UAB Graduate School

2009 SESSIONS SCHEDULE

UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Wednesday, February 25

 

ROOM A

Ireland Scholars

 

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:15

Emma Fox

Art History

 

Solomon and Sheba: New Research Findings on Two Renaissance Panels in the Birmingham Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

1:30

Di Pan

Biomedical Engineering

 

Effect of Trifluoperazine on Ca2+ -Bound Calmodulin binding to Fas Death Domain for DISC Formation

 

1:45

Ayesha Swarn

Materials Science and Engineering

 

Effect of Silica Nanofiber Reinforcement on Viscosity and Modulus of Dental Composites

 

2:00

Sarah Ballard

Medical Sociology

 

“Gender Schemas: Then and Now”

 

2:15

Justin Coley

Anthropology

 

Political Leadership and Patronage Networks Among Urban Squatter Settlements of Chilapa, Guerrero

 

2:30

BREAK

 

2:45

Adinarayana Andukuri

Biomedical Engineering

 

Native Endothelium Mimicking Hybrid Nanomatrix for Cardiovascular Applications

 

3:00

John Tipton

Materials Science and Engineering

 

Interface control in aryl-amine modified SWCNT/MWCNT epoxy nanocomposite systems

 

3:15

Scott Silver

Anthropology

 

Affording and Sixth Sense ... Archaeological Site Detection in Lowland Maya

 

3:30

Michael Nilo

Biomedical Engineering

 

Strain-Induced TGF-a1 Activation and Signaling in Aortic Valve Interstitial Cells

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Wednesday, February 25

 

SESSION 1, ROOM B

Arts and Humanities

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

12:30

Sally Culpepper

English

 

Sound and ;silence in Frances Burney’s “A Mastectomy”

 

12:45

John C. Faulkner

History

 

Trench Vapors: Gas Warfare and Combat Readiness During World War I

 

1:00

Catherine S. Wright

Anthropology

 

Perimortem and Postmortem Fracture Patterns in Deer Femora

 

1:15

Justin Johnston

Communication Management

 

The Juxtaposition of the Perceptions of Soon-to-be College Graduates and Hiring Professionals

 

130

Paul Pickering

English

 

Transition Fiction in the Sunbelt South: From Place to Space in Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman

 

1:44

Jennifer Phillips

History

 

Rape and Genocide in Contemporary Sudan

 

2:00

BREAK

 

 

 

SESSION 4, ROOM B

Life Sciences

 

 

 

2:30

Christophe E. Jackson

Biology

 

Construction and Characterization of Portable Sound Booth for Onsite Voice Recording

 

2:45

Shantanu N. Razdan

Public Health – Outcomes Research

 

A Novel Open Fracture Model in the Rat with Osteomyelitis and Non-union

 

3:00

Steven Kimble

Biology

 

Mangrove Root and Coral Reef Sponge Community Structures

 

3:15

Arjun Sarof

Clinical Dentistry

 

Cell type Specific role of Runx2 in FGFR3 transcription

 

3:30

Steve Padgett-Vasquez

Biology

 

Land Use and Land Cover Change in Ometepe Island, Nicaragua (1978-2000) Using Multispectral Satellite Image Data and a Digital Elevation Model

 

3:45

Qi Yan

Biomedical Engineering

 

Modeling of the structural basis of Thrombospondin-1 and Calreticulin interactions

 

4:00

Rachel Philpott

Biology

 

Identification of the Function of Rv0194 in Mycobaterium tuberculosis

 

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Wednesday, February 25

 

SESSION 2, ROOM C

Social and Behavioral Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Mobola Kukoyi

Public Health - Epidemiology

 

Risk Factors for anemia among women of childbearing age in Westmoreland, Jamaica

 

1:30

Thomas Birkner

Biostatistics

 

Power loss by breaking pedigree into nuclear families in the context of linkage analysis

 

1:45

Joanna Gaines

Psychology/Public Health

 

Behavioral Intentions and Future Substance Use

 

2:00

Staci Sudenga

Public Health - Epidemiology

 

