Vol. 88 No. 1 (2016)

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Abstracts of the Ninety-First Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Academy of Science at Marshall University, April 9, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55632/pwvas.v88i1

Published: 2016-07-26

Meeting Abstracts-Oral

Breast Cancer and the Environment: Which Genes Are Important?

Travis Salisbury
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A Scary Animal in a Risky Landscape.

Jayme L Waldron, Shane M Welch, John Holloway
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Cosmic Breakthrough: the first direct detection of gravitational waves and its significance

Maria Babiuc Hamilton
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Three dimensional visualization of the specific force function of open channel hydraulics.

Donald D Gray
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A comparative analysis of the metabolism and energetics of darters (percidae).

Emma Kist, Jeff Kovatch
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Distributed control of cyber-physical systems.

Almuatazbellah Boker, Aranya Chakrabortty
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Theoretical and computational studies of wall friction flame acceleration mechanism with linear variation of planar flame speed.

Sinan Demir, Hayri Sezer, Vyacheslav Akkerman
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Ecology of ammonium oxidizing and nitrite oxidizing microorganisms in namibian coastal upwelling zone at different depths.

Evan Lau, Caitlin Frame, Edward Nolan, Zachary Dillard, Marcus Kinker, Daniel Lukich, Nicole Mihalik, Katelyn Yauch, Samantha Waychoff
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Predictive scenario for methane- air-dust fires in a mining passage: Effect of compressibility and non- homogeneous dust distributions.

Sinan Demir, Ali S Rangwala, Vyacheslav Akkerman
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Computational studies of oxy-fuel combustion in fired tube boilers integrated with an ion transport membrane.

Abdulafeez Akinola Adebiyi, Vyacheslav Akkerman
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The Seeding Your Future Initiative: STEM outreach for grades 5-12.

Jordan A. Mader, Sytil Murphy
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The role of the erythrocyte cytoskeleton protein spectrin during invasion by Francisella tularensis.

Rebecca Barnes, Deanna Schmitt, Tricia Gilson, Joseph Horzempa
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Colonization of mosquitoes by Francisella tularensis via a nectar reservoir.

Austin Cusick, Jessica Payne, Anna Gaughenbaugh, Joseph Horzempa, Roger Seeber, Adam Kenney
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Quantum mechanical structure elucidation of the aldol transition state.

McKensie Mason, Theunis Van Aardt, Jon Serra
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Determining the ideal methods for fingerprint analysis from different surfaces.

Kristen Akers, Mark Flood
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Student/faculty perspectives concerning online education and its future at West Virginia State University.

Joshua Means, Laurance Raines, Kaye Ellis, Miguel Pazos, James L Spencer
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Sensitivity of parameters in an immuno-chemotherapy model to treat colorectal cancer.

Brendan Jarrell, Vasile Stadnitchii, Zhijun Wang, Qing Wang, David J Klinke
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Assessment of steroidogenic pathway components following exposure of L. palustris to the herbicide roundup or its components.

Priya Arumuganathan, Preetha S Phillips, Colleen J Nolan, Carol Z Plautz
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Analyzing psychophysiological effects of music using coherency of multichannel EEG.

Hanif Mirza, Mahmood Hossain, Tadashi Kato
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Adult carrion fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) visitation patterns by time of day at sunlit versus shaded pig carrion in southwestern West Virginia, USA.

James Joy
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Sensory trichites associated with the food canal of Chrysops callidus (Diptera: Tabanidae).

Nick Duffield, James Joy
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Chemoreceptors and mechanoreceptors positioned in the food canal of the horse fly, Tabanus abdominalis (Diptera: Tabanidae).

Naaman Dyer, James Joy
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A revised SEIR model for tuberculosis transmission.

Zulfiya Muradova, Hannah McDonald, Peter Hopkins, Qing Wang, Zhijun Wang, David J Klinke
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Influence of parenting styles on self-control in emerging adults.

