Please see the listing below of all posters, arranged alphabetically by student last name.
| Name |
Title |
Advisor |
Location |
| Gabrielle Anderson | Tau Regulation of Kinesin Motility During Axonal Transport | Christopher Berger | 25A |
| Kathryn Auten | Systems Biology of Coagulation and Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy | Kalev Freeman | 54A |
| Trevor Avant | Atomistic Simulation Study of Indentation of Nickel Nanowires | Frederic Sansoz | 41A |
| Lauren Blackington | An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an All-Girls and an All-Boys Residential Summer Camp in Fostering Positive Attitudes Toward Women | Jacqueline Weinstock | 35A |
| John Bleh | Why are Some Job Seekers attracted by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Identifying the Signals that CSR Sends to Job Seekers | David Jones | 18A |
| Evelyn Boardman | Factors Controlling Insect Assemblages in Headwater Streams along an Elevation Gradient | Alan McIntosh | 33A |
| Sean Bullis | An Immunohistochemical Analysis of Threonyl-tRNA Synthetase Expression in Patients with High Grade Prostate Cancer | Christopher Francklyn | 6A |
| Christine Burke | Using Photovoice to Explore Maternal Perceptions of Child Health Issues in Bangladesh | Hendrika Maltby | 46A |
| Samantha Case | Effects of small molecules on Candida albicans biofilm formation | Douglas Johnson | 42A |
| Lei Chen | Distributed Consensus Building in Wireless Sensor Networks | Jeff Frolik | 28A |
| Suraj Cherian | Modulation of excitability and olfactory responses in mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons by estrogen | Rona Delay | 17A |
| Sarah Clark | C-fos as a marker for neuronal activity in the cortex of nicotine injected mice | Rae Nishi | 45A |
| Faye Conte | Quality of Life and Food Deserts in Northern Rural Climates | Jane Kolodinsky | 61A |
| Judith Contompasis | Comparative Analysis of Flightin Expression in Crustacea. | Jim Vigoreaux | 14A |
| Joanna Cowen | Treating Patients and Their Stories: An Investigation of Family and Strengths-Based Pediatrics | Holly Busier | 59A |
| Ted Crook | Groundwater investigation in Craftsbury, VT, using integrated geophysical technologies | Laura Webb | 34A |
| Chelsea Davidoff | Current State of the Dairy Farming Industry in Vermont | Jane Kolodinsky | 23A |
| Tiyasha De Pinto | Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization's (CCMPO) Transportation Improvement Project's (TIP) Prioritization Process | Asim Zia | 62A |
| Patrick Dunseith | Impact of Compost Materials on Microbial Community Function for the Management of Plant Pathogens and Weed Seeds | Deborah Neher Weicht | 27A |
| Veronica Foelber | An amino terminal deletion of Drosophila flightin affects flight and courtship behavior. | Jim Vigoreaux | 8A |
| Jenna Foran | Using Comic Strip Conversations to Address Obsessive-Compulsive Hand Washing in an Adolescent with Asperger Syndrome | Tiffany Hutchins | 20A |
| Francisco Garcia-Candelario | A Mechanical Simulator of Cascading Failure in the Power Grid | Paul Hines | 30A |
| Courtney Giles | Utilization of Organic Acid-Producing Pseudomonads to Improve Plant Access to Mineral-Bound Phytate in Soils | Herman Meyers | 39A |
| Talia Glesner | Early Intervention Treatment Court Pilot Program: t A Case Study | Herman Meyers | 38A |
| Hermaine Jean | A Case for a Greater Awareness of Individualized Education: Consequences of Collective Learning in St.Lucia | Katrinell Davis | 31A |
| Lance Jennings | How does land use influence cyclist route choice? A geospatial analysis of commuter routes and cycling facilities. | Brian Lee | 65A |
| Daniel Kent | The Democratic Anchorage of a Complex Adaptive Governance Network | Christopher Koliba | 40A |
