VCOM 2021 Annual Report

Auburn Research Recognition Day Winners

FACULTY Researcher of the Year Kaelin Young, PhD, MEd, Assistant Professor for Cell Biology and Physiology, MEDICAL STUDENT Biomedical Research First Place Kristyn Kraus, Class of 2023 How Well Do Older Women with Mild Cognitive Impairment Comply with Dietary Guidelines? Second Place Tracee Guthrie, Class of 2024 Implications and Significance of Mercury in Rice Clinical Research First Place Austin Clements, Class of 2022 Retrospective Review of Multitarget Stool DNA as a Screening Test for Colorectal Cancer Second Place - TIE Lynch Major, Class of 2022 Longitudinal Seroconversion Analysis of children Testing Positive for SARS-Cov-2: An Observational Study Caroline Pupke, Class of 2021 Intraoperative Pain Management in Spinal Tumor Ablations Improves Postoperative Recovery Third Place - TIE Lauren Mason, Class of 2022 Treatment Outcomes & Following Compliance Rates of Kenyan Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema Lacey Mead, Class of 2023 Physical Activity Levels Among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Survivors

UNDERGRADUATE / GRADUATE STUDENT Undergraduate / Graduate Competition First Place - TIE Vitale Castellano, Auburn University A Proposed Neuropathy Diagnostic Tool: Design and Testing Methodology Victoria Jimenez, Auburn University The Role of FM03 Induced Nonalcoholic Hepatic Steatosis Supplementation on Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid Profiles in Pre-menopausal Females Third Place Amanda Skalitzky, Auburn University The Effect of Nitinol Insoles on Force Mitigation in Knee Osteoarthritis Honorable Mention Bradley Ruple, Auburn University Six Weeks of Resistance Training Elicits Robust Alterations in the Mitochondrial Methylome in Skeletal Muscle of Older, Untrained Men Second Place Shelby Osburn, Auburn University Effects of 12-Week Multivitamin

Honorable Mention Nikki Lauderback, Class of 2023

Minute Calisthenics: A Randomized Trial with a Delayed-start Control of a Daily, Habit-based, Bodyweight Resistance Training Program Clinical Case Report First Place Austin Clements, Class of 2022 Hysterectomy with Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis Adhesion Disease and Sigmoidectomy - A Surgical Case Report Second Place Caroline Houston, Class of 2023 Review of Risk Factors for Metastatic Spread of Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Colon Third Place Alexys Ramos, Class of 2023 Metastatic Melanoma and Cancerous Invasion of Brain Tissue Honorable Mention Mary Klacik, Class of 2022 Association of COVID-19 with Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum

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