MARCH, 2007
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ANAS FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING MARCH 31, NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science will begin with a meeting of the Board of Governors, Friday, March 30, 5:30 - 8:00 pm in the du Bois Conference Center.
Registration will begin at 7:00 am the following morning, Saturday, March 31, in the Foyer of the Southwest Forest Science Complex.
The Annual Business Luncheon will take place at the Peaks dining hall at du Bois Conference Center (first floor).
Please feel free to contact Aregai Tecle for further details.
Hotels Reservations:
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Reservations are available at area hotels.
The following are the individual hotel info people need to contact
- AmeriSuites. The hotel has reserved a block of 30 rooms in Group name: Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences. The room blocks are reserved for Friday, March 30 and Saturday March 31, 2007. The daily room rate is $81.00 single or double occupancy without tax, and the tax rate in Flagstaff is 10.34%. To make reservations call (928)-774-8042 or fax to (928)-774- 5524 before March 23, 2007. The Hotel is located at:
2455 South Beulah Blvd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Note: When making reservations, mention group: Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science Annual Meeting .
- Comfort Inn: 30 standard rooms (single or double) at a daily rate of $75.95 plus 10.34% tax are reserved. To reserve call (928)-774-2225 or fax to (928)- 774-2225 by identifying the group name: Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences by March 23, 2007. The rooms are reserved for both Friday, March 30 and Saturday March 31, 2007. The location of the Hotel is at:
2355 South Beulah Blvd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
- Hampton Inn & Suites: 25 standard rooms are reserved at the group rate of
$89.00 plus tax (10.34%) per day for Friday, March 30 and Saturday March 31, 2007.
Individuals must call to guarantee their rooms with credit card prior to March 23, 2007
for the group rate to be honored. Any rooms not guaranteed by that date will be released
from the reserved block of rooms. Hotel is located at:
2400 South Beulah Blvd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Tel. (928)-913-0900
Fax (928)-913-0800
(Please note the deadline for calling):
Saturday Luncheon Speaker
Dr. Elizabeth Grobsmith
The Saturday luncheon speaker will be Dr. Elizabeth Grobsmith, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northern Arizona University.
Dr. Elizabeth Grobsmith has been the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Northern Arizona University since she came here in 2002. She has enjoys and celebrates along and very successful career in administration, in the classroom and in research.
At NAU, DR. Grobsmith has concentrated her efforts on building academic quality, regularizing processes for personnel review, diversifying the faculty, promoting NAU's commitment to undergraduate education, strengthening graduate program and enhancing communication with faculty, students and other university constituents through various means.
Since she came to NAU, Dr. Grobsmith has developed programs to strengthen assessment of student learning, revise and strengthen the academic program review process, support faculty travel and support colleges' and the university's commitment to research.
Before coming to NAU, Dr. Grobsmith was dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Utah State University. Previously, she was dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Dr. Grobsmith began her career in higher education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1971 as an instructor in the Department of Anthropology. By 1991 she was promoted to full professor. She also served at UN-L as assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, assistant vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, director of Summer Sessions and associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Dr. Grobsmith is the author of Indians in Prison: A Study of Incarcerated Native Americans, which was selected for the CHOICE, 1994 Outstanding Academic Award. She also is the author of Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography and numerous journal articles, book chapters and book reviews.
Dr. Grobsmith earned a bachelor's degree in music from The Ohio State University and master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Arizona.
Dr. Grobsmith's background as an anthropologist with a special emphasis on American Indian culture is a particularly good fit with NAU's commitment to serving Native Americans and Hispanic populations in the state of Arizona.
THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE ARIZONA-NEVADA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE IS SPONSORED BY
College of Engineering and Natural Sciences - The major sponsor for meeting luncheonNorthern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
School of Forestry - Meeting space, equipment and luncheon sponsor
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Office of Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies - Sponsor of morning continental breakfast and coffee break beverages and snacks
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - sponsored student volunteer registration fees
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Watershed and Riparian Ecosystems of Forests and Woodlands in the Semi-Arid West
Project RMRS-4302
Rocky Mountain Research Station
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Our thanks to
AREGAI TECLA
for hosting the
51st annual meeting.
Aregai also hosted the
2001 & 2003
annual meetings.
The "Southwest Forest Science Complex" is
"bldg. 82"
51st ANNUAL MEETING
March 30, 31 on the NAU Campus
Meeting Agenda Items
Friday, March 30
There will be a Board Meeting from 5:30 - 8:00 pm in the du Bois Conference Center, but there will be no Reception or Registration for attendees on Friday evening.
Saturday, March 31
Southwest Forest Science Complex in the School of Forestry Wing (East half of the building)
| 7:00 - 8:30 am | Registration in Foyer of the Southwest Forest Science Complex |
| 8:00 - 10:00 am | Paper Sessions (See Section Schedules) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Coffee Break and Poster Session: Foyer |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Paper Sessions (See Section Schedules) |
| 11:30 - 1:40 pm | Annual Awards Luncheon and Business Meeting in the Peaks dining hall at du Bois Conference Center (first floor) Luncheon speaker: Dr. Grobsmith, NAU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs |
| 1:45 - 3:00 am | Paper Sessions (See Section Schedules) |
| 3:00 - 3:30 am | Coffee Break and Poster Session: Foyer |
| 3:30 - 5:00 am | Paper Sessions (See Section Schedules)r |
There will be continental breakfast and coffee break in the foyer, School of Forestry where the registration and poster sessions will be held.
