Quantitative Mapping of Male Traits Affecting Female Longevity and Fecundity in C. Remanei
Presenter: Emily Ebel, Biology Poster: A-8 Mentor: Patrick Phillips, Biology Differing reproductive interests between the sexes can manifest in surprising ways, including a conflict, or tradeoff, between female reproductive effort and longevity. In some species,...
Determining roles of Wnt signaling in mammalian heart valve development
Presenter: Andrew Mckay, Biology Poster: C-2 Mentor: Kryn Stankunas, Institute of Molecular Biology Heart defects occur in 2% of live births, and of these, valve defects are the most common. By studying normal heart valve development we hope to find the genetic causes...
What is the genetic basis of evolution? Looking at the shape of the opercle bone in Alaskan stickleback fish
Presenter: Christina Wickman, Marine Biology Poster: D-4 Mentor: Chuck Kimmel, Institute of Neuroscience What is the genetic basis of evolution? For this study, we used the three spine stickleback fish, which is a model for evolution as both the ancestral and derived...
Genomic News From an Old Fish: Understanding Gene Regulation by Sequencing the Genome of a Living Fossil, the Spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)
Presenter: Margo Werner, Biology Poster: D-3 Mentor: Ingo Braasch, John Postlethwait Biology Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are important regions of the genome that modulate the expression of nearby genes. However, their role in the evolution of genes is not yet well...
Glazing Peanuts
Presenter: Katharine Dwyer, Ian Austin, Aidan Tart, Architecture Poster: A-7 Mentor: Allison Kwok, Architecture In our consumer society the ultimate and most lasting product is, without a doubt, the landfill. We produce massive amounts of materials and products that...
Climate Change and Preservation Bias in the Pliocene Ringold Formation
Presenter: Christina Wilson, Geology Poster: D-5 Mentor: Samantha Hopkins, Geology Before oscillations of glacial and interglacial cycles began, the climate within the Pliocene epoch, (5.3 – 2.6 Ma) was relatively temperate –similar to more conservative...
The Use of Gateway® Cloning and Modified BAC Trangenesis to Study Zebrafish Craniofacial Development
Presenter:Wade Sugden, Nathan Johnson, Biology Poster: C-8 Mentor: Mark Sasaki, Institute of Neuroscience Transgenesis techniques have revolutionized the study of cellular, developmental, and molecular biology by allowing researchers to visualize the proteins they...
Investigating an Unusually Bright Variant of the Red Fluorescent Protein mKeima
Presenter: A.J. Risenmay, Biology Poster: C-4 Mentor: Jim Remington, Physics, Institute of Molecular Biology mKeima is a monomeric red fluorescent protein (λem¬¬max ~620 nm) that is maximally excited in the blue (λex¬¬max ~440 nm). This extraordinarily large stokes...
Determining the degree to which chloroplast genome copy number limits the expression of chloroplast genes
Presenter: Dylan Udy, Biology Poster: D-1 Mentor: Alice Barkan, Institute of Molecular Biology The relationship that exists between chloroplasts and the plant cells they occupy is very complex. Chloroplasts evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont, and throughout...
Genetic Interaction in the Developing Danio Rerio Jaw
Presenter: Braden Larson, Biology, Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) Poster: B-7 Mentor: Charles Kimmel, Institute of Neuroscience Genes act in concert during animal development to form complex anatomical structures. For example, the jaw skeleton requires...
Biostratigraphy of Miocene Camelids in the Juntura Formation
Presenter: Brianna McHorse, Biology Poster: C-1 Mentor: Samantha Hopkins, Geology Paleoecological research relies largely on the accuracy with which fossil specimens can be identified. Species-level identifications provide the most precise data for measuring diversity...
Affirmative Action and White Males: A Study of the Impacts of Framing
Presenter: Angela Stelson, Political Science Poster: C-6 Mentor: Daniel Ho Sang, Political Science Ballot measure campaigns have served as a discursive battleground for various arguments (or “frames”) of affirmative action. Using this historical backdrop, this study...
Nolli, Lanciani, and the Spatial History of Rome
Presenter: Kelly Mabry, Architecture Poster: C-3 Mentor: James Tice, Architecture Giambattista Nolli’s 1748 Baroque Map of Rome remains one of the most engaging and accurate maps of the city ever created. Rodolfo Lanciani’s 1902 archeological map of Rome, based on...
Investigating Early Effects Following Glia Cell Ablation in Medulloblastoma
Presenter: Kelsey Wahl, Chemistry PosterPoster: D-2 Mentor: Hui Zong, Institute of Molecular Biology Medulloblastoma is the most common type of malignant brain tumor in children. During cerebellar development, granule neuron precursor cells (GNPs) proliferate along...
Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary for Kindergartners with Speech Sound Disorders
Presenter: Tracy Zapf, Spanish Poster: D-7 Mentor: Karen McLaughlin, Communicatgion Disorders and Sciences Researchers and educators alike have raised concerns over the potential lack of inclusion of children with speech and language disorders in immersion programs....
Using Forward Modeling to Optimize the Geometry of Geophysical Networks at the Summit of Kilauea Volcano: A Matter of Great Gravity
Presenter: Patricia Macqueen, Geological Sciences Poster: B-8 Mentor: Katherine V. Cashman, Geological Sciences Minute changes in the gravitational field of a volcano can give early warning of subsurface magma accumulation or withdrawal long before other more...
Campus Scultures
Presenter: Alison Brown, Spanish Poster: A-3 The lost wax method of casting a bronze sculpture is centuries old, yet pieces from ancient times still survive to tell the stories of our ancestors. This is the spirit of a bronze: an emotion and a message, immortalized....
