Session: Student Poster Presentation Session 2: Graduate Students (2011 SACNAS National Conference)

Quantification of Permethylated N-glycans derived from Human Blood Serum Using Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) LC-MSMS
Janie DeSantos Garcia , Research Assistant , Texas Tech University ; Yunli Hu , Texas Tech University ; Yehia Mechref, PhD , Texas Tech University

CloudProtect: A Middleware for Managing Privacy in Web and Cloud Data Services
Mamadou Diallo , University of California, Irvine ; Bijit Hore, PhD , University of California at Irvine ; Chang Ee-Chien, PhD , Professor , National University of Singapore ; Sharad Mehrotra, PhD , Professor , University of California at Irvine ; Nalini Venkatasubramanian, PhD , University of California at Irvine

Non-Thermal Plasma Decontamination of E. Coli and S. Aureus – Research and Review
Heather Anderson, BS , Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi ; Magesh Thiyagarajan, PhD , Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Very Fast Search of Human Activities in Videos with Scalar Projection of Timeseries
Omar Florez, PhD (c) , Research Assistant , Utah State University ; Curtis Dyreson, PhD , Associate Professor , Utah State University

Identification of the Gene Responsible for the wings apart Phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster
Ginny Morriss , University of New Mexico, IMSD ; Carmelita Jaramillo , University of New Mexico, MARC ; Richard Cripps, PhD , Professor , University of New Mexico

Strategies to Examine the Effect Of Bax and Bcl-xL on Individual Mitochondria
Franklyn Rocha-Cabrero, BS , University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana ; Richard Youle, PhD , National Institute of Health-NINDS

PRE-CRYSTALLIZATION SCREENING OF A GABA-A RECEPTOR
Heather Snell , University of North Texas Health Science Center ; Eric B Gonzales, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of North Texas Health Science Center

Investigating a Special Class of Central Configurations for the Spatial Six Body Problem
Christopher Toni, BA , Graduate Student , University of California, Santa Cruz ; Marian Gidea, PhD , Professor , Northeastern Illinois University

Characterizing the Role of Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Development
Lissette Andres, BS , University of California, Berkeley ; Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD , Professor , University of California, Berkeley

A Survey of Trypanosoma cruzi in Rodent Reservoir Populations in Peri-Urban Areas in Arequipa, Peru
Kathryn Hacker, BS , Graduate Student , Yale University ; Charles Sterling, PhD , PhD , University of Arizona ; Marc Tischler, PhD , MARC Program Director PhD , University of Arizona

Regional Climate Feedbacks from Land Use Changes in Southeast Asia: A Sensitivity Study Using RegCM 4.1
Heidi Stauffer , University of California, Santa Cruz ; Lisa Sloan , Professor , University of California, Santa Cruz

Cloning and Heterologous Expression of Xenopus BK channel Alpha and Beta subunits in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) and Xenopus laevis Kidney (A6) cells
Daniel Ramirez-Gordillo, MS , New Mexico State University ; Casilda Trujillo-Provencio, MPH , New Mexico State University ; TuShun Powers, PhD , New Mexico State University ; Dr. Elba Serrano, PhD , New Mexico State University

Role of dioxygenases in the phytoremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system
Juan C. Hernandez-Vega , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Brian Cady , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Anthony Mauriello , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Gilbert E. Kayanja , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Noreen Okwara , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Edward Moseley , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Daniel Kosilla , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Carlos Giron , University of Massachusetts Boston ; Adan Colon-Carmona, PhD , University of Massachusetts Boston

Microbial Antibiotic Production in Cave Bacteria
Elizabeth Montano, PhD , University of New Mexico ; Lory Henderson, BS , University of New Mexico ; Lurdes Dapkevicius, PhD , Universidade dos Acores ; Diana E. Northup, PhD , Visiting Associate Professor , University of New Mexico

Intergenerational Voices: Discourse Analysis of Family Interactions Relating to Biology Experiences Outdoors
Yeni Violeta Garcia, MEd, Doctoral Candidate , Graduate Fellow , University of Northern Colorado ; Richard Jurin, PhD , University of Northern Colorado

Analysis of genome silencing and mitochondria function in the regulation of diapause II in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos
Lee Toni , University of North Texas ; Pamela Padilla, PhD , Associate Professor , University of North Texas

Sugar Nucleotide Quantification Using Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) LC-MSMS
Aldo Garcia , Texas Tech University ; Yehia Mechref, PhD , Texas Tech University

Determining the Influence of Adiponectin in Mouse Mammary Epithelia Apoptosis
Leon Clah, BS , Purdue University ; Ignacio Camarillo, PhD , Dr. , Purdue University

Understanding Algebraic Solutions Through Wave Applications in K-12 Activities
Antonio Lopez , Student , University of Texas, Arlington ; Tuncay Aktosun, PhD , Professor , University of Texas at Arlington

Biochemical Studies on the Biosynthetic Pathway of the Lantibiotic Microbisporicin
Manuel Ortega, BS , Graduate Student , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Neha Garg, MS , Graduate Student , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Wilfred van der Donk, PhD , Investigator , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Occurrence, Taxonomy, And Phenotypic Variation Of Angel Sharks In The Eastern Pacific Ocean
Dom Gonzalez-Jurado , University of California, Los Angeles ; Dom Gonzalez-Jurado , University of California, Los Angeles

