9^th Annual

IRC

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Morning Poster Session (8:00 – 8:45 AM) Kahn Room

Construction of an Expression Plasmid for the Human Estrogen Receptor Beta Ligand-binding Domain

Danielle Bauhan*, Bianca Maled, and Mark E. Brandt

A PIV Study of Flow Past a Rotating Cylinder

Jordan Chipka*

AC Faraday Rotation Analysis of the Iodine Clock Cycle

Thomas Foulkes*, John Moore, & Dr. Maarij Syed

Checkmate: A Rapid Yeast Mating Type Detector

Adam Nighswander*, Alex Krug*, Ben Deschaine, Robert French, Kristen Schackmann*, Devon Trumbauer, David Goulet, Yosi Shibberu, and Richard Anthony

Halopyridine Bicycles as Intermediates for Alkaloid Synthesis

Laura Major*, Cody Prickett*, Lucy Moser, Daniel Dalton and Richard W. Fitch

Optimized Microwave Assisted Organic Synthesis using Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling

Kaitlin Schneider*, Matthew Welmers, and Rebecca DeVasher

Morning Session I (8:45 AM – 10:45 AM)

Analysis of Proximal Tibia Strain Response to Resection Alignment in Partial Knee Arthroplasty Tibial Components

Kelli Greenberg*, Paige Cook, Amanda Kingman, Kevin Farley, Scott Small, and Renee Rogge

Effect of Antiestrogens on Uterine Cell Proliferation

Lauren Gutgesell* and Ross Weatherman

A New Assay for Assessing Conformational Flexibility in the Estrogen Receptor Ligand-binding Domain

Katherine C. Dial* and Mark E. Brandt

Melanoma Cells Treated with Doxorubicin-loaded PLGA Nano-particles Display Altered Immunogenic Phenotypes

Alex Cochrane*, Sue E. Blackwell, Suresh Veeramani, Ken Blackwell, and George J. Weiner

Lipids, Metabolism, and Cell Shape in Caulobacter crescentus

Alexandra L. Williams*, Justin Kern, and Lucy Shapiro

In vitro Investigation of Oxidative Stress in Normal and Malignant Hepatocytes

Esther Kim*, Lacy Reynolds, Xiaodong Wen, Cheng Xu Liao, Lance Terada, and Ian Corbin

A Partial Ordering of Cellular Metabolic Reactions by Efficiency

Kimberly Boucher* and Allen Holder

Morning Session II (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM) Kahn Room

Incorporation of Fluorescent Dyes into Polystyrene Latex Microspheres

Max A. Verkamp*, Paul Danehy, Patsy Tiemsin, Chris Wohl, and Todd Lowe

Role of Selenium Compounds in Coordinating Copper (II) and Decreasing Oxidative DNA Damage

Peter Vannauker* and Daniel Morris

A Discrete Transmission-Matrix Method for Modeling the Distributed Feedback Arising from Continuously Varying Refractive Index Profiles

Derek S. Heeger*, Robert M. Bunch, and Paul O. Leisher

The Effects of Footwear on the Postural Stability of Women

Audrey Niverson*, Kevin Farley, and Dr. Rogge

Synthesis and Application of Heterogeneous Catalyzed Resorcinol:Formaldehyde Mesoporous Carbon

Caitlin Anderson* and Justin Shearer

Evaluation of “Assay Ready” Frozen Cells and Freshly Cultured Cells for Cell Based Neutralizing Anti-drug Antibody (NAb) Assays

Emily J. Cottingham*

Numerical Simulation of Chromatography and Dimer Exchange

Ted Samore*, Mark E. Brandt, and David Goulet

Lunch Break (12:30 – 1:30 PM)

Afternoon Poster Session (1:30 – 3:00 PM) Kahn Room

Analysis of Proximal Tibia Strain Response to Resection Alignment in Partial Knee Arthroplasty Tibial Components

Kelli Greenberg*, Paige Cook, Amanda Kingman, Kevin Farley, Scott Small, and Renee Rogge

Synthesis of Tamoxifen Conjugates through Linker Modification

David Harvey* and Ross Weatherman

Solid Phase Extraction using Carbon Cryogels

Gregory Horne* and Justin Shearer

Binding of Anti-estrogen Derivatives to the Estrogen Receptor Protein in Breast Cancer Therapy

Katherine Moravec*, Kati Shearer, and Ross Weatherman

Urinary Bladder Matrix as a biodegradable guide for peripheral nerve damage repair: a functional and tissue analysis

Anna Rector* and Jameel Ahmed

A Low-Temperature Method of Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition for Carbon Nanotube Growth

Eric Teeman*, Daniel Morris, and Scott Kirkpatrick

Afternoon Session (3:00 PM – 4:25 PM) Kahn Room

Detection of Phytoplasma in Trillium grandiflorum using 16s rDNA PCR

Nathan D. Wheeler* and J. Peter Coppinger.

Studying Estrogen Interactions One Receptor at a Time

Bianca Maled*, Danielle Bauhan, and Mark E. Brandt

Alkaloid Constitutents of Dendrobates auratus from Oahu, Hawai’i

Ellery Steele*, Carly McDonald, Anthea Weng and Ralph A. Saporito, and Richard W. Fitch

Optimized Microwave Assisted Organic Synthesis using Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling

Kaitlin Schneider, Matthew Welmers*, and Rebecca DeVasher

Mediator complex requirement for transcription initiation regulation in S. cerevisiae

Tanner Reeb*, Jason Wong, Suraiya Ansari, and Randall Morse