Poster abstracts
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| Number | Presenter | Title | PI |
| 31 | David Ignacio |
Small GTPase proteins and spindle orientation in the C. elegans zygote | Adriana Dawes |
| 110 | Ashley Heinaman |
Tumor cells survive loss of RasV12 expression through activation of autophagy | Amanda Simcox |
| 36 | Geeta Palsule |
Biogenesis and functional consequences of the intronic Drosophila RNase P RNA | Amanda Simcox |
| 112 | Enkhtuul Tsogtbaatar |
13C-labeling of pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos to reveal a bottleneck in oil synthesis | Ana Paula Alonso |
| 92 | Liz Stone |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E mutant neurofilament subunit proteins assemble into neurofilaments | Anthony Brown |
| 96 | Corey Ruhno |
Complete sequence analysis of the SMN genes present in patients using Multiplexed Direct Genomic Selection for refinement of genotype/phenotype prediction | Arthur Burghes |
| 3 | Anton Blatnik |
Dissecting Pathways by which SMN Deficiency Causes Motoneuron Loss in SMA | Arthur H. M. Burghes |
| 103 | Luke Russell |
A novel oncolytic HSV-1: RAPTOR affects PD-L1 expression to enhance brain tumor therapy | Balveen Kaur |
| 88 | Valerio Embrione |
Optimization of human anti-NCL immunoagents for cancer therapy | Carlo M. Croce |
| 111 | Joshua Johnson |
Control of DNA Origami Mechanisms via Gold Nanoparticles | Carlos Castro |
| 85 | Kyle LaPak |
Defining the role of PAK7 variants in melanoma | Christin Burd |
| 41 | Ahmet Ata Akatay |
Peripheral Regions of Clathrin-coated Plaques are Active Endocytic Sites | Comert Kural |
| 82 | Andrea R. Hindman |
Mesenchymal reprogramming and altered density in the mammary gland following in utero bisphenol A exposure | Craig J. Burd |
| 99 | Timothy Faw |
Training Persistent Motor Deficits Improves Locomotion After SCI | D. Michele Basso |
| 49 | Jackson Trotman |
RNA guanine-7 methyltransferase catalyzes the methylation of cytoplasmically recapped RNAs | Daniel R. Schoenberg |
| 51 | Daniel del Valle-Morales |
An improved method for generating a cDNA library of 5’ capped mRNAs | Daniel R. Schoenberg |
| 107 | Tami Coursey |
Title not published online | David Bisaro |
| 105 | Jian Wu |
Genome-wide functional analysis of PSTVd reveals wide-spread GU wobble base pairs critical for survival of an infectious noncoding viroid RNA | David M. Bisaro |
| 109 | Aaron Bruns |
SnRK1 phosphorylates eIF4E/iso4E to regulate translation | David M. Bisaro |
| 102 | Kevin McGarry Jr |
Reengineering Human Butyrylcholinesterase for the Catalytic Degradation of Organophosphorus Compounds | David W. Wood |
| 108 | Melissa Siebert |
Regulation of myoblast migration in neonatal muscle by Ephrin/Eph signaling | Denis Guttridge |
| 24 | David Heisler |
Title not published online | Dmitri Kudryashov |
| 10 | Christopher Schwebach |
Elucidating a mechanism of calcium-regulated F-actin bundling by human plastins | Dmitri Kudryashov |
| 27 | Vedud Purde |
Split-intein mediated reconstitution of diphtheria toxin catalytic domain in mammalian cells | Dmitri S. Kudryashov |
| 16 | Patrick Houston |
Ultrafast water-protein dynamics displays long-range collectivity | Dongping Zhong |
| 42 | Curtis Israel |
Second Harmonic Generation of Phospholipid Monolayers with Organic Solvents | Dr. Heather Allen |
| 63 | Christine Wachnowsky |
Title not published online | Dr. J.A. Cowan |
| 115 | Cecil Howard |
Uptake of Exogenous Histones in Cells and Organisms | Dr. Jennifer Ottesen |
| 93 | Anzela Niraula |
Corticosterone mobilizes monocytes into circulation and induces adhesion molecule expression to recruit monocytes to the brain during stress | Dr. John F. Sheridan |
| 26 | Tasha Wilkie |
The Role of Chronic Inflammatory Environment in promoting Breast Cancer Progression | Dr. Ramesh Ganju |
| 71 | Balasubramani Hariharan |
Polarity and Charge as determinants for translocase requirement for Membrane protein insertion. | Dr. Ross E Dalbey |
| 2 | Theresa Relation |
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Interferon-Gamma Delivery in Neuroblastoma | Ed Horwitz |
| 45 | Wilberforce Ouma |
Topological and statistical analyses of gene regulatory networks reveal unifying emergent properties | Erich Grotewold |
| 79 | Jack Wellmerling |
Reduced Expression of the Ion Channel Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Leads to Increased Disease Severity in a Cigarette Smoke-Induced Mouse Model of Emphysema | Estelle Cormet-Boyaka |
| 25 | Anthony Miller |
Methionine salvage from 5-methylthioadenosine in Rhodopseudomonas palustris: a new route to methanethiol | F. Robert Tabita |
| 113 | Anastasia Manesis |
Developing Nickel-Substituted Azurin as a Model for Acetyl CoA Synthase | Hannah S. Shafaat |
| 114 | Jeffrey Slater |
Electrochemical Hydrogen Generation using a Protein-Based Catalyst | Hannah S. Shafaat |
| 40 | Pearson Maugeri |
Driving protein conformational changes with light: Evidence for photoinduced structural rearrangement in a heterobimetallic Mn/Fe oxidase | Hannah S. Shafaat |
| 30 | Kristi Miller |
Regulation of cell polarity by Rga1, a Cdc42 GTPase-activating protein | Hay-Oak Park |
| 60 | Allison Webb |
EGL-38/PAX protein coordination of cell fates in the Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying system | Helen Chamberlin |
| 46 | Sarah Hulbert George |
Predicting the extent of post-stroke motor recovery under two modalities of constraint-induced movement (CI) therapy using enhanced probabilistic neural networks (EPNN) | Hojjat Adeli |
| 22 | Alecia Biel |
Establishing the role of SINE proteins in regulating stomatal dynamics during environmental stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana | Iris Meier |
| 23 | Anna Newman-Griffis |
Identification and characterization of Medicago truncatula LINC complex components with potential functions in root symbioses | Iris Meier |
| 18 | Stephen Pearson |
Molecular Understanding of the Substrate Binding Residue D398 in S. cerevisiae Atm1p | James A. Cowan |
| 53 | Samantha Dodbele |
Characterization of the Function and Mechanism of an Orphan 3'-5' RNA Polymerase Involved in Noncoding RNA Processing. | Jane Jackman |
| 64 | Aiswarya Krishnamohan |
Mechanistic features of the bifunctional tRNA methyltransferase, Trm10 | Jane Jackman |
| 68 | Tracy Roach |
Mechanistic studies of substrate specificities exhibited by tRNA-His guanylyltransferase (Thg1) | Jane Jackman |
| 57 | Ashanti Matlock |
Investigating the biological roles for thg1-like proteins in Myxococcus xanthus | Jane Jackman |
| 61 | Natalie Deans |
The required to maintain repression12 locus provides a novel mechanistic link between paramutation and developmental gene regulation in Zea mays | Jay Hollick |
| 8 | Grace Cooper |
Title not published online | Jeff Kuret |
| 1 | Carol Huseby |
Molecular signature for Alzheimer's Disease vulnerability | Jeff Kuret PhD |
| 97 | Kathryn Madalena |
Title not published online | Jessica Lerch |
| 38 | Kenneth Gerien |
Title not published online | Jian-Qiu Wu |
| 73 | J. Spencer Hauck |
