Summit Poster Presenters 2004
Poster Presenters
2:45-4:00 PM | Poster Session I |
John Anderson ’04 | Effects of Carbaryl Pesticides in Maine |
Christina Austin ’05 and Caitlin Vincent ’05 | The Effect of Caffeine on DNA Repair |
Amanda Beck ’04 | Cloning and Sequencing of Normal and Splice Variant Full-Length cDNA for the Chick β1-adrenergic Receptor |
Andrew Beckington ’04 | Regional Conservation Planning: A Balancing Act between Biodiversity and Humans |
Renée Blacken ’05
Susan French ’04, and Lauren Randall ’04 |
Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins and Their Lanthanide Complexes as Chiral NMR Solvating Agents |
Mike Buffo ’04 | Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) in Subalpine Forests of the Cascade Range: A Case Study of Forest Structure with Management Recommendations |
Shoshoni Caine ’05 and Jevede Harris ’05 | The Effects of 8% Ethanol on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SOD2 Gene |
Joseph Chan ’04 | HIV/AIDS Awareness in China |
Justin Cidado ’04 | Small RNA Molecules and Translational Regulation |
John Clare ’04 | Wolf Reintroduction in Maine |
Noah Corwin ’04 | Cultural Demands and Environmental Impacts of the Alpine Ski Industry in the United States |
Jeffrey Davis ’04 | DNA Fingerprinting: DNA Analysis for Criminal Court Cases and Its Acceptance in Our Judicial System |
Derek Depelteau ’04 | Testosterone |
Derek Depelteau ’04 and John Sulivan ’04 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cells Transfected with E. coli DnaK,
the Hsp70 Homolog, Endure Greater Thermal Stress |
Dana DiGiando ’04 | Comparative Study of Toxic Metals |
Christina Doukeris ’04 | Accessing Testis Specificity of TCP 10a-related Sequence of Mouse Chromosome 17 through DNA-Protein Complex Formation |
Suzannah Dowling ’05 | Internship at the Maine Coalition against Sexual Assault |
Brian Dupee ’06
Kathryn King ’04 Elizabeth Moses ’06, and Hallie Preston ’06 |
Distribution and Abundance of Eastern White Pine; Range Pond State Park; Poland, Maine |
Ashley Ellison ’04 | Does Radiation Left Over from Nuclear Testing Affect Succession? |
Daisy Fischer ’04 | Ubiquitination of the Encephalomyocarditis Virus 3C Protease by a Ubc5a-Dependent E3 Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase |
Daisy Fischer ’04 and
Kathryn King ’04 |
Implementation of Group Health Visits at the B Street Health
Center Applied to Weight Management |
Jessica Gagne-Hall ’04 | Prison Gardens |
Evan Gillespie ’04 | Environmental Management in South Africa |
Aimee Grimmelmann ’04 | Mathematical Modeling of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 |
Andrew Hardy ’04 | Toward a Flexible Synthesis of Polyacetylene Spiroketal Enol Ethers |
Abigail Harris ’04 | Border Life: The Relationship between Miti Mirefu and Ndarakwai Ranch, Tanzania |
Julia Judson-Rea ’04 | Generating Cross-Cultural Dialogue within Environmental Studies |
Julia Judson-Rea ’04 | “The Greens Are Back in Town”: Reasons behind the Success of the Tasmanian Greens |
Benjamin Kercsmar ’04 | Male Signaling Honesty, Female Mate Choice, and Maternal Contribution to Offspring in Swordtail Fish (Xiphophorus helleri) |
Justin Levesque ’04 | Construction of a Novel Synj2 Plasmid |
Justin Levesque ’04 | Identification of Proteins That Interact with the M. xanthus CsgA Signalling Protein Using the Yeast-Two-Hybrid System |
