TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Seventeenth Annual Undergraduate Biology Research Conference List of Presenters and Their Abstracts Abstracts of Posters Presented II. Undergraduate Biology Research Program 2005-2006 Undergraduate Participants and Their Faculty Sponsors Publications Co-Authored by UBRP Participants Posters and Presentations Made at Professional Meetings Recipients of Travel Awards UBRP Visiting Student Researchers BRAVO! Datablitzes

UBRP Seminars UBRP Field Trips and Social Activities

III. Alumni of the Undergraduate Biology Research Program IV. Outreach Programs in Biology High School Biology Research Apprentice Program The Manduca Project Science Connection

Acknowledgements UBRP and the UBRP Conference are funded in part by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (52003749), the National Institutes of Health (GM072733, GM08718, MD001427), the National Science Foundation (DBI-0242842), the Beckman Foundation, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, faculty sponsors’ research grants, BIO5, and The University of Arizona. We gratefully acknowledge our funding sources.

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THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUALTHE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL

UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY RESEARCH RESEARCH

CONFERENCE CONFERENCE

January 21, 2006

17th Annual Undergraduate Biology Research Conference Life Sciences South Building Saturday, January 21, 2006

8:00 am - 9:00 am Students set up posters Refreshments Room 240 9:00 am - 9:10 am Welcome Carol Bender,

Director, UBRP, BRAVO!

9:10 am - 10:10 am Poster Session I – Life Sciences 2nd and 3rd Floor

(Includes posters by participants in outreach programs) 10:10 am – 10:20 am Mini-awards Ceremony for Outreach Dr. Michael Wells Programs' Participants Professor of Biochemistry * 10:20 am – 11:20 am Poster Session II – Life Sciences

2nd and 3rd Floor 11:20 am – 11:40 am Introduction of Keynote Speaker Dominique Leitner

2nd Floor Atrium UBRP Student Keynote Address – Dr. James Gentile,

"What is Beyond the Horizon for President, Research Life Scientists: Why I Wish I Were Corporation in Your Shoes Now”

11:40 am - 12:40 pm Poster Session III – Life Sciences

2nd and 3rd Floor 12:40 pm – 1:00 pm Presentation of Awards Dr. Michael Wells

Professor of Biochemistry UBRP and the UBRP Conference are funded in part by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (52003749), the National Institutes of Health (GM072733, GM08718, MD001427), the National Science Foundation (DBI-0242842), the Beckman Foundation, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, faculty sponsors’ research grants, BIO5, and The University of Arizona. We gratefully acknowledge our funding sources.

LIST OF UNDERGRADUATE PRESENTERS AND THEIR ABSTRACTS

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE 1. MOUSE BITE YOUR TONGUE? THE ANATOMICAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL PHENOTYPE OF MOUSE

LINGUAL AFFERENTS. Mohammad Abdelwahab, Christopher M. Elitt, Brian M. Davis 2. FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES

DURING POST EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Andrea Aguirre, Kelli Davies, Michael Nodine, Frans Tax

3. COMBINATION CYTOTOXICITY OF APOMINE AND CELECOXIB IN HUMAN A375 MELANOMA CELLS.

Jennifer Avila, Alan Pourpak, Mary Krutzsch, Steven P. Stratton 4. CARBON:NITROGEN:PHOSPHORUS TARGET RATIO ACHIEVED THROUGH COMPENSATORY

EATING BY MANDUCA SEXTA. Jennifer Barker, Goggy Davidowitz, Travis Huxman 5. PREVENTING TUMOR CELL MIGRATION THROUGH THE INHIBITION OF TGF-b SIGNALLING. Adrian

Begaye, Matthew Rausch, Emmanuel Akporiaye 6. Wnt SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN ZEBRAFISH. Adrienne Begaye, Ben Major, Randall Moon 7. SORTING OF OLFACTORY SENSORY AXONS ACCORDING TO THEIR TARGETS IN THE HONEYBEE

BRAIN. John Biebelhausen, Wolfgang Roessler, Leslie Tolbert 8. ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURALLY-CONSERVED REGIONS IN THE CYTOCHROMES C'. Marc Bingaman,

Nathalie Meurice, Gerald Maggiora 9. TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL OF EARLY TRYPSIN IN AEDES AEGYPTI. Michelle Brandon, James

Pennington, Michael Wells 10. UVA-INDUCED MODULATON OF Bcl-XL BY c-Jun N-TERMINAL KINASE (JNK) IN HUMAN

KERATINOCYTES. Olivia Brown, Tim Bowden 11. PULSED EPR STUDIES OF BACTERIAL SULFITE DEHYDROGENASE. Eric Bultman, Andrei Astashkin,

Changjian Feng, John Enemark 12. THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON ALLERGEN PRODUCTION BY ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA. Sara

Bustamante, Barry Pryor 13. AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE SPREAD OF POLITICAL THIRD PARTIES. Karl Calderon,

Clara Orbe, Daniel Romero, Azra Panjwani 14. MICROARRAY ANALYSIS AND IMMUNOTOXICITY OF JP-8 JET FUEL EXPOSURE TO MICE. Daniel

Camacho, Jianhua Wang, Tom Tsang, Xianghui He, David Harris 15. THE EFFECTS OF PARASITISM ON FREQUENCIES OF Acyrthosiphon pisum SECONDARY

SYMBIONTS IN POPULATION CAGES. Jaime Campos, Kerry Oliver, Martha Hunter 16. MAP-BASED CLONING TO IDENTIFY HOT3-1, A GENE INVOLVED IN ACQUIRED

THERMOTOLERANCE IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Joseph Carroll, Ung Lee, Elizabeth Vierling 17. CADHERIN REGULATION OF EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION DURING AVIAN

GASTRULATON. Christina Ceccato, Katharine Hardy, Parker Antin

18. THE EFFECT OF HEAVY METALS ON PRODUCTION OF RHAMNOLIPID BY PSEUDOMONAS

AERUGINOSA. Kevin Chandler, Raina Maier, Jenifer Crispin, Julie Nielson 19. GENETIC AND BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF phiX174 EXTERNAL SCAFFOLDING PROTEIN. James

Cherwa, Bentley Fane 20. EFFECTS OF DIFFERENTIAL DISTAL-LESS 5 EXPRESSION ON THE DEVELOPING INNER EAR IN

XENOPUS LAEVIS. Andrew Clark, Christina Kwong, Lauren Myers, Sonia Jin, Gail Burd 21. CLARIFYING THE ROLE OF THE SYNOVIAL SARCOMA GENE SYT-SSX1 IN TUMORIGENESIS. Daniel

Combs, Lee Cranmer, Katrina Trevor 22. DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW METHOD TO QUANTITATIVELY MEASURE ADP-RIBOSE POLYMERS.

Omar Contreras, Donna Coyle, Myron Jacobson 23. FUNCTION OF SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 17.8-CI FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Jennifer

Corrigan, Elizabeth Vierling, Eman Basha 24. EVOLUTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: STUDY OF T-CELL RECEPTOR GENES IN SHARKS. Roman

Covarrubias, Samuel Schluter, Sarika Kshirsagar, John Marchalonis 25. EXPRESSION OF COLLAGEN 1 AND COLLAGEN 2 IN DEDIFFERENTIATED CHONDROCYTES. Laurel

Cox, Andrew Schnepp, Jerry Antone, John Szivek 26. PHENOTYPIC EFFECTS OF HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN OVEREXPRESSION ON ARABIDOPSIS

THALIANA. Megan Craighead, Elizabeth Vierling, Eman Basha 27. POPULATION GENETICS OF BETA HEMOGLOBIN LOCI IN HOUSE MICE. Agustina D'Urso, Tovah

Salcedo, Michael Nachman 28. PHENOTYPIC ANLAYSIS OF THE TOADSTOOL RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE GENES IN ARABIDOPSIS

THALIANA. Kelli Davies, Michael Nodine, Frans Tax 29. EXPERIMENTALLY DETERMINED MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF ARTICULAR CARTILAGE. David

Denuyl, Cody Bliss, John Szivek 30. REAL-TIME PCR ANALYSIS OF GLUCOSE REGULATORY GENES AND DIABETIC INCIDATORS IN

LYMPHOCYTES. Rachel Diaz, A. Jay Gandolfi 31. BILE ACIDS AND CELL DIFFERENTIATION. Barbora Dvorakova, Claire Payne, Hana Holubec, Katerina

Dvorak 32. ROLE OF NF-kB IN UVB-IRRADIATED KERATINOCYTES POST-TREATED WITH (-)-

EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-GALLATE. Aluvia Escalante, Terry Landowski, Simon Cooper, Steven Stratton 33. OPTIMIZATION OF PROMOTERS FOR TRICHOME SENSE-RNAi. Alice Ferng, Chonglie Ma, Richard

Jorgensen 34. A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE CARTILAGE DISEASE. Christopher

Geffre, John Szivek, David Margolis 35. IDENTIFICATION OF COMPONENTS OF THE ALPHA-PS2 INTEGRIN SIGNALING PATHWAY. Marlea

Gemmel, Alison Jannuzi, Danny Brower 36. STOP CODON LABILITY IN YEAST. Michael Giacomelli, Adam Hancock, Joanna Masel

37. A NOVEL DERIVATIVE OF VITAMIN E FOR TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER. Mikhal Gold, Tobias

Hahn, Lalitha Ramanathapuram, Emmanuel Akporiaye 38. POST-MONSOON FLOWERING PHENOLOGY IN THE SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS. Jennifer Graber,

Judith Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz, Travis Huxman, Ruben Alarcon 39. RAPID SCREENING ASSAY OF GAP JUNCTION SELECTIVITY USING ORGANIC CATION AND ANION

TRANSPORTERS. Arturo Guzman, Janis Burt, Tasha Nelson, Ann Ragland, Nathaneal Heyman, Jose Ek Vitorin.

40. NON-CODING KA/KS IN YEAST. Adam Hancock, Mike Giacomelli, Joanna Masel 41. THE ROLE OF CATALASE IN EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR SIGNALING Neale Hanke,

Joanne Finch, G. Timothy Bowden 42. EFFECTS OF LITHIUM ON GLUCOSE TRANSPORT AND DISTAL INSULIN SIGNALING IN SKELETAL

MUSCLE OF INSULIN-SENSITIVE LEAN ZUCKER RATS. Nicholas Harrell, Nancy Gifford, Mary Teachey, and Erik Henriksen

43. HADAMARD TRANSFORM CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS IN BIOANALYSIS. Sarae Hatch, Kevin

Braun, Suminda Hapuarachchi, Craig Aspinwall 44. DESMIN COIL-IB IS CRITICAL FOR ITS INTERACTION WITH NEBULIIN AND Z-LINE TARGETING.

Syerra Henderson, Gloria Conover, Carol Gregorio 45. USING IMMEDIATE EARLY GENES TO STUDY BEHAVIOR INDUCED SPATIAL MEMORY IN THE RAT

HIPPOCAMPUS AND ASSOCIATED BRAIN STRUCTURES. Linzy Hendrickson, Arvind Satyanarayan, Bruce McNaughton, Monica Chawla

46. DETERMINING THE ROLE OF NOTCH IN TRIOPS LONGICAUDATUS. Renita Ho, Lisa Nagy 47. FLOW RATE AND INTIMAL THICKENING OF A SMALL-DIAMETER BLOOD VESSEL MIMIC. Heidi

Hofer, Kristen Cardinal, Alice Stone, Stuart Williams 48. THE ROLE OF POLYAMINES IN THE STABILITY OF COX-2 mRNA. Karen Kachel, Upal Basuroy, April

Childs, Eugene Gerner 49. SURVEY FOR ENDOSYMBIONTS IN FIG WASPS. July Kelley, Carlos Machado, Wendy Marussich 50. POPULATION DYNAMICS OF TLR5 IN HUMANS. Soofia Khan, Gabriela Wlasiuk, Michael Nachman 51. SUSTAINED MORPHINE EXPOSURE ENHANCES BOTH BONE CANCER-INDUCED PAIN AND BONE

LOSS. Kiran Kumar, Anna Vardanyan, Tamara King, Frank Porreca 52. EVOLUTION OF AVIAN COLOR PATTERNS: DEVELOPMENTAL CO-REGULATION OF FEATHER

GROWTH AND COLORATION IN SEXUAL ORNAMENTATION. Elizabeth Landeen, Alexander Badyaev 53. THE EFFECTS OF ELECTROPORATION ON WOUND HEALING USING A PORCINE MODEL. Justin

Ledesma, Judith Ulreich, Zachary Filip, Donald Speer, Michael Demeure, Amanda Valles, N.B.Dev, P.M. Goldfarb, D.P. Rabussay

54. HAMSTER PARVOVIRUS AND MOUSE PARVOVIRUS-3: VARIANTS OF A SINGLE VIRAL SPECIES

THAT DISPLAY SIMILAR PATHOGENESIS IN MICE. Emily Marcus, Michael Becker, April Wagner, J. Romero, David Besselsen

55. FISHING FOR PARASITES: CULTURING PERUVIAN GIARDIA ISOLATES. Charles Martinez III, Charles Sterling, Rodney Adam, Robert Gilman

56. MHC AND MATE CHOICE IN NATURAL MICE POPULATIONS. Jesselyn Melcher-Post, Matthew Dean,

Michael Nachman 57. THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON NESTING BEHAVIOR IN ANTS. Rachel Mitchell, Anna Dornhaus 58. DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MOUSE MODEL OF NECROTIZING ENTOROCOLITIS.

Dania Molla Hosseini, Sarah Doelle, Jessica Clark, Kelly Aganbright, Melissa Halpern, Bohuslav Dvorak 59. THE EFFECTS OF MEMANTINE ON SPATIAL MEMORY IMPAIRMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH AGING.

