2009 ASRF Award Winners
Poster Presentation
Division I – Undergraduates
Arts & Humanities and Biomedical Sciences
First Place: James Fisher, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael F. Wempe, Depts. of Chemistry and Pharmacology.
THE SYNTHESIS OF TAK-242 (ETHYL 6-[(2-CHLORO-4FLUOROPHENYL)SULFAMOYL]CYCLOHEX-1-ENECARBOXYLATE: A SMALLMOLECULE ANTISEPSIS AGENT
Second Place: Chris Daniels, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Robert Schoborg, Dept. of Microbiology.
CELL-ADHESION MOLECULES (CAM’S) AND ASSOCIATED PROTEINS ARE
DOWN-REGULATED IN CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND CHLAMYDIA
MURIDARUM INFECTED HELA CELLS
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
First Place: Wenzong Li, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Zulfiqar Ahmad, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
IDENTIFICATION OF PHOSPHATE BINDING IN ESCHERICHIA COLI ATP
SYNTHASE
Second Place: Justin Quinn, Carson-Newman College.
Faculty Sponsor: Christine Dalton, Dept. of Chemistry.
OPTIMAL EXTRACTION OF NITROGEN CONTAINING DISINFECTION
BYPRODUCTS FROM DRINKING WATER THROUGH SOLID PHASE
MICROEXTRACTION
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First Place: Benjamin Hughes, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Russell Brown, Dept. of Psychology.
A DOSE-RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF METHYLPHENIDATE SENSITIZATION IN
ADOLESCENT RATS: SEX DIFFERENCES IN LOCOMOTOR ACTIVATION
Second Place: Desta Taylor, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Stacey L. Williams, Dept. of Psychology.
PERCIEVED CONTROL: A MECHANISM EXPLAINING INTIMATE PARTNER
VIOLENCE OUTCOMES
Third Place (tie): Benjamin Martin, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Chris Dula, Dept. of Psychology.
GETTING UNDER THE SKIN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARTIN STIGMA
AGAINST TATTOOS SCALE
Third Place (tie): Treston Wheat, UT-K.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, Dept. of Political Science.
FRUITS OF WAR: TO WHAT EXTENT DID ISRAEL WIN THE SECOND LEBANON
WAR?
Division II – Graduate Students, 1-2 Years
Arts & Humanities and Biomedical Sciences
First Place: Ashley Frazier, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan P. Moorman, Dept. of Internal Medicine.
BLOCKING OF THE PROGRAMMED DEATH-1 PATHWAY IN HEPATITIS C VIRAL
INFECTION LEADS TO A DOWN-REGULATION OF SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE
SIGNALING-1
Second Place: Anna Swisher, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael H Stone, Dept. of KLSS.
RELATIONSHIP OF STRENGTH, AND POWER CHARACTERISTICS TO OVERHEAD
SHOT THROW PERFORMACE IN NCAA DIVISION I MALE THROWERS
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
First Place: Byron Van Nest, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Darrell Moore, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
'SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?' INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING IN THE
HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA) FORAGER OPTIMIZES GROUP FORAGING
EFFORTS
Second Place: Diwaker Tripathi, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Dhirendra Kumar, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
ROLE OF SALICYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2 IN SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED
RESISTANCE INDUCED BY ACIBENZOLAR-S-METHYL
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First Place: Angela Enlow, Fielding Graduate University.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jodi Polaha, ETSU Dept. of Psychology.
EVALUATING INTEGRATED PEDIATRIC WELL VISTS IN APPALACHIAN
TENNESSEE
Second Place: Jessica Smith, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Russ Brown, Dept. of Psychology.
ESZOPICLONE FACILITATION OF THE ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFICACY OF
FLUOXETINE USING A SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS MODEL IN THE MOUSE
Division III – Graduate Students, 2+ Years
First Place: Theresa Pickle, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Douglas Thewke, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
A CANNABINOID (WIN 55,212-2) INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN PANCREATIC TUMOR
CELLS
Second Place: Jala Daniel, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Cecilia McIntosh, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
DETERMINING PUTATIVE SECONDARY PRODUCT GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE
EXPRESSION DURING CITRUS PARADISI GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Division IV – Medical Students
First Place: James Thompson, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Alok Agrawal, Dept. of Pharmacology.
TARGETING C-REACTIVE PROTEIN TO CAPTURE ATHEROGENIC LDL
Second Place: Jennifer Chavis, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: John 'Trey” Robertson M.D., John Lawson Surgical Group, Johnson
City, TN.
ENTEROCOLIC LYMPHOCYTIC PHLEBITIS INITIALLY PRESENTING AS
INTUSSUSCEPTION IN AN ADULT: A CASE REPORT
Divisions V & VI – Med. Residents & Post-Docs and Cast Histories
First Place: James Reed, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Howard E. Herrell, M.D., Dept. of OB/GYN.
INFLUENCE OF BODY MASS INDEX, HEIGHT, AND AGE ON THE MODE OF
DELIVERY IN NULLIPAROUS WOMEN IN APPALACHIA
Second Place: Hao Pham, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Tony Katras, M.D., Dept. of Surgery.
SIMULTANEOUS REPAIR OF THORACIC AND INFRARENAL ABDOMINAL AORTIC
ANEURYSMS USING ENDOVASCULAR STENT GRAFTS
Oral Presentations
Graduate Students
First Place: Preston Visser, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jameson K. Hirsch, Dept. of Psychology.
DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM AS A MEDIATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ETHNIC IDENTITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS
Second Place: Stacie Woolard, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Uday Kumaraguru, Dept. of Microbiology.
REPROGRAMMING OF IMMUNE RESPONSE IN LATENT HSV INFECTION
Medical Residents and Post-Doctoral Fellows
First Place: Venkataramanan Gangadharan, ETSU.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Roy, Dept. of Internal Medicine.
ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME: A RARE
ASSOCIATION
Second Place: Umbar Ghaffar, ETSU
Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Shuttle, Dept. of Internal Medicine.
THE HIDDEN DIARRHEA CULPRIT: LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS