AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR

GRAVITATIONAL AND SPACE BIOLOGY

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

October 28-31, 1998

Adam’s Mark Houston Hotel

Houston, TX

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SESSION A: BIOMINERALIZATION SYMPOSIUM

8:40 am to 12:30 pm Moderator: Emily Morey-Holton

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8:40

MODELLING THE INFLUENCE OF LIFE ON THE DYNAMISM OF THE EARTH. P. Westbroek

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9:20

BIOMINERALIZATION IN COCCOLITHOPHORIDS. Mary E. Marsh

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10:30

AN OVERVIEW OF VERTEBRATE MINERALIZATION WITH EMPHASIS ON COLLAGEN-MINERAL INTERACTION. W.J. Landis

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11:10

LOCAL REGULATION OF ENDOCHONDRAL DEVELOPMENT BY STEROID HORMONES AND GROWTH FACTORS. B.D. Boyan and Z. Schwartz

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11:50

ILLUSTRATIVE DISORDERS OF ECTOPIC SKELETAL MORPHOGENESIS: A CHILDHOOD PARALLAX FOR STUDIES IN GRAVITATIONAL AND SPACE BIOLOGY. F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore

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SESSION B: CONCURRENT POSTERS I
2:00 to 3:30 pm

Space Life Sciences Training Program

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A01

THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER T.W. Dreschel, G. Koerner, and C.B. Goodman

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A03

NASA SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM: STUDIES BY THE GRAVITATIONAL BIOLOGY EMPHASIS GROUP. K. Leanza, W. Piastuch, D. Stutes, Y. Hua, H. Mullett, S. Weise, J. Caldwell, B. Weber, M. Tackett, D. Shah, V. Vidal, C. Vyas, and T. Ruttley.

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A05

NASA SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM: EXPERIENCING PROJECT MANAGEMENT, SCIENCE ENGINEERING, AND INTEGRATION FOR A K-12 EXPERIMENT. P. Currier, D. Thomas, R. Hall, S. Hart, A. Fitch, C. Gunn, J. McIntire, and M.Soliman.

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Undergraduate Student Poster Competition

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B01 IDENTIFICATION OF TCH2 INTERACTING PROTEINS IN ARABIDOPSIS. W.-C. Chuang, K.A. Johnson, and J. Braam [9] 9
B03 GRAVITROPISM AND PHOTOTROPISM OF FLOWER STALKS IN ARABIDOPSIS. S.E. Weise and J.Z. Kiss [10] 9
B05 CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR A MICROGRAVITY RESISTANCE TRAINING UNIT: FORCE PACK DEVELOPMENT. T. Rutley, P. Colosky and V. Sultive [11] 9
B07 THE DESIGN AND FUNCTION OF A CLOSED MARINE ECOSYSTEM FOR SPACE FLIGHT. J.R. Ascher, O. van den Ende, and D. Thomas. [12] 9
B09 SENSITIVITY OF LETTUCE AND WHEAT SEEDLINGS TO VARIOUS SURFACTANTS. S. Thompson and J. Garland [13] 10
B11 AUXIN-REGULATED GENE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC TOMATO SEEDLINGS UNDER ALTERED GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS. C.B. Vyas and W.C. Piastuch [14] 10
B13 THE STUDY OF LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS ALONG THE SHORELINE OF MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (MINWR). A.S. Gavurnik, and G. Ehlinger [15] 10

Graduate Student Poster Competition

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C01

INITIAL RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH OSTEOBLASTS CULTURED UNDER HYPERGRAVITY CONDITIONS. M.A. Kacena, P. Todd, and W.J. Landis

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C03

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE RESPONSES OF RHESUS MONKEYS TO 2G. L.K. Barger and C.A. Fuller

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REGULATION OF THROMBIN RECEPTOR ON SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS BY MECHANICAL FORCES. K.T. Nguyen, M. Papadaki, J. Ruef, C. Patterson, M.S. Runge, S.G. Eskin, and L.V. McIntire