Concordance Rates of Cervical and Anal HPV in HIV Positive Adolescent Females

 

2:15

Annie Artiga Garner

Medical Psychology

 

Evidence for the validity of sluggish cognitive tempo as an independent construct from Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

 

2:30

Joshua Argo

Public Health – Outcomes Research

 

Laparoscopic versus open approach for implantation of the peritoneal catheter during ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement

 

2:45

BREAK

 

3:00

Meghan Tipre

Public Health – Epidemiology

 

Comparison of Land Cover Changes between years 1989 and 2001 in Karachi Pakistan, using Unsupervised Classification

 

3:15

Stacy M. Gay

Public Administration

 

Graduation Recency and the Propensity to Give

 

3:30

Sarah Hemmings

Public Health – IHGS

 

Comparison of Satellite Imagery for Detection of West Nile Virus-Breeding Habitats in Auburn, Alabama

 

3:45

Rajasekhar Tanikella

Public Health – Epidemiology

 

Health Related Quality of Life predicts Survival in Liver Transplant Candidates

 

4:00

Will Callans

Public Health

 

Oral Health Status Assessment Using GIS and Remote Sensing: Identifying Communities for Needs-Based Interventions in Birmingham, Alabama

 

4:15

Emmanuel Makasa

Public Health - IHGS

 

Land-use/Land-cover change detection in Solwezi, Zambia

 

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Wednesday, February 25

 

SESSION 3, ROOM D

Physical Science & Engineering

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:15

Andrei G. Draghici

Mechanical Engineering

 

Permanent-Magnet DC Motor Curve Experiment for an Undergraduate Laboratory

 

1:30

Lina Herrera-Estrada

Materials Engineering

 

Influence of Alkalization on the Hygrothermal Resistance of Banana Reinforced Soy Based Unsaturated Polyester and Reinforced Epoxy Composites

 

1:45

Dana Lackey

Civil Engineering

 

Energy Conservation Comparison of UAB Buildings and Determination of Thermostat Energy Reduction Potential

 

2:00

Ketaki More

Electrical Engineering

 

Geometric Modeling of the Human Lung Airway Structure

 

2:15

Meredith A. Reid

Biomedical Engineering

 

Dependence of cognitive function on neurochemistry: and fMRI/MRS assessment of the missing links in schizophrenia

 

2:30

BREAK

 

2:45

Sarah Thomas

Physics

 

EPR Study of Intrinsic Near Surface defects in SiC Related to Device Processing

 

3:00

Il Hwan Kim

Mechanical Engineering

 

Effect of obesity on motor vehicle crash injuries though computational modeling and simulation

 

3:15

Candace Watson

Civil Engineering

 

Clean Energy-Generation Technologies and Reduction of Global Warming Events

 

3:30

Bala P. Shanmugam

Mechanical Engineering

 

Investigation of Meshfree Methods in Structural Analysis

 

3:45

To Nga T Nguyen

Civil Engineering

 

Analysis and Design of Innovative Composite Storm Shelter Against Wind Hazards

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 5, ROOM A

Physical Science & Engineering

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Bala Chandra Chenna

Chemistry

 

Staphylococcus aureus SrtA – A Novel Antibacterial Target

 

9:15

Reginna Scarber

Materials Science Engineering

 

Characterization and Optimization of Bioactive Glass Nanofibers

 

9:30

Dina Halwani

Biomedical Engineering

 

Corrosion of Metallic Endovascular Stents and Analyses of Wear Debris in Tissues

 

9:45

Phillip K. Veronese

Chemistry

 

Effect of Temperature on the Self Association of the E. coli ClpA Chaperone

 

10:00

Giang Tong

Interdisciplinary Engineering

 

Oxidation of Mercury During Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide

 

10:15

BREAK

 

 

 

10:30

Samantha Hastings

Chemistry

 

Transition Metal Complexes of Chiral-Phosphorus donor Ligands for Asymmetric Hydroformylation

 

10:45

Varadraj Prabhu Gurupur

Computer Engineering

 

