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PRISE 2008 -- FINAL PRESENTATION SCHEDULING MATRIX
PRISE Program
Assistant
Scheduler                    STEPHANIE LO                  SCOTT KOMINERS                   CHRISTINA TARTAGLIA



Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Date/Location in
Science Ctr                  3:30pm-3:48pm                   3:50pm-4:08pm                       4:10pm-4:28pm                    4:30pm-4:48pm                      4:50pm-5:08pm                       5:10pm-5:30pm


                      Pablo Azar, Applied Math,                                            Peter Hedman, Earth and          Baris Ercal, MCB, Lipid        Megan Blewett, CCB, Molecular Leslie Beh, CPB, Investigating
                      Learning through evolution                                           Planetary Science, Modeling      chaperones and their effect on mimicry in the etiology of multiple novel biochemical activities of
Wednesday, 8/13       (Leslie Valiant)                                                     Martian meteorites: shocking     lipid and systemic metabolism sclerosis (EJ Corey)                 polycomb proteins (Nicole
Room 221                                                                                   magnetic minerals (Sarah         (Gokhan Hotamisligil)                                              Francis)
Introducer: Scott                                                                          Stewart-Mukhopadhyay)
Kominers


                      Sarah Anoke, Chemistry,         Tope Lanre-Amos,                                                      Sheng Si, Neurobiology, A         Allen Cheng, Chemistry,             James Pelletier, Chemical and
                      Collagen Alignment: A           Neuroscience and Psychology,                                          possible molecular mechanism      Screening for specific histone      Physical Biology, Physical
Wednesday, 8/13     macroscopic approach to a         Implications of neuronal                                              for reproductive suppression of   deacetylase inhibitors via small-   model of the bacterial
Room 222            microscopic task (Debra           oscillations for cognitive                                            mice under predator-induced       molecule microarrays (Jon           chromosome and its relation to
Introducer:         Auguste)                          function and disease (Bernat                                          stress (Catherine Dulac)          Clardy)                             cell growth in E. coli ( Suckjoon
Christina Tartaglia                                   Kocsis)                                                                                                                                     Jun)


                      Michael Lin, Biochemical        Alex Gitlin, Chemistry and           Kyel Gibler, Economics,          Kelly Mooney, MCB, How          Lisa Schechner, MCB,                  Iris Odstrcil, MCB, Discovery
                      Sciences, Understanding the     Physics, Molecular Regulation        Seeing the Forest O'er the       cells think : Modulation of the Investigating CD39: Using             of genes involved in the
Wednesday, 8/13       sonic hedgehog signaling        of Pancreatic Cellular Identitiy     Trees: Memory Processing in      hyperosmotic stress response detergents to determine kinetics         synaptic partner choices of AII
Room 309              pathway's role in muscle        and Function (Stuart Schreiber)      Sleep (Robert Stickgold)         by carbon source (Erin O'Shea) and structure (Guido Guidotti)         retinal neurons (Joshua Sanes)
Introducer:           development (Amy Wagers)
Stephanie Lo


                      Kevin Leu, Chemistry, Survival Victoria Liu, Molecular and           Ana Garcia, Biomedical           Nora Sluzas, Environmental        Prabhas Pokharel, Computer Andrew Goldberg, OEB,
                      of genetic material in the     Cellular Biology, The roles of        Engineering, Turn up the Heat:   Science and Public Policy,        Science, Code security: Writing Evolution of burrowing in
Wednesday, 8/13       prebiotic world (Irene Chen)   Fci-1 gene in C. elegans early        Low Birth Weight and its         Modeling China's Wind Power       verified compilers (Greg        Peromyscus (Hopi Hoekstra)
Room 309A                                            embryonic development                 Effects on Diabetes Risk and     Potential (Michael McElroy)       Morrisett)
Introducer: Raj                                      (Matthew Michael)                     Brown Adipose Tissue
Manrai                                                                                     Thermogenesis (Mary E. Patti)


