2013 SUMMER RESEARCH – Student Poster Session
Congratulations Summer Research Students & Mentors, and Kudos to the Winners!
On Saturday, October 12th from 2-4p, the Brousseau Atrium accommodated the 2013 - 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Session, where students competed for two coveted awards: The Joseph P. McKenna Award & Medal, and the Fletcher Jones Award.
Winner of the Joseph P. McKenna Award and Medal for Best Research
Nikita Chaudhri
“The Role of Sonic Hedghog on Dendritic Growth in Sympathetic Neurons.”
Mentor: Dr. Vidya Chandrasekaran (Biology)
2nd Runners Up
Trevor Bushong
The Effects of MicroRNA-21 on BMP Induced Dendritic Growth.”
Mentor: Dr. Vidya Chandrasekaran (Biology)
Ryan Keane
“Friend or Foe: Analyzing Biofilm Behavior and the Role of Exopolysaccharide in Bacterial Interactions.”
Mentor: Dr. James Berleman (Biology)
Winner of the Fletcher Jones Award for the Application of the Scientific Method
Tessa Pearman
“Geometric Morphonmetrics of Gorilla and Pan Scapulae.”
Mentors: Dr. Rebecca Jabbour (Biology)
Dr. Weiwei Pan (Mathematics)
Marco Avalos
“Data Mining and Graphing Theoretic Clustering Geographic Variation in African Ape Limb Bones.”
Mentors: Dr. Weiwei Pan (Mathematics)
Dr. Rebecca Jabbour (Biology)
Brandon Balamut
“Investigating Coacervate Drug Delivery Systems with NMR.”
Mentor: Dr. Mark Lingwood (Chemistry)
Austin Bravo
“Wavelet Filters for Image Segmentation.”
Mentor: Dr. Edward Boyda (Physics)
Jennifer Chapman Varela
“Air Quality at Devils Postpile National Monument.”
Mentor: Dr. Joel Burley (Chemistry)
Alex Choy
“Ranking teams in partially-disjoint tournaments.”
Mentor: Dr. Chris Jones (Mathematics)
Anne Dinh
“Developing a Bioassay for Triclosan Toxity.”
Mentors: Dr. Vidya Chandrasekaran (Biology)
Dr. Steven Bachofer (Chemistry)
Alexis Gonzales
“Chemical Analysis of the Organic Binding Materials in Paint using Silylation Dervatization Techniques and GC-MS.”
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Shulman (Chemistry)
Martin Hall
“Cloning and Initial Expression of Endopeptidase EC 3.4.24.16.”
Mentors: Dr. Jeffrey Sigman (Chemistry)
Evangelina Lopez
“Chemical Trapping: The Determination of the Aromatic Counterion Distribution Stabilizing the 12-4-12 Surfactant Micelle transformation.”
Mentor: Dr. Steven Bachofer (Chemistry)
Robert Tabor
“A Survey of Spectrally Variable Craters within the Syrtis Major Quadrangle; The Search for Carbonates on Mars.”
Mentor: Dr. Alice Baldridge (Environmental Science)
Stephen Whelan
“Investigation into the Sphere to Rod Micellar transition of the 12-3-12 Br Gemini Surfactant in the Presence of Sodium, Para-fluorobenzoate.”
Mentor: Dr. Steven Bachofer (Chemistry)
Slesha Thapa (Off-campus)
“Genotype Specific Differences between Cell Junction Proteins and ECM Proteins in Claudin-5 Gene Knockout Heart Tissue.”
Mentor: Dr. Jill A. Rafael-Fortney
Department of Molecular and Cell Biochemistry
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Thank You to the Judges:
Dr. Kenneth Brown (Chemistry)
Dr. Lynyonne Cotton (Psychology)
Dr. Keith Garrison (Biology)
Dr. Michael Nathanson (Mathematics)
Dr. Marianne Rosario (Physics)
Karen Trang (Student)
Nathalie Lambrecht (Student)
With Appreciation to Our Donors:
Mal and Sylvia Boyce
Linda Fitzpatrick
Robert W. and Beverly J. Summers Scholarship
Note ~ The Summer Research Program has run continuously since 1986 providing one-on-one research mentoring to over 230 students during a ten-week period of intensive research each summer. Program funding is provided in part by the endowment fund and in part by the college operating budget. In addition, awards have been contributed by the Provost, and by private donations.