Zaneta Navratilova, Sara Burke, Andrew Maurer, Bruce McNaughton, Carol Barnes 60. DROSOPHILA CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM GENE-EXPRESSION PROFILES DURING

METAMORPHOSIS. Julia Nimlos, Kaitlin Shupe, Linda Restifo 61. STUDY OF FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Rafee Obaidi,

Dongfang Wang, Mark Tyson, Shawn Jackson, Ramin Yadegari 62. ROSIGLITAZONE REDUCES PLATELET AGGREGATION IN TYPE 2 DIABETES. Garrett Pacheco, Loren

Miller, Grace Davis-Gorman, Paul McDonagh 63. SURVEY OF MITOCHONDRIAL RNA IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE AFTER NUCLEAR GENE

DELETIONS. Alok Patel, Carol Dieckmann, Melissa Dellos 64. CONTRIBUTION OF YAGZ PILI TO THE ADHERENCE PROPERTIES OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC

ESCHERICHIA COLI. Christine Poach, Maria Rendon, Jorge Giron 65. METABOLISM AND WATER BALANCE IN ARIZONA GRASSHOPPERS. Ben Pri'Tal, J. Bunkelmann,

Goggy Davidowitz, Alan Gibbs 66. IS MORE ALWAYS BETTER: THE EFFECT OF DATURA WRIGHTII LEAF SIZE ON MANDUCA SEXTA.

Rebecca Ruppel, Judith Bronstein, Travis Huxman, Goggy Davidowitz 67. CONDITIONING OF THE GIANT SPHINX MOTH, MANDUCA SEXTA. Naghmeh Saghafi, Tom

Christensen 68. BEHAVIORALLY INDUCED EXPRESSION OF NEUROPEPTIDE Y AND ARC IN YOUNG AND AGED

RODENTS. Michael Schaner, Diano Marrone, Monica Chawla, Marsha Penner, Paul Worley, Carol Barnes

69. EFFECT OF STIMULUS WIDTH ON THE SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST ILLUSION. Veronica Shi,

Stephen Macknik, Xoana Troncoso, Susana Martinez-Conde 70. CENTRAL INJECTION OF SENKTIDE, AN NK3 RECEPTOR AGONIST, INCREASES TAIL SKIN

TEMPERATURE IN THE OVARIECTOMIZED ESTROGEN-TREATED RAT. Elizabeth Shih, Naomi Rance 71. GENE-EXPRESSION PROFILING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BROAD COMPLEX TARGET GENES

INVOLVED IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM REMODELING DURING DROSOPHILA METAMORPHOSIS. Kaitlin Shupe, Julia Nimlos, Linda Restifo

72. POSITIONAL CLONING OF THE mop1 GENE OF MAIZE. Kristin Sikkink, Josh White, Lyudmila

Sidorenko, Vicki Chandler

73. COUPLED PROTON-ELECTRON PROCESSES AT OXO-MOLYBDENUM CENTERS. Rae Ana Snyder, Andrei Ashstashkin, Pablo Bernardson, Dennis Evans, John Enemark

74. ANTI-TNF-a TREATMENT REDUCES EXPERIMENTAL NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS IN A RAT

MODEL. Anna Stagner, Sarah Doelle, Jessica Clark, Charity Reynolds, Melissa Halpern, Bohuslav Dvorak

75. MECHANISM OF PNA TRANSPORT TO THE NUCLEAR COMPARTMENT. Lenka Stankova, Amy

Ziemba, Zhanna Zhilina Scot Ebbinghaus 76. AMMONIA METABOLISM IN VITRO IN AEDES AEGYPTI FAT BODY USING STABLE ISOTOPE

LABELING. Kelsey Thorson, Patricia Scaraffia, Qingfen Zhang,Vicki Wysocki, Michael Wells. 77 LIGAND DISCOVERY THROUGH CELL ADHESION ASSAYS: A NOVEL METHOD FOR TARGETING

CANCER. Maria Trissal, Robert Gillies, David Morse, Josef Vagner, Victor Hruby 78. SEEING AT THE NANOSCALE: AN ACCOUNT OF DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND

CHARACTERIZATION OF INSTRUMENTATION FOR NANOPARTICLE AND SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS. Jason Tyler, Michael Blumenfeld, Oliver Monti

79. STUDY OF FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS. Mark Tyson, Dongfang Wang,

Rafee Obaidi, Ramin Yadegari 80. STUDYING THE FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF THE NEBULOUS MUSCLE PROTEIN, NEBULIN.