Nicole Currie, Tifani Fletcher
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"EUSCORPIUS" - the online research journal of scorpiology.

Victor Fet
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Li-Fi: Using led lights for internet connectivity.

Nathan Corp, Osman Guzide
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Pervasive computing.

Karl Gall, Osman Guzide, Nathan Corp, Ryan Earls
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Improving the synthesis and functionalization of polystyrene foams for removal of groundwater contaminants.

Tyler N Kambis, Jordan A Mader
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Field notes on the reproduction of the Cheat Mountain Salamander (Plethodon nettingi).

Thomas K Pauley
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Effects of conservation tillage practices on nodulation of Phaseolus vulgaris roots.

Rachel Pierce, Peter Vila
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Trans-pterocarpans.

Michael Bates, Jon Serra, Theunis Van Aardt
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Synthesis of trans-Pterocarpans.

James Horner, McKensie Mason, Theunis Van Aardt, Jon Serra
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Bumble bees of Kanawha County, WV, with statewide trends over the last century.

Hunter L Aliff, Sean A Collins
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Potamilus alatus (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae) glochidia-induced histopathology in freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens rafinesque, from the Kanawha River, West Virginia, USA.

Mohammad Ranavaya, James Joy
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Use of the parallel lasers photogrammetric technique for the in situ estimation of length of the endangered diamond darter.

Austin Rizzo, Stuart Welsh, Patricia Thompson
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Life history of Cambarus bartonii carinirostris in northern West Virginia.

Luke K Sadecky, Nicole M Sadecky, E Joseph Nolan IV, Zachary Loughman
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Antibacterial activity of resazurin-based compounds against Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Deanna M Schmitt, Kristie L Connolly, Ann E Jerse, Melinda S Detrick, Joseph Horzempa
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Putative sensory structures associated with the food canal of Hybomitra difficilis (diptera: tabanidae).

Emily Setser, James Joy
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Determination of the potential cross-reactivity of commercially available field test drug kits with common over-the-counter medications.

Brittany Sheppard, Mark Flood
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The role of FTL_0129 in the invasion of erythrocytes by Francisella tularensis.

Devin Sindeldecker, Joseph Horzempa
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Formation of a langmuir monolayer by a non-polar hydrocarbon chain molecule H(CH2)29H.

Michael DC Smith, Gerren D Simms, Mengyang Li
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Extraction of various hair dyes using thin layer chromatography.

Marley Snider, Mark Flood
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Determination of the better casting material for shoe impression analysis.

Khrysten Stolins, Mark Flood
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Substrate selection of sympatric sand darters from the Elk River, WV.

Patricia Thompson, Stuart Welsh, Austin Rizzo
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Use of an eel pass by virile crayfish on the lower Shenandoah River.

Stuart Welsh, Zachary Loughman
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The effects of ldb1 dosage on the expression of dll1 and histology in the developing vertebrate eye.

Hannah C. Williams, Carol Z. Plautz
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Effects of audio and visual priming on prosocial behavior.

Tiffanie Wilson, Tifani Fletcher
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Effects of manganese exposure on crayfish motility.

Dana Zeid, Allyson Bias, Brian Antonsen
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Meeting Abstracts-Poster

In vitro nephrotoxicity induced by 2,4,5- and 2,4,6-trichloronitrobenzenes.

Deborah Pope, Connor Tyree, Christopher Racine, Dianne K Anestis, Gary O Rankin
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Survey of microbial community in the gut of three healthy and one celiac individuals.

Evan Lau, Marcus Kinker, Zachary Dillard, Daniel Lukich, Katyln Yauch, Nicole Mihalik, Edward Nolan
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Interaction and intracellular localization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains with Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Deborah Mary Moore, Hongwei Yu, T Ryan Withers, Wendy Trzyna
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Response of glioblastoma cells to activation of the G-protein coupled estrogen receptor, GPER1/GPR30, and possible crosstalk with the aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

Ashley D Moore, Supriya Shrestha, Gerald R Hankins
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Francisella tularensis utilizes iron scavenged from erythrocytes to increase survival in low ph environments.

