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  Southern Student Presentations 2011

  Southern Adventist University

  Southern student research presentations for 2011.

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  Bruce Coston, D.V.M - A Funny Thing Happened On the Way Here

  Southern Adventist University

  Bruce Coston spoke at Southern Adventist University on November 28, 2010 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series.

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  Carl Person, B.S. - A Preliminary Phylogeography of the Pacific Rattlesnake, C. oreganus

  Southern Adventist University

  Carl Person spoke at Southern Adventist University on November 7, 2010 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series. He spoke about the pacific rattlesnake.

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  David Cowles - Picky Octopus and Smart Aemones: Marine Research at Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory

  Southern Adventist University

  In the huge diversity of the marine world, a vast number of relationships are yet not understood. Dr. Cowles discusses several instances of unexpectedly complex behaviors that his students have recently studied at Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory. An octopus is finicky in its diet for reasons that go far beyond simply obtaining enough food. Anemones lack brains but are able to manipulate the symbionts with which they live.

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  David Lindsey, Ph.D - Ubiquitin Processing in Stress Response and the Growth-to-Development- Transition

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  David Lindsey spoke at Southern Adventist University on December 2, 2010 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series. He spoke on stress.

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  David Steen - Nanomolecular Machines in Biological Systems

  Southern Adventist University

  By using both scanning and transmission electron microscopy, Dr. Steen has used these tools to assist colleagues, graduate, and undergraduate students in a variety of ongoing research projects. Imaging nanoscale structures and learning how they function in living systems is an endless fascination.

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  Joe Rudd - Advances in 21st Century Trauma Care : The 4 R's: Regeneration, Restoration, Replacement, Recovery

  Southern Adventist University

  Trauma research in the 21st century is moving at an amazing pace using stem cells, tissue engineering, and gene therapy. Trauma patients of the future will experience significantly brighter outcomes due to these innovations. But how this research is financed is another issue altogether.

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  John McCallum - Wilderness Survival, Tips and Tricks to Keep You Alive in the Woods

  Southern Adventist University

  John McCallum teaches classes in wilderness survival, primitive skills, bush craft and man tracking to groups and individuals. He is a certified Master Tracker from the Mountain Trackers Association. He talks about use of wild animals and nature for orienteering, telling time, distance, danger warning signals and survival techniques to help you travel through the woods like a pro. Also basic gear and survival priorities are discussed.

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  Stephen Dunbar - ProTECTOR- Coordinating Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in Honduras

  Southern Adventist University

  Tropical marine ecophysiology and coral reef biodiversity have taken Dr. Dunbar to many areas of the world. The latest exciting research of protecting sea turtles is presented.

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  Tim Jennings, M.D. - Human Sexuality: God's Design

  Southern Adventist University

  Tim Jennings spoke at Southern Adventist University on September 14, 2010 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series. He spoke on human sexuality.

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  Tom Goodwin, Ph.D - Tales Teeth Can Tell: What We Learn from Scrat's Sabers and Manfred's Tusks

  Southern Adventist University

  Tom Goodwin spoke at Southern Adventist University on November 8, 2010 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series. He spoke on sabers and tusks.

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  Amanda Gaspard - Parasites to Underage Drinking and Beyond: A Look into the Diverse World of Public Health

  Southern Adventist University

  While completing her Masters of Public Health, Amanda Gaspard, (Class ’06) works in a research laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has developed an ELISA for detection of cysticercosis, a tropical disease affecting 50 million people worldwide. Also, she recently surveyed 373 college students about underage alcohol consumption for her thesis. She discusses the broad and diverse field of public health.

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  Ben Navia - Plasticity in Selective Phonotaxis and Neuronal Responses in Female Cricket Acheta Domesticus

  Southern Adventist University

  Crickets have become good models to study how neuronal circuits control behavior. These creatures have relatively simple nervous system, but yet exhibit rather complex behaviors including recognition and localization. This presentation describes variation in the behavioral and neuronal response in female crickets.

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  Jack McClarty - Allergic to Anesthesia?: Malignant Hyperthermia, What Causes It and How We Stop It

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  Jack McClarty spoke at Southern Adventist University on November 19, 2009 for the E.O. Grundset lecture series. He spoke on malignant hyperthermia and the causes and ways to stop it.