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FUNCTIONAL AND MOLECULAR EXPRESSION OF CALCIUM CHANNELS IN OSTEOBLASTS IN RESPONSE TO MECHANICAL LOADING. K.D. Ryder, J. Bergh, M.C. Farach-Carson and R.L. Duncan

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EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUND BASED MODELS FOR SPACEFLIGHT IN SPLENOCYTE SUBPOPULATIONS. M.J.Pecaut, P.Todd, and M.Fleshner

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USE OF GFP-BASED CA2+ AND CA2+ -CALMODULIN SENSORS TO INVESTIGATE MECHANICAL STIMULATION. M. Magidin and K. Beckingham

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MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA AND GRAVITY. J.F. Doyle, H. Wachtel and P. Todd

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ETHYLENE PLAYS MULTIPLE ROLES IN MODULATING THE GRAVITROPIC RESPONSE. A. Madlung, F. Behringer and T.L. Lomax

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C17

IMAGING CYTOPLASMIC PH IN CAP CELLS OF ARABIDOPSIS PRIMARY ROOTS DURING GRAVISTIMULATION. A. Scott and N. Allen

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C19

XYLOGLUCAN ENDOTRANSGLYCOSYLASES OF ARABIDOPSIS. P. Campbell and J. Braam

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PRODUCTIVITY OF COWPEA CANOPIES WITH INTRACANOPY LIGHTING USING ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE AND DIFFERENT PHOTOPERIODS IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS. J.M. Frantz, R.J. Joly, and C.A. Mitchell

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C23

INFLUENCE OF SPACEFLIGHT ON PHOTOSYSTEM I (PSI) OF BRASSICA RAPA. S. Jiao, E. Hilaire, and J.A. Guikema

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BLOCKING OF BIOTINYLATED PROTEINS PRIOR TO USE IN THE AMPLIFIED ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE IMMUN-BLOT DETECTION. M.J. Palm and B. Johnson-Wint

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SESSION C: CONCURRENT POSTERS II

3:30 to 5:00 pm

Space Life Sciences Training Program

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A02

NASA SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM: STUDIES BY THE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS) EMPHASIS GROUP. I. Dunn, G. Koerner, S. Bernick, C. Spruill, C. Taulien, V. Hsu, S. Thompson, M.Tabor, A. Burton, N. Phillips, and M. Duncan.

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NASA SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM: STUDIES BY THE FLIGHT EMPHASIS GROUP. D. Thomas, P. Currier, J. Ferrell, R. Hall, A. Honore, S. Hart, J. Ascher, J. Rogers, A. Fitch, C. Gunn, R. Vilhauer, R. Bashyal, J. McIntire, D.Young, and M. Soliman.

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NASA SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM: ECOLOGICAL STUDIES PROGRAM. A.F. Schlundt, J. Rebman, K. Pilotte, M. Dooris, B. Miles, R. Marquette, T.L. Hollar, A.Gavurnik, and R. Woods.

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Undergraduate Student Poster Competition (continued)

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B02

RICE-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS: A MODEL SYSTEM FOR SPACE-FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS. A. Chambers, M.J. Ryba-White, E. Hilaire, J.A. Guikema, and J.E. Leach

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ALGAL AND CYANOBACTERIAL GROWTH IN 100% CO2. R.D. Hall, P.A. Currier, and D.J. Thomas.

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE PHARMACEUTICAL COUNTERMEASURES IN PRE-VENTING VESTIBULAR DISORIENTATION WHILE MAINTAINING COGNITIVE ABILITY. R.K. Bashya, D. Woodard, and D.J. Thomas.

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EFFECT OF pH ON IGEPON*SOAP DEGRADATION UNDER DENITRIFYING CONDITIONS. V. Hsu, M. Alazraki, and R.F. Strayer

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PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA: PERSISTENCE IN THE RHIZOSPHERE. S.J. Bernick, A. Matos, and J.L. Garland

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B12

CREATING A SOIL ALTERNATIVE FROM CLASSROOM MATERIALS: A PROJECT DESIGN. B. Weber and M. Lewandowski

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COMPARING THE EFFFECTIVENESS AND PRECISION OF TWO TECHNIQUES FOR SEDIMENT SAMPLING AT JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. T.L. Hollar, M. Mota, and D.M. Scheidt

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EFFECTS OF 2G ON LEAN AND OBESE ZUCKER RATS. L.E. Warren, B.A. Horwitz and C.A. Fuller

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EFFECTS OF 14-DAY HINDLIMB UNLOADING ON RAT CEREBRAL, SPLENIC, AND MESENTERIC ARTERIAL MORPHOLOGY. M.K. Wilkerson, J.M. Delp, P.N. Colleran, and M.D. Delp

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HINDLIMB SUSPENSION ALTERS ARTERIAL MORPHOLOGY IN RAT HINDLIMB SKELETAL MUSCLE. P.N. Colleran, J.M. Delp, M.K. Wilkerson, and M.D. Delp

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MIGRATION OF LYMPHOCYTES INCUBATED IN CLINOSTATS AND STATIC CULTURES A.J. Bergman and K. Zygourakis

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EMBRYONIC LIMBBUD CELLS GROWN IN A BIOREACTOR PRODUCE CARTILAGE SUITABLE FOR BONE REPAIR. H.C. Nguyen, D. Montufar-Solis, and P.J. Duke

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LYTIC VIRUS REPLICATION IN ASTRONAUTS DURING SPACE FLIGHT. R.P. Stowe, D.L. Pierson, and A.D.T. Barrett

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GRAVITY INDUCED CALCIUM CURRENTS IN GERMINATING FERN SPORES. A. Chatterjee, M. Porterfield, P.J. Smith, and S.J. Roux

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IMMUNOLOCALIZATION OF INTEGRIN-LIKE PROTEINS IN ARABIDOPSIS USING A SYNTHETIC RGDS-LIGAND. L.J. Swatzell, R.E. Edelmann, C.A. Makaroff, and J.Z. Kiss

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REGULATION OF TCH4 GENE EXPRESSION IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. E.A. Iliev, W. Xu, and J.A. Braam

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C20

LOW OXYGEN ALTERATIONS IN ARABIDOPSIS LEAF STRUCTURE RESEMBLE BRASSINOLIDE-DEFICIENT MUTANTS. K.M. Ramonell and M.E. Musgrave

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C22

GROWTH IN MICROGRAVITY INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SOYBEAN SEEDLINGS TO A FUNGAL PATHOGEN. M. Ryba-White, O. Nedukha, E. Hilaire, J.A. Guikema, E. Kordyum, and J.E. Leach

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PRIMORDIAL PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS IN THE ABSENCE OF A TEMPLATE OR RIBOSOME. D.C. Larkin, S.A. Martinis, D.J. Roberts, and G.E. Fox

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1998

SESSION D: BIOTECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

8:30 am to 12:20 pm Moderator: Paul Todd

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8:30

PROTEIN CRYSTAL GROWTH AND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. L.J. DeLucas, T. Bray, K. Moore, and C. Nicolet

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9:10

GRAVISENSING, APOPTOSIS, AND DRUG RECOVERY FROM TAXUS CELL SUSPENSIONS. D.J. Durzan

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10:20

MICROGRAVITY TISSUE ENGINEERING: DEVELOPMENTAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES. L.E. Freed and G. Vunjak-Novakovic

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11:00

ENGINEERING PLANTS FOR SPACEFLIGHT ENVIRONMENTS. B. Bugbee

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11:40

TRANSGENIC MODELS TO STUDY REPRODUCTION, ONCOGENESIS, AND DEVELOPMENT. M.M. Matzuk

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SESSION E: ORAL SESSION - PLANT BIOLOGY I

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2:00

ROOT PHOTOTROPISM AND GRAVITROPISM IN WILD-TYPE AND STARCHLESS MUTANTS OF ARABIDOPSIS S. Vitha and F.D. Sack

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2:15

THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASTRUCTURE OF LENTIL ROOT CAP STATOCYTES GROWN IN SPACE. J.D. Smith, S. Burwen, N. Marinkovich, D. Driss-Ecole and G. Perbal

