College of Biological Science -- Graduate Student Symposium
Poster Presentations
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Dipendra Karki - Construction of a Full-length Infectious Clone of Grapevine Pinot gris virus
Keywords: Grapevines, GPGV, infectious cDNA clones, mutational analysis, virulence
Greg Higgins - Bdellovibrio-and-Like Organism–specific Antibody Development for a Novel Predation Assay against Colorectal Cancer Oncomicrobes
Keywords: BALOs, Predatory Assays, Immunofluorescence, Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting, Antibodies
Maysa Niazy - Modeling the dynamics of the tonsil microbiota in relationship to Streptococcus suis disease in pigs
Keywords: Amplicon sequencing analysis, S. suis serotypes, Differential abundance analysis, DMM, and Metacommunities
Aleksandra Dolezal - Re-designing agricultural landscapes: The effect of habitat on arthropod communities
Keywords: arthropods, alpha diversity, beta diversity, gamma diversity, restored prairie,
Laura K Thompson - Escherichia coli Loss of Efflux Leads to Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Isogenic Mutants
Keywords: Escherichia coli, drug efflux pumps, phenotypic heterogeneity, oxidative stress
Arshia Leekha - Regulation of Dynactin by Palmitoylation during Fast Axonal Transport
Keywords: Fast axonal transport, Palmitoylation, Dynactin, Dynein, Neurons
Sarah Vancuren - Effect of diet in maintaining the diversity of Yanomami gut microbiota in vitro
Keywords: gut microbiota, microbiome model, pre-industrialization, diet, microbial diversity
Carlie Goodall - Investigating the antimicrobial efficacy of new generation higher oxidation state silver compounds
Keywords: Silver, Antimicrobial, Antimicrobial Resistance, Staphylococcus aureus, Proteomics
Alexandria Kellington - Investigating the effects of oxidized guanines in human physioxic molecular biology
Keywords: Physioxia, oxidation, 8-oxoguanine, gene expression
Bayonle Aminu - Targeted protein degradation using ubiquitin variant induced proximity
Keywords: Ubiquitin, degradation, ubiquitin variants, proteolysis, E3 ligases
Qi Liu - Development of inhibitors for human deubiquitinases
Keywords: Ubiquitin variants, Deubiquitinases, OTUD1, STAMBP, Lys63-linked ubiquitination
Tanisha Teelucksingh - A Simplified Genetic Background to Study the Substrate Specificities and Dispensability Patterns of Escherichia coli Drug Efflux Pumps
Keywords: Escherichia coli, efflux pumps, physiology, antibiotic resistance
Allison Leonard - Exogenous Fatty Acids Inhibit Staphylococcus aureus Adhesion to Host Ligands
Keywords: MRSA, adhesion, colonization, anti-adhesives, fatty acids
Victoria Wilson - Characterization of Putative β-Lactamases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Keywords: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Beta-Lactamases, Biofilms, Antimicrobial Resistance, Biochemistry
Norris Chan - The Vitis riparia E3 ubiquitin Ligase HOS1 can interact with proteins involved with cold acclimation and stomatal development
Keywords: HOS1, E3 ubiquitin ligase, Cold acclimation, Stomatal development, Protein interaction
Olivia Bebenek - Investigating the DEAD-box protein DDX28’s regulation of HIF-2α and eIF4E2-directed translation initiation and its role in cancer progression in hypoxia
Keywords: hypoxia, translation, DDX28, HIF, cancer
Michael Jones - A Tale of Two Diseases: Cardiomyopathy Onset and Differentiation Discerned Using R312
Keywords: Heart disease, Cardiomyopathy, Biochemistry, Protein Interactions, Microscopy
Owen Hebb - How floral repressors affect plant architecture and potential molecular mechanisms.
Keywords: Flowering, vegetative, development, plant-architecture, interactions
Monika Jesionowska - Studying protein-protein interactions of key regulators in the ICE-CBF-COR pathway of Vitis riparia
Keywords: CBF, OST1, grapes, freezing tolerance, co-IP
Viola Halder - Conducting genetic interaction analysis with CRISPR-Cas9-based strategies in Candida albicans
Keywords: genetic interaction, pathogenic fungus, CRISPR-Cas9, Candida albicans, stress response