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4th Annual International ScholarResearch Exposition

A showcase of some world-classresearch undertaken by the more than1,600 international visiting scholars

at The Ohio State University.

Presented By:Office of Research

Office of International Affairs

November 2 - December 31, 2009

Bricker Hall190 North Oval Mall

The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, Ohio

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4th Annual International Scholar Research Exposition

Opening ReceptionBricker Hall

November 19, 20095:30 - 7 p.m.

Welcome and Remarks

Dieter WannerAssociate Provost for Global Strategies and International A!airs

"e Ohio State University

Caroline C. WhitacreVice President for Research"e Ohio State University

E. Gordon GeePresident

"e Ohio State University

Presentation of Certi!cates

Gi!y Ako-AdounvoDirector, International Students and Scholars

O#ce of International A!airs

Instrumental music compliments ofMiddle East Studies Center

Ahmet Alkan

“Computerized Image Analysis of !igh Muscles for Osteoarthritis”

Ahmet Alkan received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Sakarya University in 2005. He is funded by a fellowship from "e Scienti$c and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB%TAK) in 2009. He is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at "e Ohio State University, working with Dr. Metin N. Gurcan. His research interests include Signal Processing, Arti$cial Neural Networks and Biomedical Image Processing. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University/Turkey.

Biography:

Visiting ScholarThe Ohio State University

Home Country: TurkeyFaculty Mentor: Metin N. Gurcan

Department: Biomedical Informatics

Ronald Batallas-Huacon

“Development of a novel nematode release system for preventive and curative management of the fungus gnat Bradysia

di!ormis in poinsettia”

Ronald Batallas-Huacon completed his high school studies in Ecuador, with a major in biology. In 2007, he $nished his B.S. in Agriculture in Honduras at Zamorano University. In his undergraduate studies Batallas-Huacon was interested in research a&er he took some Entomology courses. His graduation project was in insect population evaluation in corn. Batallas-Huacon did an internship in an Organic Rose Production Farm in Ecuador. Batallas-Huacon is currently working at the Entomology Department at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), performing experiments in ornamental and vegetables in controlled environments. His future goal is to apply for graduate school in Entomology and focus on biological control in ornamentals.

Biography:


Home Country: EcuadorFaculty Mentor: Luis Cañas

Department: Entomology

Serdar Bilen

“Greenhouse Gas Budget in a Widespread Tillage Chronosequence”

Serdar Bilen joined "e Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources in 2008 as a visiting scholar. Dr. Bilen earned his Ph.D. degree in agriculture from Ataturk University, Turkey in 2006 where he worked on plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (Rhizobium sp.). His current research areas of emphasis include agricultural e!ects on production of greenhouse gases, microbial fertilizers, no-tillage crop production, and e!ects of heavy metals on bacteria and soil enzymes, and bioremediation of crude oil and heavy metals–contaminated soil.

Biography:


Home Country: TurkeyFaculty Mentor: Warren A. Dick

Department: School of Environment and Natural Resources

Alvaro Castro Aranguiz

“Analysis of Indigenous Demographic Dynamics in Lowland Latin America”

Alvaro Castro is a geographer who graduated from the Ponti$cia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2007 a&er completing his thesis, “"e economical and socio- spatial e!ects produced by the extension of one line of Santiago´s Subway.” He has worked for private $rms in Chile as an expert in geomarketing, geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental analysis, working on such issues of retail targeting, and environmental impact assessment of hydroelectric developments. In 2009, he came to "e Ohio State University as an international scholar to conduct research at the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (Geography Department).

Biography:


Home Country: ChileAdvisor: Kendra McSweeney

Department: Geography

Hossein Daryaei

“Inactivation of bacterial spores by pressure-assisted thermal food

sterilization”

Dr. Hossein Daryaei graduated from RMIT University in Australia last year with a Ph.D. examining the e#ciency of high pressure processing as an emerging non-thermal technology for controlling the outgrowth of spoilage microorganisms and glycolytic activity of starter bacteria in fermented dairy products. Dr. Daryaei is currently continuing his research work at a post-doctoral position at "e Ohio State University’s Food Science Department under the supervision of Dr. V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam. His research is focused on combined pressure-thermal inactivation of bacterial spores in food matrices and studying the mechanisms of spore inactivation using novel approaches.