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2:30

CO-LOCALIZATION OF ACTOMYOSIN AND CALRETICULIN AT AMYLOPLASTS PERIPHERIES: POSSIBLE IMPACTS FOR GRAVIPERCEPTION. D. Volkmann, M. Pilger and F. Baluska

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2:45

AMYLOPLAST MAGNETOPHORESIS MIMICS GRAVITROPISM IN SINGLE-CELL GRAVISENSING MOSS PROTONEMATA. O.A. Kuznetsov, J. Schwuchow, F.D. Sack, and K.H. Hasenstein

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3:00

FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS AND THE GENOMIC STRUCTURE OF CHIMERIC CALCIUM/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE. B.W. Poovaiah, Z. Liu, W. Wang, and P.V. Sathyanarayanan

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3:15

FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF TCH2 EXPRESSION IN ARABIDOPSIS. K.A. Johnson and J. Braam

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CELLULAR, MOLECULAR, AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES DUE TO DEVELOPMENTAL POLARITY INDUCED BY GRAVITY IN SINGLE CELLS. S.J. Roux, A. Chatterjee, D.J. Eastburn, W.M. Hanson, M.Porterfield, and P.J. Smith

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GRAVIRESPONSE OF lazy-2 TOMATO SEEDLINGS IS NOT AFFECTED BY CURVATURE-INDUCING MAGNETIC GRADIENTS. K.H. Hasenstein and O.A. Kuznetsov

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SESSION F: CONCURRENT POSTERS III

4:00 to 5:30 pm

Animal Development and Growth I

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D01

EFFECTS OF MICROGRAVITY ON EMBRYONIC QUAIL EYE DEVELOPMENT. J.E.Barrett, D.C.Wells, A.Q.Paulsen, and G.W.Conrad

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HYPERGRAVITY & MICROGRAVITY EFFECTS TO AVIAN INNER EAR STRUCTURES. H. Hara, T. Jones and C.D. Fermin

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SKELETAL TISSUE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NASA BIOREACTOR. B.J. Klement, B.J. George, and N.D. Houston

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METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF THE JELLYFISH THYROXINE-LIKE HORMONE (Jf-T4). D.B. Spangenberg, M.C.Castle and F.A. Lattanzio

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Animal Gravity Sensing I

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FERROELECTRIC-LIKE PROPERTIES OF HORNET STRUCTURES OR CONSTRACTION. J.S. Ishay and L.Litinetsky.

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GROWTH RATE VARIABILITY OF LAMELLAR BONE IN RATS EXPOSED TO MACROGRAVITY (2G+). T.G. Bromage, I. Smolyar, S.B. Doty, and E. Holton

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Animal Structural Systems I

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F01

EFFECTS OF HINDLIMB UNLOADING ON THE VASO-CONSTRICTOR RESPONSIVENESS OF SKELETAL MUSCLE ARTERIOLES. M.D. Delp

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MUSCLE-SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF CLENBUTEROL ON PROTEIN DENSITY AND WET WEIGHT IN SOLEUS AND PLANTARIS MUSCLES OF MATURE, HINDLIMB-SUSPENDED RATS. L.E. Wineski, D.A. von Deutsch, W-D Chen, S.A. Pitts, B.J. Klement, E. Joseph, D.E. Potter, C. Nokkaew, B. George, M. Cray, T. Nguyen, and D.F. Paulsen

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TEMPERATURE INCREASE MAY MEDIATE VIBRATION STIMULATION OF COLLAGEN GEL CONTRACTION BY RAT TENDON FIBROBLASTS AND BONE FORMING CELLS. B. Johnson-Wint and M. Cobb

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TESTOSTERONE AND AN ANABOLIC STEROID ALLEVIATES WEIGHTLESSNESS INDUCED MUSCULO-SKELETAL LOSSES. S.M .Wimalawansa, D.J. Simmons,1 M. Quast, K. Westlund, J. Wei, and S.J. Wimalawansa

