student research day WINNERS
GRAND PRIZE - HIGHEST OVERALL SCORE (Ph.D. student)
Fredrick Harris. "Elucidating the role of Acyl-coenzyme A binding protein in lung
cancer progression."
School of Graduate Studies and Research, Master of Science in Public Health Program
1st Place
Xinling Liu. "The predictive value of move questionnaire items on veterans' initial
success with weight loss."
2nd Place
Chondraah Holmes. "HPV vaccine and cervical cancer screening recommendations among
community healthcare providers in Tennessee."
3rd Place
Shoteria Pearson. "Examining the behaviors that put heterosexual identifying African-American
men at risk for HIV."
School of Dentistry
1st Place
Ciera Scales. "The effect of MSX-1 and MSX-2 concentrations in the orthodontic treatment
of diabetic patients: a systematic review."
2nd Place
Carol Nixon. "The Dental Field Trip: a community outreach program-enhancing dental
IQ."
3rd Place
Irwine Sainvil. "Readability of informed consent documents for limited literacy of
minority populations."
School of Medicine
1st Place
Tulani Washington-Plaskett. "Race differences in the age at diagnosis of cardiovascular
diseases."
2nd Place
Jay-Sheree Allen. "The interest an urban hospital has in 15-24 year old populations
receiving testing for sexually transmitted infections (Chlamydia, gonorrhea and human
papillomavirus)."
Wesley Peace. "Ethnic differences in chronic kidney disease prevalence and impact
on heart failure outcomes."
3rd Place
Babatunde Akinpelu. "Determining the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of brain arterio-venous
malformation using a novel mice model."
Monica Buckner. "Discovering the correlation between alopecia areata and eczema using
proscope HR imaging."
Angela Chapman. "Prevalence of overweight and obesity among minority children at Nashville
General Hospital."
Tamera Means. "Determining whether a person's race, age or gender affects how they
view the protect III study and exemption from informed consent."
School of Graduate Studies and Research, Ph.D. Program, 1st and 2nd Year Students
1st Place
Jessica Sutton. "The role of host vesicular transport machinery in HIV-1 particle
assembly and release."
2nd Place
Judith Rosena. "Elucidatin the developmental progression of idiopathic generalized
epilepsy in two genetic mouse models."
3rd Place
Joseph Smith. "Roles of OXA1 on the assembly of cytochrome oxidase complex and on
the stability of mitochondrial transcripts in Trypanosoma brucei."
School of Graduate Studies and Research, Ph.D. Program, Advanced Students
1st Place
Andrea Flores. "Method for measuring degradation of the transcription factor NRF2
at the single level."
Ballington Kinlock. "Transmission of HIV-1 across the mucosal vaginal epithelial layer
utilizes the RAB-11 dependent recycling endosomal pathway and can be influenced by
the sex hormone progesterone."
Ashley North. "Mechanism of manganese induced inhibition of glutamate transporter
glast function."
Pamela D. Thompson. "Alpha 2-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein (AHSG) promotoes migration
in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC) cell lines."
2nd Place
LaKeisha Tillery. "Protease activated receptor-3 signals independent of protease-activated
receptor-1 to regulate endothelial nitric oxide synthase in human endothelial cells."
3rd Place
Leah Banks. "Protective effect of olive oil against Benzo(A)Pyrene (BAP)-induced colon
tumor development in APCmin mice."
Treniqka Walters. "Sumo binding sites in NRF2."
SOM student Jensine Norman with her project on Student Research Day.
