Poster Session II

CHRONIC ALCOHOL EXPOSURE ENHANCES PULMONARY NEUTROPHIL RECRUITMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTRA TRACHEAL ENDOTOXIN.

Xu Sophie Teng, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

COMPARISONS OF LESS-INVASIVE SAMPLING TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS

Nia Nelson, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
K. Suttom
W. Nichols
A. Clark

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

CONSERVED NATURAL lgM ANTIBODIES MEDIATE INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSES AND HOST DEFENSE AGAINST OPPORTUNISTIC FUNGI

David Ricks, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
R. R. Rapaka
J. F. Alcorn
S. A. Khader

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

CRYPTOCOCCAL CELL ENLARGEMENT IN MURINE LUNG TISSUE

Amy Whittington, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
P. Wang

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

DENTATE GYRUS HYPEREXCITABILITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS: EVOLUTION AND MODULATION BY NEUROPROTECTIN D1

Tabitha Quebedeaux, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
J. L. Sfondouris
A. E. Musto
N. G. Bazan

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

DETECTION OF EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS AND HUMAN PAPALLOMAVIRUS IN RESIDUAL PAP SMEAR FLUIDS IN HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS+ WOMEN

Whitney Nichols, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
N. Nelson
A. Clark
H. Oddo

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

DISTRIBUTION OF MYCOBACTERJUM ULCERANSTHROUGHOUT AQUATIC HABITATS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA

Caroline Hennigan, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Michael J. Ferris

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

DROSOPHILA Rae1 FUNCTIONS WITH Hiw/DFsn UBIQUITIN LIGASE COMPLEX TO REGULATE SYNAPTIC DEVELOPMENT IN POST-MITOTIC NEURONS

Xiaolin Tian, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
A. DiAntonio
C. Wu

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

ENGINEERING PROTEINS THAT SUBVERT VIRAL HOST EVASION MECHANISMS TO ELICIT PROTECTION AGAINST A BROAD RANGE OF VIRAL INFECTIONS

Rebecca Sanchez, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
R. Kadeppagari
T. Foster

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

EPAC1/RAP1 ACTIVATION AMELIORATES ALCOHOL-INDUCED BARRIER DYSFUNCTION.

Travis Doggett, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
J. W. Breslin

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

EVALUATION OF PLASMID-BASED ALPHAVIRUS REPLICONS ENCODING A MYCOBACTERIAL GENE FUSION AS EFFECTIVE IMMUNOGENS AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS

Neha Dalmia, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Heena Mehta
Weitao Huang
Carol Mason

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

EVALUATION OF TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5 LIGAND AS A SYSTEMIC AND MUCOSAL GENE-BASED VACCINATION ADJUVANT.

Hamada Rady, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Weitao Huang
Alistair J. Ramsay

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

EVASION OF THE ENDOCERVICAL EPITHELIAL PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE RESPONSE BY Chlamydia trachomatis

Lyndsey Buckner, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Sheila Green
Alison J. Quayle

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NEDD4.1 AND NEDD4.2 HECT DOMAIN LIGASES

Allison C. Augustus-Wallace, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
J. M. Klein
A. L. Haas

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

INHALATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY PESISTENT FREE RADICALS ALTER LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN VIVO.

Sarah Mahne, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
B. Dellinger
K. J. Varner

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

INHALED CIGARETTE SMOKE ACCELERATES VOLUME OVERLOAD INDUCED CARDIAC INJURY

Jessica Bradley, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
J. D. Gardner

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

MUTUALLY PULSE-COUPLED NEURONS THAT DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE IN ISOLATION CAN SYNCHRONIZE VIA RECIPROCAL COUPLING WITH ANOTHER NEURAL POPULATION

Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
S. Acthuthan
C. C. Canavier

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

OPTIMIZING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS FOR EXPERIMENTAL EPILEPSY MODELS

John Sfondouris, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
T. M. Quebedeaux
A. E. Musto
N. G. Bazan

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

RAC 1 MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF PROTEIN PHOSPHAT ASE-1 (PP1) BY EXTRASYNAPTIC NMDA RECEPTORS IS CRITICAL FOR SHUTTING OFF THE ACTIVATION OF CAMP/CALCIUM RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN (CREB)

Hailong Hou, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Hongtian Yang
Hua Gu
Benjamin Siddoway

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

REGULATION OF HOMEOSTATIC PLASTICITY BY PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1

Benjamin Siddoway, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Hailong Hou
Jing-Xia Gao
Hohui Xia

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

RHO KINASE PROMOTES ENHANCED TONE IN CONTRACTILE LYMPHATICS.

Kristine Kurtz, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
F. M. Souza-Smith
J. W. Breslin

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

STUDYING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 (PP1) AND ITS BINDING PROTEINS BY RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER APPROACHES

Hongtian Yang, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Ben Siddoway
Hallong Hou
Hugh Xia

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SYNCHRONIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL NEURONS WITH CONDUCTION DELAYS

Shuoguo Wang, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
L. Chandrasekaran
F. R. Fernandez
J. A. White

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

THE INTERACTION OF THE TRIM25 RING LIGASE WITH THE EUKARYOTIC HELICASE SUBUNITS MCM3 AND MCM5

Daniel Edwards, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

THE PHOSPHORYLATION STATE OF AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED AMYLOIDOGENIC PROCESSING IN ISCHEMIC STROKE

Javier Pacheco-Quinto, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
L. Belayev
L. Khoutorova
K. D. Atkins

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

THE ROLE OF TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1 IN THE APOPTOSIS OF RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL CELLS. POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR NEUROPROTECTIN D 1 PROTECTION CAUSED BY OXIDATIVE STRESS.

Aram R. Asatryan, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Jorgelina M. Calandria
N. G. Bazan

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM