Oral Presentations, Session 1 Oral Presentations, Session 2 Poster Presentations
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
1 |
9:35 |
Phylogeny of Fouquieriaceae: Insight Into the Evolutionary History of a North American Warm Desert Plant Family. |
| Joanna Redfern and Timothy K. Lowrey, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | ||
2 |
9:50 |
Sphingosine 1-Phosphate and Interleukin-4 Signaling Requirements for Peripheral Conversion of Naïve T cells to Adaptive CD4+25+ Regulatory T Cells. |
| Christopher P. Marquez, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Mei-Chuan Huang, Wengang Wang and Edward J. Goetzl, Microbiology–Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA. | ||
3 |
10:05 |
Emergence of Praziquantel Resistance in a Kenyan Isolate of Schistosoma mansoni. |
| Sandra D. Melman, Michelle Steinauer, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Gerald Mkoji, Ibrahim Ndungu, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Charles Cunningham, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Laura Salter-Kubatko, Depts. of Statistics and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and Eric S. Loker, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | ||
4 |
10:20 |
Gender Determination of Nearctic Otter Scat from Northern New Mexico. |
| Kristin A. Moore, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Paul J. Polechla and Jerry W. Dragoo, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | ||
5 |
10:35 |
An Analytic Study of Molecular Motion in Cell Membranes. |
| V.M. Kenkre, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNM, L. Giuggioli, Center for Biocomplexity and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Z. Kalay, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNM, and P. E. Parris, Dept. of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO. | ||
6 |
10:50 |
Alterations in c-Myb Levels Change Hematopoiesis: Building the Tools. |
| Christopher Contreras, Dept. of Biochemistry, and Scott Ness, Dept. of Microbiology, UNM. |
7 |
1:15 |
Density-dependence of Metabolic Rate in Single-Celled Eukaryotes. |
| John P. DeLong and David T. Hanson, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | ||
8 |
1:30 |
Role of Asf1 in Recruitment of Factors That Regulate γH2A Formation. |
| Myrriah S. Chavez, Toyoko Tsukuda, and Mary Ann Osley, Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | ||
9 |
1:45 |
Dispersal, Habitat Differences, and Comparative Phylogeography of Two Frogs in Puerto Rico: Eleutherodactylus portoricensis and E. Antillensis (Anura: Brachycephalidae). |
| Brittany S. Barker, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM, Mary Farrah, Albuquerque High School, Albuquerque, Joseph A. Cook, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM, Robert B. Waide, Dept. of Biology, UNM, and Javier A. Rodríguez, Dept. of Biology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. | ||
10 |
2:00 |
Mosquito Feeding Preferences and its Implication to West Nile Virus in Bernalillo County. |
| Jesse vanWestrienen, Mark DiMenna and Bruce V. Hofkin, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | ||
11 |
2:15 |
Effects of Channelization on Macroinvertebrate Communities in a Semi-Arid Riverscape. |
| Thomas L. Kennedy and Thomas F. Turner, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM. |
Session 1, odd-numbered posters, 10:00 a.m.–Noon
Session 2, even-number posters, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
1 |
Desert Varnish Bacterial Communities at the Utah Mars Desert Research Station. |
| Monica Moya, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Amaka Nwagbologu, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, ARS, USDA, Corvallis, OR, Armand E. Dichosa, Dept. of Biology, UNM, April M. Nyberg, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, ARS, USDA, Corvallis, OR, Mike N. Spilde, Institute of Meteoritics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UNM, Penny J. Boston, Earth and Environmental Science, N.M. Tech, Socorro, NM, and Diana E. Northup, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
2 |
Infectious Disease Prevalence and the Worldwide Distribution of Religiosity and Religions. |
| Corey L. Fincher and Randy Thornhill, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
3 |
Major Cytoskeletal Proteins Are Carbonylated in Multiple Sclerosis. |
