Presentations

2012: World Sacophone Congress XVI

Caleb Shannon, Music Performance
DuoKratos Saxophone Recital
Mentor: Leo Saguiguit, PhD, Music

Chad Tucker, Music Performance
DuoKratos Saxophone Recital
Mentor: Leo Saguiguit, PhD, Music

2012: Environmental Design Research Association

Nathan Moore, Interior Design
Personal Learning Environments of Students in Wireless Coffee Shops
Mentor: Newton D'souza, PhD, Architectural Studies

2012: Missouri Speech & Hearing Association convention

Various students, Communication Science & Disorders
Ten students presented their research at the Missouri Speech & Hearing Association convention in Osage Beach, MO; April 2012.
Mentor: Teresa Lever, PhD, Communication Science & Disorders

2012: Midwest Political Science Association National Conference

Christian Friedman, Political Science/German Studies
The Cycle of Protest in Egypt: A Quantitative Assessment
Mentor: Moises Arce, PhD, Political Science

2012: American Academy of Advertising

Meredith Hayford, Journalism
Road Kill: The Impact of Aversive Highway Safety Videos on Message Processing
Mentor: Paul Bolls, PhD, Journalism

2012: American Society of Photobiology annual meeting

Brittani Bungart, Biological Engineering
Nanoparticle-emitted Light on Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathways
Mentor: James Lee, PhD, Biological Engineering

2012: Animal Behavior Society meeting

Nathan Thompson, Biological Sciences
Dynamic adjustment of pulse rate in a katydid(Neoconocephalus ensiger)
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

Curtis Atkisson, Psychology/Anthroplogy
Exploring the analogy between horizontal gene transfer and cultural information exchange
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

2012: Research Society on Alcoholism

David deRoode, Biologlical Sciences
Acute Effects of Alcohol on Cirdadian Genes in the Rat Brain
Mentor: Mahesh Thakkar, PhD, Neurology

2012: Experimental Biology

Steve Douglas, Nutritional Sciences
The effects of low, moderate, or high protein yogurt snacks on appetite control and subsequent eating in healthy women
Mentor: Heather Leidy, PhD, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

Kelly Stromsdorfer, Nutritional Sciences
Metabolic comparison of weight matched obese male and female mice
Mentor: James Perfield, PhD, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

2012: 54th Annual Maize Genetics Conference

Michael Matson, Biological Sciences
Environmentally produced polyploid cells in primary root tips
Mentor: James Birchler, PhD, Biological Sciences

2012: Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Various students, Theatre
24 Mizzou Theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in January 2012.
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre

2011: 71st Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Cortaiga Gant, English/Biological Sciences
Alligators near and far: using the Maps in Medicine: Inside Alligators high school workshop and 3D Alligator website as education tools in anatomy and evolution
Mentor: Casey Holliday, PhD, Pathology & Anatomical Sciences

2011: Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York

Amanda Prasuhn, Biological Sciences
Inference of phylogenetic interrelationships of African elepants (Loxodonta africana) using nuclear introns
Mentor: Lori Eggert, PhD, Biological Sciences

2011: Ecological Society of America

Luke Pauley, Fisheries & Wildlife
Effects of predation and commercial mosquito insecticides on the gray treefrog tadpoles
Mentor: Ray Semlitsch, PhD, Biological Sciences

2011: Society for Gynecologic Investigation 58th Annual Meeting

Emily Rigden, Biochemistry
The Pattern of Peri-Ovulatory Ovarian Thecal Cell TIMP-1 Protein Localization, but not TIMP-1 mRNA levels, in a Rat Model for Endometriosis Differs Significantly from Controls: a Mechanism for Reduced Ovulation in Endometriosis?
Mentor: Kathy Timms, PhD, OB Gyn/Women's Health

2011: Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference

Hayley Esther, English
Reviving Ophelia, Rejecting Juliet: Rewriting the Heroines in Young Adult Novelizations of Shakespeare
Mentor: Sarah Barber, PhD, English

Lauren Norton, English
Deadly Sensations: The Femme Fatale in "Lady Audley's Secret" and Victorian Newspapers
Mentor: Nancy West, PhD, English

2011: European Human Behavior and Evolution Association meeting

Curtis Atkisson, Anthropology & Psychology
How do kin impact reproduction? A comparison of kin support and kin influence models
Mentor: Mary Shenk, PhD, Anthropology

2011: Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Various students, Theatre
Fourteen Mizzou Theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in Spring 2011.
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre

2010: Annual Society of Neuroscience Meeting

Julia Hartman, English
Estradiol modulates GnRH mRNA expression in isolated neurons from young, but not aged, mice
Mentor: M. Cathleen Kuehl-Kovarik, PhD, Biomedical Sciences

Arwa Mohammad, Biological Sciences
Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) inhibits cytokine-insuced nitric oxide and sPLA2-IIA in glial cells
Mentor: Grace Sun, PhD, Biochemistry

