Session I Student Union Ballroom Morning Poster Session Environmental Sciences 1 Reed, C.L., F. Boone, and G. Zumwalt. LTU. Efficacy of sparged ozone in the remediation of Microcystis (blue green algae) 2 Haymore, W., and W.C. Dorsey, GSU Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway implicated by the expression of c-fos gene protein in AML 12 mouse hepatocytes exposed to pentachlorophenol 3 Laborde, J. and Allen J. Louisiana State University at Alexandria Monitoring of pH and temperature with seasonal changes of an isolated pond Microbiology 4 Childers, G.W. and C.J. Schulz. Southeastern Louisiana University Long term trends of fecal pollution loading in Tangipahoa River, LA 5 Isaac, J., C.J. Schulz, G.W. Childers. Southeastern Louisiana University Examination of methanotrophic diversity using pmoA before and after domestic wastewater addition in a Louisiana freshwater marsh 6 Knight, J., E. Talley, G.T. Howard, and E.J. Watson. Southeastern Survey of the forensic potential of soil microbes 7 Leonard, K.,Martinez, L..Rachel T., Corbin A., Nathaniel, R, Nicholls State Susceptibility patterns of coagulase positive Staphylococcus in healthy dogs 8 Paine, D.N. and J.L. Comeaux Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in lakes of Calcasieu Parish 9 Schulz, C.J., G.W. Childers. Southeastern Louisiana University Compositional changes of relative Bacteroidetes 16S rDNA marker abundance under varying environmental conditions 10 Spangler, J.R., G.W.Childers. Southeastern Louisiana University Presence of denitrification genes in relation to environmental conditions found in a wastewater treatment plant 11 Wright, P. M., and J.L.Comeaux. McSU Presence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in waters of Calcasieu Parish, LA Chemistry 12 Bursavich, B.J., Clement, G.M., Chou, J., Southeastern Louisiana University Characterization of contaminant oyster shells by X-ray fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy 13 Clement, G.M., Bursavich, B.J., Chou, Ju., Elbers, D., Zhang, W., Yang, K., Southeastern Louisiana University In situ monitoring and assessment of metal contamination around New Orleans by handheld XRF following Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav 14 Commander, J., Pengyan, Liu., Chou, Ju. Southeastern Louisiana University Assessment and monitoring of the 2008 Bonnet Carré Spillway opening on organic contaminants in Lake Pontchartrain 15 Gentry, P.D. and Dr. D. Norwood, SELU Electronic waste 16 Ruibal, A.L., A.J. Holt, J. Dinser, M. Lanier, and D. Norwood. Southeastern. A. McKim. Gaylord Chemical Investigation of cleaning abilities of various solvents 17 Tian, T., Clement, G. and Chou, J., SELU Effect of the opening of Bonnet Carré Spillway on distributions of metals and nutrient in Lake Pontchartrain 18 Balamurugan, S.S. and Russo P.S., LSU-BR Preparation and characterization of multifunctional colloidal particles 19 C. Lee, J. Sun, and P. Russo, LSU-BR Self-assembly of two-directional Arborols in water: Kinetics and control of their growth 20 Collins, M.E. and P.R. Russo. LSU-BR Phase behavior studies of silica-polypeptide composite particles combined with untethered polypeptides 21 Rosu, C., Daly, H., W., Negulescu, I., I., Russo P., S., and Laine, R. LSU-BR A comparative study on hydroxyl-protected and unprotected glylons 22 Tong, X., and Russo, P., LSU-BR Fluorescence photobleaching recovery (FPR) application for the self diffusion studies of polyelectrolyte 23 Dinser, J.A., M.L. Lanier, R. Rucker, and D.D. Dolliver. Southeastern. A.S. McKim, Gaylord Chemical Company Synthesis of O-alkylarylhydroximoyl azides 24 Mitchell, M.R. and Jin, Yao, SLU Purification of higher fullerene isomers 25 Wills, V., Dolliver, D. D., Lanier, M., Dinser, J., Miles, K., Southeastern, McKim, A. S., Gaylord Chemical Company Synthesis of single geometric isomers of oxime ethers of unsymmetrical 4,4?