Biological and Medical Science Poster List 2017

The posters submitted in the Biological and Medical Sciences category for the 2019 MSI Research Exhibition are listed below

  • A Spatial Joint Factor Model for Extreme Valued Multivariate Binary Data With Non-Random Missingness
    • Authors: Xiaoyue Zhao, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Lin Zhang
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay (Biostatistics)
  • Accurate, Scalable Microbiome Quantitation With Shallow Shotgun Sequencing
    • Authors: Benjamin Hillmann, Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith, Daryl Gohl, Kenny Beckman, Rob Knight, Dan Knights
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Dan Knights (Computer Science, Biotechnology Institute, BICB)
  • Adaptive Association Test of Multiple Traits Using GWAS Summary Data
    • Authors: Bin Guo, Baolin Wu
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Baolin Wu (Biostatistics)
  • Additive Rate Model for Recurrent Event Data With Intermittently Observed Time-Dependent Covariates
    • Authors: Tianmeng Lyu, Xianghua Luo, Chiung-Yu Huang
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Xianghua Luo (Biostatistics)
  • An Adaptive Gene-Level Association Test for Family Studies
    • Authors: Jun Young Park, Chong Wu, Saonli Basu, Matt McGue, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • An Adaptive Test on High-Dimensional Parameters in GLMs
    • Authors: Chong Wu, Gongjun Xu, Wei Pan
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Assessing the Impact of Dielectric Constant on the Structural Propensity of the Polyampholytic Intrinsically Disordered Region of Synaptotagmin 1
    • Authors: Michael E. Fealey, Benjamin P. Binder, Anne Hinderliter, David D. Thomas
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David D. Thomas (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Azurin Variants With Tuned Reduction Potentials
    • Authors: Anthony Meger, Steve Berry, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (Biochemistry)
  • Augmented Biospy Imaging: Machine Learning Analysis of Tumor Milieu for Predicting Tumor Induced
    • Immunosuppression and Developing Personalized Oncolytic Immunotherapies
    • Author: Akshay Bhardwaj, Noah Seichter, Aaron D'Sa, David Yuen
      MSI Principal Investigator: David Yuen (Earth Sciences)
  • Causal Treatment Effect Estimation With a Modified Bayesian Lasso
    • Authors: Brandon Koch, Julian Wolfson, David Vock
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Julian Wolfson (Biostatistics)
  • Cell Swimming Driven by Cortical Tension Gradients
    • Authors: Hao Wu, Marco Avila Ponce de Leon, Hans G. Othmer
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Hans G. Othmer (Mathematics)
  • Characterization of Protein Kinase A Free Energy Landscape by NMR-Restrained Metadynamics
    • Authors: Yingjie Wang, Carlo Camilloni, Jonggul Kim, Michele Vendruscolo, Jiali Gao, Gianluigi Veglia
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Gianluigi Veglia (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics); Jiali Gao (Chemistry)
  • Computational Modeling of Tubulin-Tubulin Interaction
    • Authors: Mahya Hemmat, David J. Odde
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David J. Odde (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Crystallography and Functional Studies of a Novel Inhibitor of SERCA Targeting Leukemia
    • Authors: Bengt Svensson, Joseph M. Autry, Chengguo Xing, Razvan L. Cornea, Hideki Aihara, John K. Lee, David D. Thomas.
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David D. Thomas (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Development and Evaluation of a Galaxy-Based One-Click Multi-Stage Database Searching Pipeline for Proteogenomics Analysis
    • Authors: Praveen Kumar, Jim Johnson, Pratik Jagtap, Timothy Griffin
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Timothy Griffin (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Development and Optimization of Anthrax Toxin Lethal Factor Inhibitors via Bioisosteric Replacement and Rational Design
    • Authors: Connor McDermott, Elizabeth A. Ambrose
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Ambrose (Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Differentiated HIV RNA Viral Load Monitoring in Uganda: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • Authors: Zhenhuan Zhang, Diana Negoescu, Heiner C. Bucher, Eran Bendavid, Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Diana Negoescu (Industrial and Systems Engineering)
  • EMBALMER Enables Mathematically Optimal Genome Database Search for Big Data
    • Authors: Gabriel Al-Ghalith
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Dan Knights (Computer Science, Biotechnology Institute, BICB)
  • Free Energy Calculations for Microcin J25 Variants Binding to the FhuA Receptor
    • Authors: Pin-Kuang Lai
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Yiannis Kaznessis (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
  • Implications Of Management Interventions on a Model of Influenza A Virus Persistence Within Swine Breeding Herds
    • Authors: Lauren A. White, Montserrat Torremorell, Meggan E. Craft
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Meggan E. Craft (Veterinary Population Medicine)
  • Estimating Fungal Barcode Variation Using an in Silico Genomics Approach
