Favorite+Posters+from+Forum

Write the name of your favorite poster from the Undergraduate Research Forum In 1-2 sentences, say why it was particularly good or interesting to you.
 * Can’t use our poster as your favorite!
 * Nor Any Other Stream poster
 * Only poster from individual students


 * Spring 2012**

My favorite poster was : Femal Dominance and Feeding Behavior in Verreaux's Sifaka in the Kirindy Mitea National Park
 * Aldo**

This was a good poster because: The poster was very detailed in its graphs which showed their results very well. The research also gave insight on how some female animals actually play the aggressive male role in obtaining food for their young.

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 * Amron**

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My favorite poster was : DNA Aptamers Targeting NFKB in environmentally induced oxidative stress
 * Aakash**

This was a good poster because : Both the researcher and the poster established a solid understanding about the topic. Also the fact the research was done prior to college impressed me. The poster was brief and clear and provided many images to explain the subject matter.

My favorite poster was : Computer-aided design of antitumor agents: investigating the cyclization of enediyne analogs using computational chemistry
 * Andrew**

This was a good poster because : It was interesting research and the researcher was very knowledgeable about his subject and able to explain it clearly. The topic is also somewhat related to VDS and the presenter was a former VDS student.

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 * Brandon**

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My favorite poster was : The effects of NMDA receptor in the hypothalamus on Estrous Cycle of Acyclic female rats
 * Michael**

This was a good poster because : It discussed an interesting topic, such as the improved reproductive aging in rats by the blocking of the NRZB subunit. It was also very concise and clear in the presentation of its information.

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 * Cody**

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 * Divya**

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My favorite poster was : Effect of Energy Modulation on pancreatic caner of mice
 * Drew**

This was a good poster because : It was interesting how big of a factor diet can play in cancer. Also it related very well to humans and one of the most common cancers around

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 * Daniel**

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My favorite poster was : Regulated Knockdown of Genes Controlling histone #3 Methylation
 * Fiona**

This was a good poster because : It was very detailed in explaining the research. The poster also included pictures and graphs to show the real time PCR results. There was a decrease in mRNA of the DNA with knocked down genes.

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 * Ivy**

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 * Inez**

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 * James**

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My favorite poster was : The Role of Deleterious Mutation in the Adaptation to a Novel Environment
 * Alex**

This was a good poster because : The researcher was very clear in explaining his research. It was interesting seeing evolution researched in context of digital organisms and how virtual modeling might be a more efficient way to study evolution because natural organisms might reproduce slowly or are harder to control.

My favorite poster was :
 * Jihye**

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My favorite poster was : Clothing Choices of Preschool Females as Symbols of Sex Roles
 * Janice**

This was a good poster because : I always wondered how people in a major outside of natural sciences performed research. Her objective was to investigate whether preschoolers chose transitional masculine or feminine clothing for various sex stereotyped play activities. It was interesting to hear that the gender identity is established during the late preschool years and appearance plays an important role as a nonverbal cue to establish a sense of masculinity and femininity.

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 * Jonggu**

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 * Kevan**

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My favorite poster was : Identification of novel inhibitors of a virulence factor from mycobacterium tuberculosis through virtual screening
 * Kaarthik**

This was a good poster because : It was very well organized and the presenter was very enthusiastic about his work.

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 * Ling**

This was a good poster because : I liked topic and how a person's personality correlates very much with how a person participates in a relationship as well as how secure they are of their spouses based on how avoidance or anxious the person may be.

My favorite poster was : Computer-aided design of antitumor agents
 * Landon**

This was a good poster because : The research was being conducted by a former VDS student. The researcher was very clear and concise about what they were doing.

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 * Max**

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My favorite poster was :
 * Mihir**

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My favorite poster was :
 * Ramya**

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My favorite poster was : Implementing Communication in OpenNERO to Evolve Cooperative Multi-Agent Behaviors using Real Time Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies
 * Ruifei**

This was a good poster because : It discusses the vast potential of autonomous agent communications in artificial intelligence. Furthermore, this sort of research can be applied to a number of civilian and military functions wherein more effective AI communication can enhance performance.

My favorite poster was : Clothing Choices of Preschool Females as Symbols of Sex Roles
 * Suman**

This was a good poster because : The research was easy to understand, and it made me learn something knew about the attitudes and stereotypes young children have about wearing certain types of clothes. It was interesting to hear about how the data was collected and learn the results of what kids thought about dressing a certain way in today's society.

My favorite poster was : Synthesis and Biological Recognition
 * Stephanie**

This was a good poster because : This was a good poster because the research they do correlates nicely with our research. From what I understand, they get the data that allow for the x-ray crystallography images used in VDS to be made.

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 * Shreya**

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My favorite poster was :
 * Shane Ali**

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My favorite poster was : The effects of avoidance, anxiety, and sex on cortisol levels  in women in relationships.
 * Shashika**

This was a good poster because : Cortisol is a steroid hormone secreted when the body is experiencing stress. They ultimately discovered that women with lox anxiety and low avoidance as well as women with high anxiety and low avoidance were the most stable in the respect that high or low amounts of sex did not affect their cortisol levels. The poster also drew the conclusion women with high anxiety and high avoidance as well as women with low anxiety and low avoidance were greatly affected by the amount of sex they had.

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 * Sajan**

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My favorite poster was : Effects of Operant Ethanol Self-Administration on Dopamine in Medial Pre-frontal Cortex of Long Evans Rat
 * Urvashi**

This was a good poster because: This was the only poster I saw that had performed research involving animals; t he effects of drinking alcohol on dopamine levels in rat brains were studied. The experimental design was complex but the research interesting and relevant to human behavior.

My favorite poster was : The Final Assault on Polio
 * Zamaria**

This was a good poster because : it tells that although we don't believe that polio is still an epidemic, it is still active in four countries and cases are showing up from time to time in others. The whole idea is that in 10 years, it is a feasible idea that it could be eradicated.

My favorite poster was Computer-aided design of antitumor agents (#122)
 * Zach**

This was a good poster because its title reminded me of VDS at first, but it targets cancer exclusively, which is a disease close to my heart (thankfully not literally) that has little chance of being cured because cases vary so widely.

 • Can’t use our poster as your favorite! • Nor Any Steam poster nor any VDS posters •• Only poster from individual students that are not in our stream