NEWS
The 2025 SyBBURE Symposium Best Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation Award Winners
We are excited to announce that Karina Sosa is the winner of the 2025 SyBBURE Symposium Best Oral Presentation Award for her project, “Flexible Push-Pull Robots: Moving from Four to Three Tubes.”
The Best Poster Presentation Awards go to Kesney de Oliveira for his project, “A Multi-Modal Pipeline for Surgical Instrument Size Estimation and Classification,” and Pat Phisitkul for his project, “Factors Influencing Time to Diagnosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Real-World Retrospective Study.”
Congratulations to these outstanding students! Learn more about their projects on our Students page.
SyBBURE Welcomes New Student Fellows Joining Summer 2025!
A warm welcome to our newest group of student fellows, who began their SyBBURE journey in the Summer 2025 term. From day one, they have brought fresh perspectives, creative ideas, and a spirit of collaboration to the program. We’re excited to support their growth over the next few years as they perform cutting-edge research and pursue bold design projects. Be sure to check out the “Students” page to get to know each of them.
Miranda Ma, Chemical Engineering ‘28
Sarah Lanza, Biomedical Engineering ‘28
Aryan Pandey, Neuroscience and Communication of Science & Technology ‘28
Anne Hanna, Biological Sciences and Medicine, Health, & Society ‘28
Jeffrey Eum, Neuroscience and Medicine, Health, & Society ‘27
Aiste Austrevicius, Child Studies and Psychology ‘27
FishMobile Project Showcased at Open Sauce 2025
We are very proud of the VIX team FishMobile for bringing their vision to life! This could be the dream that fish have had for centuries, finally made into reality. We don't know for sure because fish can't talk (yet).
After being awarded Best VIX Project of Summer 2024 by SyBBURE, Laura Caroline Jung Phoebe Lin and Ria Mirchandani shared their design project with the world at Open Sauce 2025. You can learn more about their work through their website or youtube.
SyBBURE Welcomes New Students for 2025 Spring!
We are excited to share the newest members of our SyBBURE community. Between joining new research labs and spearheading novel independent design projects, this cohort has definitely hit the ground running and is already an integral part of our community! You can find more information about each student on the "Students” page. Welcome to SyBBURE!
SyBBURE Annual Best Paper Award 2024
It brings us great pleasure to announce the winners of the coveted SyBBURE Best Paper Award for 2024: Ashley Fu and Dylan Conger!
Ashley is a senior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering (and minoring in Piano Performance!) Her submission, entitled “Energy Minimization using Custom-Designed Magnetic-Spring Actuators”, reflects a thorough understanding of theoretical and applied robotics. As a member of the Braun Lab for Advanced Robotics and Control, she has honed her expertise in control systems and integrated circuit designs, microcontrollers, control theories, and simulations. In the future, she hopes to apply these skills in designing energy-efficient systems and advancing the development of cutting-edge robotic technologies.
Dylan is a senior majoring in Neuroscience and Biochemistry on the pre-med track, and has been conducting synthetic biology research as a member of the Brunger Lab. His submission was titled “Rationally Designed Tau-Specific Receptors for Spatiotemporally Regulated Gene and Cell Therapies against Neurodegeneration.” Dylan has presented his work at several conferences, such as BMES and SfN, and he has also been heavily involved in the process of preparing and filing the provisional patent for this work.
The competition for this award was particularly fierce this year, and several students received honorable mention as finalists for the award:
Daniel Liu
Kaden Tro
Laura Caroline Jung
Gabrielle Beck
Erin Davis
Ella Weaverling
Rincon Jagarlamudi
Pranoy Sangowdar
Nathan Hammond
Olivia Noell
Oseremhen Ewaleifoh
Bryce Keating
Emily Qian
Manish Acharya
Nabeelah Aregbe
Sophia Dunkin
Christina Kim
Benjamin Estes
Congratulations to our winners and finalists, and congratulations to all the students who submitted papers for consideration on a fantastic year of research! We are excited to see what is next in store for everyone.
SyBBURE Welcomes New Students for 2024 Summer!
We are excited to share the newest members of our SyBBURE community! These students have already impressed us with their enthusiasm for research, collaboration, and design. We are eager to see what they learn and accomplish during their time in the program.
SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate Research Program Summer 2023 Symposium
Please make plans to join us in celebrating the hard work (y)our students have performed this summer. The SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate Research Program Summer 2023 Symposium will be held August 3rd and 4th. Oral presentations will be in Stevenson Center 4327. Posters will be set up in the hallway outside SC 4327.
SyBBURE Welcomes New Students for 2023 Spring Semester
In December 2022, nineteen new students were welcomed into the SyBBURE community. We are excited to see what they accomplish!
SyBBURE Student Shanay Desai wins poster award at NanoDay
SyBBURE student Shanay Desai was awarded 3rd place for Best Poster Presentation at the 2022 Nanoscience Nanotech Forum (NanoDay). More than 220 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students attended the 22nd annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum on November 4th, and over 60 posters were presented by undergraduates, post docs, masters, and PhD students. Congratulations, Shanay!
SyBBURE Student Min Joo Kim awarded for outstanding poster at AIC
SyBBURE student Min Joo Kim received the award for Outstanding Undergraduate Poster at the Autumn Immunology Conference (AIC). Congratulations, Min Joo!