2010: Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference (FiO/LS)

Adam Drewery, Electrical Engineering
Photorefractive Two-Wave Mixing for Adaptive Coherence Domain Detections
Mentor: Ping Yu, Physics

2010: SPIE Photonics West

Christine O'Brien, Biological Engineering
Detection and capture of single circulating melanoma cells using photoacoustic flowmetry
Mentor: John Viator, PhD, Biological Engineering

2010: American Ornithologists' Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists joint meeting

Ben Christ, Spanish/Fisheries & Wildlife
Testing for extra-pair paternity in Bell's Vireos (Vireo bellii bellii) across multiple habitats within central Missouri
Mentor: John Faaborg, PhD, Biological Sciences

Emily Tewes, Environmental Science
Investigating seasonal fluctuations in nest success of the Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax Virescens)
Mentor: John Faaborg, PhD, Biological Sciences

2010: Maize Genetics Conference

John Matera, Biochemistry
Changes in mitochondrial genomes associated with reversions of S-type cytoplasmic male serility in maize
Mentor: Kathy Newton, PhD, Biological Sciences

2010: 47th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society

Lauren Hediger, Biological Sciences
The neuroethology of bat detection in complex auditory scenes
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

Arooj Mohsin, Biological Sciences
Sexual dimorphism of directional hearing in a katydid with duetting communication
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

2010: 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Samantha Warren, Math
The Pearls of Swine Flu: The structural and sequence evolution of H1N1 proteome
Mentor: Dmitry Korkin, PhD, Informatics Institute & Computer Science

2009: Society for Psychophysiological Research

Nathan Bruning, Department of Psychological Sciences
Emotion regulation styles and the process of emotional images: An ERP investigation
Mentor: Bruce Bartholow, PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences

2009: Discipuli Juncti Undergraduate Conference

Mandy Watkins, Department of Religious Studies
Magic, religion, and disdain after the Thirty Years War
Mentor: Rabia Gregory, Department of Religious Studies

2009: IEEE Sensors

Christopher Kirkendall, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Liquid damping isolation on quartz crystal microbalance for effective preservation of high quality factor and sensitivity in liquid
Mentor: Jae Wan Kwon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2009: Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Conference

Denise Warzak, Animal Sciences

Mentor: Cheryl Rosenfeld, Life Science Center

2009: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vasular Biology Annual Conference

Alexander Lohman, Biochemistry

Mentor: William Fay, PhD, Biochemistry

2009: Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology 2009 Meeting

Si Yol Yi, Biological Sciences

Mentor: Carl H. Gerhardt, PhD, Biological Sciences

2009: Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology 2009 Meeting

Mitch Tucker, Biological Sciences

Mentor: Carl H. Gerhardt, PhD, Biological Sciences

2009: Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Conference

Curtis Atkisson, Psychology

Mentor: Mary Shenk, PhD, Anthropology

2009: 213th American Astronomical Society Meeting

Stephen Messenger,

Mentor: Angela Speck, PhD, Department of Physics

2008: American Society for Matrix Biology 4th Bi-Annual National Conference

Amanda McCambridge,

Mentor: Charlotte Phillips, PhD, Biochemistry

2008: Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses Conference

Emily Ryan, Biological Sciences
Novel inhibition mechanism and potent antiviral activity of Translocation-Deficient Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Travel funding provided by MU Undergraduate Research Travel Grant
Mentor: Stefan Sarafianos, PhD, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

2008: General Assembly of the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

Miriam Galenas, Geological Sciences

Mentor: Alan Whittington, PhD, Geological Sciences

2008: College Music Society 2008 National Conference

Katherine Smith, Music

Mentor: Judith Mabary, PhD, School of Music

2008: American Society or Agronomy & Geological Society of America

Satchel Gaddie, Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Mentor: Peter Motavalli, PhD, Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

2008: Starling Research

Jason Smyth,

Mentor: Walter Wehtje, PhD, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences

2008: Mational Latina/o Psychological Association Conference

David Aguayo,

Mentor: Keith Herman, PhD, Education, School and Counseling Psychology

2008: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Michelle Clark, Communication Science and Disorders

Mentor: Judith Goodman, PhD, Communication Science and Disorders

2008: American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference

Daniel Tappmeyer,

Mentor: Shubra Gangopadhyay, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2008: Classical Association of the Middle West and South Conference

Jesca Geary,

Mentor: Barbara Wallach, PhD, Classical Studies

2008: Midwest Political Science Association National Conference

Meghan Mercier, Political Science
Public perceptions of the environment: The role of mass media
Mentor: David A. Konisky, PhD, Truman School of Public Affairs

2008: Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Various students, Theatre
Three Mizzou theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in Omaha, Neb., Spring 2008.
Travel funding provided by MU Undergraduate Research Travel Award
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre