SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2009
Morning Seminars
Biochemistry and Cell Biology Session (BAC 151)
Chair: Dr. Elena Keeling, Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo
S1 (9:00am) PARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID IS A NOVEL RING PRECURSOR IN YEAST COENZYME Q BIOSYNTHESIS. Samuel Choi*, Beth Marbois and Kyle Hyman (Catherine F. Clarke), University of California Los Angeles, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
S2 (9:15am) : A NEW SYNTHESIS OF N-DELTA-PHOSPHONOACETYL-L-ORNITHINE Rachel Steadman*, Department of Chemistry, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 68504; (Patrick Dussault and Brad Johnson), Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588.
S3: (9:30am) THE SYNTHESIS OF CHLOROSULFONYL FLUORO-β-LACTAMS: A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF THE ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION OF CHLOROSULFONYL ISOCYANATE TO MONOFLUOROALKENES. Kevyn Davenport* (Dale Shellhamer) Point Loma Nazarene University, Dept. of Chemistry, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, CA 92106.
S4 (9:45am) COLLAGEN CROSSLINKING AS A BIOMARKER FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Florentine Rutaganira*, Nisa Hatami, Jennifer Phipps and Yinghua Sun (Laura Marcu), University of California at Davis, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Davis, CA 95616.
S5 (10:00am) BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN KAP3 OF KINESIN-2 AND ACTIN. Judy Zhang* (Matthew Berezuk), Azusa Pacific University, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Azusa, CA 91702.
Coffee Break 10:15-10:30am
S6 (10:30am) A UBC9 MUTANT OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII PARTIALLY DEFECTIVE IN SUMOYLATION IS VIABLE, BUT UNABLE TO SURVIVE ABIOTIC STRESS. Sabreena Bathke*1, (Amy Miller2, Eniko Balassa2, Heriberto Cerutti2 and Donald Weeks2), 1Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2University of Nebraska-Lincoln
S7 (10:45am) UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SYNTHETIC CROWDING AGENTS IN STIMULATING THE INTERCELLULAR ENVIRONMENT Amen Ismail* (D. Rajalingam and T.K.S. Kumar), University of Arkansas, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fayetteville, AR 72701
S8 (11:00am) GENE DOSAGE EFFECTS: CAN THE APPARENT LETHALITY OF AN EXTRA CHROMOSOME SIX IN YEAST BE ALLEVIATED BY THE ADDITION OF THE TUB1 GENE? *Kirstie Keller (Kirk Anders) Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258
S9 (11:15am) EFFECT OF THE DOWN SYNDROME CRITICAL REGION ON TUMOR GROWTH AND METASTASIS IN MICE. Justin Kai Iwasaki* and Tenley Rawlings (Lisa Olson). University of Redlands, Dept. of Biology, Redlands, Ca 92374
Ecology and Marine Biology Session (BAC 105AB)
Chair: Dr. Nancy Beckage, University of California at Riverside
S10 (9:15am) PATTERNS AND CONTROLS OF MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN THE COASTAL SAGE SCRUB COMMUNITY OF MISSION TRAILS REGIONAL PARK Irene Hale* and Marguerite Mauritz (David Lipson), San Diego State University, San Diego Ca, 92182
S11 (9:30) THE EFFECT OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT ON THE CHEMOSENSORY BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE OF THE MALE STRIPED PLATEAU LIZARD, SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS. Alexa Fritzsche * (Stacey Weiss), University of Puget Sound, Dept. of Biology, Tacoma, WA, 98416-1088.