                      Jue Wang, Chemical and          Yongtian (Tina) Tan,                                                  Richard Kwant, Chemical and                                           Meng Xiao He, MCB, Bacteria
                      Physical Biology, Phenotyping   MCB/Economics, Systemic                                               Physical Biology, Determining                                         that talk to computers:
Wednesday, 8/13    unculturability in soil bacteria   delivery of liposome-complexed                                        the role of entropy in the                                            controlling current production in
Room 310           (Roy Kishony)                      siRNAs into CD44+ cell types:                                         binding of aromatic                                                   Shewanella oneidensis (Alain
Introducer: Serene                                    first steps in killing cancer stem                                    sulfonamides to carbonic                                              Viel)
Chen                                                  cells (Judy Lieberman)                                                anhydrase (George
                                                                                                                            Whitesides)
Monday, August 18, 2008
Date/Location in
Science Ctr                 3:30pm-3:48pm                     3:50pm-4:08pm                      4:10pm-4:28pm                    4:30pm-4:48pm                       4:50pm-5:08pm                       5:10pm-5:30pm


                      Jennifer Esch, MCB,              Helen Yang, MCB, Post-             Alison Ravenscraft, OEB, The      Carol Suh, MCB, Regulation of Yohsuke Miyamoto, Physics,               Anne McCabe, MCB,
                      Morphological characterization   translational modification of      acoustic niche hypothesis:        stem cell fate by the ubiquitin- Neural Circuits in Mice Motor         Examining the structure of the
Monday, 8/18          of inputs from the eye to the    transcriptional regulator MeCP2    sound spectrum partitioning in    proteasome system (David         Learning                              NRAMP protein family via x-ray
Room 221              brain to the mouse (Joshua       (Michael Greenberg)                temperate and tropical            Scadden)                                                               crystallography (Rachelle
Introducer: Scott     Sanes)                                                              communities (Brian Farrell)                                                                              Gaudet)
Kominers


                      Sam Perez, Organismic and        Daniel Lage, Undeclared, The       Bing Han, Chemical and            Meera Atreya, Chemical and         Joseph Mandelbaum, Chemical Abigail Harpstead,
                      Evolutionary Biology, Testing    proteolysis paradigm: Single       Physical Biology, The Effect of   Physical Biology, HIV              and Physical Biology, Signaling Biochemical Sciences,
Monday, 8/18          Buller's convective hypothesis   stringent starvation protein       mutant K-ras Oncogene on          preventive therapy:                pathways in cancer cells and the Selective inhibition of gamma-
Room 222              through fluid dynamic modeling   (SspB) and the search for drug     Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1        engineering recombinase            EGF receptor (Jeff Settleman)    secretase as a drug for
Introducer:           in Basidiomycetes (Anne          targets in M. tuberculosis (Eric   (Daniel Chung)                    enzymes to recreate the CCR5                                        Alzheimer's disease (Corinne
Christine Tartaglia   Pringle)                         Rubin)                                                               32 mutation conferring                                              Augelli-Szafran)
                                                                                                                            resistance to HIV Infection
                                                                                                                            (David R. Liu)
                      Elizabeth Ryznar, CPB,          Yi Cai, MCB, G1PC1 silencing        Margarita Krivitski, CPB,         Daniel Jones, OEB, What is in      Nike Sun, Math, Improving           Kevin Liu, Neurobiology,
                      Discovery of New Antibiotics in in colorectal cancer cells (John    Downregulation of microRNA        that dirty water? An analysis of   Convergence of Metropolis           Search for downstream genetic
Monday, 8/18          Photorhabdus Luminescens        Quackenbush)                        processing components by          select Charles River biota         Algorithms on Graphs (Joseph        program of Ctip2 (Jeffrey
Room 309              (Jon Clardy)                                                        HSV-1 (Donald Coen)               (Robert Woollacott)                Blitzstein)                         Macklis)
Introducer:
Stephanie Lo


