The 6th
Annual
NC
Undergraduate
Summer Research Symposium
Participants
This
listing of participants is arranged first by program and then in order of the
corresponding author's last name. Please check your listing carefully to be
sure that all the information is correct. Any corrections to be made should be
sent immediately to Sharon E. Hunt.
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Graduate Student
(NSF AGEP Bridging)
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HHMI Reaching
Incoming Student Enrichment (RISE) Program
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HHMI Student
Research Internship (SRI) Program
· NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) SRE
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Statistics VIGRE
Traineeship Program in the Department of Statistics
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NSF
Sustainability, Energy, and Engineering (SEE) REU - Chemical Engineering
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REU Mathematics:
Modeling & Industrial Applied Mathematics
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Sustainable Agriculture at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems
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Undergraduate
Research Awards and Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Awards
Presentation times are listed next to your name/title
listing.
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Alsop, Nikki M. Munro-Leighton, Colleen Delp, Samuel A. Development of New Methodologies for Chemical Synthesis:
Exploiting the Reactivity of Heteroatomic Ligands Coordinated to Late Transition Metals |
Session I |
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Lisane, Jessica L. Fabrication
and Characterization of Latex Microsphere Colloidal Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
Substrate |
Session
II |
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(NSF AGEP Bridging) |
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Blue, Aaron W. Qian,
Hong Ativators
Regenerated by Electron Transfer(ARGET) for Atom-Transfer Radical
Polymerization(ATRP) in DNA Hybrid Copolymer Formation |
Session I |
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Caldwell, Ticola S. The Relationship between African American Parents’ Psychological Well-Being and their Children’s Self-Esteem |
Session
II |
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Cepero-Perez, Keren J. Fluvial Nitrogen Export in Four Watersheds at |
Session I |
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Mathematical Modeling of Cerebral Blood Flow Dynamics |
Session II |
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Franklin, Anthony N. Poisson Regression Analysis of High School Football Prospects |
Session I |
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Frazier,
Evelyn R. Assessing Meteorological and Chemical Predictions for July 2002 in |
Session
II |
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Harmon, Jendayi A. Jones, Dana C. Pedagogical Tasks and their Relationships to Prospective Teachers' Uses of a Videocase to Examine Students’ Work when Solving Mathematical Tasks using Technology |
Session I |
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Harris,
Nyeema C. Understanding
Coyote Demography for Endangered Species
Management |
Session
II |
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Keene, Brandi N. Microscopical
Analysis of Domestic Canines' Hair |
Session I |
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Khan, George
F. Tong, Jin Investigating a Low Cost SNP Genotype Method in Pinus taeda |
Session II |
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Munilla, Samuel Jhala, Arnay Macik, Amanda Rawls, Curtis Longboard, Toward an Intelligent Storyboarding Tool |
Session I |
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Parker, Erica D. An
Application of Multi-Objective Optimization to Portfolio Optimization |
Session
II |
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Ramirez, Magaly A.
