Grad Oral Presentations - Bio/Agr/Env Life Sciences: Biochemistry/biophysics

Thursday, October 11, 2012: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
606 (WSCC)

Description: Selected graduate students present their scientific research to their peers, mentor-judges, and other conference participants in a unique forum for professional growth.



6:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
6:35 PM
Bioengineering of Lantibiotics: The Use of Lantibiotic Biosynthetic Enzymes for Biotechnology
Manuel Ortega, BS , Graduate Student , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Wilfred van der Donk, PhD , Investigator , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6:55 PM
The Role of DNMT3a in Establishment and Maintenance of Regional SVZ Heterogeneity
Ryan Delgado, BS , MSTP Trainee Year V , University of California, San Francisco ; Daniel Lim, MD, PhD , UCSF
7:15 PM
Origin of polyploidy in coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
Alison Scott , NSF Graduate Research Fellow , University of Wisconsin - Madison ; David Baum, PhD , Professor , University of Wisconsin - Madison
7:35 PM
Investigating the Proteolytic Activity of Secreted Proteins from Candida albicans Biofilms
Desiree Tax , San Francisco State University ; Alegra Eroy-Reveles, PhD , San Francisco State University