2010 Student Poster Competition Abstracts P - Z

Glutamate receptors in cancer: Stable expression of GluR6 induces growth arrest and senescence in hepatocellular carcinoma HCC 7703 cells
Gurpreet Kaur, Konstantinos G. Pilidis, Vikramjit K. Zhawar, Gursurinder P. Kaur, Raghbir S. Athwal. Temple Univ. School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Formaldehyde induces DNA damage in MCF-7 breast cancer cells
Esmeralda Ponce and Maggie C. Louie
Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA 94901

Breast cancer stem cell extinction models: Implications for HER2 targeted therapy
Lindsay Riley, Hua Zhou, Kenneth Lange, Janet S. Sinsheimer, Mary E. Sehl

Extracts from Gaultheria shallon increase estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cell proliferation
Heather Ritenour, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR

MicroRNA profile of the human colonic crypt base region is predictive of colon cancer
Sepehr Sedigh Haghighat¹, Vignesh Viswanathan¹, Lynn Opdenaker¹, Greg Gonye², Tao Zhang³, Bruce M. Boman¹, Nicholas J. Petrelli¹. ¹Helen F. Graham Cancer Ctr., Newark, DE; ²Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; ³University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Identification of target antigens on breast cancer stem cells using phage-developed scFv antibodies: A proteomic approach
Anurag Shukla (Mentor: David Krag, MD)
Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405

Guaiacol glyceryl ether, a novel agent to reduce MUC1 expression in breast cancer cells.
Joshua S. Smith, Jimmie Colon, Rafael Madero-Visbal, Santhi Konduri, Cheryl H. Baker.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL

Expression and functional role of erbB2 in human hepatoblastoma.
Barbara Steiger¹, Ivo Leuschner², Dorota Denkhaus¹, Dietrich von Schweinitz³ & Torsten Pietsch¹¹Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn; ²Department of Pathology, University of Kiel; ³Department of Pediatric Surgery, , LMU Munich

A possible mechanism for plagiochiline A activity: Inhibition of cytokinesis (Plagiochiline A blocks cytokinesis)
Nicole S. Stivers, Ashraful Islam, Lavona K. Casson, Jose C. Aponte, Gerald B. Hammond, Abraham J. Vaisberg, and Paula J. Bates

Differential expression and function of peroxiredoxin genes in normal vs. cancerous breast epithelial cell lines
Katie Sullivan, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

Myosin1e localizes at invadopodia and is downregulated in colon cancer
Sullivan, M, Fritzinger, A, Cannon, K., Zuzga, D., King-Smith, C
Department of Biology, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA

The role of the Ubiquitin Proteasome system in regulating transcription in embryonic stem cell
Alfred Tetteh, Dr. Wendy Kimber

Safety of vincristine and noscapine combination
Thomas Thigpen, Catherine Gordon, Wanda Dorsett-Martin, Alan Nolan, Laree Hiser

Synthesis of a selenocyanate derivative of colchicine
Courtney Thomas and Marianne Staretz
Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18104

Assessing a new method for finding cancer mutations in biomedical literature
Gary Thompson¹, Attila Kertesz-Farkas¹, Asa Adadey¹, Olivier Bodenreider², Emily Doughty¹, Maricel G. Kann¹¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 21250
² National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

HIV protease inhibitors induce apoptotic and non-apoptotic cell death in ovarian cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.
Natalie A. Vandeven, Karen McLean, Dorothy R. Sorenson, J. Rebecca Liu. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Chronic cadmium exposure promotes breast cancer progression
Esera Vegas, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA

Characterization of RDC-1: a novel receptor for Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)
John Vu^1,2, Yuxin Lu^1,2, Stephen A. Wank³, Joseph R. Pisegna^1,2, Patrizia Germano^1,2.
¹Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Veterans Administration GLAHS, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA and ²Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095, and ³Digestive Diseases Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

Isolation and identification of a new Nematode species
Ann Wang, Erika Baardsen and Theresa Grana, Ph.D.
University of Mary Washington, Department of Biological Sciences

Changes in antioxidant capacities of isolated radish components during growth
J. Whitaker, E. Giraldez, J. Loong, J. Wagstaff, R. Robison and K.L. O’Neill
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah 84602

Innovative DNA vaccine for HPV-associated head and neck cancer
Annie Wu, Qi Zeng, Tae Heung Kang, Shiwen Peng, Sara I. Pai, Chien-Fu Hung
Department of Pathology, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Cancer, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD

Caveolin-1 mediated signaling and proliferation is regulated through the oxygen sensing pathway.
Chaoying Xu¹, Yi Wang¹, Olga Roche¹, & Michael Ohh¹.
¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.

Convergence of cytosolic and ER protein quality control
Allen Yu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD