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Fall 2022 Schedule
Fall 2022 ABT 395 Student Presentations
Tuesday, November 29 9:00am to Noon
Friday, December 2 9:00am to 3:30pm
Location: Cameron Williams Lecture Hall in the Plant Science Building
Please contact Esther Fleming, efleming@uky.edu, for more information.
Tuesday, November 29
8:55am Aardra Kachroo Welcome and Introductions
9:00am Peyton Coburn Unlocking GPCPD1's secret; Discovering the role of a possible oncogene
Mentor: Ramon Sun, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine
9:15am Caleb Gooden Back to the roots: Characterizing alternative polyadenylation and use of differential TAS3 site choice in root development of Trifolium pratense and Medicago truncatula
Mentor: Arthur Hunt, Ph.D., Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
9:30am Elisabeth Rintamaa Brain metabolic phenotyping in honeybees provides new insights into traumatic brain injury
Mentor: Clare Rittschof, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
9:45am Ariana Spina Origin of MSTN variant for speed in horses: Thoroughbred or Turkoman
Mentor: Ernest Bailey, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
10:00am Kiera Carlisle Developmental color changes in Neodiprion lecontei
Mentor: Catherine Linnen, Ph.D., Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
10:15am Georgia Avery Characterization of diverse Fusarium sporotrichidies isolates from Hemp
Mentor: Nicole Gauthier, Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
10:30am Erin Thomas Detection and identification of Fusarium spp. causing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) on hemp
Mentor: Nicole Gauthier, Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
10:45am Kristin Carlton Investigating what role gene 356 plays in neurotropic infection of Listeria monocytogenes
Mentor: Sarah D’Orazio, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine
11:00am Amber Dotson Uniquely Kentucky wines: Bioprospecting the native flora for novel microorganisms
Mentor: Carlos Rodriguez Lopez, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
11:15am Jena Malone Evaluation of renal function in a hypertense rat model due to in utero morphine exposure by assessing chronic glomerular filtration rate
Mentor: Analia Loria, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine
11:30am Caitlynn Bryant Biochemical analysis of novel DNA binding proteins in the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori
Mentor: Carrie Shaffer, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Friday, December 1
10:25am Aardra Kachroo Welcome and Introductions
10:30am Reagan Knight Developing a novel zebrafish model to define the role of the PRL phosphatases in development and cancer
Mentor: Jessica Blackburn, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, College of Medicine
10:45am Ashley McGrath The functional effects of eccrine sweating from transdermal compound movement
Mentor: Ernest Bailey, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
11:00am Lucca Madeo Cortarelli Nanoparticle delivery of plant hormones to Artemisia annua hairy roots to increase elicitation of bioactive metabolites
Mentor: John Littleton, Ph.D., Naprogenix, Inc.
11:15am Using data sonification to further understanding of molecular processes
Mentor: Luke Bradley, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine
11:30am Sofia Rashid Truffle inoculation with pecans
Mentor: Seth DeBolt, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
11:45am Michael Buoncristiani Lasering in on the Appalachian lung cancer disparity with MALDI-MSI
Mentor: Ramon Sun, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine
12:00-12:55 PM LUNCH
1:00pm Autumn Rodgers DNA extraction and purification, observing a single GALACTOKINASE gene in both Arabidopsis thaliana and Zea mays
Mentor: Bruce Downie, Ph.D., Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
1:15pm Ashley Hadley Soybean biological yield response to multiple seed treatments
Mentor: Chad Lee, Ph.D., Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
1:30pm Rachel Snyder The effect of thermal exposure on transgenerational plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster
Mentor: Nicholas Teets, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
1:45pm Tyler Jessup Sex differences in amyloid beta and APP in APPxPS1 wild-type mice
Mentor: Michael Murphy, Ph.D., Department Molecular and Cellular of Biochemistry, College of Medicine
2:00pm Chase Eastham Defining domains of a recruitment protein in Tombusviridae essential for viral replication organelle formation
Mentor: Peter Nagy, Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
2:15pm Emilee Albright The effects of GIPC3 mutation on hair cell function and hearing loss
Mentor: Hou-Fu Guo, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, College of Medicine
2:30pm Syd Moss Comparison of immune response to vaccination: Old versus young horses
Mentor: Amanda Adams, Ph.D., Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment