Confirmed Exhibition Abstracts

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Bioengineering   Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biology   Mechanical Engineering
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Chemistry   Library
Biochemistry   Nursing
Physics   Political Science
Mathematics   Psychology
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Advanced Technolgy & Manufacturing Center

Bioengineering

Methods for assessing heat shock protein sequences, expression, and concentration in shark blood

Detection of morphological changes in neuronal and epithelial cells on exposure to stress using AFM

Genetically engineered human neuronal cell model for elucidating the mechanism of botulinum neurotoxin endopeptidase activity, trafficking, and intracellular longevity

Crystallin Proteins: Major macromolecular structures in the lens of vertebrates

Sub-micron Scale Mechanical Characterization of Polyglactin Sutures Subjected to Hydrolysis and Enzymatic Degradation

Stabilization of SNAPtide in silk to detect Botulinum neurotoxin

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODYPRODUCTION

Biology

Dominance Hierachies in Zebra Finches

Coordinating Cues of Polarity Establishment in Silvetia compressa

Embryogenesis and early development of the American eel

Analysis of zebrafish Wnt3 genes in Wnt9b knockdowns during craniofacial development

The Role of wnt10a and wnt10b in Craniofacial Development in Zebrafish

Evaluation of bioelectrical impedance analysis to predict condition and muscle and liver energy content of three flatfishes: winter, yellowtail and summer flounder

Sequencing and assembly of two bacterial artificial chromosomes containing the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) immunoglobulin light chain 1 and light chain 3 genetic loci

CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL ZEBRAFISH MUTANT LACKING ALL CRANIOFACIAL CARTILAGES

Opsonization enhances phagocytic activity in teleost B-Lymphocytes

Biochemistry

Enzyme Kinetics of BoNT/A Endopeptidase to Elucidate Unique Structure and Substrate Selectivity

Identification of ion-channel forming structural determinants in botulinum neurotoxins

Analysis of genomic differences among Clostridium botulinum type A1 strains

Immuno-extraction of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A for Diagnosis

A Unique Urea Denaturation Pattern of Botulinum Neurotoxin A Endopeptidase

Natural small molecular compounds as a potent inhibitor against botulinum neurotoxin type A.

The immunological characterization of botulinum neurotoxin and its associated proteins

Cloning, Expression, and Purification of Recombinant C-terminal His-tagged Synaptotagmin-II

Assessment of Neurotoxin associate proteins (NAPs) - Hn33 as an immunoadjuvant

Chemistry

Simultaneous Determination of Fe(III) and Fe(II) ions via Complexation with EDTA and Ferrozine by Hydrophilic interaction Chromatography

Determination of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in sediment samples by solid phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Response of Chlorophyll d-containing Cyanobacterium Acaryiochloris marina to Excess Light

Mechanistic Analysis of Direct Water Spitting Using Bioinspired Mn/Tungsten Catalytic System

Environmental Effects on the photosynthetic Activity of Yellow Vine Leaves of the American Cranberry

Photo Water Splitting using a Mn/Tungsten Oxide Catalytic System: A Chemical Analysis

HPLC and LCMS analysis of Yellow Vine Syndrome Formation in the American Cranberry

Electrochemistry of Manganese-containing Compounds and Its Relevance to Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

Deconvolution Analysis of Photoacoustic Waves in the Photoactivation of the E181Q Mutant Rhodopsin

Composition of proanthocyanidins in Cranberry fruit (Vaccinium macrocarpon) from cultivars that vary in resistance to disease.