| Amelia Hilgart and Oscar A. Bizzozero, Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
4 |
The Role of Pre-mating Isolation in Mediating the Co-occurrence of Two Gambusia Species. |
| Daniella Swenton-Olson, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
5 |
Roles of XRCC2, XRCC3 and RAD51c ATPases in Homologous Recombination Repair of DNA Double Strand Breaks. |
| Antonio Abeyta, Leyma De Haro and Jac A. Nickoloff, Cancer Research Treatment Center, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
6 |
Preliminary Morphological Findings for Revision of the Longhorn Beetle Genus Elytroleptus Dugés (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae). |
| Traci L. Grzymala and Kelly B. Miller, Dept. of Biology and Division of Arthropods, Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM. | |
7 |
Identification of Genes Required for Sexual Development in Neurospora crassa. |
| Christine Chee, Joseph Kunkel, Charles Sanchez and Mary Anne Nelson, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
8 |
Fluorescent-tagged Praziquantel Shows Generalized Cytosolic Distribution, But Nuclear Exclusion. |
| Vint Blackburn, Anthony Aragon, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Tom Webb, Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, and Charles Cunningham, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
9 |
Functional Genomic Analysis of Gene Structure in Neurospora crassa. |
| Christine Chee, Joseph Kunkel, Charles Sanchez and Mary Anne Nelson, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
10 |
Engineering the Kinesin Biomolecular Motor with a Chemical Switch and a Cargo-specific Transport Mechanism for Controlling in vitro Material Assembly. |
| Adrienne C. Greene, Amanda Carroll-Portillo and George D. Bachand, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. | |
11 |
Length–Mass Relationships for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. |
| Monica Tellez, Ayesha Burdett and Thomas F. Turner, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM. | |
12 |
A Tale of Two Species: Parthenogenetic and Sexual Species of the Genus Haploembia Found in California. |
| Alicia M. Hodson and Kelly B. Miller, Dept. of Biology and Division of Arthropods, Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM. | |
13 |
Attachment and Proliferation of Vascular Interstitial Cells on Self-Assembled Monolayer with Different Functional Groups. |
| Pablo de la Iglesia and Elizabeth L. Dirk, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, School of Engineering, UNM. | |
14 |
Mechanisms for Flower Color Variation in the Western Wallflower, Erysimum capitatum. |
| Andrea N. Chavez, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
15 |
Intermittent Hypoxia in Rats Inhibits Endothelium-dependent Vasodilation. |
| Victoria M. Youngblood and Nancy L. Kanagy, Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
16 |
Matrix Metalloproteinases and Adult Neural Stem Cell Migration in Response to Ischemia-induced Chemokines. |
| Ari Munoz, Basam Z. Barkho, Xuekun Li and Xinyu Zhao, Dept. of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
17 |
Do Kangaroo Rats Indirectly Facilitate Harvester Ants? Implications of Inter-specific Spacing Patterns. |
| Andrew J. Edelman, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
18 |
Withdrawn. |
19 |
Desert Varnish and Cave Ferromanganese Deposits: Contrasts and Convergences. |
| Armand E. Dichosa, Dept. of Biology, Mike N. Spilde, Institute of Meteoritics, and Diana E. Northup, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
20 |
Island Phylogeography of a Holarctic Nematode in Southeast Alaska: Tracing Island Colonization of Host and Parasite. |
| Elisha Song, Sara Brant, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwest Biology, UNM, Anson Koehler, Alaska Science Center, U.S.G.S., Anchorage, AK, and Joseph Cook, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwest Biology, UNM. | |
21 |
Genome Organization of Enzymes Involved Biomass Degradation in T. reesei. |
| Diego A. Martinez, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Randy Berka, Novozymes Biotech, Inc., Davis, CA, Marrku Saloheimo, Bernard Henrissat, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS, Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Marseille, France, Mary Anne Nelson and Margaret Werner-Washburne, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
