Biology
Department

Oral Presentations

Monday, May 2

PRICE – Session Coordinator

9:00 am – Michael Cyrana: "An alternatemethod for investigating sensory integration in largemouth (M. salmoides)" (Ramcharitar)

9:20 – Jordan Gaines: "Does Fgf-10 induce intercalary limb regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum?"(Crawford)

9:40 – Katie Studholme:"A multifaceted approach to investigatingnutrient anomalies near Johnson Bay, Maryland coastal bays, USA" (Tanner)

10:00 – Brittany Creeden: "Chemical signals released by prey speciesserve as chemoattractants for non-obligate, bacterial predators" (Byrd)

10:20 - BREAK

TANNER – Session Coordinator

10:40 am – Brad Dodson: "Modern surgery: a historical overview andanalysis of the shift towards minimally invasive procedures" (Crawford)

11:00 – Michael Tornabene:"St Mary's gonewild: a vegetative survey of both maintained and un-maintained lawns"(Gorton)

11:20 – Chelsea McGlynn: "The effect of claw characteristics on the interactions of male red-jointedfiddler crabs (Uca minax)" (Ramcharitar)

11:40 – Obiageri Okafor: "Determining the difference in the rate of nuclear trafficking inhibitionby effectors of cardioviruses and rhinoviruses" (Elliott)

12:00-2:00 - BREAK

ELLIOTT– Session Coordinator

2:00 pm –Gabriel Grace: "Fungalbiodegradation of plastics" (Williams)

2:20 – Robyn S. Allen: "Cellularcontributions during affinophoresis in Ambystomamexicanum" (Crawford)

2:40 – DietrichEpp-Schmidt: "The evolution of syllable repetitionpatterns in the Mimidae" (Price)

3:00 – Amie Severino: "Effectsof ethanol on mechanoreceptor activity in Hirudoverbana" (Baltzley)

3:20 – BREAK

WILLIAMS – Session Coordinator

3:40 pm – Michael Studivan: "The effect of the oildispersant Corexit® EC9500A on bleaching of the alcyonacean soft coral Xenia elongata" (Hatch)

4:00 – AmandaPorter "Animal models in ototoxicity studies" (Ramcharitar)

4:20 –Laura Sipe: "Subcloning and expression ofRNA-binding motif 24, a protein hypothesized to function in RNA splicing" (Myerowitz)

4:40 – Amanda Liebrecht: "Pathogendefense in the seagrass Zostera marina" (Tanner)

Tuesday – May 3

RAMCHARITAR– Session Coordinator

2:00 pm –  Emily Kershner: "Upstream regulation of MAPK in squid embryos, Loligo pealei"(Crawford)

2:20 – Emily Brinker: "Testing the nematicidal activity of Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb) and Salvia hispanica L. on the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita" (Elliott)

2:40 – Mpho Lichaba: "An examination of the effectsof grafting on salt tolerance in solanum vegetablecrops"(Gorton)

3:00 –Elizabeth Porter: "Investigatingcomplex genetic diseases using genome-wide association studies: a fading method?" (Myerowitz)

3:20 – BREAK

GORTON– Session Coordinator

3:40 pm – Cody Brack: "Short- and long-term effects of gentamicinon auditory thresholds in the goldfish (Carassius auratus)" (Ramcharitar)

4:00 – Madeleine Gillis: "The effects of environmental conditions on great whiteshark (Carcharodon carcharias)distribution in Mossel Bay, South Africa" (Tanner)

4:20 – SamuelBurns: "Maximizing carbonsequestration through forest management in Maryland"(Williams)

Posters

Firstsession

Forrest Cole: "Bisphenol A effects on tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta)development" (Paul)

William Egan: "Isolation of an antimicrobial compound from Xenia elongatausing vacuum liquid chromatography" (Byrd)

Anneka Pierzga: "Cataloging and leveraging the public and private concerns of thewildlife rehabilitation community in the Maryland – Virginia area" (Hatch)

Second Session

Amelia Ettinger: "Expression and regulation of homing markers on memory CD4+ T cellpopulations from macaques vaccinated by various routes withreplication-competent adenovirus-SIV recombinants"(Elliott)

Jessica Riesett: "Stylochus ellipticus predation on Crassostrea virginicaunder low oxygen stress" (Paul)

Keith Hines: "Bioluminescent biosensors: an analytical tool for the future" (Hatch)

Uzair Raja: "Aerial dispersal of bacteria by evaporation"(Byrd)

Third Session

Alexandra Levy: "Bariatric surgery: is it worth the risk?" (Coughlin)

Claire Solinsky: "Are we close to a malaria vaccine? A review of current malaria vaccinecandidates" (Byrd)

Sophia Traven: "The impact of spaceflight on the musculoskeletal system" (Crawford)