                      Michael Ding, MCB, Functional Joshua Green, Chemistry,              Chelsea Zhang, Applied            Malorie Snider, Biological         Young-ji (Helen) Cho,               Vladimir Glinskii, MCB,
                      characterization of mammalian Development of a Reaction             Math/Computer Science, A lens     Anthropology, Study of the         Neurobiology, Organization of       GIPC1 a potential therapeutic
Monday, 8/18          homologues of the yeast          Discovery Methodology              into CitySense: Visualizing an    genetic determinants of            odor information during different   target for the treatment of
Room 309A             longevity factor Sir2 (Frederick Employing Mass Spectrometry        urban-scale wireless network      behavioral inhibition (Jordan      brain states in the rodent          cancer (John Quackenbush)
Introducer: Kip       Alt)                             (Tobias Ritter)                    (Matt Welsh)                      Smoller)                           olfactory system (Venkatesh N.
Kitur                                                                                                                                                          Murthy)


                      Lauren Chin, Biomedical          William Jones, OEB,              Pierre-Emile Duhamel,               Nwamaka Uzoh, Biomedical           Frank Chen, MCB, A chemical         Sophie Rengarajan,
                      Engineering, Engineered          Resource partitioning in Charles Computer Science & Chemistry        Engineering, The effect of         suppressor screen of melanoma       Neurobiology, Characterizing
Monday, 8/18          cardiac muscle with embedded     River Bluegill, Pumpkinseed,     and Physics, Simulation             statins (lipid lowering            progenitors in the zebrafish        the neuronal basis of
Room 310              neural networks (Kevin 'Kit'     and Perch: A dietary analysis environment and locomation             medications) in pediatric          (Leonard Zon)                       habituation to electric shocks in
Introducer: Raj       Parker)                          (James McCarthy and Robert algorithms for soft robotics              populations: patterns and                                              zebrafish (Danio rerio ) larvae
Manrai                                                 Woollacott)                      (Robert Wood)                       associated adverse events                                              (Florian Engert)
                                                                                                                            (Michael W. Shannon)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Date/Location in
Science Ctr                  3:00pm-3:18pm                    3:20pm-3:38pm                    3:40pm-3:58pm                     4:00pm-4:18pm                     4:20pm-4:38pm                     4:40pm-5:00pm


                      Jennifer Whitelock, Biology,     Raquel Rodriguez, HEB,            Francesca Reindel,                Dianne Xiao, Chemistry,          Janet Li, MCB, Collaboration      Amanda Haixi Li, Chemistry,
                      You put WHAT on a                Chicken legs: exploring the       Neurobiology, Investigating the   Microaerobic conditions and      between mutation and              Investigating the stabilization of
Tuesday, 8/19         treadmill?!? (Andrew             effect of strain on bone growth   role of 5-HTIB serotonin          virulence expression in Vibrio   epimutation in medulloblastoma    Emp1--Turns (Gregory
Room 221              Bienwener)                       and microstructure (Andrew        receptors on aggression in        cholerae (Deb Hung)              (Laurie Jackson-Grusby)           Verdine)
Introducer: Scott                                      Biewener)                         Drosophila (Edward Kravitz)
Kominers


                    Veronica Shi, Human            Lev Shaket, Molecular and             Francisco Alvarez, Chemistry,     Chinh Vo, Chemistry &            Alissa D'Gama, Molecular and      Joe Zimmerman, Computer
                    Evolutionary Biology or        Cellular Biology, In vivo             Explorations in a novel           Physics, Silicon nanoparticles   Cellular Biology, SAD Kinases     science, Toward effective
Tuesday, 8/19       Neurobiology (Mind,            selection of Adeno-associated         pseudotype for Ebola virus        for hyperpolarized magnetic      and neuronal polarity (Josh       certified software (Greg
Room 222            Brain, Behavior), Using        Virus (AAV) vectors for brain         (James Cunningham)                resonance imaging (Charles       Sanes)                            Morrisett)
Introducer:         mesenchymal stromal cells as a tropism (Miguel Sena-Esteves)                                           Marcus)
Christina Tartaglia therapy for glioblastoma (Rona
                    Carroll)

