52

A COMPARISON OF PROBLEM BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT METHODS: DIRECT OBSERVATION VERSUS EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS
Alexandria Dolezal, Annette Haas, Meara Henninger-Mcmahon, Saiumamaheswari Saichellappa, Elizabeth Schieber, Raizel Small, Maria Valdovinos (Mentor),  Department of Psychology, College Arts & Sciences

 54

A COMPARISON OF RELATIVE EASE OF SIZE DISCRIMINATION AND SPEED DISCRIMINATION IN PIGEONS
Tonya Weaver, Olga F. Lazareva (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 56

A MANUSCRIPT TITLED ETHNICITY AND ANXIETY: A PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE STICSA
Keith Klein, Steven Lancaster (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 5

ACUTE COCAINE ADMINISTRATION DISRUPTS DRL PERFORMANCE IN WILD TYPE BUT NOT TRPC4 KNOCKOUT RATS
Rebecca Lewis, Talor Gray, Alisa Pajser, Jessie Bowden, Lauren Phillips, Katie Elder, W.D. Klipec (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 33

AN APPLICATION OF REINFORCEMENT-BASED MODELS OF TRANSITIVE INFERENCE TO PRIMATE DATA
Clara Bergene, Olga F. Lazareva (Mentor), Regina Paxton Gazes, Robert Hampton, Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences; Zoo Atlanta; Emory University

 8

AN ASSAY OF PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE ON ALCOHOL IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Shardul C. Soni, Samuel N. Meyers, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Mentor), Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts & Sciences

 35

ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS USING FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER
Austin Howes, Alex Kramer, Adina Kilpatrick (Mentor), Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences, Ellis Pharmacogenomics Laboratory

 10

ANALYZING THE IMPORTANCE OF PROCEDURAL PARAMENTERS ON ETHANOL-STIMULATED LOCOMOTION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Derek Yehm, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Mentor), Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, College of   Arts & Sciences

 14

ANKLE BRACE TYPE AFFECTS RANGE-OF-MOTIONAND PERCEPTION WITHOUT HARMING PERFORMANCE DURING GYM EXERCISES
Caleb M. Grulke, John G. Hugunin, Bio 1L Spring 2012, Heath J. Weeks (Co-mentor), David S. Senchina (Co-mentor), Secondary Teacher Education Program, School of Education, Department of Biology, College of Arts &     Sciences

 15

ANKLE BRACING DURING VOLLEYBALL DRILLS: EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE, SOMATIC   PERCEPTION, AND RANGE-OF-MOTION
Brittany M. Perkins, Jessica R. Steinbrink, Lauren L. Asp, Brittany L. Michael, Madison J. Ball, Ella M. Ehrhardt, Matthew R. Buckley, Travis J. Merritt, David S. Senchina (Mentor), Health Sciences Program, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences; Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 16

ANKLE RANGE-OF-MOTION AND SOMATIC PERCEPTION USING TRADITIONAL ANKLE TAPING VERSUS THREE DIFFERENT ANKLE BRACES DURING BACK SQUATS
Lindsay E. Thompson, Stephen M. Mackie, Logan T. North, Kevin J. Watson, Erin M. Poss, Kody K. Lueders, Thomas B. Steffen,Kyle W. Freeman, Travis J. Merritt, Eric V. Swafford (Co-mentor), David S. Senchina (Co-mentor), Health Sciences Program, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences; Biochemistry, Cell, & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 2

APPLYING ERIKSON’S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY TO THE RECOVERY OF EATING DISORDERS
Ashley Fee, Catherine Gillespie (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences, School of Education

 58

BIOTHERAPEUTICS USAGE BY IOWA PHARMACISTS: A SURVEY
Sierra Wooley, Masoud Yousif, Rhonda Cross Beemer (Mentor), Pramod B. Mahajan (Mentor), Department of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical &Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 4

BULGE MORPHOLOGY OF SEYFERT GALAXIES
Evan Stewart, Andrew Poehlman, Glenn Wilson, Charles Nelson (Mentor), Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences

 25

CAN FICUS SP. FORESTS BE RESTORED THROUGH VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION?
Danielle Hefferan, Breanna Hess, Benjamin Beck, Michael Renner (Mentor), Keith Summerville (Mentor), Environmental Science & Policy Program, College of Arts & Sciences

