**Poster Session II**

**Poster Session II**

**Thursday, October 11**

**1:30 to 3:00 PM**

**HIV/AIDS**

II.01 **Pauline Chugh**, Death Induction of HIV-infected Macrophages
Using PI3K/Akt Pathway Inhibitors

II.02 **Shauna Clark**, Distinct Mechanisms of HIV NNRTI
Hypersusceptibility: Increased Enzyme Susceptibility and Decreased Viral
Enzyme

II.03 **Shari Gordon,** Mucosal CD4 T-cell Depletion and Transient
Immune Activation in SIV-infected Sooty Mangabeys

II.04 **Michael Vetter**, Differential Expression of APOBEC3s in CD4+
T-helper Subsets and HIV-1 Infectivity

**IMMUNOLOGY**

II.05 **Sanjita Banerjee**, Meprin Metalloproteases Modulate Immune
Responses in a Murine Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

II.06 **Blaine Creasy**, Toll-like Receptor Signaling Regulates Cysteine
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II.07 **Jenni Crowley,** Primary and Memory B Cells Occupy Independent
Homeostatic Niches

II.08 **Timothy Hand,** Expression of Interleukin-7 Receptor a Is
Necessary but Not Sufficient for the Formation of Memory CD8 T Cells

II.09 **Diana Hargreaves,** Gene-specific Control of Inflammation by
TLR-induced Chromatin Modifications

II.10 **Matthew Hewitt**, The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training
Duration on Asthma-related Responses in Mice

II.11 **Nikhil Joshi,** Inflammation Regulates T-bet Expression to
Control the Development of Effector CD8 T Cells

II.12 **Kristin Killoran**, Intussusception in Mice Requires a Genetic
Predisposition and TLR4-mediated Inflammation

II.13 **Wenny (Shih-Wen) Lin**, AAV Vaccine Vectors
DampenTtransgene-specific CD8+ T-cell Responses to Subsequent Adenoviral
Vaccine Vectors

II.14 **Melanie Matheu**, Class IA PI-3 Kinase Regulation of Lymphocyte
Motility

II.15 **Sara Montminy,** Evasion of LPS-TLR4 Signaling Is Critical for
the Virulence of Yersinia

II.16 **Madhumitha Nandakumar**, Elucidating the Role of gamma-Linolenic
Acid in the *C. elegans* Immune Response

II.17 **Donald Simons**, Altered TCR Signaling by CD4+ T Lymphocytes
Cultured in the Rotating-wall Vessel Bioreactor

II.18 **Maria Torres**, Promising Vaccine Adjuvants Based on Novel
Amphiphilic Polyanhydrides

II.19 **Elizabeth Walsh**, Eosinophils Are Required for T-cell Migration
into Lungs during Allergic Airway Responses

II.20 **Haitao Wen**, Epigenetic Regulation of Interleukin-12 Production
in Dendritic Cells following Severe Sepsis

II.21 **Xuefang Xie**, Genetic Mapping of MHC Control of Innate MCMV
Immunity

II.22 **Yi Yang**, Heat Shock Protein gp96 Is Indispensable for
Macrophage Responses to Multiple TLR Ligands

II.23 **Yuan Zhao**, Defect in Conversion of CD4+CD25- Cells to
CD4+CD25+ Treg Cells in NOD Mice Resides in the APC

**MICROBIOLOGY AND VIRUSES**

II.24 **Melinda Brindley**, Equine Infectious Anemia Virus Enters ED
cells through a Low-pH Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis Event

II.25 **Joshua Burgess**, Characterization of PcRan1 and PCMei2: Novel
Genes Isolated from *Pneumocystis carinii* Involved in Meiosis

II.26 **Rachel Edwards**, *Legionella pneumophila* Links Cellular
Metabolism with Microbial Differentiation

II.27 **Erin Herbert**, CpxRA Regulation of Pathogenesis and Mutualism
in *Xenorhabdus nematophila*

II.28 **Judy Hwang**, Mapping Metabolic Pathways in the Metal Reducer,
*Shewanella oneidensis* MR-1

II.29 **Thomas Kehl-Fie**, *Kingella kingae* Expresses Type IV Pili
Regulated by PilS/PilR That Are Necessary for Adherence

II.30 **Jason Laliberte**, Virion Incorporation of Functional NDV
Glycoprotein Complexes Is Dependent on Membrane Raft Integrity

II.31 **Katherine Marcucci**, Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus Assembly and
Entry: Science-based Risk Analysis in Xenotransplantation

II.32 **Shasta McClenahan**, Detection and Molecular Characterization of
Marine Caliciviruses

