Jim Zhong, Wooley Pierre and Barry Yedvobnick

A screen for genes of the Notch pathway in Drosophila

Wenjie Xiao, William E. Fantegrossi
(Honorable Mention)

Context-Specific Conditioned Hallucinogen-Like Behavior in Mice Treated with N,N-Dipropyltryptamine

Esther Wong, Shantanu Bhatt, Akwasi, Anyanful and Daniel Kalman
(Honorable Mention)

Identification of enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) virulence genes required for pathogenesis using C. elegans

Cassandra R. Williams, Nandan O. Mandayam, Beth B. McConnell and Vincent W. Yang

Kr1ppell Like Factor 5 (KLF5) interacts with and induces Beta-catenin activity Invitro

Maggie Wilkes, Scott Peltier, Sanghee Kim, Xiaoping Hu and Opal Ousley

Language processing in autism: assessing neural connectivity using diffusion tensor imaging

Marquisha Washington, Dale E. Edmonson and Francisco Cruz

Temperature dependence of amine oxidation by recombinant Human Monoamine Oxidase A and B

Laura K. Stuck; Erica C Bruce, MPH; Betty Wong, MPH, CHES; Tanja Mietzko, MA; Christine Heim, PhD; Andrew Miller, MD; Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD; Lawrence Phillips, MD; David Ziemer, MD; Dominique L. Musselman, MD, MS

Soluble CD40 ligand in patients with early life stress, major depressive disorder and diabetes

Thomas J. Stark, Kristina B. Mercer, Hiroshi Qadota, Tracey M. Small and Guy M. Benian
(Honorable Mention)

A search for new M-line components of C. elegans muscle to aid in the understanding of UNC-96 and UNC-89 function

Daniel Spollen, Xiaojie Qui and Dr. Vincent Conticello

Human islet amyloid polypeptide: type II diabetes and prion aggregation

Julie Spector, Manning Sabatier and Arthur English
(Third Place)

The role of syndecan-3 in peripheral nerve axon regeneration

Eugene Lee Son and Guang-Jer Wu

Enforced expression of METCAM enhances the in vivio tumorigenesis and in vitro motility and invasiveness of human ovarian cancer cell line, BG-1

Danielle Silva, Sheena Brown, Katherine Boss-Williams, Andrew Kim and Jay M. Weiss

Hippocampal and pyramidal cell area in swim high-active, swim low-active and swim non-selected male rats

Tia Sides, Linda Wolfenden M.D., Prakash Chandra M.D., Arlene Steceno M.D. and Vin Tangpricha M.D. PhD.

Vitamin D deficiency in cystic fibrosis patients and their consequent nutritional status

Marcus Sandling, Ana Mora, Jianguo Xu, Robert Joodi, Kenneth L. Brigham and Mauricio Rojas

Kinetic analysis of MTS function in GST-IκBαΔN-MTS

Jack S. Rowe, Edwin W Ades, Sandra Romero-Steiner, Joseph E. Martinez and George M. Carlone

Evaluation of human IgG response to Haemophilus influenzae serotype b using a correlative analysis of the Luminex liquid array system versus an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Thomas R. Roos, Jim E. Mullally and Keith D. Wilkinson

Understanding post-degradation processing of polyubiquitin by the ubiquitin proteasome pathway

Matthew Bzdega, Benjamin D. Robertson, Raenell Soller, Greg Huber and S.A. Koehler

Self propulsion in granular media

Chloe M. Rivera, Karnail Singh, Jorg J. Goronzy, Cornelia M. Weynard
(Honorable Mention)

T-cells promote Fibroblast-like Synoviocyte (FLS) growth in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Natalie Redmon and Arthur English

Comparison of the effects of two different treadmill training strategies on the regeneration of axons in injured peripheral nerves

Yuesheng Qu, K. Radde-Gallwitz, X. Zhang and P. Chen

Investigation of Wnt expression in the organ of corti via in situ hybridization

Sumehra M. Premji, Rachael E. Stewart, Amber P. Boyd, Tiffany A. Walker, Machelle T. Pardue, Jeffrey H. Boatright
(First Place)

Bile acids for the treatment of retinal degenerations

Ricquita D. Pollard, David Simpson, Jon Allen and Dr. Samuel C. Dudley, Jr.

