Biological and Medical Science Poster List 2018

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

  • 1+1≠2: Mechanical unfolding of spectrin repeats
    • Authors: Torvin Rajala, Alessandro Cembran
    • Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Alpha blockers: New insights from biomolecular modeling and simulation of alpha-1 adrenergic receptor with Prazosin
    • Authors: Ingrid Rodriguez Aragon, Yuk Sham
    • Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; University of Minnesota Informatics Institute)
  • Assessing spatial attributes of structural network dysfunction in acute traumatic brain injury
    • Authors: Margaret Y. Mahan, Tessneem Abdallah, Aliya Ahmadi, Maxwell Thorpe, Shivani Venkatesh, Hannah Casey, Mark Oswood, Charles Truwit, Chad Richardson, Uzma Samadani
    • Principal Investigator: Uzma Samadani (Neurosurgery; Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology)
  • Characterizing transcriptional profiles of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma tumors in patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
    • Authors: Michael Pickett-Leonard, Kirk Twaroski, Andrew South, Jakub Tolar
    • Principal Investigator: Jakub Tolar (Dean, Medical School; Pediatrics; Genetics, Cell Biology and Development)
  • Comparison of CPU and GPU computing of biological molecular dynamics simulations
    • Authors: Megin Nguyen, Paul Buscemi, Yuk Sham
    • Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; University of Minnesota Informatics Institute)
  • Computational modeling of tubulin:tubulin interaction: Molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics
    • Authors: Mahya Hemmat, Brian T. Castle, David J. Odde
    • Principal Investigator: David J. Odde (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Conformational dynamics of dopamine β-hydroxylase by computer simulations
    • Authors: Alida Besch, Alessandro Cembran
    • Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Cryo-EM structure of porcine delta coronavirus spike protein at 3.3 A resolution
    • Authors: Jian Shang, Yuan Zheng, Yang Yang, Chang Liu, Qibin Geng, Wanbo Tai, Lanying Du, Yusen Zhou, Wei Zhang, Fang Li
    • Principal Investigator:  Fang Li (Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences)
  • Daily microbiome-diet correspondence in healthy individuals
    • Authors: Abigail Johnson, Pajau Vangay, Ben Hillmann, Gabe Al-Ghalith, Dan Knights
    • Principal Investigator: Dan Knights (BioTechnology Institute; Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Divergent behavioral and genetic changes caused by different patterns of morphine exposure in mice
    • Authors: Emilia Lefevre, Marc Pisansky, Thomas Kono, Joshua Baller, Patrick Rothwell
    • Principal Investigator: Patrick Rothwell (Neuroscience)
  • Don't do imputation: Dealing with informative missing Vvalues in EHR data analysis
    • Authors: Jia Li, Michael S. Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Gyorgy J. Simon
    • Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Estimating disease onset time by modeling lab result trajectories via Bayes networks
    • Authors: Wonsuk Oh, Pranjul Yadav, Vipin Kumar, Pedro J. Caraballo, M. Regina Castro, Michael S. Steinbach, Gyorgy J. Simon
    • Principal Investigator: Gyorgy J. Simon (Institute for Health Informatics)
  • Exploring the "microbial dark matter" through large-scale genomics
    • Authors: Senthil Murugapiran, Trinity Hamilton
    • Principal Investigator: Trinity Hamilton (Plant and Microbial Biology)
  • Failure behavior of human ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms: The importance of shear stress
    • Authors: Christopher Korenczuk, Rohit Dhume, Victor Barocas
    • Principal Investigator: Victor Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Galaxy-based multi-stage two-step database searching pipeline for improved multi-omics analysis
    • Authors: Praveen Kumar, James E. Johnson, Thomas McGowan, Matthew C. Chambers, Mohammad Heydarian, Subina Mehta, Caleb Easterly, Shane Hubler, Joel D. Rudney, Pratik Jagtap, Timothy J. Griffin
    • Principal Investigator: Timothy Griffin (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
  • Influence of DBS lead model and brain shift on electrode position and bending of proximal lead: A high-resolution postoperative CT study
