2005 Summer Undergraduate Research and Achievements Forum abstracts
Doping of natural diamond powder with boron to increase its hydrogen storage capacity
Student: Christian Alvarez
Faculty Mentor: Tushar K. Gosh, Nuclear Engineering
Progress in the synthesis of a Technetium-labeled complex as a potential Sigma receptor binding ligand
Student: Jared Austin
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Z. Lever, Chemistry
Conversion Of Waste Corncob To Activated Carbon For Use Of Methane Storage.
Student: Mona-Lisa Banks
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Galen Suppes, Chemical Engineering
Construction of a Knockout Targeting Vector to Generate an Interleukin-13 Receptor α1 Deficient Balb/c Mouse
Student: Roderick Bautista
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Habib Zaghouani, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Camgaroo-2 as an indicator of function in embryonic and neuralized stem cells
Student: Robyn Beatty
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark D. Kirk, Biological Sciences
Hitting the greens: Backcrossing the csn-5 mutant, par so far for a CSN-5 protein null
Student: Holly Boedefeld
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Bennett, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
L-NAME Treatment in Pigs
Student: Angela Bosier
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James R. Turk, Biomedical Veterinary Scinces
Analyzing the Effects of Lactose on Calcium Absorption in Premature Infants using HR-ICP-Mass Spectrometry
Student: Joni Bramon
Faculty Mentor: Dr. J. David Robertson, Chemistry
Recent lateral gene transfer from Pasteurella multocida into Haemophilus influenzae
Student: Matthew Bratkowski
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miriam Golomb, Biological Sciences
Evaluation of the efficacy of test products to ameliorate the toxic effects of aflatoxin present in broiler chick diets
Student: Fallon Brice
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Ledoux, Animal Science
The effect of aryl substituted triamidoamine ligands on the structure of dioxo-molybdenum (VI) complexes
Student: Elizabeth Brockman
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Duval, Chemistry
Expression and purification of AlgX in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Student: Ashley Bush
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lesa Beamer, Biochemistry
Optimization of metal-cyclization of alpha-MSH peptide analogs used in the treatment and detection of melanoma.
Student: Clayton Butcher
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Quinn, Biochemistry
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition of brain tumor cells is differentially regulated in response to dexamethasone
Student: Pierre-Etienne Cagniart
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gabor Forgacs, Physics
Determining an efficient protocol for production of neural stem cells.
Student: Michelle Carter
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Kirk, Biological Sciences
If it won't explode, hit it with a hammer: Facilitating chemical reactions at a liquid surface
Student: Rachel Castleberry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John E. Adams, Chemistry
Identifying plant resistance pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
Student: Patricia Catrow
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Walter Gassmann, Division of Plant Sciences
Host-guest complexes to molecular encapsulation of hydrogen
Student: Karla Claudio
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Timothy Glass/Dr. Jerry Atwood, Chemistry
Storing hydrogen, by enhancing diamond powder properties with CaF2 and KF for use in fuel cells
Student: Franklyn E Colmenares Ochoa
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Prelas, NSEI
Single component vs. whole furniture packing in virtual reverse manufacturing
Student: Lissandra Comas
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Luis Occeña, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems
Characterization of a putative mutant for iron homeostasis
Student: Charles Cooper
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Rogers, Biochemistry
Membrane Permeability of Bovine Ooctyes to Propylene Glycol and the Application to the Improvement of Cryopreservation
Student: Amanda Corey
Faculty Mentor: Steven F. Mullen
Student: Amanda Corey
Faculty Mentor: John K. Critser
The measurement of residual feed intake to determine feed efficiency of pregnant Hereford heifers
Student: Michael Cressman
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Monty S. Kerley, Animal Sciences
Examining the consequences of stalking misconceptions
Student: Lauren Criss
Faculty Mentor: Dr. H. Colleen Sinclair, Department of Psychology
Lobeline Antagonizes the Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Cocaine
Student: Colin Cunningham
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dennis Miller, Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Comparison of regulatory regions in the mitochondrial genomes of grasses
Student: Jonathan DeGraff
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James O. Allen, Biological Sciences
Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants defective in the oligopeptide transporter OPT3
Student: Braden DeLoach
