8:30

Coffee & Refreshments (215 Coker Hall)

8:50

Welcome         Dr. Robert Podolsky, for the Biology Honors Program

                           Dr. Steve Matson, for the Biology Department

Talk session I

9:00

Alicia Cawlfield

Mapping the MHC restriction of murine T-cell hybridomas to Francisella tularensis

9:15

Joseph Pickrell

Gene Order Differences Between Two Divergent Yeast Strains

9:30

Patrick McNeillie

Hierarchical Contributions of the Direct and Indirect Allorecognition Pathways to Chronic Lung Rejection

9:45

Monica Meng

Triclosan Resistance in E. coli and Its Relationship to Antibiotic Cross-resistance

10:00

Josh Berkowitz

Isolating and Sequencing the Gene(s) Encoding Malic Enzyme in the Copepod Tigriopus californicus for Investigation of the Evolutionary Process

10:15

Poster session (Coker Entry Hall)

P1

Daniel Anderson

Male Calling Proficiency and Progeny Phenotype in Spadefoot Toads

P2

Hui Cheng

The role of ARF6 and ARF8 in the regulation of flower maturation and fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana

P3

Diana Dougherty

Characterization of Genetic Interactions Between DNA Repair Components and Cell Cycle Checkpoints in Drosophila

P5

Gabriela Radut

Drosophila melanogaster gene recombination defective (rec)

P6

Jonathan Silver

The Regulation of anti-MPO B cells in an Anti-MPO Light Chain Transgenic Mouse

P7

Kirby Tanner

Growth Hormone-Transgene-Induced Growth Effects on Body and Organ Weight in SOCS-2 Deficient Mice

P8

Christine Ya-Chun Wang

External and Internal Motor Control by the Anterior Cingulate: Comparison between Parkinson's Disease Patients and non-Patients

Talk session II

10:45

Veena Rao

Effects of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Colorectal Cancer Tumor Cell Progression

11:00

Nicholas Love

The Formation of the Peri-Notochordal Avascular Zone

11:15

Rhiannon Rognstad

The Effects of Land Use on Stream Macrobenthic Communities and Decomposition

11:30

Jeremy Teed

The Roles of YAP65 and TAZ in Early Xenopus Laevis Development

11:45

Gene Bain

Abelson Activation in Drosophila melanogaster

12:00

Luncheon (215 Coker Hall)

12:45 

Poster session (cont.) (Coker Entry Hall)

Talk session III

1:30

Tripp Nanney

The Role of the Sflt-1 Receptor in Vascular Development

1:45

Rebecca Werner

The Role of Metacaspases, Atmc1 and Atmc 2, in Programmed Cell Death associated with the Hypersensitive Response in Arabidopsis thaliana

2:00

Priyesh Patel

Targets of the virulence factor AvrRpt2 from the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae

2:15

Ryan Zimmerman

Clonal Analysis of the Function of the Histone Stem-Loop Binding Protein (SLBP) During Drosophila Oogenesis

2:30

Michelle McCoy

The effects of mutating carbohydrate attachment sites on surface expression of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) surface protein Env

2:45 

Reception (215 Coker Hall)