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Frontiers in Life Sciences
Graduate Research Symposium

biology graduate students April 18, 2008
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Quinlan Life Sciences Center Atrium


Presenters: Please set up your poster from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.


Poster Titles and Student Participants


  • Aquatic to terrestrial subsidies in a post-agricultural stream: response to stream restoration. Lyle Dandridge and Martin Berg. Dept of Biology.

  • Protein Interaction of GAG, IN, and ENV from the Ty1/Copia SIRE1 Plant Retrotransposon. Eftychia Gouvas and Howard Laten. Dept of Biology.

  • Changes in West Copper River Delta Pond Food Webs Following Tectonic Uplift and Implications for Future Habitat and Waterfowl Management. Ryan Van Duzor and Martin Berg. Dept of Biology.

  • Information Content in Ribonuclease A and Variants: An Investigation of the Protein Structure-Function Relationship via Brownian Processing Methods. Authors: Jessica L. Greminger, Daniel J. Graham. Dept of Chemistry.

  • Potential for competition between juvenile suckers, juvenile humpback chub, and non-native minnows in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. S.E. Zahn, E.J. Rosi-Marshall, C.V. Baxter, M. Yard T. Kennedy, W.F. Cross, and R.O. Hall. Dept of Biology.

  • Organization of the α21-II Region of Human Chromosome 21. William Ziccardi and Jeffrey Doering. Dept of Biology.

  • Macroinvertebrate food webs in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam Holly A. Wellard, Emma J. Rosi-Marshall, Robert O. Hall, Wyatt F. Cross, Theodore A. Kennedy and Colden V. Baxter. Dept of Biology.

  • A comparison of fish assemblage structure in natural, channelized, and restored sections of nippersink creek, mchenry county, il. Sarah Olsen, Terry Grande, Martin B. Berg. Dept of Biology.

  • Characterizing the centromeric satellite I cluster and D21Z1 short arm junction region on human chromosome 21 (HC21). Riddhi Patel and Jeffrey Doering. Dept of Biology.

  • Functional evolution of subunits of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase enzymes from plants and unicellular algae. Misty L. Kuhn, Christine Falaschetti, and Miguel A. Ballicora. Dept of Biology.

  • Morphological Development of the Axial Skeleton of Esox lucius (Esociforms: Euteleostei), and a Comparison of Developmental Rates with Esox masquinongy (Esociforms: Euteleostei). Amanda M. Burdi and Terry Grande. Dept of Biology.

  • Effects of caffeine on stream ecosystem function. Aubeneau A.F., Dr Rosi-Marshall E.J., Hoppe P.D. Dept of Biology.

  • Characterization of a cysteine protease expressed in late-stage gametocytes by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Michael J. Ashburne and Kim Williamson. Dept of Biology.


    Abstract Submission Guidelines

    Students wishing to present posters must submit abstracts which summarize their work. Abstracts must include a title, a listing of the authors and a 300-word or less summary of the research.

    Abstracts should be e-mailed to Dr. Terry Grande at: tgrande@luc.edu by April 7. Late submissions will be accepted but might not appear on program flyers.

    Posters should be no larger than 4' x 4', although we may be able to accommodate some 6' wide x 4' high posters. Students will be asked to mount their posters between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 18. Students will be asked to be present at their poster for at least two hours on Friday between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Students should remove their posters between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Boards, mounting tacks and tape will be supplied.

    Research Poster Guidelines

    • The space provided for the display of posters will be 4 ft. by 4 ft. All poster materials must fit in this space.

    • It is recommended that the poster be prepared by creating a PowerPoint presentation, printing out the PowerPoint pages, and mounting these pages onto the poster background.

    • Poster boards/backgrounds will be provided and set-up by the Biology Department. Thumbtacks will be available for mounting the pages onto the poster background.

    • The poster must include the following pieces of information prominently displayed:
      • Title of the research project
      • Student's name
      • Name of the student's research advisor
    • Each poster should be organized to include the following sections:
      • Abstract
      • Introduction
      • Methods
      • Results
      • Conclusions
      • References
    • It is recommended that the text for the introduction, methods and conclusion sections be presented as bullet points to make it easier for those reading the poster.

    • All text should be presented in a font of at least 22 points so that it can be read from adistance of a few feet.

    • The results section may include some or all of the following: bulleted text, tables, figures, images, photographs and illustrations.

    • Posters should stimulate discussion. Therefore, keep text to a minimum, emphasize graphics and make sure every item on your poster is necessary.

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