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						Gustavus Sigma Xi Symposium
						 
    May 4, 2007  | 
    
       Abbreviated Schedule              
        link to full abstracts 
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						Session 1a, Wallenberg Auditorium 
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						Session 1b, Nobel Hall, Room 105 
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| 1:45 | 
					 Decreased Viability and Fertility in Drosophila melanogaster Females Following Copulatory Bacterial Exposure Tanner S. Miest  | 
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| 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  | 
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| 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  | 
  
| 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  | 
    
					 
						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  until  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  | 
     
       Nobel Hall Lobby Synthesis of Uranyl Mesoporous Materials Inflorescence of the Gustavus Amorphophallus titanum (Corpse Flower or Titan Arum) Interactive Pitch Matching Challenge  | 
  
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       Session 2a, Nobel Hall, Room 201 
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       Session 2b, Nobel Hall, Room 222 
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| 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  | 
  
| 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  |