2008
Undergraduate Research
Summer Institute Symposium

September 24, 2008

Main Building, Villard Room

3:45 – 4:00 Introductory Remarks
Joseph Tanski, URSI Assistant Director
4:00 – 5:00 Students’ Oral Presentations on Summer Research

Felix Steiny, Vassar College ’09, Michael Thaler, Vassar College ’09 and Profs. Marc Smith and Jodi Schwarz
Aiptasia Wiki:
Community-Sourced Graphical Pipeline Processing for Bioinformatics

Jennifer Son, Vassar College ’10 and Prof. Teresa Garrett
The Big Fat Truth:
Synthesis of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine in Escherichia coli

Benjamin Davis, Vassar College ’10 and Prof. Mark Cleaveland
Exploring an Animal Model for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

5:00 – 5:15 Keynote Address Introductory Remarks
Jon Chenette
Dean of the Faculty
5:15 – 6:15 URSI Keynote Address\ Common Ground Lecture
Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
President of the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County (UMBC)
6:15 – 7:30 Poster Session on Summer Research
7:45 – 9:30 Dinner for URSI Fellows and Faculty

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