Development of mouse ESC embedded SIS sheet for the repair of an infarcted heart

Tenzing Phanthok, Tina T. Saxowsky and Paul W. Doetsch

Transcriptional mutagenesis in mammalian cells

Nick F. Parrish, Paolo S. S. Ocampo and Bruce Levin

Elevated plasmid transfer: Mixed species biofilm effect

Maryann O. Odusanya, Katherine E. Vytal and Stephen B. Hamann

Acquisition and extinction of contextual fear: An fMRI study

Doan Tam Nguyen, Christine Vanijicharoenkam and Tim Kroft

A screen for spermatogenesis defective mutants in C. elegans using chemical mutagenesis

Kelechi Ndubuizu, Katherine Boss-Williams Ph.D, Jeffrey Moore and Jay M. Weiss PhD

Characterization of food preference or swim behavior in selectively bred rat lines

Naoki Murai and William E. Fantegrossi

The effect of nantenine on MDMA's discriminative stimulus properties in mice

David Mosbach and Mar Sanchez

Effects of maternal separation on stress responses of adolescent macaques

Brandon Moore and Donald Rainnie

A dual immunoflourescence study of the localization of CB1 receptors in the basolateral amygdala of the rat

Darren M. Miller, Jacob W. Vanlandingham, Sarah M. Cutler, Milos M. Cekic, Stuart W. Hoffman and Donald G. Stein

Progesterone treatment reduces inflammatory cytokine expression and apoptosis and enhances functional recovery after traumatic brain injury in aged rats

Laura D. Mayer, Christopher T. Goode, Henry S. Lange and Donna L. Maney
(Honorable Mention)

Hearing male birdsong induces FOS within the Medial Basal Hypothalamus of female White-Throated Sparrows

Valerie Vi Thien Mac, Jianguo Xu, Kenneth L. Brigham and Mauricio Rojas

The migration of bone marrow stem cells in response to chemokines

Kanwei Li and James Kindt

Computer simulation of DHPC lipid micelles

Michael W. Leonard, Alisa R. Gutman, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal and Michael Davis
(Third Place)

Cannabinoid and neuropeptide modulation of fear-potentiated startle

Meredith M. LeBlanc, Christopher T. Goode, Henry S. Lange and Donna L. Maney
(Honorable Mention)

Testosterone-dependent selectivity of genomic responses to birdsong

Jason D. Larson, Jocelyn A. Lee and David C. Pallas

Determination of the substrate specificities of LCMT-1 for PP2A and PP4

Manu N. Lakshmanan, Haowei Wang, Chiara Zurla, Carlo Manzo, David D. Dunlap and Laura Finzi

Behavior of torsionally stressed DNA

Brttani Kridler Ruble, Vasantha L. Kolachala and Shanti V. Sitaraman
(Honorable Mention)

Regulation of adenosine 2b receptor by cytokines

Tal Kramer, Maureen Wirschell and Winfield S. Sale

Assembly of the molecular motor dynein in the cillia

Bethany Kondiles and Claire-Anne Gutekunst

Differences in the Hap1 levels and stigmoid body prevalence following altered food and water intake

Nora J. Kleinman, Andrew H. Miller and Thaddeus W. W. Pace

Timecourse of innate immune system responses to footshock in adult rats: Modulation by early life stress?

Brittany A. Kendig, Amy Hood and Debra L. Mills

Neural processing of emotional expression for human and monkey faces in 2-4 year old children with autism

David Kappa, Brad Bowzard and Richard Kahn

Identification of novel Arl2GAP protein interactors using a yeast two-hybrid screen

Sarah J. Johnson, Iqbal Sayeed, Donald G. Stein and Jacob W. VanLandingham
(Honorable Mention)

The role of progesterone in neurotrophin expression following traumatic brain injury and ischemic stroke

Mallory E. Hudson, Amber P. Boyd and Jeffrey H. Boatright

Effects of tauroursodeoxycholic acid in a mouse model of glaucoma

Brooke M. Hopkins, Steven N. Dublin and Vincent P. Conticello

Characterization of buried polar residues inserted in a trimeric coiled-coil motif

