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HUGHES SYMPOSIUM Talks & Posters- August 7th


Cornell Hughes Scholars

Research Symposium

Friday August 7th

 

Oral Presentations


Session I (Cell Biology) - 10:00am -11:30am (251 Mallott Hall)

 

Name

Faculty Member

Title of Talk

 Patrick Wu

Tim Huffaker 

 The Role of She1p at the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Spindle Pole Body

  Liuqing Yang

Xiaohong Wang 

Investigation of the Involvement of a Group of Transcription Factors in the Formation of Nematode-induced Feeding Cells 

Michelle Cheng Tong 

Holger Sondermann 

Structural and Functional Study of Endocytotic Machinery: EHD and PACSIN 

  Michelle Cheng Zeng

 Jerry Feigenson 

Preparing Giant Unilamellar Vesicles by Use of a sequential lipid assembled monolayer (SLAM) method 

 Dana Anchassi

John Parker 

Reovirus infection causes increases in intracellular calcium levels 

  Emerson Fang

  Jeff Doyle         

The Effects of Polyploidy on Photoprotection and the Expression of Lipid Biosynthetic Genes

James Broughton
Jeffrey Pleiss
Using Genetics to Illuminate Transcript Specificity in pre-mRNA Splicing

  

Session III (Biomedical Sciences) - 2:30pm - 4:00pm (253 Mallott Hall)

 

Name

Faculty Member

Title of Talk

  Khawla Ali

Ned Place 

Photoperiod and Aging in Female Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) 

  Samantha Palmaccio

Alex Nikitin 

The role of miRNA 376b and miRNA 467b in  

Zena Ghazala 

Dwight Bowman 

CUTEREBRA – Validation of an ELISA for the detection of circulating antibodies to Cuterebra in cats 

Jungwoo Kim 

Hening Lin 

  Investigating substrate specificity of Hst2

 Priya Sahay

Nate Sutter 

Investigating a Candidate Gene Important in Dog Body Size Diversity

 Lee Gerwitz

Robert Weiss 

The Effects of Partial Hus1 Impairment on Tumorigenesis 

 

 

Session II (Organismal) - 2:30pm - 4:00pm (251 Mallott Hall)

 

Name

Faculty Member

Title of Talk

Gabe LaHue 

Brian Lazzaro 

Analysis of Virulence Factors in Serratia marcescens 

     Alyson Brokaw 

David Winkler 

Ontogeny of Thermoregulation in Tree Swallow nestlings 

  Lindsay Serene

Irby Lovette 

Process of Speciation in a Classic Oriole Hybrid Model (tentatively)

  Shawna Tonick

  Mariana Wolfner

The Role of Female Proteins in the Proteolytic Processing of Ovulin in Drosophila Melanogaster

Jamie Langenhan 

Keith Perry 

Aphid Transmission of Cucumber mosaic virus associated with Snap Bean Epidemics

 

  Lucy Li

Joel Baines 

Interaction of Tegument Proteins, VP11/12 and VP13/14, in Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 Virions 

 

 

Session IV (NBB/Psych/Nutrition) - 10:00am - 11:30am (253 Mallott Hall)

 

Name

Faculty Member

Title of Talk

  India Reddy

Joseph Fetcho 

In vivo imaging of synaptic plasticity in the larval zebrafish hindbrain before and after sleep 

Alka Menon
Christiane Linster
The effect of acetycholine on certainty and learning in the rat olfactory bulb 

 Setareh Omran

Tim DeVoogd 

Behavioral Neurobiology of Bird Song 

  Kyle Dempsey

David McCobb 

Stress and Bad Habits: Interactive effects of stress and alcohol withdrawal on a key synapse in motivation circuitry 

Sundus Mari

Linda Nicholson 

Finding isomer-specific APP binding partners as novel Alzheimer's disease targets. 

 Maen Abou Ziki    

Mariana Wolfner     

TBD

 

 


 

 


 

Poster Session- 12:30 - 2:00pm, Atrium of Biotechnology Bldg.

Scholar

Faculty Member

 Lindsay Jaacks    

Kimberly O'Brien, Nutritional Sciences

  Raymond Wu

John T. Lis, Molecular Biology & Genetics


  Spencer Zhang

Joseph E Peters, Microbiology

 Ellen Smith

Patricia Cassano, Nutritional Sciences

  Alice Lu

  Volker Vogt, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Isabelle Hutchings         

David Smith, Psychology

  Cathy Su

Jeffrey Scott, Entomology

  Bradley Carrier

Marie Caudill, Nutritional Sciences

 Benjamin Diner

Greg Martin, Plant Pathology 

  Larry Du

Rick Harrison, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 

  Anna Kepley   

  Marla Lujan, Nutritional Sciences

 Adriana Gata

 Kelly Zamudio, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

 Andre Forbes

Chris B. Schaffer, Biomedical Engineering

Iris Holmes

Kelly Zamudio, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  Iqbal El-Assaad    

Hussni Mohammed, Vet Pop. Medicine & Diagnostic Sci.  

  Carlos Arbelaez

Matthew DeLisa, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Ghaith Abu Zeinah

  Hussni Mohammed, Vet Pop. Medicine & Diagnostic Sci.

  Sadeer Al-Kindi

  Robert Gilmour, Vet Biomedical Sciences

  Madeline Dunfee

  Alex Flecker, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

James Broughton

  Jeffrey Pleiss, Molecular Biology & Gentics

  Khalil Jarrett

  William Brown, Molecular Biology & Genetics

  Nicholas Morante

  Eric Alani, Molecular Biology & Genetics

  Lamya Mubayed

  Tracy Stokol, Vet Pop. Medicine & Diagnostic Sci

  Avery Russell

  Cole Gilbert, Entomology

  Michael Soumah

John Helmann, Microbiology

Bertheleau Ngakam
Chris Fromme, Molecular Biology & Genetics

 

Updated – 7/31/09