Lee, John P. Ruthenium Mediated Catalytic Hydrogenation of C=X (X= C or O) Bonds |
Session I |
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Sepulveda, Jennifer Overton, Matt Loo, LiNa Determining
the Small Molecule Diffusion Rate from the Capsid of Red Clover Necrotic
Mosaic Virus that had been Infused of Rhodamine Chloride |
Session II |
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Shoge,
Richard O. Development of a Hyperelastic Model
for the Material Properties of Porcine
Patellar Cartilage |
Session I |
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Smith, Krystal L. The Role of
Race, Media Language, and Well Being Among
Hurricane Katrina Survivors |
Session
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Bridges, Katherine R. Genetic Variation in Fruit Fly Development |
Session I |
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Kezios,
Zachary D. Seward, Nick Correlation Between CRH-producing Cells and Level
of Anxiety in Danio rerio abstract |
Session
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Osterhoudt, Carol A.The Potential Effect of Follistatin on Litter Size in Swine
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Session I |
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Overman,
David W. Effects of
Two Insecticides on Honey Bee Queen Rearing and Quality |
Session
II |
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Patel, Hamish S. Intercellular
Signaling between Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells |
Session I |
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Rains,
Anna K. Effects of
Matrix Attachment Regions on Regulation of Transgene Expression |
Session
II |
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Ricker, Melissa A. Optimizing
Probe Concentrations for TaqMan Quantitative Real Time PCR |
Session I |
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Wellons, Justin W. Using
Fatty Acid Profiles to Monitor Effects of Antibiotics and Oil on
Microbes |
Session
II |
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Karki,
Anju Investigating
the Role of RUS1 (RELATED TO AUXIN
SYNTHESIS1) in the Shikimate Pathway |
Session I |
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McPherson,
Heather R. Identification
of Transposon-Induced Mutants in Maize Protein Disulfide Isomerase Genes |
Session
II |
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Moss,
Jennifer D. Transcriptional
Control of the T Cell Receptor b Gene |
Session I |
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Pandey,
Prativa Functional
Effects of Proline Substitutions into Sindbis Virus E2 Transmembrane Domain |
Session
II |
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Ross, Brittany J. Keogh, Matthew R. Phenotypic Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Mutants
Lacking Homologs of a Soybean Drought Responsive Protein |
Session I |
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Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed Fang, Shijing
The Identification of a MARCKS-related Protein in HBE1 Cells |
Session
II |
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Bryant,
Bessie Sapp, Tracy Characterization of a Xanthomonas campestris pathovar vesicatoria Putative
Siderophore Receptor Gene |
Session I |
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Buchanan, Cara Bisbee, Diana Siderophore Biosynthesis in Xanthomonas campestris pathovar vesicatoria |
Session
II |
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Going, Ryan W. Fabrication
Studies on Alignment Layers for Liquid Crystal Polarization Gratings |
Session I |
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Golick, Laura A. Segregation
of Granular Materials Under Shear |
Session
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Gould,
Troy D. Measurement
and Modeling of Polystyrene in Supercritical CO2 Expanded Decahydronapthalene |
Session I |
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Holcomb,
Barton A. Variation
in Fecal Coliform Concentration in |
Session
II |
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Smith,
Justin W. Selectivity-
and Size-Induced Segregation of Molecular Species in Lamellar &
Cylindrical Microphase-Ordered Triblock Copolymers |
Session I |
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Stark, David A. Bryant, Michael T. Storm Structure and Precipitation
Characteristics of Snow Events in the abstract |
Session
II |
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Sylvan,
Candice M. Web-based
Sharing of Spatial Measurements of |
Session I |
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Campbell, Olivia M. Microarray Analysis of Arabidopsis
Genes Induced during Colonization with the Vascular Fungal Pathogen Verticillium dahliae |
Session
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Garcia, David Hu, Julia Ivors, Kelly Genetic Analysis of populations Phytophthora infestans on Organic and Conventionally Grown
Tomatoes in Western North Carolina |
Session I |
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Haege,
Marion J. Development
of a Phytophthora Lucid Key |
Session
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Miller, Casey G. Functional
Analysis of Two Soybean Cyst Nematode Parasitism Genes |
Session I |
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Phelps,
Crystal L. Functional
Analysis of Gene Network Regulating Arabidopsis Responses to Colonization
with the Vascular Fungal Pathogen Verticillium dahliae |
Session
II |
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Sherrod,
Joshua M. Genetic Structure
of Populations of Phytophthora ramorum Collected from National Surveys
Conducted in the United States |
Session I |
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NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
(AGEP) SRE |
Presentation Times |
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of Presentation and Author(s) |
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Amiri, Rohina Gantt, John A. Blackburn, Kevin Utilizing Alternative Chemical Denaturants to Promote Complete
Sequence Coverage of Proteins Using Liquid Chromatography-tandem Mass
Spectrometry |
Session
II |
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Anangfac,
Mary Terese A. Examination
of c-myc, bcl-6 and/or NF-κβ Dysregulation in
Canine Lymphoma |
Session I |
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Anumudu,
Chuck Database
and Control Algorithms Design for iSpace |
Session
II |
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Aponte,
Glomar Tirado-Acevedo, Oscar Effects of Oxygen on Clostridium ljungdahlii Synthesis Gas Fermentation |
Session I |
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Effects of
Perservatives on Microbial Growth in Refrigerated Cucumbers |
Session
II |
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Britt,
Angelitta M. Lehr, Gloria Bader, Nicole A Statistical Analysis of Acute Coronary Syndrome Outcomes: The Smoking
Effect |
Session I |
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Carter, Javon M. Lawrence,
Charlie III The Use of
Waste Steam and Ash from Power Generation in the Production of Soda Pulp From
Pocosin Biomass |
Session
II |
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Cintrón-Maldonado, José Bromfield-Lee, Deborah Rutabaga as an Indicator for Olfactory Titration |
Session I |
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Díaz-Martínez, Myriam Davis, Michael F. Somasundaram, Aswin Binding of Substrate in the Heme Pocket of Amphitrite ornata
Dehaloperoxidase Induces Soret Band Shifts |
Session II |
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Fairey, Donta' J. Predictive Modeling of Wetlands along the |
Session I |
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Gary, Teleace M. Stelter Rebecca L. The Effects of Parents’ Stress on Parent and Child Engagement |
Session II |
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Grant, Lenese D. A Comparison of Two Methods of Temperature Measurements in Female CD-1
IGS Swiss Mice Receiving Trans-D-Tropin® |
Session I |
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Green, Helena D. Parental Influences on Adolescent Racial Socialization: Can
Overemphasizing Messages be Problematic? |
Session
II |
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Guzmán, Lily Teske, Jesse Alkaloid Total Synthesis via [2+2+2] Cyclotrimerization Reactions |
Session I |
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Hernández,
Edgardo Ballard,
Eric T. Hulgens,
Robert Novel
Biological Activity Studies of Dimerized 2-Aminoimidazole Analog for the
Inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms |
Session
II |
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Huertas, Adriana Screening Wild Carnivores for Zoonotic Infections and Potential Agents
of Bioterrorism |
Session I |
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Hume, Samuel C. Plant Monitoring System using Time Lapse Photography |
Session II |
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Jones, Janay N. Albuterol-induced Oxidative Stress in |
Session I |
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Lawrence, Charlie III Carter, Javon M. Potential for the Use of Waste Wood Ash from Power Generation as a Road
Surfacing Agent |
Session I |
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Lopez,
Veronica M. The Search for Dimerization of Procaspase-3 |
Session
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McNeil, Sharde' N. Craig,
Ashley Parents’
Beliefs about Emotion and their Relationship with Parents’ and Children’s
Nonverbal Accuracy |
Session II |
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Miller, Dominique S. A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of ADVANCE-ENG Girls to Women Engineering |
Session I |
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Moody, LaTisha Examination of Transgenic Breast Cancer Tumors Exposed to
"alpha"-Lactalbumin and Soy |
Session
II |
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Newman, Jasmine
H. Pre and