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gary Stacey, Plant Microbiology and Pathology
Video game music beyond its original function: Practices, styles, and ends
Student: Patrick Dell
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael J. Budds, Music
The psychosocial response to lymphedema
Student: Jennifer Dine
Faculty Mentor: Jane Armer, Sinclair School of Nursing
Identification of chloroplast DNA insertions in nuclear chromosomes of maize B73 line using the FISH procedure
Student: Laura Donnelly
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jim Birchler, Biological Sciences
Fuel system design for an adsorbed natural gas vehicle
Student: Stephen Eastman
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Pfeifer, Physics and Astronomy
Expression of ISG15, UBE1L and MX2 in white blood cells of early pregnant and bred-nonpregnant dairy cows
Student: Marie Elorza
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew C. Lucy, Animal Science
Free energy profile of sugar transport through maltoporin of Escherichia Coli
Student: Michael Forney
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ioan Kosztin, Physics
Parameter estimation and data reduction for cellular biophysical analysis
Student: Jason Gallia
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Critser, College of Veterinary Medicine
The effect of caloric restriction on the mitotic rates of mice
Student: Angelique Garrido-Gibbs
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joel Maruniak, Biological Sciences
Effects of prenatal exposure to xenobiotic estrogen and the development of endometriosis in adulthood
Student: Alison Ghormley
Faculty Mentor: Susan Nagel, PhD, Biological Sciences
A study of teen pregnancy: at-risk teens and their motivation to stay in school
Student: Cortnae' Gullatt
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jessica Summers, Educational, School, & Counseling Psychology
Modeling the flow of digesta through the ruminant reticulorumen
Student: Timothy Hackmann
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James N. Spain, Animal Sciences
Sex and age specific infestation rates of raccoons (Procyon lotor) by American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis)
Student: Tiffanie Hamilton
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew E. Gompper, Fisheries and Wildlife
Metro and nonmerto youth: Evaluating differential pathways to delinquency
Student: Daniel Hanneken
Faculty Mentor: Anne Dannerbeck, Social Work
Oil bodies isolated from Brassica napus mature seed
Student: Stefan Harris
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jay J. Thelen, Biochemistry
Construction of a tatA Mutant of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
Student: Kate Hart
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Judy Wall, Biochemistry
Does genetics play a role in feeding behavior of gray tree frogs?
Student: Colleen Hayes
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Allison Welch, Biology
A search for regulators of a yeast synaptojanin
Student: Zachary Henderson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steve Nothwehr, Biological Sciences
The impairment of the prefrontal cortex due to high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in relation to ADHD
Student: Jessica Hodge
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Satish Nair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Estrogen receptors in TRAMP C2 cells
Student: Clifton Holland
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dennis Lubahn, Biochemistry
Fuel system design for an Adsorbed Natural Gas Vehicle
Student: Antonio Howard
Faculty Mentor: Peter Pfeifer, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA insertions into a nuclear chromosome of the maize B73 line
Student: Alice Hui
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Newton, Biological Science
In vitro evaluation of In-111-DOTA-anti-bcl-2-PNA-Tyr-3-octreotate in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia cells
Student: Charles Hunter
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael R. Lewis, Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
Analysis of PDGF-AB and -BB in serum of intact and ovariectomized (OVX) pigs
Student: Louis Jamtgaard
Faculty Mentor: Vladislav Glinskii, Biochemistry
Peptidomics of Arabidopsis thaliana
Student: Paula Jemes
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Walker, Biological Sciences
A Century Later another Surprise: A Non-visual Behavioral Function of the white Gene
Student: Jessica Jenkins
Faculty Mentor: Troy Zars, Biological Sciences
The evolving technology of bio-printing
Student: Robert Jinkerson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gabor Forgacs, Physics
Aβ toxicity to SHSY–5Y human neuroblastoma cells
Student: Omega Johnson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Grace Y. Sun, Biochemistry
Characterizing polymerization dynamics using fluorescent molecular rotors and magnetoelastic sensors
Student: Manu Johny
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark A. Haidekker, Biological Engineering
Imaging reticulospinal neurons in the lamprey brainstem using calcium indicator
Student: Jill Jouret
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew McClellan, Biology
The Efect of Timber Stand Improvement Practices on the Abundance of Pileated Woodpeckers.
Student: Marcus Judy
Conversion of Waste Corn Cobs to Activated Carbons for Natural gas (Methane) Adsorption
Student: Motunrayo Kemiki
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rusty Sutterlin, Chemical Engineering
Developing proteomics approaches for identifying new, redox-regulated proteins
Student: Matt Keuss
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kent S. Gates, Chemistry
Studying DNA methylation changes of CpG islands in different stages of prostate cancer by pyrosequencing
Student: Eric Ladd
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dennis Lubahn, Biochemistry
Efficacy of high levels of microbial phytase in improving phytate Phosphorus utilization by turkeys
Student: Regina Lehman
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Ledoux, Animal Science
Development of an assay to measure cortisol using a standard glucose meter
Student: Lauren Lewis
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Milanick, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR) Flux Trap Design using Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Student: Giovanni Lleonart
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sudarshan Loyalka, Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute (NSEI)
Death by the pounds: The effects of television on the obesity of African-American children and adolescents
Student: Jonathan Lowe
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Frisby, Advertising
Functional analysis of conserved Amino Acid Residues in the C-terminus of ACC synthase
Student: Abraham Lueth
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shuqun Zhang, Biochemistry
Effects of forest management practices on treefrog oviposition site choice
Student: Rachel Mahan
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Raymond D. Semlitsch, Biological Sciences
Effect of feed restriction and hypothermia on fetal mice
Student: Elizabeth Maricle
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Lamberson, Animal Science
The Relation of Childhood Depressive Symptoms to Behavior During a Speech Task
Student: Amber McCadney
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Debora Bell, Psychological Sciences
Resource selection of black-footed ferrets based on black-tailed prairie dog distributions
Student: Jon McRoberts
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Josh Millspaugh, Fisheries & Wildlife
The synthesis of peptide-PNA conjugates
Student: Amanda Meyer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Z. Lever, Radiochemistry
Retension of Knobs in chromosome tips in maize
Student: Julie Meyer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Birchler, Biological Sciences
Identifying Lepidopteran resistance within hcf mutants
Student: Matthew Meyer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Georgia Davis, Division of Plant Sciences
How the revolutionary thought of two west indian intellectuals predicts and explains post-independence African problems
Student: Kelly Moncheski
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ted Koditschek, History
Quantitative trait loci for seminal root angle and number in the maize IBM population
Student: Courtney Morriss
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Georgia Davis, Division of Plant Sciences
Functional Analysis of MAP Kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana: Fully Rescuing the mpk3/mpk6 Mutant Phenotypes
Student: Njabulo Ngwenyama
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shuqun Zhang, biochemistry
Protein secondary structure prediction: Creating a meta-tool
Student: Zachary Nichols
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dong Xu, Computer Science
Binding properties of X29 protein and RNA
Student: Carolynn O'Dell
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brenda Peculis, Biochemistry
Environmental Report actualization for the License Renewal of the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center
Student: Joselyn M. Ocasio Escobales
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Miller, Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute
Characterization of N gene homologs in Nicotiana species
Student: Kimberly Palmer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jim Schoelz, Plant Microbiology And Pathology
Landscape design for Bear Creek Prairie in Columbia, Missouri
Student: Vanessa Palmer
Faculty Mentor: Carol Grove and Benyamin Schwarz, Art History and Architectural Studies respectively
Synthesis and binding studies of novel sigma receptor ligands
Student: Ryan Peterson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John R. Lever, Radiology
Brain natriuretic peptide decreases pulmonary artery pressure in rats with pulmonary hypertension
Student: Sarah Price
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Vincent DeMarco, Child Health
Development of a portable source for production of Re-188
Student: Valerie Rahing
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gary Ehrhardt, Research Reactor
Diversity of progeny from a single colony of Salmonella typhimurium after 19 months in sealed agar stabs
Student: Joey Ransdell
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Abrahan Eisenstark, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Desiccation rates of Rana sylvatica, Rana clamitans, and Bufo americanus in a fragmented forest
Student: Lelande Rehard
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Raymond Semlitsch, Department
Genetic mapping of QTL conditioning resistance to soybean cyst nematode in PI464925B