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  Jeff Gates - Drink this Herbal Tea, Swallow this Approved Pill, and Call Me When You Figure Out Which One Works

  Southern Adventist University

  Do FDA required clinical trials provide confidence in safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products? Evidence-based medicine has emerged as a new paradigm replacing the traditional approach. However, both patients and practitioners have raised serious objections about the process. Dr. Gates has worked in both the naturopathic and pharmaceutical industries and will provide a behind-the-scenes perspective and some interpretive strategies for the scientist.

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  Jim Nestler - Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over: Light Detection in Sea Cucumbers

  Southern Adventist University

  Sea cucumbers (Phylum Echinodermata) are intruiging marine organisms because of their nutrient cycling, their defensive strategy of vomiting their internal organs at predators, and their respiratory habits. Dr. Nestler will share the findings of recent tropical and temperate marine research projects that have examined the ecological importance and behavioral effects of light on sea cucumbers in their natural environment , as well as the molecular basis of their light detection ability.

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  Southern Student Presentations 2009

  Southern Adventist University

  Southern student research presentations for 2009.

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  Tim McDonald - Watching Our Water: Wolftever's Watershed

  Southern Adventist University

  The Hamilton County Water Quality Program, under federal and state permit provisions, conducts mapping, surveying, and water quality monitoring in various local watersheds. This lecture discusses water quality parameters and issues in the Wolftever Creek watershed, including water quality monitoring in the creek.

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  Anna George - Conservation Tools Used in the Recovery of Endangered Aquatic Species

  Southern Adventist University

  From DNA sequencing to captive propagation, conservation biologists must be versatile in the methods they use restore biodiversity. This talk discusses ongoing projects at the Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute, from Lake Sturgeon to Tangerine Darters.

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  David Steen - Biomimetics: Current Research and Possible Teleological Implications

  Southern Adventist University

  Velcro, prosthetics, and self-cleaning paints are just three of the literally thousands of biology inspired inventions that are in current use with more being discovered every week. This presentation is a general update on biomimetics or bionics as it is sometimes called, touches on interesting current research findings, and concludes with a discussion of possible teleological implications for biologists.

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  Debbie Ramsey - Taking Care of Business: Secretion of Virulence Factors by Klebsiella pneumoniae

  Southern Adventist University

  Bacteria are used to living in a corporate setting. To survive in the dog-eat-dog world of a host, they must develop defensive strategies that will position them to take over the host corporation. Many of these defensive strategies involve secretion of proteins. Gram negative bacteria have six types of secretion systems that employ different mechanisms to push proteins outside of the cell. Dr. Ramsey discusses how Klebsiella pneumoniae utilizes secretion systems to colonize the lungs and cause pneumonia.

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  Emily Hamstra - Death, Flies, and Crime Scene Tape: Biological Methods in Forensic Science

  Southern Adventist University

  Crime Scene Investigation draws from many different disciplines to identify and analyze evidence. This lecture focuses on biological methods used in the investigation of violent crimes. Topics include blood stain pattern analysis, clandestine grave discovery, and post-mortem interval determination.

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  Ethan Carver - Fish Tales about Development

  Southern Adventist University

  Zebrafish have become a powerful model for studying early development in vertebrate species. Dr. Carver describes research using zebrafish to better understand developmental processes involved in bone and muscle formation.

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  Joe Rudd - Navigating Life: The Science and Bioethics of Trauma

  Southern Adventist University

  Knowledge has doubled in the last 20 years. Miniature devices that make a human hair appear enormous treat patients on a cellular level. This was not even imagined a decade ago. Recently a viable artificial heart was implanted and is working in humans. Kidney and liver tissues are created in the laboratory. Miraculous outcomes are now every day occurrences in operating rooms and emergency centers around the world. Where are we going from here?

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  Leonard Brand - A Better Worldview Leads to Better Scientific Research Ideas

  Southern Adventist University

  Everyone thinks within some worldview, based on assumptions. Those assumptions direct, or limit, one’s approach to research. A secular, naturalistic worldview can be a challenge because certain hypotheses contradict that worldview. Examples of how a well informed Christian worldview can lead to more productive research is given.