AAA Student/Postdoc Poster Reception
Monday, April 4, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Convention Center Room 23

Ayman Salah El Deen Amer (Marshall Univ. School of Medicine) - Advisor: William B. Rhoten
Genomic and Nongenomic Effects of CaBP28k -ablation in Cultured RIN Cells

Lisa Baye (Medical College of Wisconsin) - Advisor: Brian Link
Examining Interkinetic Nuclear Migration During Retinal Development

Ian Brauner (LSU Health Sciences Center) - Advisor: Judy Venuti
Analysis of Endogenous Beta-Catenin/TCF Activity Elucidates Temporal and Spatial Wnt Signaling in the Somite

Craig Byron (Medical College of Georgia) - Advisor: Mark W. Hamrick
The Role of the Osteoclast in Cranial Suture Waveform Patterning

Daisy Conduah (Susquehanna Univ.) - Advisor: Deborah Hyink
Three-Dimesnional Analysis of Renal Vasculature in Fetal Mice

Jessica Croushore (Penn State College of Medicine) - Advisor: Robert Levenson
Cloning & Char acterization of a Phospholipase A2-Like Otoconin in Zebrafish

Shuang Cui (Medical College of Wisconsin) - Advisor: Brian Link
Identificaiton for a Role of aPKCs in Cell Migration During Retinal Lamination

Jeff Eskew (Univ. of Missouri) - Advisor: Lawrence Dreyfus
Ca2+ Transient-dependent Changes in Embryonic Myocyte Proteins During Myofibrillogenesis – A Proteomic Analysis

Tamy Frank-Cannon (Texas A & M Univ.) - Advisor: Louise C. Abbott
Activation of Caspase 3 in Dying Cerebellar Purkinje Cells of the Calcium Channel Mutant Mouse, Leaner

Tamara Franz-Odendaal (Dalhousie Univ.) - Advisor: Brian K. Hall
Anatomical Variation and/or Constraints on Scleral Ossicle Formation in Vertebrates

Mark Garbrecht (Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine) - Advisor: Jeanne Snyder
Dexamethasone Metabolism and the Regulation of SP-A in Human Lung Epithelial Cells

JoLyn Gilbertson (Concordia College) - Advisor: Julie C. Rutherford
An Immunofluorescence Analysis of Collagen Distribution in Isolated Rat Retinal and Glomerular Capillary Basement Membranes

Sandya Govindaraju (Medical College of Wisconsin) - Advisor: Danny Riley
Continuous and Intermittent Vibration Effects on Rat-Tail Artery & Nerve

Lee Greer (Loma Linda Univ.) - Advisor: Kerby Oberg
HOX Mediated Regulation of the FGF Pathway in the Human Melanoma Cell Line (A375)

Shireen Hafez (Virginia Polytechnic & State Univ.) - Advisor: Ludeman Eng
Qualitative and Quantitative Study on the Development of the Uterine Vasculature in Non-pregnant and Normal Swainsonine-treated Pregnant Goats Using Microvascular Corrosion Casting

Yong Hu (Univ. of Alabama At Birmingham) - Advisor: Jeffrey E. Kudlow
Overexpression of a Dominant-negative Splice Variant of Nuclear and Cytoplasmic O-GlcNAcase and Acetyltransferase (NCOAT) Causes Apoptosis

Eliska Krejci (Char les Univ., First Faculty of Medicine) - Advisor: Milos Grim
Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition of Neural Crest Cells Depend on c-Myb Protoncogene

Linda May (Northwestern Ohio Univ. College of Medicine) - Advisor: Jon M. Walro
Receptor Blockade Alters Cardiac ß-adrenergic Signalling in Bax Knockout Mice

Svaytoslav Milovanov (Saratov Medical State Univ.) - Advisor: Glibochka P.V.
The Effect of the Internal and External Factors on the Anthropometric Morphology in the Modern Male Population

Patrick Nahirney (NIH) - Advisor: Kuan Wang
Myosin Flares and Actin Leptomeres as Myofibril Assembly Intermediates in Sonic Muscle Fibers

Nalini Pather (Univ. of the Witwatersrand) - Advisor: Beverley Kramer
The Aortic Root: Establishing the Norm

Erica Perryn (Univ. of Kansas Medical Center) - Advisor: Char les D. Little
Dynamics of Endothelial Cell Behavior in the Murine Allantois

Nicole Shirkey (Concordia College) - Advisor: Julie C. Rutherford
An Immunofluorescence Analysis of Variations in Collagen Distribution in Isolated Diabetic Rat Retinal Vessel and Glomerular Basement Membranes

Munirathinam Subramani (Univ. of Conneticut Health Center) - Advisor: D. Kent Morest
Inherent Neuronal Plasticity of Axons in the Olfactory Tract: Ultrastructure of Axonal Regeneration and Behavioral Recovery after Olfactory Tract Transection in Rats

Sudhakar Vadivelu (Des Moines Univ.-Osteopathic Medical Ctr) - Advisor: Donald G. Matz
Asymmetric Three-Dimensional Morphology of Dentate White Matter Pathways

Peter Ward (Purdue Univ.) - Advisor: James J. Walker
Bilateral Dermal Cyst in the White Matter Tracts from Cerebrum to Cerebellum of a Female Cadaver

Jamie Wikenheiser (Case Western Reserve Univ.) - Advisor: Michiko Watanabe
Differential Levels of Oxygen Tension in the Developing Chicken Heart

Weiguo Yao (Indiana Univ.) - Advisor: Wei-Hua Lee
IGF-I and Postnatal Growth of Weaver Mutant Mice

Elzbieta Zakrzewska (Univ. of Vermont) - Advisor: Karen Plaut
Effects of 2 x Gravity (2-g) on Prolactin Receptor Expression in Adipose Tissue of Periparturient Rats