Fifth Annual Graduate Student Research Day - March 30th, 2005
Welcome to the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Research Day sponsored by the Graduate School and the Society of Duke Fellows. This research conference was initiated in March 2000 to acknowledge and show appreciation for the scholarly contributions of graduate students to the university. This program provides an opportunity for these students to showcase their research and receive constructive feedback from faculty about their work. This year's event had 90 presenters representing 31 departments.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH DAY
(Click on a name below to view the presenter's abstract.)
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Rhea M. Brooking, Pathology
Enhancing innate immune responses using mast cell activator compound 48/80
Abigail Brown, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Testing a model for the regulation of the hepatitis delta virus antigenomic ribozyme
Sulene L. Chi, Pathology
Angiostatin: A direct effect on tumors beyond the endothelium
Juliette Colinas, Biology
Linear regression to study regulation of gene transcription
Heather Dean, Neurobiology
Allocentric representation of visual space in macaque posterior cingulate cortex
Kyle Dexter, Biology
Composition and conservation of plant communities in the Amazon Basin
Claudia M. Dollins, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Enhancement of tumor immunotherapy using RNA antagonists to the PD-1/B7-H1 pathway
Laura Fuhrman, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
A forward genetic approach to dissect Caenorhabditis elegans ' innate immunity
Jandy Hanna, Biological Anthropology & Anatomy
Vertical climbing energetics in prosimian primates
Audrey S. Howell, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Opposing roles for actin in Cdc42p polarization
Yen-Ping Hsueh, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Recombination is enhanced in regions flanking the Cryptococcus mating type locus: Implications for the evolution of a fungal sex chromosome.
Anne Kiang, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Complement system inhibition diminishes Adenovirus-associated toxicities
Hanying Li, Pathology
Molecular robotics for DNA nanostructure
Emily Lin, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Poxviruses are able to activate TLR2 and TLR9 signaling.
Odessa Marks, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Alternative splicing factors as genetic modifiers of human disease
Wayne E. Mayer, Environment
The piassaba palm: Conservation and development in the buffer zone of Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park
Lisa McPhatter, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Combination therapy of Bevacizumab with Rapamycin in anti-tumor activity
Niharika B. Mettu, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Peptide antagonists of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)
Barbara J. Natalizio, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Development of an in vitro system to study coupled transcription and splicing
Trudy G. Oliver, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Loss of patched and disruption of granule cell development in a pre-neoplastic stage of medulloblastoma
Chiatogu Onyewu, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
The calcineurine target Crz1 contributes to azole tolerance but is not required for virulence of Candida albicans.
Jennifer A. Perry, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
The topoisomerase II-dependent G 2 checkpoint inhibits Plx1 kinase through the regulation of phosphatase activity.
Evadnie Rampersaud, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Whole genome-wide linkage screen for neural tube defects reveals regions of interest on chromosomes 7 and 10.
Margie Ream, Neurobiology
Hypoxia induced catecholamine release in the midgestation fetus.
Michael Slifer, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
A genetic association study of Alzheimer dementia
Jungsan Sohn, Biochemistry
Remote hot-spots mediate protein substrate recognition for Cdc25 phosphatase.
Steven H. Spoel, Biology
NPR1 modulates salicylate- and jasmonate-dependent defense responses in plants.
Katie Styer, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Yersinia pestis kills Caenorhabditis elegans by a biofilm-independent process that requires novel mammalian virulence factors.
Anastasia Wise, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Fumonisin mycotoxin exposure as a potential risk factor for human neural tube defects in Guatemala
Hanyi Zhuang, University Program in Genetics & Genomics
An analysis of the structure and function of RTP1
HUMANITIES
Erica R. Edwards, Literature
The cultural production of charismatic leadership
Rebecca E. Ingram, Romance Studies
"Fake sea cucumbers with sisho, sesame and yuzu": Postnational consumer networks and "Spanish" haute cuisine
Tyler Kendall, English
"U ert svo cool": Code switching and language negotiation on an online Icelandic-English message board
John W. Kirby, Liberal Studies
Footsteps to sterilization: Gynecological surgery as a cure for female insanity: The case of Dorthea Dix Hospital at Raleigh and sterilization laws in North Carolina, 1900-1933
Clare Aselin Matti, Liberal Studies
Art at white heat: Jazz music and swing dancing
Eric Oakley, Liberal Studies
The pain wrought children of my fancy: Menotti's operatic representations of childhood
Firat Oruc, Literature
After allegory: Phantasmagoria of modernity in Benjamin's Arcades Project
Margaret A Ozierski, Romance Studies
The scandal of the origin of the work of art: La belle noiseuse
Marcel Pusey, Music
Haydn's instrumental music and the fallacy of Sturm und Drang : Issues of style in the symphonies, string quartets, and keyboard sonatas, c. 1766-72
Randy Yale, Liberal Studies
Perverts and responsibility: The rhetoric of Jesse Helms
PYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEEERING
Kelli Crews Baumgartner, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Bayesian network modeling of offender behavior for criminal profiling
Elizabeth Bucholz, Biomedical Engineering
4-dimensional projection encoded b-SSFP imaging of a mouse heart: A work in progress
Pawan K. Choudhary, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Integrated voice/data cellular communication with generally distributed delay for end voice calls
Audrey Ellerbee, Biomedical Engineering
Exploring heart cell dynamics using spectral domain phase microscopy
Qiang Fu, Chemistry
Single-walled carbon nanotubes for thin-film transistors
Laura Grit, Computer Science
Resource brokering for federated utilities
Jie Hu, Physics
Excited charmed mesons in heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory
Farrell R. Kersey, Chemistry
Dynamic force spectroscopy of coordination-based reversible polymer building blocks
Bumjoon Kim, Biomedical Engineering
Synthesis and characterization of elastin-like polypeptides fusion with calmodulin
Gwangrog Lee, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
UV radiation affects the mechanics of the double helix.
