PROGRAM

MEMORIAL UNION

Thursday, April 2, 2015 9:00 AM – 8:30 PM

Lectures: • Future of Computing, co-sponsored by: ACM • Surviving Your Stupid Stupid Decision to go to Grad School

Workshops:

• How to write an excellent Research and Teaching Statements • Resume Building • Creating Effective Research Posters • What is Open? A Primer for Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students • Alternate Careers after PhD: Entrepreneurship

Panel Discussion:

• Negotiating your first faculty job offer • How to get a job in Industry

Sponsored by: • Graduate College • Graduate and Professional Students Senate • College of Business • College of Human Sciences • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • College of Engineering • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences • Association for Computing Machinery • College of Design • College of Veterinary Medicine • Office of Senior Vice President and Provost

 

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GPSS – RC 2015 Program

MORNING SCHEDULE (9:00 am – 12:20 pm)

Time Event Speaker Location Starts at 8:30 Registration West Lobby 9:00 – 10:00 Poster Workshop: Creating Effective

Research Posters Chris Nelson Anna Prisacari

Cardinal Room

10:00 – 11:00 Writing Workshop: How to write an excellent Research and Teaching Statements

Dr. Linda Shenk Dr. Wolfgang H Kliemann

Campanile Room

10:00 – 11:00 Workshop: “Alternative Careers after PhD: Entrepreneurship”

Juan Proaño Shivani Garg Kristine Johansen

Gold Room

10:00 – 11:00 Oral Presentations 3505, 3534, 3538, 3558 11:00 – 12:00 Faculty Panel Discussion:

“Negotiating your first Faculty Job Offer”

Dr. Charles Kostelnick Dr. Dawn-Bratsch-Prince Dr. Carla Peterson

Cardinal Room

11:00 – 12:00 Career Panel Discussion: What is Open? A Primer for Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students

Megan O’Donnell Emma Molls

Pioneer Room

11:00 – 12:00 Oral Presentations 3505, 3534, 3538, 3558 11:30 – 12:20 Lunch Sun Room

AFTERNOON SCHEDULE (12:30 pm – 8:30 pm)

Time Event Speaker Location 12:30 – 1:45 Keynote Address:

“The Future of Computing” Dr. Peter Freeman Great Hall

2:00 – 3:00 Follow: (3:00 – 4:00)

Industry Panel Discussion: How to get a job in Industry Breakout Session with panelists

Maren Arling Bill Maurer Dr. Sondra Ashmore Dr. Benjamin Blakely Andy Turcotte, MBA

Campanile Room

2:00 – 3:00 Oral Presentations 3505, 3534, 3538, 3558 3:00 – 4:00 Resume/CV Building Workshop Karin Lawton-Dunn Cardinal Room 3:00 – 4:00 Oral Presentations 3505, 3534, 3538, 3558 4:00 – 4:45 3-Minute Thesis Presentations Gold Room 5:00 – 6:00 Poster sessions South Ballroom 5:30 – 7:00 Dinner Cardinal Room,

Campanile Room 7:00 – 7:10 Award Ceremony Great Hall 7:10 – 8:30 Closing Speaker:

“Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School”

Dr. Adam Ruben Great Hall

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WORKSHOPS and PANEL DISCUSSIONS 9:00 am – 10:00 am Poster Workshop: “Creating Effective Research Posters” - CARDINAL ROOM

Description: This session will discuss organizing a research project into poster presentation format, conveying a clear research story, and capturing an audience's attention. Facilitators: Chris Nelson and Anna Prisacari, Graduate Peer Mentor Program

10:00 am – 11:00 am Writing Workshop: “How to write an excellent Research and Teaching Statements” - CAMPANILE ROOM

Research and Teaching Statements Academic positions, but also some positions in government or industry, often see over 300 applications. It is your responsibility to make your application ‘glow in the dark’ so that you attract attention. A well-written research statement and, for some academic positions a good teaching statement, are often key to setting yourself apart from the hundreds of other applicants. This short, two-part workshop will talk about the general structure of research statements and teaching statements, and discuss some Dos and Don’ts. Facilitators: Dr. Linda Shenk, Associate Professor - English Department Dr. Wolfgang H Kliemann, Associate Vice President - Vice President for Research 10:00 am – 11:00 am Faculty Panel Discussion: “Negotiating your first Faculty Job Offer” - CARDINAL ROOM