Myofiber mineralocorticoid receptor function in muscular dystrophy | Jill A. Rafael-Fortney |
| 77 | Brian Giacopelli |
Title not published online | John C. Byrd Christopher C. Oakes |
| 100 | David Phenis |
The Relative Contributions of α7 Nicotinic and NMDA Receptor Activity in Performance of a Working Memory Task | John P. Bruno |
| 104 | Kristina Witcher |
Rod microglia induced by traumatic brain injury are resident cells associated with damaged neurons | Jonathan P. Godbout |
| 70 | Jonathan Picking |
Demethylation of L-proline betaine by corrinoid-dependent enzyme from Eubacterium limosum, a human gut acetogen. | Joseph A. Krzycki |
| 58 | Katie McKenney |
Title not published online | Juan D. Alfonzo |
| 39 | Keyton Clayson |
Title not published online | Jun Liu |
| 83 | Kun-yu Teng |
Blocking the Ccl2-Ccr2 axis using Ccl2 neutralizing antibody is an effective therapy for hepatocellular cancer in a mouse model | Kalpana Ghoshal |
| 52 | Lexie Kuzmishin |
Quality control by trans-editing factor prevents global mistranslation of non-protein amino acid alpha-aminobutyrate | Karin Musier-Forsyth |
| 90 | Kaitlin Snider |
Title not published online | Karl Obrietan |
| 98 | Lars Nelson |
Sex differences in microglial phagocytosis and support of neurogenesis in the neonatal hippocampus | Kathryn M Lenz |
| 6 | Jessica Adair |
Design of an AAV9.SaCas9/gRNA Vector for Gene Editing to Correct DMD Exon 2 Duplications | Kevin Flanigan |
| 76 | Jason Siu |
Molecular therapy of melanocortin-4-receptor obesity by an autoregulatory BDNF vector | Lei Cao |
| 80 | Tingyang Zhou |
Title not published online | Li Zuo |
| 19 | Matthew Plumb |
Title not published online | Mamuka Kvaratskhelia |
| 17 | Michelle Gray |
Structural peculiarities of the non-classical Protocadherin-24 involved in microvilli morphogenesis | Marcos Sotomayor |
| 15 | Eric Danhart |
Conformational and chemical selection by a trans-acting editing domain | Mark Foster |
| 14 | Aparna Unnikrishnan |
Protein Dynamics Underlie Cre-loxP DNA Recombination | Mark P. Foster |
| 21 | Pepsi Holmquist |
Probing the mechanism of homotropic allostery in TRAP using native mass spectrometry | Mark P. Foster and Vicki Wysocki |
| 28 | Liudmila Popova |
Using Proximity-Dependent Biotinylation to Identify Proteins Proximal to Histone Acetyltransferase 1 in vivo | Mark Parthun |
| 106 | Stephanie Hicks |
The apical loop of the f2 peptide in the respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein plays an essential role in membrane fusion. | Mark Peeples |
| 74 | Chaojie Wang |
RCAN1-4 is a thyroid cancer growth and metastasis suppressor | Matthew Ringel |
| 75 | Miranda Gardner |
The Tale Behind the Tails: A Mass Spectrometry-Based Approach to Investigate the Role of a Histone Methyltransferase, EZH2, in Chromatin Remodeling, Cell Proliferation and Tumorigenesis | Michael A. Freitas |
| 67 | Paul Kelly |
Identification of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors against Eukaryotic Pathogens | Michael Ibba |
| 94 | Damon DiSabato |
Social stress and the induction of neuronal IL-1b expression in the hippocampus activate microglia and cause the recruitment of leukocytes to the brain and spleen | Ning Quan |
| 37 | Siyuan Xing |
Title not published online | Paul Herman |
| 35 | Qian Shi |
Title not published online | Paul K. Herman |
| 33 | Brit Martin |
Zebrafish skeletal muscle as a potential surrogate system for studying human cardiomyopathy mutations | Paul M. L. Janssen |
| 29 | Megan Cramer |
