The following Ph.D. students from the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences received Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants funded by the Office of Graduate Studies:
Scott Baier: “MicroRNAs in Bovine Milk are Bioavailable in Healthy Adults and Down-Regulate Reporter Gene Activity in Human Kidney HEK-293 Cell Cultures” – 2014 Experimental Biology Conference, San Diego, CA.
Kristen Cochrane: “Comparison of Perceptual and Physiological Fatigue Thresholds During Cycle Ergometry” – 2014 National Strength and Conditioning Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Elizabeth Cordonier: “Resveratrol Compounds are Potent Inhibitors of Human Holocarboxylase Synthetase and Cause a Lean Phenotype in Drosophila Melanogaster Brummer Mutants” – 2014 Experimental Biology Conference, San Diego, CA.
Elisha Hall: “Development, Validation, and Pilot Test of a Social Cognitive Theory (SCT)-Based Instrument for Growing Healthy Kids (GHK)” – 2014 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
Sal Hillis: “How a Healthy Population Acquires Nutrition and Exercise Information: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study” – International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.
Nate Jenkins: “Age-Related Differences in Rates of Torque Development and Rates of Rise in Electromyographic Amplitude” – 2014 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Rachel Sinley: “Improving Food Safety Practices of Native Americans Caregivers of Young Children Using Conceptual Change Teaching Strategies” - 2014 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
Daniel Teixeira: “A Cell Death Assay for Assessing the Mitochondrial Targeting of Proteins” – 2014 Experimental Biology Conference, San Diego, CA.