Description: This workshop will provide information about the application and negotiation process for a faculty position. Some of the topics to be addressed are: 1. Promotion and tenure expectations (research, teaching, service). 2. Professional development support (e.g., for conference travel). 3. Salary (and maybe summer support). 4. Mentoring (will a mentor be assigned?) 5. Teaching responsibilities (course load, graduate courses, etc.). Panelists: Dr. Charles Kostelnick, Professor - English Department Dr. Dawn-Bratsch-Prince, Associate Provost - World Languages and Cultures Department Dr. Carla Peterson, Associate Dean - Human Development and Family Studies 10:00 am – 11:00 am Workshop: “Alternative Career after ISU: Entrepreneurship” – Gold Room Description: A constantly increasing number of postdocs/PhD students are leaving the bench to transition to what was previously called « Alternative Careers for PhDs» (Consulting, IP and Entrepreneurship). This workshop will address the steps to create a company and the possibilities to be helped by ISU. Panelists: Juan Proaño, Graduate Assistant-Research, Mechanical Engineering Shivani Garg, Postdoc Research Associate, Biochemistry/Biophysics & Molecular Biology-AGLS Kristine Johansen, Program Manager II, ISU - Economic Development and Industry Relations

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11:00 am – 12:00 pm Career Panel Discussion: What is Open? A Primer for Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students – PIONEER ROOM Description: This session will delve into the question of what is open and how sharing your work with the world can lead to unexpected opportunities. We’ll discuss and demonstrate the basics of Open Access and different ways to build an online presence that promotes, and shares, your academic work. This session is intended for all disciplines, career paths, and industries. Panelists: Megan O'Donnell, Librarian I - ISU Parks Library Emma Molls, Librarian I - ISU Parks Library

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Industry Panel Discussion: “How to Get a Job in Industry” - CAMPANILE ROOM

Description: This panel of industry professionals will answer questions from the moderator and audience regarding obtaining an industry job. Panelists will be present from a wide variety of fields to represent the colleges of the university, and will offer advice to students pursuing industry employment. Panelists: Maren Arling, MS- Senior Research Associate, Dupont Pioneer. Bill Maurer, MBA- Senior. Strategic Sourcing Manager, Hach. Sondra Ashmore, PhD - IT Assistant Director, Principal Financial. Benjamin Blakely, PhD, CISSP, CISM and Director of Information Security, Workiva-- ISU Alumni Andy Turcotte, MBA, CFP-- Internal Sales Manager, Central Division Principal Funds Distributor-- ISU Alumni 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Breakout Session with Industry Panel – CAMPANILE ROOM

Panelists: Maren Arling, MS- Senior Research Associate, Dupont Pioneer. Bill Maurer, MBA- Senior. Strategic Sourcing Manager, Hach. Sondra Ashmore, PhD - IT Assistant Director, Principal Financial. Benjamin Blakely, PhD, CISSP, CISM and Director of Information Security, Workiva-- ISU Alumni Andy Turcotte, MBA, CFP-- Internal Sales Manager, Central Division Principal Funds Distributor-- ISU Alumni

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Resume/CV Building Workshop - CARDINAL ROOM

Description: This workshop will go over the most important aspects of resume/CV writing and formatting to make your application stands out. Facilitator: Karin Lawton-Dunn, Program Coordinator II - Graduate College Career Services.

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ORAL PRESENTATIONS MORNING SESSIONS (1a – 1d) 10:00 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1a: Room: 3505 Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, Agricultural Education & Studies

Title Author(s) Department [140] Development and Characterization of an Ex-vivo Brain slice Culture Model of Chronic Wasting Disease

Naveen Kondru Biomedical Sciences

[119] The effect of chemically modified alginates on macrophage phenotype and biomolecule transport

Hannah Bygd Materials Science and Engineering

[111] Synthesis of Contemporary SAE Research 1994 -2014 Bryan D. Rank Agricultural Education & Studies

[162] Using nanoindentation as a mechanical spectroscopy tool: elucidating high temperature deformation mechanisms of nanotwinned silver films

Hakan Yavas Materials Science and Engineering

10:00 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1b: Room 3534 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering/Agronomy

Title Author(s) Department [131] Hydrological modeling of pothole microwatersheds in the Des Moines Lobe

Ligia De Oliveira Serrano Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

[198] Impact of batch thermosonication on plasmin activity in stored skim milk: time-amplitude effects