Melinda Valichnac, Abigail McElhinny, Carol Gregorio 81. HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF THE HERBAL REMEDIES MILK THISTLE AND SCHIZANDRA IN A

RAT MODEL OF INFLAMMATORY LIVER DISEASE. Amanda Valles, Aaron Clark, Jaspreet Singh, Jacqueline Clary, Amtul-Noor Qureshi, Charanjit Singh, Judith Ulreich

82. IDENTIFYING SNP PATTERNS IN NON-CODING LOCI TO REVEAL ANCIENT HYBRIDIZATION EVENTS

BETWEEN EXPANDING ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS AND AN ARCHAIC HUMAN GROUP. Lissette Velasquez, Michael Hammer

83. PHENOTYPIC ANALYSIS OF THE RESCUE OF AN eye3 MUTATION IN CHLAMYDOMONAS. Melissa

Wandoloski, Telsa Mittelmeier, Michael Pham, Dylan Odam and Carol Dieckmann 84. EFFECTS OF Dlx5 KNOCK-DOWN WITH MORPHOLINO ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES ON

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOSE, EYE, AND JAW IN THE AFRICAN CLAWED FROG, XENOPUS LAEVIS. Sarah Whitley, Preeth Kumar, Gail Burd

85. THE GENETICS OF HUMAN PIGMENTATION. Christine Williams, Jason Fabian, Justin B Garrison,

Murray Brilliant

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UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMUNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM

20052005--20062006

UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND FACULTY SPONSORS

2005-2006

UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY SPONSOR Raja Antoine Dr. Mary Peterson Tara Archuleta Dr. Mark Haussler Jennifer Avila Dr. Steve Stratton Jennifer Barker Dr. Goggy Davidowitz Leonid Bartik Dr. Mark Haussler Adrienne Begaye Dr. Josephine Lai, Dr. Randall Moon

John Biebelhausen Dr. Leslie Tolbert and Dr. Wolfgang Roessler

Marc Bingaman Dr. Gerald Maggiora Kvar Black Dr. Robert Gillies Meghan Boros Dr. Scott Ebbinghaus

Michelle Brandon Dr. Michael Wells Tyler Brown Dr. Joseph Mills Eric Bultman Dr. John Enemark Melissa Callahan Dr. Michael Wells Jaime Campos Dr. Molly Hunter

Christina Ceccato Dr. Parker Antin Kevin Chandler Dr. Raina Maier James Cherwa Dr. Bentley Fane Daniel Combs Dr. Lee Cranmer, Dr. Katrina Trevor Jonathan Cooper Dr. Robert Gillies Laurel Cox Dr. John Szivek Megan Craighead Dr. Elizabeth Vierling

Brynne Crowell Dr. Carol Barnes, Dr. Giancarlo Pepeu Kelli Davies Dr. Frans Tax David Denuyl Dr. John Szivek Melissa Drake Dr. Gail Burd Rebecca Duncan Dr. Mani Ramaswami Aluvia Escalante Dr. Steve Stratton, Dr. Gavin Collett Chris Geffre Dr. John Szivek Marlea Gemmel Dr. Danny Brower Julie Gerace Dr. James Hagler, Dr. Robin Harris Michael Giacomelli Dr. Joanna Monti-Masel Kathryn Giroux Dr. Julio Betancourt Mikhal Gold Dr. Emmanuel Akporiaye Emily Goldberg Dr. Howard Ochman Jennifer Graber Dr. Judith Bronstein Adam Hancock Dr. Joanna Monti-Masel

Neale Hanke Dr. G. Tim Bowden

UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY SPONSOR Stephanie Hartz Dr. Josephine Lai Sarae Hatch Dr. Craig Aspinwall Syerra Henderson Dr. Carol Gregorio Poarche Hicks Dr. Chris Rensing Renita Ho Dr. Lisa Nagy Heidi Hofer Dr. Stuart Williams Derek Hollman Dr. Katrina Miranda Michael Holmes Dr. Nate McMullen Shawn Jackson Dr. Ramin Yadegari, Dr. Anna Koltunow Karen Kachel Dr. Eugene Gerner July Kelley Dr. Carlos Machado S. Kent Kemmish Dr. Danny Brower James Knitter Dr. Margaret Smith Kiran Kumar Dr. Frank Porrreca Brooke LaFlamme Dr. Therese Markow, and

Dr. Takema Fukatsu Larry Layne Dr. Eugene Mash Kim Hong Le Dr. Jonathan Wispe Justin Ledesma Dr. Judith Ulreich Dominque Leitner Dr. John Hildebrand Andrew Lemieux Dr. Erik Henriksen, Dr. Juleen Zierath Vivian Lien Dr. Giovanni Bosco Allison Lowe Dr. Hanna Fares Alexandra Maldonado Dr. John Koprowski Emily Marcus Dr. David Besselsen Douglas Mathern Dr. Mark Haussler Rene Michel Dr. Frans Tax

