Agricultural Biotechnology
When: 1:20 – 4:40 PM, Thursday, December 8, 2011
Where: Cameron Williams Lecture Hall – Plant Science Bldg.
1:20 PM Welcome and Introduction (Dr. Bruce Webb)
1:30 PM Sarah Boden Investigation of the Cellular Uptake and Cytotoxicity of Paclitaxel Nanocrystals
Mentor: Dr. Tonglei Li, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
1:45 PM Emerson Dick Investigation of combinatorial library binding specificity using a
high throughput system
Mentor: Dr. Luke Bradley, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UK College of Medicine
2:00 PM Kendall Goffinet Genetic Basis of Metamorphic Timing: Connections Between gene
Met and Rate of Embryonic Development in the Axolotl Salamander
Mentor: Dr. Randall Voss, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
2:15 PM Jason Briones Finding RNA Binding Sites For Protein CSTF77 via PolyU Binding Assay
Mentor: Dr. Art Hunt, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, UK College of Agriculture
2:30 PM Amber Simpson Investigation of combinatorial library binding specificity using a high throughput system
Mentor: Dr. David Horohov, Department of Veterinary Sciences, UK College of Agriculture
2:45 PM BREAK
3:00 PM Staci McGill The Optimization of CDY1 Expression
Mentor: Dr. Robert Houtz, Department of Horticulture, UK College of Agriculture
3:15 PM Rebecca Hall Effect of Zinc Form and Level on the mRNA Levels of Zinc Transport Proteins in the Small Intestine of Broilers
Mentor: Kristen Brennan, Alltech Center of Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition
3:30 PM Benjamin Peppers Telomere Hypervariability in Magnaporthe oryzae
Mentor: Dr. Mark Farman, Department of Plant Pathology, UK College of Agriculture
3:45 PM Damon Revelette Selective Purification of VEGFR Domain 7 Heterodimers using Coiled Coils
Mentor: Dr. Craig Vander Kooi, Department of Biochemistry, UK College of Medicine
4:00 PM Ryan Hamann Central Nervous System Monitoring; bio-medical signal processing
Mentor: Dr. Ivan Horvath, Department of Anesthesiology, UK College of Medicine
4:15 PM Janet Chappell The Hidden Half of Crop Domestication
Mentor: Dr. David McNear, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, UK College of Agriculture
4:30 PM RECEPTION and AWARDING of the Dr. Glenn Collins Undergraduate
Research Achievement Award in Agricultural Biotechnology
Atrium of the Plant Science Building
Hosted by: The Agricultural Biotechnology Program