2012 Sessions Schedule

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Nicole Jordan

Art History

The Camera Never Lies: Early War Photography

1:15

Dawn Neel

History

Religion and Rebellion: The Influence of New England Puritanism in the Pre-Revolution Years

1:30

Kacey Davis

English

Equality as Conflict in Defoe's Roxana

1:45

Jared Hansen

Art History

Pontiffs of Stone: The Evolution of Papal Tombs from the Beginning to Bernini

2:00

Mike Stowell

English

Sustaining Socioeconomic Hierarchy and Promoting Capitalism: Ten Nights, Ruth Hall, and the Defense of Free-Market Principles in Sentimental and Temperance Narratives

2:15

BREAK

2:30

Kelsey Frady

Art History

MORE THAN MAN'S BEST FRIEND: JAN FYT'S BIG DOG, BOY, AND DWARF IN CONTEXT

2:45

Beth Hunter

History

Subsistence Homesteads in Jefferson County: A Successful "Experiment"?

3:00

Tongia Feagins

English

Social Dynamics of the Female Work-Body in Pat Barker's Union Street

3:15

Bethany Bakane

Art History

Romantic Dream Experiments

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:00

Joseph Jones

Public Administration

Revisiting the Feasibility of the Implementation of a Campus Wide Bus System at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

12:15

Jamison Beek

Genetic Counseling

Are Health Care Professionals Ready and Willing to Incorporate DTC Genetic Testing Results Into Patient Care?

12:30

Ronald Berkowsky

Sociology

When You Just Can't Get Away: Exploring the Use of ICTs in Facilitating Negative Work/Home Spillover

12:45

Valerie Casswell

Public Administration

Do non-profit organizations use blogs to encourage civic engagement among members of the LGBT community?

1:00

Samantha Avery

Genetic Counseling

Potential Determinants of Anxiety After a Positive Maternal Serum Screen Result for Trisomy 21

1:15

Yolanda Millender

Clinical Laboratory Science

Latent TB

1:30

Meagan Cochran

Genetic Counseling

Characterizing the Unique Needs and Experiences of Adoptive Parents of Children With Cleft Lip and Palate

1:45

BREAK

2:00

Matthew Price

Public Administration

Public Administration Ethics Education

2:15

Gwendolyn Pruitt

Epidemiology

The Association between Living in Food Deserts and Depression

2:30

Diana Tuman

Genetic Counseling

Genetic Counseling Protocol for Exome Sequencing: Explaining the Unforeseen

2:45

Kelly Cousette

Public Administration

Beyond the Excuses: The Effect of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy on African American Male Students

3:00

Sam Bailey

Genetic Counseling

Medical Needs Assessment for Individuals with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

3:15

Lee Anne Flagg

Sociology

Meal Preparation and Food Shopping: Whose Job Is It?

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:30

Shannon Lisenbee

Mechanical Engineering

Segmentation of the Murine Femur Using MATLAB

12:5

Chase Taylor

Biology

Examination of Bafilomycin and ATP6V0C as Putative Mediators of APP Clearance in a Pre-Clinical Model of Alzheimer's Disease

1:00

Joseph Weber

Computer Forensics

Cloud Based Content Fetching

1:15

Wenzhen Jia

Mechanical Engineering

Forensic Facial Reconstruction using NURBS

1:30

Geanee’ Quinney

Forensic Science

An Analysis of Legal Highs

1:45

Trenika Madden

Biomedical Engineering

Intramural Electrical Uncoupling during Long Duration Ventricular Fibrillation

2:00

BREAK

2:15

Sarah Morse

Biology

Age-Related Cognitive Decline is Associated with Altered Histone Methylation in the Hippocampus

2:30

Sarah Turner

Computer Forensics

Emerging Threats by Email

3:00

Yangyang Hu

Mechanical Engineering

Computational investigation of Drag Reduction with a Rear Flap on Trucks

3:15

Dave Kojic

Biomaterials

Histomorphometry and Quantitative Analysis of Longer-Term Implant Interfaces

3:30

Min-Heng Hsieh

Mechanical Engineering

Effect of Childhood Obesity on Risk of Pelvic Bone Fracture in Simulated Sideways Fall

3:45

Jia Jie Yan

Biomedical Engineering

Connexin43 Downregulation and Dephosphorylation Contribute to Slow Conduction in a Novel Irreversible and Arrhythmogenic Canine Model of Non-ischemic Heart Failure

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:00

Bobby Jones

PREP Scholar

Similarities and divergences in the DQ52-containing CDR-H3 repertoire between mouse and human

12:15

Carol Harden

PREP Scholar

Pharmacological blockade of acetylcholinesterase increases ERK phosphorylation in area CA1 of rat hippocampus

12:30

Chidinma Anakwenze

PREP Scholar

A Nitric Oxide Releasing Biomimetic Nanomatrix For The Revascularization Of Pancreatic Islet Grafts

12:45

Jamelle Brown

PREP Scholar

Assessment of a Complex V Mutation and Metabolic Economy between C3H/HeJ and C3H/HeN Mice

1:00

Octavio Oliva

PREP Scholar

Corexit 9500A Increases Permeability of the Bronchial Epithelium of the Airway and Leads to Onset of Apoptosis

1:15

Carnella Lee

PREP Scholar

Isolation and characterization of Murine Breast Cancer Stem Cells in vitro and in vivo

1:30

BREAK

1:45

Danielle Hill

PREP Scholar

Factors Explaining Racial and Gender Differences in Substance use Among Early Adolescents

2:00

Joseph Schwertz

Ireland Scholar

Mechanical Analysis of Bacterial Cellulose for Biomedical Applications

2:15

Li Dong

Ireland Scholar

Wind Resistance of Composite Structural Insulated Wall Panels

2:30

Alyssa Terry

Ireland Scholar

PLGA Nanospheres for Sustained Release of Rifampicin

2:45

Carrie Schindler

Ireland Scholar

Electrospun polymer blends of Maxon® and PCL with tunable mechanical properties for bone tissue engineering and drug delivery

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Jason Britt

Computer & Information Sciences

Clustering Phishing Websites Using DeepMD5

9:15

Himel Mallick

Biostatistics

A New Bayesian LASSO

9:30

Qichao Liu

Computer & Information Sciences

Model Evolution in Agile Software Development

9:45

Zekai Demirezen

Computer & Information Sciences

INFORMATION THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE DESIGN

10:00

BREAK

10:15

Matthew Bledsoe

Applied Mathematics

Stability of the Inverse Resonance Problem on the Line

10:30

Sagar Thapaliya

Computer & Information Sciences

Active Kernels for reducing data movement in distributed environment

10:45

Upendra Sapkota

Computer & Information Sciences

Authorship Attribution Using Modality Specific Meta Features

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Michael Hannon

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Simultaneous determination of porosity and anisotropic permeability of cylindrical core shale samples

8:45

John Smith

Materials Science & Engineering

Process Optimization and Deformation Predictability of Post-Manufactured Woven Composit Panels

9:00

Qiuxiang Zhang

Biomedical Engineering

In Vivo Optical Imaging of Retinal Function at Cellular Resolution

9:15

Glenn Terrell

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Predicting Corrsion Potential of Finished Water From a Southeastern Raw Water Source Using Langelier Saturation Index and Ryznar Stability Index

9:30

BREAK

9:45

Jason Heberling

Civil Engineering

Statistical comparisons of pipe flow investigations to determine water quality problems associated with chloramines and corrosion inhibitors

10:00

JiaBei Lin

Chemistry

ClpB Assembly

10:15

Donald Burke

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Influence of Vehicle Restraint System Design on the Kinematics and Neck Forces of a Small Occupant

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Michael Hannon

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Simultaneous determination of porosity and anisotropic permeability of cylindrical core shale samples

8:45

John Smith

Materials Science & Engineering

Process Optimization and Deformation Predictability of Post-Manufactured Woven Composit Panels

9:00

Qiuxiang Zhang

Biomedical Engineering

In Vivo Optical Imaging of Retinal Function at Cellular Resolution

9:15

Glenn Terrell

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Predicting Corrsion Potential of Finished Water From a Southeastern Raw Water Source Using Langelier Saturation Index and Ryznar Stability Index

9:30

BREAK

9:45

Jason Heberling

Civil Engineering

Statistical comparisons of pipe flow investigations to determine water quality problems associated with chloramines and corrosion inhibitors

10:00

JiaBei Lin

Chemistry

ClpB Assembly

10:15

Donald Burke

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Influence of Vehicle Restraint System Design on the Kinematics and Neck Forces of a Small Occupant

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Ruth McDowell

Biology

Reactive oxygen species and the Antarctic macroalgal wound response

9:15

Nikolay Rovinskiy

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Studies of DNA gyrase activity in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