Rachel Mitchell Dr. Judith Bronstein Dania Molla Hosseini Dr. Bohuslav Dvorak Shane Morrison Dr. Vahe Bandarian Celine Nardi Dr. Mark Witten Zaneta Navatolova Dr. Carol Barnes Michael Neish Dr. Dominic McGrath Dylan Odam Dr. Carol Dieckmann Kathryn O’Dell Dr. Marilyn Halonen Rafee Obaidi Dr. Ramin Yadegari Alicia Ortega Dr. Eric Vu, Dr. Richard Levine Melissa Panagos Dr. Robert Gillies Allison Peluso Dr. Scott Boitano Janelle Pence Dr. Bradley Moore Matthew Petersen Dr. Mary Wirth Christine Poach Dr. Jorge Giron, Dr. Alan Phillips Iris Postelnicu Dr. Elizabeth Vierling Emily Prendergast Dr. Robert Gilman

UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY SPONSOR Ben Pri’ Tal Dr. Stephen Chown, Dr. Alan Gibson Ashley Richie Dr. Megan McEvoy Megan Rude Dr. Philip Malan Rebecca Ruppel Dr. Judith Bronstein Naghmeh Saghafi Dr. Tom Christensen Christine Salibay Dr. Victor Hruby Elizabeth Salvagio Dr. Mary Peterson, Dr. Terry Daniel Basil Schaheen Dr. Hanna Fares Lara Schaheen Dr. Hanna Fares Michael Schaner Dr. Carol Barnes Elizabeth Shih Dr. Naomi Rance Kristin Sikkink Dr. Vicki Chandler Rae Ana Snyder Dr. John Enemark Anna Stagner Dr. Bohuslav Dvorak Lenka Stankova Dr. Scot Ebbinghaus Sarah Statt Dr. Ronald Lukas, Dr. Scott Kroken Sarah Sweeney Dr. Giovanni Bosco Sabrina Sykes Dr. Roger Meisfeld Kate Taralova Dr. Bill Montfort Matthew Terry Dr. Eugene Gerner Kelsey Thorson Dr. Michael Wells Maria Trissal Dr. Robert Gillies Jason Tyler Dr. Oliver Monti Mark Tyson Dr. Ramin Yadegari Amanda Valles Dr. Judith Ulreich Melinda Valichnac Dr. Carol Gregorio Lissette Velasquez Dr. Michael Hammer Christine Williams Dr. Murray Brilliant Varma Rose Williams Dr. Chris Rensing Daniel Wood Dr. Jesse Martinez Peter Ziegler Dr. Ted Trouard

UBRP/MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS

(MARC) STUDENTS 2005-2006

UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY SPONSOR Mohammed Abdelwahab Dr. Leslie Tolbert Adrian Begaye Dr. Emmanuel Akporiaye Andrea Aguirre Dr. Frans Tax, Dr. Pierre Hilson Olivia Brown Dr. Tim Bowden Sara Bustamante Dr. Barry Pryor Karl Calderon Dr. Michael Hammer Roman Covarrubias Dr. Jack Marchalonis Omar Contreras Dr. Myron Jacobson Adrian De Alba Dr. Danzhou Yang Rachel Diaz Dr. Margaret Smith Arturo Guzman Dr. Janis Burt Nick Harrell Dr. Erik Henriksen Charles Martinez III Dr. Rodney Adam, Dr. Robert Gilman Nikki Naff Dr. Michael Hammer Garrett Pacheco Dr. Paul McDonagh

UBRP VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHERS, 2005

BRAVO!

ANDREA AGUIRRE

Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Worked with Dr. Pierre Hilson in the Department of Plant Systems Biology

JOHN BIEBELHAUSEN University of Wuerzburg Wuerzburg, Germany

Worked with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Roessler in the Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology

BRYNNE CROWELL University of Florence

Florence, Italy Worked with Dr. Giancarlo Pepeu in the Department of Pharmacology

ALUVIA ESCALANTE The Queen’s University

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Worked with Dr.Gavin Collett in the Institute of Clinical Science, Department of Surgery

SHAWN JACKSON CSIRO Plant Industry, Adelaide University

Glen Osmond, Australia Worked with Dr. Anna Koltunow in the CSIRO Plant Industry Adelaide Laboratory, Waite Campus

BROOKE LAFLAMME National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Tsukuba, Japan Worked with Dr. Takema Fukatsu in the Biological Interactions and Symbiosis Research Group

ANDREW LEMIEUX Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden

Worked with Dr. Juleen Zierath in the Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Integrative Physiology

CHARLES MARTINEZ III Universidad Peruana Cayetano-Heredia and PRISMA

Lima, Peru Worked with Dr. Robert Gilman in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University

CHRISTINE POACH Royal Free and University College Medical School

London, England, UK Worked with Dr. Alan Phillips in the Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology

EMILY PRENDERGAST Universidad Peruana Cayetano-Heredia and PRISMA

Lima, Peru Worked with Dr. Robert Gilman in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University

BEN PRI’TAL Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Worked with Professor Stephen Chown in the Centre for Invasion Biology