Games, Logic, Mathematics: Pre-service Teachers Developing Engaging Activities for Middle School Latin@ / African American Students
Juan M. Gerardo , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Sonya E. Irving , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Rochelle Gutierrez, PhD , Dr. , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The effect of co-solvents on the occupancy of non-coordinated internal water in the distal pocket of myoglobin
Emelia Padilla, MS , Biochemistry Graduate Student , San Francisco State University ; Raymond Esquerra, PhD , Professor , San Francisco State University

Economic Feasibility of Switchgrass Production as a Bioenergy Feedstock in South Carolina
Cesar Castellon, BS , Clemson University ; Carlos Carpio, PhD , Assistant Professor , Clemson University ; James Frederick, PhD , Professor , Clemson University

Narrow Therapeutic Index Drugs and Ethno-Botany of Alaska, Montana & Washington
Joseph Yracheta, BS , Graduate Student , University of Washington Seattle ; Kenneth Thummel, PhD , Department Chair , University of Washington Seattle

The synergistic effect of spindle assembly checkpoint activity and inhibition of mitotic exit in reducing mitotic slippage
Beatriz Alvarado, BS , San Francisco State University ; Blake Riggs, PhD , Assistant Professor of Biology , San Francisco State University

Flagella Co-expressed Colonization Determinants of Campylobacter jejuni
Angelica Barrero-Tobon , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; Murat Balaban, PhD , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; David Hendrixson, PhD , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Nanomechanical Characterization of Inner Limiting Membranes for the Enhancement of Vitreoretinal Surgical Methods
Celimar Valentin-Rodriguez, MSc , Graduate Student , Purdue University ; Tongalp Tezel, MD , Associate Professor , University of Louisville ; Albena Ivanisevic, PhD , Associate Professor , North Carolina State University

Modeling the impact of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis in the life history dynamics of Eleutherodactylus Coqui under seasonality in Puerto Rico and Hawaii
Glorimar Melendez-Rosario , University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez ; Karen Rios-Soto, PhD , University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Changes in the Productivity of the Warm Rain Process in Deep Convective Clouds Resulting from Regional Climate Change over the Continental U.S
Cecille Villanueva , Purdue University ; Sonia Lasher-Trapp , Purdue University

Genomic analyses of the tumor suppressor protein ING2 in response to cellular stress
Dennis Bua , Stanford University ; Or Gozani, PhD , Assistant Professor , Stanford University

Algebraic Topology in Networks
Mauricio A. Rivas, MS , Teaching Assistant , University of Houston ; William Ott, PhD , Professor , University of Houston

Protein Dynamics of S100B and S100B D63N in the Presence and Absence of a CapZ-derived Peptide (TRTK-12)
Melissa Liriano, BS , MD/PhD Student , University of Maryland, Baltimore ; Kristen Varney, PhD , NMR Manager , University of Maryland, Baltimore ; Rieko Ishima, PhD , University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine ; David Weber, PhD , Professor , University of Maryland, Baltimore

Isolation of Natural Products from Marine Actinomycetes and their Selective Therapeutic Properties
Yazmin Carrasco , UT Southwestern Medical Ctr ; John MacMillan, PhD , UT Southwestern Medical Ctr

Evidence of Microbial Influence on the Barstow Formation Lacustrine Tufa Deposits
Ibarra Yadira , University of Southern California ; Frank Corsetti , Associate Professor , University Of Southern California

Factors explaining the use of leisure time by older adults living in community in Spain in the context of their quality of life
Brenda C. Torres Velásquez, M.Sc. , Lecturer , University of Turabo ; Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, PhD , Scientific Researcher and Head of the Institute , Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ; Fermina Rojo-Pérez, PhD , Scientific Researcher , Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ; José Manuel Rojo-Abuin, M.Sc. , Statistician , Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Transcriptional Profiling Of Myb Mutant Flies Reveals Ectopic Activation Of LTR-Retrotransposons
Juan Santana , University of Iowa ; Stephen Butcher , University of Iowa ; John Manak, PhD , University of Iowa

Identifying Toxicity Mechanisms of Trichloroethylene
Vanessa De La Rosa, B.S , University of California, Berkeley ; Jonathan Asfaha, BS in progress , undergraduate student , University of California, Berkeley ; Deborah Corvaglia , University of California, Merced ; Chris Vulpe, MD/PhD , Associate Professor , University of California, Berkeley

Evaluating Change Detection in Data Streams
Gina-Maria Pomann, BA , North Carolina State University ; Tamraparni Dasu , AT&T Labs ; Shankar Krishnan , AT&T Labs

Population Dynamics of Leedy's Roseroot Using Molecular Marker Data
Adnan Ejupovic , Northeastern Illinois University ; Joel Olfelt, PhD , Professor , Northeastern Illinois University

Status Of Species Of Concern Cusk And River Herring
Alexis Hall , University of Alaska Fairbanks ; Sarah Walsh Laporte , National Marine Fisheries Service

