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Student
Conference Travel Awards
Matt Wester
The effects of cell cycle
cessation on neurotransmitter specification in X. laevis. Society for Developmental Biology
Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2006.
Katherine Fisher
Is there a neurotransmitter
default state? Society for
Developmental Biology Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2006.
Natasha Golub
Specification of
neurotransmitter phenotypes in Xenopus laevis. Society
for Developmental Biology Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2006.
Shea, Meghan
Developmental and
pharmacological analysis of trace and serial compound fear conditioning,
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., Nov. 05 (Pam Hunt, Psychology)
Shea, Meghan
Cholinergic modulation of
trace conditioning trained in serial compound: A developmental analysis,
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology,
Washington, DC, Nov. 05 (Pam Hunt, Psychology)
Rai, Neel
Studying the Stability of
Classifiers, AMS, Tennessee, Oct. 05 (Gene Tracy, Physics
Oreska, Matthew
Assessing the Quality of the Subfossil
Record from the Chesapeake
Bay: Can
Holocene Mollusks be used as a Baseline for Restoration?, Estuarine
Research Federation 2005 Conference, Norfolk, VA, Oct. 05 (Rowan Lockwood,
Geology)
Logan, Carol
Characterization of a strange spherical inclusion found in epithelial
cells of digestive diverticula in Bathymodiolus spp. Mussels,
Third International Symposium on Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO); La
Jolla, California (Cindy Van Dover, Biology)
Kondrad, Robyn
Excitotoxic Lesions of the Prefrontal Cortex, but not the Thalamic Mediodorsal Nucleus, Disrupt Attentional
Performance in Rats, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, Nov. 05 (Josh Burk, Psychology)
Happel, Maria
Effects of different effective
temperature ranges on thermochemical properties
obtained from the extended kinetic method, American Chemical Society
Meeting, Washington,
DC, Sept.
05, (J.C. Poutsma,
Chemistry)
Gercke, Emily
Assessing the quality of the subfossil record from the Chesapeake Bay: can Holocene mollusks be used as a baseline for restoration?
Estuarine Interactions: biological-physical feedbacks and interactions,
Oct. 05, Norfolk VA (Rowan Lockwood, Geology)
Norfolk, VA
Wiles, Austin
The Synthesis and Thermal Properties
of Copper Melamine and Thiourea Complexes and
Their Potential as Smoke Suppressants in Poly(vinyl chloride), 32nd Annual
Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Oct. 04, Williamsburg, Virginia (Robert Pike, Chemistry)
Sprachman, Melissa
Stereoselective Tandem Cyclization-Addition Reactions
using Catalytic BiBr3, SERMACS: The Southeastern Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, No. 04 (Rob Hinkle, Chemistry)
Kondrad, Robyn
Escalating Amphetamine
Transiently Increases False Alarms in a Sustained Attention Task in Rats,
Society for Neuroscience Meeting,
Oct. 04, (Burk, Psychology)
Brown, Andrew
Smoke Suppression and Fire Retardance of Poly(vinyl chloride) by Metal-Based
Additives: Progress and Prognosis, 32nd Annual Conference of the North
American Thermal Analysis Society,
Oct. 04, Williamsburg, Virginia
(Starnes, Chemistry)
Culyba, Elizabeth
Ester Thiols:
Highly Effective Nonmetallic Additives for the Thermal Stabilization and
Plasticization of Poly(vinyl chloride), 32nd Annual Conference of the North
American Thermal Analysis Society,
Oct. 04, Williamsburg, Virginia (Starnes,
Chemistry)
Chastant, Lisa
Current topics in
hydrothermal vent chemistry, A Hydrothermal Workshop: Current topics
in hydrothermal ecology and geochemistry, 3/8/2004-3/9/2004, Southampton
Oceanography Centre, UK (Mentor: Cindy Van Dover, Biology)
Che, Judy
Homes for
Bluebirds: Correlating Nestbox and Environmental
Variables with Fitness., Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting, June
12-16, Oaxaca, Mexico (Mentor: John Swaddle, Biology)
Deegan, Erin
The effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on the firing rates of thermosensitive and temperature insensitive neurons in
the anterior hypothalamus of the rat, Experimental Biology, 4/17-4/21,
Washington, D.C. (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)
Fashing, Maria
Dental caries
distribution in the Anglo-Saxon population of Sedgeford,
England, American Association of Physical Anthropologists 73rd Annual
Meeting, April 14 to April 17, 2004, Tampa, FL (Mentor: Michael Blakey, Anthropology)
