2013 Poster Session Winners
Carver College of Medicine Student Category
Tyler Rasmussen
Mentor: Mark E. Anderson, MD, PhD
Graduate Program: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Title: Mitochondrial Ca2+ is required for maintenance of cardiac energy homeostasis
Collin Krepple
Mentor: John Wemmie, MD, PhD
Graduate Program: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Title: ASIC1a in the nucleus accumbens maintains normal synaptic physiology and inhibits drug reward
Lacy Barton
Mentor: Pamela Geyer, PhD
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
Title: Loss of the nuclear lamina protein Otefin causes checkpoint kinase 2-mediated death of female germline stem cells
Carver College of Medicine Staff and Postdoctoral Fellow Category
Leah Reznikov
Mentor: Michael Welsh, MD
Title: Effect of the CFTR delta F508 mutation on porcine and murine brain: implications for chiari malformation in cystic fibrosis
Alexey Soshnev
Mentor: Pamela Geyer, PhD
Title: Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by a drosophila insulator protein
Mark White
Mentor: Bill Nauseef, MD
Title: SrrAB-regulated PI-PLC is important for survival of Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in human blood and neutrophils
College of Pharmacy Student Category
Josephine Schamp
Mentor: Jonathan Doorn
Graduate Program: Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry
Title: The production of reactive oxygen species by 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde during conditions of oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease
Mohammad Alqudah
Mentor: Mahfoud Assem
Graduate Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
Title: NOTCH3 is a prognostic factor and critical element in gliomagenesis
College of Pharmacy Staff and Postdoctoral Fellow Category
Megan Mormann
Mentor James Hoehns
Title: Pharmacist integration in pre-visit planning in the medical home
Donna Faber
Mentor: Tami Argo
Title: Glycemic and metabolic consequences of second generation antipsychotics used with antidepressants in veterans with diabetes
College of Public Health Student Category
Laura Podolefsky
Mentor: Gabriele Ludewig
Graduate Program: Occupational and Environmental Health
Title: Influence of genetics on antioxidant capacity and paraoxonase 1 activity in monozygotic and dizygotic twins
Blake Hanson
Mentor: Tara Smith
Graduate Program: Epidemiology
Title: Longitudinal study of Iowa families to determine prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and observe colonization incidence and familial transmission events
Gopi Gadupudi
Mentor: Larry Robertson
Graduate Program: Occupational and Environmental Health
Title: N-acetylcysteine (NAC) diminishes the severity of PCB 126-induced hepatic steatosis in male rats
College of Public Health Staff and Postdoctoral Fellow Category
Izabel Korwel
Mentor: Hans-Joachim Lehmler
Title: Assignment of elution order of atropisomers of polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs on enantioselective gas chromatography columns
Dipendra Thapaliya
Mentor: Tara Smith
Title: Comercially distributed meat as a potential vehicle for Staphylococcus aureus transmission
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Student Category
Trenton Place
Mentor: Rick Domann
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title: Actin proline hydroxylation: discovery of a novel actin post-translational modification and implications for the effects of hypoxia on tumor metastasis
Amani Makkouk
Mentor: George Weiner
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology
Title: Biodegradable nanoparticles for the induction of anti-lymphoma immune responses
Rachel Starks
Mentor: Kamal Rahmouni
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title: A rare disease reveals a novel mechanism of insulin resistance
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Staff and Postdoctoral Fellow Category
Ryan Boudreau
PI: Beverly Davidson
Title: Transcriptome-wide discovery of microRNA binding sites in human brain
Iowa City VA Health Care System Student Category
Jennifer Streeter
Mentor: Francis Miller
Graduate Program: Anatomy and Cell Biology
Title: Phosphorylation as a novel regulatory mechanism of Nox1 activation in cardiovascular disease
Heather Holahan
Mentor: Janet Fairley
Graduate Program: Dermatology and Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship
Title: Bullous pemhigoid eosinophils express FcεRI and degranulate upon exposure to BP180 (collagen XVII)
Iowa City VA Health Care System Staff and Postdoctoral Fellows Category
Paula Klutho
PI: Isabella Grumbach
Title: MsrA regulates neointima hyperplasia following vascular injury
Iowa State University Category
Dilshan Harischandra
Mentor: Anumantha Kathasamy
Graduate Program: Toxicology
Title: Manganese exposure induces release of alpha-synuclein and promotes exosome mediated cell to cell transmission of synuclein aggregates in neurotoxicity models