The reserach symposium held each fall the same weekend that the Berea College Trustees visit campus is an opportunity for the students and faculty to share research work with each other as well as these important campus visitors. This has been organized by the science departments in the past but participation is open to all members of the college community. In recent years we have structured the symposium with both talks and poster presentations as well as a plenary session.

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The symposium for Fall 2007 was held on Friday, October 19th starting after lunch and concluding with a plenary talk by Shiela David who is a biochemist doing DNA repair work at the University of California, Davis. It is a pleasure to have Shiela here for the plenary talk because she and her father (who is a Berea College trustee) have been so generous to Berea over the years with support. The complete listing of seminars and posters is given below.

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The following students have registered to do presentations for 2007

Name	Title	Type	Major	Edit/Display
Richard Cooks, Jessica Price	Design and Development of Palladium-Iron Bimetallic Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells	oral	biology	edit data
Enrique Garcia	Defining the mechanism of EP4-mediated metastasis	oral	biology	edit data
Elizabeth Fleming	Source and Photodegredation of Dissolved Organic Matter as Factors of Fluoranthene Phototoxicity to Daphina magna	oral	biology	edit data
Amanda Hensley	Inositol Increases Feeding on Deterrent Mixtures in Larval Manduca sexta	oral	biology	edit data
Rebecca Linville	Identifying Genes that Interact with CRMP During Neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster	oral	biology	edit data
Joshua Sparks	Of Mice and Men…Do Arthritis Resistant Mice Provide Clues to Protection from Rheumatoid Arthritis?	oral	biology	edit data
Rachel Saunders	Role of MHC Class II on Mouse Regulatory T Cells	oral	biology	edit data
Megan Jackson	Abrogation of TGF-B signaling in mammary carcinomas recruits myeloid immune suppressor cells through CXCL5/CXCR2 chemokine axis	oral	biology	edit data
Gloria Fritz	Psychophysiological Study of Response Conflict and Error Processing Deficits in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	oral	biology	edit data
Din Obadele Mandley	Chemical and NMR Analysis of Soil Phosphorus Affected by Waste Overflow	oral	chemistry	edit data
Anthony Reynolds	The Synthesis of Aluminum Magnesium Layered Double Hydroxides (LDH) and Characterization of Phosphate Ion Exchange Experiments	oral	chemistry	edit data
Diana Gudkova	CLASSICAL Be STARS	oral	mathematics	edit data
Shiblee Barua	Possibility of detecting Christodoulou Memory of Gravitational Waves By Using LISA	oral	physics	edit data
Clarissa Harris	Dopamine Transporter Expression in a "Two Hit" Rat Model of Parkinsonian Syndrome	poster	biology	edit data
Kate Johnson	Inositol Increases Feeding on Deterrent Mixtures in Larval Manduca sexta	poster	biology	edit data
Jacob Gunnell, Jessica Lanfair, Jenna Ott	Metagenomic Characterization of Mirobial Communities of the Berea College Living Machine	poster	biology	edit data
Brittni Ross	Identification of Genes Regulated by p63 in Human Epithelia	poster	biology	edit data
Meiping Sun	Nick-directed Loop Mismatch DNA Excision in Human Cells	poster	biology	edit data
Dikshya Bastakoty, Aaron Fidler, Miluka Gunaratna	Proterometra macrostoma (Trematoda: Azygiidae): Further Studies on the Strain Question at North Elkhorn Creek, Scott County, KY	poster	biology	edit data
Tsering Dolma, Robert Twiggs, Brea Viragh	Factors Affecting the Emergence, Infectivity and Subsequent Development of the Proterometra macrostoma (Trematoda: Azygiidae) Cercaria	poster	biology	edit data
Spencer Gravitt, Oliver Pogue	Population Dynamics of Varroa Mite (Acari: Varroidae) on Different Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Stocks	poster	biology	edit data
Laxman Gurung	Synthesis of Vinyl Fluorides from Alkyl Halides and Alcohols	poster	chemistry	edit data
Thabiso Musapelo	Homonuclear Decoupling and INADEQUATE NMR	poster	chemistry	edit data
Marek Counts, Kayla Meadows	Normal and Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes	poster	chemistry	edit data
Kaleigh McCoy	Where Have All the Students Gone? Factors Influencing the Retention and Academic Success of Students Who Entered Berea College in the Fall of 2006	poster	other	edit data
Genesis Song	Kinetics of the Degradation of Aspirin	poster	other	edit data
David Gilmour, Brad Steele	Producing Fullerenes Using Laser Ablation	poster	physics	edit data
Bryan Gover	Photometry of Summer Variable Stars	poster	physics	edit data
Mohammed Humed Yusuf	Photometry of Summer Variable Stars	poster	physics	edit data
James Rittmann	Exercise and Memory: the Immediate Effects of Exercise on Memory	poster	psychology	edit data
Charla Ruble	The Effects of Student’s Alcohol Use and Death Self-Reflection on their Perception of Risk Taking Behavior	poster	psychology	edit data
Tian Wei	The effect of gender, condition and comparative ignorance on investment and confidence	poster	psychology	edit data