Chromatin Regulation During Fin Regeneration in Zebrafish
Presenter: Matthew Garish, Biology Poster: B-1 Mentor: Kyrn Stankunas, Institute of Molecular Biology Vertebrate organisms such as the Zebrafish have developed molecular processes to regenerate their fins after amputation by epigenetic cell reprogramming. An insight...
Effects of a Natural Environment on Caenorhabditis elegans
Presenter: Anna Crist, Biology Poster: A-4 Mentor: Patrick Phillips, Biology The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an important model organism in the field of biology and yet little is known about how it lives in its natural environment. In order to study C. elegans...
Lack of Ventilation – Intoxication: Studying Carbon Dioxide Levels in a Student’s Apartment
Presenter: Shannon Ladner, Gina Realmuto, Ayla-Mae Vedder, Architecture Poster: B-6 Mentor: Alison Kwok, Architecture As building technology increases, buildings are being sealed tighter to reduce heating and cooling costs. With this increase in energy efficiency...
Scaling Up: Expanding Community Health Worker Programs for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Bururi Province, Burundi, East Africa
Presenter: Alex Goodell, Biology Poster: B-2 Mentor: Janis Weeks, Biology Burundi, a small and often-forgotten country in East Africa, lies directly south of Rwanda. Though poorly covered in the media, Burundi suffered a similar conflict as its northern border, with...
Differences in Acute Stress Response between Lab Adapted and Non-Lab Adapted Caenorhabditis remanei
Presenter: Catherine Ituarte, Biology Poster: B-5 Mentor: Bill Cresko, Biology Organisms can adapt to the environments they inhabit in amazing ways, but sometimes adaptation to one environment can lead to a decrease in fitness in another environment. One example of...
Deposition Bias in the Late Miocene McKay Reservoir
Presenter: Kelsey Stilson, Geology Poster: C-7 Mentor: Samantha Hopkins, Geology Fossils found in association have the potential to tell us about the ecology of a specific time and place in geologic history, suggest 9something about the changing prehistoric world, and...
Genetic Basis of Evolution of Armor Phenotypes in Threespine Stickleback
Presenter: Taylor Wilson, Biology Poster: D-6 Mentor: William Cresko, Biology Differences in physical traits among species arise first as variations within and among populations. Studying this intraspecific variation provides important new knowledge about the process...
Effect of Mutations Within the DNA Binding Domain on Ancestral Steroid Hormone Receptors’ Specificity to DNA Response Elements and Protein Stability
Presenter: Greg Hanak, Biology Poster: B-3 Mentor: Joe Thornton, Biology The steroid hormone receptor (SR) family is a group of proteins that activate transcription via the binding of DNA response elements. We believe that the present day SRs found in animals, which...
Optogenetic Silencing of Parvalbumin-expressing Interneurons in Mouse Auditory Cortex: Mechanisms of Gain Modulationology (Neurobiology)
Presenter: Alexandra K. Hartman, Biology (Neurobiology) Poster: B-4 Mentor: Michael Wehr, Institute of Neuroscience Mammalian sensory systems detect relevant stimuli with remarkable sensitivity. This holds true in both high-and low-contrast sensory environments—that...
Enhancer-GAL4 Database Yields Subsets of Gene Expression
Presenter: David Bauer, Kris Haenderson, Allison Wilbur, Biology Poster: A-2 Mentor: Chris Doe, Biology Enhancers and suppressors are major controls in the tempro-spatial expression of a gene. Prior work has shown that enhancers may be made up of small modules, each...
Oak Habitat Mapping and Monitoring in the Southern Eugene Ridgeline
Presenter: Alexandria Russell, Matthew Silva, Matthew Liston, Environmental Science Poster: C-5 Mentor: Peg Boulay, Environmental Science The prevention of fire regimes, in combination with increasing urbanization, has led to a drastic decline in woodland oak habitats...
Reversing the Homeless Trend: A Case Study of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program in Lane County, Oregon
Presenter: Korrin Bishop, Planning, Public Policy and Management Poster: D-8 Mentor: Laura Leete, Planning, Public Policy and Management The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) is a $1.5 billion stimulus program that came out of the 2009...
Solar Reflector Prototype
Presenter: Jared Barak, Josie Baldner, Architecture Poster: A-1 Mentor: Alison Kwok, Architecture Skylights are a lovely addition to most rooms, but they are also major contributors to building heat loss in cold weather. Because glass is such a poor insulator, an...
Exploring Rome through Guiseppe Vasi’s Eyes
Presenter: Jesus Fernandez, Architecture Poster: A-9 Mentor: James Tice, Architecture Guiseppe Vasi (1710 – 1782) created over 240 vedute or city landscape views of Rome during his lifetime and in the process provides us with a vivid document of the city and its...
Theoretical Study of the Molecular Dynamics of Diubiquitin
Presenter: Kimberly Davidson, Chemistry Poster: A-5 Mentor: Marina Guenza, Chemistry In eukaryotic cells, polyubiquitin chains attach themselves to proteins that are ready for proteolysis. When the proteolysis pathway is disturbed, diseases such as cancer can result....
Zebrafish and Related Species as a Model of Evolutionary Development
Presenter: Andrew Delapaz, Biology Poster: A-6 Mentor: Braedan McCluskey, Biology Out of the nearly 60,000 species of known vertebrates, fish comprise nearly half of the group. Natural selection has created the spectrum of sizes, shapes, and colors seen in fish....