The role of warm tropical waters in the Eastern Pacific: What has been the historical pattern of gene flow in Pollicipes elegans
Sergio Marchant , Clemson University ; Peter Marko, PhD , Associate Professor , Clemson University

Seismic Evidence for an Active Southern Rio Grande Rift
Lennox Thompson, PhD candidate , Graduate Student , University of Texas at El Paso ; Aaron Velasco, PhD , Departmental Chair/Professor , University of Texas at El Paso

Motion Planning for Concentric Tube Robots
Luis G. Torres, BS , Graduate Student Researcher , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Ron Alterovitz, PhD , Assistant Professor of Computer Science , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oyster Reef Management Strategies: Texas and Louisiana
James Muela , Trinity University ; Brittany Blomberg, B.S. , Doctoral Student , Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi ; Jennifer Pollack, PhD , Assistant Professor , Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Exploring The Conformation Of DNA: Adding Geometry To Known Topology
Mary Therese Padberg , Graduate Student , University of Iowa ; Isabel Darcy, PhD , Professor , University of Iowa

Post-training Cannabinoid Administration Impairs 24-hour Consolidation of Rodent Spatial Memory
Felicha Candelaria-Cook, MS , University of New Mexico ; Derek Hamilton, PhD , University of New Mexico

Nestmate Recognition Associated with Task in the Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
Shelby Sturgis, PhD , Graduate Student , Stanford University ; Deborah Gordon, PhD , PI , Stanford University

Location of Biological Foulants Within a Wet Membrane Structure
Milagro Marroquin, BS , Research Assistant , Clemson University ; Terri Bruce, PhD , Professor , Clemson University ; Ranil Wickramasinghe, PhD , Professor , University of Arkansas ; Scott Husson, PhD , Professor , Clemson University

Mucin-Like Associated Surface Protein: Potential Vaccine Candidate Against Chagas Disease
Carylinda Serna, BS , The University of Texas at El Paso ; Joshua Lara , The University of Texas at El Paso ; Alexandre Marques, PhD , Post-Doctoral Researcher , The University of Texas at El Paso ; Igor Almeida, PhD , Professor , University of Texas at El Paso ; Rosa Maldonado, PhD , University of Texas at El Paso

The Modeling and Sizing of the Purification Train Required for the Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Synthesis Gas Solution Using Aspen Plus
Evelyn Lopez, B.S. , Texas A&M University, Kingsville ; Carl Murphy, PhD, P.E. , Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Variation within the mitochondrial genome of the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas
Philip Jose , Texas A&M - Corpus Christi ; Deborah Overath, PhD , Assistant Professor of Biology , Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi ; Gregory W. Stunz, PhD , Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Mineral Weathering of soils at Mammoth Mountain due to Carbon Dioxide flux: Column Studies
Hansel Corsa , Graduate Researcher , California State University Los Angeles ; Helen Sanchez , California State University, Los Angeles ; Crist Khachikian , California State University, Los Angeles

Dazed and Confused: How Insecticide Mixtures Alter the Behavior of the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)
Kaitlyn Spain, BS , Graduate Assistant/Researcher , Texas A & M, Corpus Christi ; Lee Smee, PhD , Assistant Professor , Texas A & M, Corpus Christi

Can the b fusion protein, replace b and  subunits in E.coli?
Chathurada Gajadeera , Texas Tech University ; Joachim Weber, PhD , Texas Tech University

Progress Toward Regulating the avrBs2 Gene to Study Plant Immunity Response
Tania L. Gonzalez , University of California, Berkeley ; Douglas Dahlbeck , University of California, Berkeley ; Brian J. Staskawicz, PhD , Professor , University of California, Berkeley ; Ming Chen Hammond, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of California, Berkeley

An Analysis of Breast Cancer Subtypes Using Homological Methods
Michael Steiner, BS , San Francisco State University ; Nils Baas, PhD , Norwegian University of Science and Technology ; Gard Spreeman, MS , , Norwegian University of Science and Technology ; Javier Arsuaga, PhD , San Francisco State University

The Function of MyoD Binding to the Id2 Promoter
Tram Duong , California State University, Los Angeles ; Luis Castellon , California State University, Los Angeles ; Margarita Boiadjian , California State University, Los Angeles ; Sandra B. Sharp, PhD , Professor , California State University, Los Angeles

Identification of a new biomarker linked to 1,2-dichloropropane dechlorination and its ecology and distribution in subsurface environments
Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo , University of Tennesse-Knoxville ; Frank Loeffler, PhD , University of Tennesse-Knoxville

Identification of and Characterization of Genes Required for Differentiation of Quiescent and Nonquiescent Cells in Stationary Phase Cultures of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Elaine Manzanilla, B.S. , Graduate Student , University of New Mexico ; Melissa Wilson, B.S. , Graduate Student , University of New Mexico ; Tye Martin , University of New Mexico ; Andrew Smith, PhD , Post-Doctoral Fellow , University of Toronto ; Corey Nislow, Ph.D , University of Toronto ; Maggie Werner-Washburne, PhD , Professor , University of New Mexico