Huldah Haynes, Nana Gletsu, Edward Lin and Thomas R. Ziegler

Assessing changes in gastrointestinal leptin receptor expression for morbidly obese patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery

Megan Haselschwerdt, Patricia Brennan, Stacey Ryan and Rebecca Pargas

Mother and child's perception of parent-child relationship: Effects on stress reactivity

John Hartung and Albert Padwa

Towards the total synthesis of strychnopivotine

Mary Kathryn Harrison, Sue Jinks-Robertson and Rachelle Spell

Ability of a human BLM cancer gene to rescue yeast sgs1 mutant phenotypes

Shuana A. Gordon-McKeon, Jennifer J. Pokomy and Frans B.M. de Waal

Familiarity and color in object recognition in Cebus apella

Alexander V. Golovlev and Nitya P. Jacob

Examining the microbial diversity associated with the Sedium smallii plant on Mt. Davidson-Arabia

Lov K. Goel and Eric R. Weeks

Spatial perturbations and length scales in colloidal glasses

Brian B. Glover, Amber P. Boyd, Christy Donmoyer, Sheree Sidney, J.M. Nickerson and J.H. Boatright
(Honorable Mention)

The effect of the IRBP gene knockout on proliferation and death of retinal rod photoreceptor cells

Irina Fishman, Irma Santoro and Sue Jinks-Robertson
(Honorable Mention)

Do all 3 subunits of PCNA require ubiquitylation in Translesion Synthesis?

Julienne Doyle and Robyn Fivush, Ph.D

Gender differences in emotional content of adolescent stories about their parents childhood

Leah P. Dickstein, Rebecca Pargas, Stacy R. Ryan and Patricia A. Brennan

Perinatal complications and parenting as risk factors for childhood aggression

Kavita Demla, Ryan M. Hooper and Astrid A. Prinz

Phase response curves of excitatory inputs to bursting neurons

Jenny Cribb, Punya Shrivastava-Ranjan and Richard A. Kahn

Isolation and characterization of APP/MINT 3 containing vesicles

Jessica Cook, Raenell Soller and Stephan A. Koehler

Lubrication and cooperative effects in glass beads

Lingling Chen, Natasha Degtyareva and Paul W. Doetsch

The effects of oxidative DNA damage on genome stability in S. cerevisiae

Amanda Carney, Judith Fridovich-Keil, Ph.D

PCR based method to identify a 4 base pair deletion in the promoter region of the Galactose-1 Phosphate Uridylyltransferase gene

Christian Cabrera, Simon Lacey, Randall Stilla and Krish Sathian

A psychophysical and neuroimaging study of tactile hyperacuity

Christy M. Byrd and Claire D. Coles

The smoker's network: The relationships of social support, stress and home environment to the smoking behavior of recent mothers

W. Samuel Bradford, Aadil Kaisani and Dr. Jack F. Eichler

Synthesis of model complexes for fluorohistidine labelling of metal binding proteins

Erica Bozeman, Edwin Ades, Jacquelyn Sampson, Julie Anderton and George Carlone
(Second Place)

Development of an adherence diagnostic assay for the in vitro analysis of streptococcus pneumoniae surface adhesin A (PsaA) protein and the human cell receptor E-cadherin (E-cad)

Jordan Bauman, Dr, Bernard Lassegue, Dr. Puja Mehta and Dr. Kathy Griendling

Control mechanisms of insulin signaling mediated by serine residue phosphorylation-dependent regulation of Insulin Receptor Substrate - 1

Mohua Basu and Nancy Blywise

Culture, self-construal and adult attachment

S. Freda Auyeung; Matthias Majer, PhD; Erica C. Bruce, MPH; Tanja Mletzko, MA; Chrisine Heim, PhD; Andrew Miller, MD; Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD and Dominique L Musselman, MD, MS

Neurocognitave dysfunction in patients with early life stress and/or depression

Cosby Arnold, Darlene Mitrano, Jean-Francois Parc, Masa Kuwajima and Yoland Smith

The effects of homer gene deletion on spinogenesis and the subcellular localization of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors in the mouse striatum