Chemistry & Biology Majors Among Six UK Students to Win Kentucky Academy of Science Awards
By Dominique Page
Six University of Kentucky students took honors at the Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) Annual Meeting held Nov. 3-4, at Murray State University. With more than 500 scientists and students in attendance, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from Kentucky and regional colleges and universities participated in the research competitions.
The UK students who won awards in the KAS student competitions are as follows:
Winners of Oswald Research, Creativity Competition Named
By Gail Hairston
The University of Kentucky recently announced the 16 undergraduate winners of the 53rd annual Oswald Research and Creativity Competition.
Established in 1964 by former UK President John Oswald, the Oswald Research and Creativity Program encourages research and creative activities by undergraduate students at UK. The objectives of the program are to stimulate creative work by undergraduate students and to recognize individuals who demonstrate outstanding achievement.
44th Annual Naff Symposium
Schedule of Events - March 23, 2018 |
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration & Continental Breakfast Gallery, W.T. Young Library |
| 8:50 a.m. | Welcome - President Eli Capilouto |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Prof. Richard M. Crooks, University of Texas at Austin Quantitative electrochemical detection of analytes at sub-picomolar levels using a simple paper sensor Auditorium, W.T. Young Library |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break (refreshments available) |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis: From Metabolic Pathways to Metabolons Auditorium, W.T. Young Library |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch & Break |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Prof. James Rusling, University of Connecticut Microfluidic arrays for protein-based cancer diagnostics and toxicity screening Auditorium, W.T. Young Library |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. David Cliffel, Vanderbilt University Electrochemically Instrumenting Organs on a Chip Auditorium, W.T. Young Library |
| 3:00 p.m. | Poster Session Set-Up |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Poster Session Jacobs Science Building |
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Evolutionary Geneticist to Deliver Thomas Hunt Morgan Lectures
By Jenny Wells
John Postlethwait, a professor of biology from the University of Oregon, will deliver two lectures at the University of Kentucky this week as the featured speaker for the ninth annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by the UK College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology.
PhD Defense Seminar: "Jak/Stat Signaling Regulates Gametogenesis and Age-Related Reproductive Maintenance"
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109 TH Morgan
Condensed Matter Seminar: Single molecule imaging in physiological environments
Single molecule measurements of membrane receptor assembly, trafficking, and function are complicated by the inherent properties of the native cellular environment. We utilize a combination of nanoscale plasmonic devices and cell-derived vesicles to isolate single membrane receptors in their native lipid bilayer membrane. This provides a method to extend single molecule studies to proteins that cannot be purified from the cell. This approach also allows us to compare populations of the same protein residing in different organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum and the plasma membrane.
We applied these methods to determine how nicotinic receptor ligands alter the assembly of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Exposure to nicotine led to increased fractions of the high sensitivity stoichiometry of α4β2 during synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum showing that nicotine alters the assembly of nascent receptor subunits. The use of nanoscale plasmonic devices and cell derived nanovesicles serves to defeat the concentration barrier associated with single molecule imaging extending these methods to physiological environments.
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CP179
Spaceship Ecology Presentation
Spaceship Ecology Presentation
7:00 – 8:30 pm, November 2, 2017
Jacobs Science Building
University of Kentucky
680 Rose Street
Students from the STEAM Academy will be presenting their ideas and designs on how space travelers could survive a 1,000 year trip. The focus will be on creating sustainable ecological systems necessary to maintain generations of space travelers as they travel through the cosmos towards their final destination. This poster session should be educational and thought provoking as students share the insights they discovered while planning for this trip.
Cookies and Punch will be provided.
See you there!
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Jacobs Science Building