021)

 

Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations:  6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2019)

 

Dynamics of Serine-8 Side-Chain in Amyloid-β Fibrils and Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl Serine Amino Acid, Investigated by Solid-State Deuteron NMR

 

Dillon Rickertsen – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor | Liliya Vugmeyster – Mentor

Published Paper:  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2020)

 

Computationally inexpensive enhanced growing neural gas algorithm for real-time adaptive neural spike clustering

John Kincaid – Recipient | Tim Lei – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Neural Engineering (2019)

 

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats

Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: Physiology and Behavior (2019)

 

Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling

Nicolette Moya – Recipient | Abagail Smith – Recipient | Aleezah Balolia – Recipient |Jazmyne Davis – Recipient |Kelsey Bonar – Recipient |Troy Hubert – Recipient | William Whitworth – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2020)

 

The power of price compels you:  Behavioral economic insights into dopamine-based valuation of rewarding and aversively motivated behavior

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  Brain Research (2019)

 

A characterization of behavior and monoamine interactions during conditioned avoidance maintained in a within-session behavioral economic avoidance task

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal (2019)

 

A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal (2018)

A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor

Published Paper:  Developmental Psychobiology (2020)

 

A nonspatial sound modulates processing of visual distractors in a flanker task

Cailey Salagovic – Recipient | Carly Leonard – Mentor

Published Paper:  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020)

 

Exercise increases mTOR signaling in brain regions involved in cognition and emotional behavior

Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:  Behavioural Brain Research (2017)

 

Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear

Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood

Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology (2018)

 

Running from fear:  Exercise modulation of fear extinction

Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood

Published Paper:  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2018)

 

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs the extinction and reconsolidation of fear memory in rats

Jazmyne Davis – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | River Wood – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: Physiology and Behavior (2019)

 

The Impact of Post-War Japanese Fashion on Contemporary New York Fashion Design

Khoa Nguyen– Recipient | Yang Wang - Mentor

University Communications News Article (2018)

The synaptotagmin C2B domain calcium-binding loops modulate the rate of fusion pore expansion

Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor |Jefferson Knight – Mentor

Published Paper:  Molecular Biology of the Cell (2018)

 

Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles and FRET Allow Sensitive Monitoring of Liposome Clustering Mediated by the Synaptotagmin-7 C2A Domain

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Paper:  Langmuir (2017)

 

Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles as Probes for Membrane Binding

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Book Chapter:  Chemical and Synthetic Approaches in Membrane Biology (2017)

 

Polymer mediated layer-by-layer assembly of different shaped gold nanoparticles

Desmond Hamilton – Recipient | Scott Reed – Mentor

Published Paper: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2017)

 

A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Tassawwar Khan – Recipient | Kim Cowie – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor | Sondra Bland – Mentor

Published Paper:  Developmental Psychobiology (2020)

 

Honeybee microbiome associated with different hive and sample types over a honey production season

Vy Nguyen – Recipient | James Rivers – Recipient | Christy Briles – Mentor

Published Paper:  PLoS One (2019)

 

Acute exercise enhances the consolidation of fear extinction memory and reduces conditioned fear relapse in a sex-dependent manner

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Natalie Haddad – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:  Learning and Memory (2017)

 

Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2018)

 

A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: eNeuro (2018)

 

A transient dopamine signal encodes subjective value and causally influences demand in an economic context

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)

 

A transient dopamine signal represents the value of avoidance in negative reinforcement

Jonte Roberts – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal (2018)

 

In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal (2018)

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  FASEB Journal (2018)

 

Effect of Exercise to Enhance Fear Extinction Memory Is Dependent on Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (Mtor) Signaling

Brian Lloyd – Recipient | Holly Hake – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper: Behavioral Brain Research (2017)

 

PIP2 Head Group Behavior in Granuphilin C2A Mutations

Sherleen Tran – Recipient | Hai Lin - Mentor

Published Paper: American Society for Cell Biology (2018)

 

QM/MM Simulations of Chloride Translocation Through the Ecclc CI-/H+ Antiporter

MacKenzie Zarecki – Recipient| Hai Lin - Mentor

Published Paper: Frontiers in Chemistry (2018)

Adaptive Partitioning QM/MM for Molecular Dynamics Simulations:  6. Proton Transport through a Biological Channel

Baris Aydintug – Recipient | Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2019)

 

Membrane Binding Cooperativity and Co-insertion by C2AB Tandem Domains of Synaptotagmins 1 and 7

Hai T. Tran – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor

Published Paper:  Biophysical Journal (2019)

 

Late Holocene climate and human impacts on a tropical ecosystem in northern Vietnam. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

Published Paper: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2019)

 

Neurochemical and behavioural indices of exercise reward are independent of exercise controllability

Nathan Gray – Recipient | Benjamin Greenwood – Mentor

Published Paper:  The European Journal of Neuroscience

 

Activation of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons during Fear Extinction Prevents the Renewal of Fear

Holly Hake – Recipient | Nathan Gray – Recipient |Benjamin Greenwood

Published Paper: Neuropsychopharmacology (2018)

 

Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin-evoked dopamine release in rats

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  Neuropsychopharmacology Reports (2020)

 

A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  eNeuro (2018)

 

Commonly Abused Drugs Differentially Increase the Frequency and Amplitude of Accumbal Transiet Dopamine Release Events

Thomas Everett – Recipient |Hendrick Lopez-Beltran – Recipient |Ryan Leman – Recipient | Dominic Isaacs – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal 33 (2019)

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  FASEB Journal (2018)

 

Exploring Vietnamese History Through A Charcoal Lense

Olga Serenchenko – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

University Communications News Article (2016)

 

Product Labeling and Geographic Origins of Colorado Honeys

Ashley Bouck – Recipient | Christy Briles - Mentor

University Communications News Article (2016)

 

Combined QM/MM Dynamics Simulations of Proton Transfer in E. Coli CICI Chloride Ion Transport Protein

Christina Garza – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Chapter 13:  Methods in Enzymology, p. 342-358 

Diazepam concurrently increases the frequency and decreases the amplitude of transient dopamine release events in the nucleus accumbens

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2018)

 

A transient dopamine signal represents avoidance value and causally influences the demand to avoid

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  eNeuro (2018)

 

A transient dopamine signal encodes subjective value and causally influences demand in an economic context

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Dylan Rakowski – Recipient |Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)

 

In vivo electrochemical assessment of dopamine release during conditioned withdrawal in heroin dependent rats

Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient | Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  The FASEB Journal (2018)

 

Buprenophine functions as a weak dopamine releaser in the absence of heroin but blocks the dopamine releasing effects of heroin in its presence

Dominic Isaacs – Recipient |Scott Schelp – Recipient | Katherine Pultorak – Recipient |Erik Oleson – Mentor

Published Paper:  FASEB Journal (2018)

 

Soil Sampling and Sky Exposure from Leeward Microsite in Treeline Ecotones

Holly Bevency – Recipient | Liana Boggs – Recipient | Diana Tomback – Mentor

Published Paper:  Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2016)

 

Membrane Docking of the Synaptotagmin 7 C2A Domain: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Measurements Show Contributions from Two Membrane Binding Loops

Favinn Maynard – Recipient | Jefferson Knight – Mentor

Published Paper:  Biochemistry (2015) 

 

Interplays of Membrane and Ligand Docking of Granuphilin C2A Domain: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Jack Henderson – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor | Jefferson Knight - Mentor

Published Paper:  Biochemistry (2015) 

 

Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations of The Eccic Chloride Transport Protein

Christal Davis – Recipient | Hai Lin – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2014)

 

Synthesis and Incorporation of Photoactive Proves to Study RNA Structure and Reactivity

Justin Townsend – Recipient | Joseph Nguyen – Recipient | Marino Resendiz – Mentor

Published Paper:  Journal of Organic Chemistry (2016)