Awards for best posters
Sigma Xi Columbia-Willamette Student Research Symposium
Thursday 16 April 2015
Biological Science
Graduate:
1—Adrienne Godschalx (PSU) Rhizobia decrease indirect defense of lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus): less extrafloral nectar and fewer ants
Undergraduate:
1—Taylor Rudow (UP) Evidence of handedness in the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus
2—Ryan Kain and Clayton Steed (UP) The effects of autotomy and regeneration on fecundity in the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus
Honorable mention—Cassidy McCartney (UP) Patterns of regeneration in Pentidotea wosnesenskii
Biomedical Science and Cell Biology
Graduate:
1—Jessica Hebert (PSU/OHSU) Increased maternal angiotensinogen expression and male fetal gender affect placental size and capillary density
2—Tahsin Khan (OHSU) Local antigen recognition enhances subsequent generation of tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells
Honorable mention—Brittney Davidge (PSU) Characterizing cell cycle defects resulting from loss of Cul3
Undergraduate:
1—Kelli Riper (UP) Impact of maternal high fat diet and obesity on offspring behavior
2—Griselda Velasco (PSU) Can altered metabolism protect against heritable mutations?
Chemistry
Graduate:
1—Rob Jensen (PSU) Analysis of vaporized e-liquid by NMR spectroscopy
Earth and Environmental Science
Undergraduate:
1—Jeffrey Fang (UP) Effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the condition of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) larvae in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Engineering
Undergraduate:
1—Grant Marquart (PSU) Biomimetic Membrane-coated nanomaterials for bioimaging and protein sensing applications
Physics and Computer Science
Graduate:
1—Theodore Stenmark (PSU) Characterization of dielectric waveguides through photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM)
Undergraduate:
1—Joseph Thiebes (PSU) Prussian Green: a high rate capacity cathode for potassium ion batteries