General Papers Schedule

Saturday Morning (room 105): CHEMISTRY / PHYSICS TALKS

9:00 – 9:20 am               Construction and Preliminary Characterization of Polyhishistidine Tagged Phosphotriesterase

                                       Briana Flaherty, Boise State University

9:20 – 9:40 am               Carbonyl Reductase: Substrate/Inhibitor Specificity & Recognition

                                       Charlene Rebecca Young, Boise State University

9:40 – 10:00 am             Carbonyl reductase inhibition to increase anthracycline efficacy

                                       Christopher Ewing, Boise State University

10:00 – 10:20 am           Sustainable, Self-produced Energy

Seth Eidemiller, Boise State University

10:20 – 10:40 am           The Cognitive Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Learning:

Norris Krueger, Entrepreneurship Northwest

10:40 – 11:00 am           A Perspective on Over a Decade of On-Farm Research on the Influence of Humates Products on        

                                        Crop Production

                                        Mir-M. Seyedbagheri, University of Idaho Elmore Extension Center

11:00 - 11:20 am            Propagator in Random Systems: the Black-Scholes example and beyond

                                        Bailey Hsu, Brigham Young University 

Saturday Morning (room 106): BIOLOGY / GEOLOGY TALKS

9:00 – 9:20 am               OSM's Effect on RUNX2 mRNA Expression in Breast Cancer Cells

                                       Bengt Phung, College of Idaho

9:20 – 9:40 am               The Effect of the Carotenoid Antioxidant Lycopene on Human

                                       SAOS-2 Cells and Mouse Osteoblasts

                                       Brenden P. Hoffman, College of Idaho

9:40 – 10:00 am             Induction and Detection of Antibodies in Immunized Rabbits with Blastomyces dermatitidis Yeast Phase Lysate Antigens

                                       Devon L. Rasmussen, Idaho State University

10:00 – 10:20 am           Cadmium Induces Oxidative Stress in the Human Osteoblast-like

                                       Cell Line, Saos-2

Kate S. Arbon, College of Idaho

10:20 – 10:40 am           An Investigation of Cadmium-Induced Decrease in RUNX2 mRNA

                                       Expression and Recovery by the Antioxidant N-Acetly-L-Cysteine

                                       Spenser S. Smith, College of Idaho

10:40 – 11:00 am           Variable Pleistocene Climate Sequence from Bir Tarfawi,Egypt

C. Bradbury, Boise State University

11:00 – 11:20 am           Radioactivity in Fossils at the Hagerman Fossil Beds Nat’l Mon.

                                       Neal Farmer, Idaho Department of Water Resources