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Poster Number	First Author	Program	Degree	Abstract Title
1	Chevillet, Mark A.	Neuroscience (IPN)	Ph.D.	Functional localization of the auditory "what" stream hierarchy
2	Walls, Colleen D.	Biology	Ph.D.	Drug Discovery: Targeting Attachment in Giardia lamblia Pathogenesis
3	Yu, Tao	Chemistry	Ph.D.	Carbon Dioxide and Molecular Nitrogen as Switches between Ionic and Uncharged Room-Temperature Liquids
4	Thomas, Kelly Jean	Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology (GU-NIH GPP)	Ph.D.	Altered mitochondrial dynamics caused by loss of PTEN-induced kinase 1 function, associated with recessive parkinsonism, are reversed by downregulation of Dynamin-related protein 1
5	Keffer, Jessica Lee	Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology	Ph.D.	New Cyclic Peptides from the Sponge Siliquariaspongia mirabilis Collected in Indonesia
6	Janssen, Megan J.	Pharmacology	Ph.D.	Acute AED exposure in neonatal rats impairs synaptic maturation of striatal GABAergic neurons
7	Solomon, David A.	Tumor Biology	M.D./Ph.D.	Identification of p18INK4c as a Tumor Suppressor Gene in Glioblastoma Multiforme
8	Rosenfield, Sonia	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	Tyrosine Kinase Receptor ALK Interaction with Unc5s and Its Role in Breast Cancer Progression
9	Barber, Julie	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	EWS-FLI1 as a Molecular Target: Identification of Inhibitors for a Disordered Protein
10	Owen, Ashley	Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology (GU-NIH GPP)	Ph.D.	Promoter Choice in the ANK-1 Locus is Determined by the Formation of an Erythroid-Specific Cromatin Domain
11	Kodack, David	Pharmacology	Ph.D.	The role of the Pleiotrophin - Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase axis in cancer progression
12	Paluszkiewicz, Scott	Neuroscience (IPN)	Ph.D.	Alterations in the basolateral complex of the amygdala in the Fmr1 mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome
13	Pocivavsek, Ana	Neuroscience (IPN)	Ph.D.	ApoE Peptide Attenuates Glial Inflammatory Response By Suppressing JNK Activation
14	Crooks, Daniel R.	Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology (GU-NIH GPP)	Ph.D.	Over-Accumulation of Ferritin in the Brush Border of Kidney Proximal Tubules in Mice Lacking Iron Regulatory Protein 2
15	Beauchamp, Elspeth M.	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	Gli1 is a direct transcriptional target of EWS-FLI1 and contributes to tumorgenicity in Ewing's Sarcoma
16	Yokely, Brian H.	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	Characterizing the Region Between the Transcription and Translation Start Sites of Lymphotoxin Alpha and the Impact of SNPs on Expression Levels
17	Abaan, Ogan D.	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	Phosopho-VCP/p97, A Novel PTPL1 Substrate, Is Localized to the Midbody
18	LaConti, Joseph	Tumor Biology	M.D./Ph.D.	Detection and Targeting of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase in Breast Cancer with a Monoclonal IgG
19	Evers, Danielle M.	Neuroscience (IPN)	Ph.D.	Regulation of NSF and AMPA receptors by serum inducible kinase
20	Manzano, Mark Irvin M.	Microbiology & Immunology	Ph.D.	A novel cis-acting element in the e'-untranslated region of the dengue-2 virus
21	Movafagh, Shahrzad	Pharmacology	Ph.D.	Does na+ preserve the cardiac Ca2+ channel conductance during hypoxia?
22	Tilan, Jason U.	Physiology & Biophysics	Ph.D.	The who, what, when, where, why and how of Neuropeptide Y (NPY) in ischemic revascularization
23	Warfel, Jason M.	Microbiology & Immunology (GU-NIH GPP)	Ph.D.	Anthrax Lethal Toxin Alters the Transcriptional Control of Pro-Inflammatory Gene Expression in Human Endothelium
24	Tako, Ernest A.	Biology	Ph.D.	Expression Profiling Identifiers Effector Mechanisms for Control of Infection with Giardia lamblia
25	Yuan, Linshan	Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics	M.S.	Protein domain definition investigation by mapping of sequence-based protein domain (pfam) and structure-based protein domain (scop)
26	Rogers, Jennifer L.	Physiology & Biophysics	Ph.D.	Chronic Stress Effects on the Diabetic Kidney on the Renal NPY System
27	Motter, Arianne L.	Pharmacology	Ph.D.	TRPV1-null mice are protected from diet-induced obesity
28	Trabosh, Valerie A.	Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology	Ph.D.	Id2 induces tumorigenesis via suppression of p27KIP1
29	Mitchell, Adam	Physiology & Biophysics	Ph.D.	Dissociation of estrogen (E2) effects on the vasculature of diabetic rats
30	Gibby, Krissa A.	Tumor Biology	Ph.D.	In vivo knock-down of a FGF-binding protein reveals its role in dorsal/ventral patterning

 

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