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Session 2.  Oral Presentations.  Friday 9:00-10:00.  Burruss 238.

2A.  Understanding the Spatial Expression of NOS1 Transcripts
            Ryan Bushey and Terrie Rife

2B.  Direction of Escape Responses in the Tarantula Grammostola rosea Depends on Stimulus Location
            Matt Torre and Corey Cleland

2C.  Isolation and Characterization of Ciliary Surface Proteins Specific to Bordetella avium
            Kevin Louder and Louise Temple

2D.  Escherichia fergusonii: an Emerging Pathogen in Stream Water of the Shenandoah Valley
            Divya Bansal and James Herrick

3A.  Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fusion to Lacritin, a Protein Component of Human Tears
            Brooke Buckland and Robert McKown

3B.  Symbiosis in Salamanders: The Role of Cutaneous Bacteria in Disease Prevention
            Jenifer Banning, Trey Wahl, and Reid Harris

3C.  Respiratory Mechanisms and Heart Development in Frogs
            Sheinei Saleem and Chris Rose

3.  A Comparison of Regional and Local Sources of Airborne Mercury Deposition in Waynesboro,
     Harrisonburg, and Staunton, VA
            Zamda Lumbi, Susie Temple, and Dean Cocking

4.  Alternate Splicing of the Rat NOS I Gene
            Alison Barnes and Terrie Rife

7.  Contributions to the Revision of the Cyclops Genus
            Rebecca Taylor, Nancy McManus, and Grace Wyngaard

8.  Differences in Bipedal Locomotion of Juvenile and Adult Propithecus
            Abby Williams and Roshna Wunderlich

11.  Airborne Mercury Deposition in the Shenandoah Valley, VA - Using Inexpensive Passive Samplers
        for Landscape Level Screening
            Susan Temple and Dean Cocking

12.  Comparing Leaf-shredding Ability of Cave and Surface Forms of the Amphipod Gammarus minus
            Jennifer Kinsey, Chris Marquess, and Kevin Simon

15.  Deletion of Potential Virulence Genes in Bordetella avium
            Elizabeth Poremsky and Louise Temple

16.  Tail Withdrawal Responses to Heat Stimuli in Lizards
            Karina Tam, Krystal Dula, and Corey Cleland

19.  The Identification and Phenotypic Analysis of a Homozygous Knockout
            Erin Simon and Janet Daniel

20.  Quantitative Analysis of Antioxidants in Apples
            Frank Russo and Michael Renfroe

23.  Gender Differences in Plantar Pressure Distribution
            Kathryn Ellis, Mike Emswiler, Bruce Wickham, and Roshna Wunderlich

24.  Early Segregation of Layered Projections from the Lateral Superior Olivary Nucleus to the Central
       Nucleus of the Inferior Colliculus in the Neonatal Cat
            Sarah Shahmoradian, Robyn James, Nick Simpson, Brian Weimerskirch, Kelli Savia, and
            Mark Gabriele

27.  The Effect of Mutations on a Conserved Sequence of A. thaliana
            Carter Cowardin, Tina Miller, Anna Dowdle, and Janet Daniel

28.  Modes of Cutaneous Bacterial Transmission in the Redback Salamander, Plethodon cinereus
            Tracie Nelms and Reid Harris

31.  Analysis of Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Chronic Wound Fluid
        of a Patient with a Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcer
            Casey Gundersen, Elizabeth Carter, and David Jaynes

32.  The Role of Bacteria in Treating Amphibians Exposed to a Lethal Fungal Pathogen: An Experimental
        Study of the Efficacy of Probiotics in Conservation Biology
            Emily Andre, Antje Lauer, Mary Alice Simon, and Reid Harris

6A.  Analysis of RhoA Regulated Morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster
            Meghan Cupp, Dave Jencks, and Susan Halsell

6B.  Tail Use During Bipedalism in Propithecus verreauxi
            Matthew Hrabak and Roshna Wunderlich

6C.  The Effect of a Dinucleotide Polymorphism in 1F Promoter of NOS I
            Bareza Rasoul and Terrie Rife

6D.  Variability in the Tail Withdrawal Reflex of the Rat
            Marisa Parise, Jon Harrold, and Corey Cleland

6E.  The Cellular Basis of Skull Remodeling in Frogs
            Jennifer Tracy and Chris Rose

6F.  Analysis of Gene Expression During Amphibian Tail Development
            Stephen Turner and Carol Hurney

6G.  The Hormonal and Environmental Control of Early Limb Development 
            Matthew Kennedy and Chris Rose