Awards Banquet

WelcomeLeadership & Partnership Recognition

IBE Awards & CompetitionsAnnual

Bioethics Essay CompetitionPoster Competition

Journal of Biological Engineering AwardsPresidential Citations

IBE Awards & CompetitionsOther

Leadership Award*Student Leadership Award

FellowsBrahm and Sudha Verma Lifetime Visionary Award

Bioethics Essay CompetitionCompetition 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 CompetitionChair: Melissa Moss

Angela PannierBen Stuart

Charlie MillerTarek Shazly

Alyssa Henning

Jing LuYue Cui

Mark RileyKaustubh Bhalerao

Charly Kinoshita

Judges & Reviewers

Poster CompetitionUndergraduate 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 PlaceBrittani 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 PrizeSponsored 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 CompetitionGraduate 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 PlaceArnab 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 PlaceJoshua 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 PrizeSponsored 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 DechineaKatherine De Paz

Sophia Powell

Uniondale High School

High School - First Place Tie

Manuel Flores-Bonilla

Photoluminescent Evolution of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in PLC6

Media

Uniondale High School

Elizabeth Osei

The impact of bio-plastic secretion on

cell viability

Uniondale High School

Journal of Biological Engineering

Editor-in-Chief: Mark Eiteman, University of Georgia

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)

Journal of Biological Engineering

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 CitationsCzarena CrofcheckMark EitemanSandun FernandoDanielle FrechetteCharles KinoshitaPraveen KolarEric McLamore

Melissa MossMark RileyKirsten SimsJeong-Yeol YoonGuigen ZhangPaul Lichtman

Presidential Citations

Thank you for your leadership and determination as 2011 President

Save the DateMarch 2013

Research Triangle North Carolina

Student Activity