Ashley Haught, Joseph Horzempa, Deanna Schmitt, Taylor Rogerson, Edward Beaumont, Tricia Gilson
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The evolution of the AMOA, PMOA and BMOA genes measured by ka/ks ratios.

Evan Lau, Daniel Lukich, Tuan Le
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The effects of Roundup and its constituents on steroid hormone levels in the snail Lymnaea palustris.

Preetha S Phillips, Priya Arumuganathan, Colleen J Nolan, Carol Z Plautz
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Stream network sampling reveals water temperature links to fish abundance.

Matthew Morgan, Jacob Roach, Nathaniel Hitt, Craig Snyder, Zachary Anderson, Lindsey Donaldson, Peter Vila
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A simple plating assay using Acanthamoeba to evaluate the effect of environmental stressors on growing and dividing cells.

Deborah Mary Moore, T Ryan Withers, Hongwei Yu, Wendy Trzyna
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Processing of cellular proteins by activated matriptases and metalloproteinases in apoptotic glioblastoma cells.

Jillian Mayle, Alice Magro, Albert Magro
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Profiling the genomic response to rapid alkalinization factor (ralf), a peptide growth factor, in Arabidopsis.

Jonathan Gilkerson, Joanne Chory
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Using directed evolution to increase lipid formation in Chlorella vulgaris for use in biofuels.

Amanda L Smythers, Aaron Holland, P Ethan Adkins, Derrick Kolling
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Up the mountain, north to the pole: Do species’ elevational and latitudinal limits match?

Mark Lesser, Andrew Seifert
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Comparison of 2011 – 2015 average daily/monthly temperatures in Charleston, WV, to 30 year norms (1981 – 2010): evidence for warming/climate change?

James L Spencer
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The effects of salinity on the survival and reproduction of the freshwater snail, Physa gyrina.

Ryan Snader
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The role of cellular signaling during bleaching in the sea anemone, Aiptasia pallida.

Richard Sloan, Sara Sawyer
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Ecology of ammonium oxidizing and nitrite oxidizing microorganisms in namibian coastal upwelling zone at different depths.

Evan Lau, Caitlin Frame, Edward Nolan, Zachary Dillard, Marcus Kinker, Daniel Lukich, Nicole Mihalik, Katelyn Yauch, Samantha Waychoff
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Inducing alzheimer’s-like plaques in neuronal stem cells in order to trace the pathway.

Paula Gyamfi, Bruce Anthony
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3,5-dichloronitrobenzene induced nephrotoxicity in vitro.

Connor L Tyree, Deborah Pope, Jordan Tate, Christopher R Racine, Dianne K Anestis, Gary O Rankin
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Baetidae diet analysis.

Geneve Edwards, Mandee Wilson, Mindy Armstead
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Effects of acid mine drainage on plant community structure in the central appalachian mountains.

Kyle Clark, Mark Lesser
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Alterations in transcription factor e2f1 dna binding associated with alcohol exposure.

Aaron Kessler, Bruce Anthony
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Alterations in DNA and RNA profiles from alcohol exposed neuronal stem cells relates a possible mechanism for slowed proliferation and increased apoptosis.

Brooke Lancaster, Bruce Anthony
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Effects of alcohol exposure on transcriptional factor E2F1.

Aline Yamamoto, Bruce Anthony
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Possible link between multiple hereditary osteochrondromas and EXT3.

Angelica Harvey, Bruce Anthony
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Detection of splice variants/deletions within the gene spastin.

Laurel Bragg, Bruce Anthony
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Alcohol induced alterations in protein- protein interactions of transcription factors associated with proliferation changes in fasd and alcoholism.

James Gainer, Bruce Anthony
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CdSe-ZnS quantum dot light emitting diode fabrication.

Elizabeth L Kelley, Edward A Wovchko
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Bobcat demography in West Virginia.