S12 (9:45am) IMPACTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT ON ABERT'S SQUIRREL (SCIURUS ABERTI) ABUNDANCE IN PIKE NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO. Rachel Wheat* (Marc Snyder), The Colorado College, Dept. of Biology, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:15am
S13 (10:15am) PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTONS OF BLIND CAVE FISH MEDIATED BY LATERAL LINE SYSTEM *Gilberto Cardenas, (Matthew McHenry) Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
S14 (10:30am) SHORT TERM IMPACTS OF THE INVASIVE INDO-PACIFIC LIONFISH ON BAHAMIAN CORAL REEF FISH COMMUNITIES Megan Cook* (Mark Albins and Mark Hixon), Oregon State University, Department of Zoology, Corvallis, OR 97331
S15 (10:45am) AGONIST FORMULATION INTREPID (METHOXYFENOZIDE) ON AQUATIC LARVAE OF THE WEST NILE VECTOR MOSQUITO CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS. Ky-Phuong Luong*, Naila Khan* (Catherine M. Cathers and Nancy E. Beckage). Departments of Entomology & Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
S16 (11:00am) A NEW CRYPTIC SPECIES OF CALIFORNIA MUSTARD: EVIDENCE FROM MOLECULES AND GEOGRAPHY Timothy M. Butler* (Justen B. Whittall), Santa Clara University, Biology Department, Santa Clara CA 95053.
Microbiology Session (BAC 103)
Chair: Dr. Kathleen Tallman, Azusa Pacific University
S17 (8:45am) THE SEARCH FOR ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA IN COASTAL WETLANDS USING GROWTH-BASED METHODS; Kelsey Unruh, David Arriola, *Cody Ryan, Jonathan Laroya and Karisa Archer (David Cummings); Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, Ca, 92106
S18 (9:00am) IMPORTANCE OF PASSENGER DOMAIN CONSERVED RESIDUES TO THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A SERINE PROTEASE AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN. Deana Nassman*, K.C. Tsang, and Antony Huang (Christos Stathopoulos), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Pomona, CA 91768.
S19 (9:15am) MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF OVERWINTERING CYANOBACTERIAL POPULATIONS IN RESERVOIRS OF NEBRASKA Megan L. Larsen* (Angela McKinney-Williams), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 68504
S20 (9:30am) IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVED RESIDUES IN THE TRANSLOCATION OF AN AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN. Dennis Ankrah*, Yihfen T. Yen, Casey Tsang and Todd A. Cameron (Christos Stathopoulos), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Pomona, CA 91768.
S21 (9:45am) LABNOVO: A NOVEL OPEN-SOURCED WEB SERVICE FOR MANAGING LABORATORY DATA AND PROTOCOLS. Samuel Smits (Cleber Ouverney), San Jose State University, Dept. of Biology, San Jose, CA 95192-0100.
Coffee Break (10:00-10:15am)
S22 (10:15am) CHARACTERIZING SOIL MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN THE BALLONA WETLANDS Kara Taylor*, Wesley T. Citti, Jeffery D. McGowan (Kam D. Dahlquist and Carl R. Urbinati), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045
S23 (10:30am) THE USE OF STRYPTOMYCES AS A MODEL SYSTEM TO STUDY QUORUM SENSING IN MYCOBACTERIA. Fany Iseka* (Angela Mckinney-Williams), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Dept. of Biology, Lincoln, NE, 68504.
S24 (10:45am) DIVERSITY OF EPIBIOTIC MICROORGANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH INVASIVE MARINE BRYOZOAN SPECIES FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (MONTEREY BAY AND ELKHORN SLOUGH) Lauren Dowell*(Antje Lauer), Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Bakersfield, CA. 93311-1022
S25 (11:00am) CHARACTERIZATION OF MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE E.T. FROM DRY LEAF SAMPLE. Tina Lu* (Kit Pogliano and Joe Pogliano), University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla, CA 92093-0376.
S26 ((11:15am) INVESTIGATION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES IN COASTAL WETLAND SEDIMENTS. Karisa Archer, David Arriola*, Jonathan Laroya, Cody Ryan, Nate Singh and Kelsey Unruh (David Cummings), Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego CA 92106.
