The Third Annual Auburn University Undergraduate Research Forum

Friday, February 24, 2006

8:00a.m. – 2:00p.m.

Auburn Alumni Center

  Program

8:00 Welcome - Dr. John G. Heilman, Provost and V.P. for Academic Affairs

8:15 Dr. C. Michael Moriarty, Associate Provost and V.P. for Research

8:30 Nayana Kamath, Alumni Speaker, The Undergraduate Research Experience”

9:00 - 11:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session 1-A

9:00 Rose Marie Cummings - Comparing Minimum Utility Requirements of Various Reforming Techniques and Multiple Fuel Sources for Hydrogen Production

9:15 Jonathan Craft - Islands Under Islands: Phylogeography of Halocaridina rubra , a Hawaiian anchialine shrimp

9:30 David Boozer - Phylogenetic Identification of Recent Myccoplamsa gallisepticum Isolates from Auburn House Finches

Session 1-B

9:00 Karlee Copeland - Minicipal Solid Waste Landfill Impacts on Water Quality in Lee County, Alabama

9:15 Ahmed Owian - Wireless Write Back

9:30 Loreal Brooks - Effect of Substrates and Cutting Type on Rooting of Stem Cuttings of Rosmarinus officinalis Tuscan Blue and Thymus x citriodorus

9:45 Break

Session 2-A

10:00 Dumakas Snipes - Optimization of Textbook Supply Chain

10:15 Lauren Littleton - Effect of Timing of Egg Collection on Ovulation and Egg Characteristics of Channel Catfish When Used for Hybrid Production

10:30 Caroline Price - AHSG and Its Interaction with Insulin Receptors Affecting Glucose Uptake

Session 2-B

10:00 Stephen Sizemore - Ophthalmic Antihistamine Delivery Via Recognitive Contact Lenses for Allergic Relief

10:15 Benjamin Clark - Modeling of Navigation Errors in a Two-Wheeled Robot

10:30 Adam Harrison - Oxidative Stress in the Heart: Reactive Oxygen Species Generation in Diabetes

10:45 Break

Session 3-A

11:00 Michael Tiemeyer - 4-Cycle Two-Factorizations of Complete Multipartite Graphs

11:15 Andrew Hein - Thermal Requirements of the Cottonmouth ( Agkistrodon piscivorous ) in Eastern Alabama

Session 3-B

11:00 Marianne Bailey - Gene Expression Analysis Using Microarrays

11:15 Jennifer Ivey - Sequencing the Mitochondrial Genome of the Anchialine Shrimp Halocaridina rubra (Decapoda, Atyidae)

11:30 Lunch

12:00 - 2:00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS