2008ASRF Award Winners
Poster Presentation
Division I – Undergraduates
Biomedical Sciences
First Place: Bassam Lamale, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Sharon Campbell, Dept. of Internal Medicine. Synthesis and Evaluation of Gamma Tocopherol Lysinate as an Anti-Cancer Agent in Human Prostate and Colon Cancer Cell Lines.
Second Place: Jessica Pugh, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – David Johnson, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Expression of Human Neutrophil Elastase Using Sumo Fusion Technology.
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
First Place: Elizabeth Harris, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Michelle Hoard, Dept. of Mathematics. The Sierpiński Square Graph and Some of its Properties.
Second Place: Brent Linville, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Charles Thomas Jones, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Environmental Factors Contributing to Colony Success in a Social Spider System.
Third Place: Maleka Khambaty, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Dr. Tom Ecay and Dr. James Stewart, Depts. of Biology & Physiology. Developmental Expression of Carbonic Anyhdrase II in the Extraembryonic Membranes of the Corn Snake, Pantherophis Guttatus.
Fourth Place: Tazley Hotz, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Dr. Dhirendra Kumar, Dept. of Biological Sciences. SA-Methyl Transferase Involvement in Disease Resistance Signaling.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First Place: Daniel Noel, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Russell Brown, Dept. of Psychology. Nicotine Sensitization in Adolescent Beta Arrestin-2 knockout Mice: Correlations with BDNF.
Second Place: Benjamin Martin, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Chris Dula, Dept. of Psychology. A Look at the Development of the Martin Stigma Against Tattoos Measure.
Third Place: Julia Lehmann, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Russ Brown, Dept. of Psychology. Nicotine-Conditioned Hyperactivity in Adolescent Male and Female D2-Primed Rats.
Division II – Graduate Students, 1-2 Years
Biomedical Sciences
First Place: Courtney Netherland, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Douglas Thewke, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Cannabinoid Receptor (CB2) Deficiency is Associated with Reduced Lesional Apoptosis in Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Null Mice.
Second Place: Stacie Woolard, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Uday Kumaraguru, Dept. of Microbiology. Toll-Like Receeptor Modulation of Dendritic Cell: Natural Killer Cell Interaction.
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
First Place: Lok Raj Pokhrel, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Istvan Karsai, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Mapping the Skin Pattern of Spotted Salamanders, Ambystoma Maculatum.
Second Place: David Hammond, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Ranjan Chakraborty, Dept. of Health Sciences. The Detection of Possible Outer Membrane Receptor, 'FepA', Protein From Rhizobium Leguminosarum Strain IARI 312.
Social & Behavioral Sciences (combined)
First Place: Marie Fillers, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Nancy Scherer, Dept. of Communicative Disorders. Normative Speech Accuracy Measures of Children 24-30 Months of Age.
Second Place: Zackary Cope, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Russ Brown, Dept. of Psychology. Amphetamine Sensitization in a Rodent Model of Psychosis.
Division III – Graduate Students, 2+ Years
First Place: Sam Boyd, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Darrell Moore, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Investigating Nectar Rhythms in Squash (Cucurbit Pepo): Effects on Honeybee (Apis Melliffera) Foraging Behavior.
Second Place: Christina Bridges, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Antonio Rusinol, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Comparison of the Activity and Expression of the ZMPSTE24 Endoprotease in Cellular Quiescence.
Division IV – Medical Students
First Place: Heather Wright, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Beth Bailey, Dept. of Family Medicine. Access to Obstetric Care in Rural Northeast Tennessee: Association with Birth Outcomes.
Second Place: Thomas Soike, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –David Chi, Dept. of Internal Medicine. Effects of Cigarette Smoke Extract on Cytokine Production from IL-1Beta-Activated Mast Cells.
Division V –Medical Residents and Post-Doctoral Fellows
First Place: Daniel Owens, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor – Cecilia McIntosh, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Identification, Recombinant Expression, And Biochemical Characterization Of A Flavonol 3-O-Glucosyltransferase From Citrus Paradisi.
Second Place: Subhadra Nandakumar, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Uday Kumaraguru, Dept. of Microbiology. Post-Priming Manipulation of Discordant Antiviral T Cells.
Third Place: Zia Ur Rahman, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Fereshteh Gerayli, Dept. of Family Medicine. What is the Best Treatment of Chronic Fecal Retention?.
Oral Presentations
Graduate Students
First Place: Jeremy Stout, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Blaine Schubert, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Skeletal Morphology and Systematics of Late Pliocene Alligator SP.
Second Place: Preston Visser, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Jameson Hirsch, Dept. of Psychology. Ethnic Differences in Risk and Protective Factors for Depression.
Third Place: Stacie Woolard, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Uday Kumaraguru, Dept. of Microbiology. Up-Regulating Death Receptor 5 Via Tunicamycin Administration Increases Anti-HSV Immune Response.
Medical Residents and Post-Doctoral Fellows
First Place: Subhadra Nandakumar, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Uday Kumaraguru, Dept. of Microbiology. Molecular Link Between Toll Like Receptors, Obesity and Risk of Cancer.
Second Place: Sumit Kalra, ETSU. Faculty Sponsor –Terry Forrest, Dept. of Internal Medicine. A Case of Ventricular Tachycardia Terminated by Carotid Massage.
Third Place: Georges El Khoury, An Exceptional Variant of Single Coronary Artery Anomaly, Presenting with Acute St Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.