Sixth Annual University Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 6th & 7th
Auburn University
Program

April 6th
5:00 pm Appetizer Reception with Poster Session
5:30 pm Welcome Dr. Carl Pinkert– Associate Vice President for Research
5:45 pm Alumna Speaker – Amanda Savrda‘08 - "The Compass Needle Points *Where?* Research as a Means of Self Discovery"

6:15 pm– 8:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session A (Room 2217)

6:15 Nadia Bhulyan - Analysis of Bacterial Co-Isolation in Activated Sludge Communities
using Classical and Molecular Techniques
6:30 Robert Campbell - Contribution of an intrasubunit crosslink in Catalase - Peroxidase Bifunctionality and Resistance to Peroxide-Dependent Inactivation
6:45 Kimberly Freind - Synthesis of Unnatural Carbohydrates for Oxidation by DinuclearCopper(II) Complexes
7:00 Rebecca Ludvigsen - Single bout of exercise lowers serum Ser312-phosphorylated fetuin-A levels and improves insulin sensitivity in obese males
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Tasnia Matin - Attempt to Elucidate snr-1 Function in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
7:45 Michelle Mullin - Effects of Sodium Arsenate on GIP, and Cloning the gene for DAD-1 into Yeast Vectors for Expression in Pichia Pastoris
8:00 Kristina Voss - Acyclic 1,3 Dienes as Models for Photoisomerization of Retinal
8:15 Christen Thigpen - Computer Simulations of Steroid Transformation in Ketosteroid Isomerase

Session B (Room 1224)

6:15 Angelica Kallenberg - Proximate Control and Environmental Regulation of Blue Coloration in Indigo Buntings
6:30 Robert Jefferson - Development of one-and two-dimensional simulations of a thermal dusty plasma
6:45 Natalie Glynn - National Energy, Local Health: A Community Experience In Coal Mining
7:00 John Johnson - “The Organized Fellow is the Fellow that Counts:” A Crisis of Union Identity and the Kingsport Press Strike, 1963-1967
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Jacob Daughhetee - Double Auger Decay Process in Core-Ionized Neon
7:45 Vincent Hein - Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Groupings as Revealed by the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
8:00 William Smith - Annual Ryegrass ( Lolium multiflorum Lam.) as Influenced by Early Development Irrigation and Date of Planting
8:15 Michael Brake - The Bible as (Anti-)Text: A Study of the Influence of English and American Thought and Literature on Biblical Discourse

Session C (Room 1221)

6:15 Karen Kirk - Creation of an Accurate Sound Pressure Field Prediction Model for the Acoustical Environment During the Launch of Space Vehicles for Manned and Unmanned Space Missions
6:30 Jennifer Johnson - Assessing strain differences on the incremental repeated acquisition procedure
6:45 Bhaven Sayania - Characterization of DAD1: a subunit of Human Oligosaccharyltransferase
7:00 Samantha Bird - Shape Memory Polymers with Reinforced Materials
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Kayla Clary - Summer- Not the time when the “freshman 15” is lost
7:45 Kara Riley - The America Play : When Literature Melds with Reality
8:00 Ashlee Riopka - A Failure to Reveal: Racial Identity within Eudora Welty's Fiction
8:15 Julia Evans – Cross-Cultural Health Care Partnerships

Session D (Room 1207)

6:15 Brandon Tate - Spectrophotometric Analysis of 2-quinoxalinol Salen Complexes
6:30 Sarah Teague - “How Do Mood and Intelligence Influence Faking Behavior on Personality Inventories?”
6:45 Anne-Marie Hodge - Factors influencing reproductive success of the maned wolf ( Chrysocyon brachyurus ) in captivity
7:00 Christina Peoples Relationship among Actual Motor Competence, Perceived Competence, Sex, and Body Mass Index to Physical Activity in Preschoolers
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Christopher Ward - Release of Tetracycline Hydrochloride from Polymer/Halloysite Nanocomposite Films: Effects of Temperature, pH, and Salinity
7:45 Hal Tichenor - Spatial and Bathymetric Distribution of Attached Foraminifera, San Salvador Island , Bahamas
8:00 Koichiro Tsuji - Directed evolution of Edwardsiella ictaluri bacteriophages as means of biocontrol and diagnostic agents
8:15 Pizarro , Khristine - Synthesis and Alignment of Inorganic Nanorods

Session E (Room 1219)

6:15 Brittani Berbette - The Role of Dietary and Alcohol Restraint and Disinhibition in Predicting Alcohol Use
6:30 David Walker - Host Response to Several Root Pathogenic Fungi
6:45 Rob Goodwin - GPS Simulator
7:00 John Gullatte - Spontaneous Order and Structural Change in Salem , Alabama 1907- 1939
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Kathryn Heflin - Schiff-base ligands for uranium separation
7:45 Chris Breeden - Assessment of Health in Children from Prehistoric Communities in 87 Eastern Mississippi
8:00 Kyle Taylor - Layer-by-Layer Assembly of SWNTs in Biological Solutions
8:15 Eric Barrowclough - MRI Contrast Agents

Tuesday April 7th

5:00 pm Appetizer reception & Creative Scholarship Exhibit
6:00 pm Keynote Address - Douglas Coutts
7:00 pm Awards Ceremony