2007 GORDON-KENAN GRADUATERESEARCH SEMINAR: POLYAMINES＜Posters＞
1. Jennifer J Archer (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA)
Inhibition of topoisomerase II by linear anthrasene-polyamine conjugates:A new class of
DNA intercalators with high polyamine transport selectivity and cytotoxicity
2. SHRIDHAR BALE (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
Structural insights into putrescine activation of human S-adenosylmethionine
decarboxylase
3. MARC CERRADA-GIMENEZ (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Enhanced gluconeogenesis coupled with glucose sensitivity on a transgenic mouse linewith activated polyamine catabolism
4. TERAYA M DONALDSON (ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Comparative Investigation of Methylthio Activity in Apicomplexan Purine Nucleoside
Phosphorylase
5. Paula L Feinberg-Zadek (MASSACHSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Polyamine facilitate a 'molecular switch'from LTD to LTP in the,edoa; nucleus tractus
solitarius
6. ALISON V FRASER (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
The effect of Nrf2 Knockdown in human cancer cells
7. TACHA ZI M FULGHAM (UMEA UNIVERSITY
Spermidine Synthase, a Myc target and potential target for cancer treatment
8. ANDREW GOODWIN (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis and inflammatory cytokines induce spermine oxidase(SMO) in human colorectal cancer cell line HT29/c1
9. COLLIN C HANFREY (INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESERCH)
Polyamine excess elicits a broad oxidative stress response in plant cells independetly ofpolyamine oxidase
10. KYOHEI HIGASHI (CHIBA UNIVERSITY)
Identification of a Spermidine Excretion Protein Complex (MdtJI) in Escherichia coli
11. KEIKO KASHIWAGI (CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE)
Binding of spermine and ifenprodil to a purified, soluble regulatory domain of theN-methyl-D-aspartate receptor
12. NAVNEET KAUR (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA)
Synthesis, Biological evaluation and Modeling of the Preferred Shapes of Polyamine
Transporter Ligands and Dihydromotuporamine-C Mimics: The Shovel versus the Hoe
13. SHIN KURIHARA (RIKEN BRC-JCM)
A Novel Putrescine degradation Pathway Involves Gamma-glutamylated Intermediates ofEscherichia Coli K-12
14. DANA-LYNN T KOOMOA ( CANCER RESEARCH CENTER OF HAWAII)
The role of putrescine, spermidine and spermine in cell cycle and cellsurvivale ofneuroblastoma cells
15. JEONGMI LEE (UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER)
Evolution of beta/alpha-barrel fold decarboxylase
16. SHORENA NADARAIA (PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Structural and Functional Studies of Spermidine Synthase
17. SAVITHRI U NAMBEESAN (PURDUE UNIVERSITY)
Dissecting roles of polyamines in plant growth and development using forward andreverse genetics
18. SHANNON L NOWOTARSKI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Egr-1 as a Putative Transcriptional Regulator of Ornithine Decarboxylase (ODC)
19. JOLITA SECKUTE (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
Structual insights into human spermidine synthase
20. CHENXU SHI (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Key enzymes in the polyamine biosynthesis pathway
21. YUSUKE TERUI (CHIBA INSTITUTE 0F SCIENCE)
Syntheses of RpoN, Cra, and H-NS are enhanced by polyamines at the level of translationin Eschericia coli
22. YUICHI TSUBOI (KYOTO UNIVERSITY)
A novel putrescine importer, PuuP, of Escherichia coli
23. TAKESHI UEMURA (CHIBA UNIVERSITY)
Identification and characterization of polyamine preferential uptake proteins inSaccharomyces cerevisiae
24. XIAOJING WANG (PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Localization of spermine synthase and its possible roles
25. ERIN K WILLERT (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MED CENTER)
Trypanosomatid S-adenyosylmethionine decarboxylase is activated by heterodimer

formation with an inactive paralog