Undergraduate and graduate students presented research, attended career development workshops, participated in mentoring and networking activities, panel discussions, and other events. Monetary awards were presented for outstanding research.

2005 Superior Poster Presenters

Behavioral Sciences
Heather A. Sutton - Christopher Newport University
Effects of 4-Nonylphenol (C15-H24-O) on the Behavioral Patterns of Aggression and Bubble-Nesting in Male Betta splendens

Biochemistry
Cristina C. Clement - City University of New York
Structure-Based Design & Structure-Activity Relationships of D-Phe-Pro-D-Arg-P1'-CONH2 Tetrapeptides Inhibitors of Thrombin

Benjamin Whiddon - University of Texas at Austin
Preorganization Yields An Entropic Disadvantage But An Enthalpic Advantage For A Grb2 SH2 Domain Ligand

Cellular & Molecular Biology
Khrishen Cunnusamy - Louisiana State Univeristy
RNAi Analysis Of Carbonic Anhydrases CAH3, CAH6 and CAH7 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Sandrine Niyongere - University of Alabama Birmingham
Distribution of Ataxin-3 (CAG)n alleles in Narcoleptics and Matched Controls

Maria Luisa Pineda - Barry University
Cloning Nutrient Amino Acid Transporters from the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti.

Ryan Kenneth M. Susa - Rochester Institute of Technology
Polymorphisms identified in GJA1Potentially Associated with Presbycusis

Justin Trotter - University of Central Florida
Reelin Function in Neural Stem Cell Biology

Chemistry
Jennie Fabian - Western Washington University Metal-Coated Polyindented Silica for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Geoffrey Lynn - Elon University
A Kinetic, Mechanistic and Characterization Study of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized in the Reduction of Silver Oxide by Hydrogen Gas in the Aqueous Phase

Robert Snoeberger - University of Washington
Evaluation of the Charge-Transport Parameters in a Series of Chalcogen Substituted Oligoacenes

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Ryan Coon - University of Puget Sound
Evaluation of Genetic Diversity of Introduced Mytilus galloprovincialis Populations and Potential Source Populations to Determine Origins of Introductions

Eric Scott - Whitman College
Behavioral Evidence for Host-Race Formation in the gall-midge Dasineura folliculi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Melissa Whitman - Western Washington University
Fire Impact on Terrestrial and Epilithic Orchids, a Case Study from a Madagascar Inselberg (Granite Outcrop)

Engineering
Clara Cho - Olin College
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale InN Electrochemical Sensors

Tyler Martin - Georgia Institute of Technology
MEMS Micromirrors: Layout, Fabrication and Integration

Environmental Science
Laura J. Sellens - Western Washington University
Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetic Drift in Genetically Modified Creeping Bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) near Madras, Central Oregon

Deserah Strand - Kennesaw State University
Selection and Preliminary Ion Analysis of C. richardii Mutants Tolerant to Toxic Levels of Cadmium

Geo-Sciences
Summer Praetorius - Portland State University
A Sediment Record Of Bottom Currents In The North Atlantic Since
The Last Ice Age

Interdisciplinary Research

Fields of: Engineering and Cellular & Moleculary Biology
James Kuo - University of Washington
Improving the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Chitosan-Alginate Composite Scaffolds

Fields of: Physics and Cellular & Moleculary Biology
Meg M. Marquardt - Creighton University
Carolyn L. Posey - Creighton University
Escape Force Calibration of the Optical Stretcher for Biomechanics Studies

Fields of: Chemistry and Engineering
James McDonough - Harvey Mudd College
Nanoporous Alumina and Examination of a New Block Copolymer

Fields of: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Cellular & Molecular Biology
Ellen Suurmeyer - Concordia College - Moorehead
A Molecular Genetic Survey of Brine Flies of the Great Salt Lake

Math & Computer Science
Thomas J. Albertson - California State University Long Beach
The Twist Numbers of Graphs and the Tutte Polynomial

Karl Beutner - Saint Mary's College of California
Iterative Polynomial Root Finders: An Optimizational Approach

Lindsay Semler - DePaul University
Ridgelet-based Texture Classification of Tissues in Computed Tomography

Physics & Astronomy
Amanda Gray - University of Washington
Asymmetry in Muon Pseudo-rapidity in Backgrounds and Signals of Single Top Search

Justin Stimatze - California State University, Chico
Numerical Modeling of Magnetic Island Structure in High-beta NSTX Plasmas

Physiology & Immunology
Christopher Corbo - Wagner College
Survival of Adult Zebrafish Brain Tissue in Organotypic Culture: A Morphological Time-course Study

Oral Presentations

Asif Mahmood Mughal - University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Lisa Mayhew - University of Idaho
Joshua J. Rohert - University of Texas at El Paso
Daniel A. Najera - University of Kansas
Mark D. Prokosch - University of California, Davis
Karen Hackler - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jeong-Nam Kim - Xavier University
Jennifer Mosher - University of Alabama
Sheena Humbird - Sam Houston State University
Christie Klimas - University of Florida
Caleb Phillips - Tarleton State University
Jessica Wooten - University of Alabama
Surya Gnyawali - Oklahoma State University
Marie Bozin - University of Akron
Moline Prak - University of Akron

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