Session One: 10:30 10:45 a.m.

Avi Aggarwal, Amy Xie,Tyler Hayes, Whitman Groves Human Spinal Elongation in Space Florence Gold, NASA Johnson Space Center; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider,Farabi Alam; Monitor, Graves ; Room: B235 Jiexi Cao Syllable Pop: Decoding Polysyllabic Words Gary Bishop, UNC Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Emmanuel Assa; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Forrest Ashworth, Monal Depani PET/PEG Microwave Copolymer Synthesis Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider,Vincent Cahill; Monitor, Allen; Room: B237 Kayla Christianson, Katie Helm, Israel Nelson, Juliana Ruggiero Synthesis of Nanotubes Marion Brisk, NCSSM Presider, John Coletta; Monitor, Berberian ; Room: B335 Adele Bernard Social Cognitive Rehab for Anorexia Nervosa Nancy Zucker, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Andrew Harrelson; Monitor, Camacho; Room: B337 Saima Akbar Genetic Expression in the Carotid Body Hiroaki Matsunami, Ting Zhou, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Alexander Jacobson; Monitor, Gabbrielli; Room: B436 Katy Drews, Caitlin Seyfried, Katie Helm NCSSM Waste Assessment Ernie Swanson, Triangle J Council of Governments; Steve Warshaw, NCSSM Presider, Brandi Lawrence; Monitor,Warshaw; Room: B439 Christopher Bernedo The Great Transformation of Ollanta Humala Evelyne Huber, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Ian Maynor; Monitor, Bondell; Room: B442 Grishma Alakkat Energy Drop in Supernova Events Kate Scholberg, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider,William Milligan; Monitor, McNairy; Room: Beall 1 Sarah Chao Mitochondria and TERT Michael Jarstfer, UNC Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Helen Powell; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Austin Hopkins Reproductive Behavior of Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur Peter Klopfer, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Suhas Bonthu; Monitor, Sheck; Room: Beall 5 Catherine Bradley Inhibitory Control in Preschool Aged Children Amy Joh, Leigh Spivey, Child Learning Lab; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jamie Smith; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Marc Arrambide Guitar Strings: Tonal Quality vs. Perceived Quality David Green, NCSSM Presider, Abigail Thurman; Monitor,Teachey; Room: Dry Lab Peter Fan, Aakash Indurkhya Genetic Toggle Controllers using Zinc Finger Trans Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Navina Venugopal; Monitor, Naiman,Woodmansee; Room: Lecture Hall Ashleigh Caison The Synthesizing of TALENs for Gene Therapy Charlie Gersbach, Dave Ousterout, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Janssen White; Monitor, Riggs; Room: Music Room

Session Two: 10:55 11:10 a.m.

Avi Aggarwal Effect of Thiols on Silver Nanoparticle Fate Heileen Hsu-Kim, Andreas Gondikas, Duke University; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Farabi Alam; Monitor, Graves; Room: B235 Jerry Cui, David Wang Computational Investigation of the Igf2r Pathway Gary Churchill, Sue McClatchy, Jackson Laboratory; Bob Gotwals, NCSSM Presider, Emmanuel Assa; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Raj Desai Synthesis of MPLA Loaded Nanoparticle Vaccines Jonathan Pillai, Sarah Mueller, Joseph DeSimone, UNC-Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider,Vincent Cahill; Monitor, Allen; Room: B237 Caroline deSaussure An Ear Punch Model for Combined Radiation Injury Nelson Chao, Benny Chen, Divino Deoliveira, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, John Coletta; Monitor, Berberian; Room: B335 Landon Carter Thermal Decomposition of Polyethylene Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider,William Ge; Monitor,Thomas; Room: B336 Denise Elizondo Phosphorylation of Caskin2 and Tie1 interactions Chris Kontos, Sarah Frazier, Duke University Medical Ctr.; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Andrew Harrelson; Monitor, Camacho; Room: B337 Hailey Gosnell Genetic Factors Contributing to NTD Occurrence Simon Gregory, Duke Center for Human Genetics; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Alexander Jacobson; Monitor, Gabbrielli; Room: B436 Warren Feng Engineering a Multifunctional Quantum Dot Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Brandi Lawrence; Monitor,Warshaw; Room: B439 Alyssa Ferris Histone Modifications and Centromere Activity Beth Sullivan, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy; Amy Sheck, NCSSM Presider, Ian Maynor; Monitor, Bondell; Room: B442 Justin Finkelstein, Halston Lim A Statistical Evaluation of GRB Afterglows Caleb Marsh, Appalachian State University ; Jonathan Bennett, NCSSM Presider,William Milligan; Monitor, McNairy; Room: Beall 1 Katrina Gutierrez, Brian Iezzi Validation of Transcription Factor Binding Sites Brian Cooper, UNC Charlotte; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Helen Powell; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Connor Smith Students Perception of Culture at NCSSM Karen Glumm, NCSSM Presider, Suhas Bonthu; Monitor, Sheck; Room: Beall 5 Steven Philips Sociability in Three Inbred Mouse Models of Autism Sheryl Moy, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jamie Smith; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Anita Gandhi Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Thomas Ortel, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Abigail Thurman; Monitor,Teachey; Room: Dry Lab Zachary Fowler BBS7 SNPs as Genome-Wide Anencephaly Cohorts Allison Ashley-Koch, Karen Soldano, Duke Center for Human Genetics; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Navina Venugopal; Monitor, Naiman,Woodmansee; Room: Lecture Hall Aakash Gandhi Rational Design for Targeted QSI Amy Sheck, Bob Gotwals, NCSSM Presider, Janssen White; Monitor, Riggs; Room: Music Room