    • Authors: Lotus Lofgren, Jessie Uhling, Peter Kennedy
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Kennedy (Plant and Microbial Biology; Ecology, Evolution and Behavior)
  • Individualized Tractography-Based Parcellation of the GPI at 7T in PD Patients Prior to DBS Surgery
    • Authors: Rémi Patriat, Yuval Duchin, Christophe Lenglet, Joshua Aman, Jacob Niederer, Scott Cooper, Jerrold Vitek, Noam Harel
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Noam Harel (Radiology, CMRR)
  • Integrative Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Tissue MicroRNA and Microbiome Reveals MicroRNAs as Potential Mediator of Host-Microbiome Interaction
    • Authors: Ce Yuan, Anne Sarver, Subbaya Subramanian, Ran Blekhman
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Ran Blekhman (Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development)
  • Mapping Structural Connectivity of the Infant Thalamus Using High Resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging
    • Authors: Brittany R. Howell, Keith Jamison, Martin Styner, Essa Yacoub, Jed Elison
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Jed Elison (Institute of Child Development)
  • Meta-Analysis of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials With Noncompliance: Random Effects Models
    • Authors: Jincheng Zhou, Haitao Chu
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Haitao Chu (Biostatistics)
  • Microtubule-Targeting Agents Suppress Stiffness Sensitive Glioma Cell Migration
    • Authors: Louis S. Prahl, Patrick F. Bangasser, Mahya Hemmat, Steven S. Rosenfeld, David J. Odde
    • MSI Principal Investigator: David J. Odde (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Molecular Dynamics Characterization of the Effects of Oxidation on Sulfur-Aromatic Interactions in a Small Peptide
    • Authors: Bryan Reutzel, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Parameterization and Structural Refinement of Dopamine β-hydroxylase
    • Authors: Alida Besch, Anthony Meger, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Pathway-Based Discovery of Genetic Interactions in Breast Cancer
    • Authors: Wen Wang, Zhiyuan Xu, Michael Costanzo, Charles Boone, Carol A Lange, Chad L. Myers
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Chad L. Myers (Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Rational Design of Selective Adenine-Based Scaffolds for Inactivation of Bacterial Histidine Kinases
    • Authors: Manibarsha Goswami, Erin E. Carlson
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Erin. E. Carlson (Chemistry)
  • Reinforcement Learning for Phasic Disruption of Pathological Oscillations in a Model of Parkinson’s Disease
    • Authors: Logan Grado, Matthew Johnson, Theoden Netoff
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Theoden Netoff (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Resting State Synchrony of Reward and Habit Circuitry in Anorexia Nervosa
    • Authors: Ann F. Haynos, Jazmin Camchong, Leah M. Jappe Hall, Carol B. Peterson, Scott J. Crow, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Kathryn R. Cullen, Kelvin O. Lim
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Kelvin Lim (Psychiatry)
  • Spatially-Resolved Gene Regulation in Wood-Degrading Fungi Highlights Carbohydrate-Selective Machinery in Brown Rot Fungi
    • Authors: Jiwei Zhang, Kevin Silverstein, Melania Figueroa, Jonathan Schilling
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Jonathan Schilling (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering)
  • Structural Modeling and Bioinformatic Analysis of Dystrophin’s Spectrin Repeat Units
    • Authors: Sarah Moe, Alessandro Cembran
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • The Effect of Self-Compassion on Neural Activity in Depressed Adolescents During a Neutral Self-Face Recognition Task
    • Authors: Christine Egan, Na Zhang, Karina Quevedo
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
  • The Effects of Neomycin Treatment on the Cecal Microbiome of Commercial Turkey Poults
    • Authors: Morrine Omolo, David Baumler, Timothy Johnson
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Timothy Johnson (Animal Science)
  • Unbiased Discovery of Exosome-Associated Biomarkers Using Xenograft Models
    • Authors: Milcah C. Scott, John R. Garbe, Hirotaka Tomiyasu, Jaime F. Modiano
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Jaime Modiano (Veterinary Clinical Sciences)
  • Use of Cattle Movement Information to Improve Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance in the U.S.
    • Authors: Szu-Yu Zoe Kao, Kimberly VanderWaal, Eva A. Enns, Catalina Picasso, Julio Alvarez, Meggan E. Craft, Scott Wells
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Scott Wells (Veterinary Population Medicine)
  • Use of Multiplexed Kinase Biosensor Technology and SWATH-MS for Monitoring Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Signaling
    • Authors: Tzu-Yi Yang, Laurie Parker
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Laurie Parker (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Vertical Transmission of Cryptic Alleles in Aspergillus flavus
    • Authors: Rodrigo Olarte, Kathryn Bushley
    • MSI Principal Investigator: Kathryn Bushley (Plant and Microbial Biology)

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