Post Examination of 24-hour Culture Transgenic Tumors in Female HER-2/neu
Mice |
Session I |
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Novosel, Vedrana Novel Field-Effect Transistor Design |
Session
II |
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Onori, John E. Characterization
of Cellulose in ED/KSCN |
Session I |
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Ortiz, Joshua D. Zhao, Sihui Kim, Jihye Searching
for Sequence Motifs Involved in Alternative Splicing |
Session
II |
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Peoples, Ashley N. Charisma Gone
Bad: A Look at the Correlation of Charisma, Narcissism, and Destructive
Leadership |
Session I |
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Pizarro-Ríos,
Anabel The Effects
of Roast Intensity on the Texture of Peanut Paste |
Session
II |
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Plaza, Tomas E. Development of a Spanish-Language Version of the Everyday Cognition |
Session I |
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Rivera, Izarys Mapping
Electrostatics of Phospholipid Bilayer Interface by EPR Spectroscopy and
pH-sensitive Nitroxide |
Session
II |
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Rivera de Jesús, Yanixa Prevalence
and Importance of Selected Zoonotic Infections in Companion Animals |
Session I |
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Roque, Joan E. Jenkins, Sam Determination
of Phase Transitions of Surfactant Mixtures with Fluorocarbon Modifiers by
Using Parallel Studies of Conductivity and Surface Tension |
Session
II |
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Serrano
Negron, Yazmin L. The
Genetic Basis for Variation in Taste Perception in a Natural Population of
Drosophila melanogaster |
Session I |
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Smith, Amber M. Functional
Analysis of Geminiviral Infection in Arabidopsis thaliana |
Session II |
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Smith, Mychal D. Plasticity
and Organic Solvents in Lysozyme |
Session I |
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Birdsall,
Paige M. Plant-Pathogen
Warfare: Protein-Protein Interactions Between Rice and the Rice Blast Fungus |
Session
II |
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Johnson, April T. A
Computational Analysis of microRNAs from the Genome Sequence of the Rice
Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea |
Session I |
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Abbey, Ralph W. Diependbrock, Jeremy Zhou, Dexin Data Clustering: A Comparison of
Algorithms |
Session I |
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Behrend,
Sam J. Berman, Ben P. Smith, Jason R. Wright, Justin P. Designing Control Strategies for
Infectious Diseases in Farm Crops |
Session II |
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Draper, Bailey K. Margolskee,
Alison Murden,
Raphiel Marcin,
Daniel Attarian, Adam Feasibility of Metabolic Parameter
Estimation in Pharmocokinetic Models of Carbon Tetrachloride Exposure in Rats |
Session I |
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Hatfield, Ashley E. Baltera, Constance G. Brenneman, Kathryn A. Tramel,
Rebecca L. Combinatorics and Characterizations
for Involutions and Twisted Involutions |
Session I |
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Kinnaird, Katherine Carlin, Daniel Flagg,
Garret |
Session
II |
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Maschmeyer,
Katherine T. Anderson,
Marlana N. Brasfield,
Chris A. McGoff,
Kevin A. Siloti, Julie A. Edge Detection by Multi-Dimensional
Wavelets |
Session
II |
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Pauley, Gwyn C. Mattis, Steve A. Reilly,
Emily M. Cell Rearrangement: Mathematical
Modeling of Branching Morphogenesis and other Biological Phenomena |
Session I |
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Rodriguez,
Roberto King,
Shawn Rutter,
Erica Vansiclen,
Emily Sensitivity
Analysis of Mathematical Models of Blood Flow and Pressure Regulation |
Session
II |
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Smith, Amanda J. Abatzoglou, Alex W. Thompson, Katie I. WebsterLove Jessica E. Geometric Invariants in Computer
Vision abstract |
Session II |
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Earl, Sarah M. Perkins, James R. Wu, Dong Measurement
of Silver Nanoparticles on Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) Surfaces |
Session
II |
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Foight, Dillon R. Mass
Stripping of a Companion Star by White Dwarf Wind |
Session I |
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Gause, Sheena M. The Adsorption of Human Plasma
Fibrinogen on Silicon Surfaces |
Session II |
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Kolditz, Brett D. Characterizing the Electronic Structure of a Physisorbate Utilizing
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy: Tartaric Acid/Ag(111) |
Session I |
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McCaw,