-disubstituted benzophenone by palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions 26 Venable, S. and P.D. Voegel. Southeastern Chemically modified electrodes for determination of theophylline 27 Li, Y. N., Kiranmai, B., Darabau, R., and Kiran, B., McSU Experimental and computational investigation of the reaction of N-carbobenzoxy-O-carbobenzoxyhydroxylamine with dimethyl sulfoxide to form S,S-dimethyl-N-[(phenylmethoxy)carbonyl] sulfoximine 28 Weber, R. J., T. Sommerfeld. Southeastern Molecular visualizations 29 Wilson, D., Sneddon, J. McSU Graduate program in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry at McNeese State University Physics 30 Gaffney, John and Yoshida, Sanichiro. Southeastern Determining fatigue history of an aluminium sample with interferometric and acoustic methods 31 Istre, C., A. K. Kandalam A DFT study of neutral and anionic metalorganic complexes [TM_n(COT)] (TM = Sc, Ti, Fe, and Co; n = 1, 2) Best Undergraduate Student Paper (Poster Presentations) 32 Green, Lutasshi. and Ju Chou. Southeastern Simultaneous determination of homovanillyl alcohol and dopamine by electrochemical method 33 Lewis, E.M., B.S. Netherland, and R.L. Minton. ULM Plastic springs: abiotic effects on freshwater snail shell shape 34 Hill, J.D., Chiles, K.N., Lightbourne, C.C., and Barrett, P. XU Integration of extrachromosomal arrays in Caenorhabditis elegans by ultraviolet light mutagenesis 35 Keaton, N.G., T. Do, C.R. Gissendanner. ULM A C. elegans anillin is required for post-embryonic cytokinesis and cell morphology 36 Preyan, L.C., Taylor, C.D., McElrath, L.R., DiMaggio, S., and Barrett, P. XU Gene targeting in Caenorhabditis elegans using functionalized PAMAM dendrimers 37 Lissy, E., J. LeJeune, and D. Spivak. LSU-BR Making fuels green using molecularly imprinted polymes 38 Ferguson, B.J. and W.H. Dees. McSU. M. Packiam, B.T. Mocca and A.E. Jerse. USUHS, Bethesda, MD Sequence-specific inhibition: Using phosphorothioate-oligonucleotides to decrease antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae 39 Brown, C., and JK.A. Jackson, McSU Corticosterone reguation of the hypothalmic-pituitary axis in Xenopus laevis Best Graduate Student Paper (Poster Presentations) 40 Gautam R Bedadala, Rajesh Pinnoji, Jay Palem and Victor Hsia. ULM Herpes Simplex Virus type-1 lytic infection induces the expression of transcription factor Early Growth Response-1 (Egr-1) 41 Genabai, N.K., and K.P. Briski ULM Effects of intracerebroventricular administration of the nonsteroidal glucocorticoid receptor antagonist, CP-472555, on recurrent insulin induced hypoglycemia-associated MCT2, GLUT3, GLUT4, GCK, and s 42 Vineet Gupta, G. Patwardhan,R.Pinnoji,K.Bhinge, V.S. Hsia and Yong-Yu Liu. ULM. Y. Zhao. LSU-S. S.M. Jazwinski. Tulane University Glucosylceramide synthase regulates MDR1 gene expression through the association of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and histone acetylation 43 Jin, Y and Mitchell, M.R.,SLU Purification of higher fullerene isomers 44 Nolan, C.B., K.X. Hunter, R.B. Hunter, A. Noyes and A. Bennett. ULM, Salisbury University Phylogenetic analysis and genetic variability with the genus Amaranthus using ISSRs 45 Patwardhan, G.A., Yin, D., Gupta, V. and Liu Y.Y. ULM. Zhang, Q. and Bao, J.R. LSU-S. Jazwinski, S.M. TUSM - NO Targeting glucosylceramide synthase reverses drug resistance through ceramide-induced apoptosis in vivo 46 Wali, V.B., S.V. Bachawal, and P.W. Sylvester. ULM gama-Tocotrienol-induced apoptosis involves the PERK/eIF2alpha/CHOP endoplasmic reticulum stress pathway in mammary tumor cells 47 Morton, D.A., G.S. Zumwalt. LTU Effects of ozone sparging on soil populations at a BTEX contaminated site

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