II.33 **Helen McGraw**, HSV-1 gE Is Dispensable for Retrograde Transport
in Neurons

II.34 **Heather Painter**, To Live or Die: The Role of *P. falciparum*
Mitochondria in the Face of Electron Transport Inhibition

II.35 **Andrea Pruijssers**, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases from an
Insect Virus Are Antiphagocytic in Insect Immune Cells

II.36 **Cassandra Quave**, Natural Products from Italian Medicinal
Plants: Potential Anti-biofilm Agents for MRSA

II.37 **Laurie Sanders,** The Role of Error-prone Replication and
Mismatch Repair in Mutagenesis in *Pseudomonas aeruginosa*

II.38 **Rachel Schowalter**, Proteolytic Processing and Low pH Are
Critical to Human Metapneumovirus F Protein-promoted Fusion

II.39 **Grant Schulert**, Early Inhibition of Phagosome Maturation by
*Francisella tularensis*

II.40 **Lauren Turner**, Sortase A Is Required for *S. sanguinis*
Colonization in Experimental Infective Endocarditis

II.41 **Sungyong Won**, Rift Valley Fever Virus NSm Protein Inhibits
Virus-induced Apoptotic Cell Death

II.42 **Zhilong Yang**, Regulation of KSHV Lytic Replication by Its
Ttransactivator RTA and Repressors

**PROTEIN COMPLEXES**

II.43 **Sunandan Banerjee**, Metal-assisted Assembly of Collagen-like
Peptides

II.44 **Derek Francis**, Investigating the Structure of the Visual
Arrestin/Rhodopsin Complex

II.45 **Vanessa Lopez-Pajares,** Akt Promotes the Stabilization of the
p53 Negative Regulator, MDMX, in a 14-3-3 Dependent Manner

II.46 **Jeffrey Savas**, Huntington\'s Disease Protein Contributes to
RNAi through Association with Argonaute and P-bodies

II.47 **Duy Tran**, Drosophila Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein, DIAP2,
Dominantly Inhibits Pro-survival DIAP1

**PROTEIN STRUCTURE/FUNCTION**

II.48 **Jason Amsden**, Subpicosecond Protein Backbone Changes Detected
during the Proteorhodopsin Primary Photoreaction

II.49 **Carlos Castaneda**, NMR Spectroscopy Study of Molecular
Determinants of pKa Values of Carboxylic Groups in Proteins

II.50 **Tina Dasgupta,** Kinetic Characterization of Non-active Site
Regions in *Plasmodium falciparum* TS-DHFR

II.51 **Rebecca Fagan**, Differences in the Mechanism of Flavin
Reduction in Class 1A and Class 2 Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenases

II.52 **Nicolas Fawzi**, Critical Nucleus for Fibril Formation of the
Alzheimer\'s Abeta Peptide and Mutants by Molecular Simulations

II.53 **Erik Hadley**, An Antiparallel Coiled-coil Model System for the
Rapid Assessment of Side Chain Recognition

II.54 **Aditya Joshi** , Topology Model of Na+/dicarboxylate
Cotransporter 1

II.55 **Sung Chang Lee**, Identification of a Pore-lining Helix of the
Gap-junctional Protein Connexin 43 (Cx43)

II.56 **Jason Lehman**, Redox and DNA-dependent Conformational Changes
in Ku, a DNA Double-strand Break Repair Protein

II.57 **Shih-Ching Lo**, PGAM5 Anchors Keap1-Nrf2 Complex at
Mitochondria

II.58 **Hau Nguyen**, Solution Structure of Membrane Proteins from
*Mycobacterium tuberculosis*: Insight into Rv0008c and Its Complex

II.59 **William Pomerantz** , Design of Self-assembling β-Peptides:
Dilute Solution to Liquid Crystalline Phases

II.60 **Sabitha Prabhakaran**, BBK32 from *Borrelia burgdorferi* Induces
Superfibronectin Formation

II.61 **Jiang Qian**, Phosphorylation of Small Heat Shock Protein 20 at
Serine 16 Is Essential in Cardiac Protection against Ischemia

II.62 **Neggy Rismanchi**, STAM Adaptor Proteins Interact with COPII
Protein Complexes and Function in ER-to-Golgi Trafficking

II.63 **Veronica Segarra**, The Topology of Vcx1p, a Vacuolar H+/Ca2+
Exchanger in *Saccharomyces cerevisiae*

II.64 **Leila Shokri**, Salt-dependent Binding of T7 Gene 2.5 Protein to
Single and Double Stranded DNA

II.65 **Melodie Strickler**, Evidence that D1-Ala344 of Photosystem II
Does Not Ligate Calcium: An FTIR Difference Spectroscopy Study