Travis J. Measuring
Liquid Helium Below One Kelvin with a Capacitive Sensor |
Session
II |
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McNutt, Jessica Using a Quartz
Crystal Microbalance to Study the Frictional Properties and Motion of
Microparticles Bonded to the Surface |
Session I |
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Vorren, Kristopher R. Developing and Testing Four Color
Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging |
Session II |
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Buyle, Kenneth R. Helical
Polyguanidines |
Session
II |
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Davies,
Brian R. Determination
of Transmembrane Protein Insertion into Lipid Bilayers
by EPR |
Session I |
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Fletcher, Careen A. Hydrosilation of Aldehydes and Ketones Catalyzed by a Rhenium (V) Oxo Complex Using Various Silanes |
Session
II |
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Knowles,
Kathryn E. Arney, David Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Activity of CuNbO3 and CuNb3O8 |
Session I |
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Meadows,
Corey W. Williams,
D. Keith, Jr. Bori,
Ibrahim D. Augmented
Limits of Detection for Peptides with Hydrophobic Alkyl Tags (ALiPHAT) abstract |
Session
II |
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Mosby, Brian M. Wilcox, Robert Polymerization of Nitro Aromatics
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Session I |
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O'Reilly, Matthew E. Sumiyoshi, Taisuke Feng, Yuee Studies of C-O Bond Formation Mediated by Platinum(IV) Complexes |
Session
II |
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Pagan, Coral Systematic Investigation of Laser Spot Sizes on Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging |
Session I |
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Schmidt, Valerie A. Schmidt, Robert D. Progress Towards
the Synthesis of Semiquinone-Thiophene-Nitronyl Nitroxide Biradicals |
Session
II |
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Thurman,
Alexander C. Indirect Measurement
of Redox Potential in Mycobacterium tuberculosis KatG |
Session I |
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Undergraduate Research Awards and Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Awards |
Presentation Times |
Title of Presentation and Author(s) |
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Allmond,
Jillian S. Use of
cDNA Microarray Technology to Study Sexual Differentiation of the Brain in
the Bluehead Wrasse |
Session I |
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Brancato, Jessica Self-Crimped Eco-friendly Fibers |
Session
II |
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Cooke,
Natalie K. Genetic
Control of Glial Development in the Central Nervous System of Drosophila
melanogaster |
Session I |
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Davis, Rachel L.T. Surface Modification of Poly(vinyl alcohol) with
onochlorotriazynyl-β-cyclodextrin for the Controlled Release of
Fragrance |
Session
II |
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Downen, Lori N. Kong, Michelle H. Application
of a Capacitive Model to an Atmospherically-Generated Plasma During Treatment
of Polydimethylsiloxane |
Session I |
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Fuchs, Stephen M. Lowder, Casey D. Pan, Diana Lomax, Aaron W. Galvão, Rafaelo M. Transgenic
Arabidopsis thaliana Overexpressing UbDKγ4 Displays an Altered Unfolded
Protein Response |
Session
II |
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Hill, E. Nicole Sweet
Sorghum as an Alternative Farm-Produced Biomass for |
Session
II |
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Hoffman, Torissa Ohja, Saytajeet Stevens, Derrick Construction
and Characterization of Fibrous Mats of Chitosan |
Session I |
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Metzler, Tria M. Differences
in Aorta Tissue Gene Expression between Atherosclerosis-susceptible
and Atherosclerotic-resistant Pigeon Lines |
Session I |
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Overton, Matthew H. Sepulveda, Jennifer Uptake of
RCNMV-Peptide Conjugates in Cancer Cells |
Session I |
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Roberts,
Wesley A. Hoffman, Torissa J. Stevens, Derrick R. McCullen, Seth D. Effects of Sample Size on Nanotube/Polymer Matrix |
Session
II |
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Seyam, Mohamed A. Cross-Linked
Polymer Nanocomposites for H2 Gas Separation from CO2 |
Session
II |
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Smith,
Ashley M. Promoter
Analysis of the Human Pregnane X
Receptor (PXR) Gene abstract |
Session I |
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Whisnant, Adam W. Interaction Identification of Host
Proteins and Marek's Disease Virus UL49.5 Protein |
Session II |
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