2012 UGRC - Full Schedule

A Novel Enzymatic Technique for Determination of Sarcosine in Urine Samples

Casey Burton

Turner Room

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Analysis of Flood Sediment Deposits Following the Taum Sauk Reservoir Failure, Reynolds County, Missouri

Krista Rybacki

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

APCG: The Automated Partial Credit Grader

Chelsea Sanders

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

APCG: The Automated Partial Credit Grader

Kathleen Venhaus

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

APCG: The Automated Partial Credit Grader

Tiffany Werckmann

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Automated Fitness Guided Fault Localization

Alex Bertels

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Automated Generation of Benchmarks with High Discriminatory Power for Specific Sets of Black Box Search Algorithms

Thomas Reese

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Balancing Limited Resources For Speech Transcription On Mobile Devices

Joseph Kurtz

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Biotechnological Use of Bacteriorhodopsin as Memory Storage

Brandon Boies

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Comparing the Diversity of Fungi on Leaves Submerged in Different Amounts of Stream Water

Lara Applegate

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Comparison of Potency of SOCE Inhibition by Naturally Occurring Biphenolic Compounds

Alexis Martin

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Developing a Platform-Independent Server for the Virtual Facilitator Project

Margret Steele

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Early Breast Cancer Detection by Quantitative Determination of Potential Biomarkers in Urine Samples Using Capillary Electrophoresis

Megan Schuller

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effects of Chlorothiazide on Muscarinic Receptors

Katie Bey

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effects of Chlorothiazide on Muscarinic Receptors

Brittany Brand

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effects of Nitric Oxide on Store Operated Calcium Entry

Megan Koerner

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effects of Nitric Oxide on Store Operated Calcium Entry

Katie Payne

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Flexible Aerogels

Clayton Buback

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Flexible Aerogels

Patrick McCarver

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Functional Image Restoration Using a Photorefractive Polymeric Composite

Kelsey Bass

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Geomagnetic Investigations of a Desert Eye Structure, Egypt

Cory Reed

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

If Rocks Could Talk, Oh What Tales Tekeze Could Tell

Marissa Spencer

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Inference Engine for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Vincent Allen

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Inference Engine for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Kathryn Isbell

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Inference Engine for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Wenyu Zhou

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Intuitive Graphical User Interfaces for Virtual Facilitation

Andrew Brown

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Investigating the Negative Regulation of Iqg1 in Budding Yeast Cytokinesis

Avery Joseph

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Investigation of Mineral Weathering Products Following CO₂ Injection and High Pressure Tests

Thomas Herbst

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Is IQG1 required for the localization of Bni1?

Mydah Choudhry

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Linking the Obese Phenotype with the Microbial Composition of the Animal Gut

Katie Kuehn

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Multi-Objective Coevolutionary Automated Software Correction

James Bridges

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Outcrop-scale Investigation of Faulting in the Gorge of the Nile, Ethiopia

Matthew Simon

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Petrographic Characteristics of Transgressive and Regressive Limestone of Upper-Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma and SE Kansas

Bin Hou

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Petrographic Characteristics of Transgressive and Regressive Limestone of Upper-Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma and SE Kansas

Lu Zhu

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Preserved Palynomorphs in Ephemeral Hypersaline Lakes

Brittany Ford

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Seismic Anisotropy Beneath Alaska from Shear Wave Splitting Study

Junzhe Sun

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Cure to Skin Cancer: A Metabolic Approach

Peter Haw

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Effects of Gallein on M3 Muscarinic Receptors

Alex Willis

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Nature of the Contact of the Khoman Chalk Formation and Dahkla Formation at Gebel Gunna near Farafra, Egypt

Patricia Williams

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Optimization of Anabaena Variabilis for the Removal of Nitrogen Oxide Gases from Coal Plant Emissions

Alie Abele

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Therapeutic Effects of the Novel Thiol Antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine Amide (NACA), on Treating Rats with Grade I and Grade II Cataracts

