**Poster Session I**

**Poster Session I**

**Thursday, October 11**

**11:00 AM to 12:30 PM**

**BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING**

I.01 **Dhiman Bhattacharyya**, Molecularly Tailored Surfaces for
Biocompatibility of Materials and Drug Delivery Applications

I.02 **Kenneth Byrd**, Prostate Cancer Surveillance System: Design of a
Virtual Prototype for a Cylindrical IR Fiber-optic Lens

I.03 **Zackary Cleveland**, Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 MRI and NMR
Spectroscopy: Prospects for Pulmonary Biomedicine

I.04 **Jennifer Greeson**, Probing Protein-Protein Interactions and
Membrane Curvature in the Outer Hair Cell

I.05 **Michael Heffernan**, Polyketal Microparticles for Vaccine
Delivery

I.06 **Kristin Hennessy**, RGD Peptides Inhibit the Osseointegration of
Hydroxyapatite Implants

I.07 **Christopher Jewell**, Release of DNA from Intravascular Stents
Coated with Ultrathin Multilayered Polyelectrolyte Films

I.08 **Mambidzeni Madzivire**, Optical Molecular Imaging of Targeted
Nanoparticles for Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque Detection

I.09 **Nicole Moore**, Design and Characterization of Bifunctional
Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Gene Delivery Vehicles

I.10 **Jessica Morgan**, Imaging Individual Human and Primate Retinal
Pigment Epithelial Cells in vivo

I.11 **Pulak Nath**, A Microfluidic Platform for Rapid Isolation and
Identification of Cells Based on Magnetic Cell Separation

I.12 **Louise Organ**, Cholesterol Concentration Affects the Lateral
Mobility of Outer Hair Cell Membrane Constituents

I.13 **Wanyong Shin**, Quantitative Cerebral Perfusion Measurement Using
MR Imaging: Ischemic Threshold Measurement

I.14 **Jean-Bosco Tagne** , Nanoformulation of Drugs and Use of
Microarray Technology in Cancer Studies

**CANCER**

I.15 **Jacqueline Barlow,** Ionizing Radiation- and Endonuclease-induced
DNA Double-strand Breaks Are Processed Differently during G1

I.16 **Laura Cardenas-Navia**, Characterization of Spatio-temporal
Vascular pO2 Fluctuations in Three Rat Tumors

I.17 **Kathryn Chavez**, Identification and Elucidation of Natural
Products as Leads for Pharmaceutically Active Compounds

I.18 **Cristine Chisholm**, Regulation of Prostate Derived Ets Factor by
Protein Kinase CK2

I.19 **Sarah Dunlap**, Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2
(IGFBP2) Promotes Glioma Development and Progression

I.20 **Tyesha Farmer**, Early Onset Breast Cancer Genomics and Tumor
Biology in Alabama Women

I.21 **Vivian Gama**, Hdm2 Is an Ubiquitin Ligase for the Anti-apoptotic
Protein Ku70

I.22 **Christopher Heaphy**, Telomere DNA Content Predicts Overall and
Breast Cancer-free Survival Intervals

I.23 **Michael Hitchler**, Histone Modifications Participate in the
Transcriptional Regulation of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase

I.24 **Yafei Huang**, A Strong Association between Body Fat Mass and
Proteomes of Nipple Aspirate Fluid

I.25 **Sung Jin Huh**, Krüppel-like factor 6 Regulates Early Melanoma
Development in a Type I Collagen-rich Environment

I.26 **Rita Humeniuk**, Epigenetic Modulation of Acquired Resistance to
5-FU Treatment in Colorectal Cancer

I.27 **Christopher Jedeszko**, Evaluating Collagen Proteolysis and
Proteases in 3D in vitro Organotypic Models of Ductal Carcinoma in situ

I.28 **Jeffrey Knight**, Mapping Genetic Variation in Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)

I.29 **Hakim Lawal**, Dopamine Modulates Cell Migration during
Drosophila Development in a Dynamin-dependent Mechanism

I.30 **Jyotsana Menon**, Inhibition of Lung Cancer Cell Growth by
Angiotensin-(1-7)

I.31 **Prasun Mishra**, DHFR as an Oncogene: A microRNA Binding Site SNP
Leads to Cellular Transformation and Drug Resistance

I.32 **Priyadharsini Nagarajan**, Overexpression of Ets1 Induces
Dysplastic Transformation in Squamous Epithelia

