WV-INBRE
2005 Summer Research Symposium

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Forty poster presentations were made at the 2005 Summer Research Symposium. Participants included interns from the Summer Research Program and faculty and students from the predominantly undergraduate colleges and universities whose research is supported by the WV-INBRE.

Presenters are underlined, summer interns are bolded, and their summer mentors are in italics. Principal Investigators with WV-INBRE- supported research are noted by *.

(See also the Photos of Poster Presentations)

THE LOSS OF NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION CORRELATES WITH THE INABILITY OF OBESE ZUCKER RATS ON A HIGH FAT DIET TO RESIST SALT-SENSITIVE HYPERTENSION. Kristen Barbour, Ryan Morrison, Elsa Mangiarua, William McCumbee [Photo]

UTILIZATION OF LIPID RAFTS BY TYPE-III SECRETION SYSTEMS. Tara Braithwaite, Jennifer Salazar, Joan Olson [Photo]

DICLOFENAC NEPHROTOXICITY IN ISOLATED RENAL CORTICAL CELLS FROM MALE FISCHER 344 RATS. Sophia N. Brown, Dianne K. Anestis, Lauren L. Richards-Waugh, Gary O. Rankin [Photo]

PRODUCTION OF ALEXA FLUOR488-LABELED REOVIRUS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TARGET CELL BINDING, REPLICATION COMPETENCE, AND IMMUNOGENICITY OF LABELED VIRIONS. Ryan Busch, Ronald Fecek, Hong Lin, Kasturi Pal, Cynthia A. Cunningham,
Christopher F. Cuff [Photo]

EFFECT OF GROWTH CONDITIONS IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ON ALGINATE PRODUCTION AND ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY. Danielle H. Carroll, Vonya M. Eisinger, Hongwei D. Yu [Photo]

DETECTION OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS WITHIN APOB AND MTP: RELATION TO CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Brandi D. Connors, Amanda D. Magers, Amy L. Clark, Robert Kreisberg*

IDENTIFYING CANDIDATE GENES FOR ACORN STUDIES. Mary E. Davis

UPREGULATION OF MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE PROTEIN AND ACTIVITY BY ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID (ATRA): POTENTIAL ROLES OF NFkB AND RETINOIC ACID RECEPTORS (RAR). Tabetha Davis, Carla Cook, Michelle Humphrey, Aileen Marcelo, Mariella Tassone, Kelley Kiningham, Doug Spitz [Photo]

OXIDATIVE STRESS AND ANTIOXIDANT TRETMENT IN TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE OF AGED RATS. Holly J Dudash, Michael J. Ryan, Robert G. Cutlip, Stephen E. Alway

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF DAPSONE IN THE ACTIVE SITE OF CYTOCHROME P450 2C9 AND THE CORRELATION OF HYDROGEN BONDING. J. Leighann Fry, Zachary R. Hartman, Jarrett S. Aguilar*

THE ROLE OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3Β IN NEURONAL CELL DEATH. Daniel Gallagher, Cuiling Ma, Jia Luo [Photo]

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF CYTOCHROME P450 2C9 AND THE EFFECTS OF HYDROGEN BONDING ON THE ORIENTATION OF DAPSONE. Zachary R. Hartman, Becky L. Gardner, Jarrett S. Aguilar*, Rebecca James

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE ACTIVITY IN KIDNEY TISSUE OF HYPERTENSIVE RATS. Christopher R. Garton, Sandeep Joshi, Pedram Ghafourifar, William McCumbee [Photo]

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF HYDROGEN BONDING ON THE METABOLISM OF FLURBIPROFEN IN THE ACTIVE SITE OF CYP 2C9. Zachary R. Hartman, Jarrett S. Aguilar*, Rebecca E. James

LEVELS AND LOCATION OF ACTIVE ß-CATENIN AND ITS PARTNER PROTEINS IN B-16 MOUSE MELANOMA CELLS IN RESPONSE TO RETINOIC ACID. Cara Henry, Beverly C. Delidow [Photo]

THE CAVEOLIN PROFILE IN U266 MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELLS. Richard Herrington, Kelly Bailey , and Jun Liu [Photo]

THE IMMUNOTOXIC EFFECT OF A MIXTURE OF ATRAZINE AND ISOXAFLUTOLE. Emily D. Heston, Kathleen Brundage [Photo]

INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF Y-27632 AND ML-9 ON CONTRACTILE-INDUCED MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHORYLATION IN THE SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT AORTA. Brenda M. Hill, Sean Thatcher, Kevin M. Rice, Robert Harris, Eric. R. Blough, and Gary L. Wright [Photo]

SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) ALLELIC DISCRIMINATION OF APOLIPOPROTEIN C II AND APOLIPOPROTEIN C III. Brian Huggins, Amanda D. Magers, Amy L. Clark, Robert Kreisberg*

