2012 Annual Conference
The Westin Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 1-3, 2012
Program and Presentations: Thanks to everyone who showed up for the 2012 Annual Conference! The meeting was a great success. We appreciate everyone's participation and contributions.
Awards
2012 Awards Presentation
- Bioethics Essay Semi-finalists –
- First Place– Andrew Koivuniemi, IU School of Medicine/Purdue University
- Second Place – Joan Zhang, University of Maryland
- Third Place – Maeve McCoy, University of Maryland
- Honorable Mention – Vanessa Niba, University of Maryland
- Honorable Mention – Andrew Wesley, University of Maryland
- Poster Competition – Undergraduate Winners
- Grand Prize (Sponsored by KSBB) – The use of nanoparticles in the detection of microcystin-LR with electrochemical sensors
Madeline Porterfield (Purdue University), Eric McLamore, Prachee Chaturvedi, Masashige Taguchi, Stephanie Burrs, Katelyn Ward
Purdue University & University of Florida - First Place – Inhibiting the formation of amyloid-&beta fibrils using isoflavones with increasing hydroxyl functionalization
Brittani Bungart, Jui-Heng, Will Reed, James C-M Lee, Melissa Moss (mentor)
University of South Carolina - Second Place – Isolation, characterization, and genomic comparison of MrGordo, a novel soil-derived mycobacteriophage
Sean Kearney, Joe Bretzmann, Madeline Cox, Emilia Czyszczon, Mark De La Croix, Kayla Fouch, Jonathan Gritzer, Sean Hendrix
Purdue University - Third Place - Development and characterization of a polycaprolactone/soy lecithin electrospun adhesion barrier
– Evan Buettmann, Ryan Prsha, Daniel Els, Katie Hocker; Matt Cozad, Dave Grant, Sheila Grant University of Missouri, Columbia
- Grand Prize (Sponsored by KSBB) – The use of nanoparticles in the detection of microcystin-LR with electrochemical sensors
- Poster Competition – Graduate Winners
- Grand Prize (Sponsored by KSBB) - A multiplexed microfluidic platform for antibiotic susceptibility screening
Paul Kenis, Ritika Mohan, Arnab Mukherjee, Jaebum Lee, Emre Sevgan, Charles M. Schroeder University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - First Place – Metagenome analysis of a methanogenic community within an algae fed anaerobic digester
Joshua Ellis, Cody Tramp, Ronald C. Sims, Charles D. Miller
Utah State University - Second Place – Directed evolution of bright mutants of a flavin-binding oxygen-independent fluorescent reporter protein from pseudomonas putida
Arnab Mukherjee, Kevin Weyant, Charles M. Schroeder
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Third Place – Investigating the effects of dynamic external stimuli on single cell fitness and gene expression in Escherichia coli
Utsav Agrawal, Eric M. Johnson- Chavarria, Melikhan Tanyeri, Charles M. Schroeder
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
- Grand Prize (Sponsored by KSBB) - A multiplexed microfluidic platform for antibiotic susceptibility screening
- Poster Competition – High School Winners
- First Place Tie – Photoluminescent Evolution of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in PLC6 Media
Manuel Flores-Bonilla (Uniondale High School) - First Place Tie – The impact of bio-plastic secretion on cell viability
Elizabeth Osei (Uniondale High School) - Honorable Mention Ayodele Dechinea, Katherine De Paz, Sophia Powell (Uniondale High School)
- First Place Tie – Photoluminescent Evolution of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in PLC6 Media
- JBE Awards
- Most Access Publication – "Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts"
Reshma P. Shetty, Drew Endy, Thomas F. Knight
- Most Access Publication – "Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts"
- Presidential Citations – citations are awarded to individuals who have volunteered their time and expertise to IBE to ensure the continued success of the organization.
- Czarena Crofcheck
- Mark Eiteman
- Sandun Fernando
- Danielle Frechette
- Charles Kinoshita
- Praveen Kolar
- Eric McLamore
- Melissa Moss
- Mark Riley
- Kirsten Sims
- Jeong-Yeol Yoon
- Guigen Zhang
- Paul Lichtman
Photos
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