This year’s program was made possible by funding
from
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
OSU's Honors College
Cripps Scholarship Fund in the College of Science
Jaworski Scholarship Program in Botany/Plant Pathology
Johnson Scholarships in the College of Engineering
URISC Program
Generous mentors - Joe Beckman, Skip Rochefort,
Patrick Chappell, Dee Denver, Claudia Maier,
Robert Mason, Lynda Ciuffetti, and Craig Mosley
The talks below, except as noted, all have high resolution (High-Res) videos. To see these, you'll need to download them, unzip them, open them in QuickTime and select Enter Full Screen under the View menu option. High-Res video files are very large and may take 20 minutes to download on a cable modem.
August 20, 2008
1:30 - Thomas Lew (Joe Beckman) - "NADPH Oxidase Inhibitors as a Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" (PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
1:45 - Lucy Brennan (Joe Beckman) - "An Investigation into Zinc Transporter Expression in an Animal Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" (PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
2:00 - Piper Klemm (Claudia Maier) - "Using HX-MS to Determine Protein Structure of AhpC 2, a Peroxiredoxin" (PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
2:15 - Haley Thompson (Skip Rochefort) - "Characterization of Hydrogels for Nucleus Pulposus Replacement" (PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
September
25, 2008
8:00 - Christopher Brown (Walt Ream) – “Understanding
Expression of Agrobacterium rhizogenes proteins (GALLS) Required for Gene Transfer to Plants.”
8:15
- Dan Zollinger (Joe Beckman)
– “The Role of G85R SOD in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.”
8:30 - Jesse Fitzpatrick (Joe Beckman) –
"Comparing the Toxicity of Zinc Deficient Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) and
the Quad SOD mutant: Implications for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.”
8:45 - Carly Dougher (Joe Beckman) – “An
Investigation on the Toxicity of Aluminum in Zebrafish.”
9:05 - Scott A Hollingsworth (Andy Karplus) – “Beyond Pauling & Corey: Conformation and Peptide
Geometry of Linear Groups in Proteins.”
9:20 – Amanda Amstutz (Bruce Menge and Dafne Eerkes-Medrano) – “Effects of Hypoxia on Survival
and Growth of Barnacle Larvae off the Oregon Coast.”
9:35 – Luisa Snyder (John Fowler) – “Testing the Role of Conserved Genes in Pollen
Development.”
9:50 – Sherry Lee (Jaga Giebultowicz) – “Inactive and Couch Potato Mutants of Drosophila: Locomotor Activity vs Metabolism.”
Break
10:20 – Colin Tominey (John
Hays) – “The Effect of Over-Expressed AtOgg1 on Spontaneous
Guanine-to-Thymine Mutation.”
10:35 – Yesenia Correa (John Hays - OSU / Scott Powers & Maia Chanrion at CSHL) – “Influence
of Initial Differentiated State of the Normal Cell on the Final Tumorigenic Phenotype.”
10:50 – Sierra Spencer (Andrew Buermeyer) – “Verifying a Functional Mismatch Repair Assay for
MLH1 Mutations.”
11:05 – Jennifer Osburn (Virginia Weis) – “Identifying the SMAD Family of Transcription Factors
in the Cnidarian Model Aiptasia.”
11:25 – Sydney Radding (Gary Merrill) – “The Effects of Deleting Cytosolic Thioredoxin Reductase
on p53 Target Gene Expression.”
11:40 – Hong Nguyen (Gary Merrill) – “Thioredoxin Redox State Determination.”
Lunch
1:00 – Karen Tonsfeldt (Patrick Chappell) – “Floxing Around with the Clock: The Effects of
Circadian Clock Gene deletion on the Neuroendocrine Control of Reproduction.”
1:15 - Stephanie Weitz (Dee Denver) – “Mitochondrial Point Mutations and Evolution: A Comparative
Study.”
1:30 – Kathryn McHenry (Fred Stormshak) – “Characterization of Oxytocin Receptors in Corpus Luteum Endothelial Cells.”(PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
1:45 – Marshall
Knoderbane (David Lytle) – “An Analysis of Sexual Selection Using
Bateman’s Principles on a Giant Water Bug (Abedus
herberti) with Paternal Care.”
2:05 – Jimmy Hoang (Erica Bakker) – “Analytical Genomics of the Evolution of Dormancy
in Seeds.”