Induction of T-cell infiltration and programmed death ligand 2 expression by adeno-associated virus in rhesus macaque skeletal muscle and modulation by prednisone | Paul T. Martin |
| 78 | Kelly Crowe |
N-terminal α dystroglycan (αDG-N): A potential serum biomarker for Duchenne muscular dystrophy | Paul T. Martin |
| 4 | Kevin Ying |
Assessing microbial dysbiosis of electronic cigarettes and cigarette smokers using oral and lung microbiome | Peter Shields |
| 87 | Carmine Sonzone |
The Lung and Breast Cancer Microbiome - An RNA-Seq Analysis | Peter Shields |
| 89 | Benjamin Noble |
Autonomic plasticity after spinal cord injury: effects on cardiovascular dysfunction | Phillip G. Popovich |
| 91 | Randall Carpenter |
Spinal cord injury alters the proliferation, mobilization and retention of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells | Phillip G. Popovich |
| 95 | Jessica Marbourg |
Spinal cord injury delays cutaneous wound healing | Phillip G. Popovich |
| 32 | Sarah Choudury |
Title not published online | R. Keith Slotkin |
| 9 | Meredith Sigman |
The transposable element’s Achilles’ heel: Do double-strand breaks trigger recognition and epigenetic silencing? | R. Keith Slotkin |
| 86 | Jt Greene |
Par-4 Overexpression Impedes Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Development in the Eµ-TCL1 Murine Leukemia Model | Raj Muthusamy |
| 48 | Dengke Zhao |
Title not published online | Ralf Bundschuh |
| 5 | Brooke Britton |
Title not published online | Richard Fishel |
| 54 | Nathan Jones |
Title not published online | Richard Fishel |
| 72 | Sri Karthika Shanmugam |
New insights on the role of substrate N-terminal tails in specifying their membrane protein translocase requirement | Ross E. Dalbey |
| 59 | Kimberly Hromowyk |
New insight into skeletal muscle fusion using zebrafish fusion mutants | Sharon Amacher |
| 62 | Kiel Tietz |
Pnrc2 regulates 3’UTR-mediated decay of cyclic transcripts during somitogenesis | Sharon L. Amacher |
| 47 | Mithila Agnihotri |
Dielectric properties of biomolecules: Methods and Application to DNA oligomer | Sherwin Singer |
| 43 | Jacob Bowman |
Title not published online | Steffen Lindert |
| 44 | Stephanie Kim |
Novel binding site of cyclin A2 and potential inhibitors | Steffen Lindert |
| 101 | Christopher Wier |
Longitudinal Mapping of Motor Unit Connectivity in Peripheral Nerve Repair | Stephen J. Kolb |
| 13 | Sidharth Mohan |
Consensus, Correlations and Combinatorics in Engineering and Exploring stability in Triosephosphate Isomerases | Thomas J. Magliery |
| 65 | Timothy Grunkemeyer |
New insights into a novel Paraoxonase-1 catalytic mechanism | Thomas J. Magliery |
| 81 | Nicholas Long |
Title not published online | Thomas J. Magliery |
| 84 | Dongju Park |
Title not published online | Thomas Ludwig |
| 12 | David Bowles |
Title not published online | Thomas Magliery |
| 50 | Janie Frandsen |
Title not published online | Tina Henkin |
| 56 | Kiel Kreuzer |
Title not published online | Tina M. Henkin |
| 55 | Hannah Bekebrede |
Random mutagenesis of Ehrlichia sp. HF strain for identification of virulence genes | Yasuko Rikihisa |
| 34 | Anthony Stephenson |
Title not published online | Zucai Suo |
| 66 | Walter Zahurancik |
Kinetic characterization of the human DNA polymerase ε holoenzyme | Zucai Suo |
| 20 | Andrew Reed |
Structural characterization of base excision repair processes catalyzed by human DNA polymerase β | Zucai Suo |
| 69 | Jack Tokarsky |
Significant impact of divalent metal ions on the fidelity, sugar selectivity, and drug incorporation efficiency of human PrimPol | Zucai Suo |