S27 (11:30am) SENSITIVITY PROFILE FOR 22 ANTIBIOTICS GENERATED WITH THE ESCHERICHIA COLI GENE KNOCKOUT COLLECTION Anne Liu*, Lillian Tran, Elinne Becket, Kim Lee, Katherine P. Tran and Hanjing Yang (Jeffrey H. Miller), University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and The Molecular Biology Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Molecular Biology I Session (BAC 155)
Chair: Dr. Cathy McElwain, Loyola Marymount University
S28 (9:00am) DOES CIN5P CONTROL THE EARLY TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE TO COLD SHOCK IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE?. Kenny Rodriguez*, Kevin Entzminger* and Stephanie Kuelbs (Kam D. Dahlquist), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045
S29 (9:15am) PURIFICATION OF A PUTATIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR Rv0042c of MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. Ting Ning Fowers* (Jean Engohang-Ndong).Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Dept. of Biology, Laie, HI 96762
S30 (9:30am) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECTONIC PLATE ACTIVITY AND GENETIC VARIABILITY IN THE WESTERN FENCE LIZARD, SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS. Marc Oliver D. Quijano* (James W. Archie), California State University Long Beach, Department of Biological Sciences, Long Beach, CA 90840.
S31 (9:45am) RECONSTRUCTING THE LEFT ARM OF MICRONUCLEAR CHROMOSOME 1 OF TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA AS AN ORDERED CHAIN OF MACRONUCLEAR CHROMOSOMES Ella Severson* (Eduardo Orias and Eileen Hamilton), University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
S32 (10:00am) CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS IN THE SmMAK16 PROTEIN Elisa Hoellerich*, Yun-Lan Wong, and Jennifer Stripe (Jon Milhon), Azusa Pacific University, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Azusa, CA 91702
Coffee Break (10:15-10:30am)
S33 (10:30am) GENOME-WIDE SCREEN FOR FAT REGULATORY GENES IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Ernesto L. Enrique*and Stan M. Walls (Greg L. Harris), San Diego State University, Dept. of Biology, San Diego, CA 92182.
S34 (10:45am) THE EFFECTS OF PRP43 C-TERMINAL MUTATION P715A ON PRE-RIBOSOMAL RNA PROCESSING IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE. Carey Wickham* (Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert), Scripps College, Keck Joint Science Department, Claremont, CA 91711-5916
S35 (11:00am) EXTENDING XMLPIPEDB TO CREATE GENMAPP-COMPATIBLE GENE DATABASES FOR PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DNA MICROARRAY DATA. Alexandrea Alphonso*, Chad Villaflores* and Derek Smith (Kam D. Dahlquist and John D. Dionisio), Loyola Marymount University, Dept. of Biology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Afternoon Seminars
Immunology and Microbiology Session (BAC 103)
Chair: Dr. Dawne Page, Point Loma Nazarene University
S36 (1:30pm) MALARIA VACCINE DEVELOPMENT: FROM KNOCK-OUT PARASITES TO SUBUNIT VACCINES. Andrew Ishizuka* (Patrick Duffy), University of Washington, Dept. of Global Health, Seattle, WA 98195.
S37 (1:45pm) EPITHELIAL CELL-DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL LIPIDS ARE UPREGULATED IN CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS INDEPENDENT FROM INFLAMMATION. Angels Nguyen1*, Mike Jansen1, Abebayehu Yilma1 (Jivianne Lee2 and Edith Porter1,2), 1California State University Los Angeles, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90032; 2University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine, South Los Angeles, CA 90095
S38 (2:00pm) CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT INHIBITION OF BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION BY ANTIVIRAL AGENTS. Richard K. Nelson*, (J.A. Isaacson), Biology Department, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 68504.
S39 (2:15pm) DO THE CUTANEOUS BACTERIA OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BULLFROG (RANA CATESBEIANA) PLAY A ROLE IN PROTECTING IT FROM THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS? Amanda Payne*, Ashley Nunez* and Shakib Ali (Antje Lauer and Kathleen Szick-Miranda) California State University of Bakersfield, Department of Biology, Bakersfield, CA 93311.
Molecular Biology II Session (BAC 105AB)
Chair: Dr. Angela McKinney Williams, Nebraska Wesleyan University
S40 (1:15pm) THE ANALYSIS OF ETHANOL SENSITIVITY, TOLERANCE, AND METABOLISM IN DROSOPHILA SPHINGOLIPID MUTANTS. Alexis Zukowski*, Vukica Porobic and Stan Walls (Greg L. Harris), San Diego State University, Dept. of Biology, San Diego, CA 92182
S41 (1:30pm) USING TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA MUTANTS TO DETERMINE THE MECHANISM OF CARBON NANOTOXICITY. Terri Lee* (Eduardo Orias), UC Santa Barbara, MCDB Dept., UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
S42 (1:45pm) ISOLATION OF SEX-SPECIFIC DNA FRAGMENTS IN THE SIDE-BLOTCHED LIZARD (UTA STANSBURIANA) USING AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM. Thara Sam* (James Archie), California State University, Long Beach, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Long Beach, CA 90840.