Scotland C. Leman, Statistics & Decision Sciences
Likelihoods from summary statistics: Recent divergence between species
Meng-Ru Li, Physics
Stable propagation of bursts in a one dimension homogeneous excitatory synfire chain
Ming De Lin, Biomedical Engineering
Functional cardio-pulmonary imaging of the rodent using microradiography
Bin Liu, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Reflectivity measurement of aluminum on MEMS
Lucy L. Liu, Chemistry
How phosphorylation affects the metal binding property of a synthetics alpha-synuclein peptide fragment
Andre M. Loyd, Biomedical Engineering
Thresholding method for rendering anatomically accurate pediatric head and neck models
Nicole Mich, Earth & Ocean Sciences
Temporal variability of Labrador Sea Water export pathways
Nilesh N. Mistry, Biomedical Engineering
Gradient distortion correction for 3-D MR diffusion tensormicroscopy using mutual information and Fourier deformation
Ming Qian, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Multi-sensor planning by unified graphical model
Tong Ren, Electrical & Computer Engineering
The presence and behavior of continuing currents in lightning flashes
Caroline Rhim, Biomedical Engineering
Effects of scaffold assembly on tissue engineered blood vessels
Abel Rodriguez, Statistics & Decision Sciences
Bayesian structural analysis of proteins
Petra L. Roulhac, Chemistry
SUPREX analysis of the thermodynamics of synergistic anion binding by ferric binding protein
Jiayu Song, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Non-uniform Fast Fourier Transform (NUFFT) based medical image reconstructions
Mark W. Strudley, Earth & Ocean Sciences
Regolith thickness instability and the formation of tors in arid, granitic environments
Alexei Valiaev, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Effect of the phase transition and guest residue on mechanics of stimulus-responsive polypeptides
Eric Vance, Statistics & Decision Sciences
Quantifying elephant social structure using a bilinear mixed effects model to elicit qualities of elephant behavior
Gang Ye, Electrical & Computer Engineering
A 3-D EIT system for breast cancer detection
Xing Zong, Physics
Compton scattering on a polarized 3He target at HIGS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Jenille D. Adams, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Socioeconomic context and parenting among African American and Euro-American families
Samuel Bond, Business Administration
Precommitment bias in the evaluation of a single option
Michael N. Crotty, History
Uranium mining and native peoples in the North American west
Alexis T. Franzese, Sociology
To thine own self be true? Says who! A theoretical model of authenticity
Xing Hu, Public Policy
Dream Corps: How campus activism leads to social entrepreneurship
Xin Huang, Economics
Modelling duration and size of jumps in financial price processes
Charles Jonassaint, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Effects of the serotonin transporter gene, childhood environment, and race on self-esteem: A model adapted from the depression literature
Neil P. Jones, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Over and over again: The negative consequence of ruminating in response to an unattained ideal self
Amy R. Noll, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Negative and self-referential encoding in depression: An fMRI study
Shayla C. Nunnally, Political Science
Learning about race, thinking about politics: Black American racialized political socialization and political trust
Lijing Ouyang, Economics
Sibling influences on teen substance use
Nicole J. Polanichka, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
The transmission of parents' appearance-related values, concerns, and behaviors and their influence on weight concerns, and behaviors and their influence on weight concerns and self-esteem in obese treatment-seeking youth
Cathi Propper, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Mothers' and infants' physiological regulation in the still-face paradigm
L'Tanya Richmond, History
Elon history: An African American perspective
Jorgianne Civey Robinson, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
When your defenses are up: Domain-specific exclusion as a threat to self-worth
Christina C. Sanchez and Sara J. Becker, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Impulsive behaviors as predictors of suicidal ideation and attempts
Michelle R. Sherrill, Psychology: Social & Health Sciences
Who we want to be and what we do about it: The role of possible selves in self-regulation
Omari H. Swinton, Economics
An "A" for effort: Does more effort lead to more learning?
Kim-Chi Wakefield Trinh, Business Administration
Organizational memory: Conceptual framework & empirical operation at individual- and group-level
Owen Yeates, Political Science
Tolerating on faith: The theological basis of Locke's toleration
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