    • Authors: Jacob Niederer, Rémi Patriat, Reuben R. Shamir, David Darrow, Michael C. Park, Lauren Schrock, Noam Harel
    • Principal Investigator:  Noam Harel (Radiology)
  • Integrating eQTL data with GWAS summary statistics
    • Authors: Chong Wu, Wei Pan
    • Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
  • Multi-subject, resting-state EEG spectral density estimation
    • Authors: Brian Hart, Michele Guindani, Steve Malone, Mark Fiecas
    • Principal Investigator: Mark Fiecas (Biostatistics)
  • Neurofeedback and emotional regulation: A new way to treat adolescent depression?
    • Authors: Shabnam Mansur, Megan Kazynski, Riley Wedan, Monica Punzalan, Shabad Washist, Briana Barstad, Savannah Dimick, Sumaya Mohamed, Jia Yuan Twoh, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
    • Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
  • Neurofeedback during self-face processing in depressed versus healthy adolescents
    • Authors: Sewon Oh, Yuan Teoh, Garry Smyda, Brianna Barstad, Shabad Washist, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
    • Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
  • Neurofeedback using the images of self in adolescents with varying depressive symptoms
    • Authors: Riley Wedan, Yuan Jia Teoh, Garry Smyda, Sumaya Mohamed, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
    • Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
  • Next-generation sequencing coupled with in situ hybridization: a novel diagnostic platform to identify emerging pathogens and new variants of endemic viruses
    • Authors: Talita Resende, Lacey Marshall Lund, Stephanie Rossow, Fabio Vannucci
    • Principal Investigator: Fabio Vannucci (Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory)
  • Novel in silico strategies towards optimization of new anthrax antitoxin leads
    • Authors: Connor McDermott, Elizabeth A. Ambrose
    • Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Ambrose (Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Plasma activated water and intense pulsed light decontamination of deoxynivalenol in raw and germinating barley
    • Authors: Dongjie Chen, Paul Chen, Yanling Cheng, Juer Liu, Yiwei Ma, Roger Ruan
    • Principal Investigator: Roger Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering)
  • Repetitive morphine administration induces sex-dependent transcriptomic changes in the adult rat nucleus accumbens
    • Authors: M.S. Gades, K. Jeong, A.C. Harris, P.V. Tran, J.C. Gewirtz
    • Principal Investigator: Jonathan Gewirtz (Psychology)
  • Response of DPPC  lipid membranes to increased surface tension in the presence of lipid rafts and cholesterol
    • Authors: Paul J. Buscemi, Evelyne M. Houang, Joseph M. Metzger, Yuk Y. Sham
    • Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; UM Informatics Institute)
  • Self-face processing after and before neurofeedback in youth with varying levels of depressive symptoms
    • Authors: Monica Talitha Punzalan, Savannah Dimick, Yuan Teoh, Karina Quevedo
    • Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
  • Single nucleotide polymorphism variation in the equine population
    • Authors: Sian A. Durward-Akhurst, R.J. Schaefer, J.R. Mickelson, Molly E. McCue
    • Principal Investigator: Molly E. McCue (Veterinary Population Medicine)
  • The effect of glenohumeral plane of elevation on supraspinatus subacromial proximities
    • Authors: Rebekah L. Lawrence, William C. Sessions, Megan Jensen, Justin L. Staker, Aya Eid, Ryan Breighner, Nathaniel E. Helwig, Jonathan P. Braman, Paula M. Ludwig
    • Principal Investigator: Paula M. Ludewig (Rehabilitation Medicine)
  • The influence of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutations in gyrA, gyrB, parC, and parE on the acquisition of fluoroquinolone and cross-resistances in Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Enteritidis
    • Authors: Ran An, Sinisa Vidovic
    • Principal Investigator: Sinisa Vidovic (Veterinary and Biomedical Science)
  • The role of hydrophobic interactions and water dynamics around dystrophin spectrin repeats
    • Authors: Sarah Moe, Alessandro Cembran
    • Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)

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