Cindu Annand Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

[54] Effects of legume leaf utilization on grain and leaf production Rosemary Bulyaba Agronomy [59] Development of high cell density and high cell productivity culture strategies for mixotrophic growth of microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with pyrolytic acetate

Xuefei Zhao Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

10:00 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1c: Room 3538 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Title Author(s) Department [22] Antimalarial Drug Discovery Using the Structure of the Plasmodium falciparum Apicoplast DNA Polymerase

Morgan E Milton, Richard Honzatko, Scott Nelson

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biol (AGLS)

[133] Preparation of recombinant plant Xyloglucan Xylosyltransferase and identification of critical residues involved in enzyme-substrate binding

Alan Culbertson Olga Zabotina

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biol (AGLS)

[70] The Structure of Newcastle Disease Virus Fusion Protein Bound to Chicken Protein Disulfide Isomerase A3 Suggests a Molecular Target for New Therapies

John C.F. Hsieh Robert L. Jernigan Susan J. Lamont

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

[134] RNABindRPlus Predicts RNA-Protein Interface Residues in Multiple Protein Conformations

Carla Mann Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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10:00 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1d: Room 3558 Food Sciences and Human Nutrition/Kinesiology

Title Author(s) Department [72] Age-associated redistribution of relative joint moment angular impulses is robust to stride length manipulations

Harsh H. Buddhadev Dr. Ann L. Smiley-Oyen Dr. Philip E. Martin

Kinesiology

[73] Joint loads in habitual rearfoot and mid/forefoot strike runners with normal and shortened stride lengths

Elizabeth R. Boyer Timothy R. Derrick

Kinesiology

[80] Natural Antimicrobial System for Inhibition of Pathogens in Fresh Produce

Zongyu Zhang Byron F. Brehm-Stecher

Food Science and Human Nutrition (H SCI)

[35] Synergistic effect between silica nano particle and non-ionic surfactants on oil recovery from condensed corn distillers solubles (ccds)

Lei Fang Tong Wang Buddhi Lamsal

Food Science and Human Nutrition (AGLS)

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MORNING SESSIONS (2a – 2d) 11:00 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 2a: Room: 3505 Animal Science and Vet Med

Title Author(s) Department [82] Differential response of resistant and susceptible chicken lines to a lentogenic Newcastle Disease Virus strain

Melissa S. Herrmann Rodrigo Gallardo David A. Bunn

Genetics (interdisciplinary) Animal Science Animal Science

[102] Heat Stress Induces Autophagy in Pig Ovaries during Follicular Development

Lance H. Baumgard Aileen F. Keating Jason W. Ross

Animal Science Animal Science Animal Science

[20] Dogs cast nets too: neutrophil extracellular traps in health and immune-mediated hemolytic anemia

Unity Jeffery Veterinary Microbiology & Prev Med

[CP 01] Determination of the concentration of tylvalosin in the synovial fluid of swine after administration at a dose of 5mg/kg by oral gavage

Paisley Canning Vet Diagnostic & Production Animal Med

11:00 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 2b: Room 3534 Human Computer Interaction/Mechanical Engineering/ Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Title Author(s) Department [190[Design of Mobile Application for Type 1 Diabetes Amanda Skinner Human Computer

Interaction [153] Adaptive Decision Support System Based on User Decision Style

Andrew Lilja Human Computer Interaction

[75] Molecular dynamics investigation of the stability of Chlorotoxin at different temperatures and ion concentrations

Peng Li Mechanical Engineering

[84] Combination approach of SMOTE and instance selection for imbalanced datasets

Tianxiang Gao Industrial and Manufacturing Systems

11:00 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 2c: Room 3538 Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry

Title Author(s) Department [139] An Independent and Blinded Confirmation of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC)Analysis of Cervid Rectal Biopsies for Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease

Sireesha Manne Biomedical Sciences

[108] Selective hydrogenation of phenol catalyzed by palladium on high-surface-area ceria at room temperature and ambient pressure

Nicholas C. Nelson J. Sebastian Manzano Aaron D. Sadow Steven H. Overbury Igor I. Slowing

Chemistry

[68] 5D Tracking of Cargos in Live Cells Kuangcai Chen Chemistry [135] N-Heterocyclic-Carbene-Catalyzed Hydroacylation and Sequential Enantioselective Nickel Catalyzed a-Arylation

