Session L.  Biotechnology

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

3:00-3:10 PM                     Introduction

3:10-3:35 PM                     LO-01 
Overproduction of Hydrogen from an Anaerobic Bacterium
Steve Harvey and Amanda Chambers, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center; Percival Zhang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

3:35-4:00 PM                     LO-02 
Survival of Burns Involving 90% of the Total Body Surface Area after Treatment with Autologous Engineered Skin Substitutes
Steven Boyce and Richard Kagan, University of Cincinnati and Shriners Hospitals for Children - Cincinnati Burns Hospital; Peggy Simpson, Shriners Hospitals for Children - Cincinnati Burns Hospital

4:00-4:25 PM                     LO-03 
Assembly of Proteorhodopsin for Bioinspired Alternative Energy Applications
C. Nguyen and J. Ingram, United States Military Academy; H. Liang and G. Stucky, University of California, Santa Barbara

4:25-4:50 PM                     LO-04 
A Pyrophosphate Based Energy Generating Module
James P. Chambers, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jennifer Sekowski and James J. Valdes, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command

4:50-5:15 PM                     LO-05 
Computational Sensing and In Vitro Classification of GMOs and Biomolecular Events
Elebeoba May, Patricia Dolan, Paul Crozier, Susan Brozik and Monica Manginell, Sandia National Laboratories; Miler T. Lee, University of Pennsylvania 

5:15-5:40 PM                     L-JSHS
Methylmercury Induced Dysfunction of Blood Vessel Cells:  The Implications of an Environmental Pollutant on Cardiovascular Diseases 
Aaditya G. Shidham, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, OH

POSTERS

LP-01
Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Traumatic Brain Injury by Proteomic Analysis of Response to Injury in APOE3 and APOE4 Transgenic Mice
Marcie Wood, Benoit Mouzon, Scott Ferguson, Venkatarajan Mathura, Michael Mullan and Fiona Crawford, Roskamp Institute and James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital; Jon Reed and Gogce Kayihan, Roskamp Institute; Allen Roses, Duke University

LP-02
Chemical and Biological Sensing Utilizing Fused Bacteriorhodopsin Protein Hybrids
Eric M. Winder, Mark H. Griep, Donald R. Lueking and Craig R. Friedrich, Michigan Technological University Multi-Scale Technologies Institute

LP-03
Genome to Phenome: Integromic Approaches to Define Networks of Host-pathogen Interactions and Vaccine Biomarker Discovery
Rasha Hammamieh and Marti Jett, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

LP-04
Early Stage Treatment of Compartment Syndrome Using Polymer - Sol-Gel Composite Growth Factor Delivery Wound Dressings
J. Kim, S. Radin, H. Qu and P. Ducheyne, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioactive Materials and Tissue Engineering; C. Knabe, Thomas Jefferson University; M. Costache and D. Devore, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Military Biomaterials Institute

LP-05
Engineering Robust and Functional Vascular Networks In Vivo with Human Adult and Cord Blood-derived Progenitor Cells
J. M. Melero-Martin and J. Bischoff, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School

LP-06
The Damselfly Compound Eye in the Stream Habitat: Biological Design for Object Detection in a Dark Complex Habitat
Roland Schröder, Justin W. Walguarnery and Marguerite A. Butler, University of Hawaii

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LP-10
Labeled Antimicrobial Peptides for Detection of Microorganisms
Steven Arcidiacono, Philip Pivarnik, Alexa Meehan, Charlene Mello and Andre Senecal, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center

LP-11
Characterization of Volatile Organic Compound Profiles of Bacterial Threat Agents
Jennifer Horsmon and Kathy Crouse, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

LP-12
Application of High Performance Computing for Development of Highly Predictive 3D-QSAR Models
Jayendra B. Bhonsle, William McCalmont, Michael Kozar and Alan Magill, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

LP-13
Development of a Portable DNA Sensor System
J. J. Sumner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory; P. Freudenthal, Nanex, LLC; C. D. Meinhart, H. T. Soh and K. W. Plaxco, University of California, Santa Barbara

LP-14 - Withdrawn