Chino S. Aneke, Elizabeth H. Jackson, Tisina Samaroo, Claire-Anne Gutekunst, Robert E. Gross
(First Place)

Morgan Ashe, Patricia Brennan, Elyse Katz, Joseph Cubells and Zachary N. Stowe

Perinatal maternal depression: Fetal exposure to stress hormones - quantification, determinants and consequences

Sujith Baliga, Tekla Smith and Michael H. Koval

Characterization of L2 cells as a model for the alcoholic Lung

Konstantin Boroda

Techniques in advanced microscopy: the Apotome imaging system

Nailah Z. D. Brandy, Corinne E. Camalier, Shin-Woo Ha, Jin-Kyu Lee, George R. Beck Jr.

The effects of nanoparticles on bone formation

Naomi Briones, Holly Carpenter and Vincent P. Conticello

Preperation of structurally modified derivatives of human tropoelastin

Nicholas Brubaker and Patricia Brennan Ph.D

The effects of parental psychological control on the continuity of temperment: a longitudinal study

Thinh Q Bui, W. Seth Childers, Anil K. Mehta and David G. Lynn

Amyloid-directed catalysis & the origins of life: Probing amyloid functionality

Evan Calabrese, Miriam Ratliff and Steven W. L'Hernault

Ubiquitylation activity of a C. elegans E3 ligase involved in spermatogenesis

Uriel Castañeda, Lee Anne McGaha and Judith L. Fridovich-Keil
(Honorable Mention)

Site-directed mutagenesis of the human galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase gene

Dhruv Chawla, Jeong-Joong Yoon and Richard K. Plemper

Mechanistic characterization of a first-in-class measles virus RNA-polymerase inhibitor

Dorothy Chyung, Jocelyn A. Lee, Quiana Kern and David C. Pallas

Role of PP2A methylation in regulating tau phosphorylation in Alzeimer's disease

Rebekah Cordiero and Dr. Jack F. Eichler

Probing 19F NMR chemical shift sensitivity in metalloprotein model compounds

Brad Davis, Bradford Coffee and Shuang Chang

Population screening for fragile X syndrome and sex chromosome anueploidies by quantification of methylated FMR1 DNA from a sample of pooled blood spots

Sonya Delwadia, Marcus Sandling, Jiang Xu and Maricio Rojas

Tracking bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells with permeable flourescent proteins

Sravan Dhulipala, Jamie Purcell and Dennis Liotta

Synthesis of Glutathione (GSH) Curcumin Analogs

James Eagan, Dylan England, Gokce Merey and Albert Padwa

Rhodium(II) catalyzed [3+2] cycloadditions

Corey Evans and Yun Tao

Analysis of sex-ratio distortion in Drosophila pseudoobscura: effects of γ-radiation on fertility and a mutagenesis screen for knock-out mutations of the sex-ratio gene

Bentley Gibson, Dr. Laura Namy and Jessica Hammock

Would LuLu call this a blicket? Categorization using a yes/no task with four-year-old

Ayala Gray, Nikkol Melnick, Gowrisankar Rajam and Edwin Ades

Assessment of the immunologic response in mice when antigen PsaA is combined with an adjuvant (alum or P4 peptide)

Jason Haensly, Jeremy Edgerton, Jesse E. Hanson, Cengiz Gunay and Dieter Jaeger

Spiking dendrites produce similar behavior in realistic and simplified globus pallidus neuron models

Jenelle Hall, Simon Lacey Ph.D and Krish Sathian MD, Ph.D

The effect of incongruent information on object recognition

Frank Hao, Jeremy Edgerton, Li Su and Dieter Jaeger

Histological approach to reconstruction and identification of neuronal processes

Lauren L. Hazledine, Michael J. Morrier and Gail G. McGee

Examining the ADOS: comparing scores of children with ASD and typically developing children

Louie Hendricks, Laura Fox, Tal Kramer, Maureen Wirschell, T.W. Hendrickson and Winfield Sale
(Honorable Mention)

Assembly states of the molecular motor Dynein in the cytoplasm of Chlamydomonas

Lindsey Holloman, Aimin Li, Jason M. Hanson, Nana Gletsu-Miller and Edward Lin

Measurements of oxidative stress in plasma and adipose tissue in obese patients before and after surgery

Michael Kaufman and Larry Walker

Effect of titer and temperature on lentivirus-mediated protein expression in HEK cells

Sean Knudson, Magdalena Krysiak and Hillary Rodman

Vasculature of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus after visual cortex damage

Joseph Krakowiak, Lisa Imboden, Lih-Shen Chin and Lian Li

Yeast-two hybrid analysis of protein-protein interactions implicated in DYT1 dystonia

Elizabeth M. Kuhn, Steven Dublin and Vincent Conticello, Ph.D

Design of a self-assembling four-stranded helical fiber

Jessica I. Lake, Henry S. Lange, Laura D. Mayer, Sara O'Brien and Donna L. Maney

Neuroendocrine correlates of behavioral polymorphism: gonadotrophin-releasing hormone