Goodwin, Andrew
Role of the
transcriptional regulator tenA in Helicobacter
pylori, American Society for Microbiology, May 23-27, 2004, New Orleans,
LA (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
Grimm, Eleanor
The effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on the firing rate of thermosensitive and temperature insensitive neurons in
the anterior hypothalamus of the rat, APS-Experimental Biology, April
17-21, Washington, D.C. (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)
Markowsky, Allison
Analysis of Gene
Regulation Mediated by the Two Component Signal Transduction System
HP1364-HP1365 in Helicobacter pylori, American Society for Microbiology
104th General Meeting, 5/23 - 5/27, New Orleans, LA (Mentor: Mark
Forsyth, Biology)
McNulty, Shannon
Global Analysis of
Helicobacter pylori Isolates Identifies a Novel 180bp Insertion/Deletion
Significantly Associated with African and African American Strains,
American Society for Microbiology 104th General Meeting, May 23-27, 2004, New
Orleans, LA (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
Terry, Courtney
Comparative
Genomics of cag-PAI Positive and cag-PAI Negative Helicobacter pylori Isolates:
Identification of Novel Markers for cag-PAI
Positive strains, American Society of Microbiology, May 23, 2004, New
Orleans, LA (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
West, Diana
Synthesis of carborane-containing polymers for effective space
shielding, American Chemical Society 227th National Meeting, March 28-March
31, Anaheim, CA (Mentor: Richard Kiefer, Chemistry)
Dondeti, Vijay
Design of an 8K Xenopus Microarray for
investigating neural development. Society for Developmental Biology, July
2003, Boston, MA (Mentor: Margaret Saha, Biology)
Goodwin, Andrew
Phase Variation in
Helicobacter pylori Contingency Genes sabA and sabB. American Society for Microbiology, May 2003, Washington DC (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
Dondeti, Vijay
Design of an 8K Xenopus Microarray for
investigating neural development. Morphogenesis and Regenerative Medicine,
May 2003, Charlottesville, VA (Mentor: Margaret Saha, Biology)
Mills, Anne
Windows to the
Deep: Explorations Blake Ridge Methane Hydrate Reservoir.
Undergraduate Research Conference, August 2003, Williamsburg, VA (Mentor: Cindy VanDover, Biology)
Mole, Beth
Differences Among
Helicobacter pylori Strains in a Signal Transduction Cascade. American
Society for Microbiology, May 2003, Washington, D.C. (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
Seroka, Cheryl
Variation in
Circadian Rhythms of Rats in Response to Photoperiod. Society for
Behavioral Neuroscience, June 2003, Cincinnati, OH (Mentor: Paul Heideman,
Biology)
Terry, Laura
Growth-Phase
Dependency of Autoinducer-2 Synthesis in Helicobacter pylori. 2003 General
Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 2003, Washington, D.C. (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)
Baugh, Heather
Does abundance promote survivorship during background extinction
intervals? A case study using bivalve species from the Yorktown Formation.
Geological Society of America, March 2003, Memphis, TN (Mentor: Rowan Lockwood, Geology)
Litvinas, Nichole
Trisubsituted Olefin Synthesis by Reaction of
Benzulic Zinc Reagents with beta, beta-Disubstituted Alkenyl(phenyl)iodonium Triflates. 225th American Chemical Society
National Meeting, March 2003, New Orleans, LA (Mentor: Robert Hinkle,
Chemistry)
Shelton, Jessica
The effects of the
Chesapeake Bay Impact on calcareous nannofossil
diversity. Geological Society of America, March 2003, Memphis, TN (Mentor: Rowan Lockwood, Geology)
Wallis, Elizabeth
Morphological
Characteristics of Warm Sensitive and Temperature Insensitive Neurons in
the Ventromedial Preoptic
Area of the Hypothalamus. Experimental Biology 2003, April 2003, San Diego, CA (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)
Wright, Jennifer
The Effects of Leptin on the Firing Rates of Thermosensitive
and Temperature Insensitive Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus.
Experimental Biology 2003, April 2003, San Diego, CA (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)
Laurie Bronson
Biorhythmic Variation
During REsistance Exercise in Aged Men (Advisor -
Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology)
The Annual
Conference for the Southeastern Chapter of the American College of Sports
Medicine, February 2002 (Atlanta, GA)
Brent DeGeorge, Jr.
