Presentations

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

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

Various students, theatre
Twelve Mizzou theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in Ames, Iowa, spring 2007.
Travel funding provided by MU Undergraduate Research travel award.
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, theatre

Aminata Coulibaly, biology and mathematics
"Region-specific induction of immediate early genes following inhibitory avoidance learning in rat brain."Aminata Coulibaly, Nancy Shanahan, Phullara Shelat, Todd Schachtman and Agnes Simonyi. Received award in Biochemical Sciences Division of ABRCMS.
Mentor: Agnes Simonyi, PhD, biochemistry

Ashley Acevedo, biochemistry
"Characterization of polioviral protein 2BC's function in the modification of a cellular protein."Ashley Acevedo, Karla Kirkegaard, Mathew Taylor and Andres Tellez. Research conducted at Stanford University, summer 2006.
Mentor: Bill Folks, PhD, biochemistry

Louis Jamtgaard, medicinal chemistry
"Isolating the active region of Tau that enables pre-fibrillar B-amyloid to hypersensitize microtubules."Louis Jamtgaard, Michelle King and George Bloom. Research conducted at the University of Virginia, summer 2006. Received Award in Neurosciences Division of ABRCMS.
Mentor: Vladislov Glinskii, PhD, biochemistry

Lauren Lewis, biology
"The role of ADAP tyrosine phosphorylation in T-cell/APC conjugate formation."Lauren Lewis, Brandon Burbach and Yoji Shimizu. Research conducted at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, summer 2006.
Mentor: Charles Brown, PhD, veterinary pathobiology

Abraham Lueth, biochemistry
"Yeast 2-hybrid screening for proteins that recognize ACS6 C-terminus which is essential for ACS6 stability regulation."Abraham Lueth, Shuqun Zhang and Ling Han.
Mentor: Shuqun Zhang, PhD, biochemistry

Njabulo Ngwenyama, biology
"Functional analysis of MAP kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana: rescuing the mpk3/mpk6 mutants phenotype."Njabulo Ngwenyama, Shuqun Zhang, Huachun Wang and Yidong Liu.
Mentor: Shuqun Zhang, PhD, biochemistry

Dante Smith, biology
"Functional characterization of nematode secreted proteins in plant parasitism."Dante Smith, Melissa Mitchum, Jianying Wang and Amy Replogle.
Mentor: Melissa Mitchum, PhD, plant sciences

Catherine Stricklin, nursing
"Smokin' mamas: Does social support work?"Catherine Stricklin, Alison Levitch, Kevin Everette and Linda Bullock.
Mentor: Linda Bullock, PhD, RN, nursing

Rebecca Norris, journalism
"Automatic Attention Processes in Searching Versus Surfing for Information."Rebecca Norris, Kevin Wise, Hyo Jung Kim, Arun Venkataraman. Presented in Dresden, Germany.
Mentor: Kevin Wise, PhD, journalism

Katherine Roehrick, journalism (advertising sequence)
"Rethinking media use and media effects."Katherine Roehrick, Paul Bolls. Research conducted at Mizzou, summer 2006. Presented at the Political Communalization Division of the International Communication Association (ICA); London, England.
Travel funding provided by MU undergraduate research travel grant.
Mentor: Paul Bolls, PhD, journalism

Katherine Roehrick, journalism (advertising sequence)
"Take It Nice and Slow: The Effect of Political Advertising Strategy and Production Pacing on Attention and Memory."Katherine Roehrick, Paul Bolls. Presented in Dresden, Germany.
Mentor: Paul Bolls, PhD, journalism

Vladimir Glinskii, biochemistry
"Analysis of architectural features of post ovariectomy microvascular remodeling using in-house developed software."V. Glinskii, O.V. Glinskii, V.V. Glinsky, Dr. V.H. Huxley. Research Conducted at Mizzou, fall 2006. Presented at the 24th European Conference on Microcirculation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Virginia Huxley, PhD, medical pharmacology and physiology

Andrea Loyd, animal sciences
"Nutritional Characteristics of Native Grasses Used in a Pasture System."Andrea Loyd, Jim Spain. Research conducted at the Mizzou, fall 2006. Presented at American Society of Animal Science/American Dairy Science Association joint meetings, Minneapolis, Minn.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Jim Spain, PhD, animal sciences

Timothy Hackmann, biological and animal sciences
"A critique of RFU: Comparing RFU to degradation parameters and proposal of an alternative model."T.J. Hackmann and J.N. Spain. Research conducted at the Mizzou, fall 2006. Presented at American Society of Animal Science/American Dairy Science Association Joint meetings, Minneapolis, Minn.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Jim Spain, PhD, animal sciences

Andrew Schramm, biological sciences
"The reaction of PMM/PGM: Structural insights into a simple processive enzyme."Andrew Schramm, Lesa Beamer. Research was conducted at the Mizzou, fall 2006. Presented at 2006 Annual American Crystallographic Association meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Lesa Beamer, PhD, biochemistry

Kristin Twenter, biochemistry
"Effects of genetic background and aging on bone in the oim mouse."S.M. Carleton, D.J. McBride, W.L. Carson, K.L. Twenter, C.L. Phillips. Research done at the Mizzou, fall 2006. American Society of Matrix Biology, Nashville, Tenn.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Charlotte Phillips, PhD, biochemistry

Andrew Walker, biochemistry
"Type I collagen glomerulopathy: oim mice."Craig Franklin, Jeffrey Miner, Andrew Walker, Anna Roberts-Pilgrim, Amanda Brodeur, Charlotte Phillips. Research conducted at the Mizzou, fall 2006. Presnted at the American Society of Matrix Biology, Nashville, Tenn.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Charlotte Phillips, PhD, biochemistry

Domingo Pacheco, biological sciences
"Development of simulated breast phantoms for multimodality imaging."Domingo Pacheco, Naresh Kujala, Sunder Balasubramanian, Lixin Ma, Charles Smith, Ping Yu. Research conducted at the Mizzou, fall 2006. Presented at Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Travel funding provided by Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LS UROP) travel grant.
Mentor: Ping Yu, PhD, physics and astronomy.

Dustin Sullivan, electrical engineering
"A ferroelectric atmosphere plasma source."Dustin Sullivan, Scoot Kovaleski, Mark Kemp. Research conducted at Mizzou, fall 2005. Presented at The American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, Philadelphia, Pa.
Travel funding provided by MU undergraduate research travel grant.
Mentor: Mark Kemp, PhD, electrical and computer engineering

Michael Forney, physics
Reconstruction of free energy profiles from fast, non-equilibrium processesMichael Forney, Lorant Janosi and Ioan Kosztin. Research conducted at Mizzou, summer 2005. Presented at the 51st Biophysical Society annual meeting, Baltimore, Md.
Travel funding provided by MU undergraduate research travel grant.
Mentor: Ioan Kosztin, PhD, physics