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

Thursday, October 27, 2011: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
Room A1 (San Jose Convention Center)

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
Welcoming Remarks
6:35 PM
Caught in Transition: Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes
Markita Landry, M.S., B.S., B.A. , Graduate Fellow , University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; Wai Mun Huang, PhD , Professor , Unviersity of Utah ; Yann Chemla, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
6:50 PM
Functional Characterization of Members in the Amidohydrolase Superfamily in COG 3964: Determining Function of Atu3266 and EF0837
Argentina Ornelas , Texas A&M University ; Tamari Narindoshvili, PhD , Post-Doc , Texas A&M University ; Ragumani Sugadev, PhD , Brookhaven National Laboratories ; Desigan Kumaran, PhD , Brookhaven National Laboratories ; Subramanyam Swaminathan, PhD , Brookhaven National Laboratories ; Frank Raushel, PhD , Principal Investigator , Texas A&M University
7:20 PM
Stromal-epithelial Cell Interactions In Mammary Cancer: A Role For Fatty Acids
Therese Salameh , Purdue University ; Ignacio Camarillo, PhD , Dr. , Purdue University