Building Biomedical Information Systems using Abstract Software Design Framework

 

11:00

Nitin Bhagat

Interdisciplinary Engineering

 

Simulation of Insect Flight and Its Applications to Flapping Wing Air Vehicles

 

11:15

Justin Sheff

Chemistry

 

Cation Binding by Metallacrown Ethers Containing Bis(phosphate) Polyether Ligands

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 6, ROOM B

Life Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Anne Diers

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

 

Redox modulation of breast cancer cell migration: implications for anti-metastatic therapy

 

9:15

Dalia Gaddis

Microbiology

 

Mechanisms of immunoactivation of dendritic cells by Hemagglutinin B protein from Perphyromonas gingivalis; role of TLR signaling

 

9:30

Ashley Upton

Toxicology

 

Biodosimetry for Radiation Dose Assessment

 

9:45

Jessica Alvarez

Nutrition Sciences

 

Dietary Vitamin D and Calcium are Differentially Associated with Insulin Sensitivity Among African American and European American Premenopausal Women

 

10:00

Betty M. Booker

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

 

The effects of transcription, uncoupled to translation, on chromosome structure during fastidious growth in Salmonella typhimurium LT2

 

10:15

BREAK

 

10:30

Andrew Coleman

Biology

 

Geographic and Seasonal Variation of Reproductive Steroids in the Diamondback Terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin

 

10:45

Nam Chul Kim

Cell Biology

 

Molecular and functional characterization of twit3, a downstream transcriptional target gene of the Wit signaling pathway

 

11:00

Brian Dranka

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

 

Nitric Oxide Sensitizes Endothelial Cells to Reactive Oxygen Species

 

11:15

Olga Danilchanka

Microbiology

 

MtpA is a major determinant of permeability for hydrophilic compounds in M. bovis BCG

 

11:30

James Machamer

Cell Biology

 

dLIMK1 regulates synaptic terminal morphology via the presynaptic actin cytoskeleton

 

11:45

Carolyn Durham

Pathology

 

Toll-like Receptor 2 and 4 Cockroach Antigen-Induced Asthma: a Potential Mechanism for Establishing a Th1 Phenotype

 

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 7, ROOM C

Life Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Sarah Jenkins

Pharmacology & Toxicology

 

Chronic Exposure to the Plastic Component, Bisphenol A, Accelerates ErbB2-Positive Mammary Cancer

 

8:45

Subhashini Bolisetty

Cell Biology

 

Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in cisplatin-mediated autophagy in kidney epithelial cells

 

9:00

Nikki Bush

Nutrition Sciences

 

Adiponectin independently predicts change in insulin sensitivity over 1 yr and has ethnic-specific associations with leg fat

 

9:15

Thomas Bodenstine

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

 

Breast Cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1) restoration of gap junction intercellular communication involves downregulation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway in breast cancer cells

 

9:30

Jessica Werner

Microbiology

 

Requisite role for the Dectin-1 beta-glucan receptor in pulmonary defense against Aspergillus fumigatus

 

9:45

George Twitty

Cellular and Molecular Biology

 

SOCS-3 as a Negative Regulator of NF-kappaB Signaling

 

10:00

BREAK

 

10:15

Mi Jung Chang

Pathology

 

The role of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Ethanol-mediated Hepatotoxicity and Hypoxia

 

10:30

Jason Huff

Microbiology

 

Outer Membrane Impermeability is Required for the Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

 

10:45

Baldeep Khare

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

 

Crystal Structure of Streptococcus agalactiae Pilus-specific Sortase, Sortase B

 

11:00

Victoria K. Gibbs

Biology

 

The Sea Urchin Gut: Size and Nutrient Storage are Affected by Temperature

 

11:15

Spandan Shah

Cellular & Molecular Pathology

 

COP9 associated CSN5 deubiquitination activity regulates exosomal protein ubiquitination and sorting

 

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 8, ROOM D

Mathematics and Computer & Information Science

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

8:30

Ritu Arora

CIS

 

Using Domain-Specific Languages for Application-Level Checkpointing

 