| Nikki Kleitzel | Institutionalization: A look at Ceausescu's Legacy and Post-Socialist Romania | Jeanne Shea | 4A |
| Isabel Kloumann | Characterizing the radio frequency timing stability of fast and millisecond pulsars | Joanna Rankin | 53A |
| Cody Lamarche | Optical Microscopy of Discotic Organic Semiconductor Crystalline Films | Madalina Furis | 52A |
| Jacqueline LeBlanc | Classifying Food Hubs | David Conner | 22A |
| Alyson Lindquist | Sexual Dimorphism of Kisspeptin Expression in the Embryonic Avian Hypothalamus | Cynthia Forehand | 43A |
| Wingyin Lo | Diagnostic implications of microRNA expression profile in thyroid cancer | Elzbieta Zakrzewska | 3A |
| Meghan Madden | A Comparison of Physical Environment and Health Status in Urban and Rural Bangladesh | Hendrika Maltby | 47A |
| Jonathan Maddison | Wicked problems in the media: A content analysis of news discourse on tailpipe emissions | Richard Watts | 64A |
| Nicole Maille | Optimizing Purification Techniques for PKG Expression in Mammalian Cells | Wolfgang Dostmann | 10A |
| Cynthia McCormack | Exploring Herbal Remedies in Bangladesh | Hendrika Maltby | 48A |
| Kathryn Morelli | Does Monoclonal Antibody 3F8, a Passive Immunotherapy for Neuroblastoma, Cause Severe Pain Upon Infusion Due To Activating Nociceptive Neurons? | Rae Nishi | 11A |
| Elysia Nelson | Exploring the Connections between Social Capital, Trust, and Environmental Attitudes | Thomas Macias | 63A |
| Leah Novinger | Characterization of tumor associated antigens using a recombinant expression of a patient derived breast cancer cDNA library and autologous serum | David Krag | 19A |
| Parminder Padgett | Examination of the BESTest: reliability and clinical insights | Susan Kasser | 50A |
| Darlene Peterson | L-serine and IMP Synergy in T1R3 Knock Out Mice: Does it Exist? | Eugene Delay | 12A |
| Kyriel Pineault | Changes in LRP-1 Phosphorylation Mediated by Factor V Binding to its Specific Receptor on Megakaryocytes | Beth Bouchard | 36A |
| Meagan Quinlan | Probing the structural determinants of the cyclic nucleotide binding sites of cGMP-dependent protein kinase Iα | Wolfgang Dostmann | 57A |
| Noah Quinlan | Regulation of Reactive Astrocyte-Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells by the Sox2 Transcription Factor | Jeffrey Spees | 13A |
| Brittany Raymond | Exercise is Anxiogenic Before It Is Anxiolytic | John Green | 58A |
| Adam Rhodes-Rogan | DIfferences in Intentions to Quit or Reduce in Medical and Non-Medical users of Marijuana | John Hughes | 56A |
| Theresa Ruswick | The effect of invasive earthworms on historic vegetation plots on Camels Hump, Vermont | Josef Gorres | 32A |
| Vandana Sakamuri | Design of a 2.4 GHz Interrogator for a Rectenna-Based Sensor System | Jeff Frolik | 29A |
| Gregory Smith | Characterization of the Alanyl-tRNA Synthetase Fidelity Mechanism by Kinetic Analysis of Editing Domain Mutants | Christopher Francklyn | 7A |
| Brooke Steeves | COMET | Kalev Freeman | 16A |
| Student Leadership | Independent Study in Student Leadership (Elizabeth Appleby, Samantha Baigelman, Peter Bazinet, Erin Conway, Maya Curtis, Wyatt Fowler, Nicholas Gordon, Laura Kim, Felicia Mensah, Candace Morgan, Thanh Nguyen, Kathleen O'Brien, Hope Salvan, Col Tulien, Virginia Winans, Kelsey Wooley) | | 5A |
| Mark Suozzo | Correlating Laboratory Behavior of Porous Concrete to Field Behavior | Mandar Dewoolkar | 60A |
| Kelly Swindlehurst | Survey of Response to Instruction Implementation in Vermont Middle and High Schools | Herman Meyers | 37A |
| Ethan Thompson | An Economic Analysis of Biogas Powered Electrical Generation on Vermont Dairy Farms | Qingbin Wang | 24A |
