Biological and Medical Sciences Poster List 2016

The posters submitted in the Biological and Medical Sciences category for the 2016 MSI Research Exhibition are listed below

  • Adaptive Gene- and Pathway-Trait Association Testing With GWAS Summary Statistics
    • Authors: Il-Youp Kwak, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • An Adaptive Association Test for Microbiome Data
    • Authors: Chong Wu, Jun Chen, Junghi Kim, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Anatomically-Driven Multiscale Model of Ascending Thoracic Aorta, With Application to Multidirectional Experiments
    • Authors: Rohit Y. Dhume, Christopher E. Korenczuk, Victor H. Barocas
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Victor H. Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Apiaceous and Cruciferous Vegetables Fed in the Post-Initiation Stage Reduce Colonic Precancerous Lesions and the Cancer Stem Cell Marker DCLK1, and Alter the miRNA Regulatory Networks in 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine-Treated Rats
    • Authors: Sangyub Kim, Sabrina P. Trudo, Daniel D. Gallaher
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Daniel D. Gallaher (Food Science and Nutrition)
  • Bayesian Analysis of 26 Million Area VOC Observations for the Prediction of Personal THC Exposure
    • Authors: Caroline Groth, Sudipto Banerjee, Ian Reagen, Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Patricia A. Stewart, Dale P. Sandler, Aaron Blair, Lawrence S. Engel, Richard K. Kwok, and Mark R. Stenzel
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Sudipto Banerjee (Biostatistics)
  • Brain Activation During an Emotional Face Task in Adolescents With Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
    • Authors: Melinda Westlund Schreiner, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Kathryn R. Cullen
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Kathryn Cullen (Psychiatry)
  • Computational Methods to Accelerate Protein-Observed Fluorine NMR Screening
    • Authors: Andrew K. Urick, William C. Isley III, Christopher J. Cramer, William C. K. Pomerantz
    • MSI Principal Investigators: Christopher J. Cramer (Chemistry), William C. K. Pomerantz (Chemistry)
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation Studies of Tubulin-Tubulin Interactions
    • Authors: Mahya Hemmat, David Odde
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David Odde (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Concurrent Metabolomic Changes in Plasma and the Brain During Acute Hypoglycemia in Young Rats
    • Authors: Kathleen Ennis, Elizabeth Lusczek, Raghavendra Rao
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Raghavendra Rao (Pediatrics)
  • Conformational Landscape of DnaJ-PKAc Chimera in Solution
    • Authors: Yingjie Wang, Adak Karamafrooz, Geoffrey Li, James Hall, Jiali Gao, Sanford M. Simon, Susan S. Taylor, Gianluigi Veglia
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Gianluigi Veglia (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics), Jiali Gao (Chemistry)
  • Deleterious Mutations Matter to My Beer: Examination of Deleterious Mutations and the Response to Strong Selection in Barley
    • Authors: Li Lei, Thomas J.Y. Kono, Paul J. Hoffman, Chaochih Liu, Justin C. Fay, Kevin P. Smith, Peter L. Morrell
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Peter L. Morrell (Agronomy and Plant Genetics)
  • Estimation of Multiple Networks in Gaussian Mixture Models
    • Authors: Chen Gao, Yunzhang Zhu, Xiaotong Shen, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Fear by Moonlight: Ungulate Responses to Periodically Fluctuating Predation Risk
    • Authors: M.S. Palmer, J. Fieberg, A. Swanson, C. Packer
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Craig Packer (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior)
  • Frequent Causal Pattern Mining: An Effective Counterfactual Estimation Framework
    • Authors: Pranjul Yadav, Alexander Hoff, Michael Steinbach, Gyorgy Simon, Vipin Kumar
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Fungal and Bacterial Microbiota Changes in a Dietary Model of Obesity
    • Authors: Tim Heisel, Emmanuel Montassier, Yi-Wei Lin, Dan Knights, Li-Na Wei, Cheryl A Gale
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Cheryl A Gale (Pediatrics)
  • Genome-Wide Identification of Essential Genes in Drug Tolerant Populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    • Authors: Yusuke Minato, Anthony D. Baughn
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Anthony D. Baughn (Microbiology and Immunology)
  • Improved FRET-Based Trilateration Methods Applied to the Mapping of Dyanodine Receptors
    • Authors: Bengt Svensson, Robyn T. Rebbeck, David D. Thomas, Razvan L. Cornea
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David D. Thomas (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Ingenuity Pathway Analysis of Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers Derived From Papanicolaou (Pap) Tests
    • Authors: Courtney L. Kucza, Kaitlin M. Kucza, Kristin L.M. Boylan, Amy P.N. Skubitz, LeeAnn Higgins, Susan K. Van Riper
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Amy P.N. Skubitz (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
  • Insight into the Mechanism of Action of Bacteriocins Through Molecular Simulations
    • Authors: Panagiota Kyriakou, Yiannis Kaznessis
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Yiannis Kaznessis (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
  • Leopard Spots on the Genome: A Case Study of RDEB Mosaicism
    • Authors: Cat Lee, Chris Lees, Beau Webber, Kevin Silverstein, Megan Riddle, Lily Xia, Jakub Tolar
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Jakub Tolar (Pediatrics)
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Azurin Mutants
    • Authors: Anthony Meger, Steven M. Berry, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Molecular Level Details of Dystrophin's First Actin Binding Domain Conformational Dynamics
    • Authors: Benjamin T. Horn, Michael E. Fealey, David D. Thomas, Anne Hinderliter, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Neurometrics of Brain Intrinsic Functional Connectivity: Test-Rest Reliability in the Human Connectome Project
    • Authors: Yizhou Ma, Nathaniel Helwig, Angus MacDonald
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Angus MacDonald (Psychology)
  • Powerful and Adaptive Testing for Multi-Trait and Multi-SNP Associations With GWAS and Sequencing Data
    • Authors: Junghi Kim, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Powerful Association Testing via Accounting for Genetic Heterogeneity
    • Authors: Zhiyuan Xu, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Structural Dynamics of a Stereospecific Spin Label Resolved by MD Simulation
    • Authors: Andrew Reid, Bengt Svensson, Jesse McCaffrey, Christine Karim, David D. Thomas
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David D. Thomas (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Surveying the Transcriptional Landscape of Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue Biology to Identify Breed-Related Insulin Sensitivity and Other Metabolic Traits in the Domestic Horse
    • Authors: Robert J. Schaefer, Jane M. Manfredi, L. Jill McCutcheon, Patty Sue D. Weber, Ray Geor, Molly E. McCue
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Molly E. McCue (Veterinary Population Medicine)
  • Testing Dystrophin’s Spectrin Repeats Mechanism of Function With Computer Simulations
    • Authors: Caitlin Pederson, Katie Schneider, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Transcriptional Signature Derived From Immune Cells is Prognostic for Outcome Across Multiple Tumors
    • Authors: Anne E. Sarver, Subbaya Subramanian, Aaron L. Sarver
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Subbaya Subramanian (Surgery)
  • Towards Fully Automated Predictive Simulation on Patient Specific Imaging Data
    • Authors: Lam H. Nguyen, Stein K.F. Stoter, Dominik Schillinger
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Dominik Schillinger (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering)
  • Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Altered Molecular Pathways Critical for Synaptogenesis in the Iron Deficient Rat Hippocampus
    • Authors: Amanda K Barks, Phu Tran, Michael K Georgieff
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Phu Tran (Pediatrics)

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