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Biology & Chemistry Department Well-Represented at the KAS Meeting and Two Students Win First Prize!!

The Bio/Chem department was well represented at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science with 6 talks and 2 poster presentations.  Below, Tyler Elam talks about his work with DNA repair in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.  His talk spawned enough interest that he may eventually colloaborate with Dr. Hazel Barton, a well known cave microbiologist.  He was also awarded first place in the Microbiology section!!  Other talks were given by Bill Hankinson, Logan Murphy, and Allen Risk.  Poster presentations were given by Tiffany Stacy, Jacob Jordan, and Susan Brown.  Susan won first place in the Ecology section!!  We offer our congratulations to our students for their research efforts.  For a complete listing of the student and faculty presentations, see below.

KAS - Tyler

Tyler Elam begins his talk - FIRST PLACE!!

 KAS - Jacob-Tiffany

Jacob Jordan and Tiffany Stacy present their work on polyhydroxyalkanaotes

KAS - Brown

Susan Brown at her poster - FIRST PLACE!!

 

Kas - GROUP

MSU and Maysville Community College faculty members

 

 TALKS

Epiphyllous bryophytes in the Appalachian Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee. Allen C. Risk - Morehead State University,
Channing Richardson - Oklahoma State University, Paul G. Davison- University of North Alabama

The partitioning of vascular plant diversity in a sandstone gorge in eastern Kentucky: a mesohabitat approach.  Allen C. Risk -
Morehead State University

Plant biodiversity surrogacy: a case study from a sandstone gorge ecosystem in eastern Kentucky. Allen C. Risk - Morehead
State University

Diverse capacities for DNA damage responses across the genus Acinetobacter.  Tyler J. Elam - Morehead State University, Janelle M. Hare - Morehead State University

Effect of rho kinase inhibition alpha-actin, beta-actin, myosin remodeling in the contracting A7r5 smooth muscle cell.
William R. Hankinson - Morehead State University, Suzette Pike - Morehead State University, Josie M. Maione - Morehead State University, Michael E. Fultz - Morehead State University

Reduction of copper by Bisphenol A and the potential for DNA damage. Logan Murphy - Morehead State University, David Saxon
- Morehead State University

POSTERS

Nutrient Limitations in Low Alkalinity, Low Nutrient, Eagle Lake Reservoir, Rowan Co., KY .  Susan R. Brown - Morehead State University, Brian C. Reeder - Morehead State University

Strategies for Identification of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Inclusion Proteins. Tiffany Stacy - Morehead State University, Jacob Jordan - Morehead State University, Lynn Eisenhour - Morehead State University, Douglas Dennis - Morehead State University