Stephanie Landry, Jim Anderson, Rich Rogers, Amy Welsh, Chris Ryan
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Crayfish diversity and distribution of tomlinson run state park, hancock county, West Virginia.

Zachary J Loughman, Nicole Sadecky, David Foltz, Cynthia Cyprych, Clarissa Damis
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Completed gas wells may not impact localized stream water quality.

Emma Malcomb, Kimberly A Bjorgo-Thorne
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Identification of plant and fungal extracts that exhibit antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacteria.

Caleb Martin, Deanna Schmitt, Leah Figurski, Alex Hayden, Francisco Leon, Joseph Horzempa
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Simplifying virtual linux containers using docker.

Ryan Miller, Zhijun Wang
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Effects of silver nanoparticles on adult neural stem cell differentiation and beta-catenin signaling.

Maya N Menking-Hoggatt, Robert J Cooper, Nadja Spitzer
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Spreading sunlight: connecting communities with solar energy research.

Allison Moore, Kelly Humphreys, Chelsea Price, Erica Harvey
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A night of devastation: Natural and life history observations of an en-masse single night collection of Fallicambarus devastator.

Greg A Myers, Zachary W Dillard, Katie Scott, Nicole M Sadecky, Luke K Sadecky, Zachary J Loughman
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DNA origami platform development for the detection of metals in water.

Michael Norton, Masadur Rahman, David Neff, Manjira Kumar, Ian Waddell, Andrea Hensley
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Modern physiology equipment may benefit high school education.

Natalia Omelchenko, Kathleen Loughman
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Mathematical modeling and analysis of West Nile Virus.

Jessica Poffenberger, Vasile Stadnitchii, Zulfiya Muradova, Peter Hopkins, Qing Wang, Zhijun Wang, David Klinke
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Identification of a new genus within the subtribe Gloxiniinae (Gesneriaceae).

Daniel Proctor, Jeremy Keene
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Behind the scenes with the solar army: improvements in sample testing technology.

Jayce Riley, Allison Moore, Kevin Dudley, Erica Harvey
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Examination of ku70/80 proteins in non-homologous end-joining repair of double-stranded dna induced by alcohol exposure in neuronal stem cells.

Nichalos Dahlheim, Bruce Anthony
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A high throughput screen of a natural product library for the discovery of novel antibiotics with efficiacy against Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Brandon Chang, Deanna Schmitt, Joseph Horzempa
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In pursuit of a functional personality model.

Joseph A Roxby, Natalia Omelchenko, Nisha Chaudhry, Joe Nolan
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Intra-erythrocytic Francisella tularensis are protected from acidic pH-implications on enhancing colonization of ticks.

Taylor Rogerson, Joseph Horzempa, Deanna Schmitt, Ashley Haught, Tricia Gilson
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Status survey results and distribution of Cambarus veteranus across the upper guyandotte basin of West Virginia.

Nicole Sadecky, Zachary Dillard, Katie Scott, Zachary Loughman
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Alarm assessment using EEG markers of alertness.

Meagan Rouse, Samantha Byrum, Joe Nolan, Natalia Omelchenko, Stephanie Bradley
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Teaching science writing conventions in introductory-level geology courses.

Mitchell R Scharman, Kristen Lillvis, Anna Rollins, Amber Wright, Shayla Owens
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Western Pennsylvania's primary burrowing crayfish: Distributional survey and determination of conservation status.

Katie Scott, Zachary Dillard, Nicole Sadecky, Luke Sadecky, Greg Myers, Zachary Loughman
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A gene therapy model to treat liver-implanted tumors.

Christian Shimer, Peter Hopkins, Qing Wang, Zhijun Wang, David J Klinke
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High throughput screening in an in vitro infection model of tularemia to identify novel antibiotics and immunotheraputics.

Kristen D Sikorsky, Anthony P Sako, Joseph Horzempa
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Activities, outcomes, and improvements of the S-STEM program at Shepherd.