| Kathryn Turnbull | Molecular Diversity of Methanogens in the Hindgut of Bactrian Camels (Bactrianus camelus) from Two Zoos | Andre-Denis Wright | 2A |
| Justin Van Backer | Taste induction in mice | Eugene Delay | 44A |
| Bridget Vanzo | Auditor Influence on IFRS Narrative Disclosures within the European Union | Susan Hughes | 1A |
| Lauren Vivian | A Family-Centered Approach for Training Two Parents to use Comic Strip Conversations with their Child with Autism | Tiffany Hutchins | 21A |
| Mathew Wajda | Analysis of courtship behavior in flight muscle mutants of Drosophila melanogaster | Jim Vigoreaux | 15A |
| Breanna Whittaker | Creating Healthier Food Retailers in Rural Vermont: Consumer Perspectives and Store Characteristics | Amy Nickerson | 26A |
| Aaron Witham | Vermont’s Social Network of Organizations Promoting Sustainable Transportation Policy: A Case Study Comparison with Maine and New Hampshire | Richard Watts | 66A |
| Stephanie Young | Searching for Core Emission in Classical Conal Double Pulsars | Joanna Rankin | 51A |
| Jennifer Zangl | Rejection Sensitivity as Mediator Between Stigma and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction | Carol Miller | 55A |
| Evangelia Zgonis | NIMED: Nasogastric Tube Insertion Using Midazolam in the Emergency Department | Kalev Freeman | 9A |
| Kristen Zielinski | Greater lateral displacement of the transversus abdominis muscle and greater pre-treatment lumbar multifidus muscle thickening in people with low back pain associates with greater functional improvement | Sharon Henry | 49A |
| Name |
Title |
Advisor |
Location |
| Nicholas Allgaier | Learning from the Past: Empirical Correction of Models of Natural Chaotic Phenomena | Christopher Danforth | 42B |
| Joshua Auerbach | Evolving Robot Morphologies and Controllers with CPPNs | Joshua Bongard | 27B |
| Samantha Baigelman | Art Education for Juvenile Rehabilitation Center Residents | Christine Campbell | 5B |
| Elias Baldwin | Photographs of Vergennes, Vermont | Mary Beth Barritt | 35B |
| Charlie Beaupied | Screening for Novel Growth Factor Induced cyclic-AMP dependent Proetin Kinase A Interactions | Paula Deming | 58B |
| Florence Becot | Economical impact of food safety certification on diversified farmers in Vermont | David Conner | 24B |
| Bior Bior | Disabled-1 Functions as a Dynamic Switch Regulating Reelin Receptor Endocytic Machinery | Bryan Ballif | 11B |
| Joshua Bouffard | Microcontroller Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | Stephen Titcomb | 30B |
| Anne Brady | Gender Differences in the Association between Child Narcissism and Forms and Functions of Aggressive Behavior | Dianna Murray-Close | 61B |
| Robert Brenna III | I-Sharing and Face-to-Face Encounters with Objectively Dissimilar Others | Elizabeth Pinel | 63B |
| Jessica Cassavaugh | Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3β (GSK3β) Targets Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (HIF-1a) for Proteasomal Degradation During Hypoxia | Karen Lounsbury | 46B |
| Alden Clemments | Development of Particle-Based Imaging and MRI Contrast Agents (Alden Clemments, Alexandra Duncan) | Christopher Landry | 19B |
| Jennifer Colby | Assessing VT Grass-Based Livestock Farms and Agricultural Policy Implications | Robert Parsons | 26B |
| Kyle Concannon | Strategies to Integrate Population Health and Health Policy into Medical Education: Relationships Between Public Health Knowledge and Attitudes in Medical Students. | Jan Carney | 8B |
| Dylan Conger | Using a Predictive Computational Model to Improve the Results of Cooperative Work | Joshua Bongard | 28B |
| Eileen Crehan | The eyes have it: How we know when others are looking at us | Robert Althoff | 21B |
