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Awards
Banquet
Welcome
Leadership & Partnership Recognition
IBE Awards & Competitions
Annual
Bioethics Essay Competition
Poster Competition
Journal of Biological Engineering Awards
Presidential Citations
IBE Awards & Competitions
Other
Leadership Award*
Student Leadership Award
Fellows
Brahm and Sudha Verma Lifetime Visionary Award
Bioethics Essay Competition
Competition Winners
Chair:
Praveen Kolar
Honorable Mention
Vanessa Niba
University of Maryland
“Direct Reprogramming: A way to save a life or
a way to create one?”
Honorable Mention
Andrew Wesley
University of Maryland
“The Ethics Involving Embryonic Stem Cells:
Recycling as a Possible Solution”
Third Place
Maeve McCoy
University of Maryland
“Animal Testing in Bioengineering”
Second Place
Joan Zhang
University of Maryland
“Do You Want To Order A Custom Baby? Genetic
Engineering Can Provide the Catalog”
First Place
Andrew Koivuniemi
IU School of Medicine/Purdue University
“The Matter of Autonomy”
Poster Competition
Chair: Melissa Moss
Judges & Reviewers
Angela Pannier
Ben Stuart
Charlie Miller
Tarek Shazly
Alyssa Henning
Jing Lu
Yue Cui
Mark Riley
Kaustubh Bhalerao
Charly Kinoshita
Poster Competition
Undergraduate Award Winners
Undergraduate - Third Place
Evan Buettmann, Ryan Prsha, Daniel Els, Katie
Hocker; Matt Cozad, Dave Grant, Sheila Grant,
(University of Missouri, Columbia)
Development and characterization of a
polycaprolactone/soy lecithin electrospun
adhesion barrier
University of Missouri, Columbia
Undergraduate - Second Place
Sean Kearney, Joe Bretzmann, Madeline Cox,
Emilia Czyszczon, Mark De La Croix, Kayla
Fouch, Jonathan Gritzer, Sean Hendrix
Isolation, characterization, and genomic
comparison of MrGordo, a novel soil-derived
mycobacteriophage
Purdue University
Undergraduate - First Place
Brittani Bungart, Jui-Heng, Will Reed,
James C-M Lee, Melissa Moss (mentor)
Inhibiting the formation of amyloid-&beta
fibrils using isoflavones with increasing
hydroxyl functionalization
University of South Carolina
Undergraduate – Grand Prize
Sponsored by KSBB
Madeline Porterfield (Purdue University), Eric
McLamore, Prachee Chaturvedi, Masashige
Taguchi, Stephanie Burrs, Katelyn Ward
The use of nanoparticles in the detection of
microcystin-LR with electrochemical sensors
Purdue University & University of Florida
Poster Competition
Graduate Award Winners
Graduate - Third Place
Utsav Agrawal, Eric M. Johnson- Chavarria,
Melikhan Tanyeri, Charles M. Schroeder
Investigating the effects of dynamic external
stimuli on single cell fitness and gene
expression in Escherichia coli
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Graduate - Second Place
Arnab Mukherjee, Kevin Weyant,
Charles M. Schroeder
Directed evolution of bright mutants of a
flavin-binding oxygen-independent
fluorescent reporter protein from
pseudomonas putida
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Graduate - First Place
Joshua Ellis, Cody Tramp, Ronald C. Sims,
Charles D. Miller
Metagenome analysis of a methanogenic
community within an algae fed anaerobic
digester
Utah State University
Graduate – Grand Prize
Sponsored by KSBB
Paul Kenis, Ritika Mohan, Arnab Mukherjee,
Jaebum Lee, Emre Sevgan,
Charles M. Schroeder
A multiplexed microfluidic platform for
antibiotic susceptibility screening
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
High School – Honorable Mention
Ayodele Dechinea
Katherine De Paz
Sophia Powell
Uniondale High School
High School - First Place Tie
Manuel Flores-Bonilla
Elizabeth Osei
Photoluminescent
Evolution of Zinc Oxide
Nanoparticles in PLC6
Media
The impact of bioplastic secretion on
cell viability
Uniondale High School
Uniondale High School
Journal of Biological Engineering
Editor-in-Chief: Mark Eiteman, University of Georgia
Journal of Biological Engineering
Editor-in-Chief
Mark A. Eiteman (University of Georgia)
Journal of Biological Engineering is an open access, peer-reviewed
online journal that encompasses all aspects biological engineering.
The journal welcomes manuscripts on the following topics:
•synthetic biology and cellular design
•engineering of biomolecular and cellular devices
•bioproduction and bioproduct engineering
•ecological and environmental engineering
•biological engineering education and the biodesign process
Journal of Biological Engineering is the official journal of the Institute of
Biological Engineering.
www.jbioleng.org
Journal of Biological Engineering
Editor-in-Chief
Mark A. Eiteman (University of Georgia)
The Journal of Biological Engineering is offering a special promotional
offer only to attendees of the 2012 meeting. The publisher will waive
the normal article processing fee. Use the following code when you
submit your manuscript at the location where a payment waiver request
is made:
JBE_meeting – your last name
Applies only to submissions made between
March 15, 2012 and June 15, 2012.
www.jbioleng.org
Presidential Citations
Czarena Crofcheck
Mark Eiteman
Sandun Fernando
Danielle Frechette
Charles Kinoshita
Praveen Kolar
Eric McLamore
Melissa Moss
Mark Riley
Kirsten Sims
Jeong-Yeol Yoon
Guigen Zhang
Paul Lichtman
Presidential Citations
Thank you for your leadership and
determination as 2011 President
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