Faculty/Student Presentations
Viterbo students Samantha Jackson, Megan
Hussey, and Gina Lekies and faculty member Scott Gabriel presented
"Bioinformatic analysis of Mismatch repair pathway in Fluviicola taffensis DSM16823" at St. Mary's University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Winona, MN), 2012
Viterbo student Adam Zart and faculty member Anthony Gerig presented
"The Development of Polymeric Phantoms" at St. Mary's University Undergraduate
Research Symposium (Winona, MN), 2012
Viterbo student Breanna Swan and faculty
member Anthony Gerig presented "Estimating Tissue Particle Sizes using
Ultrasound" at St. Mary's University Undergraduate Research Symposium
(Winona, MN), 2012
Faculty member Scott Gabriel presented
"The ability of bacteria to thrive with less" at Gundersen Lutheran
Biomedical Research Forum (La Crosse, WI) October 2011
Viterbo students Kaila Schoenberger and
Courtney Larson and faculty member Scott Gabriel presented "YdfM, A
novel manganese exporter in Bacillus subtilis" at the North Central American Society of Microbiology Branch Meeting (Des Moines, IA) in 2011
Faculty member Lisa Konkel (with Jan Eriksen) presented "The Academic
Advisor's Toolkit: Information and Resources for New (and Not So New)
Advisors" at the Wisconsin Academic Advising Association's (WACADA) Conference, September 2011
Viterbo student Brenda Stackhouse
and faculty member Michael Alfieri presented
“The Role of Past Experience on
Subsequent Survival in the Guppy (Poecillia
reticulata)” at Saint Mary’s University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Winona, MN),
April 2011
Viterbo student Julia Umhoefer and faculty member Jennifer Sadowski presented
“Examining male mate preference in male Acheta domesticus: Does male courtship
copying occur?” at Saint Mary’s University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Winona,
MN), April 2011
Faculty
members Kyle
Backstrand, Scott Gabriel, Ward Jones, Glena
Temple, and Catherine Wright presented “Engaging biochemistry majors: a
semester long inquiry-based project on GAPDH” at the 2011 American Society for
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meetings (Washington, D.C.), April 2011
Faculty
member Sheldon Lee presented
“An attempt to foster student interaction and engagement in an online
Introductory Statistics course” at the American Mathematical Society Joint
Meetings of Mathematics (New Orleans, LA), January 2011
Biopsychology majors James Peterson, Aleksey Sakharuk, Psychology students Shamaco Green, Patrick
Hamoy and faculty member David Bauer
presented “Effects of 670 nm light
therapy and paraquat consumption on longevity and oxidative stress in
Drosophila melanogaster” at the annual conference of the Society for
Neuroscience (San Diego, CA), November 2010
Viterbo students Jeffery Meinertz,
Ryan Ambrose, Leann Jackan, Jeremy Wise, Mark Gaikowski and faculty member Kim
Fredricks presented “Indoor and outdoor studies to assess the availability of
freshwater fish to the angling public after sedation by benzocaine or eugenol”
at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine
(Rockville, MD) on September 13, 2010
Faculty
member Tammy Clark
presented “The Role of Medicinal Chemistry in the Development of a Pan-AKT
Small Molecule Inhibitor” at the La Crosse Bioresearch Forum (La Crosse, WI) September
2010
Viterbo student Sarah Ramaker, and
faculty members Michael Alfieri and Jennifer Sadowski presented “Examining the Effects of Different Levels of Experience on Risk Taking
Behavior in the Guppy (Poecillia
reticulata)”at Saint Mary’s Undergraduate Research Symposium (Winona, MN),
April 2010
Viterbo student Sarah Ramaker, and
faculty members Michael Alfieri and Jennifer Sadowski presented “The Role of Experience in the Expression of
Boldness Behavior in Guppies (Poecilia
reticulata)”at the National
Conference on Undergraduate Research (La Crosse, WI), April 2009
Chemistry majors Angela Hebda and Mo
Zhang presented posters of the research projects at the American Chemical
Society National Meeting in March 2009
Biochemistry major Brittany Leikes presented
a poster on her research project at Forage Genetics at Experimental Biology in
New Orleans in April 2009