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Biotechnology/Instrumentation I

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G01

GROUND BASED FACILITIES FOR LONG TERM MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH. J.P. Veldhuijzen, J.J.W.A. van Loon, J. Kiss, C. Wood, H.vd Ende, and A. Guntemann

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POTENTIAL USE OF NASA BIOREACTORS IN PRODUCTION OF CANCER VACCINES. D. Yetman, S.P. Tomasovic, and C.A. Savary

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Cell Biology I

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H01

ASYMMETRIC LOCALIZATION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF ANNEXINS IN GRAVI-STIMULATED PEA PLUMULES. G.B. Clark, M. Dauwalder, D.S. Rafati, and S.J. Roux

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GENETIC CONTROL OF OSMOREGULATION IN DROSOPHILA. X. Huang, L. Huff, Q. Huang and M. Stern

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CHARACTERIZATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL VASCULAR CELL CO-CULTURES MAINTAINED IN THE ROTATING BIOREACTOR. D. Ellerson, G.L. Sanford, S.A. Harris-Hooker and C.D. Melhado

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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A STUDY OF BONE CELLS SUBJECTED TO HYPERGRAVITY. W.J. Landis, M.A. Kacena, and K.J. Hodgens

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DEVELOPMENTAL REGULATION OF COLLAGENASE-3 MRNA IN NORMAL, DIFFER-ENTIATING OSTEOBLASTS THROUGH THE ACTIVATOR PROTEIN-1 AND THE RUNT DOMAIN BINDING SITES. N.C. Partridge, R.C. D’Alonzo, and S.K Winchester

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Plant Biology II

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STATHMIN PHOSPHORYLATION DURING GROWTH AND GRAVITROPIC RESPONSE OF ROOTS OF ZEA MAYS L T.J. Mulkey and D.A. Prentice

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THE GRAVITROPIC RESPONSE OF CHARA PROTONEMATA IS REDUCED IN MODERATE HYPERGRAVITY. A. Sievers and D. Hodick

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DIRIGENT PROTEINS. TISSUE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF GENES AND SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF ENZYMES. V. Burlat, M. Kwon, L.B. Davin and N.G. Lewis

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PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN SPACE: GROUND-BASED EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING WHEAT DEVELOPMENT IN CLOSED ENVIRONMENTS. G.W. Stutte, G.D.Goins, and D.K. Chapman

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Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment I

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COLLABORATIVE UKRAINIAN EXPERIMENTS (CUE) CONDUCTED ON STS-87 MISSION NOV 1997. D.K. Chapman, G. Goins, C. Johnson, W. Piastuch and G. Stutte

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J03

BPAC EXPERIMENT TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF SPACEFLIGHT ON THE PHOTO-SYNTHETIC APPARATUS. J.A. Guikema, E. Hilaire and S. Jiao

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J05

ALTERATIONS IN THE ROOT TIP CELLS OF SOYBEAN SEEDLINGS GROWN UNDER MICROGRAVITY. D.O. Klymchuk, C. S. Brown, W.C. Piastuch and E.L. Kordyum

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PHYTOHORMONES IN ASTROPLANTS BRASSICA RAPA, L. L. Musatenko, V. Generalova, V. Negretsky, N.Vedenicheva, L. Kadenyuk, and K. Sytnik

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J09

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MESOPHYLL CELLS OF BRASSICA RAPA PLANTS GROWN IN MICROGRAVITY. N.I. Adamchuk, E.L. Kordyum, and J.A. Guikema

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J11

MICROGRAVITY EFFECTS ON FREE AMINO ACIDS CONTENT IN BRASSICA RAPA. T. Cherevchenko, and N. Zaimenko

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J13

CARBOHYDRATE DEPOSITION PATTERNS IN ETIOLATED SOYBEAN SEEDLINGS GROWN IN MICROGRAVITY. E.C. Stryjewski, K.M. Johnson, .G. Levine, W.C. Piastuch, J.A. Sharek, O. Martynenko, and V. Prima

