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Giving undergraduates the opportunity to do research with world-class faculty is a priority at Washington State University. Each year the College of Sciences celebrates the research accomplishments of science undergraduates by holding the
College of Sciences
Seventh Annual Undergraduate Research
Poster Competition
March 29, 2010
Undergraduate students who have done research in the Sciences are invited to display and explain posters describing the results of their work. They compete for monetary awards in three judging categories:
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Physical Sciences,
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Biosciences, and
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Interdisciplinary/Mathematics
Students who have completed two semesters or less of research are eligible for a special Novice Researcher prize in each judging category.
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Congratulations to the winners in the 2009 competition:
Biological Sciences
Sigma Xi: Tim Ross-Elliott (Genetics & Cell Biology), Title: Novel Sieve Element Selection Marker. Mentor: Michael Knoblach
First Prize: Kendra Lyons (Zoology), Title: Invasion bottleneck and absence of genetic variation in a successful aquatic invader. Mentor: Mark Dybdahl
Second Prize: Andrew Gross (Biology), Title: 2008 Methyl Isothiocyanate Residential Air Assessment: Franklin Co., Washington. Mentor: Vince Hebert
Third Prize: Nicole Owen (Genetics & Cell Biology/Microbiology), Title: Reduced levels of meiotic cohesins increase the likelihood of synaptic defects. Mentor: Terry Hassold
Novice Researcher: Awndre Gamache (Biology/Microbiology), Title: Characterization of mAb to Trichomonas Vaginalis Surface Adehsins. Mentor: John Alderete
Interdisciplinary/Mathematics
Sigma Xi: Darrin Trask (Bioengineering/Pre-Med), Title: Effects of Head Position and Impact Direction on Neck Muscle Reflex Responses. Mentor: Anita Vasavada
First Prize: Svetlana Lockwood (Mathematics/Computer Science), Title: Optimal Selection Of Training Sets for Scoring Functions for Protein Fold Recognition. Mentor: Bala Krishnamoorthy
Novice Researcher: Andrew Winters (Mathematics), Title: Modeling gregarines and their potential effect on malaria transmission by mosquitoes. Mentors: Charlotte Omoto and Robert Dillon
Physical Sciences
Sigma Xi: Svetlana Stadnik (Geology/Physics), Title: The mantle beneath us: a new discovery of oceanic-like lavas in North Idaho. Mentor: John Wolff
First Prize: Stephanie Westcott (General Physical Science), Title: Tracking the photophysical properties of perylene oligomers as a function of geometry. Mentor: Aurora Clark
Second Prize: Kristofer Nyquist (Physics), Title: Ion and molecule based quantum computing architectures: Structural properties. Mentor: Doerte Blume
Third Prize: Tylan Watkins (Chemistry), Title: Studying the surface properties of ZnO nanoparticle thin films. Mentor: Jeanne McHale
Novice Researcher: Troy Loeffler (Chemistry), Title: Ligand Chemistry of Lanthanides. Mentor: Pat Meier
Center for Environmental Research, Education & Outreach
Adrienne Copeland (Biology), Title: Genetic Relatedness of Cooperatively Breeding Washington Ground Squirrel Females. Mentor: Michael Webster
Alexa Branesky (Biology/Anthropology), Title: Effects of Weather and Climate on Mating Patterns in a Migratory Bird. Mentor: Michael Webster
Center for Integrated Biotechnology
Kristen Sukraw (Microbiology/Anthropology), Title: A Campylobacter jejuni Cj0788 mutant is deficient in bacterial motility and host cell invasion. Mentor: Michael Konkel
Center for Reproductive Biology
Daniel Gregory (Genetics & Cell Biology), Title: Visualization of Ligand-mediated Nuclear Localization of Retinoic Acid and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Living Cells. Mentor: Kwan Hee Kim
Patrick Barko (Genetics & Cell Biology/Pre-Vet), Title: Assessing the role of an ERK binding site on EGR1 in its regulation of Lhb expression. Mentor: John H. Nilson
To learn more about the past winners of the competition, click here.