I.33 **Abdo Najy**, ADAM15 Plays a Critical Role in Prostate Cancer
Metastasis by Modulating Metastatic-associated Proteins

I.34 **Masako Nakanishi**, Genetic Deletion of mPGES-1 Suppresses
Intestinal Tumorigenesis in ApcΔ14/+ Mice

I.35 **Joshua O\'Donnell**, BRCA1 185delAG Mutant Protein (BRAT)-induced
Maspin Expression and Apoptosis in Ovarian Cells

I.36 **Lake Paul**, The Differential Phosphorylation Patterns of the
Ephrin Tyrosine Kinase Receptor, EphA2, in Epithelial Cancers

I.37 **Kathryn Poland**, A Novel t(17;19)(q23;q13) Translocation in
Pediatric AML

I.38 **Vishnu Prakash Ramani**, Multiple Roles of Kallikrein 7 (KLK7) in
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

I.39 **Vaibhav Saini**, Adenovirus as a Platform for Selective Assembly
and Targeted Delivery of Gold Nanoparticles to Tumors

I.40 **Lynn Sniderhan**, Autocrine Neurotrophin Signaling Promotes
Survival of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Cells

I.41 **Shala Thomas**, Synergistic Interaction between Curcumin Analogs
and p38 MAPK Inhibitors

I.42 **Alison Ting**, Effects of Tamoxifen on Early Mammary and Ovarian
Cancer in the Rat

I.43 **Yu-Chieh Wang**, Targeting ER-Stress and Akt Signaling to
Overcome EGFR Inhibitor-resistance in NSCLC Cells with Activated Akt

I.44 **Jill Wykosky**, Therapeutic Targeting of EphA2 with a Novel,
Potent, and Specific EphrinA1-based Cytotoxin

I.45 **Jiayi Yang**, Smads 2, 3 Mediate TGF-beta-induced Apoptosis in
Prostate Epithelial Cells: Role of Cell Cycle and Apoptosis

I.46 **Eli Zunder**, Anticipating Clinical Resistance: Identification of
Drug-resistant PI3K Mutants

**CELL CYCLE**

I.47 **Christina Kittipatarin**, IL-7 Maintains Lymphocyte Homeostasis
through the Activity of Cdc25A

**MITOSIS/CHROMOSOMES**

I.48 **Chih-ying Lee**, Chromosome Behavior during Meiotic Prophase in
*Saccharomyces cerevisiae*

I.49 **Benjamin Williams,** Disruption of Topoisomerase II Perturbs
Pairing in Drosophila Cell Culture

**MOLECULAR MODELING/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY/INFORMATICS**

I.50 **Jianye Ge**, DNA Identification by Pedigree Likelihood Ratio

I.51 **Woei-jyh Lee**, Mining Meaningful Associations from Annotations
in Life Science Data Resources

I.52 **Arvind Rao**, Identification of Long-range Transcriptional
Regulatory Elements

I.53 **Kellie Sims**, LAG1 and the Chronological Lifespan of Yeast

I.54 **Shanna Williams**, Is Facial Aging Only Skin Deep? Assessing
Senescence in the Midfacial Skeleton

**REGENERATIVE** **MEDICINE/TISSUE ENGINEERING**

I.55 **Grace Ha**, Immunodeficiency Impairs Reinjury-induced Reversal of
Neuronal Atrophy

I.56 **Jennifer Hipp**, In silico Analysis of Hemangioblasts Derived
from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

I.57 **Rebecca Long**, Strain-induced Bladder Smooth Muscle Remodeling

I.58 **Lijoy Mathew,** Using Chemical Genetics to Unravel Regenerative
Signaling Pathways

I.59 **Daphne Salick**, Innate Antibacterial Activity of β-Hairpin
Hydrogels

I.60 **Anthony Tuesca**, The Oral Delivery of Insulin Using Protein
Conjugates in Nanoporous Complexation Hydrogels

**STEM CELLS**

I.61 **Tae-Yeon Eom**, Inhibitors of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Protect
Neural Precursor Cells from Apoptosis

I.62 **Kannan Krishnamurthy**, Ceramide Regulates Atypical PKC-mediated
Cell Polarity in Primitive Ectoderm Cells

I.63 **Katarzyna Trzaska**, Induction of Dopaminergic Cells from Adult
Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells