Poster Session A

Imaging the Topography and Monitoring the Electrochemical Activity of Biological Samples

Erica Woodall, '11 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Ulysses: The Human Bodyssey

Travis Williams, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

"Among other things my book is the epic of the human body." -James Joyce Ulysses by James Joyce is a paragon of modernist literature. Taking place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, Joyce allegorically retells Homer's The Odyssey for the modern age. In a chart published in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study, each of the eighteen episodes of Ulysses are shown to correspond to an episode or character of The Odyssey and, with the exception of three episodes, to a specific organ of the human body. Using this systematic diagram as my guide, I have reconstructed Joyce's Ulysses in the form of a life-size drawing of the human body, illustrating each organ using only words from the corresponding episodes of the novel. By pictorially situating Ulysses in this bodily context, I have at once represented and re-presented the themes and ideas explored in this seminal work of fiction. Because of these characteristics, my work is also presently acting as my final study in word-and-image theory, as it is a model hybrid of the two art forms.

Visual Perspectives of the Twin City Chess Club

Morgan Tarbutton, '11 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Barriers to Accessing the U.S. Health Care System for Hispanics

Patricia Troxell, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Getting High: An Inside Look Into College Students' Life With Type 1 Diabetes

Amber Spiewak, '11 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Hispanics and Diabetes: Many Problems But Many Answers

Brooke Stevens, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Attitudes Toward Diversity Among White College Students: Relationship With Gender, Year in School, Openness, and Colorblind Racial Attitudes

Amanda Sobottka, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Screening Staphylococcus aureus Transposon Mutants for Altered Nuclease Activity

Jennifer Sanderson, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Examining the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Stimulus Processing

Peter Rosen, '10 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Uptake and Assimilation of Dissolved Organic Matter by Bosmina longirostris (Crustacea: Cladocera)

Nikki Preston, '11 et al. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 PDT

A considerable amount of dissolved organic matter (DOM) exists in freshwater environments (5- 40 µ g/mL). However, freshwater invertebrates, including crustaceans, are viewed as incapable of taking up and metabolically utilizing DOM. We evaluated this hypothesis by exposing the freshwater crustacean Bosmina longirostris to labeled proteins and polysaccharides. Individuals readily ingested these materials as evidenced by the presence of molecule-specific labels in the digestive system. Histological examination of specimens exposed to the protein ferritin revealed that the label was in the lumen of the digestive tract but not in the surrounding cells. Digestion in crustaceans is extracellular, and the absence of a label within cells is not necessarily unexpected. Bosmina longirostris is capable of supplementing its diet of particulate foods through the acquisition and assimilation of DOM from its environment.