Grad Oral Presentations - Bio/Agr/Env Life Sciences: Cell/Molecular Biology I

Thursday, October 11, 2012: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
602 (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
Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor 1/p21 Initiates Apoptosis in Beta Cells and Rat Islets
Angelina M. Hernandez , Indiana University School of Medicine ; E. Scott Colvin , Indiana University School of Medicine ; Patrick T. Fueger, PhD , Assistant Professor , Indiana University School of Medicine
6:55 PM
Punctuated Cyclin Synthesis Drives Early Embryonic Cell Cycle Oscillations
Qing Kang, PhD , Research Assistant , Indiana University Bloomington ; Joseph Pomerening, PhD , Assistant Professor , Indiana University Bloomington
7:15 PM
Synergistic interactions between MSL complex and the CLAMP protein regulate Drosophila dosage compensation
Marcela Soruco, MS , PhD Candidate , Brown University ; Eric Bishop, PhD , Harvard Medical School ; Peter Park, PhD , Harvard Medical School ; Erica Larschan, PhD , Brown University
7:35 PM
Visualization of de novo Gene Transcription of X-linked miRNAs that Escape Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation
Enrique Sosa, MS , Graduate Research Assistant , University of Texas at San Antonio ; John R. McCarrey, Ph.D. , Professor of Genetics , University of Texas at San Antonio