Date
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| Monday, July 27 |
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| Tuesday, July 28 |
3 p.m. |
Poster Session
Sponsored by HHMI |
MI Social (MI 328) and Conference (MI 348) Rooms |
| Wednesday, July 29 |
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| Thursday, July 30 |
Final Symposium |
9 a.m.
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Gathering and Coffee
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MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| 9:10 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
Dr. John Woolford |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
9:20 a.m.
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Jeffrey Dahlen
Analysis of Adult Neurogenesis in the Mouse Main Olfactory Bulb
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Urban |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
9:30 a.m.
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Shih-dun Liu
Dendritic Spine Plasticity
Advisor: Dr. Justin Crowley |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
9:50 a.m.
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Santosh Bhavani
Automated Learning of Generative Models for Protein Subcellular Locations
Advisor: Dr. Robert Murphy |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
10 a.m.
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Alex Ellison
Large-scale Conservation Analysis Among Closely Related Species
Advisor: Dr. Ziv Bar-Joseph |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
10:10 a.m.
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Cameron Exner
Examination of cis Regulatory Module Changes in the Sm50 Gene Regulatory Network Allowing Larval Skeleton Formation in Sea Urchins
Advisor: Dr. Veronica Hinman |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
10:20 a.m.
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Break |
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10:40 a.m.
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Karen Kormuth
Evolutionary History, Expression and Regulation of polyketide synthase in Echinoderms
Advisor: Dr. Veronica Hinman |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
10:50 a.m.
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Rachel Stamateris
The Role of Wnt Signaling Components (Wnt16, Fz and LRP6) in the Polarized Degradation of β-catenin in the Sea Urchin Embryo (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)
Advisor: Dr. Charles Etternsohn |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
11 a.m.
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Joshua Millan
Signaling Pathways to Tissue Morphogenesis
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
11:10 a.m.
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Richard Decal
Testing the Hypothesis that Phosphorylation and Salt-Bridges Play a Key Role in the APC2-Armadillo Interaction in vivo
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
11:20 a.m.
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Kellie Kravarik
The Effect of Cell Death on APC Mutant Tissue Morphology
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
11:30 a.m.
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Kevin Watkins
Gene Function Analysis in Candida albicans Using the UAU1 Cassette
Advisor: Dr. Aaron Mitchell |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
11:40 a.m.
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Michelle Peck
Elimination of the Disulfide Bonds in MG13 in Order for it to Function as an Intracellular Biosensor
Advisor: Dr. Peter Berget |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| Noon |
Student Speaker Lunch |
MI Social Room (MI 328) |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Mekail Khan
Expression of AID in Yeast
Advisor: Dr. Gordon Rule
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MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
1:40 p.m.
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Katherine Bonnington
Enhancing Solubility and Exploring the Activity of AID in Vitro
Advisor: Dr. Gordon Rule |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
1:50 p.m.
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Lindsay McCullough
Developing Methods for Long Term Observation of Motor Movement
Advisor: Dr. David Hackney |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
2 p.m.
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James Hopkins
Formation of Novel Protein Purification Techniques
Advisor: Dr. David Hackney |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
2:10 p.m.
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Priyamvada Gupta
A Biophysical-Biochemical Investigation of Recombinant Hemoglobin
Advisor: Dr. Chien Ho |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
2:20 p.m.
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Cortlyn Brown
In Vitro Evaluation of Multimodal Nanoemulsions for 19F MRI with Biosensing Properties
Advisor: Dr. Eric Ahrens |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
2:30 p.m.
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Break |
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2:50 p.m.
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Molly Evans
Chemo-genetic Analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme Chemo-genetic Analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme
Advisor: Dr. Subha Das |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
3 p.m.
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Charles Miller
Design and Synthesis of PNA for DNA and RNA Targeting
Advisor: Dr. Bruce Armitage |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
3:10 p.m.
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Joohyeon (Jane) Lew
DNA Deamination Catalyzed by Adenosine Deaminase That Acts on RNA; and Cloning Overexpression and Purification of a tRNA Editing Enzyme
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
3:20 p.m.
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Andre Hersan
Determination of Three Dimensional Structures of ADARs and ADATs using X-Ray Crystallography
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
3:30 p.m.
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Amy Wang
A Structural Approach to Determining the Mechanism of Substrate Recognition by adenosine deaminases that act on RNA
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth
|
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| 3:40 p.m. |
Sefa Kploanyi
Structure-Function Analysis of ADARs: Crystallization of ADAR-RD bound to a synthesized RNA Substrate
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth
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MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| 3:50 p.m. |
Alex Edelman and Jake Mohin
Novel Techniques for Printed Electronics: Organic and Inorganic Components
Advisor: Dr. Tomek Kowalewski
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MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| 4:05 p.m. |
Concluding Remarks |
MI Conference Room (MI 348) |
| Friday, July 31 |
4 p.m. |
End of 2009 SURP |
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