| Amanda DeSenna | Stories from the North Country: Women of Color with HIV/AIDs Living in Rural New England | Sondra Solomon | 68B |
| Margaret Dunn-Carver | Increasing Physical Activity of Preschool Students | Jean Harvey-Berino | 53B |
| Meghan Eddy | The effects of voluntary exercise on discrimination and set-shifting in male Wistar rats. | John Green | 64B |
| Devan Forbes | Compulsory Sterilization of Native Americans and the Racist Motivations Within the Eugenics Movement | Lutz Kaelber | 70B |
| Kate Fournier | The Vermont Legislative Research Service | Curtis Ventriss | 38B |
| Douglas Fox | Optimizing the cellular uptake of porous silicon dioxide microspheres | Christopher Landry | 6B |
| Shirley Frimpong | Analyzing interleukin 21 (IL-21) in CD4 T cell lymphocyte in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients | Mercedes Rincon | 59B |
| Jason Fuchs | Voltage-gated potassium channels in the cerebellum and eyeblink conditioning | John Green | 65B |
| Katherine Gallo | Decreasing Ferromagnetic Interference on the Position and Orientation of a Sensor in a DC Electromagnetic Tracker | Kurt Oughstun | 29B |
| Danielle Geno | Knowledge, Attitudes, Training, and Practice Patterns Involving Theory of Mind: A Survey of School-Based Speech Language Pathologists Providing Services to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Tiffany Hutchins | 23B |
| Jonathan Gonzalez | Grazing history impacts mycorrhizal communities and plant tolerance to simulated herbivore damage | Alison Brody | 57B |
| Samuel Gorton | Design and analysis of biothermal energy generation from forest and agriculture feedstocks (Samuel Gorton, Jason McCune-Sanders) | Donna Rizzo | 47B |
| Ian Goyette | Breaking Quantum Mirrors with Thermal Fluctuations | Dennis Clougherty | 55B |
| Rachel Gregory | Investigation into effect of climate variables on δ¹³C in tree chronologies from Vermont | Shelly Rayback | 33B |
| Charles Hackett | Modulating neural stem cell Fas expression in EAE | | 17B |
| Laura Hermann | The Lived Experience of Siblings of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | | 60B |
| Michael Herrmann | Sexual conflict in hybrid harvester ant reproductives | Sara Cahan | 15B |
| Kristi Herzer | The Stress Response of Microbes to Altered Gravity Conditions: the case of Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Jane Hill | 20B |
| Nathan Jebbett | Differential Effects of Methylmercury and Mercury Chloride on Cytokine-Evoked Stat3 Phosphorylation and Reactive Oxygen Species Formation | Felix Eckenstein | 50B |
| Max Kravitz | Adipocyte Cell Size and Insulin Resistance in Human Obesity | William Tharp | 16B |
| Chelsea Krisanda | Predictors of the Outcome of a Parenting Group Curriculum: A Pilot Study (Justin Parent, Chelsea Krisanda, Fiona Mills, Anna Wright) | Rex Forehand | 67B |
| Stanislaw Krzyzanowski | Induction of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell (VSMC) Gene Expression by Angiotensin II and Platelet Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) via cAMP Response Element Binding Protein (CREB) | Karen Lounsbury | 13B |
| G. Michael LaMuraglia II | Generation of functional lung epithelial cells from embryonic stem cells: a possible therapeutic approach for cystic fibrosis | Daniel Weiss | 9B |
| Tenzin Lhakhang | Interactome of radiation-induced microRNA predicted target genes | Muhammad Chaudhry | 44B |
| Greg Lieberman | The Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on White Matter in the Human Brain as Measured by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Magdalena Naylor | 52B |
| Stephanie McDonough | Effects of a Weight/Health Management Course on Undergraduates' Self Esteem | Lynne Bond | 66B |