Session Three: 11:20 11:35 a.m.

Joshua Potter What is the Role of Fibroblasts in TREK-1 KO? Howard Rockman, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Farabi Alam; Monitor, Graves; Room: B235 Param Sidhu,Tejas Sundaresan,Yu Wang Stellar Strips - Conrad SOI Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Emmanuel Assa; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Sara Johnson Muhammadiyahs Role in Muslim Indonesia James Peacock, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider,Vincent Cahill; Monitor, Allen; Room: B237 Justin Hendrick, Pooja Potharaju Computational Analysis of Type 2 Diabetes Bob Gotwals, NCSSM Presider, John Coletta; Monitor, Berberian; Room: B335 Landon Carter Modeling Tephra Fallout Rahman Tashakkori, Appalachian State University; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider,William Ge; Monitor,Thomas; Room: B336 Tyler Kissinger Long-Distance Supernova Sensitivity at DAEdALUS Kate Scholberg, Duke University; Jon Bennett, NCSSM Presider, Andrew Harrelson; Monitor, Camacho; Room: B337 Morgan J. Howell Engineering a Multifunctional Quantum Dot Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Alexander Jacobson; Monitor, Gabbrielli; Room: B436 Alice Huang The Effects of Social Media on Modern Businesses Shane Dikolli, Duke Fuqua School of Business; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Brandi Lawrence; Monitor,Warshaw; Room: B439 Jennifer Kronmiller Conflict and Emotional Talk in First Grade CINs Peter Ornstein, Hillary Langley, UNC-Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Ian Maynor; Monitor, Bondell; Room: B442 Kerry Cheng Preparation and Extraction of AP-1dimer DNA John Kirk, NCSSM Presider,William Milligan; Monitor, McNairy; Room: Beall 1 Mariya Husain Hippocampus-Dependent Learning: CAARMS+ Subjects Alison Adcock, Betsy Johnson, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Helen Powell; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Sarah White Hypotheses on Breast Cancer Growth Rate Models John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jamie Smith; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Ashley Jernigan Phosphorus Fractionation in Pocosin Restoration Dan Richter, Paul Heine, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Abigail Thurman; Monitor,Teachey; Room: Dry Lab Mary Ann Jin Word Blaster: Improving Literacy with a Game Gary Bishop, UNC - Chapel Hill ; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Navina Venugopal; Monitor, Naiman,Woodmansee; Room: Lecture Hall Jaehyeong Lee, Rob Gourley Quantum Efficiency Using an LED Spectrophotometer Sangmin Lee, Cree Incorporated Presider, Janssen White; Monitor, Riggs; Room: Music Room

Session Four: 1:15 1:30 p.m.