                      Charles Liu, MCB, Periplasmic Jennifer Lim, Biology, Using         Phelps Kelley, MCB,               Sonya Mollinger, Physics,        Sam Lichtenstein, Math, Vortex Helal Syed, Stem Cell and
                      transit of lipopolysaccharide stem cells to model spinal           Modulation of the adaptive        Shocking samples of icy sand     Algebra and D Modules (John    Regenerative Biology,
Tuesday, 8/19         during bacterial outer        muscular atrophy (Lee Rubin)         immune response to prototype      (Sarah Stewart-                  Duncan)                        Investigating ABCB5
Room 309              membrane biogenesis (Daniel                                        HIV vaccines with toll-like       Mukohapadhyay)                                                  expression in neurofibromatosis
Introducer:           Kahne)                                                             receptor ligands (Dan Barouch)                                                                    1 (Natasha Frank)
Stephanie Lo


                      Weike Wang, Molecular            Will Namwoo Cho, Biology,         Sara Trowbridge,                  Israel Figueroa, OEB,            Michael Ayoub, Chemical and Abby Schiff, MCB,
                      evolution of host-phage          Promiscuous Olig2: Finding        Neurobiology, Retinal             Exploring the mechanism of       Physical Biology, Chromosomal Encouraging beta cell
Tuesday, 8/19      specificity in continuous culture partner proteins in brain cancer development in the zfish (John anaerobic electron transfer in recombination during meiosis in proliferation (Doug Melton)
Room 309A          (Irene Chen)                      stem cell regulation (Charles D. Dowling)                       microbial fuel cells by bacteria yeast (Nancy Kleckner)
Introducer: Serene                                   Stiles)                                                         of the genus Shewanella
Chen                                                                                                                 (Peter Girguis)


                      Christina Grassi, History of     Eddy Palacios, MCB, Cancer        Johnny Hu, CPB, Structural        Ruwan Gunaratne, Chemistry       Pedro Teixeira, Biochemistry,     Leslie Jimenez, OEB, Effects
                      Science, Knee prostheses         melanomas: in search of the       and biochemical analysis of a     and Physics, Stretching single   Significance of the Association   of the renin-angiotensin-
Tuesday, 8/19         component degradation and        cast through cloning, mice, and   DNA helicase protein, the         DNA molecules: A physical        Between Epstein-Barr Virus's      aldosterone system on cardiac
Room 310              regional lymph uptake (Barbara   various assays (Lynda Chin)       Bacillus cereus                   probe into the biological        EBNA3A with Human Protein         progenitor cells (Ronglih Liao)
Introducer: Kip       Weissman)                                                          minichromosome maintenance        mechanism of RecA (Mara          CtBP for B Cell Immortalization
Kitur                                                                                    complex (David Jeruzalmi)         Prentiss)                        (Elliot Kieff)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Date/Location in
Science Ctr                   3:30pm-3:48pm                     3:50pm-4:08pm                     4:10pm-4:28pm                    4:30pm-4:48pm                    4:50pm-5:08pm                      5:10pm-5:30pm


