2012 International Scholar Research Summaries

• Ekrem Lutfi Aksakal and Kenan Barik, Soil Science and Plant Nutrients (Turkey)
  Spatio-temporal variations in soil carbon credit by conservation agriculture
  Faculty Mentor: Khandakar Islam 

• Ana Cristina Arciniega, OARDC - Plant Pathology (Ecuador)
  Optimizing management of cucumber downy mildew to currently used fungicides
  Faculty Mentor: Sally Miller

• Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology (Brazil)
  Biodiversity and biogeography of Opilioacarida from Brazil
  Faculty Mentor: Hans Klompen 

• Chih-Chin Chen, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Taiwan)
  Engineering acetogenic Clostridia for ethanol and n-butanol production from CO₂
  Faculty Mentor: Shang-Tian Yang

• Tzu-Ching Chiang, Psychology (Taiwan)
  Neural Processing of Bimodal Tasks: An fMRI Study
  Faculty Mentor: Zhong-Ling Lu

• Carlos Josué Esquivel Palma, OARDC - Department of Entomology (Guatelmala)
  Characterization of gene expression in Malpighian tubules of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus
  Faculty Mentor: Peter M. Piermarini

• Simone Fiorenti and Jacopo Guanetti, Center for Automotive Research (Italy)
  PbA Battery-Supercapacitor System: Concept Design Demonstration
  Faculty Mentors: Yann Guezennec and Simona Onori

• Kasturi Ganesh Barki, Surgery - Davis Heart & Lung Institute (India)
  Prostaglandin E2 Induces Oncostatin M Expression in Human Chronic Wound Macrophages through Axl Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Pathway
  Faculty Mentor: Sashwati Roy 

• Subhadip Ghatak, Surgery - Davis Heart & Lung Institute (India)
  Dicer ablation in keratinocytes impairs wound re-epithelialization by elevation of p21^waf1/cip1
  Faculty Mentor: Chandra Sen

• Shota Gogichaishvili, Chemistry and Biochemistry (Georgia)
  Isothermal amplification and quantification of DNA using quadruplex primers with intrinsic fluorescence
  Faculty Mentor: Besik Kankia 

• Di Guo, Electrical and Computer Engineering (China)
  A general framework of decentralized demand response in smart grid
  Faculty Mentor: Wei Zhang

• Tadesse Eguale Habtemariam, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Ethiopia)
  Biofilm formation and multicelluar morphotypes of Salmonella enterica serovars isolated from animals and humans in Ethiopia
  Faculty Mentor: John Gunn

• Seyed Ali Hosseini, OARDC - Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics (Iran)
  Chromosome fragile sites and genome instability
  Faculty Mentor: Kay Huebner

• Nigatu Kebede Wubie, Pathology (Ethiopia)
  Multilocus microsatellite mapping and identification in Leishmania aethiopica
  Faculty Mentor: Abhay R. Satoskar

• Mohamed Koubaa, Center for Applied Plant Science (Tunisia)
  ¹³C-based metabolic flux analysis in maize embryos; an approach to identify novel pathways for metabolic engineering
  Faculty Mentor: Ana Paula Alonso

• Gabriel Loli Bazo and Luis Otavio Rehder, Horticulture and Crop Science (Brazil)
  Influence of sowing depth of different corn (Zea mays L.) cultivars on crop emergence and root system morphology
  Faculty Mentor: Mark Bennett

• Li Mao, BMI - School of Information and Control Engineering (China)
  Automatic segmentation of epidermis region from GVHD microscopy images
  Faculty Mentor: Metin N. Gurcan

• Julius Medardus, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Tanzania)
  Selective Pressure and Impact on Salmonella enterica from Swine Production Environment in the U.S
  Faculty Mentor: Wondwossen A Gebreyes

• Ivan Mendoza Bravo, Materials Science and Engineering (Mexico)
  Solidification behavior in dissimilar metal welds
  Faculty Mentor: John C. Lippold

• Ulyana Muñoz Acuña, Pharmacy (Sweden)
  Goyazensolide from Piptocoma rufescence inhibits NF-κB in vitro and tumor development in vivo
  Faculty Mentor: Esperanza Carcache de Blanco

• M Khalid Khan Niazi, Biomedical Informatics (Pakistan)
  Quantification of Biological Structures from Images of Immunostained Slides
  Faculty Mentor: Metin Gurcan

• Xiaowa Nie, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (China)
  Density Functional Theory Studies of CO₂ Electrochemical Reduction on Copper Catalysts
  Faculty Mentor: Aravind Asthagiri

• Benear Apollo Obanda, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Kenya)
  The molecular characterization of non- typeable methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clones
  Faculty Mentor: Wondwossen Gebreyes

• Tamyris Oliveira, Dentistry (Brazil)
  Acute Systemic Responses to Periodontal Surgical Therapy
  Faculty Mentor: Dimitris N. Tatakis

• Tamar Partskhaladze, Chemistry (Georgia)
  Quadruplex priming amplification coupled with EXPAR for point-of-care diagnostics
  Faculty Mentor: Besik Kankia 

• Lusiana Françoisse Pessoa de Farias, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Brazil)
  Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Salmonella serotypes isolated from wildlife in Ohio
  Faculty Mentor: Wondwossen A Gebreyes 

• Guilherme Santana de Moura, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Brazil)
  Isolation, Characterization and Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in sheep Milk in American and Brazilian herds
  Faculty Mentor: Wondwossen A Gebreyes 

• Natasha Sarkar, History (India)
  The Modern Plague: India Responds To The Culture Of The Macabre (1896-1914)
  Faculty Mentor: John Brooke

• Simone A. Silva, Plant Science/ Seed Production and Technology (Brazil)
  Priming for improved germination in stored wheat seeds (Triticum aestivum L.)
  Faculty Mentors: Mark Bennett and Pablo Jourdan

• Ricardo Simpson, Food, Agriculture, and Biological Engineering (Chile)
  Fractional Calculus As A Mathematical Tool To Improve The Modeling Of Mass Transfer Phenomena In Food Processing
  Faculty Mentor: Sudhir Sastry

• Chiara Uglietti, Byrd Polar Research Center (Italy)
  Environmental changes recorded in an Andean glacier during the last 500 years
  Faculty Mentor: Lonnie G Thompson 

• Andréia Vielmo, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Brazil)
  Characterization and Genetic Relationship Between Campylobacter Strains from American and Brazilian Isolates
  Faculty Mentor: Wondwossen A. Gebreyes 

• Doris Ivette Villalobos Vera, Materials Science and Engineering (Mexico)
  Sigma Phase Precipitation In Hyper-Duplex Stainless Steels
  Faculty Mentor: John C. Lippold 

• Honghong Wang, Materials Science and Engineering (China)
  Copper Precipitation during Repeated Thermal Cycling of Steel Weld Metal
  Faculty Mentor: S. S. Babu 

• Nicolas Wein, Children's Hospital - Pediatrics (France)
  Alternate translational initiation and amelioration of phenotype in the DMD gene
  Faculty Mentor: Kevin M. Flanigan

• Zufan Sisay Worku, Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Ethiopia)
  Molecular Characterization of Porcine Sapoviruses and Noroviruses
  Faculty Mentor: Linda J. Saif

• Zhenzhen Zu, Comprehensive Cancer Center (China)
  Chemoprevention of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Natural Food Products
  Faculty Mentor: Tong Chen

• Xiaodong Zhang, Geography (China)
  PPGIS-based Stress Risk Assessment and Mapping for Crop Growing Environment
  Faculty Mentor: Daniel Sui