Grad Oral Presentations - Bio/Agr/Env Life Sciences: Cell/molecular biology I

Thursday, October 27, 2011: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
Room A2 (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
Functional corelation between paxillin and phospholipase D in human breast cancer cells
Jelena Pribic, M.Phil. , City University of New York, Hunter College ; Derrick Brazill, PhD , City University of New York, Hunter College
6:50 PM
Changes in Human Spliceosome Interactions following Exon Ligation
Janine Ilagan , University of California, Santa Cruz ; Melissa Jurica, PhD , University of California, Santa Cruz
7:05 PM
Dynamic Changes In Protein Abundance And Posttranslational Modification In Yeast Cells In Response To Environmental Stress
William Edelman, B.S. , Graduate Student , University of Washington ; Danielle Swaney, PhD , Post-Doc , University of Washington ; Judit Villen, PhD , Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences , University of Washington
7:20 PM
Determining if spatio-mechanosensitivity of EphA2 signaling stems from physical impedance of endocytosis
Adrienne Greene , Graduate Student , University of California, Berkeley ; Sam Lord, PhD , Postdoctoral Employee , The University of California, Berkeley ; Jay Groves, PhD , Professor , The University of California, Berkeley