S43 (2:00pm) EXPRESSION OF A RANDOM PEPTIDE LIBRARY IN THE NUCLEUS OF HUMAN T-CELLS AS A SCREEN FOR NOVEL HIV INHIBITORS. Joe Torres* and Terrence Robinson (Roland Wolkowicz), San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, CA 92182.
S44 (2:15pm) LOCATING THE CDAA1 GENE ON THE MICRONUCLEUS AND MACRONUCLEUS ON TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILIA. Uta Guo* (Eduardo Orias), University of California Santa Barbara, Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology Department, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9610
Neurobiology Session (BAC 151)
Chair: Dr. Robert Elson, Point Loma Nazarene University
S45 (1:30pm) INVESTIGATING OLFACTORY SIGNALING DURING FOOD FINDING BEHAVIOR. Kang Ko*, Amir Jafari, Cory Root, and Jing Wang, University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, San Diego CA 92093-0376
S46 (1:45pm) ACTIVATION OF THE DOPAMINERGIC REWARD SYSTEM PREDICTS QUALITY AND DURATION OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS. Sara Parke* (Jarred Younger and Sean Mackey). Stanford University, Dept. of Anesthesia, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
S47 (2:00pm) PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN NEURAL STEM CELLS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL FIBRIN GELS. Maria Loressa Uson* (Lisa Flanagan), University of California Irvine, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697.
S48 (2:15pm) ABNORMAL HEART RATE REACTIVITY CORRELATES WITH IMPAIRED INSULAR CORTEX RESPONSE IN OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA Paula Wu* (Paul M. Macey, Rajesh Kumar, Mary A. Woo and Ronald M. Harper), University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, School of Nursing, Brain Research Institute; Los Angeles, CA 90095
Epidemiology and Physiology Session (BAC 156)
Chair: Dr. Stephen Davis, Pepperdine University
S49 (1:15pm) EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN PATIENT SATISFACTION INTERVENTION SURVEY (EPPSIS). Roula Saleem* and Ladan Khoddam* (Lynduh Soldavini, Michael Menchine and Shahram Lotfipour), University of California, Irvine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Irvine, CA 92697.
S50 (1:30pm) CHILDHOOD CANCER INCIDENCE IN ARIZONA 1995-2004 Samantha E. Varner* (Richard S. Porter) Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ 85281.
S51 (1:45pm) DIFFERENCES IN XYLEM WATER TRANSPORT BETWEEN POSTFIRE RESPROUTS AND UNBURNED ADULTS OF HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA (HOLLYWOOD) Iolana Kaneakua* (Stephen D. Davis), Pepperdine University, Natural Science Division, Malibu, CA. 90263.
S52 (2:00pm) PHYSIOLOGY DEMOGRAPHY OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN NECROPOLIS. Ryan Peters* (R. Paul Evans and C. Wilfred Griggs), Brigham Young University, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of Ancient Scripture, Provo, UT 84602.
S53 (2:15pm) ISOLATION OF ADULT GONADAL STEM CELLS FROM COTURNIX JAPONICA FOR XENOTRANSFER. Matthew C. Poling* (Thomas Jensen), University of California San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92092 and Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego Zoo's Conservation Research, Reproductive Physiology Division, Escondido, CA 92027.
S54 (2:30pm) COBINAMIDE AND DOS MONITORING AS POTENTIAL NEW TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC APPROACHES FOR MASS CASUALTY CYANIDE POISONING Rebecca Ahdout*, Kelly Kreuter, David Mukai, Jae Kim, JangWoen Lee, William Blackle, Sari Mahon and Gerry Boss, (Matthew Brenner) Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92617