Poster Day 2010 : USDA ARS

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21th Annual
Beltsville Area Poster Day

April 21, 2010

Winners of the 2010 Poster Day with the Area Director

Left to right: Joseph Alfieri, Ratan Choudhary, Mathias Schmelcher,
and Daniel Bell


First Prize:: Daniel Bell; Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, PSI; Yield Variation Among Clones of Lowbush Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) as a Function of Kinship, Self-Compatibility, and Combining Ability"
Second Prize:: Mathias Schmelcher; Animal Biosciences and Biotechnology Laboratory, ANRI; Bacteriophage Endolysins for Control of Mastitis Pathogens
Third Prize:: Joseph Alfieri; Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, ANRI; Linking Land and Sky: Assessing the Impacts of Variations in Land Surface Characteristics on the Utility of Weather Prediction Models
Honorable Metion:: Ratan Choudhary; Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, ANRI; The Molecular Signature of Putative Stem Cells in Bovine Mammary Gland

Judges for Scientist Division, left to right: Jude Maul, Tom Wang, Arvind Bhagwat,
Don Weber, Matthew Kramer and Martha Anderson.

Winners of the High School Division 2010 Poster Day

Left to right: Melanie Dennis, Jasmine Harper-Davis, and Ankur Patel


First Prize:: Ankur Patel, Eleanor Roosevelt High School; Mentor: Pat Millner, Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, ANRI; Effects of soil solarization on a non-toxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain
Second Prize:: Jasmine Harper-Davis, Eleanor Roosevelt High School; Mentor: Brian Bowker, Food Quality Laboratory, PSI; Measurement of purge protein composition as an indicator of beef tenderness
Third Prize:: Melanie Dennis, Eleanor Roosevelt High School; Mentor: Janet Slovin, Genetic Improvements of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, PSI; The small heat shock protein gene families in Fragaria vesca