Bryant Lin On Chemical Classification of Spike Trains on MEAs Tim Shafer, Lyle Burgoon, Cina Mack, Andrew Johnstone, EPA; Bob Gotwals, NCSSM Presider, Nitika Arora; Monitor, Muth; Room: B235 Matt Litzsinger, Nathan Sanders Wastewater MFCs Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, James Buchanan; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Brandon Schneider Rhythm Control in the Elderly with AF Anil Gehi, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Allison Chang; Monitor, P. Kirk; Room: B237 Alex Schmid Effects of Self-Healing Capsules on Bone Cement John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Shaza Gaballah; Monitor, Berberian; Room: B335 Daniel Mattox Functional Difference between GRK2 and GRK3 Teresa Tarrant, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Amy Guo; Monitor, Teague; Room: B336 Grant Means Efficiency of Hydrolysis in a PEM Electolysis Cell Christopher Bonino, RTI; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jordan Harrsion; Monitor, Williams; Room: B337 Jos Medrano Effect of Wall Material on Ocarina Sound Quality Jon Bennett, NCSSM Presider, Hannah Krueger; Monitor, Schmalbeck; Room: B436 Charlie Mize Tulip Tree Types Karl Fetter, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Chelsey Lin; Monitor, Stefan; Room: B439 Jackson Mower DNA Methylation in Queen and Worker Honey Bees Amy Sheck, Korah Wiley, NCSSM Presider, Kelly McCarthy; Monitor, Wiley; Room: B442 Debanjali Kundu Radiotherapy Treatments for Parotid Gland Tumors David Brizel, David Yoo, Pretesh Patel, Duke University Medical Center; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Mary Poletti; Monitor, Sheck; Room: Beall 1 Robert Baraldi Determining the nature of a chromatin spring using a mathematical model John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Mark Rickabaugh; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Sarah Parsons Julia Griffiths: Feminist or not? Frank Fee, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Emily Stark; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Jacob Pawlik, Edward Zhao, Isaiah Stackleather Yeast; Halobacteria Response Paul Magwene, Amy Schmid, Duke University; Amy Sheck, NCSSM Presider, Elizabeth Tsui; Monitor, Marks; Room: Dry Lab Pranav Haravu Dysadherins Role in Cancer Metastasis Diane Fels, Kenneth Young, Duke University; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Eric Wang; Monitor, Deng, McNairy; Room: Lecture Hall Andrew Stowe Mutations Affecting Ciliopathies Erica Davis, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Carl Yin; Monitor, Laird; Room: Music Room

Session Five: 1:40 1:55 p.m.

Emily Price Viscosity Compensation in the QCM Stefan Zauscher, Zerah Parlak, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Nitika Arora; Monitor, Muth; Room: B235 Brian Hart Fiscal Policy over the Last Decade William Keech, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, James Buchanan; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Greeshma Somashekar ITIH4: functional response to lung injury Stavros Garantziotis, NIEHS; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Allison Chang; Monitor, P. Kirk; Room: B237 Taylor Rosenfeld Brain-machine Interface Research With Primates Leonel Medina, Mikhail Lebedev, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Shaza Gaballah; Monitor, Berberian; Room: B335 Yiming Zhang ID of a Pro-Inflammatory Macrophage biomarker Liza Makowski, Gillings School of Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Amy Guo; Monitor,Teague; Room: B336 Bei Sun Nucleus Pulposus Differentiation of Mouse iPS Cell Jun Chen, Esther Lee, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jordan Harrsion; Monitor,Williams; Room: B337 Nicole Savignac Effects of FMO-family Genes on Artherosclerosis Gary Churchill, Susan McClatchy, The Jackson Laboratory; Bob Gotwals, NCSSM Presider, Hannah Krueger; Monitor, Schmalbeck; Room: B436 Nicholas Tobey RAPID: A Modern Protocol for Data Transmission Don Smith, UNC - Chapel Hill; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Chelsey Lin; Monitor, Stefan; Room: B439 Natalia von Windheim Enhancing Oil Degradation by B. Cereus Amy Sheck, NCSSM Presider, Kelly McCarthy; Monitor,Wiley; Room: B442 Suqi Huang Activity Coefficients of Wood Smoke Tracer Andrey Khlystov, Duke University; Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Mary Poletti; Monitor, Sheck; Room: Beall 1 Emily Boaz, Emily Chen, Nicole Serem Mindfulness at NCSSM Joan Barber, Steve Warshaw, NCSSM Presider, Mark Rickabaugh; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Rebekah Wells Effects of Chronic Low-Dose Radiation on Yeast Sue Jinks-Robertson, Kevin Lehner, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Emily Stark; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Nishkala Shivakumar The Acoustic Performance of Smart Foams Matthew Sharpe, NC A& T University; Jon Bennett, NCSSM Presider, Elizabeth Tsui; Monitor, Marks; Room: Dry Lab Hun Wong Prions as a Mechanism of Yeast Stress Response Paul Magwene, Duke University; Amy Sheck, NCSSM Presider, Eric Wang; Monitor, Deng, McNairy; Room: Lecture Hall Janice Wong Environmental Health GIS Pamela Maxson, Childrens Environmental Health Initiative; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Carl Yin; Monitor, Laird; Room: Music Room