A Comparative
Genomics Study of Virulent and Avirulent Helicobacter
pylori (Advisor - Mark Forsythe, Biology)
102nd General
Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, May 2002 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Mark Doerries
Community Structure
in Mussel Beds at Logatchev, a Deep-sea Hydrothermal
Vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Advisor - Cindy Van Dover, Biology)
2002 Marine Benthic
Ecology Meeting, March 2002 (Orlando, FL)
Joshua Hall
Genome-wide
Transcriptional Profiling in a Histadine Kinase Mutant of Helicobacter pylori Identifies
Members of a Regulon (Advisor - Mark Forsythe)
102nd General
Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, May 2002 (Salt Lake City,
UT)
Katharine Madigan
The Use of DNA Microarray Analysis to Identify Unique Gene Sequences
in Type I Strains of Helicobacter pylori (Advisor - Mark Forsythe,
Biology)
102nd General
Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, May 2002 (Salt Lake City,
UT)
Ann Mikowski
Fragmentation
Reactions of Alkenyl(aryl)iodonium
Triflate Salts (Advisor - Robert Kinkle, Chemistry)
National Meeting of
the American Chemical Society, April 2002 (Orlando, FL)
Callie Raulfs
Bacteriolytic Activity in Hydrothermal Vent
Organisms (Advisor - Cindy Van Dover, Biology)
2002 Marine Benthic
Ecology Meeting, March 2002 (Orlando, FL)
Laura Terry
The Effects of
Autoinducer-2 on Gene Expression in Helicobacter pylori (Advisor -
Mark Forsythe)
102nd General
Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, May 2002 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Meredith Wilson
Effects of
Unloading on Synaptic Structure in Aged and Young Adult Muscle (Advisor -
Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology)
The Annual
Conference for the Southeastern Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, February
2002 (Atlanta, GA)
Kylie Haskins
Mutagenesis of GFP
for Expression in E. histolytica (Advisor
- Gene Godbold, Biology)
2001 Meeting of the
Virginia Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, November 2001
(Richmond, VA)
Eileen Tschetter
Discovery of Small GTPases in the Entamoeba
histolytica Genome (Advisor - Gene Godbold, Biology)
2001 Meeting of the
Virginia Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, November 2001
(Richmond, VA)
Luke Ng
Experimental
Results and Predictive Calculations for Pinhole Collimators Used in Small
Animal Nuclear Imaging (Advisor - Robert Welsh, Physics)
April
Meeting of the APS, April 2001 (Washington D.C.)
Amoreena Ranck
Novel
Technique for Coregistration of Biological Images
in a Multimodality Detector Array (Advisor - Bob Welsh, Physics)
Southeastern
Section of the American Physical Society, November 2000 (Mississippi)
Edith
Bowers
Effects
of Ligand Symmetry on Hg(II)
Coordination (Advisor - Deborah Bebout,
Chemistry)
220th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 2000 (Washington D.C.)
Don Fox
Cell Cycle
Progression Is Not Required for Organelle Segregation during C. elegans Sperm Meiosis (Advisor - Diane Shakes, Biology)
Midwest
Worm Meeting, June 2000 (Minneapolis, MN)
Melissa
Garland
Comparative
Coordination Studies of Mercury(II) and Cadmium(II)
(Advisor - Deborah Bebout, Chemistry)
220th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 2000 (Washington D.C.)
Peter Godenschwager
Cationic
Substituent Effects on the Rate of a Cope
Rearrangement (Advisor - Kathleen Morgan, Chemistry)
220th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 2000 (Washington D.C.)