Kevin Lee, Gregory O. Gibson and Krish Sathian

Vision captures touch in bisensory letter recognition task

Nora Martin, Rosa Villalba and Yoland Smith
(Honorable Mention)

Analysis of the synaptology of dopaminergic terminals in G2019S LRRK2 transgenic mice

Fatima B. Martinez and Peter Wenner

The role of Protocadherins in specifying novel connections in the spinal cord

Elizabeth McCammon, Michael J. Morrier and Gail G. McGee
(Honorable Mention)

Evaluation of social development for typical children and children with autism at less than 24 months and at 2.5 years

Christa McKenzie, Akwasi Anyanful, Shantanu Bhatt and Daniel Kalman

Conditioned exposure of C. elegans to enteropathogenic E. coli promotes increased resistance via activation of lifespan extending pathway genes

Huma Mirza, Art English, Amanda Mulligan and Gail Schwartz
(Honorable Mention)

Peripheral nerve axon regeneration through treadmill exercise: does BDNF play a role?

Karen E. Murray, Katherine Boss-Williams and Jay M. Weiss

Changes induced by the chronic mild stress model in hyperactive and randomly bred male rats

Meredith A. Oldham, Matthew R. Boudreau and Mar M. Sanchez

Diurnal salivary cortisol levels in maltreated adult Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Hillary M. Olivier, Aakar A. Thaker and Nitya P. Jacob
(Honorable Mention)

Abundance of multiple classes of Proteobacteria in the rhizosphere of V. porteri and S. tomentosus on Davidson-Arabia Mountain

Valerie Owolo, Michael Morrier, M.A.; Gail McGee, Ph.D; and Opal Ousley, Ph.D

Behavioral characteristics of people with an ASD and a family history of depressive illness

Mousumee Panigrahi, Amy Franciscovich and Subhabrata Sanyal

Analysis of neuronal sub-synaptic proteins in NFAT mutants of Drosophila

Keon-Young Park and Keith M. Berland
(Third Place)

Investigating molecular rotational dynamics with flourescence fluctuation spectroscopy

Chandhi Patel, Simon Lacey and Krish Sathian

Does visual imagery interfere with haptic shape perception?

Lyudmila Petrova, Grzegorz Burzynski, Breandan Kennedy and Iain Shepherd

Functional analysis of Mab21|2 in zebrafish enteric nervous system development

Tiji M. Philip, Maxsym Yezhelyev, Tongrui Liu and Ruth O'Regan

Development of nanoparticle-sirRNA complexes for targeted anti-tumor gene therapy

Callie Preast, Allison Lange, Jade Harwood and Anita Corbett

Functional analysis of the crystal structure of Importin-β: Getting to the heart of nuclear transport

Melody Rhine, Frank Farokhi, Dr. Reza Saaedin and Dr. Jack F. Eichler

Molecular design of 2,9-disubstituted Phenantrholine Gold (III) complexes: Inhibiting in vitro deactivation

Jose A. Rodriguez and Arthur W. English
(Honorable Mention)

Effects of electrical stimulation and treadmill exercise on peripheral axon regeneration

Matthew Saling, Chen Niu and Phillip N. Rather

Identification of genes involved in biofilm formation in Acinetobacter baumannii

Marcus Sandling, Sonya Delwadia, Jianguo Xu, Robert Joodi and Mauricio Rojas

Recruitment of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells during acute lung injury

Shubha G. Setty, Robert Esterberg and Andreas Fritz

Characterization of T-box factors Tbx2a and Tbx2b with regards to inner ear development in zebrafish

Calvin A. Shank, Leslie Cunningham and Richard A. Kahn

Cofactor D: a centrosomal scaffold?

Joseph Song, David Doo and Gary Crouse

Incorporation and repair of oxidatively damaged guanosine

Michael A. Spinner and Nitya Jacob

Nodule-expressed genes and quorum sensing genre regulation in Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

Aakar A. Thaker, Hillary Olivier and Nitya Jacob

Prevalence of thermophilic bacteria in Sedum Smallii rhizosphere soil at Mount Arabia, a granite rock outcrop

Obinna C. Umunakwe, Anup K. Upadhyay and Dale E. Edmonson
(Second Place)

Structure activity relationships in the oxidation of para-Substituted benzylamines by rat monoamine oxidase B

Anne Elise van Bekkum, Jared P. Taglialatela, Jamie L. Russell and William D. Hopkins

A comparative study of neural and behavioral organization in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

Henry M. Wyche Jr., Dana Longo, Melissa Whaley, Jacquelyn S. Sampson, Ph.D and Edwin W. Ades, Ph.D
(Honorable Mention)

Evaluation of a novel real-time PCR diagnostic assay for Streptococcus pneumoniae

Yi Xiao, Amy Hood and Debra Mills

Infant-directed speech in mothers with depression