Student: Derrick Reynolds
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Henry T. Nguyen, Division of Plant Sciences
Point Mutation of an RGD sequence in the human P2Y2 receptor to a QGD sequence conserves Go-mediated signal transduction
Student: Chris Robinson
Faculty Mentor: Sriparna Bagchi, Biochemistry
The effects of arousing video on attention and memory for attack vs. non-attack political advertisements
Student: Katherine Roehrick
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Bolls, Advertising
Making the Cvt pathway/autophagy in vitro
Student: Rebecca Rone
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Per Stromhaug, Biological Science
Mean value formulas for differential operators
Student: Heather Rosenblatt
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dorina Mitrea, Mathematics
Pharmacokinetic modeling of cortisol binding to dietary fiber in the gastrointestinal tract
Student: Natalie Rosenwasser
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Milanick, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
Stroke risk factors and awareness study
Student: Courtney-Jamaal Rouse
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joanne Banks-Wallace, Nursing
Development of conversation in toddlers: The role of maternal input
Student: Melanie SanMiguel
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Judith Goodman, Communication Science and Disorders
TRIAX Upgrade at MURR
Student: Erick Scheerer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William H. Miller, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute
The effect of reduced chromatin gene expression on an epigenetically regulated maize gene
Student: Michael Schulte
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Cone, Biological Sciences
Development of CAPS markers for Nicotiana
Student: Laura Shannon
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tim Holtsford, Biolgical Sciences
Subcellular localization of the Arabidopsis thaliana atDjC37 molecular chaperone protein
Student: Christian Simpson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jan A. Miernyk, Biochemistry
Detection of Sad genes in various species of Neurospora
Student: Ashwin Singh
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patrick Shiu, Biological Sciences
Up-regulation of the P2Y2 receptor by cytokines in neuronal cells
Student: Emily Stanley
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gary Weisman, Biochemistry
Interaction of a heterodimerization partner with glucocorticoid receptor (GR), androgen receptor (AR) and GR/AR hybrids
Student: Phillip Strawbridge
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lené Holland, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
The effect of Camgaroo-2 incorporation on the differentiation potential of embryonic stem cells
Student: Jessica Struckhoff
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Kirk, Biological Science
Calix[n]arene derivatives for gas storage
Student: Harry Tabi
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jerry Atwood, Chemistry
Synthesis and analysis of activated carbon briquettes as an adsorbent for natural gas
Student: Demetrius Taylor
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Pfeifer, Physics
Promotion of functional heterotrimeric type I collagen via transfection in osteogenesis imperfecta fibroblasts.
Student: Michael Tempesta
Faculty Mentor: Charlotte Phillips, Biochemistry
Anti-galectin-3 peptides increase apoptosis in galectin-3 expressing human breast cancer cells.
Student: Michelle Thoma
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Deutscher, Biochemistry
Effects of washings and treatments on the usefulness of hair as a biomarker
Student: Stefanie Timpe
Faculty Mentor: Dr. J. David Robertson, Chemistry
Environmental Report actualization for the License Renewal of the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center
Student: Jeancarlo Torres
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Miller, Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute
Post-Translational Modifications and the Effects on Protein Identification through Mass Spectrometry
Student: Jacob Traas
Faculty Mentor: Dong Xu, Computer Science
How do we know that we have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Student: Kim Khanh Vu
Faculty Mentor: Satish Nair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The effects of even-aged cutting on density and pairing success of Worm-eating Warblers
Student: Amber Wiewel
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Faaborg, Biological Science
Localized adherence of Haemophilus influenzae to human lung cells in tissue culture
Student: LaDerrick Williams
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miriam Golomb, Biological Sciences
Localized adherence of Haemophilus influenzae to human lung cells in tissue culture
Student: LaDerrick Williams
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miriam Golomb, Biological Sciences
"Either he was too weak, or the world was too strong": Motifs of Male Wounds and Healing in African American Literature
Student: Jennifer Wilmot
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sw. Anand Prahlad, English
Molecular free volume and viscosity changes in non-Newtonian fluids probed with molecular rotors
Student: Joseph Wilson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark A. Haidekker, Biological Engineering
The role of Periostin in regulating the biomechanical properties of cushion tissue
Student: Lee Wright
Faculty Mentor: Gabor Forgacs, Physics