BILE ACIDS INHIBIT LIPOGENIC GENE EXPRESSION BY STIMULATING MITOGEN ACTIVATED-PROTEIN KINASE ACTIVITY. Nicholaos G. Kalathas, Saswata Talukdar, Brad Hillgartner [Photo]

ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE IN CR (VI)-INDUCED APOPTOSIS. Peninnah Kumar, N. Azad, L. Wang, Y. Rojanasakul [Photo]

AFFECTS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS ON GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (G6PD) MRNA REGULATION. Jacob J. Lea, Lisa M. Salati [Photo]

EVALUATING TOBACCO SMOKING’S INFLUENCE ON ALPHA-1-ACID GLYCOPROTEIN BINDING OF DOCETAXEL. Mellisa D. Leach, William Petros [Photo]

IDENTIFICATION OF GENES CONTRIBUTING TO OBESITY- ASSOCIATED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (OCARD). Huey Miin Lee, Mark R. Flood*, Dana Calica, Bonnie Freeman, Melinda Huff, Sarah Dodson, Amy Clark, Amanda Magers, Robert Kreisberg*, Mary Davis, Paulette Wehner, Todd L. Green, Donald A. Primerano, James Denvir, Liping Wei, Yulia Dementieva

CELL-CELL ATTACHMENT PROTEIN (CADHERINS) EXPRESSION IN NON-MALIGNANT AND MALIGNANT MOUSE MELANOCYTES. Sara E. Lilly, Richard M. Niles [Photo]

SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPS) IN APOA AND HL: RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Kathleen E. McIntyre, Amy L. Clark, Amanda D. Magers, Robert Kreisberg*

EFFECT OF GENOTYPIC SEX ON THE RESPONSE TO FASTING IN MICE. Justin R. Morgan, Nancy Llanza, Stan Hileman [Photo]

MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL ANALYSIS OF HLB STRAIN MICE USING FLOW CYTOMETRY AND THE CFC ASSAY. Kelli A. Morrison, Jennifer M. Napper, Vincent E. Sollars [Photo]

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF CYTOCHROME P450 2C9 AND THE CORRELATION OF PI STACKING AND STERIC HINDRANCE OF MUTATED RESIDUES. Zachary R. Hartman, Angela G. Niehaus, Jason J. Cox, Jarrett S. Aguilar*

ACUTE STRETCH TRIGGERS UPREGULATION OF PROLIFERATIVE PROTEINS IN HEALING MOUSE SKIN. Mary E. Prescott, Carl D. Shrader, Frank D. Reilly [Photo]

COMPARISON OF S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE (SAMe) AND N-ACETYLCYSTEINE (NAC) EFFECT ON ACETAMINOPHEN-MEDIATED INDUCTION OF TOXICITY. Ashleigh L. Prince, Marcus V. Terneus, Monica A. Valentovic [Photo]

POLYMERS IN E. COLI DERIVED FROM STREPTOCOCCAL COLLAGEN-LIKE PROTEINS SCL1 AND SCL2. Kevin Roush, Clayton Caswell, Runlin Han, Ewa Lukomska, Antoni Zwiefka, Slawomir Lukomski [Photo]

USE OF H19-7 CELLS AS A POTENTIAL FUNCTIONAL MODEL FOR THE HIPPOCAMPUS. Jeremy Smith, Todd Green, Lawrence Grover [Photo]

INTERACTION OF HISTAMINE AND SELECTED METABOLITES WITH HEME PROTEINS. Zechary C. Smith, Jaroslava Miksovska, Rob Hayes, Carl Gruetter [Photo]

ANGIOGENIC RESPONSE OF PERIPHERAL NERVE ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN DIABETIC NEUROPATHY. Kimberly D. Snodgrass, Ava Dykes, Sean Thatcher, Ryan Morrison, Ben Dalton, Liliana Berti-Mattera, Elsa Mangiarua [Photo]

DETECTION OF GENOMIC MARKERS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN APOLIPOPROTEIN E. Chris Taylor, Amanda Magers, Amy Clark, and Robert Kreisberg*

INSULIN RESISTANCE IS A STRONGER PREDICTOR OF MICROVESSEL RAREFACTION THAN HYPERTENSION IN OBESE ZUCKER RATS. Coben D. Thorn, Jefferson C. Frisbee

DOES EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENT MUTANT HUMAN SOD1 PROTEINS IN S. CEREVISIAE CAUSE MITOCHONDRIAL DEFECTS IN YEAST BY A COMMON MECHANISM LEADING TO ALS? Matthew J. Thorn, Michael R. Gunther [Photo]

DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE IN NZB/W F1 MICE EXPOSED TO PROPANIL. Stacey A Velkovich, Rosana Schafer [Photo]

ROLE OF MAP KINASE IN GROWTH HORMONE SIGNALING IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS. Melanie Ward, Lawrence Grover, Todd Green [Photo]