8:45

Wei-Bang Chen

CIS

 

An Automated Bacterial Colony Counting and Classification System

 

9:00

Ali A. Al-Sharadqah

Applied Mathematics

 

Error analysis for circle fitting algorithms

 

9:15

Matthew Curry

CIS

 

Software for Identifying Stars in Images

 

9:30

Lin Yang

CIS

 

Canonical view selection for tourist attractions

 

9:45

Vetria L. Byrd

CIS

 

Parallel Clustering tool for Liquid-Chromatography Mass-Spectrometry (LC/MS) Data

 

10:00

BREAK

 

10:15

Clinton Curry

Applied Mathematics

 

Locally Connected Models for Polynomial Julia Sets

 

10:30

Robert Tairas

CIS

 

Information Retrieval-based Clone Analysis

 

10:45

Zekai Demirezen

CIS

 

Model Transformations Require Formal Semantics

 

11:00

Mary A. LaRussa

Applied Mathematics

 

Conditional Well-Posedness for an Wlliptic Inverse Problem

 

11:15

Benjamin David O’Gwynn

CIS

 

Using efficient mesh representations for curvature estimation in mesh analysis

 

11:30

Yu Sun

CIS

 

Model Transformation by Demonstration

 

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 9, ROOM B

Life Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Ritu Saxena

Cell Biology

 

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of microgravity induced bone loss by using in-vitro and in-vivo model systems

 

1:30

Jessica Brenneman

Pathology

 

In utero and post natal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and cardiovascular disease

 

1:45

Sabarish Indran

Microbiology

 

Trafficking of Human Cytomegalovirus Tegument Protein pp150

 

2:00

Kajal Buckoreelall

Pharmacology & Toxicology

 

Purification and characterization of an adenosine cleavage enzyme in mycobacteria

 

2:15

Mick D. Edmonds

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

 

BRMS1 suppresses breast cancer metastasis, in part, by coordinately regulating microRNA expression

 

2:30

Mandeep Virk

Nutrition Sciences

 

Differential effects of atypical antipsychotic drugs on weight gain in female AKR mice

 

2:45

BREAK

 

3:00

Rita Luther

Microbiology

 

Transcriptional Regulation of IL-2 in Responder CD4+ T Cells during T Regulatory Cell Suppression

 

3:15

Stephen Jordan

Cell Biology

 

Determination of the Optimal Domain for Inclusion in a PfMSP3-based Malaria Subunit Vaccine

 

3:30

Warren T. Jones

Biology

 

Vitamin Requirements in the Sea Urchin Lytechinus variegates

 

3:45

Yongliang Huo

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

 

Mini-Transplantation Cures beta Thalassemia Major in a Humanized Mouse Model of Cooley’s Anemia

 

4:00

Cristina Harmelink

Genetics

 

Critical Functions of Myocardial Nmyc in the Developing Mouse Heart

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 10, ROOM C

Life Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Jason A. Lucas

Cellular & Molecular Physiology

 

Blocking of Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-a Signaling Exacerbates Pressure Overload-induced Left Ventricular Remodeling and Dysfunction

 

1:30

Chang Hyun Byon

Cell Biology

 

Molecular mechanism of RANKL regulation and function in vascular calcification

 

1:45

Guyla Johnson

Neuroscience

 

A robust, reliable and fast assay to identify small molecules enhancing NF-κB expression in human neuroblastoma cells

 

2:00

Shoning Jiang

Pathology

 

Adenovirus Infection Results in Alerations of insulin Signaling Molecules and Glucose Homeostasis

 

2:15

Deborah Mai

Microbiology

 

Small-Molecule Inhibitors that Target Protein Interactions in the Mycobacterial Dormancy Pathway

 

2:30

BREAK

 

2:45

Ping-Chung Chen

Neurobiology

 

The reduction of ubiquitin pools by the impairment of Usp14 leads to aberrant synaptic development at the neuromuscular junctions

 

3:00

Lidong Zhai

Pathology

 

The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Insulin Resistance Following Injury

 

3:15

George Atkinson

Cellular and Molecular Biology

 