9:30

Allison Brady

Microbiology

Discovery of subtypes in serotype 20 of Streptococcus pneumoniae

9:45

Abdurahman Elkhetali

Neurobiology

Attentional Modulation of Ongoing Activity in Sensory Cortex

10:00

Joseph Daft

Pathology

Antibodies to CBir flagellin alter the incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in the NOD mouse

10:15

Haley Echlin

Microbiology

Biogenesis of Oral Streptococcal Adhesin Requires Interactions Among Glycosylation-Associated Proteins

10:30

BREAK

10:45

John Cutts

Pharmacology/Toxicology

Differences in Metabolism of Grape Seed Extract in Ovariectomized and Sham-Ovariectomized Rats

11:00

Jennifer Stanley

Cancer Biology

Targeting BRCA1 Cytosolic Localization Sensitizes Prostate Cancer Cells to Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase-1 (PARP1) Inhibition via the CRM1/exportin Pathway

11:15

Anne Bet

Microbiology

Interim Analysis of Cytotoxic T Cell Responses to HIV-1 Cryptic Epitopes in HVTN205 Trial Participants

11:30

Tanvi Sinha

Cell Biology

DISHEVELED MEDIATED PLANAR CELL POLARITY SIGNALING IS REQUIRED IN THE SECOND HEART FIELD FOR OUTFLOW TRACT MORPHOGENESIS

11:45

Theresa Ramos

Immunology

The role of Complement in Experimental Cerebral Malaria.

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Melissa Oliver

Microbiology

A Single Amino Acid Determines Glycosyl Transferase Specificity, Capsule Structure and Serological Property of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serogroup 11

8:45

Kurt Zimmerman

Pathology

Calreticulin is required for TGF-? stimulated extracellular matrix production

9:00

Paul Bonvallet

Physiology & Biophysics

Designing Electrospun Scaffolds for Skin Regeneration

9:15

Andrews Agbleke

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Does Supercoiling Regulate Transcription or is it the Other Way Round?

9:30

Victor Yimin Du

Microbiology

Qualitative Assessment of CD8+ T-cell Responses to HIV-1 Variant Epitopes

9:45

John Rutherford

Neurobiology

MeCP2 underlies normal development of network dynamics in hippocampus

10:00

BREAK

10:15

Ricardo Tapilatu

Biology

DECLINE IN LEATHERBACK TURTLES, Dermochelys coriacea, NESTING ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

10:30

Stephanie Easter

Cell Biology

TGF-? regulates mammary stem cell maintenance

10:45

Lauren Lilly

Immunology

The Role of Dectin-1 in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

11:00

Christopher Cottingham

Cellular & Molecular Physiology

Noradrenergic antidepressant responses to desipramine in vivo are reciprocally regulated by arrestin3 and spinophilin

11:15

Mohamed Khass

Microbiology

Surrogate light chain component of the Pre BCR selects for immunoglobulin heavy chains based on their CDR-H3 contents

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:30

Kenneth Walls

Interdisciplinary Engineering

An Improved Learning Assessment for Assembly Training in Interactive PC and Immersive Virtual Environments

12:45

Evan Floyd

Environmental Health Sciences

A novel desorption technique for improved sensitivity in environmental air sampling

1:00

Dana Lackey

Civil Engineering

Examination of the Differences in Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Lighting Retrofits of Four Different Types of Campus Buildings

1:15

Alanzo Granville

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Construction of 3D Disaster Scenarios for First Responder Training on Stereoscopic Display Systems

1:30

BREAK

1:45

Nathaniel Lawson

Biomedical Engineering

Wear Of Nano-Filled Dental Composites In A Newly-Developed In Vitro Testing Device

2:00

Thao Nguyen

Chemistry

Design, synthesis and evaluation of selective inhibitors TcDHFR as potential therapeutic agents for Chagas' disease

2:15

Jaquice Boyd

Civil Engineering

corrosion Control of Domestic Water Pipe Systems: Using A Pipe Flow-Through System

2:30

Melike Dizbay-Onat

Interdisciplinary Engineering

Carbon Dioxide Capture using Chicken Eggshell Based Activated Carbons

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:00

Jasmine Ward

Health Education & Health Promotion

MY-Side Understanding Male Youth Teen Pregnancy Involvement

12:15

Jennifer Harris

Epidemiology

Development of a Tuberculosis (TB) Risk Score for Screening in Sub-Saharan African Prisons

12:30

Tapan Mehta

Biostatistics

Obesity and Mortality Rate: Are the Risks Declining ? Evidence from Eighteen Prospective Studies in US

12:45

Lauren Libero

Developmental Psychology

Altered Cortical Connectivity Underlying Body Language Processing in Children with Autism

1:00

Mandeep Virk-Baker

Nutrition Sciences

S-equol producing status and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women undergoing breast biopsy

1:15

Meghan Tipre

International Health

Exposure-related behaviors among Elementary School Children in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Alabama after the oil spill - A Pilot Study

1:30

Terri Garrison

Early Childhood Education

The role of the teacher in family involvement in pre-school: A multiple case study

1:45

BREAK

2:00

Kenneth Kell

Nutrition Sciences

Dietary Intake of Added Sugars Associated with Diastolic but not Systolic Blood Pressure in Multiethnic Children

2:15

Kristal Aaron

Health Care Organization

Prevalence of Proteinuria among HIV-infected Adolescents

2:30

Ebtesam Rababah

Early Childhood Education

Multiple Case Study: Developmentally Appropriate Beliefs and Practice of United States and Jordanian Kindergarten Teachers

2:45

Peng Li

Biostatistics

Genetic Association Analysis of 30 Genes Related to Adiposity in European-American Population

3:00

William Neumeier

Developmental Psychology

Frequency of Exercise Training's Impact on Body Image Among Older Women

3:15

Rebecca Mckay

Early Childhood Education

A Case Study of Second-grade Teachers' Comprehension Instruction

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Christopher Jones

Microbiology

Siderophore secretion and recycling are essential for the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1:15

Uduak Udoh

Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine

Chronic Alcohol Consumption Disrupts the Diurnal Rhythm of Liver Glycogen

1:30

Christopher Freeman

Biology

Quality or quantity: is nutrient transfer from microbial symbionts to host sponges driven more by symbiont identity and productivity than by symbiont abundance?

1:45

Emily Katherine Stefanov

Microbiology

Antibodies generated against conserved antigens suppress allergic airway disease

2:00

David Scott

Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine

Endothelial mannose residues regulate monocyte adhesion under flow

2:15

BREAK

2:30

Toni Mueller

Neurobiology

N-Glycosylation of GABAA Receptors in Human Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

2:45

Sara Conard

Microbiology

The Efficiency of Translation Termination Regulates eRF1 mRNA Levels

3:00

Ian McWilliams

Immunology

A critical role for STAT4 in the accumulation of CD4 T cells in the CNS during EAE

3:15

Katherine Michel

Immunology

Structural and immunological changes to the human vaginal epithelium in response to hormonal contraception: consequences for HIV-1 transmission

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:30

Sarah Mollo

Cell Biology

B Cells Have Multiple Roles for the Generation of CD4 T Cell Memory and

Recall Responses

12:45

Kevin Cashman

Microbiology

CD5 through CK2 activation regulates B-1a B-cell survival, proliferation, and

T-independent type II antibody response.

1:00

Jerome T. Higgs

Pathology

Genetically-engineered osteoprotegerin for multiple myeloma osteolytic bone damage

1:15

Aimee Franklin

Neuroscience

Inhibition of GSK3 rescues LTP at MPP-GC synapses in Fmr1-/- mice

1:30

Evan Comeaux

Pharmacology/Toxicology

Functional Analysis of Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I Catalytic Mutants

1:45

BREAK

2:00

David James

Microbiology

Cps2T is the rhamnosyltransferase that catalyzes the second and committed step in  Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 2 capsule repeat unit synthesis

2:15

Matthew Phipps

Cellular & Molecular Physiology

Development of Electrospun Scaffolds to Enhance Bone Regeneration

2:30

Carlos Carmona-Moran

Biomedical Engineering

A Perfusion Shear Bioreactor for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

2:45

Michelle McClure

Genetics & Genomic Science

THE ROLE OF S-PALMITOYLATION IN CELLULAR TRAFFICKING OF CFTR

3:00

Benjamin Owusu

Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Effect of in vivo Red Blood Cell Aging on Nitrite- and Nitric Oxide-mediated Signaling

3:15

Donna Crabtree

Pathology

D295N Mutant Cathepsin D Exerts a Dominant Negative Effect In Vitro by Promoting ?-Synuclein Accumulation

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Jessica Winek

Cellular, Molecular & Developmental Biology

Unraveling the VAP MSP secretion mechanism

9:15

Raymond Pasek

Cell Biology

The importance of Ccdc42 in spermatogenesis in the house mouse and in cilia formation in Tetrahymena thermophila

9:30

Maureen Cox

Microbiology

ICAM-1 interactions enhance effector cell contraction and memory T cell function following acute infection.

