The 11th Annual Student Poster Symposium

April 22, 2005

Biology

Genotypic comparison of Escherichia coli isolated from food animals

Greg Asbury, Chris Winfrey, Kristin Mayhan, and Amber West

Faculty Mentor: Steven Foley

Acidification induced exocytic response in MCF-7 cells and correlating apoptosis

Cody C. Cook

Faculty Mentor: Steven Runge

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance in veterinary Escherichia coli isolates from Arkansas

Amanda Harrell, Steven Rogers, and Ryan Singer

Faculty Mentor: Steven Foley

Apoptotic-induction in MCF-7 cells by [dppeNiIICYSEt+] Cl-

Laura Huffman and Kyle Basham

Faculty Mentors: Patrick Desrochers and Steven Runge

 

Temporal patterns of development in field-sampled ammocoetes of the southern brook lamprey ( Ichthyomyzon gagei ) in Cadron Creek, Arkansas

Casey Kennedy

Faculty Mentor:  Reid Adams

Equating time across species

Brandon Kersh, Julie Staudinger, and Jessica Harrison

Faculty Mentor:  Barbara Clancy

 

A single neuron causes foot contractions that lead to turning in the marine slug Tritonia diomedea .

Josh Morrison

Faculty Mentor: James Murray

Nesting ecology of alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii)

Courtney Nippert

Faculty Mentor: Stephen Dinkelacker

 

Are the adverse effects of neonatal pain retained into adulthood?

Shannon Palmer, Brian Bowden, Amanda Plummer, Sonja Isbell, Heather Delahunt, James Hyde, and Jason Talburt

Faculty Mentors: Barbara Clancy and K.S. Anand (ACHRI)

Identification of antimicrobial resistance genes on plasmids of multi-drug resistant strains of Salmonella Newport isolates from food animals

Bobbie S. Rhodes

Faculty Mentor: Steven Foley

Quantification of NHE and V-ATPase mRNA levels in MCF-7 tumor cells

Kyla R. Shelton, Andres Chang, and Candice Ray

Faculty Mentor: Steven Runge

Endothelin-1 constriction is unaffected by short-term exposure to estrogen in fresh and organ cultured coronary arteries from aged female pigs

Saigiridhar Tummala

Faculty Mentor: Brent Hill

Early life history and effect of flow on two cave-inhabiting salamanders, Typhlotriton spelaeus and Eurycea lucifuga , in Arkansas.

Kerry Wilkins

Faculty Mentor: Ginny Adams and Reid Adams

Chemistry

SEIRA II: Studies of p-nitrobenzoic acid and o-, m-, and p-nitroaniline

Jacob Boucher, Bridget Bridges, Krystal Posey, Merritt Smith, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Mark Viegas, and Chen Wang

Faculty Mentor: Don Perry

Phosphate collapse around cationic protein residues is correlated with DNA bending in DNA/protein complexes

Mason Breed

Faculty Mentor: Lori Isom

SEIRA I: UV/VIS and AFM characterization of silver films as substrates for Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA)

Bridget Bridges, Jacob Boucher, Krystal Posey, Merritt Smith, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Mark Viegas, and Chen Wang

Faculty Mentor: Don Perry

Detecting cysteine and homocysteine with nickel

Duong, D., Winkler, S. A., Hong, B., Brown, J. R., Holman, G., and Richardson, C. B.

Faculty Mentors: Patrick Desrochers and Richard Tarkka

Investigating the interaction between Mg2+ and the crystal dehydrating agent 2-methy-2,4-pentanediol (MPD) and its role in DNA bending.

Courtney Huff and Tori O'Bannon

Faculty Mentor: Lori Isom

Peptide mimics as nanosensors

Garen Holman and Blake Robinson

Faculty Mentor:  Richard Tarkka

Analysis of doubly-charged transition metal ions: reactions of M 2+ with chlorofluorocarbons

Cullen C. Matthews

Faculty Mentor: William Taylor

Detection and characterization of DNA distortion induced by cation-pi interactions

Mikaela Stewart

Faculty Mentor: Lori Isom

FTIR and GC/MS characterization of acidic sites on AlV catalysts

Chen Wang, Mark Viegas, Krystal Posey, Merritt Smith, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Bridget Bridges, and Jacob Boucher

Faculty Mentor: Don Perry David Lindquist, Rajesh Sharma, and Malay MazumderUniversity of Arkansas, Little Rock (UALR)

Computer Science

The design and implementation of a web-based content management system for an academic department

Brian M. Allen

Faculty Mentor:  Chenyi Hu

Localization problem in distributed robotic systems

Chad Miller

Faculty Mentor: Han-Chieh Wei

Enhancing Boyer-Moore pattern matching algorithm with character pairs

Paul Opala

Faculty Mentor:   Chenyi Hu

Mathematics

Parametric symmetries of ordinary differential equations

Yousuf Abbasi

Faculty Mentor: Danny Arrigo

 

General compatibility of the 2+1 diffusion equation

Luke Brown

Faculty Mentor:  Danny Arrigo

Symmetry analysis of the variable-coefficient beam equation

Joel Harris

Faculty Mentor: Danny Arrigo

Positive solutions of quadratic equations with a parameter

Ethan Hereth and Jason Norton

Faculty Mentors Ramesh Garimella and Haiyan Wang

Non-classical symmetries of the one-dimensional diffusion equation with a non-linear source term

Jason Torrence

Faculty Mentor: Danny Arrigo

Physics and Astronomy

Scanning electron microscope studies of bone sample: Influence of microgravity in adult male mice

Ashley Brown

Faculty Mentor: Rahul Mehta

Be star H-alpha line profile variability

Bart Dunlap

Faculty Mentor:  Scott Austin

Applied chaos: Finding the needle in the haystack

Travis Hoggard, Katharina Ochterbeck, and Katie M. Reynolds

Faculty Mentors: Rahul Mehta and Stephen Addison

Ultrasonic vibrometer design and testing

Chris McNeill

Faculty Mentor: Carl Frederickson