Composition of flavonoids and other phenolics in foliage from cranberry cultivars (Vaccinium macrocarpon) that vary in susceptibility to cranberry tipworm and other pests

The Isolation and Qualification of Proanthocyanidins from Early Black Cranberries at Four Different Timepoints in a Harvest Season

A theoretical 3-D structure of full length botulinum neurotoxin light

Characterization of Type A Hall Botulinum Neurotoxin Associated Proteins > for Their Post-translational Modifications

Effects of Cranberry Proanthocyanidins in Human Cancer Cell Lines

Bioactive natural product isolation from marine sponge Suberites Ficus

Sunlight Effect on Daily Variation of Iron Species in Natural Surface Waters

Determination of uric acid and creatinine in human urine using hydrophilic interaction chromatography

Synthetic Studies towards biologically active Quinoline Natural Products

Ultrasound-assisted hydrolysis and gas chromatography-mass spectrometric determination of phenolic compounds in cranberry products

Physics

A Semi-Analytic Model of Type Ia Supernova Turbulent Deflagration

Shaping the Brown Dwarf Desert: Constraints from Turbulent Fragmentation

Examining the Impact of Traffic Mix and Driver Behavior Complexities on Fundamental Flow Diagram Using HighSim

Near-Inertial Trasition Layer Characteristics at the Arabian Sea Mooring

Ring Road Simulation, One-way verse Two-way

Analysis of Gravitational Wave Emission from Black Hole Coalescence

Numerical simulation of oceanic submesoscales

Triangulating the Universe: Lorentzian Quantum Gravity in a High-Performance Environment

Gauge-Invariant Vector Wave Function for Photons

Efficient, Low-Cost Wave Energy Converter Using Ball Screw Point Absorbing Technology

Gain Calibrations for Scintillation Counters in Pion Photoproduction Measurements at MAX-lab

Pion Identification Methods in Pion Photoproduction Measurements at MAX-lab

Mathematics

Explorations of the volatility parameter in the Black-Scholes equation

Computer Science

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vehicle Modeling and Detection in Remote Sensing Satellite Imagery

Increasing the Capacity of Wireless Communication Systems Using Antenna Pattern Diversity

Use of Integral Equations and Method of Moments in the Analysis of Wire Antennas

Scalable Video Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks Using LDPC Code

Cloud Service Performance Analysis

A Fast Approximate Method for Reliability Analysis of Large Cold-Standby Systems

Optimal Reliability Design for Series-Parallel Systems with Mixed Redundancy Types and Common-Cause Failures

Range-Aided Navigation

Performance Analysis of VMWare ESX Servers

Measurement of Electronic Payment Systems on Traffic Operations, Security, and Privacy: Proposed Research

Analysis of Short-Time Speech Based Speech Transmission Index Algorithms

A Deterministic Filterbank Compressive Sensing Model for Bat Biosonar

Optimum array design to maximize Fisher information for bearing estimation

Mechanical Engineering

A model for fibroblast attachment kinetics on fibronectin-coated polystyrene tissue culture plates

English

Library

Nursing

Psychometric Properties of the LORS: A new instrument to assess psychotic symptoms and patient awareness of their symptoms

Political Science

Psychology

Dissimulation effects (faking) in predicting risk factors for opioid therapy

MMPI-2 Norms for screening chronic pain patients for Spinal Cord Stimulators

SMAST

Winter water formation in the Gulf of Maine

Biological Particle flux dynamics and benthic nepheloid layer resuspension in the western Gulf of Maine

Physical-Biological Model Simulations for the North Atlantic-Arctic Oceans

Longfin inshore squid paralarval distributional ecology: data gaps and novel field studies

Evolution of the Seasonal Integrated Nitrate in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region

Sensitivity of the WRF to Various SST Sources

The Ecological Significance of Fall Spawning in the Nantucket Bay Scallop

A Modeling Experiment of Bay Scallop Larvae Dispersal and Settlement

Other

Effect of Phosphorylation on the Endopeptidase activity of BoNT/A and BoNT/E Light Chains

Use of Electrospun Polycaprolactone scaffolds to study binding and internalization of Deactivated recombinant Botulinum toxin (DrBoNT) in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells

Apta-sensor for real-time detection of Botulinum neurotoxin type A using Surface Plasmon Resonance

Protein resistant using Oligo - ethylene glycol - Self Assembled Monolayer

Enzyme kinetics of light chain of Botulinum Neurotoxin with two different substrates

Study of Adhesion Forces between the Functionalized Atomic Force Microscope Cantilever Tip and 3T3 Human Fibroblast cells. Contact Info: Organizer: Grant O'Rielly (Physics), 508.999.8483,