19th Annual
Beltsville Area Poster Day

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Winners of the 2008 Poster Day with the Area Director

Left to right: back row, Guy Serbin, Vincent Klink, Joseph Spence (Beltsville Area Director), Gordon Lightbourn;
front row, Sung-Hyen Lee, and Won Jun

First Prize:

Vincent P. Klink

Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, PSI

Engineering Soybean ("Glycine max") Resistance to its Major Pathogen, the Soybean Cyst Nematode ("Heterodera glycines")

 

Second Prize:

Won Jun

Food Safety Laboratory, ANRI

Portable Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging System for Detection of Biofilm on Stainless Steel Coupon

 

Third Prize:

Guy Serbin

Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, ANRI

Effects of Soil Organic Carbon and Water Contents on Remote Estimation of Crop Residue Cover

 

Honorable Mention:

Sung-Hyen Lee

Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, ANRI

Immunostimulatory Properties of Dietary Plum ("Prunus salicina lindl.") on "Coccidiosis"

 

Honorable Mention:

Gordon J. Lightbourn

Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Transcription Factor Families Regulate the Anthocyanin Biosynthetic Pathway in "Capsicum"

 

Judges for Scientist Division, left to right: Matthew Kramer,Scott Warnke,
Don Weber, Ben Rosenthal; front row, Beverly Clevidence, and Martha Anderson.

Beltsville Area Poster Day 2008 - Student Division

Winners of the High School Division 2008 Poster Day

Left to right: Renjit Thomas, Chinwe Madubata, Vern Pursel (FAR-B Representative), and Jonathan Brevard

First Prize:

Chinwe Madubata, Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Mentor: Brian Bowker, Food Safety Laboratory, ANRI

Effect of Sarcomere Length on Efficacy of Meat Tenderization Treatments

 

Second Prize:

Renjit Thomas, Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Mentor: Insook Son, Environmental Microbial Safety Laboratory, ANRI

Change in the DNA of "Escherichia coli" in Bulk Tank Milk

 

Third Prize:

Jonathan Brevard, Oxon Hill High School

Mentor: Milutin Djurikovic, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, ANRI

Nitrous Oxide Emissions in No-Till, Conventional Till, and Organic Farming Systems

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