James A. Walker Jr. Avipsa Ghosh

Chemistry

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11:00 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 2d: Room 3558 Nutritional Sciences/Genetics/Veterinary Diag & Prod Animal Med/Sustainable Agriculture

Title Author(s) Department [94] Relationship of fat quality and meat quality traits of fresh pork

E. D. Testroet C. L. Yoder A. Testroet C. Reynolds M. R. O'Neil D. C. Beitz T. J. Baas

Nutritional Sciences Animal Science Genetics Development and Cell Biology (AGLS) Nutritional Sciences Nutritional Sciences Animal Science Animal Science

[105] Genomic Analysis Of African Chicken Ecotypes Using A 600k SNP Chip

Damarius Fleming Genetics (Interdisciplinary)

[101] Effects of transmammary analgesia on biomarkers of pain and distress in piglets after castration and tail docking

Jessica L. Bates Locke A. Karriker Matthew L. Stock Kelly M. Pertzborn Luke G. Baldwin Larry W. Wulf C.J. Lee Chong Wang Johann F. Coetzee

Veterinary Diag & Prod Animal Med

[87] U.S. Corn Belt: Farmer perspectives on targeted conservation and ecosystem service management

Emily K Zimmerman John C. Tyndall Lisa A. Schulte Moore

Sustainable Agriculture Natural Resource Ecology and Management

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AFTERNOON SESSIONS (3a – 3d) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm SESSION 3a: Room: 3505 Education/English/Graphic Design

Title Author(s) Department [92] Evaluating Distance Learning: Quality Indicators from a learner's perspective

Asimoula Valai Denise Crawford Kenneth Moore

Education Education Agronomy

[21] Chinese female college students' perceptions of and responses demands for critical thinking skills in U.S. higher education

Lu Yan Education

[4] The Unintentionally Wildly Successful “Meme” Meme: How Genetics Became a Rhetorically Powerful Metaphor for Spreading Ideas

Tom Ballard English

[121] Designing for interactive enhanced ebooks: A study proposing practices in graphic design.

Karen Doty Graphic Design

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm SESSION 3b: Room 3534 Material Science and Engineering/Physics and Astronomy/Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Author(s) Department [3] Affordable microfluidic devices by Targeted Asymmetric Calendaring and Hydrophobization method (TACH) on paper

Stephanie Oyola-Reynoso Martin Thuo

Materials Science and Engineering

[138] Search for superconductivity in ternary chalcogenides Bi2Rh3S2

Udhara Kaluarachchi Physics & Astronomy

[145] X-ray Diffraction studies reveal the Collapsed tetragonal phase in SrCo2As2 under high pressure

W. T. Jayasekara B. G. Ueland A. Kreyssig Abhishek Pandey N. S. Sangeetha G. Fabbris Yejun Feng D. Haskel D. C. Johnston A. I. Goldman

Physics and Astronomy

[185] CoolCloud: A Practical Dynamic Virtual Machine Placement Framework for Energy Aware Data Centers

Zhiming Zhang Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2:00 pm – 3:00 pm SESSION 3c: Room 3538 Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

Title Author(s) Department [103] Hydric conditions during incubation influence phenotypes of neonatal reptiles in the field

Brooke Bodensteiner Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology (AGLS)

[118] Do Honey Bee Workers Have Individual Personalities? Alexander Walton Amy Toth

Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

[178] Carapace morphology is indicative of female nesting behavior in the painted turtle

Daniela Flores Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

[169] Creating Zombies: Using a transcriptomic approach to understand parasite manipulation of preexisting behavioral machinery in hosts

Amy C Geffre Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm SESSION 3d: Room 3558 Civil/Architecture

Title Author(s) Department [7] Acid-modification of carbon nanotubes to improve their dispersion in concrete

Mohamed Elkashef Kejin Wang

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

[49] Strength analysis and proposed manufacturing techniques for bacterial concrete

Sneha Roy Akash Raj

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

[184] Designing Local Food Systems: Through University Campus CPULs

Jasmine Singh Architecture

[160] A statistical approach for management of civil infrastructure components under climate change effect

Dena Khatami Behrouz Shafei

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

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AFTERNOON SESSIONS (4a – 4d) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 4a: Room: 3505 Apparel Ed St and Hospitality Management/Human Development and Family Studies/Journalism and Mass Communication/Psychology

Title Author(s) Department [186] Development and assessment of visual-based food safety training with chinese-speaking foodservice workers in independently-owned chinese restaurants

Dawei Li Lakshman Rajagopal

Apparel Ed St & Hospitality Mgmt

[116] Understanding home language use among Chinese families in the United States

Liuran Fan Gayle Luze Carla Peterson

Human Development & Family Studies

[179] How Publics’ Emotional Responses Vary in Different Crisis Types?