22 |
Application of the Mutagen Sensitivity Assay in Population Studies. |
| Jaclyn A. Herrera, MARC Program, and Marianne Berwick, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dept. of Internal Medicine and Cancer Research Treatment Center, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
23 |
Bithorax-Complex Genes Control Alary Muscle Patterning along the Cardiac Tube in Drosophila. |
| Elisa La Beau, IMSD Program, Damian Trujillo and Richard M. Cripps, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
24 |
You Are What You Eat—But What If It’s All Mesquite? |
| Jessica T. Martin, Hilary M. Lease and Felisa A. Smith, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
25 |
A Preliminary Morphological Study of Oncideres cingulata (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini). |
| Eugenio H. Nearns and Kelly B. Miller, Dept. of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, UNM. | |
26 |
Mecp2 Regulates Expression of MicroRNAs That Are Critical for Neuronal Maturation an Dendritic Morphology. |
Richard D. Smrt, Yuping Luo, Xuekun Li, Rebecca Pfeiffer, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM, Keith Szulwach, Peng Jin, Dept. of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and Xinyu Zhao, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. |
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27 |
People as Islands: The Theory of Island Biogeography and Parasitic Infections across Human Populations. |
| Helen Davis, Oskar Burger, John Wagner, Dept. of Anthropology, UNM, and Michael Gurven, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. | |
28 |
Homesteading in Death Valley: Does Den Quality Affect Gender, Size and Survivorship of Neotoma? |
| Hilary M. Lease, Larisa E. Harding, Ian W. Murray, Jessica T. Martin and Felisa A. Smith, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
29 |
Life in an Extreme Environment: The Effects of Heat on Foraging and Survival of Woodrats (Neotoma) in Death Valley, California. |
| Ian Murray and Felisa A. Smith, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
30 |
Source Based Morphometry Applied to Structural MRI Images to Identify Gray Matter and White Matter Concentration and Ratio Differences in Schizophrenia Versus Controls. |
| Lai Xu and Vince D. Calhoun, Program in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Science, Dept. of Biology, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and The Mind Research Network, UNM. | |
31 |
Gene Expression Analysis of Heat and Oxidative Stressed Schistosoma mansoni Worms. |
| Reza Imani, Anthony Aragon and Charles Cunningham, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
32 |
Scaling of Immune Response Times with Body Mass and Analysis of a Primitive Immune System. |
| Soumya Banerjee and Melanie Moses, Dept. of Computer Science, UNM. | |
33 |
Combinatorics: A Mechanism To Curb MiRNA Promiscuity. |
| Aaron N. Brooks and Terran Lane, Dept. of Computer Science, UNM. | |
34 |
Microarray Analysis: Impact of an Environmental Stressor on Snail–Parasite Interactions. |
| Alex D. Washburne, Cheng-Man Lun, Coen M. Adema and Eric S. Loker, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
35 |
Roles of Yeast Rad51, Rad55, and Rad57 ATPases in DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by Homologous Recombination. |
| Andrew Ah Young, IMSD Program, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
36 |
Valvular Interstitial Cells in Three-Dimensional Biodegradable Nanofibrous Scaffolds. |
| Anne E. Hellebust and Elizabeth L. Dirk, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, UNM. | |
37 |
Effects of Early Experience and Male Behavior on Female Choice in Pupfish Hybrids. |
| Beth A. Belding and Astrid Kodric-Brown, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
38 |
Geomicrobiology and Geochemical Energy for Microbial Metabolism in CO2-rich Springs of the Tierra Amarilla Anticline, NM. |
| Brandi Cron, Dept. of Biology, Laura J. Crossey, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Diana Northup, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
39 |
Mapping Pre-mRNA Interactions of Prp5 Protein in vitro Using TEV Protease. |
| Erin Hahn, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
40 |
Tumbleweed as an Algal Substrate in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. |
| Greg S. Hurley, Becky Bixby and Ayesha Burdett, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
41 |
The Effects of Hippocampal Damage on Place and Directional Navigation. |
| Isaac C. Franco and Derek A. Hamilton, Dept. of Psychology, UNM | |
42 |
West Nile Virus (WNV) Genetic Diversity Generated Within Mosquito Infections. |
| Ivy Brown and Gregory D. Ebel, Dept. of Pathology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
43 |
Seasonal Changes in Water Sources and Water Use Efficiency in Piñon–Juniper Woodlands at the Sevilleta LTER. |
| Julie Glaser, Nicole Davidson, Jennifer Johnson, Enrico A. Yepez, Blair O. Wolf, Nathan McDowell and William T. Pockman, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
44 |
Small Cell Population Isolation and Detachment Using a Liquid Deposited Smart Polymer. |
| Kieran Gallagher-Gonzales, Xunpei Liu, Jamie Reed and Heather Canavan, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, School of Engineering, UNM. | |
45 |
Analysis of Sequence Variation in Pteronia: A Dominant Genus in Arid South Africa. |
| Margaret Garcia, IMSD Program, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
46 |
Discovering New Diversity in New Mexico and Hawaiian Lava Tube Microbial Mats. |
| Matthew G. Garcia, Monica Moya and Diana E. Northup, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
47 |
Characterization of Temperature-sensitive Mef2 Mutants in Drosophila. |
| Melanie Adams and Richard Cripps, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
48 |
Seasonal Effects on Water Chemistry and Algal Growth and Diversity in the Rio Grande. |
| Nathan Daves-Brody, Becky J. Bixby and Ayesha S. Burdett, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
49 |
Mecp2-mediated Epigenetic Regulation of a MicroRNA Regulates Proliferation and Differentiation of Mouse Neural Stem Cell. |
| Xuekun Li, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM, Keith Szulwach, Dept. of Human Genetics and Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Richard D. Smrt, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM, Yujing Li, Dept. of Human Genetics and Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Yuping Luo, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM, Lin Li, Dept. of Human Genetics and Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Nicholas J. Santistevan, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM, Peng Jin, Dept. of Human Genetics and Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, and Xinyu Zhao, Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
50 |
Roles of mop1 (RdRp) in the Accumulation of Natural Antisense Transcripts in Maize. |
| Pamela Reed, Dept. of Biology, UNM, Yi Jia, Kazuhiro Ohtsu and Patrick S. Schnable, Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. | |
51 |
The twist Gene in Specifying Adult Muscle Precursor Cells in Drosophila. |
| Thai Lee, IMSD Program, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
52 |
Patterns of Genetic Diversity in a Community of Freshwater Fish (Family Cyprinidae) in the Pecos River, New Mexico. |
| Tracy A. Diver, Megan J. Osborne and Thomas F. Turner, Department of Biology, UNM. | |
53 |
The Vitamin D Receptor Poly-Adenosine Polymorphism as a Potential Indicator for Malignant Melanoma Prognosis. |
| Ursula E. Stauber, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Bruce V. Hofkin, Dept. of Biology, and Marianne Berwick, Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, Health Sciences Center, UNM. | |
54 |
Control Region Variation and Phylogeography of Endemic Ermine of Southeastern Alaska. |
| Vani S. Aran, Natalie G. Dawson and Joseph A. Cook, Cook Lab, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
55 |
Beyond the Water’s Edge: How Horton-Strahler Scaling Connects Riparian Vegetation to Cycling of Energy, Matter and Water in Riverine Systems. |
| William C. Dunn and Bruce T. Milne, Dept. of Biology, UNM. | |
56 |
Nile Virus Transmitting Mosquitoes Impact on Mammals. |
| Lindsay Livingstone, Bruce V. Hofkin, Dept. of Biology, UNM, and Mark DeMina, Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease Management, City of Albuquerque. | |
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Studies on the Regulatory Roles of the Yeast V-ATPase Subunit C. |
| Kristen M. Gonzales and Karlett Parra, IMSD Program, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. |
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