2010 Berea College Research Symposium

The Berea Undergraduate Research Symposium (BURS), 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.

The program for Fall 2010 will be held on Friday, October 22rd starting after lunch and concluding with a plenary talk “Metabolism: Old or Gold?” by Dr. Teresa Whei-Mei Fan who works at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Chemistry. Teresa uses NMR spectroscopy to study biological systems.

We will start at 2:30 PM with a poster session in the lobby of the science building with posters from various fields (in the past this included chemistry, biology, physics, psychology, industrial arts, computer science, physical education & health, and mathematics.) We then move into dual lecture sessions at 4 PM while continuing the posters in the lobby. Generally one seminar section is devoted to biological sciences and the other to physical sciences. Other disciplines are also welcome to give a talk and are placed in one section or the other based on research topic.

Students and faculty interested in attending or participating in the 2019 BURS should either contact Jay Baltisberger or Anes Kovacevic of the chemistry program. Alternatively a student may elect to register online via the link on the Chemistry department web server.

Registration for the 105th Kentucky Academy of Sciences Meeting should follow this link KAS Registration

The following students have registered to do presentations for 2010

Oral Internship Presentations

#	Name	Host	Title	Mentor	Major

Oral Research Presentations

#	Name	Host	Title	Mentor	Major
1	Kayla G. Kinker	Vanderbilt University	Immune Response to Vimentin Peptides and the Role of Smoking in an HLA Transgenic Mouse Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis	Unknown	biology
2	Alisha Holmberg	Vanderbilt University	The E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4L interacts with and polyubiquitinates ∆Np63α following genotoxic stress	Unknown	biology
3	Theint Theint	Iowa State University	2H NMR Studies of Dynamics in Protein Sidechains	Mei Hong	chemistry
4	Ramesh Adhikari	Argonne National Laboratory	Quench Localization in Superconducting Radio-frequency Cavities	Unknown	chemistry
5	Katherine Simonson	Unknown	The Impact of Gardening on College Students' Eating Behaviors	Unknown	child and family studies
6	Tyler Vanover	Berea College	Pulsed Laser Ablation of Solids in Liquid Environment	Amer Lahamer	physics
7	Christopher B. Yaluma	Unknown	The Optical Reflectivity of Graphene	Unknown	physics
8	Tommy Boykin	Berea College	Copper-Based Superconductors	Amer Lahamer	physics
9	Rohan Isaac	Berea College	Synthesis of FeGe	Amer Lahamer	physics

Poster Presentations (Research and Internship)

#	Name	Host	Title	Mentor	Major
1	Jane Tonello	Unknown	Glucose Clamping in the Conscious Mouse	Unknown	biology
2	Jalicia Sturdivant & Charli Bobit	Unknown	Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoform Expression in Regenerating Axolotl Salamander Retina	Unknown	biology
3	Kathryn Massana & Abigail Wier	Berea College	Localization and characterization of photoreceptors in the cercariae of the trematode, Proterometra macrostoma	Ron Rosen	biology
4	Premila Samuel	Unknown	Constructing an Inducible System for the Study of Rod Cell Degeneration and Regeneration	Unknown	chemistry
5	Jose Victoria & Dhadon Dhadon	Berea College	Reactions of imidazolium and triazolium salts with [Ir(H)2(PPh3)2(OCMe2)2]BF4	Anes Kovacevic	chemistry
6	Kelly Njine Mouapi	Unknown	Monoclonal antibody 1A5 abrogates TGF-beta induced tumor cell migration	Unknown	chemistry
7	Dominic Suma & Parker Shuler	Berea College	Synthesis of Enantioenriched β-Ketoesters via a Ketene-Claisen Condensation	Mary Robert Garrett	chemistry
8	Horton Li, James McCarty, & Ivan Titaley	Berea College	Struvite precipitation in anaerobic swine lagoon liquid at Berea College Farm: effect of pH and Mg:P ratio	Paul Smithson	chemistry
9	Violet R.Katiyo, Casey Gray, Alexcia Moore, & Grace Par	Berea College	Nutrient and waste management at Berea College Farm: Analysis of soil samples for the availability of phosphorus	Paul Smithson	chemistry
10	Imelda Hot	Unknown	Histidine-Functionalized Water-Soluble Nanoparticle as Mimics of Hydrolytic Enzymes	Unknown	chemistry
11	James Brian Hamblin & Zelalem Demissie Mekonnen	Berea College	Chemical and phosphorus-31 NMR characterization of phosphorus in a swine facility waste stream	Paul Smithson	chemistry
12	Chido Hambira	Unknown	Development of an HPLC assay for the analysis of adducted DNA-protein cross-links	Unknown	chemistry
13	Justin McGlothlin	Unknown	Establishing Density Profile of Ultra-Cooled Gas in a Harmonic Potential	Unknown	physics
14	William Norris	Berea College	BEC to BCS crossover in a rotating Fermionic Gas	Martin Veillette	physics
15	Hodari-Sadiki James	Unknown	The Importance of Glia in Chemosensory Modulation of Respiration	Unknown	physics
16	Zachary Danneman & Tara Shumate	Unknown	Pedagogy of Place: The Development of an Invisible Curriculum	Unknown	psychology
17	Yuta Katsumi, Victoria Fulton, Jordan Harrison, & Ali Hassan	Berea College	EEG Spectral Analysis of Neurocognitive Style in Relation to a Remote Associations Task	Rob Smith	psychology
18	Jessica Barnes, Jenipher Dennis, & Rachel Krebs	Unknown	The Effects of Scenes Presented on Cognitive Tasks	Unknown	psychology
19	Rita Yalda & Damika Jones	Berea College	Infrared Reduction Analysis and Photometry	Unknown	technology & industrial arts