Gustavus Sigma Xi Symposium

May 4, 2007

Abbreviated Schedule              link to full abstracts
Time
Session 1a, Wallenberg Auditorium
Session 1b, Nobel Hall, Room 105
1:45

Decreased Viability and Fertility in Drosophila melanogaster Females Following Copulatory Bacterial Exposure

Tanner S. Miest

2:00 Computational and Spectroscopic Investigation of 7-Azaindole: Solvation and Intermolecular Interactions Part I

Michael Z. Kamrath, Krista M. Cruse, Nathan R. Erickson, Molly B. Beernink

2:15 Computational and Spectroscopic Investigation of 7-Azaindole: Solvation and Intermolecular Interactions Part II

Michael Z. Kamrath, Krista M. Cruse, Nathan R. Erickson, Molly B. Beernink

Subterranean Longevity of Botrychium Sporophytes

Michael P. Lynch

2:30
Effects of Larval Density on Adult Fertility and Size in Female Drosophila melanogaster

Heidi Bulfur

Determination of the Structural Characteristics of the Inhibitor Binding Site in beta-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase

Audrey Schenewerk

2:45

Caged Molecules and the Preparation of [1.1.1.]Propellane

Alex Burum

Climate During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Wasatch Mountains Inferred from Glacier Mass-Balance and Ice-Flow Modeling

Eleanor A. R. Bash

3:00
Frequency-Dependent Auditory Adaptation in Anura

Asitha Jayawardena

Effects of Reverberation, Age, Noise, and Sentence Context on Vowel Recognition

Rachel Elvebak

3:15
 
 

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3:45

Poster Session & Reception
Nobel Hall Lobby

Computational and Spectroscopic Investigation of 7-Azaindole
Michael Z. Kamrath, Krista M. Cruse, Nathan R. Erickson, Molly B. Beernink

Till Genesis and Moraine Deposition during Pleistocene Glaciations in the Uinta Mountains, Utah
Todd Kohorst

 link to full abstracts

Poster Session & Reception
Nobel Hall Lobby

Synthesis of Uranyl Mesoporous Materials
Alex Burum

Inflorescence of the Gustavus Amorphophallus titanum (Corpse Flower or Titan Arum)

Alex Burum, Emily Pelton, Britt Forsberg, Emily Hoefs

Interactive Pitch Matching Challenge
Matthew A. Bergman

 
Session 2a, Nobel Hall, Room 201
Session 2b, Nobel Hall, Room 222
3:45 Anions in Ground Water, Seven Mile Creek and the Minnesota River

Emily Gentholts, Laura Pierce

Anatomical Characterization of Putative Ischemic Pain Transduction Molecules: Immunohistochemical Localization of ASIC3 and P2X5

Bethany Thicke
4:00

Phosphorus Runoff in Seven Mile Creek Watershed in Relation to Spring Flux

Scott Kyser, Elias Anoszko

ASIC3 and P2X Involvement in Ischemic Pain Sensation

Brandon Baartman

4:15 Design and Construction of a Carbon Dioxide Laser

Michael Kamrath, Kevin Oberg, Morgan Wells

From Farmland to Prairie: Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the Linnaeus Arboretum

Althea Archer

4:30 Reaction Initiation by Blue Light

Kevin Oberg

Energy Storage Systems for Peak Shaving as a Complement to Wind Power at Gustavus Adolphus College

Jared Sieling

4:45

Characterization of Fumarase by UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Alex Burum, Brandon Burum, Lindsay Eastman

Electrophysiological Recordings of Temperature Sensitive Neurons Innervating Glabrous Rat Skin

Nick Murray

5:00

Vibro-Acoustography: The Birth of a Scanning Vibrometer

Scott Hagemeyer, Eric Ofstad