2:20 – Lisa Ching (Mark
Zabriskie) – “Genetic Profiling and Antibacterial Screening of Indonesian Actinomycete Bacteria.”
2:35 – Tammy Winfield (John Lambrinos) – “Quantifying the Value of Native Plants for Improving
Pollination and Biological Control in Agroecosystems.”
Break
3:05 – Katie Brempelis (James C. Carrington, Kristin Kasschau, and Hernan Garcia-Ruiz) – “Establishment
of a System to Replicate, Purify, and Use a Mutant Virus to Study the Antiviral
Defense Response in Plants.”
3:20 – Simon Johnson (James C. Carrington) – “Identification of Plant Systemic RNA Silencing
Signal.”
3:35 – Michael Clement (Steve
Giovannoni) – “Marine Bacteria Cultivation.”
September
26, 2008
8:00 – Lindsay M. Klouser (Montana State University) – “Morphologic Effects of Microgravity on the Opportunistic, Pathogenic Yeast Candida Albicans”(PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
8:15 – Rachel Denney (U. Washington) – “Hormone
Interactions Influence Plant Growth and Development.”
8:30 – Julia Gertsen (U. Washington) – “Molecular Phylogeny of Boraginaceae”
8:45 – Adam Jones (U. Montana) – “Invertebrate Sensory Neuroethology: Using Simple Models
To Understand How We Interface with Our World”
9:05 – Stephanie Bell (U. Montana) – “Pseudomonas Evolution in Chronic CF-lung Infections: An Evolutionary Role for 'Mutators.’
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9:20 – Dan Preston (Bob Mason and Craig Mosley) – “Sources of Variability in the Duration of Anesthesia in Snakes.”(PowerPoint / Streaming Video / High-Res Video / MP3)
9:35 – Emily Uhrig (Bob Mason and Michael LeMaster) – “Interspecific Variation in the Female
Sexual Attractiveness Pheromone of Garter Snakes.”
9:50 – Christina Lackey (Bob Mason) – “The Harderian Gland Revealed: Regeneration and Recovery of Chemosensory Function in
Red-Sided Garter Snakes.”
Break
10:20 - Robert Elder (Adam Higgins) – “Development of a Device to Measure Cell Membrane Water
Permeability.”
10:35 – Nick Lowery (Adam Higgins) – “Cell Membrane Permeability in Adherent Cells for
Cryopreservative Procedures.”
10:50 – Kelly N. Buck (Skip Rochefort) – “Rheological and Molecular Characterization of Equine
Synovial Fluid.”
11:05 – Paul Dornath (Skip Rochefort) – “Detection of Leaching Organic Compounds from
Polyethylene Terephthalate and Poylcarbonate Water Bottles.”
11:20 – Julie Auxier (Joe McGuire) – “Bioactivity of Nisin-loaded Pluronic Microspheres
Challenged by Blood Proteins.”
11:35 – Susan Puckett (Digby
Warner and Valerie Mizrahi - MRC/NHLS/WITS Molecular Mycobacteriology Research
Unit in South Africa) – “The Search for Hypermutability: Determining
Frequency of Mutation in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155.”
Lunch
3:15 – Megan Cook (Mark
Hixon) – “Short-term Impacts of the Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish on Bahamian
Coral-reef Fish Communities”
3:30 - Jennifer Bergh (Sujaya
Rao) – “Native Bee Species Diversity and Abundance on the West Eugene
Wetlands.”
3:45 – Caslin Gilroy (Lewis Semprini and Tyler
Radniecki) – “Correlation of NE 1545 Expression and Cell Size in Nitrosomonas europaea Exposed to
Aromatic Hydrocarbons.”
4:05 – Natalya
Goloviznina (Hiro Nonogaki) – “microRNA Function in Arabidopsis thaliana Seeds and
Seedlings.”
4:20 - Theresa
Nguyen (Hiro Nonogaki) – “Tomato Seed Development and Germination”
4:35 - Brett Bemer (Sharon
Krueger and Gayle Orner) – “Sulindac Pharmacokinetics: The Role of
Flavin-containing Monooxygenases.”
The following students will give their presentations after the fall
term has started:
Kara Miles-Rockenfield (Lynda Ciuffetti and Andy Karplus)
Caroline Hilburn (Germany Internship)
Wade Holman (Lynda Ciuffetti)