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Biology Majors Win at 16th Undergraduate Research Symposium

The following students majoring in our department are winners in their poster sessions at the 16th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, held at UMBC on Saturday, October 26, 2013.

 

1st  Place
BIO-ANALYTICAL METHODS TO DETERMINE ANDROGEN
RECEPTOR O-GLCNACYLATION
Jhullian J. Alston, Jordy J. Hsiao, Brandon H. Ng, Melinda M. Smits, Michael E Summers

BIOLOGY major

 

1st Place
INHIBITION OF LUNG TUMOR INITIATION BY RNAI TARGETING WNT
SIGNALING
Sagar Bajpai,Tuomas Tammela ,Tyler Jacks

BIOLOGY major

 

1st Place
TESTING FOR FEMALE SONG IN NEWLY RECOGNIZED SPECIES:
THE PUERTO RICAN ORIOLE
Susanna Campbell, Kevin Omland

BIOLOGY major

 

2nd Place
BLUNTED RESISTANCE TRAINING-INDUCED MUSCLE REGROWTH
AMONG ATROPHIED OLDER ADULTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH
HEIGHTENED INFLAMMATORY/PROTEOLYTIC SIGNALING
Yu-Rei Raymond Chang, Michael Stec, Marcas Bamman

BIOLOGY major

 

2nd Place
CHARACTERIZING THE FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF MALARIA VECTORS
DURING THE WET SEASON IN NCHELENGE, ZAMBIA
Samantha Eng, Smita Das, Laura C. Norris, Douglas E. Norris

BIOCHEM major

 

1st Place
CONTRIBUTION OF ELF3 TO THE TLR-DRIVEN CATABOLIC RESPONSES IN
ARTICULAR CHONDROCYTES: POTENTIAL ROLE IN CARTILAGE
DESTRUCTION IN OSTEOARTHRITIS
Catrina Johnson, Miguel Otero, Mary Goldring

BIOLOGY major

 

2nd Place

HOW WELL DO SPECIES TREE METHODS DEAL WITH GENE FLOW?   MITOCHONDRIAL INTROGRESSION IN THE NORTHERN ORIOLE COMPLEX

John Malloy, Tylynn Pettrey, Leila Bahmani, Frode Jacobsen, Matthias Gobbert, Kevin Omland.

BIOINFORMATICS major

 

2nd Place
TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECT OF OSTEOCHONDRAL FRACTURE ON
HYALURONAN CONCENTRATION IN EQUINE SYNOVIAL FLUID
Elelbin A Ortiz, Michele M Temple-Wong, Ph.D, Christina M Lee, PhD,

BIOCHEM major

 

2nd Place
CHARACTERIZATION OF A 3D CELL CULTURE SYSTEM FOR STUDYING
MAMMARY GLAND DEVELOPMENT
Kwadwo Owusu-Boaitey, Ethan Sokol, Piyush Gupta

BIOLOGY major

 

2nd Place
SERIAL SECTION ELECTRON MICROGRAPH ALIGNMENT AND
STITCHING IN CONNECTOME RECONSTRUCTION
Talmo Pereira, Ashwin Vishwanathan and Hyunjune Sebastian Seung

BIOCHEM major

 

1st Place
THE ROLE OF ADIPONECTIN IN HIGH FAT-MEDIATED
CARDIOPROTECTIVE PROGRAMS
Mashhood Wani, Lauren Haar, Avni Amratia, Christopher Gonzalez, WK Jones

BIOCHEM major

Posted: October 30, 2013, 11:14 AM