 40

CELLULAR MECHANISMS FOR THE PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF PRIOR EXERCISE ON STATIN-ASSOCIATED MUSCLE FORCE LOSS IN MICE
Michelle Godar, Carissa Chamney, Kimberly Huey (Mentor), College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 55

CHARACTERIZATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES FROM BREAST CANCER CELLS
Scott Kaufmann, Michael Buege, Pramod Mahajan (Mentor), Department of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 1

CHEMICAL STABILITY ENHANCEMENT OF NIFEDIPINE IN MONOGLYCERIDES-MATRICES
Mallory Tough, Abebe Mengesha, (Mentor) Pharmaceutical, Biomedical & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 37

CHEMISTRY AND MECHANISM OF CYTOCHROME P-450 MONOOXYGENASE ENZYME
Shivali Shah, Nickey Jafari, Gholam Mirafzal (Mentor), Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 46

CULTURING A549 CELLS IN A LOW GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT
Whoopie Tenneh Massaquoi, Marc Busch (Mentor), Department of Biology, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Program, College of Arts & Sciences

 22

DETERMINATION OF EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATION AND INBREEDING USING MICROSATELLITE GENOTYPING IN A CAPTIVE POPULATION OF ZEBRA FINCHES
Kristin Dahlem, Aubrey Lambach, Debora Christensen (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 39

DOMINANCE, MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION FOR OTHERS
Keith Klein, Callie Sharp, Paige Johnson, Sheila Brassel, Jamie Howett, Samantha Kennelly, Judith Allen (Mentor), Department of  Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 27

EFFECT OF PHARMACOLOGICAL MANIPULATION OF NUCLEUS SUBPRETECTALIS ON FIGURE-GROUND DISCRIMINATION IN PIGEONS
Erin N. Scully, Hannah E. Moses, Martin J. Acerbo, Olga F. Lazareva (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences; University of Iowa

 21

EFFECTS OF BREEDING STATUS AND EXPERIENCE ON PROLACTIN ISOFORMS IN THE ANERIOR PITUITARY OF THE ZEBRA FINCH
Ann Den Hartog, Avery Tucker, Debora Christensen (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 42

EFFECTS OF HSP27 OVEREXPRESSION AND PHOSPHORYLATION STATE ON MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY AND FUNCTION INDUCED BY FUNCTIONAL OVERLOAD IN MICE
Carissa Chamney, Michelle Godar, Kimberly Huey (Mentor), Pharmaceutical, Biomedical & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 18

ELECTROMYOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF LOWER BODY MUSCLES DURING THE BACK SQUAT WHEN ANKLES ARE BRACED OR TAPED
Travis J. Merritt, Eric V. Swafford (Co-mentor), David S. Senchina (Co-mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 41

EXPLORING THE DISTRIBUTION AND ASSEMBLY OF CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS IN TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA USING GREEN FLUORESCENT-TAGGED PROTEINS
Alan Arakkal, David Kusner, Anthony J Lilienthal, Stephen Mackie, Adam Riesselman, Lara Terry, Faraaz Zafar, Jerry Honts (Mentor), Lillian Camp, Taylor Gavin, Emily Gonser, Kelsey Hupp, Maxwell Kindred, Kathryn Kriss, James Ley, Andrew Miller, Mary Rometti, Robert Sterner, Department of Biology, Biochemistry Cell & Molecular Biology Program, College of Arts & Sciences

 43

FOOD INTAKE AND ETHANOL PREFERENCE ARE GENETICALLY DISTINCT TRAITS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
William R. Szmanda, Kerry E. Hogan, Matthew T. Wright, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Mentor), Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts & Sciences

 19

GAIT ANALYSIS OF WALKING AND RUNNING USING THREE DIFFERENT SHOES OF VARYING SOLES IN COLLEGE-AGED FEMALES
Drew D. Gibson, Erin E. Nelson, Katie A. Gross, Katie A. Stypulkowski, James A. Grunert, Eric A. Williams, Lindsay E. Thompson, David S. Senchina (Mentor) Biochemistry, Cell, & Molecular Biology Program; Health Sciences Program, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences; Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 48

