The titles for the posters submitted in the Biological and Medical Sciences category for the 2018 MSI Research Exhibition are listed are shown below.
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Biological and Medical Sciences
1+1≠2: Mechanical unfolding of spectrin repeats
Authors: Torvin Rajala, Alessandro Cembran
Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Alpha blockers: New insights from biomolecular modeling and simulation of alpha-1 adrenergic receptor with Prazosin
Authors: Ingrid Rodriguez Aragon, Yuk Sham
Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; University of Minnesota Informatics Institute)
Assessing spatial attributes of structural network dysfunction in acute traumatic brain injury
Authors: Margaret Y. Mahan, Tessneem Abdallah, Aliya Ahmadi, Maxwell Thorpe, Shivani Venkatesh, Hannah Casey, Mark Oswood, Charles Truwit, Chad Richardson, Uzma Samadani
Principal Investigator: Uzma Samadani (Neurosurgery; Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology)
Characterizing transcriptional profiles of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma tumors in patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
Authors: Michael Pickett-Leonard, Kirk Twaroski, Andrew South, Jakub Tolar
Principal Investigator: Jakub Tolar (Dean, Medical School; Pediatrics; Genetics, Cell Biology and Development)
Comparison of CPU and GPU computing of biological molecular dynamics simulations
Authors: Megin Nguyen, Paul Buscemi, Yuk Sham
Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; University of Minnesota Informatics Institute)
Computational modeling of tubulin:tubulin interaction: Molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics
Authors: Mahya Hemmat, Brian T. Castle, David J. Odde
Principal Investigator: David J. Odde (Biomedical Engineering)
Conformational dynamics of dopamine β-hydroxylase by computer simulations
Authors: Alida Besch, Alessandro Cembran
Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Cryo-EM structure of porcine delta coronavirus spike protein at 3.3 A resolution
Authors: Jian Shang, Yuan Zheng, Yang Yang, Chang Liu, Qibin Geng, Wanbo Tai, Lanying Du, Yusen Zhou, Wei Zhang, Fang Li
Principal Investigator: Fang Li (Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences)
Daily microbiome-diet correspondence in healthy individuals
Authors: Abigail Johnson, Pajau Vangay, Ben Hillmann, Gabe Al-Ghalith, Dan Knights
Principal Investigator: Dan Knights (BioTechnology Institute; Computer Science and Engineering)
Divergent behavioral and genetic changes caused by different patterns of morphine exposure in mice
Authors: Emilia Lefevre, Marc Pisansky, Thomas Kono, Joshua Baller, Patrick Rothwell
Principal Investigator: Patrick Rothwell (Neuroscience)
Don't do imputation: Dealing with informative missing Vvalues in EHR data analysis
Authors: Jia Li, Michael S. Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Gyorgy J. Simon
Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
Estimating disease onset time by modeling lab result trajectories via Bayes networks
Authors: Wonsuk Oh, Pranjul Yadav, Vipin Kumar, Pedro J. Caraballo, M. Regina Castro, Michael S. Steinbach, Gyorgy J. Simon
Principal Investigator: Gyorgy J. Simon (Institute for Health Informatics)
Exploring the "microbial dark matter" through large-scale genomics
Authors: Senthil Murugapiran, Trinity Hamilton
Principal Investigator: Trinity Hamilton (Plant and Microbial Biology)
Failure behavior of human ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms: The importance of shear stress
Authors: Christopher Korenczuk, Rohit Dhume, Victor Barocas
Principal Investigator: Victor Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
Galaxy-based multi-stage two-step database searching pipeline for improved multi-omics analysis
Authors: Praveen Kumar, James E. Johnson, Thomas McGowan, Matthew C. Chambers, Mohammad Heydarian, Subina Mehta, Caleb Easterly, Shane Hubler, Joel D. Rudney, Pratik Jagtap, Timothy J. Griffin
Principal Investigator: Timothy Griffin (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
Influence of DBS lead model and brain shift on electrode position and bending of proximal lead: A high-resolution postoperative CT study
Authors: Jacob Niederer, Rémi Patriat, Reuben R. Shamir, David Darrow, Michael C. Park, Lauren Schrock, Noam Harel
Principal Investigator: Noam Harel (Radiology)
Integrating eQTL data with GWAS summary statistics
Authors: Chong Wu, Wei Pan
Principal Investigator: Wei Pan (Biostatistics)
Multi-subject, resting-state EEG spectral density estimation
Authors: Brian Hart, Michele Guindani, Steve Malone, Mark Fiecas
Principal Investigator: Mark Fiecas (Biostatistics)
Neurofeedback and emotional regulation: A new way to treat adolescent depression?
