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17th Annual
Beltsville Area Poster Day

April 26, 2006

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Winners of the 2006 Poster Day with the Acting Deputy Area Director

Left to right: back row, David Puthoff and Harry Danforth;
front row, Chun-Chieh Yang, Meghan Kelly and Martha Anderson

First Prize:: David P. Puthoff; Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, PSI; "Beta vulgaris" Root Defense Responses: Root ESTs regulated by the Sugar Beet Root Maggot and their potential role in insect resistance.
Second Prize:: Martha C. Anderson; Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, ANRI; Routine Mapping of Evapotranspiration and Moisture Stess Across the Continental United States
Third Prize:: Meghan A. Kelly; Nutrient Requirements and Functions Laboratory, BHNRC; Mechanisms for Increased Glucose Transport in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Treated with an Aqueous Cinnamon Extract
Honorable Mention:: Chun-Chieh Yang; Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory, ANRI; Line-Scan Machine Vision System for Online Poultry Carcass Inspection

Judges for Scientist Division, left to right:
Back row - James Trout, Matthew Kramer, Yan Zhao
Front row - Kathryn Kamo and Gloria Solano-Aguilar

Beltsville Area Poster Day 2006 - Student Division

Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Winners of the Student Division 2006 Poster Day

Left to right: Elizabeth Mongeon, Jason Kunz, Jasmine Bennings, Vern Pursel (FAR-B Representative) and Harry Danforth (Acting Deputy Area Director)

First Prize:: Jason Kunz; Mentor: Dale Gelman of the Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, PSI; The Effect of New Strains of "Bacillus thurigiensis" (Bt) on the Diamondback Moth, "Plutella xylostella"
Second Prize:: Elizabeth Mongeon; Mentor: Phyllis Martin of the Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, PSI; Combinatoral Microbiology: A Simplified Approach to Isolating Insecticidal Bacteria
Third Prize:: Jasmine Bennings; Mentor: Bob Owens of the Molecular Plant Pathology Laborator, PSI; The Effect of Viroid Infection on Tomato Growth and Development

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