Lianshan Zhang Journalism and Mass Communication

[166] Persuasion through Narrative Transportation is Mediated by Perceived Elaboration

Ann Lewis Kevin Blankenship

Psychology

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 4b: Room 3534 Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Author(s) Department [187] Capacity of sum-networks for different message alphabets Ardhendu Tripathy

Aditya Ramamoorthy Electrical and Computer Engineering

[181] Analysis of ringing in non-resonant pulsed NMR circuits Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar Narimdinda Robert Bouda Professor Mani Mina Professor David Jiles

Electrical and Computer Engineering

[170 ] INARA: Interconnect Network Assisted RAM Array Kevin Townsend Electrical and Computer Engineering

[96] A Broadband Bistable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Nonlinear High-Power Extraction

Kanishka Aman Singh Ratnesh Kumar Robert J. Weber

Electrical and Computer Engineering

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 4c: Room 3538 Chemical and Biological Engineering/Genetic Development and Cell Biology/Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Title Author(s) Department [33] Enhanced transmission through a silver-on- grating plasmonic sensor

Michael B Johnson Chemical and Biological Engineering

[61] Engineering S. cerevisiae for production of biorenewable plastics

Miguel Suastegui Chemical and Biological Engineering

[149] The maize YABBY transcription factor drooping leaf1 (drl1) and its enhancer drl2 regulate midrib and carpel development

Josh Strable Sarah Briggs Erik Vollbrecht

Genetics Development and Cell Biology (LAS)

[165] Somatic mutation of RB1 in central nervous system tumorigenesis

Staci Solin Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 4d: Room 3558 Civil/Community and Regional Planning

Title Author(s) Department [63] Evaluation of systemic safety methodologies on low-volume rural paved roadways

Georges Bou Saab Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

[37] Quantifying unpaved road roughness from terrestrial laser scanning

Ahmad Alhasan David J. White Kris De Brabanter

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Statistics

[34] Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis of a Non-Governmental Organization working with Quinoa Producers in the Province of Chimborazo, Ecuador

Sumac Elisa Cardenas Oleas

Community and Regional Planning

[42] Development of Treatment Selection Strategy of Flexible Pavement Holding Strategies for Low-Volume Roads

Jianhua Yu Charles T. Jahren R. Christopher Williams

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

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3-MINUTE THESIS PRESENTATIONS AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS 4:00pm – 4:45pm: Gold Room

Title Presenter Department [60] Stomata, bacteria, and disease: Goss’s wilt and leaf blight disease of corn

Sally Mallowa Plant Pathology and Microbiology

[115] Examining e-extension: diffusion, disruption, and rate of adoption among Iowa Extension Professionals

Cayla Taylor Agricultural Education and Studies

[120] Independent and joint associations of sedentary behavior and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with obesity: Comparison between subjective and objective measurement tool.

Youngwon Kim Kinesiology

[173] Compelling Questions are political...what are their politics?

Jennifer Gallagher Education

[197] Cover Crops and Climate Change Andrea Basche Agronomy [163] Development of novel ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) for hypersonic applications

Gaoyuan Ouyang Materials Science and Engineering

[168] Nucleation and Diffusion: Gateway to Self-Assembled Nanosystems

Matthew T. Hershberger Physics and Astronomy

[23] Effect of Crop Rotations on Bt Resistance in Western Corn Rootworm

Mike W. Dunbar Entomology

[43] Personalized coaching vs. activity monitor for weight loss in obese adults: The Health Coach Study

Karissa Peyer Kinesiology

[159] Atomistic Deformation Mechanisms of Chemically Complex Hydrated Oxides under Tensile Loads: Case Study of Tobermorite and Jennite

Shahin Hajilar Civil Engineering

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Sponsored by: • Graduate College • Graduate and Professional Students Senate • College of Business • College of Human Sciences • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • College of Engineering • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences • Association for Computing Machinery • College of Design • College of Veterinary Medicine • Office of Senior Vice President and Provost