                       Aleksandra Stankiewicz,            Kira Mengistu, Neurobiology, Sophie Cai, CPB, A novel           Sarah Bayefsky, HEB, Who's         John Lesieutre, Math, Almost        Arhana Chattopadhyay, CPB,
                       Quantum dots in E. coli :          VEGF, forkhead proteins and  technique for regenerating rod the fairest of them all? Fairness      periodic Dirichlet series (Oliver   Identifying correlations between
Wednesday, 8/20        investigating the inner space of   their role in angiogenesis   photoreceptors: use of an          in 3-9 year old children and       Knill)                              Shmoo direction and Agglutinin
Room 221               bacteria, Chemistry and            (Ruhul Abid)                 electrospun                        cotton-top tamarin monkeys                                             localization in Saccharomyces
Introducer: Scott      Physics, (Suckjoon Jun)                                         poly(-caprolactone) scaffold to (Marc Hauser)                                                             cerevisiae using fluorescence
Kominers                                                                               deliver predifferentiated retinal                                                                         microscopy (Adam Cohen)
                                                                                       progenitor cells to the subretinal
                                                                                       space (Michael Young)
                    Hilary Hanbing Wang,             Michael Qian, Chemistry,          Jiajie "George" Lu, MCB or         Brad Seiler, Computer              Peyton Shieh, Chemistry,       Anna Marie Wagner,
                    Neurobiology, The role of DNA- Understanding the                   CPB, Animal viruses can enter Science, Photography with all           Progress towards the synthesis Economics and Molecular and
Wednesday, 8/20     repair proteins in tandem repeat transcriptional regulation of the human cells expressing             the colors of the rainbow:         of Phorbol (David Evans)       Cellular Biology, Creating
Room 222            recombination (Kevin             melanoma oncogene MITF (Ed variants of transferrin receptor Building a database of natural                                             standardized synthetic genetic
Introducer:         Verstrepen)                      Harlow)                           (Hyeryun Choe)                     hyperspectral images (Todd                                        parts to create integrated
Christine Tartaglia                                                                                                       Zickler)                                                          biological systems (Alain Viel)


                       Caterina Yuan, MCB,                Anna Chen, Chemical and           Whitney Muhlestein, MCB,         Steven Schowalter, Physics,     May Zhang, MCB, Evaluating       Kevin Zhang, OEB, Functional
                       Regulation of the cell wall        Physical Biology, Circadian       Reprogramming Mouse              Measuring the Permeability of   the potential of the NAD pathway Circuitry in the mouse olfactory
Wednesday, 8/20        hydrolase RipA, in                 rhythm and the self assembly of   Embryonic Fibroblasts into       Ra through Kapton (John         in axon protection (Zhigang He) bulb (Venkatesh Murthy)
Room 309               Mycobacterium tuberculosis         the cyanobacterial                Pancreatic Progenitors Through   Doyle)
Introducer:            (Eric Rubin)                       carboxysome (Pamela Silver)       the Use of Defined Factors
Stephanie Lo                                                                                (Doug Melton)


                       Dayan Li, MCB,The Sonic        Aaron Kuan, Physics, DNA              Qi Yu, MCB, Metformin and        Andrew Wong, Engineering,       Michael A. Peters, Human and        Shomesh Chaudhuri,
                       Hedgehog Relay: Clarifying Cdo adsorption to solid-state             AMP-activated protein kinase in Liposome drug delivery (Debra    Evolutionary Biology, Estimating    Engineering Sciences SB,
Wednesday, 8/20        and Boc receptor function in   nanopore surfaces and                 regulation of endothelial nitric Auguste)                        bite forces in humans, hominins,    Generating supercontinuum in
Room 309A              Sonic                          Materials (Jene Golovchenko)          oxide synthase (Thomas                                           and other primates (Daniel E.       tapered optical fibers (Marko
Introducer: Raj        Hedgehog signaling (Andy                                             Michel)                                                          Lieberman)                          Loncar)
Manrai                 McMahon)


                       Shawn Low, Chemical and       Elissa Jennings, Chemistry             Kelly Brock, Engineering, In     John (Siyuan) Liu, Chemical     Sha Jin, OEB, Wingless          Dragos Michnea, Economics,
                       Physical Biology, Temperature and Physics, Exploring the             silico model of acetate          and Physical Biology, RNA-      Expression and color pattern in Trading Favors (Markus
Wednesday, 8/20    compensation in the three-        physics of DNA and                     production in S. cerevisiae      based sensor modules for        heliconius butterflies (Marcus  Mobius)
Room 310           protein Cyanobacterial            chromosome behavior (Mara              (Pamela Silver)                  molecular automata (Kobi        Kronforest and Mark Clements)
Introducer: Serene Circadian Clock (Erin O'Shea)     Prentis)                                                                Benenson)
Chen