Science Symposium Schedule
Science Symposium 2013
Friday, February 22
Sadler Center
1:00-4:30 pm
Oral Presentations
James Room
1:00-2:00: Mathematics
Zachary Price: Half-Plane Locations of the Eigenvalues of Doubly-Cyclic Z+ Matrices
Owen Hill: A Relaxation of Steinberg's Conjecture
3:00-4:20: Biology
Julia Kihm: Effect of Mercury on Nestling Zebra Finches
Christy Moore: The Effect of Mercury on Plasma Corticosterone Concentration in Zebra Finch
Eva Szymanski: A Tale of Two Proteins: the Budding Yeast STUbL Slx5/Slx8 functionally interacts with SUMO ligase Siz1
York Room
2:00-3:20: Biology
Tejas Aralere: Investigating the Role of Cell Cycle Dynamics on Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus laevis using a 5-ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine (EdU) Proliferation Assay
Aly Brahe: The Functional Characterization of the Upstream Regulatory Regions of XMSR, a Gene Involved in Vascular and Neural Development
Wendy Herbst: The Role of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels in Neuronal Phenotype Specification
3:30-4:30: Physics
Jonathan Fischer: Ground State of Disordered Graphene Heterostructures
Bain Bronner: Using Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators to Accurately Track Temperature
Poster Presentations
Tidewater A&B
2:00-4:00
Biology
Aidan De Sena: Pesticides in the Pantanal: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Water Pollution
Amy Jacobson: The Effect of Two Different Sized Bycatch Reduction Devices on Blue Crab & Diamondback Terrapin Catch
Andre Renaldo, Eva Humes, and Matt Freedman: Requirement for RNA Silencing Machinery during C. elegans Spermatogenesis
Angela Ives, Lani Kroese, and Leah Brazer: Combinatorial Contributions of Heritable Neuroendocrine Variation to Male Infertility
Ashlea Morgan: The Effect of Notch Perturbation on Zic 1, 2, 3 in Xenopus laevis
Athena Tellis: Perturbations in Notch Signaling on Delta-1, Neurogenin-related-1, NeuroD, and Sox Family Gene Expression
Brittany Flowers: The Role of MK-STYX in Neuronal Differentiation
Claire Wenger: Affinity Purification of Recombinant SUMO-fusion Proteins using a Substrate-trapping Ulp1 Mutant
Daniel Angeles: Cloning and Characterization of the Glycine Receptor Subunits of Xenopus laevis through Development
Emily Hansen Karnes: Causitive Mechanisms and Natural Rate Analysis for Spontaneous Excision of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) Element in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Eri Anastas: The Effect of L-Type Calcium Channel Agonist and Antagonist on Calcium Spike Activity and Neurotransmitter Specification in Xenopus laevis
Ethan Winter: Cross-Species Characterization of Spermatogenesis in Rhabditis Nematodes
Greg Tito: Does Methylmercury Affect Male Attractiveness in Zebra Finches?
Hallie Nelson: Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Export Pathways
Hitoshi Koshiya: Cell Proliferation and Cell Death following Notch Perturbation in Xenopus laevis
Jackson Peterson and Brianna Waller: Intracellular Localization of the Casein Kinase 1 SPE-6 in C. elegans Spermatogenesis
Jacobi Hines: The Effect of Notch Perturbation on the Expression of Nkx 6.1 in Xenopus laevis
Jeremy Wells: The Role of SUMOylated BMH1 in Cell Cycle Regulation
Jessica Murray: The Effect of Mercury on Neural Gene Expression during Zebra Finch Development and Song Learning
Karl Chamberlin: Identification of Key Residues of SUMO for Interaction with STUbLs in S. cerevisiae
Katherine Hoptay: Analyzing Ancient DNA by Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA Hypervariable Regions I and II to Determine Origin of Fontabelle Emergency Excavation Site Remains
Kelly O'Toole: Habitat Preference of a Tropical Passerine in a Fire-prone Environment
Laurence Zhu, Vivian Cooper, and Amy Bredehoft: The Expression of the Adhesin SabA in Helicobacter pylori is Affected by Transcriptional Phase Variation as well as ArsR Repression
Lindsay Schleifer: How Neural Cells Acquire an Identity: Role of Calcium Signaling and Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification
Marc Breidenbaugh and Tyler Jones: Characterization of the Gal4/UAS Gene Expression System for Analysis of Drosophila Testis Development
Mariah McKevitt: Effects of Notch Perturbations on Esr6e and Geminin Expression in Xenopus
Samuel Clamons: Automated Analysis of RNA Microarray Data
Sara Williams: How does the spatial distribution of Montastrea annularis and M. faveolata impact Caribbean yellow band disease dynamics?
Sarah Khan: The Effect of Notch Signaling Perturbation on FoxD5 in Xenopus laevis
Sophie Cohen: Identifying Novel Protein Targets of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, UBE3A, in order to further Understand Angelman Syndrome
Chemistry
AJ Wright: Synthesis of Loline Alkaloids
Alana Ogata and Jenna Tan: Single-Molecule Photophysics in Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Films
Alex Chinn and John Woo: Efforts towards the Total Synthesis of Brevianamide B
Caroline Merryman: Synthesis and Reactivity of a Cyclic Six-Membered Oxocarbenium
Ion Containing an Electron-Withdrawing Beta-Ester
Charles Blevins, Anne-Kelly Rhudy, Yvonne Mack, Natalie Hudson-Smith, Jacob Robins, Jake Lisi, and John Andrew Hocker: The Effect of pH and the Presence of Small Organic Acids on the Hydrolysis of Polyamides
Charles Wang: Nanoparticle-Based Detection Systems for Volatile Organics in Enclosed Spaces
Charlotte Platner and Sophia Dudte: Chemistry/Biology 429 Experimental Genomics and Proteomics: An Interdisciplinary Upper Level Integrative Research Laboratory Course
Corbin Muetterties: Gas Phase Acid-Base Chemistry of Cysteine and Serine Homologs
Dmitry Royzman: The Function of [Cu2(Bpy)(PPh3)4(MeCN)2][BF4]2 as a Potential VOC Detector
Emily Gray Willard: Synthesis of Fluorine-containing Precursors to Cyclic Six-membered Oxocarbenium Ions and the Effects of Fluorine on Cyclization-addition Reactions
Hannah Mayhew and David Fabian: Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Oil Paints in Historic Artworks
Jaclyn McKenna: Development of Photo-caged Bioactive Compounds
Jeffrey Liu: Investigation of BiBr3 Initiated Nucleophilic Additions to Seven-Membered Oxocarbenium Ions
Justin Salvant: Steric Effects of Additions to Cyclic Six-membered Oxocarbenium Ions
Kayla Miller: AlCuCl4 Complex: Sensing Carbon Monoxide and Amine Ligands
Mitchell Butler: Efforts towards the Bi(III)-initiated Synthesis of Piperidines and Azepanes
Naman Benday: Preparation and Study of Some Magnetic Copper Compounds
Priya Vyas: The Effect of Different Collision Regimes on Derived Thermochemical Quantities from the Extended Kinetic Method
Robert VanGundy: Pentadentate NONON complexes of Zinc Triad
Shannon McCullough: Copper(I) Bromide and Copper(I) Iodide Complexes of Aliphatic Diamine and Tetramine Ligands
Sofia Garakyaraghi: Approaching a Mechanistic Understanding of Dye Fading Using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Stephanie Winslow and John Imrie Bowman: Hexanuclear Zinc Triad Cages for the Carbonate Ion
Taylor Lain, Sharon Hartzell, and Olivia Blazek: Tagging Oxidation and Reduction of Key Biological Proteins
Computer Science
Taylor Nelms: An Exploration into the Arduino Microcontroller Constructs and their Applications in a Theatrical Environment via the DMX512 Signaling Protocol
Environmental Science and Policy
Abdullah Noor and Emma Albert Stone: Water Quality Survey of Crim Dell
Blina Kruja: An Investigation of the Impact of Underwater Engine Noise on the Humpback Whale’s Behavior (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Katherine Thomas: Environmental Assessment of a Floating Treatment Wetland
Megan Vahsen: Plant Community Structure of a Unique Edaphic Situation on Peavine Mountain
Kinesiology
Adrianna Calleo: The Effects of Caffeine on eNOS Phosphorylation
Mathematics
Rebecca Roberts: Decomposition of Unitary Matrices and Quantum Gates
Neuroscience
Bilal Ashraf, Eunkyu Hwang, and Kyle Littlejohn: Effect of Chronic Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Anxiety in Adulthood
Katie Kaugars: Heritable Variation in Responsiveness to Photoperiod and Immune Response
Laura Menzel, Kumiko Yonezaki, and Aaron Ng: Effects of Repeated Nicotine Exposure on Delay Discounting in Rats
Marilyn Dyess and Lindsey Blevins: Short-term Exposure to Nicotine Sensitizes the Brain’s Response to Stress: A Proposal
Monika Stanciauskas: Application of in situ Hybridization in Researching the Thermoregulatory Pathway: Uses in Phenotypic Analysis and Classification of Thermoregulatory Neurons
Oliver Phillips: Adolescence as a Unique Period of Vulnerability to Environmental Stressors: Age-Dependent and Sex-Dependent Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Anxiety Utilizing the Light-Enhanced Startle Paradigm
Petar Yanev, Everett Altherr, Jonathan MacLeod, Natalie Pinnoi, and Elizabeth Wolfe: Effects of Orexin A on Attentional Processing in Rats
Physics
Anne Mennen: Applying Dark Matter Decay Sequences to Explain PAMELA and FERMI-LAT Data
David Specht: Correcting for Beam Effects in the Qweak Experiment
Elana Urbach: Measuring the Unraveling Force of ssDNA from Carbon Nanotubes Using Optical Traps
Evan Crisman: Anisotropy in Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Grown on Rutile
Joshua Hill: Construction and Characterization of Spin-Polarized He3 Targets
Rachel Hyneman: Copperhydrophosphate Nanowires in Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes
Tim Milbourne: Analysis of High-Dielectric, Low-Loss Piezoelectric Crystals
William Bergan: Application of a Kalman Filter to the MINERvA Test-Beam Beamline
Psychology
Alex Sullivan, Jacob Daniels, Mattie Hyler, Maggie Olney, and Prash Fenn: Trace Conditioning in the Zebrafish using Visual Images
Alex Sullivan, Jacob Daniels, Mattie Hyler, Maggie Olney, and Prash Fenn: Do Zebrafish Find Alcohol Rewarding? Evidence using the Conditioned Place Preference Procedure
Bizu Solomon, Laura Crespo, Lindsey Elliott, and Morgan Whittaker: Parent-Child Conversations about Anger and Sadness
Elizabeth Hall: How Facebook.com, Self-Esteem, Self-Image, and Self-Portrayal Differ Between Male and Female Undergraduates
Julia Brechbiel: College Students’ Internet Usage Patterns and the Problems that Arise from Excessive Use
Katie Mitchell: Gender and High/Low Context: Directness and Indirectness Patterns in Request Strategies of Male and Female College Students
Paige Weaver: The Relationships between Facebook Usage, Trust and Life Satisfaction in College Students
Taylor Quinn: Stress, High Expectations, and Affinity for Achievement: The Double Edge Sword of Academic Success