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Spaceflight Experiment Results I

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K01

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MICE EMBRYO IN MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT ON STS-80 SPACE FLIGHT. E.B. Schenker and K.E. Forkheim

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CALCIUM UPTAKE BY QUAIL EMBRYOS INCUBATED IN SPACE. J.I. Orban and P.Y. Hester

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SPACEFLIGHT HARDWARE ALLOWING UNILATERAL IRRADIATION AND CHEMICAL FIXATION IN SITU IN PETRI DISHES. F.D. Sack, V.D. Kern, N.J. White, K. Anderson, W. Wells, and C. Martin

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STS-95 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION WITH SWEETPOTATO STEM CUTTINGS. D.G. Mortley, P.A. Loretan, C.S. Williams, S.D. Gamble, C.F. Davis and J.W. Williams.

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Space Biomedical Results I

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L01

MONITORING BACTERIA IN SPACE ENVIRONMENTS. J.A. Wibbenmeyer, M. Larios-Sanz, K. Maillard, D. Pierson, R.C. Willson, and G.E. Fox

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SPACE FLIGHT ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN THE FUNCTIONS OF NK CELLS. I. Kaur, S.K. Mehta, E.A. Grimm, C. Smid, D.L. Feeback, and D.L. Pierson

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DEVELOPMENT OF MEMBRANE PROBES FOR THE IN VIVO STUDY BONE MINERALS. E.M. Janle, and J. Sojka

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INCORPORATION OF SOYBEAN PROCESSING INTO THE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS INTEGRATION TESTBED. Y. Vodovotz, D.L. Hentges and C.T. Bourland

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1998

SESSION G: ORAL SESSION - SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIMENT RESULTS II

8:15 am to 10:00 am Moderator: Jay Buckey

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8:15

PRODUCTION OF STATOCONIA IN THE STATOCYST AND GRAVITACTIC CRAWLING BEHAVIOR IN POND SNAILS REARED IN MICROGRAVITY. M.L. Wiederhold, J.L. Harrison, J. Griffith and C.A. Ortiz

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8:30

PRELIMINARY REPORT OF BRAIN-PITUITARY AXIS DEVELOPMENT IN THE CEBAS MINIMODULE: SHUTTLE FLIGHTS STS-89 AND STS-90. M.P. Schreibman, L. Magliulo-Cepriano, V. Bluem, and F. Paris

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8:45

THE AVIAN MODEL OF INNER EAR RESEARCH FOR SPACE. C.D. Fermin, H. Hara, and T. Jones

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9:00

THE CELL DEATH FACTOR, sFAS/APO-1, AS A REGULATORY MECHANISM FOR APOPTOSIS AND POPULATION GROWTH RESPONSE IN SPACE FLOWN LYMPHOCYTES. M.L. Lewis, J.A. Reynolds, L.A. Cubano, C.A. Yancey, B.D. Lawless and E.H. Piepmeier

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9:15

THE TRANSLOCATION OF DIFFERENT PKC ISOFORMS IN U937 CELLS AND T-CELLS IS ALTERED DURING SPACEFLIGHT. J.P. Hatton, D.A. Schmitt, F. Gaubert, S. Roquefeuil, B.B. Hashemi, and J.-P. Cazenave

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9:30

INTRACELLULAR TRANSLOCATION OF PROTEIN KINASE C (PKC) IN HUMAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD T-CELLS DURING MICROGRAVITY CULTURE. B.B. Hashemi, J.P. Hatton, D. Schmitt, J.E. McClure, and C.F. Sams

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9:45

MICROGRAVITY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY IN SPERM – BIORACK ON SHUTTLE TO MIR. J.S. Tash, J.J. Fritch, M.E. Landis, and G.E. Bracho

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SESSION H: ORAL SESSION - SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIMENT RESULTS III