Erika
Gruber
The
Role of HIF Genes and Hypoxia in Early Xenopus
Development (Advisor - Margaret Saha, Biology)
59th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology, June 2000 (Boulder, CO)
Christian
Waugh
Aggression
and the Domain-Specificity of Self-Esteem: Replication and Extension
(Advisor - Lee Kirkpatrick, Psychology)
Annual
Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2000 (Amherst,
MA)
Eric Galvez
Inhibition
of Reproductive Maturation and Somatic Growth of Fischer 344 Rats by
Constant L13:D11 Photoperiod and by Gradually Decreasing Photoperiod
(Advisor - Paul Heideman, Biology)
7th
Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, May 2000 (Amelia Island, FL)
Heather Sahli
Grought Tolerance and Competition of Co-Occurring Species of
Ozark Rock Outcrop Sedum (Advisor - Stewart Ware, Biology)
Annual
Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 2000 (Radford, VA)
Benjamin
Shoemaker
Presence
of a Circannual Rhythm in Aging F344 Rats
(Advisor - Paul Heideman, Biology)
7th
Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, May 2000 (Amelia Island, FL)
John
Weinlein
Physiological
Responses to Cycling Depend on Pedaling Cadence, Despite Constant
Exercise
Intensity (Advisor - Michael Deschenes,
Kinesiology) Annual Conference of the
Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, January 2000 (Charlotte, NC)
Susan Bacon
The
Rate of Oogenis in the Vent Polychaete
Paralvinella palmiformis
(Advisor - Cindy
Van Dover, Biology) The Society for Integrative
and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, January 2000 (Atlanta, GA)
Amanda Britt
Recovery of
Neuromuscular Junction Morphology Following 17 Days of Spaceflight
(Advisor - Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology) Annual
Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports
Medicine,
January 2000
(Charlotte, NC)
Whitney Chandler
Unloading Imparts
Different Adaptations in Aged and Young Muscle Fibers (Advisor,
Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology) Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter
of the American College of Sports Medicine, January 2000 (Charlotte, NC)
Jessica Neidig
Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of the Thyroid
Hormone Receptor (Advisor - Liz Allison,
Biology) 39th Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Cell Biology, December 1999
(Washington DC)
Justin Rice
Synthesis and
Characterization of Sulfur-Containing Tetradentate
Ligands (Advisor -
Deborah Bebout,
Chemistry) 51st Southeast
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, October 1999 (Knoxville, TN)
Robert Saunders
A Gamma Ray Imaging Device for
Small-animal Studies (Advisor - Robert Welsh,
Physics) Meetings of the Southeastern
Section of the American Physical Society, November 1999 (Chapel Hill, NC)
J. Chris Clemonts
Synthesis and Mercury Coordination Studies
of Ligands Derived from 2,6-Lutidine (Advisor - Deborah Bebout, Chemistry)
51st Southeast
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, October 1999 (Knoxville, TN)
Geoffrey David
Additioin of Organozinc Reagents to Alkenyl(phenyl)iodonium Triflates: Synthesis
of Trisubstituted
Alkenes (Advisor - Robert Hinkle, Chemistry)
51st
Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, October
999 (Knoxville, TN)
Melissa
Garland
A Study of Mercury(II) Complexes
Containing Imidazole and Pyridyl
Rings (Advisor - Deborah Bebout,
Chemistry) 51st Southeast Regional Meeting of
the American Chemical Society,
October 1999 (Knoxville, TN)
Alessandra Leri
Cross-coupling Reactions between Alkenyl(aryl)iodonium Triflate Salts and Organozinc Reagents (Advisor -
Robert Hinkle, Chemistry) 51st Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, October
1999 (Knoxville, TN)
Sarah Elliott
Parkinson's Disease
Gait Kinematics: Effects of Cadence-setting Through Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (Advisor - Raymond McCoy, Kinesiology) Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics,
October 1999 (Pittsburgh, PA)
Laura Grattan
Analysis and CHaracterization
of a Novel Alpha-chemokine G-protein
Coupled
Receptor Subfamily in Xenopus
laevis: Its Role in Development, the Immune
System, V and Angiogenesis (Advisor - Margaret
Saha, Biology)
National Meeting of
the Society of Developmental Biology, June 1999 (Charlottesville, VA)
Kristina Hoke
Cloning and
Developmental Characterization of a Novel GABA Transporter and Other Neurotransmitter Receptors and Transporters in Xenopus laevis
(Advisor - Margaret Saha, Biology) National Meeting of the Society of Developmental
Biology, June 1999
(Charlottesville, VA)
Gayle Holt
Mutants with Post-fertilization Meiotic
Progression Defects (Advisor -
Diane Shakes, Biology)
12th
International C. elegans Meeting, June
1999 (Madison, WI)
Karen Resendes
Effects of Heat Shock on Early
Embryogenesis and Gut Development (Advisor -
Diane Shakes,
Biology)
12th International C. elegans
Meeting, June 1999 (Madison, WI)
Norie Sadjadi
Isolation and Characterization of Genes Involved in
Vascular Development in
Xenopus laevis (Advisor - Margaret Saha,
Biology) National Meeting of the Society of
Developmental Biology, June 1999
(Charlottesville, VA)
Cecily Vanderspurt
Dorsal-ventral
Nueral Patterning During Early Embryogenesis
(Advisor -
Margaret Saha,
Biology) National Meeting of the
Society of Developmental Biology, June 1999 (Charlottesville, VA)
Lucia Wille
The
Anaphase Promoting Complex is Required for Meiosis I Anaphase
(Advisor -
Diane Shakes, Biology) 12th
International C. elegans Meeting, June
1999 (Madison, WI)
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