Awards for best posters

Sigma Xi Columbia-Willamette Student Research Symposium

Tuesday 15 April 2014

Biological Science

Graduate:

                1—Timea Deakova (PSU) Moss as a possible bioindicator for nitrogen deposition

Undergraduate:

                1—Tai White-Toney and Katie Bates (UP) The effects of autotomy and regeneration on locomotion in the purple shore crab (Hemigrapsus nudus)

                2—Ashley Peterson and several others (LC) Gripping forces and mucus properties of terrestrial gastropods

                3—Brendan Dwyer (Willamette) Modifying an NtRac1-containing construct to determine whether heat interferes with auxinregulated NtRac1 localization

Biomedical Science

Graduate:

                1—Brittney Davidge (PSU) Temporal control of cyclin E levels by the ubiquitin proteasome system

Undergraduate:

                1—Kylie Leffler (UP) Sequence analysis of exons 13 and 14 of the PPBG gene from normal and GM1-gangliosidosis affected sheep

                2—Tan Nguyen (PSU) Monitoring iron uptake onto gold nanoparticle surfaces for use as theranostic agents in cancer therapy

                3—Brady Dieter (UP) Characterization of the GLB1 cDNA from normal and GM1-gangliosidosis affected ovine fibroblasts to confirm possible disease-causing mutations

Chemistry

Graduate:

                1—Katherine Payne (PSU) Effects of coordination geometry on hydration state

                2—Adriana Bon (PSU) Discovery and characterization of a novel amidinotransferase: QueF-like

                3—Tharuka Jayathilaka (PSU) A study of fragmentation and covalent self-assembly of bacterial group I intron from Azoarcus sp BH72

Undergraduate:

                1—Thai Tran (PSU) Kinetics and mechanism of S-nitrosation and oxidation of cysteamine by peroxynitrite

                2—Trang Duc (PSU) Oxyhalogen-sulfur chemistry: Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of N-acetyl-D-penicillamine by acidified iodate and aqueous iodine

Earth and Environmental Science

Graduate:

                1—Amy Truitt (PSU) Investigations into a case of Wolbachia and an endangered butterfly population

                2—Les Mowbray  (PSU) Open-source, low-cost sensor for custom water level monitoring in observation wells and piezometers

                3—Erin Dunbar (PSU) Geochemical and stratigraphic analysis of the subsurface in the Prineville Airport well field

Undergraduate:

                1—Burl Carpenter (PSU) Revisiting ancient cataclysmic flood deposits at The Dalles, OR

                2—Dougal Hansen (PSU) The effects of fire on the physical structure of soils: Mt. Adams, WA

Physics and Computer Science

Graduate:

                1—Zachariah Peterson (PSU) Zinc oxide random laser threshold enhancement via addition of passive scatterers

                2—Joe Fitzgerald (PSU) Visualizing light with electrons

                3—Jens Burger (PSU) Memristive devices in neuromorphic designs - more than just synaptic weights

Undergraduate:

                1—Galen Gledhill (PSU) Better beams through simplicity: a novel beam source for neutral atom microscopy