Graduate Student Research Presentations, Fall 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
3:00 - 6:00pm
Verizon Auditorium, Occoquan Building, Prince William Campus
Poster Session
- Jessica Barker: "Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Mitochondrial Control Region of Wild Tundra and Trumpeter Swan Hybrid Populations in Alaska" (Advisor: Gillevet)
- Farhana Alam: "Modeling MIAME functionality for PROBEFATE - A Gene Expression Microarray Database" (Advisor: Weller)
- Yonas Mehari: "Docking of Cyclodextrin Derivatives to Anthrax Pore" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- Shyam Nathan: "Analysis of LH-PCR Fingerprints using Primers" (Advisor: Gillevet)
- Tahereh Tavakoli: "Fluorescent Feeder Cells for Embryonic Stem Cell Isolation" (Advisor: Seto)
- Pei-Chi Yang: "A Computational Model of NFkB Activation in T Lymphocytes" (Advisor: Jafri)
- Lan Chi Dinh: "Annotation of the Genome of Human Adenovirus Type 34" (Advisor: Seto)
- Kerry Brown (Neuroscience Ph.D.): "The Frequency Dependence of Slow AHP in Nodose Neurons Depends on Calcium Dynamics: A Modeling Study" (Advisor: Jafri)
- Todd Taylor: "Secondary structure assignment based on the Delaunay tessellation of protein structures", "Protein structural domain assignment using Delaunay tessellation", "Graph theoretic properties of networks formed by the Delaunay tessellation of protein structures", "Effective dimensionality of residue contact graphs in the Delaunay tessellation of protein structures", "Discrimination of thermophilic and mesophilic protein orthologs" (Advisor: Vaisman)
M.S. Student Presentations
- Saraswathi Rajamani: "Structure Comparison of Ordered and Disordered Proteins Using Computational Geometry Approach" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- Kishor Tappita: "Hierachical Classification of Environmental Clone Libraries" (Advisor: Gillevet)
Ph.D. Student Presentations
- Brandon Higgs: "Deriving Meaningful Structure from Spectral Embedding" (Advisors: Weller and Solka)
- My-Hanh Nguyen: "A computational model of mitochondrial respiration in cardiac myocytes: the effects of Ca2+, Na+, and pH on energy metabolism" (Advisor: Jafri)
- Majid Masso: "Functional Analysis of the Escherichia coli lac repressor: A Computational Mutagenesis Approach" (Advisor: Vaisman)