Authors: Shabnam Mansur, Megan Kazynski, Riley Wedan, Monica Punzalan, Shabad Washist, Briana Barstad, Savannah Dimick, Sumaya Mohamed, Jia Yuan Twoh, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
Neurofeedback during self-face processing in depressed versus healthy adolescents
Authors: Sewon Oh, Yuan Teoh, Garry Smyda, Brianna Barstad, Shabad Washist, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
Neurofeedback using the images of self in adolescents with varying depressive symptoms
Authors: Riley Wedan, Yuan Jia Teoh, Garry Smyda, Sumaya Mohamed, Kamil Uburbil, John Strup, Kathleen Thomas, Hannah Scott, Karina Quevedo
Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
Next-generation sequencing coupled with in situ hybridization: a novel diagnostic platform to identify emerging pathogens and new variants of endemic viruses
Authors: Talita Resende, Lacey Marshall Lund, Stephanie Rossow, Fabio Vannucci
Principal Investigator: Fabio Vannucci (Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory)
Novel in silico strategies towards optimization of new anthrax antitoxin leads
Authors: Connor McDermott, Elizabeth A. Ambrose
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Ambrose (Medicinal Chemistry)
Plasma activated water and intense pulsed light decontamination of deoxynivalenol in raw and germinating barley
Authors: Dongjie Chen, Paul Chen, Yanling Cheng, Juer Liu, Yiwei Ma, Roger Ruan
Principal Investigator: Roger Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering)
Repetitive morphine administration induces sex-dependent transcriptomic changes in the adult rat nucleus accumbens
Authors: M.S. Gades, K. Jeong, A.C. Harris, P.V. Tran, J.C. Gewirtz
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Gewirtz (Psychology)
Response of DPPC lipid membranes to increased surface tension in the presence of lipid rafts and cholesterol
Authors: Paul J. Buscemi, Evelyne M. Houang, Joseph M. Metzger, Yuk Y. Sham
Principal Investigator: Yuk Sham (Integrative Biology and Physiology; UM Informatics Institute)
Self-face processing after and before neurofeedback in youth with varying levels of depressive symptoms
Authors: Monica Talitha Punzalan, Savannah Dimick, Yuan Teoh, Karina Quevedo
Principal Investigator: Karina Quevedo (Psychiatry)
Single nucleotide polymorphism variation in the equine population
Authors: Sian A. Durward-Akhurst, R.J. Schaefer, J.R. Mickelson, Molly E. McCue
Principal Investigator: Molly E. McCue (Veterinary Population Medicine)
The effect of glenohumeral plane of elevation on supraspinatus subacromial proximities
Authors: Rebekah L. Lawrence, William C. Sessions, Megan Jensen, Justin L. Staker, Aya Eid, Ryan Breighner, Nathaniel E. Helwig, Jonathan P. Braman, Paula M. Ludwig
Principal Investigator: Paula M. Ludewig (Rehabilitation Medicine)
The influence of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutations in gyrA, gyrB, parC, and parE on the acquisition of fluoroquinolone and cross-resistances in Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Enteritidis
Authors: Ran An, Sinisa Vidovic
Principal Investigator: Sinisa Vidovic (Veterinary and Biomedical Science)
The role of hydrophobic interactions and water dynamics around dystrophin spectrin repeats
Authors: Sarah Moe, Alessandro Cembran
Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)