Elizabeth Morrill ’04 | Women’s Fuel-Wood Collection in Northeastern Tanzania |
Jurgen Nebelung ’04 | Motivations for Green Design in Homes |
Joseph Northrup ’05 and
Lani Stinson ’05 |
Abundance and Distribution of the Macroinfauna at Long Sands Beach, York, Maine |
Matthew Ondra ’04 | Metallothionein in Cadmium Detoxification and Bioremediation |
Tory Peterson ’04 | A New Twist: Different Models for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse |
Stephanie Praino ’04 | Aldo Leopold and Ideas of Sustainability |
Lauren Randall ’04 and
Ayana Sawai ’04 |
Effect of pH on Antibiotic Resistance of E. coli Genome Mutated
with Transposon CamR and KanR |
Regina Readling ’04 | RNA Interference and Its Application to Developing Therapeutic Techniques |
Jennifer Reynolds ’04 | Genetic Analysis of Transmission Ratio Distortion in t haplotype Mice |
Colin Schless ’04 | A Study of “Nature” Healing |
William Schmitt ’05 and
Juyoung Shim ’05 |
The Mutagenic Effects of Benzopyrene and UV Light on the pUC18 Plasmid ampr Vector |
Hillary Schwab ’04 | British Columbia’s Community Forest Pilot Agreement |
Luke Selby ’05 and
Sarah Tolford ’04 |
Analysis of Mutagenesis to the CAP Binding Site of the lac Promoter |
John Sullivan ’04 | Spatial and Temporal Expression of Tcte1l and Tctex1, Dynein Light Chain Paralogs |
Lucia Tiererova ’06 | The Watermark Initiative: A Database of Papers and Watermarks |
Sarah Tolford ’04 | A Protein Purified from Hyacinth Beans Has Potential for Treating Cancer |
Graham Veysey ’04 | Environmental Discourse and the Three Gorges Dam, China |
Catherine Zettek ’04 | A Good Neighbor? Reclaiming Community beside a Copper Mine in Cuncumen, Chile |
4:30-5:45 PM | Poster Session II |
Abigail Adams ’04 | Case Study on Autism |
Lynne Antinarelli ’04 | What’s on Your Warm-Up Mix? |
Sarah Barnes ’04 | Chilean Seasonal Female Farmworkers and Pesticide Exposure: An Analysis of Barriers to Protection |
Erin Bertrand ’05 | Mechanistic Inquiries into Environmental Hydrocarbon Degradation by Microbacterial Metalloenzymes |
Jacqueline Bowie ’05, Jessica Edgerly’06,
Erika Millstein ’06, and Katharine Nolan ’06 |
Using Mollusk Growth to Assess Recent Environmental Changes in Coastal Alaska |
Christina Browne ’04 | The Effect of Extra-Legal Factors in the Capital Punishment System |
Andrew Byrnes ’05 and
William Fox ’05 |
The Nanotechnology Project: Electronics |
Rebecca Castle ’04 | The Effect of Suspicion and Photospread Type on Eyewitness Identification |
Swita Charanasomboon ’04 | Relational Aggression among Elementary School Girls, an Ethnographic Study in an Afterschool Program at Lewiston Public Housing |
Jessica Ciak ’05 and
Anna Sleeper ’05 |
The Effects of Varying Concentrations and Time Exposure of Arsenite (III) Oxide on the Citric Acid Cycle |
Seamus Collins ’04 | Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Evolution |
Catherine Crosby ’04 | The Role of Control in Perception of Pain between Males and Females |
Erica Dodd ’04 | The Bengal Tiger: A Mathematical Model |
Rebecca Dolan ’04 | Eating Disorder Symptomatology and Reasons for Exercise in College Athletes and Nonathletes |
Elise Duggan ’05,
Christina Maki ’05, and Jessica Otis ’05 |
The Correlations between Lead Exposure and the Need for Special Education in Lewiston, Maine |