GENERATION OF STABLY TRANSFORMED CELLS LINES FOR DETECTION OR INFLUENZA A VIRUS REPLICATION
Alexis Balgeman, Marc Busch (Mentor), Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology; College of Arts & Sciences

 11

HYPONEOPHAGIA: A FLY MODEL OF ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIOR
Carmen M Cook, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Mentor), Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts & Sciences

 28

IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN HOST PROTEINS THAT INTERACT WITH SWINE INFLUENZA A VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN USING THE YEAST TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM
Jeff Barcus, Alex Generous, Joe Jacher, Molly Thorson, Marc Busch, Heidi Sleister (Mentor), Department of Biology, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecural Biology Porgram, College of Arts & Sciences

 34

IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL DOWNSTREAM EFFECTORS OF ALM POLARIZATION IN C. ELEGANS
Anthony Lilienthal, Jason Chien, Gian Garriga (Mentor), Biochemistry Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

 30

IDENTIFYING HUMAN HOST PROTEINS THAT INTERACT WITH INFLUENZA A POLYMERASE PROTEINS USING THE YEAST TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM
Cassandra Drew, Peyton Faganel, Bree Johnson, Carly Kinzler, Nayasha Madhan, Caleb Schmotter, Erin Scully, Luke Tourville, Alec Rose, Kevin Marshall, Marc Busch, Heidi Sleister (Mentor) Department of Biology, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 45

IMMUNOLOCALIZATION STUDIES OF CYTOSKELETON PROTEINS IN STENTOR COERULEUS
Meryl Brune, Gina Digiantonio, Emily Johansen, Ross Patrick, Adam Riesselman, Shivali Shah, Stephen  Slade, Thomas Steffen, Kelli Stork, Ledor Teekate, Molly Thorson, Nickolas Van Roekel, Jerry Honts (Mentor), Department of Biology, Biochemistry Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 29

IMPLICIT RELATIONAL LEARNING IN MULTIPLE-OBJECT TRACKING TASK: DO PEOPLE REALLY TRACK THE OBJECTS?
Tiffany Williams, Olga F. Lazareva (Mentor) Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 6

KINEMATICS OF IONIZED GAS IN SEYFERT GALAXIES: NGC 1068 & NGC 4151
Josh Albrechtson, William Kockler, Charles Nelson (Mentor), Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences

 44

METABOLIC AND CARDIORESPIRATORY RESPONSES DURING INCREMENTAL EXERCISE TO EXAUSTION IN ACTIVE COLLEGE AGE MALES AND FEMALES
Austin Moore, Kaila Wechsler, Gabrielle Dillon, Kimberly Huey (Mentor), Pharmaceutical, Biomedical &  Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Ellis Disease Prevention Laboratory

 24

MICROWAVE-ASSISTED DIELS-ALDER REACTION
Adam Riesselman, Alan Arakkal, Gholam Mirafzal (Mentor), Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 23

MICROWAVE-ASSISTED WITTIG REACTION
Natalie McCombs, Claire Vorpagel, Gholam Mirafzal (Mentor), Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 38

MITIGATION OF PRIMATE CROP RAIDING IN GISHWATI FOREST RESERVE, RWANDA
Breanna Hess, Danielle Hefferan, Andrew Rupiper, Keith Summerville (Mentor), Michael Renner (Mentor), Environmental Science & Policy Program, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Science

 3

MONOGLYCERIDES-BASED THERMO-RESPONSIVE LOCAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Natalie Benson, Abebe Mengesha (Mentor), Pharmaceutical, Biomedical & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

OVEREXPRESSION OF AN ARABIDOPSIS G-PROTEIN SUBUNIT CAUSES MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN CAMELINA SATIVA
Adam J. Riesselman, Swarup Roy Choudhury, Sona Pandey, Biochemistry Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology College of Arts & Sciences, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri

 47

OXYMERCURATION-DEMERCURATION REACTION
Yvonne Gildemaster, Katherine Nelson, Gholam Mirafzal (Mentor), Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 9

PLEIOTROPIC EFFECTS OF INTERFERON-α ON FATE OF IMMORTALIZED CELL LINES
Molly Frey, Lauren Shuda, Amy Nilles, Quincy Brown, Andy Curtis, Kristin Dahlem, Alex Generous, Eric Hanson,     Zach Kadow, Cameron Ktytor, Kevin Marshall, Brandon Tish, Chinh Dao (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 12