Tiffany Edwards

Upper Atrium/Hallway

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Spectral Analysis of Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Jacob Mueller

Carver Room

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Computational identification and analysis of the PLA₂ gene family in Glycine max

Mobile Camera Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring

Abhinav Saxena

Carver Room

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Phosphorylation of Iqg1 by Cyclin Dependent Kinase (Cdc28) Temporally Regulates Actin Ring Formation

Daniel Miller

Turner Room

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Ionic Liquids as the Working Fluid in a Cooling System

Austin Ramsey

Turner Room

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Template-Free Electrodeposition of Freestanding MnO₂ Nanowires and their Pseudo-Capacitive Properties

Matthew Willmering

Turner Room

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The Effect of Education on the Public Opinion of Synthetic Biology

Erica Shannon

Carver Room

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Need for Uniformity in St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

Trista Bruning

Turner Room

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Asaia: Preventing Malaria

Tavia Hall

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Automating Prior Work Replication Through Experiment Configuration Evolution

Jacob Gardner

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Climate-Responsive Adaptive Control for Natural Ventilation

Gerald Holt

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Climate-Responsive Adaptive Control for Natural Ventilation

Sean Klover

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Climate-Responsive Adaptive Control for Natural Ventilation

Lucas Laughery

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Climate-Responsive Adaptive Control for Natural Ventilation

Annelise Smith

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Demonstration of Plasma Actuators as Active Flow Control Devices

Jason Stumfoll

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Effects of Atmosphere on the Pressureless Sintering Behavior of ZrB₂ Ceramics

Andrea Els

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Employing Microbial Source Tracking Tools to Determine the Origin of Fecal Pollution in Missouri Waterways

Tommy Goodwin

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Examining the potential for antibiotic biosynthesis with fungal cultures extracted from Red Lake

Amber Kreps

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Growing the Crowd of Users for Microtask Platforms With the Goal of Alleviating Poverty

Lee Voth-Gaeddert

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Improving the Performance of Drinking Water Filters for Developing Countries

Alexander Korff

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Lactic Acid Bacteria from Sourdough and Impact on Gluten Sensitivity

Heather Branstetter

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Micropile Load Transfer Monitoring during Construction of Bridge No. 2, Foothills Parkway, TN

Sarah Bey

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Optimal Wellbore Trajectory and Mud Weight Window Design for Generic Anticline Reservoirs

Nevan Himmelberg

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Optimization of Growth Parameters in a Tubular Photobioreactor

Charlene Ruwwe

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Phytoforensic-Dendrochemistry using NAA Techniques

Zackary Stone

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Production of Samarium Nanoparticles by Gamma Irradiation

Samuel Murphy

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Production of Samarium Nanoparticles by Gamma Irradiation

James Weeks

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Production of Samarium Nanoparticles by Gamma Irradiation

Robert Zedric

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

PulaCloud Research

Montana Puckett

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Revolutionizing Industry with Microbial Cellulose

Chester Gregg

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

S&T Male and Female STEM majors: Experiences with Discrimination and Adjustment

Amber Julien

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Seasonal Variation of Contaminant Concentrations In Planta

Amanda Holmes

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Synthetic Biology Approach to Create a Hybrid Extracellular Supramolecular Machine to Breakdown Free Mycolic Fatty Acids and a Feedback System to Produce a TB Inhibitory Peptide

David Pohlman

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Effect of a Localized Mass Non-Uniformity on a Longitudinally Vibrating Piezoelectric Rod

Husain Shekhani

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Use of Microbes in the Processing of Radionuclides

Larry Tolliver

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Thermal Optimization by Energy Modeling of a Passively Solar Residential Design System-Trombe Wall using Water Barrel

Albrion Symonette

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Using Host Microbiota to Study the Development of Diabetes

Logan Sauerbrei

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Validating Developed Microbial Source Tracking Methods for Missouri Waterways

Melissa Buechlein

Upper Atrium/Hallway

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Misfires: A Look at SMS Conversations and Clarity

Thomas Insall

Turner Room

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM