Annabelle, a senior at Albemarle County High School, worked with the SASCO data manager, Andrea Denton, on A Bibliometric Analysis of Citation Practices Among Basic Clinical Faculty in SASCO. Annabelle will be attending Columbia University as an Egleston Scholar fall 2026.
Annabelle Cao, a Senior at Western Albemarle High School, worked with the SASCO data manager, Andrea Denton, presenting a poster at the annual research symposium entitled A Biometric Analysis of Citation Practices Among Basic and Clinical Faculty in SASCO. Annabelle will be attending Columbia University as an Egleston Scholar fall 2026.
We report a pair of stable, self-consistent Cahn-Hilliard solvers encoded in Python, MATLAB, and Julia for generalized modeling of phase-separated systems. We apply the methods to the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC)—a multi-protein assembly that reportedly condenses on mitotic chromosomes during prometaphase (Nat Cell Biol 21:1127-37 [2019])—and compare predictions with experiments.
My project will investigate how CCNF regulates FOXM1 activation throughout the cell cycle by combining protein measurements with transcriptional snapshots and computational modeling. First, I’ll synchronize cells at key cycle phases and directly quantify Foxm1 and Cyclin F protein levels at each stage. Next, I’ll use RNA-seq data from those synchronized cultures—and from breast cancer samples—to infer stage-specific FOXM1 transcriptional activity. Finally, I’ll map those activity profiles onto a model to reveal how CCNF-driven timing shapes FOXM1 dynamics and downstream regulatory programs. 2026 update: Rose is a Barry Goldwater Scholar in addition to previous honors of Ronald E McNair Scholar, John P & Anne Welsh McNulty Scholar, and NIH STEP UP Scholar.
Treating glioblastoma cells with Prozac and chloroquine, then measuring effect on cell count.
Quantifying mitochondrial morphology and topology in colorectal cancer