PROGRESS TOWARDS AN ASSAY OF VISUAL RELATIONAL LEARNING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Meredith K. Moore, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Mentor), Olga F. Lazareva (Mentor), Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts & Sciences

 13

PURINERGIC SIGNALING CONTRIBUTES TO RESPIRATORY DRIVE BY SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING VENTRAL SURFACE CHEMORECEPTORS
Erin M. Poss, I.C. Wenker IC, D.K. Mulkey, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs

 59

SEED BANK COMPOSITION OF CENTRAL IOWA FORESTS
Laura C. Jones, Thomas Rosburg (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 49

SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS ANALYSIS OF CALMODULIN FUNCTION
Kelsey Japs, Adina Kilpatrick (Mentor), College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences, Ellis Pharmacogenomics Laboratory

 17

SOMATOSENSORY PERCEPTION OF RUNNING SHOE MASS
Joel G. Greenya, Stephen J. Slade, Christopher L. Kliethermes (Co-mentor), David S. Senchina (Co-mentor) Department of Biology, Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 20

SOMATOSENSORY PERCEPTION OF UNFAMILIAR RUNNING SHOES FOLLOWING TREADMILL EXERCISE
Tessa N. Parker, Justin S. Mundt, FYS 29 Class Fall 2012, David S. Senchina (Mentor), College of Business & Public Administration; Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 57

SOUNDS AND STATISTICS: A NEUROINFORMATIC APPROACH TO NEUROLINGUISTICS
Jeff Hoyt, Steven Faux (Mentor), Timothy Urness (Mentor), Neuroscience Program, Computer Science, College of Arts & Science

 32

SYNTHESIS OF CHIRAL ZINC METALLACROWNS FOR APPLICATION IN SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION
Michael W. Rodriguez, Joseph M. Jankolovits, David Chow, Vincent L. Pecoraro, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan

 26

SYNTHESIS OF ULTRA-FAST PROBE SUBSTRATES TO INVESTIGATE MECHANISM OF P-450 MONOOYGENASE ENZYME
Molly Frey, Lauren Shuda, Gholam Mirafzal (Mentor), Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

 7

THE AMPLITUDE AND LATENCY OF THE RAT P300 ERP TO TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN CONDITIONED REINFORCING STIMULI
Jessica Bowden, Lauren Phillips, Rebecca Lewis, W.D. Klipec (Mentor), Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

 51

THE EFFECT OF BREEDING EXPERIENCE ON PROLACTIN AND THE ZEBRA FINCH BRAIN
Sarah Hohbein, Emily Johansen, Debora Christensen, (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

 60

THE EFFECTS OF INDUCED TYPE-1 DIABETES ON LOCALIZATION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 RECEPTORS (IGF-1R) IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF RATS
Moayad Baadhaim, Cameron Ktytor, Debora Christensen, (Mentor), Department of Biology, College of Art & Sciences

 36

THE EFFECTS OF ROAD SALT ON WATER SALINITY IN LOCAL STREAMS AFTER A FREEZING/THAWING EVENT
Alex Nelson, Kathryn Szramek (Mentor), Environmental Science & Policy Program, College of Arts & Sciences

 50

THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON THE EFFICIENCY OF SWINE AND HUMAN INFLUENZA A REPLICATION COMPLEXES
Rosalie Sterner, Emily Garnett, Marc Busch (Mentor), Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Program, Department of Biology, College of Arts  & Sciences

 61

THE SELECTIVITY AND POTENCY OF ANTI-CHAT SAPORIN AT DESTROYING CHOLINERGIC NEURONS IN THE CHOLINERGIC BASAL FOREBRAIN
Branden Bennett, Caitlin M. Schaapveld, Daniel Ricci, Kirsten Chatman, Craige C. Wrenn (Mentor), Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

 53

THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE CALMODULIN – RYANODINE RECEPTOR INTERACTION
Chris Ingram, Amanda Marwitz, Erin Poss, Alex Wagner^, Adina Kilpatrick (Mentor), Department of Biology, Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences, Ellis Pharmacogenomics Laboratory