Mara Fleischer ’04 | The Differences in Shoplifting Rates for Eating Disorder Subtypes: Binge Purge, Restrictive Eating, and Control Groups |
Jacob Friedman ’04 | The Effectiveness of Short-Term Family Mediation at a Local Youth Shelter |
Jacklyn Fullerton ’04, Elizabeth McNamara ’05,
and Ann Pickard ’04 |
Refugee Health Care: A Comprehensive Packet for Medical Practitioners Providing for Somali Populations |
Eve Gasarch ’05,
Rugiatu Jalloh ’05, and Eric Ursprung ’04 |
A Health Report Card for Use at the B Street Health Center |
Nicholas Goldfrank ’04 | Teaching Effective Strategies for Coping with Losing at Games |
Beth Greene ’04 | The Effect of Gender-Stereotypic Commercials on the Athletic Performance of Female Children |
Brian Greenleaf ’05 and Keith Hengen ’06 | The Nanotechnology Project: Mechanical Design |
Laurie Jacobs ’04 | Effects of Pre-exposure and Medial Septal Lesions on Cocaine-Mediated Taste Aversion |
Nils Johnson ’07 and
Jeffrey Woltjen ’07 |
The Nanotechnology Project: Software |
Melissa Kay ’04 | Predicting Student Alcohol Use with the Implicit Association Test |
Brian Kile ’04 | Parallel Fabrication of Metal Oxide Nanostructures |
Gianna King ’04 | Alcohol Expectancies and the Role of Television: Does Perceived Realism Affect Attitudes about Alcohol? |
Kathleen Kolstad ’04 | Effects of Tetrandrine (TET), Isolated from the Chinese Herb, Stephania tetrandra, on NMDA Receptor Subunits Expressed in Xenopus laevisOocytes |
Katherine Kopeikina ’04 and Daniel Robarts ’04 | Effects of Adolescent Stress on Nicotine-Amphetamine Cross-Sensitization |
Katherine Lantz ’04 | Preventing Child Abuse |
Brent Mann ’04 | Synthesis of 2-Deoxyglycosides through Acid-Mediated Conjugate Addition |
Kathryn Mannle ’04 | Ecotourism Opportunities and Challenges at Masoala National Park, Madagascar |
Rachel Martin ’04 | Endorsement of the Protestant Ethic and Body Dissatisfaction |
Elizabeth McConnell ’04 | How Race Affects Jury Comprehension of Judges’ Instructions |
Kelton McMahon ’05 | Contributions of Local Food Items to the Diet of Fundulus heteroclitus |
Julia McQuade ’04 | The Facilitative Effects of Drawing and Puppets on Children’s Reports of Positive and Negative Events |
Georgiana Mitrus ’04 | The Effects of High-Fat Intake on Spatial Memory in Rats |
Aram Parsegian ’04 and Randi Rawson ’04 | Effects of Varying Durations of Abstinence on the Expression of Locomotor Sensitization in Cocaine-Addicted Rats |
Jessica Perrie ’05 | Are Heifer Project International Cows Healthier? |
Toby Pinn ’04 | Lethal White Foal Syndrome: An Equine Genetic Puzzle |
Susannah Pugh ’04 | Creative Dance/Movement with Children |
Talya Rabina ’04 | Best Practices for Administering Adaptive Skiing |
Nassime Ruch-Kamgar ’04 | Evaluation of the Bullying Prevention Program Used by Advocates for Children |
Rebecca Seifers ’04 | The Ethics of Ecotourism |
Melanie Shaw ’04 | Chemical Applications in Orthodontics |
Juyoung Shim ’05 | Effects of Herbal Medicine on Periodontal Disease |
Caroline Smith ’04 | Eyewitness Confidence: How Does It Influence a Photospread Administrator? |
Johanna Sterzel ’04 | A Case Study: The Effects of Exercise on the Self-Stimulatory Behaviors of a Nonverbal Child with Autism |
Kathryn Stevens ’04 | Interpreting Federal Educational Reform in a Local Context: Three Teachers’ Lived Experiences with the No Child Left Behind Act |