BRAVO! DATABLITZES 2005

January19, 2005

DANIELLE NEVAREZ Examining Mutant Fruit in Spain: The Sequel February 7, 2005

PIETER ROWLETTE Windmills, Cheese and Chocolate: Wastewater Cleanup Using Anaerobic Bacteria

STEPHANIE FREEMAN Sludge and Sequencing at Wageningen University;

Characterization of a Sulfate Reducing Microbial Community

September 20, 2005

ANDREW LEMIEUX Integrative Physiology: The Future of Diabetes Research

BROOKE LAFLAMME “Have Banana, Will Travel: Drosophila Endosymbiont Research in Japan”

October 18, 2005

CHRISTINE POACH “Contribution of YagZ Pili to the Adherence Properties of Enteropathogenic E Coli”

ALUVIA ESCALANTE “Curcumin and Colon Cancer: Spicing Up Life in Belfast”

October 20, 2005

JOHN BIEBELHAUSEN “All Mixed Up: Olfactory Receptor Neuron Axon Sorting in the Honeybee Brain”

ANDREA AGUIRRE “Getting Lost in the Land of smORFs: Qualitative Analysis of

the Small Open Reading Frames CLE4 and CLE41 in Arabidopsis”

October 21, 2005

EMILY PRENDERGAST “Peru, PCR, and the Procine Parasite: Molecular Tools for Diagnosing Taenia Solium”

CHARLES MARTINEZ “Fishing for Parasites: Culturing Peruvian Giardia Isolates”

UBRP SEMINARS 2005

February 28, 2005 “Conversations with UBRP Faculty”

Dr. Jay Gandolfi, Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Dr. Mary Kay O’Rourke , Associate Professor, Community & Environmental Policy,

Dr. John Koprowski, Associate Professor, Wildlife & Fisheries

March 1, 2005 “Conversations with UBRP Faculty”

Dr. Frank Porreca, Professor, Pharmacology

Dr. Jaswinder Ghuman , Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Dr. Josette Weibrecht , Psychiatrist and UBRP Alum

Dr. Robin Harris, Associate Professor, Public Health

May 25, 2005 “Elements of a Scientific Poster”

Melissa Callahan, Undergraduate, Lewis & Clark College, Oregon June 15, 2005 “Making a Scientific Presentation”

Dr. Michael Wells, Regents Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

June 22, 2005 “Unraveling the Mysteries of Graduate School”

Ujwal Seth, PhD Student

Ray Moellering, PhD Student and UBRP Alum

Dr. Carol Gregorio, Associate Professor, Cell Biology & Anatomy and UBRP Faculty Sponsor

Dr. Bentley Fane Professor, Veterinary Science & Microbiology and UBRP Faculty Sponsor

June 29, 2005 “Breast Cancer Research at UA”

Dr. Joyce Schroeder, Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology and UBRP Faculty Sponsor

UBRP SEMINARS 2005, continued July 1, 2005 “Writing a Press Release: The Update”

Jeff Harrison, Manager Media Relations, UA News Services July 20, 2005 “Glucocorticoid Signaling in Airway Inflammation: An Example of Translational

Research”

Dr. Roger Meisfeld, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and UBRP Faculty Sponsor

Dr. John Bloom, Associate Professor, Pharmacology

UBRP FIELD TRIPS AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 2005

May Field Trip: Mt Lemmon with Jose “Pepe” Iniguez, UA Tree Ring Lab and

Kate Hodge, artist and UA MFA student Field Trip: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Tour

June Annual Saguaro Harvest with Stella Tucker, our Tohono O’odham guide July Field Trip: Coolidge, Cows & Ultrasound with Dr. Roy Ax, Animal

Sciences, assisted by UA Animal Sciences graduate student, Bonnie Jones

Field Trip: Mt Lemmon Revegetation Workshop: Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools with Dr. Eric Sayers Field Trip: Center for Computing & information Technology (CCIT) Cave with Marvin Landis Research Specialist Field Trip: Ambros Nogales Revegetation Project Field Trip: Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum at Night

August Poster Session and Closing Ceremony for NSF REU, Beckman Scholars,

High School Students and others October Field Trip: Behind the Scenes at the Reid Park Zoo December Presentations and Lab Tours by San Miguel High School Students

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High School Biology Research Apprentice Program (HSBRAP) After a hiatus of several years, HSBRAP was reinstituted during the summer of 2005. In its new form, the program focuses on two schools, Tucson High Magnet School (THMS) and San Miguel Catholic High School. During the summer of 2005, Six THMS students worked in UA research labs. Students in the program were supported by a supplement to our NSF REU grant (DBI 0242842) and by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI 52003749). The San Miguel students started their experience in August 2005 and their support comes from the UA College of Science. What follows is a list of the students’ names, the school they attend and their faculty mentor(s).