9:45

Mehak Goel

Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine

Selective Macrophage Ablation Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity and Reverses Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

10:00

Paul Daft

Pathology

?-CaMKII-induced VEGF expression is critical for the growth of human osteosarcoma

10:15

BREAK

10:30

James Londino

Cell Biology

Influenza M2 Inhibits CFTR Activity through its Ion Channel Function

10:45

Krysta Engel

Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Mutation of E1224 in the Pol I trigger loop results in the opposite phenotype than in Pol II

11:00

Faraz Sultan

Neurobiology

Genetic ablation of Gadd45b, a regulator of active DNA demethylation, enhances long-term memory and synaptic plasticity

11:15

Michael Edwards

Microbiology

mTOR modulates host immune responses to Francisella tularensis LVS

11:30

Matthew Schultz

Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine

Altered receptor glycosylation confers cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer cells

11:45

Patrick Hwang

Biomedical Engineering

Developing a bio-inspired hybrid sack for the delivery of pancreatic islets and FGF-1 to improve islet engraftment at the omentum site

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Ewa Szymanska

Microbiology

Phenotypic Analysis of B cells in a Pair of Identical, HLA*B44 Female Twins Discordant for Common Variable Immunodeficiency and Recurrent Sino-Pulmonary Infection

8:45

Ryan Stapley

Pathology

The effects of red blood cell storage time on nitric oxide and nitrite-dependent signaling

9:00

Roberta Challener

Biology

Reduced growth under conditions of near-future ocean acidification in the ecologically important sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus

9:15

Kate Hayden

Chemistry

Structural and Thermodynamic Analysis of a Highly Stable DNA Hairpin

9:30

Nathan Bowers

Immunology

Neutrophil Activation in HIV-1 Infection.

9:45

Brian Warmus

Neurobiology

Repetitive Behavior and Salience Network Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Frontotemporal Dementia

10:00

BREAK

10:15

Michael Nelson

Pathology

Eosinophil-mediated lung host degense against Pheumocystis murina

10:30

Adinarayana Andukuri

Biomedical Engineering

A Bioinspired, Multifunctional Nanomatrix for Cardiovascular Applications

10:45

Amber Buel

Microbiology

Therapeutic effectiveness of lithium in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is dependent on interferon-gamma signaling

11:00

Mitra Adhami

Cell Biology

Osterix is Required for Ameloblast/Odontoblast Maturation, but Not Tooth Morphogenesis

11:15

Bonnie Culpepper

Biomedical Engineering

Functionalizing allograft bone by exploiting a heptaglutamate domain to anchor bioactive peptides

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Gregory Hoeker

Biomedical Engineering

Sex differences in arrhythmogenesis in nonischemic heart failure and the role of altered calcium handling

9:15

Julie Price

Biology

Photosynthetic gas exchange and transpiration of Phlox bifida and Sedum album in response to water deprivation and recovery on a southeastern green roof

9:30

Juan Calix

Microbiology

The serum lectin L-ficolin binds to Streptococcus pneumoniae polysaccharide capsule in an O-acetate-dependent manner: a potential mediator of serotype-specific pathology

9:45

Kimberly Dunham-Snary

Pathology

The Role of Mitochondrial Genetic Background on Caloric Utilization and

Cardiovascular Function

10:00

David Gaston

Cell Biology

Oncolytic HSV-1, interleukin-15, and interleukin-15 receptor alpha in brain tumor therapy

10:15

Jacqueline Zimmerman

Genetics & Genomic Sciences

Proliferation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells is Inhibited by Specific Modulation Frequencies

10:30

BREAK

10:45

Mikhail Pavlenok

Microbiology

Nanopore sequencing of DNA with MspA porin of Mycobacterium smegmatis .

11:00

Angelina Joshi

Pathology

Basal-like Breast Cancer Stem Cells are Sensitive to Combination Treatment with Anti-DR5 Monoclonal Antibody and Chemotherapy

11:15

Melissa Gessner

Immunology

Dectin-1 dependent IL-22 contributes to early innate lung defense against Aspergillus fumigatus

11:30

Dong-Jin Lim

Biomedical Engineering

Pancreatic islet cell transplantation: a novel approach to improve islet engraftment using a biomimetic self-assembled nanomatrix gel

11:45

Stephanie Wall

Pathology

Modification of the GTPase protein, Rac1, by 15-deoxy prostaglandin J2 in endothelial cell