Appalachian Student Research Forum

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 2010 Award Recipients

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Poster Presentation

Division I – Undergraduates

Arts & Humanities and Biomedical Sciences

First Place:  Erich Lutz, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Greg Ordway, Dept. of Pharmacology

Regulation of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP7) gene expression in human glioblastoma cells

Second Place:  Daniel Phillips, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Priscilla  Wyrick, Dept. of Microbiology

ACIDIC MUCOSAL pH DECREASES CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS SEROVAR E ATTACHMENT AND ENTRY IN HEC-1B CELLS IN VITRO

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

First Place, Group A:  C. Alissa Manz Hinkle, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Aleksey Vasiliev, Dept. of Chemistry

DISPERSIBILITY OF COATED NANO-SILVER IN ORGANIC MEDIA

Second Place, Group A:  Rachel Conde, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Arpita Nandi, Dept. of Geosciences

Estimation of Shale Petrophysical Properties: A Study from Sevier Shale

First Place, Group B:  Ashley Wagner, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Darrell Moore, Dept. of Biological Sciences

PERSISTENT AND RETICENT FORAGING BEHAVIORS IN HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA)

Second Place, Group B:  Whitney Ross, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Rebecca Pyles, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Pattern of Skeletal Development in an Oviparous Snake

Social & Behavioral Sciences

First Place, Group A:  Rose Bell, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Chris Dula, Dept. of Psychology

Good God, My GPA Is Awesome: Relationships between church attendance, academic self-efficacy, and academic success

Second Place, Group A:  Benjamin Hughes, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Russ Brown, Dept. of Psychology

LOCOMOTOR SENSITIZATION TO METHYLPHENIDATE IN RATS: SEX DIFFERENCES AND EFFECTS ON BDNF

First Place, Group B:  Catherine Rowe, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Jameson K. Hirsch, Dept. of Psychology

DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM AND TRAIT HOPE AS MEDIATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHNIC IDENTITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS

Second Place, Group B:  Ashley Strong, UVA-Wise

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. James Horton, Dept. of Social Sciences

Differential hemisphere activation in males and females for deductive logic used in Sudoku puzzles emphasizing different stimuli

Division II – Graduate Students, 1-2 Years

Arts & Humanities and Biomedical Sciences

First Place:  Sean Fox, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Michael Kruppa, Dept. of Microbiology

A GENETIC SCREEN TO IDENTIFY GENES IN C. ALBICANS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN CROSS-SPECIES INTERACTIONS

Second Place:  Preston Moore, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Dennis Defoe, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology

MOSAIC ANALYSIS WITH DOUBLE MARKERS (MADM) AS A METHOD TO MAP CELL FATES IN ADULT MOUSE TASTE BUDS

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

First Place:  Joannes Yuh, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Dhirendra Kumar,  Dept. of Biological Sciences

EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON SALICYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2 (SABP2) AND PLANT DEFENSES

Second Place:  Nagababu Chinnam, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Zulfigar Ahmad, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Differential inhibition of Escherichia coli ATP synthase by dietary bioflavonoids

Social & Behavioral Sciences

First Place:  Joshua Hatfield, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Jameson K. Hirsch, Dept. of Psychology

IMPULSIVITY AS A MODERATOR OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANGER AND SELF-HARM IN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE SAMPLE

Second Place:  Katie Baker, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Joel Hillhouse, Dept. of Community Health

Understanding Access and Descriptive Norms to Improve Skin Cancer Interventions

Division III – Graduate Students, more than 2 Years

First Place:  Moises Serrano, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Yue Zou, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Characterization of the RPA-p53 interaction and its phosphorylation-dependent regulation and significance in DNA repair and DNA damage checkpoints

Second Place: Theresa Pickle, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Douglas Thewke, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

CANNABINOID (WIN 55,212-2)-Induced APOPTOSIS IN PANCREATIC TUMOR CELLS INVOLVES UP REGULATION OF PRO-APOPTOTIGENES AND DOWN REGULATION OF ANTI-APOPTOSIS GENES

Third Place: Andrea Edge, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Darrell Moore, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Truly bird-pollinated? Evidence for bee-pollination in Campsis radicans (Bignoniaceae)

Divisions IV and VI – Medical Students and Case Histories

First Place:  Blair Abelson, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Karen Schetzina, Dept. of Pediatrics

Video Intervention to Promote Breastfeeding in a Primary Care Setting

Second Place:  Lesley Bundun, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Dennis Defoe, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology

TURNOVER OF CORNEAL EPITHELIUM VISUALIZED USING MOSAIC ANALYSIS WITH DOUBLE MARKERS (MADM)

Third Place (tie):  Brian Nyberg, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Hetal Brahmbhatt, Dept. of Internal Medicine

EFFUSIVE-CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS MASKED BY VE WITH DILATED AORTIC ROOT: AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION  FAILURE

Third Place (tie):  Stewart Stancil, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Demetrio Macariola, Dept. of Pediatrics

It Takes 2 to Tango: S pyogenes and S parasanguinis Co-Infection in an 8 Year Old

Division V – Medical Residents & Post-Doctoral Fellows

First Place:  Camile Marsh, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Kevin Breuel, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology

THE ACCURACY OF CURRENT THYROID FUNCTION SCREENING IN PREGNANCY

Second Place: Melissa Snyder, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Gayatri Jaishankar, Dept. of Pediatrics

Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis And Cystic Lymphatic Malformations In A Toddler - A Puzzling Coincidence?

Third Place: Brooke Foulk, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Howard Herrell, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology

CALCULATION OF UTERINE WEIGHT BASED ON TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS

Oral Presentations

Graduate Students

First Place, Group A:  Kristin Walker, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Jameson K. Hirsch, Dept. of Psychology

SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE BEHAVIORS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY

Second Place, Group A:  Diwaker Tripathi, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Dhirendra Kumar, Dept. of Biological Sciences

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF DISEASE RESISTANCE INDUCED BY ACIBENZOLAR-S-METHYL IN PLANTS

First Place, Group B:  Denise Koessler, ETSU

Faculty Sponsors:  Drs. Teresa Haynes and Debra Knisley, Dept. of Mathematics

A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR SECONDARY RNA STRUCTURES: A GRAPH THEORETIC APPROACH FOR CATALOGING SECONDARY RNA STRUCTURES

Second Place, Group B:  Junior Tayou, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Zulfigar Ahmad, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Requirement ofDELSEED-motif of Escherichia coli ATP synthase in peptide binding

Medical Residents and Post-Doctoral Fellows

First Place:  Jennifer Vanover Hall, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Priscilla Wyrick, Dept. of Microgiology

Membrane-associated estrogen receptors contribute to the success of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in the human endometrial Ishikawa cell line

Second Place:  Mariah Pate, ETSU

Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Guha Krishnaswamy, Dept. of Internal Medicine

MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN (MBL) MUTATIONS, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY ASSOCIATIONS AND HUMAN DISEASE