2005

Ilianna Ceniceros Dr. Frans Tax Nathan Fitzgibbon Dr. Kevin Bonine German Fong–Kee Dr. Robert Downs Nikki Frahm Dr. Roy Ax Niles Frazier Dr. Rich Jorgensen Jesus Hernandez Dr. Michael Wells Lindsay Liebson Dr. Roberto Guzman Jorge Palacios Dr. Wufila Gronenberg Jacob Schmidt Dr. Dan Papaj Sophia Tekle Dr. Mark Witten

THE MANDUCA PROJECT

For the past fourteen years, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics has been engaged in an elementary school, educational outreach program known as “The Manduca Project.” The program was developed through the collaborative efforts of many teachers and scientists. Development was guided by the philosophy that teachers are the educational experts and scientists are resources ripe for exploitation. The Manduca Project, although originally intended as a science project on insect development, has evolved into an integrative program involving lessons in mathematics, art, science, computer technology, and the language arts. Graduate students and research associates, especially women and Hispanic scientists, routinely visit the local schools to provide information and to serve as role models. Since its inception, hundreds of children have taken part in the project. Teachers report that the children become so excited with the caterpillars and their lessons that they involve their parents in the project. Additional information on the Manduca Project can be found on the web: http://www.manducaproject.com. Elementary school teachers can obtain the knowledge and materials to conduct the project in their classrooms, including where to order Manduca sexta eggs and diet. In July 2005, a weeklong workshop for elementary school teachers was offered at the University, taught by TUSD teacher, Patricia Weaver, Curriculum Specialist at Mission View Elementary School, and TUSD teacher, Cecilia Valenzuela, Davis Bilingual Elementary School. Both teachers have considerable experience in running this project and have developed a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Manduca sexta and its life cycle in the elementary curriculum. Twelve teachers from eight elementary schools and four school districts participated. Listed below are the teachers who took the summer workshop.

2005 Manduca Project Teachers

Erika Aguirre – Hollinger Elementary School Isabel Allison – Drexel Elementary School

Deborrah Black – Bloom Elementary School Sandra Blitz – Lyons Elementary School Kathy Cuprak – Collier Elementary Scool

Robert Dennis – DeGrazia Elementary School Stephanie Hayes– Walker Elementary School

Margaret O’Sullivan – DeGrazia Elementary School Jeri Spears – Rogers Elementary School

Graciela Varela – Hollinger Elementary School Linda Velazquez – Drexel Elementary School

Jane West – DeGrazia Elementary School

VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHERS

SUMMER 2005 The Undergraduate Biology Research Program, in an effort to make the resources of this institution available to undergraduate science majors at other institutions, particularly small liberal arts colleges, offers a 12-week summer research program for non-UA students. Funding for this program comes from the National Science Foundation and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Listed below are the students who were Visiting Student Researchers for 2005, with their home institutions and UA faculty sponsors.

Melissa Callahan Lewis & Clark College, Oregon

Dr. Michael Wells, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Rebecca Duncan Lewis & Clark College, Oregon

Dr. Mani Ramaswami, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Dylan Odam St. John’s College, New Mexico

Dr. Carol Dieckmann, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Larry Layne Shimer College, Illinois

Dr. Eugene Mash, Chemistry

Kathryn O’Dell Berry College, Georgia

Dr. Marilyn Halonen, Pharmacology

Matthew Terry Ursinus College, Pennsylvania

Drs. Eugene Gerner and Anne Pollack, Arizona Cancer

Varma Rose Williams Widener University, Pennsylvania

Dr. Chris Rensing, Soil, Water and Environmental Science

SCIENCE CONNECTION

Science Connection, initiated in 1991 by UBRP participant Robert West, is an outreach program to pre-college classrooms in the Tucson metropolitan area that is in its 14th year. The goal of Science Connection is to help undergraduates share their enthusiasm for science with children and to make the undergraduates aware of current issues in science education and teaching as a possible career choice. The main thrust of the program is for undergraduate students to visit local schools to do hands-on science activities on topics that range from astronomy through zoology. Information about the course (MCB 491) and volunteer program can be found at the Science Connection webpage <http://sciconn.mcb.arizona.edu/>.

2005 Science Connection Participants

Mohammad Abdelwahab

Stephen Arnason Ivan Borbon

Crystal Bronson. Natalie Brown Natalie Budak

Laurel Burnham Maureen Comeau

Jennifer Crowe Sarah Dawson Jessica Duarte

Sarah Hathaway Emily Hobart

Steven Humble Adam Hutter Vivian Lien Troy Maikis

Amanda O’Donnell Nick Pigg

Valerie Piotrowski Maria Trissal Diana Wong

Rachel Zenuk