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ABT 395/399
Glenn B. Collins Research Award
Spring 2018 Final Schedule
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2018; 10:00am to 5:00pm
Where: Cameron Williams Lecture Hall, Plant Science Building
Welcome: 10:00am Dr. Aardra Kachroo, ABT 395/399 course coordinator
10:00am April Lamb
Virulence and Genetic Determinants of Resistance to Streptomycin by the Tobacco Angular Leaf Spot Bacterium, Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tabaci
Mentor: Dr. Emily Pfeufer, Department of Plant Pathology, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
10:15am Grace Higgs
Distribution of Sodium in Bovine Brain Tissue in Relation to Diagnosing Sodium Intoxication
Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Gaskill, Department of Animal Sciences- Equine Programs, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
10:30am Meredith Johnson
Protective Effects of Maternal Exercise on Male Offspring Born to Mothers Exposed to PCB126
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Pearson, Department of Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences, UK College of Medicine
10:45am Osei Jordan
How Does an Alzheimer’s Disease Associated SNP Alter Expression or Splicing of MEF2C?
Mentor: Dr. Steve Estus, Department of Physiology and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, UK College of Medicine
11:00am Zachary Byrd
Utilization of Biomass Enzymes in Oak Additives
Mentor: Dr. Seth DeBolt, Department of Plant and Soil Science, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
11:15am Breanna Shoemaker
Expression and Functional Analysis of dsRNA Binding Proteins Loq and R2D2
Mentor: Dr. Subba Reddy Palli, Department of Entomology, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
11:30am Angela Wei
Immunohistochemistry of ABCC9 Proteins in Human Brain Tissue
Mentor: Dr. Peter Nelson, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, UK College of Medicine
11:45am-12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
12:30pm Bryce Marks
Integration of AAV8 Cap and AAV2 Rep into Cell Line 293ltv
Mentor: Dr. Michael Mendenhall, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry and the Center for Molecular Medicine – Genetic Technologies Core, UK College of Medicine
12:45pm Emily Major
Development and Characterization of a Model Post-Translationally Modified Protein Library
Mentor: Dr. Luke Bradley, Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, UK College of Medicine
1:00pm Tyler Barton
Chitosan-double Stranded RNA Nanoparticle Influence on Expression of myo-3 in Caenorhabditis elegans
Mentor: Dr. Jason Unrine, Department of Plant and Soil Science, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
1:15pm Nicole Payne
The Impact of Egg Size on Neodiprion Sawflies
Mentor: Dr. Catherine Linnen, Department of Biology, UK College of Arts & Sciences
1:30pm Anna Kogoy
Changes in Mineral Deposition in Foal Mane Hair from Birth through Weaning
Mentor: Dr. Mieke Brummer-Holder, Department of Animal & Food Sciences, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
1:45pm Clay Chew
Transgenics and Heredity of TALEN Edited Alleles in Axolotls
Mentor: Dr. Randal Voss, Department of Biology, UK College of Arts & Sciences
2:00pm Maya Cleveland
p53 Status Profiling of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Cell Lines
Mentor: Dr.Jessica Blackburn, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, UK College of Medicine
2:15pm Raegan Crossfield
The Control of FORMIN Twelve on Actin Cytoskeleton in Early Phase Endosperm Development
Mentor: Dr. Tomokazu Kawashima, Department of Plant and Soil Science, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
2:30pm Katelyn Cox
Transient Transfection of Mammalian Cells with Luciferase and mCherry Reporter Genes for Gold-Based Chemotherapeutics Screening
Mentor: Dr. Samuel G. Awuah, Department of Chemistry and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UK College of Arts & Sciences and UK College of Pharmacy
2:45pm Henry Moore
Finding New Molecules to Target an Old Pathway in Cancer
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Blackburn, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, UK College of Medicine
3:00pm-3:15pm BREAK
3:15pm Josiah Liew Liq Jong
Mutant FIP1 and Alternative Polyadenylation Profiles in Arabidopsis thaliana
Mentor: Dr. Arthur Hunt, Department of Plant and Soil Science, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
3:30pm Keaston Johnson
The Role of CagG and CagZ in the H. pylori cag Type IV Secretion System
Mentor: Dr. Carrie Shaffer, Department of Veterinary Science, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
3:45pm Randall Brewer
Direct and Indirect Effects of Winter Warming on Wolf Spiders
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Teets, Department of Entomology, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
4:00pm Hye Ree Yoon
Further Characterization of Strains of Colletotrichum Causing Bitter Rot Disease of Apples in Kentucky Orchards
Mentor: Dr. Lisa Vaillancourt, Department of Plant Pathology, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
4:15pm Joseph Stuart
How Does Estradiol Affect the Expression of Genes Associated with the G-protein and MAPK Pathways in Areas of the Brain that Control Drinking in Ovariectomized Female Rats?
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Santollo, Department of Biology, UK College of Arts & Sciences
4:30pm Kylie Colvin
Evaluating the Effects of Cold on Drosophila S2 Cells
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Teets, Department of Entomology, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
5:00PM Reception and Awarding of the Glenn B. Collins Agricultural Biotechnology Undergraduate Research Achievement Award