**Poster Session III**

**Poster Session III**

**Friday, October 12**

**10:00 to 11:30 AM**

**EPIDEMIOLOGY/BIOSTATISTICS**

III.01 **Scott Keith**, Body Fat, Body Mass Index, and Mortality: A
Comparative Survival Analysis of NHANES III

III.02 **Molly Lamb**, Higher Dietary Glycemic Index Predicts
Progression to Type 1 Diabetes in Islet Autoimmune Children

III.03 **Alexander Pearson**, A Flexible Predictive Model Selection
Algorithm for Survival Time with High-dimensional Gene Array Data

III.04 **Jeremy Rassen**, Using Variations in Study Design to Examine
the Physician Prescribing Preference Instrumental Variable

III.05 **Kyla Shea**, Vitamin K and Vitamin D Status: Associations with
Inflammatory Markers in the Framingham Offspring Study

III.06 **Julia Simard**, Perinatal Factors and Adult-onset Lupus

III.07 **Laura Stadler**, Seroprevalence and Risk Factor Analysis of
Cytomegalovirus Infections in Adolescent Females

III.08 **Konstantinos Tsilidis**, C-reactive Protein and Colorectal
Adenoma in the CLUE II Cohort

III.09 **Lu Wang**, How to Correct for Bias and Gain Efficiency when
Estimating Nonparametric Functions with Missing Outcomes

III.10 **Edwina Yeung**, The Effects of Macronutrient Intake Independent
of Weight Loss on Insulin Resistance

**GENETICS/GENOMICS**

III.11 **Kerry Kocher Brown**, Cytogenetic Approaches for Identifying
Novel Genes and Regulatory Elements Associated with Hearing Loss

III.12 **Buxin Chen**, Prion Species Barrier at the Short Phylogenetic
Distances in the Yeast Model

III.13 **Cheryl Cropp**, The Role of SLC22A7 (OAT2) and its Genetic
Variants in the Transport of Acyclovir

III.14 **David Fardo,** Recovering Unused Information in Genomewide
Association Studies: A Revision of QC Convention

III.15 **Andrea Lafont**, Identification and Characterization of Signal
Pathways Leading to Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections

III.16 **Jessica Mar**, Inferring Steady State Single-cell Gene
Expression Distributions from Analysis of Mesoscopic Samples

III.17 **Anand Merchant,** Role of Sequestosome1 in the Molecular
Genetics of Paget's Disease of Bone

III.18 **Tiffany Oliver**, Exploring the Role of Maternal Age and the
Location of Recombination in Chromosome 21 Nondisjunction

III.19 **Kathryn Penney**, Variation in the 8q24 Region and Prostate
Cancer Metastasis and Mortality

III.20 **Latasha Redmond**, Identification of Erythroid-enriched Genes
in the Mouse Embryonic Yolk Sac Using Microdissected Cells

III.21 **Nicholas Sanek**, Zic2a and Hedgehog Signaling in Early
Forebrain Development

III.22 **Anamaria Sudarov**, Initiation of Cerebellum Foliation Requires
Formation of Multicellular Anchoring Centers

III.23 **Michelle Turski**, Elucidating the Roles of Copper and Ctr1
Proteins in Metazoan Organisms: New Insights from the Fruit Fly

III.24 **Yee Wu**, Novel Real-time PCR Assays to Elucidate the Copy
Number Variations of the Human Complement Component C4 Genes

**PUBLIC HEALTH/GLOBAL HEALTH**

III.25 **Akhila Balasubramanian**, Cost-effectiveness of Cervical Cancer
Screening by HPV DNA Testing of Self-collected Vaginal Samples

III.26 **Ghasi Phillips**, Prepregnancy Depressive Symptoms and Preterm
Birth among African-American Women

III.27 **Elizabeth Ruder**, Dietary Antioxidant Status in Couples with
Unexplained Infertility

**REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION**

III.28 **Carey Connelly**, Expression Patterns of Odorant Receptor Genes
with Chimeric Regulatory Regions

III.29 **Shuyun Dong**, Edc3p-mediated Cytoplasmic Degradation of
Intron-containing YRA1 Pre-mRNA

III.30 **David Frescas**, The Putative Tumour Suppressor JHDM1B
Demethylates H3K4me3 to Repress Transcription of Ribosomal RNA Genes

