AAAS Student Poster Competition Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2007 AAAS Student Poster Competition!

The competition is open to college undergraduate and graduate students, and is held during the Annual Meeting each year. Submission for the 2008 competition will open in August of 2007. To view full abstracts, click on the title.

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Winner: Shana R. Spindler, University of California, Los Angeles
Bazooka Localizes to Dendritic Branch Points in the Drosophila

Honorable Mention: Kameelah Abdullah and Desiree L. Salazar, University of California, Irvine
Delayed Transplantation of Human Central Nervous System Stem Cells Into Spinal Cord Contusion Injured NOD-Scid Mice

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

Winner: Holmes Hummel, Stanford University
Policy Implications of Global Energy Scenarios for Climate Stabilization

Honorable Mention: Emily T. King, St. Mary's College of California
Transport Dynamics Associated with Surface Ozone Concentrations in Joshua Tree National Park

MATH, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING

Winner: Manu Prakash, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microfluidic Bubble Logic

Honorable Mention: Dinesh G. Bansal, Georgia Institute of Technology
Design of a Precision Tribo-Tester for Studying Contact Transitions

MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Winner: Catherine Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Selectively Inhibiting MYC Oncogene Activation with Designed Peptides

Honorable Mention: Jorge L. Durand, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
A Novel Integration of MR Imaging and Raman Spectroscopy of Mouse Aortas

MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR

Winner: Sarah Piloto, University of California, Irvine
Requirements for an Ovo Orthologue in Neural Crest and Neural Tube Development

Honorable Mention: Shannon P. Fortin and Kelsey Drake, Arizona State University
Increased Fn14 Links to Glioma Cell Invastion and Poor Patient Outcome

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Winner: Rodrigo Gonzalez, University of California, Los Angeles
Variations in Stability of Polynucleotide Hairpins Due to Stem-Loop Conformation

Honorable Mention: Dylan H. Rood, University of California, Santa Barbara and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Changing Rates and Styles of Crustal Deformation at Timescales of 10 My to 10 Ky

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Winner: Lexyne L. McNealy, Northwestern University
Prosthetic Ankle Motion in Bilateral Transfemoral Amputees

Honorable Mention: Jean-François Sénéchal, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Responsibility of Scientists: What Duties in the Struggle for Knowledge?

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Winner: Courtney Ficks, Lisa Doelger, and Karina R. Horowitz, Arizona State University; Whitney Guthrie, Pepperdine University
Child Psychopathology: Heritability and Parental Differential Treatment

Honorable Mention: David Bidwell and Rachael L. Shwom, Michigan State University
Deliberation Lite: How Does Feedback Influence Public Climate Change Policy?