The Role of PIN1 in NF-KAPPAB Regulated Gene Expression in Gliomas

 

3:30

Brett Pickett

Microbiology

 

Separating Hepatitis C Virus genotype 1a into Two Clades—Implications for Inherent Drug Resistance

 

3:45

Amy Ellis

Nutrition Sciences

 

Effects of a moderately reduced carbohydrate diet on total circulating ghrelin in overweight adults

 

4:00

Shanrun Liu

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

 

Erythropoiesis in the absence of hemoglobin

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Thursday, February 26

 

SESSION 11, ROOM D

Health and Behavioral Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

1:00

Beverly J. Myers

Nursing

 

Organizational Support, Perceived Social Support, and Intent to Turnover Among Psychiatric Nurses: A Mixed-Methods Study

 

1:30

Jo Anne G. Balanay

Environmental Health Sciences

 

Toluene Adsorption on Various Types of Activated Carbon Fibers

 

1:45

Lucy Kehinde

Vision Science

 

Effects of Daily and 30-Day Continuous Contact Lens Wear on Tear Cytokine Levels

 

2:00

Connie White-Williams

Nursing

 

The Relationships Among Satisfaction with Social Support, Perceived Stress, and Coping on Quality of Life at 5 to 10 Years after Heart Transplantation

 

2:15

Lynne Gauthier

Medical Psychology

 

CI Therapy outcome is independent of infarct location in chronic stroke

 

2:30

Tsuguhiko Kato

Early Childhood Education

 

Young Children’s Ways of Playing “Concentration” (a Card Game)

 

2:45

BREAK

 

3:00

Laura Williams

Nursing

 

Factors associated with sleep disruption in the Health and Retirement Study

 

3:15

Tapan Mehta

Biostatistics

 

Effects of categorization and altered BMI distributions on apparent change in the associatieon of obesity with mortality rate: A plausible partial explanation for decrease in deleterious effects of overweight and obesity over calendar time?

 

3:30

Kimberly Guion

Medical Psychology

 

The Influence of Parent Attribution Style and Family Structure on Adolescent Adjustment to Chronic Illness

 

3:45

Carrie Ann Long

Nursing

 

The relationship of sexual empowerment and sexual pressure to condom use of young adult African American and Caucasian women

 

 


UAB Graduate Student Research Days 2009

 

Friday, February 27

 

SESSION 12, ROOM B

Life Sciences

 

TIME

NAME

AREA

9:00

Colin Reily

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

 

Diabetes induced kidney damage ameliorated by a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant

 

9:15

Amanda F. Swindall

Cellular & Molecular Physiology

 

Sialylation of Fas/CD95 confers protection against Fas-mediated apoptosis in colon tumor cells

 

9:30

Jenny Chang

Biology

 

Functional domains of the bacteriophage P2 scaffolding protein: Identification of residues involved in assembly and protease activity

 

9:45

Amit Ashtekar

Microbiology

 

Suppressive role of TLR4-signaling on B cell responses

 

10:00

Lindsey Vedder

Neuroscience

 

Heightened object recognition in 17beta-estradiol treated ovariectomized rats requires the NMDA receptor subunit 2B

 

10:15

Christopher Yuskaitis

Cell Biology

 

The Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 in Fragile X Syndrome and Autism

 

10:30

BREAK

 

10:45

Asaf Stein

Environmental Health Sciences

 

Potential Protection Afforded by H2S Administration During Trauma Treatment

 

11:00

David C. Gaston

Cell Biology

 

Prior Immunity to HSV-1 Limits Gag-specific Immune Responses Elicited by a Replication Competent, HSV-1 Derived Vaccine Vector

 

11:15

Amanda Willig

Nutrition Sciences

 

Association of the ENPP1 K121Q variant with adiposity in a multiethnic population

 

11:30

Ashlee Higdon

Pathology

 

Hemin Induces Antioxidant defenses through the Formation of Oxidized Lipids: Importance of the Electrophile Responsive Proteome

 

11:45

Jeffery Stewart

Cell Biology