10:30 am to 12:30 pm Moderator: Karl Hasenstein

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10:30

CELL AND ORGANELLE POSITIONING OF GRAVITROPIC MOSS PROTONEMATA IN MICROGRAVITY. V.D. Kern, and F.D. Sack

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MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS WITH ARABIDOPSIS IN BIORACK SUPPORT A STATOLITH-BASED MODEL FOR GRAVIPERCEPTION. J.Z. Kiss, R.E. Edelmann, and P.C. Wood

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AUTOTROPIC STRAIGHTENING AFTER GRAVITROPIC CURVATURE OF LEPIDIUM ROOTS IN MICROGRAVITY. B. Stankovic, F.D. Sack, A. Johnsson, F. Antonsen, and D. Volkmann

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MORPHOLOGICAL, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF ETIOLATED SOYBEAN TISSUE FROM THE GENE EXPRESSION (GENEX) STS-87 SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIMENT. W.C. Piastuch, K.M. Johnson, H.G. Levine, E.C. Stryjewski, L.H. Levine, J.A. Sharek, O. Martynenko, and V. Prima

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EFFECTS OF MICROGRAVITY ON PATHOGENESIS AND DEFENSE RESPONSES IN SOYBEAN TISSUES. E. Hilaire, M. Ryba-White, O. Nedukha, E. Kordyum, J.A. Guikema, and J.E. Leach

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REPEATED SEED-TO-SEED EXPERIMENTS WITH BRASSICA RAPA ON THE MIR SPACE STATION. M.E. Musgrave, A. Kuang, Y. Xiao, G.E. Bingham, L.G. Briarty, M.A. Levinski, V.N. Sychev, and I.G. Podolski

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A COMPARISON OF SPACEFLIGHT AND GROUND CANOPY GAS EXCHANGE MEASUREMENTS. O. Monje, G.E. Bingham, B.K. Eames, W.F. Campbell, V. Sytchev, M.A. Levinskikh, and I. Podolsky

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WATER MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM PLANT FULL LIFE CYCLE EXPERIMENTS ON MIR. G.E. Bingham, S.B. Jones, D. Or, I. Podolsky, and V. Sytchev

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SESSION I: CONCURRENT ORAL SESSION - CELL BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY/INSTRUMENTATION II

2:00 to 4:00 pm Moderator: Marian Lewis

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Authors

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2:00

MICROGRAVITY INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS STUDY ON STS-80 SPACE FLIGHT. K.E. Forkheim and E.B. Schenker

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2:15

THE ROLE OF GRAVITY IN REGULATING THE PRODUCTION OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR. E.M. Durban and S. Das

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2:30

NEURAL STEM-LIKE CELLS GROWN IN A SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT. H.P. Low, T. M. Savarese and W.J. Schwartz

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2:45

MECHANISMS OF LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION INHIBITION IN MICROGRAVITY. D. Risin, D. Cooper, A. Sundaresan and N.R. Pellis

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A MODEL SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF CLINOSTATIC ROTATION ON T-CELL ACTIVATION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION. C.L. Adams, and C.F. Sams

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3:15

BIORACK ON THREE SHUTTLE-TO-MIR MISSIONS (S/MM): FACILITY PERFORMANCE AND EXPERIMENT OPERATIONS. PRESENTATION OF THE NEW ESA FACILITY BIOPACK. C. Brillouet and E. Brinckmann

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3:30

THE C.E.B.A.S. MINI MODULE ON STS-89: FIRST SUCCESSFUL SPACEFLIGHT OF A CLOSED AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM. V. Bluem, M. Andriske, F. Paris and D. Voeste

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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN T LYMPHOCYTES - A COMPARISON OF THE DATA FROM SPACE, THE FREE FALL MACHINE AND THE RANDOM POSITIONING MACHINE. M. Cogoli-Greuter, M. Schwarzenberg, P. Pippia, M.A. Meloni, G. Cossu, and A. Cogoli

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SESSION J: CONCURRENT ORAL SESSION - SPACE BIOMEDICINE AND STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

2:00 to 4:00 pm Moderator: Marc Tischler

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Authors

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2:00

ADAPTATION OF LEG MOVEMENT TO COMBINED EFFECTS OF ROTATION AND VARIED GRAVITOINERTIAL ENVIRONMENT. D.M. Warmflash, P. DiZio, and J.R. Lackner