Zhijun Wang, Qing Wang
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Method development for the determination of biogenic amines in insect hemolymph by HPLC with electrochemical detection.

Nicholas Tucker, Victoria Broadwater, Dan DiLella, Ruth Conley
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A study to develop methods for the use of spheroidal three-dimensional cell culture to assess the effects of paclitaxel on the human breast cancer cell line hs578t.

Robert Warburton, Shelby Shajimon, Danica Wilson, Qing Wang
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Synthesis of a rhodium complex bearing a chiral nitrogen-based ligand for asymmetric hydrogenation.

Kesley Wagoner, Joanna Webb
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Investigating the frequency of Wolbachia infection in West Virginia arthropods.

Maren W Wentzel, Sara Sawyer
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Continued alarm sound was not associated with expression of eeg markers of mental fatigue.

Samantha Byrum, Meagan Rouse, Joe Nolan, Natalia Omelchenko, Stephanie Bradley
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Undergraduate student perceptions of environmental issues.

Lauren B Clower, Kim Bjorgo-Thorne
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Synthesizing trans-pterocarpans.

Michael Bates, Joshua Benfield, Theunis Van Aardt, Jon Serra
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The personal values and study skills can be better predictors of college success than personality traits.

Nisha Chaudhry, Natalia Omelchenko, Joseph Roxby, Joe Nolan
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Common mechanisms of force detection and control in insects.

Sasha N Zill, Sumaiya Chaudhry, David Neff, Reyne Spychalski
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A Comparative analysis of health literacy tools in a primary healthcare setting.

Teresa Faykus, Kayla Boggs, MacKenzie Davis, Anna Humphrey, Victoria Humphrey, Leah Minch, Morgan Dowler
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Testing of local water samples for caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline: Potential aquatic pollutants.

Megan Behrmann, Jacquelyn Cole
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Is the water quality of local streams affected by marcellus shale drilling?

Jessie Feather, Tyler Groves, Phil Yeager, Mark Flood
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Water analysis of rivers and streams in the northern panhandle of West Virginia.

Emily Detemple, Douglas Swartz
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Preparation of polyacrylic acid (paa) films on porous silicon for drug storage/release applications.

Thomas Mark Hakey, Edward A Wovchko
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Polymorphism screening of drugs.

Ryanne Brown, Rosalynn Quinones-Ferndandez
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Preparation and characterization of a TiO2-cis photocatalyst for CO2 reduction and utilization.

Jeremy A Feury, Edward A Wovchko
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Synthesis of rhodium(iii) complexes for reductive functionalization studies.

Dakota Burdette, Joanna Webb
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Functionalization of polystyrene foams for the removal of heavy metal contaminants in water.

Cara Holloway, Jordan A Mader
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Molecular dynamics investigation of dodecylmaltoside micelle properties.

Ashley Hoffmaster, Brittany Bonnett, Sadegh Faramarzi, Danielle Grodi, Blake Mertz, Erica Harvey
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Changes in morphology of adult neural stem cells following low-level manganese exposure in vitro.

Swayde Carpenter, Ana Ramirez, Amy Parsons-White, Nadja Spitzer
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Wathershed disturbance effects on total suspended solids and substrate stability in a headwater stream.

Amanda Chapman, Mindy Armstead, Mandee Wilson
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Species-specific courtship calls of the Aleuropoda insignis, the madagascan flat-horned whistling cockroach.

Brooke Comer, Ruth A Conley
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A high throughput screen of a natural product library for the discovery of novel antibiotics that target Enterococcus faecalis.

Emily Clark, Deanna Schmitt, Joseph Horzempa
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The identification of novel natural immunostimulatory compounds that limit bacterial infection.

Elliot Collins, Deanna Schmitt, Kristen Sikorsky, Anthony Sako, Joseph Horzempa
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Second harmonic generation microscopy imaging of cellulose transportation during the encystment process of Acanthamoeba castellanii.

John Barry, Wendy Trzyna
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