| Ashley McKhann | Forecasting Chaos in a Toy Climate | Christopher Danforth | 41B |
| Michelle McNamara | K252a disrupts DRG axon growth in E5 chick embryo | Cynthia Forehand | 49B |
| Brendon Miller | Nanoporous Particles as Encapsulation and Delivery Devices for Enzymatic Decontaminants | Christopher Landry | 18B |
| Kathryn Mitchell | An ethnographic study: Health concerns and innovative solutions of Ugandan women | Sarah Abrams | 69B |
| Christina Moore | Protective Role of Teacher Preference for At Risk Children | Herman Meyers | 40B |
| Richard Nam | The effects of transportation system limitations for low-income households in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. | Jane Kolodinsky | 25B |
| Susan Onderwyzer | Incarcerated Womens' Initiative DETER Program Evaluation | Herman Meyers | 37B |
| Chris Page | Bioremediation Potential of the White Rot Fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, on Solid Wood Chips Augmented with Sweet Whey | Scott Costa | 32B |
| Rebecca Pincus | Research Proposal: Energizing National Security: The US Military Agenda for Energy Policy and National Security | Herman Meyers | 39B |
| Vincenzo Piraino | Roles for PACAP and the PAC1 receptor in anxiety-like behavior in female rats | Donna Toufexis | 34B |
| Hannah Reithinger | Bioenergetics and the Effects of Daily Fluctuating Temperature on the Growth of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) | J. Marsden | 12B |
| Brian Romaner | Acoustic Analysis as a Potential Biomarker of PTSD | Michael Cannizzaro | 51B |
| Jennifer Rousseau | Faculty Research at The University of Vermont: Activities, Approaches & Off‐Campus Involvement | James Mosenthal | 36B |
| Ali Sadeghi | ECG patterns and cognitive outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury | Kalev Freeman | 4B |
| Julia Secker-Walker | Investigating the Interaction and Co-localization of VASP and Abl in Mammalian Cells | Paula Deming | 7B |
| Tamara Stone | Analyzing the Effect of Humidity on Measuring the Size Distribution of Ultrafine Particles | Britt Holmen | 31B |
| Kanayo Tatsumi | Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (CADM1), a Novel Venous Thrombosis Risk Factor, Is Ubiquitously Present in Vascular Endothelium and Smooth Muscle Cells | Edwin Bovill | 45B |
| Nicole Tucker | The effects of right-hemisphere language dominance on disfluencies and rate of speech | Barry Guitar | 22B |
| Jonathan Vick | ATP Excites Mouse Vomeronasal Sensory Neurons | Rona Delay | 14B |
| Mackenzie Walker | Imaging The World | Kalev Freeman | 54B |
| Guorong Wang | Develop Whey Protein-based Safe Liquid Paper Glue | Ming Guo | 2B |
| Erika Weisz | The Influence of Perceived Popularity on the Emergence of Anxious/Depressed Symptoms in Relationally Aggressive Girls | Dianna Murray-Close | 62B |
| Katharine White | Quantifying field and satellite observed forest vegetation phenology of Vermont in response to decadal climate change | Jennifer Pontius | 48B |
| Corrie Wilcox | Hybridization and Food Effects in Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ants | Sara Cahan | 10B |
| Glenn Xiques | Tracking Convergence: The Impact of Public Lobbying on Business Combination Financial Reporting Standards | Susan Hughes | 1B |
| Bethany Yon | School children’s consumption of lower-calorie flavored milk; a plate waste study | Rachel Johnson | 3B |
| Jiarui Zhang | Impact of swimming speed on bacterial adhesion | Jane Hill | 43B |
| Jon Zirkle | Impacts of clover underseeding on Fusarium head blight, deoxynivalenol concentrations, crude protein, and grain yield on organic spring wheat in Vermont | Sidney Bosworth | 56B |