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MEASUREMENT OF ENERGY BALANCE ON FOUR LMS ASTRONAUTS DURING SPACE FLIGHT. T.P. Stein, M.J. Leskiw, M.D. Schluter, R. Gretebeck, H.W. Lane and R.W. Hoyt

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2:30

REDUCTION OF THIN FILAMENT DENSITY AND LENGTH IN HUMAN SOLEUS MUSCLE AFTER 17 DAY SPACEFLIGHT D.A. Riley, J.L.W. Bain, J.L. Thompson, R.H. Fitts, J.J. Widrick, S.W. Trappe, T.A. Trappe, and D.L. Costill

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2:45

ANIMAL SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR SPACE FLIGHT AND GROUND-BASED STUDIES M.K. Steele and J.Calabrese

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EFFECTS OF ISOMETRIC EXERCISE ON RAT SOLEUS AND RED GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE SINGLE FIBER SIZE, FORCE, AND SHORTENING VELOCITY DURING HINDLIMB UNLOADED. J.E. Hurst, J. G. Romatowski, K. Norenberg. C. Blazer, S. Knuth, and R.H. Fitts

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EFFICACY OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 IS NOT ALTERED BY SPACEFLIGHT UNLOADING. T.A. Bateman, R.J. Zimmerman, R.A. Ayers, V.L. Ferguson, S.K. Chapes, and S.J. Simske

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PROGRAMMED ADMINISTRATION OF PARATHYROID HORMONE INCREASES BONE FORMATION IN HINDLIMB UNLOADED OVARIECTOMIZED RATS. R.T. Turner, G.L. Evans, J.M. Cavolina, B. Halloran, E. Morey-Holton

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MODULATION OF ACTIN REORGANIZATION AND GENE EXPRESSION IN OSTEOBLASTS BY FLUID FLOW IS REGULATED BY INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM. R.L. Duncan, N.X. Chen, C.H. Turner, D.B. Burr and F.M. Pavalko

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SESSION K: CONCURRENT POSTERS IV

4:00 to 5:30 pm

 

Animal Development and Growth II

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D02

EFFECT OF PREFLIGHT ACTIVITIES AND LAUNCH DYNAMICS ON AVIAN EMBRYO-GENESIS. P.Y. Hester, J.I. Orban, S.J. Piert, T.Gurieva, A.L. Wentworth, and B.C. Wentworth

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SYNAPTIC INNERVATION IN THE EARLY POSTNATAL MOUSE UTRICULAR MACULA. A. Lysakowski

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D06

THE EFFECTS OF MICROGRAVITY ON MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND MIGRATORY ACTIVITY OF CHICK NEURAL CREST CELLS. L. Schwartz and D. Wiens

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Animal Gravity Sensing II

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E01

ELECTRICAL RESONANCE IN THE HORNET CUTICLE. W. Thornton and J. Ishay

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SHORT LATENCY VESTIBULAR EVOKED POTENTIALS (VsEPs) IN TWO MAMMALIAN SPECIES. T.A. Jones, S.M. Jones, and M. Bothwell

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IDENTIFICATION OF GRAVITAXIC MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA. K. Beckingham, C. Bolduc, and S. Miettinen

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Animal Structural Systems III

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EFFECTS OF LOCAL INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-I OVER-EXPRESSION AND PERIODIC WALKING ON SKELETAL MUSCLE MASS DURING HINDLIMB UNLOADING. S.E. Gordon, R.J. Schwartz, M.L. Fiorotto, and F.W. Booth

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CLENBUTEROL LEVELS IN RAT PLASMA AND TISSUE USING GC/MS AND EIA. D.A. von Deutsch, I.K. Abukhalaf, M.I. Cray, D.E. Potter, L.E. Wineski, H. Aboul-Enein, T. Grace, R. Oster, S.A. Pitts, W-D. Chen, E. Chidebelu-Eze and D.F. Paulsen