2008 Eighth Annual Beckman Scholars Symposium

Friday Poster Session - July 28, 2006

COREY M. ALLEN
North Carolina State University
Development of Novel Microfluidic Mixers Based on Surface Patterns

CHRISTOPHER J. BOWMAN
California State University, Long Beach
Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-linked Mutations in Cu, Zn-Superoxide Dismutase Weaken Hydrophobic Interactions at the Dimer Interface

BETH CIMINI
Boston University
Analysis of Acetylcholine as a Neurotransmitter in the Retina

BLAIR S. DINA
Indiana University
An Animal Model of Autism: Consequences in a Set of Learning and Memory Paradigms

MICHAEL DISIENA
Boston College
The Roles of Tel1 and Mec1 in the Opening and Closing of Telomeres

WILLIAM A. EIMER
Carnegie Mellon University
Improvement of Difference Gel Electrophoresis for Increased Resolution and Identification of Low Abundance Proteins

YAEL S. ELMATAD
New York University
Static and Vibrationally Average Structures of Small Molecule Clusters

NICK GISLASON
Western Washington University
Towards Engineering Chirality in Organic Molecular Films Using Liquid Crystal Solvents

ANDREA GOMEZ
Colorado State University
Elucidation of the Y-organ MIH Signaling Pathway in Gecarcinuslateralis Exdysis

SAMANTHA HAMMER
Trinity University
Investigating the Genetic Mating System of the Volcano Mouse (Peromyscus alstoni)

SETH HAYMORE
Northern Arizona University
Early events in mast cell activation

SARA HEITKAMP
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interactions of Osmolytes with Protein Surfaces

THOMAS W. HOLCOMBE
University of Texas at Austin
A Method for the Durable Silanization of Indium Tin Oxide

TIFFANY KNIEPKAMP
Montana State University
Determination of the Effect of Sprouting on Axoal Morphology

KARA MANKE
Macalester College
Using Laser Spectroscopy to Obtain and Analyze Hyperfine Resolved Spectra of TaO

KRISTEN MISIAK
University of Florida
The Impact of Stressors on Saccharomyces cerevisiae

MARK J. POND
William Marsh Rice University
Designing Nanoparticle-Assembled Microparticles that Respond to Ultraviolet Radiation

MICHELLE RENGARAJAN
University of Chicago
Using Molecular Modeling and Structural Screens to Identify Potentially Novel Inhibitors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cyclin-dependent Kinase Cdc28

REBECCA SELDEN
Bowdoin College
Growth and Metabolism of the Green Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: Flow Environments and Predation Pressure

CHRISTOPHER SHOEMAKER
Miami University
Mechanisms affecting the virulence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

WEN ALLEN TSENG
University of Delaware
The Role of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A Homodimerization in Angiogenesis

MICHAEL T. VAGNINI
Furman University
Effects of Steric Constraint on Chromium(III) Complexes of Tetraazamacrocycles

GAIL VIRGIN
Illinois State University
The Extracelllular Domain of the NA Pump a-ß Subuit is Sufficient for ß Assembly and Delivery to the PMn

REBECCA M. VOORHEES
Yale University
A Study of Peptide Bond Formation by the Group I Intron

RYAN YOUNG
University of California, Los Angeles
Solvation Dynamics of Alkalai Metal Anions in Various Solvents and Their Effects of Charge-Transfer Reactions