III.31 **Ryan McMullin**, Characterization of Transcriptional Regulation
for the Prostate-specific, Androgen-independent Gene Hoxb13

III.32 **Rachel Novak**, The Role of Rybp in the Regulation of p53
Transcriptional Activity and Stability

III.33 **Ling Pan,** Isl1 and Brn3b Co-regulate the Terminal
Differentiation of Murine Retinal Ganglion Cells

III.34 **Morgan Salmon**, Overexpression of the Transcription factor,
ZBP-89, Leads to Enhancement of the Myogenic Program in C2C12 myo

III.35 **Jamil Scott**, Tissue Interactions and Molecular Factors
Involved in Gonad Specification in the Avian Embryo

III.36 **Jennifer Sims**, Expression of Cell Fate-specific Genes Is
Regulated by Monomethyled Histone H4K20 and H3K9

III.37 **Brandi Thompson**, CHD8, a Novel Chromatin Remodeling Enzyme

III.38 **Nathan Vanderford**, Proteasomal Degradation of MafA in
Pancreatic Beta Cells

III.39 **Kasey Vickers**, Gene Regulation of Calcifying Vascular Cells
in Human Atherosclerosis

III.40 **Benjamin Weaver**, Zinc Controls the Mouse Zinc Transporters
Zip4 and Zip5 by Diverse Posttranscriptional Mechanisms

**SIGNALING**

III.41 **Laura Barbosky**, Sonic Hedgehog Modulates Secondary Heart
Field Addition to the Arterial Pole

III.42 **Thomas Coate**, Reverse Signaling by a GPI-Linked Ephrin
Regulates Neuronal Migration via a Src Family Kinase

III.43 **Karen Corbin**, The Role of Endothelial Argininosuccinate
Synthase Phosphorylation in Cardiovascular Health

III.44 **Brian Dranka**, Chronic Exposure to Nitric Oxide Changes the
Balance between Cytoprotective and Cytotoxic Signaling Pathways

III.45 **Karen Edelblum**, Raf-1 Promotes Cell Survival following Injury
and Inflammation in the Intestinal Epithelium

III.46 **Elim Hong,** Cadherin-based Adhesion Cooperates with
non-Canonical Wnt Signaling to Mediate Morphogenesis in the Zebrafish

III.47 **Kathryn Lipson**, The Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress
Signaling in Pancreatic Beta Cells

[III.48 **Lynda McGinnis,** Localized Activation of Src-family Protein
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III.49 **Rebecca Roof**, Peptide Ligands of Regulators of G-Protein
Signaling 4 from a Focused One-bead, One-compound Library

III.50 **Jennifer Rudolph,** The Role of Rit GTPase in Neuronal Survival

III.51 **Michelle Smith**, Apoptosis Regulation in Developing Skeletal
Muscle: Novel Pathways and Increased Control

III.52 **Todd Townsend**, Endocardial Cell Transformation Is Dependent
on Par6 Regulation of RhoA

III.53 **Xiaohui Yan**, Function of STIM-1 in *C. elegans*: SOCE Is Not
Essential for Ca2+ Signaling

III.54 **Qian Yang,** Current and Beyond: Sin1 as an Essential mTORC2
Subunit

**SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE**

III.55 **Nancy Adleman**, Depression in Adolescence: Differentiation
Using fMRI

III.56 **Chun-Chun Chen**, Social Regulation of Corticotropin-releasing
Factor, Binding Protein, and Receptors in a Teleost

III.57 **Rosa Gonzalez**, Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate
Partner Violence among Hispanic Women

III.58 **Miwa Yasui**, Examining Ecological Resilience among African
American, American Indian, and European American Adolescents

**TOXICOLOGY/ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH**

III.59 **Minjeong So**, Genotoxicity Evaluation from Phase II Metabolism
of an Arylamine Using a Biosensor

III.60 **Tamara Tal**, Impairment of Tyrosine Phosphatase Activity in
Primary Human Lung Cells Exposed to Diesel Exhaust

III.61 **Naveed Zafar**, Umbilical Cord Blood Lead Levels and Associated
Factors in Karachi, Pakistan

III.62 **Jennifer Zipprich**, XRCC1 399Gln and Base Excision Repair