The rooms will have LCD Projector, Oldstyle Overhead Projector, Standard Carosel Style Photographic Slide Projector and a Computer with CD/DVD drive and USB port for Flash Drive VCR (for VHS tapes)
They also all have an external VGA connector for guest laptop connection. However, if a user wants to use his/her own laptop, they cannot tap into the classroom's sound system. If whatever they are presenting has sound with it, they'll want to copy their presentation directly onto the classroom computer (using either CD, DVD, or Flash Drive.
Please feel free to contact Aregai Tecle for further details.
To see addresses for present
and past Session Chairs click
[here]
Click on any Session or
Session Number to jump
its schedule
ANAS SECTION MEETINGS
| Section | Session | Time | Room | |
| Biology* | I | 8:00 | 133 |
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| Chemistry* | I | 8:00 | 18 | |
| II | 8:30 | 18 | ||
| Geography | I | 8:00 | 134 |
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| Geology | I | 8:00 | 135 |
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| Hydrology* | I | 8:00 | 17 | |
| II | 1:45 | 17 | ||
| Mathematics, Psychology & Science Education | I | 8:30 | 34 |
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| Talk Review Room | 8:00 | 102 |
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| Poster Session | I | 10:00-10:30 | Foyer | |
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All rooms in NAU School of Forestry bldg. 82 * Indicates a paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award or Best Student Poster Award | ||||
Lists of talks for previous ANAS meetings also can be found in past
[newsletters]
Abstracts for the talks are printed in the
[Proceedings Volumes]
SESSION SCHEDULES
Student speakers are indicated with an asterisk (*). Presenter for multiple-authored talks is indicated by underlining.
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CHEMISTRY SESSION I 8:00 18 Chairperson: Timothy Vail 8:00 - 8:15 *USING FLUORESCENCE TO PROBE THE STRUCTURAL STATE OF P27KIP1, AN INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN
8:15 - 8:30 *THE STABILITY OF 23MER MUTANT I-MOTIF STRUCTURE
8:30 - 8:45 *COMPUTATIONAL MODELING IN SEARCH OF I-MOTIF SELECTIVE COMPOUNDS
8:45 - 9:00 *DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A FIELD RESEARCH PROJECT FOR UNDERGRADUATES
9:00 - 9:15 *TOXICITY OF URANYL ACETATE ON P53 IN ALTR CELL LINES
9:15 - 9:30 *CALORIMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE FOR THE BINDING OF TMPYP4 TO A 23MER C-MYC I-MOTIF MUTANT
9:30 - 9:45 *DETECTION OF DNA-DNA CROSSLINKS IN CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY CELLS: OPTIMIZATION OF A PROTOCOL
9:45 - 10:00 *CYTOTOXICITY OF COMBINED EXPOSURES OF URANYL ACETATE AND SODIUM ARSENITE IN CHO CELLS
10:30 - 10:45 *INFLUENCE OF DUPLEX TAIL REGIONS ON C-MYC QUADRUPLEX CONFORMATION: BINDING AND STABILITY
10:45 - 11:00 *CHROMIUM(VI) GENOTOXICITY ANALYSIS USING THE COMET ASSAY
11:00 - 11:15 *THE ROLE OF WATER IN LIGAND-DNA BINDING: OSMOTIC STRESS EXPERIMENTS USING ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY AND DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY
11:15 - 11:30*ANALYSIS OF PARTICULATE URANIUM UPTAKE IN CELLS BY TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
1:45 - 2:00 *THE EFFECTS OF URANYL NITRATE ON DNA IN THE PRESENCE OF SODIUM ASCORBATE AND SODIUM CITRATE
2:00 - 2:15 *EXPLORING THE INTERACTIONS OF A C-MYC MODEL QUADRUPLEX WITH TMPYP4 USING THERMODYNAMICS AND FLUORESCENCE
2:15 - 2:30 THE COMPOSITION OF WOOD SMOKE IN PRESCRIBED FIRES
2:30 - 2:45 DETERMINATION OF 244PU IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING FALLOUT
2:45 - 3:00 DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL TECHNIQUE TO MONITOR PROTEIN_PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN VIVO
3:00 - 3:15 POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES OF URANIUM FROM SHEEP
3:15 - 3:30 DEVELOPING NEW MOLECULAR TARGETS FOR ANTI-PANCREATIC CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS: TARGETING THE COMPLETE SILENCER ELEMENT IN THE K-RAS ONCOGENE
3:30 - 3:45 MODELING ITC THERMOGRAMS BY MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT BINDING PROCESSES AND MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS
3:45 - 4:00 AGGREGATION PROPERTIES OF THE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53
4:00 - 4:15 NON-SURGICAL ANIMAL SPAYING VIA 4-VINYLCYCLOHEXENE DIEPOXIDE
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For other scholarships reports go to
"Awards"
And, you can see the Outstanding Student Papers from last years' Annual Meeting
in the Dec. 06 Newsletter.
For application materials, click
[here]
Report from Scholarship Recipient
Fungal Endophyte Community of Montane Oaks
Michele Hoffman
20 Mar 2007
Dear Dr. Tecle,
Hello from Tucson! I hope that my note finds you well.
I am writing on behalf of my student, Ms. Michele Hoffman, who received an ANAS Graduate Grant-in-Aid to examine endophytic fungi associated with oaks. We have prepared a report on her work, which I attach to this note as a PDF... I am glad to say that the grant-in-aid contributed not only to Michele's training and to our research costs, but also supported the research training of an undergraduate, Jason Ong, and provided a training opportunity for Dr. Mary Shimabukuro, a faculty member at Diné College, Tsaile, AZ.
Thank you for supporting Michele, and for all that the ANAS does to support students!
With best wishes,
Betsy Arnold
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