Chemistry and Biochemistry

POSTER SESSION, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Campus Center, Odeum

AFLP Analysis of Introgression

Margaret Allard
Advisors: Michael Buckholt (BB), Lauren Matthews (BB)

Analysis of Apoptin as Potential Cancer Therapy

Tina Aoude, Timothy McMath
Advisor: Destin Heilman

Nanoparticle-Based Bioanalysis

John Austin
Advisors: William Yu, Susan Zhou (CM)

Investigating the Ability of Porcine Circovirus 2 to Selectively Target and Kill Cancer Cells

Krista Baker, Roseann Gammal
Advisor: Destin Heilman

Porous Materials

Kelton Barnsley
Advisor: John MacDonald

The effect of 14-3-3-ß on PKC Stimulated DAT Endocytosis

Steven Barton
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Haley Melikian (UMass Medical School)

Enantiomeric Separation of Racemic Drugs Using Chiral Self-Assembled Monolayers

Thomas Blaisdell
Advisor: John MacDonald

A Pathogenesis Screen Using Caenorhabditis elegans to Identify Virulence Factors in Candida albicans

Margaret Chiasson, Benjamin Landry, Kurtis McCannell, Kelly Pastor (BB)
Advisor: Reeta Prusty Rao (BB)

TYRA-3, a Tyraminergic G Protein-coupled Receptor, Modulates Locomotion in C. elegans

Candace Choinard
Advisor: David Adams (BB), Mark Alkema (UMass Medical School)
Sponsor: UMass Medical School

Monitoring SOD1 Aggregation: The Hunt for Soluble Oligomers

Noah Cohen
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Haley Melikian (UMass Medical School)

Synthesis of Near-IR Fluorophores Towards in Vivio Protein Detection

Molly Congdon
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Stephen Miller (UMass Medical School)
Sponsor: UMass Medical School

Synthesis of Potassium Binding Azocrown-Calix[4]arene

Nicholas Crider
Advisor: Grant McGimpsey

Genetic Analysis of Histone Modification in Transcription

Jared Curtin
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Oliver Rando (UMass Medical School)

Stress Gene Expression in H. dujardini

John Davis
Advisors: Kristin Wobbe, Heidi Tissenbaum (UMass Medical School)

Exploring Multimerization and the Cancer- Killing Potential of Human Torque Tenu Virus VP3: an Apoptin Homalog

Maria Decicco, James Schiemer
Advisor: Destin Heilman

Ion-Sensitive Membranes

William Grady
Advisors: Grant McGimpsey, Christopher Lambert

HIV Drugs and Glucan Particles

Alexandra Griffin, Joseph Walsh
Advisor: David Adams (BB)

Recombinant Reovirdae HIV Vaccine

Cameron Habib
Advisor: Destin Heilman, Max Nibert (Harvard Medical School)
Sponsor: Harvard Medical School

The Effect of Substrate Variation on Biofilm Growth for Use in Wastewater Treatment

Alysia Hayes, Kristin Renault, Sebastian Cohn
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Terri Camesano (CM)

PKC Beta Activity Regulates DAT Plasma Membrane Presentation

Michael King
Advisors: David Adams (BB), Haley Melikian (UMass Medical School)

PVC1 Analysis

Jameson Kokolis, Lauren Spada
Advisor: Destin Heilman

Correlating Pentosidine Levels with Age in Avian Species

Jennifer LaPierre, Alyssa Vincent
Advisor: Michael Buckholt (BB)

CLK1 and Its Effects of Telogen Stem Cell Differentiation

Jennifer Maurer, Shannon Doherty
Advisors: David Adams (BB), Stephen Lyle (UMass Medical School
Sponsor: UMass Medical School, Cancer Biology Department

Removal of Estrone from Water

Brian Momani, Matt Kurtz (CM)
Advisors: Robert Connors, Robert Thompson (CM)

A Study of Biofuel Production Using Salt Catalysts

Chad Mondor, Kevin Bordage, Tobin McGee, Sean Philbrook
Advisors: James Dittami, Ravindra Datta (CM)

Synthesis of Novel Dyes

Meghan Roache, Maxwell Kuhns
Advisor: Robert Connors

Neurotransmitter Signal Transduction and Its Role in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Jenny Strefling, Felipe Strefling (BB)
Advisors: David Adams (BB), Alice Gardner (Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Science)

Functional Analysis of Enkurin, a Novel Flagellar Protein Implicated in Motility, Using Chlamydomonas reindartii as a Model Organism

Rashmi Venkatesh
Advisor: Destin Heilman

HIV Drugs and Glucan Particles

Joseph Walsh
Advisors: David Adams (BB), Terri Camesano (CM)

Characterization of a Non-Active Site Mutation of HIV Protease

Angelica Wzorek
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Celia Schiffer (UMass Medical School)

Invertebrate Neutrotransmitters

Yip Wong
Advisors: Michael Buckholt (BB), Daniel Gibson (BB)

Substrate Envelope Based Design of New HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Active Against Drug-Resistant HIV-1

Kevin Yee
Advisors: Destin Heilman, Celia Schiffer (UMass Medical School)