Nicholas Marcil – UL Lafayette – No Longer Wasted: Potential of Food Waste for Bioenergy Production – Engineering – Poster Oscar McClain – Southern Baton Rouge – Using a Micrometer Film Applicator to Determine Platinum Loading for Electrodes – Engineering – Presentation Zinaida Ospipova – UL Monroe - The French Revolution of 1789 as a Model for the Russian Revolution of 1917 – History - Presentation Session 2 – 10:30 – 11:45 River Room Cayman Stephen – UL Lafayette – Employment of Hair Bundle Mechanoreceptors on Tentacles of Nematostella vectensis in Detection and Capture of Benthic Prey – Biology – Presentation Delena Phung – UL Lafayette- First report of an endolithic species of Rhodosorus Geitler growing inside Lithothamnion rhodoliths from Louisiana -Biology – Poster Hayden Torres – UL Lafayette-Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Expression in Mouse Model of Demyelination. – Biology - Poster Session 2 – 10:30-11:45 Room Kristofer McKinney – SUBR – Race-gender specific associations between sleep characteristics, allostatic load and stroke in the REGARDS Study- Biology – Presentation Cathy McLeod – SUBR - Examining the Relationship between Economic Class, Race, and Nonparticipation in the Political Process - Political Science - Presentation Jaime M. Williams – Grambling State – Alabama: Great Destination or Place to Avoid for African Americans? – Political Science/Sociology – Presentation Tien Dinh, UNO, Understanding the 5-year Changes in neighborhoods along rthe New Orleans’ Main Streets and Commerical Corridor LUNCH 12:00 – 1:00 Student Cafeteria - Students please use your cafeteria tickets ** You will need to go downstairs and cross over to the other half of the union to go upstairs to the cafeteria. Acadiana Room - Staff, please attend lunch and the business meeting in the Acadiana Room on the second floor behind the elevator.
SESSION 3 1:15-2:30 Session 3 – 1:15 – 2:30 Pelican Room Mohammad Soorya – Nicholls - Identifying Csy-3 protein in Vibrio parahemolyticus isolates – Biology – Poster Sarah Soorya – Nicholls – Effects of Highlight Treatments on Antocyanin Production in Protea repens with Distinct Genetic Backgrounds – Biology – Poster Silvienne Sint Jago – UL Monroe - SOCS36E Neurobehavioral Traits and Lifespan in Drospila melanogaster High Sugar Obesity-like State – Biology Presentation Session 3 – 1:15-2:30 River Room Keyon K. Jones - Grambling - Molecular Characterization of Stem Cells Isolated from the Skin, Bone Marrow and Adipose Tissue – Biology – Presentation Alexis White – Grambling State – What is Carpal Tunnel? - Biology - Presentation Terrence Curry – Southern University Baton Rouge – LPP3 Deficiency Enhances LPA Mediated Signaling and Impairs Mitochondrial Function – Biology - Presentation Session 3 – 1:15 – 2:30 Bayou Room Alianndra D. Williams – Grambling State –A Closer Look at the Big Apple – Presentation Michelle Butcher, UNO, Rehabilitation and Blight Remediation - Presentation Breanna Breaux, Kelsey S. Milson – Grambling State – Investigating the Black Lives Matter Movement on the Campus of Grambling State university – Political Science/Sociology -Presentation Brooke Mazac – Nicholls – Examining the Construct of Time-On-Task in an iPad Assisted Reading intervention at-Risk Students – Psychology/Education