Session Six: 2:10 2:25 p.m.

Erica Shook Using Old Leaves to Teach New Climate Science Linda Schmalbeck, NCSSM Presider, Nitika Arora; Monitor, Muth; Room: B235 Grace Yook With Applications in Skin Cancer Detection Kelly Nelson, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, James Buchanan; Monitor, Clayton; Room: B236 Edwin Yun Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Edward Tower, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Allison Chang; Monitor, P. Kirk; Room: B237 Ahmed Zaeem Pharmacogenomics in Mexican Populations Mary Roederer, UNC-Chapel Hill, Eshelman School of Pharmacy; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Shaza Gaballah; Monitor, Berberian; Room: B335 Vivian Chen Genetic Analysis of ATOH7 to ONH Khanh Nhat Tran Viet, Terri Young, Duke Center for Human Genetics; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Amy Guo; Monitor,Teague; Room: B336 Yue Zheng Avian Vocal Learning and Microsatellites in dusp1 Jason Howard, Erich Jarvis, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Jordan Harrsion; Monitor,Williams; Room: B337 Lisa Zheng An Inhibitory Model for Neuronal Symmetry Breaking Zachary Wissner-Gross, Harvard-MIT; Leslie Brinson, NCSSM Presider, Hannah Krueger; Monitor, Schmalbeck; Room: B436 Connie Zhong Caspase-2 Activators and Inhibitors Sally Kornbluth, Erika Segear Johnson, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Chelsey Lin; Monitor, Stefan; Room: B439 Tosin Omofoye Assembly of Microparticles for Acoustic Separation Gabriel Lopez, Lu Gao, Leah Johnson, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Kelly McCarthy; Monitor,Wiley; Room: B442 Alyssa Mathewson The Insanity Defense Neil Vidmar, Duke University Law School; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Mary Poletti; Monitor, Sheck; Room: Beall 1 Varqa Kalantar Single-Bubble sonoluminescence in various liquids Jon Bennett, NCSSM Presider, Mark Rickabaugh; Monitor, Milbourne; Room: Beall 3 Chisimdi Onwuteaka Assimilating into Modern America Karen Glumm, NCSSM Presider, Emily Stark; Monitor, Halpin; Room: Beall 9 Kathryn Wheeler Methane Contamination and Hydraulic Fracturing Robert Jackson, Jonathan Karr, Duke University; John Kirk, NCSSM Presider, Elizabeth Tsui; Monitor, Marks; Room: Dry Lab Jaehyeong Lee,Tejas Sundaresan Amphipathic Films for Water Collection Myra Halpin, NCSSM Presider, Eric Wang; Monitor, Deng, McNairy; Room: Lecture Hall Pranav Maddi Using Blocking Peptides to Analyze Fibrin Fibers Michael Falvo, Timothy OBrien, UNC - Chapel Hill ; Jon Bennett, NCSSM Presider, Carl Yin; Monitor, Laird; Room: Music Room

Posters: 11:35 a.m. 1:15 p.m. (Library)

Hayden Abene Jennifer Antoniono Hannah Cornell Jerry Cui Jamie Dickson Joseph Hallett Justin Hendrick Bryant Lin Jacob Pawlik Pooja Potharaju Gayatri Rathod Isaiah Stackleather David Wang Andy Yang Edward Zhao Lisa Zheng

Refreshments will be available in the Library during the Poster Session

Special Thanks and Acknowledgments:

Jon Bennett Marion Brisk Deann Cooke Bob Gotwals David Green Myra Halpin Fred Hurteau John Kirk Aaron Plourde Amy Sheck Glaxo Endowment

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