UNM Department of Biology
2008 RESEARCH DAY PRESENTATIONS WINNERS
Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to all of our participating students!!
Undergraduate Students |
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Best Oral Presentation (Tie): |
Myrriah S. Chavez, Toyoko Tsukuda, and Mary Ann Osley, Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. Role of Asf1 in Recruitment of Factors That Regulate γH2A Formation. |
Best Oral Presentation (Tie): |
Jesse vanWestrienen, Mark DiMenna and Bruce V. Hofkin, Dept. of Biology, UNM. Mosquito Feeding Preferences and its Implication to West Nile Virus in Bernalillo County. |
Best Poster Presentation: |
Aaron N. Brooks and Terran Lane, Dept. of Computer Science, UNM. Combinatorics: A Mechanism To Curb MiRNA Promiscuity. |
Second Place Best Poster Presentation: |
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. Roles of XRCC2, XRCC3 and RAD51c ATPases in Homologous Recombination Repair of DNA Double Strand Breaks. |
Honorable Mention Poster Presentation: |
Erin Hahn, Dept. of Biology, UNM. Mapping Pre-mRNA Interactions of Prp5 Protein in vitro Using TEV Protease. |
Honorable Mention Poster Presentation: |
Amelia Hilgart and Oscar A. Bizzozero, Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, UNM. Major Cytoskeletal Proteins Are Carbonylated in Multiple Sclerosis. |
Honorable Mention Poster Presentation: |
Alex D. Washburne, Cheng-Man Lun, Coen M. Adema and Eric S. Loker, Dept. of Biology, UNM. Microarray Analysis: Impact of an Environmental Stressor on Snail–Parasite Interactions. |
Graduate Students |
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Best Oral Presentation: |
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. Dispersal, Habitat Differences, and Comparative Phylogeography of Two Frogs in Puerto Rico: Eleutherodactylus portoricensis and E. Antillensis (Anura: Brachycephalidae). |
Second Place Best Oral Presentation: |
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. Emergence of Praziquantel Resistance in a Kenyan Isolate of Schistosoma mansoni. |
Best Poster Presentation: |
Armand E. Dichosa, Dept. of Biology, Mike N. Spilde, Institute of Meteoritics, and Diana E. Northup, Dept. of Biology, UNM. Desert Varnish and Cave Ferromanganese Deposits: Contrasts and Convergences. |
Second Place Best Poster Presentation: |
Daniella Swenton-Olson, Dept. of Biology, UNM. The Role of Pre-mating Isolation in Mediating the Co-occurrence of Two Gambusia Species. |
Honorable Mention Poster Presentation: |
Elisa La Beau, IMSD Program, Damian Trujillo and Richard M. Cripps, Dept. of Biology, UNM. Bithorax-Complex Genes Control Alary Muscle Patterning along the Cardiac Tube in Drosophila. |