Biography:


Home Country: IranFaculty Mentor: V.M. Balasubramaniam

Department: Food Science andTechnology

“Development of a Novel Mucosal Vaccine to Protect Against Porcine Reproductive

and Respiratory Syndrome in Pigs”

Varun Dwivedi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Food Animal Health Research Program at the Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster, Ohio. His current research work is focused on the development of mucosal vaccine against Porcine Reproductory and Respiratory Syndrome virus with the help of bacterial based candidate adjuvants. Dr. Dwivedi received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2008 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. In his graduate research, he developed novel fusogenic liposomes from microbial lipids (S.cerevasiae, E. coli and Bacillus subtilis) as antigen and drug delivery systems and explored them against infectious diseases (malaria, candiasis). Later he worked as Research Associate in the National Institute of Immunology, India, where he developed hydrogel as a drug delivery system against malaria in murine model.

Biography:


Home Country: IndiaFaculty Mentor: Renukaradhya Gourapura

Department: Food Animal Health Research Program

Varun Dwivedi

Evelina Guirado

“Investigating the biosynthetic enzymes for Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope mannose-containing lipoglycans: possible

therapeutic targets for tuberculosis ”

Evelina Guirado, Ph.D., completed a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology (major: Microbiology) from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, Spain, in 2003. She obtained a Master’s of Science in Microbiology (major: Clinical Microbiology) and a Doctor of Philosophy “magna cum laude” (Microbiology) from “Germans Trias i Pujol” University Hospital, UAB in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Since one person in the world dies every 18 seconds from tuberculosis, her professional goal continues to be to put all of her e!orts into working with the international scienti$c community to eradicate this dreadful infectious disease.

Biography:


Home Country: SpainFaculty Mentor: Larry S. Schlesinger

Department: Center for MicrobialInterface Biology

Guangcun HuangVisiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: China

Faculty Mentor: David R. BrigstockDepartment: The Research Institute at

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

“Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2) modulates its cognate integrin receptors in primary culture mouse hepatic stellate cells and promotes cell adhesion by interacting with "bronectin through integrin #5$1”

Guangcun Huang, a visiting scholar from China, graduated from Shanghai Medical University (merged into Fudan University in 2000) and received a Bachelor Degree of Medicine (M.D. equivalent in the U.S.) in 1996. He earned a Master’s and Ph.D. in Pathology & Pathophysiology from Fudan University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He began his academic career at the Department of Pathology at Shanghai Medical University in 1996. In 2008, he joined Dr. David R. Brigstock’s lab at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, continuing to conduct research on $brotic diseases, focusing on connective tissue growth factor in liver $brosis. He is serving as a referee for four international peer-reviewed journals.

Biography:

Xin Huang obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in West China College of Stomatology, Sichun University in 2003. He completed his postdoctoral training in the National Key Lab of Biotherapy in Sichun University in 2005. In July 2009, Dr. Huang joined Dr. Tong Chen’s research laboratory at OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research at Ohio State focuses on the chemoprevention of esophageal cancer. Before he came to the United States, he was a surgeon in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Beijing Stomatological Hospital in China. He has conducted research on chemoprevention of head and neck cancer.

Biography:


Home Country: ChinaFaculty Mentor: Tong Chen

Department: Divison of Hematologyand Oncology

Department of Internal Medicine

“Chemoprevention of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

Xin Huang


Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor: Ann D. Christy

Department: Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering

“Composting of TNT Contaminated Soils with Chicken Manure and Straw at Plum Brook Ordnance Works (PBOW), Ohio”

Young Woon Kang, a visiting scholar in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, was born in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Ajou University, South Korea with a B.S. and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. Kang obtained a Ph.D. degree in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering from "e Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2004. His dissertation, advised by Dr. Karen Mancl, was “Biological treatment of turkey processing wastewater with sand !ltration.” Kang is a registered professional engineer in State of Ohio. His current research is on composting of TNT contaminated soils and controlled laboratory fracturing experiments in a natural setting.

Biography:

Young Woon Kang


Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor: Ann D. Christy

Department: Food, Agricultural, andBiological Engineering

“Soil Texture Analysis to Predict Subsurface Fracturing in Glacial Tills and Other

Unconsolidated Materials”

Eun Kyoung Kim, a visiting scholar in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, was born in Koyang-si, South Korea. Kim graduated from Kyonggi University, South Korea with a B.S in Environmental Engineering. Kim obtained a M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1999 and received a Ph.D. in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at "e Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2007. Kim is a registered professional engineer in State of Ohio. Kim’s current research interests are prediction of fracturing in natural setting, composting of TNT contaminated soils and groundwater protection.

Biography:

Eun Kyoung Kim

Chang Soo LeeVisiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: South Korea

Faculty Mentor: Jiyoung LeeDepartment: College of Public Health

“Phylogenetic analysis of colonized bacteria from drinking water in gastrointestinal

tracts of germ-free mice”

Chang Soo Lee earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Department of Biological Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea in 2007. Prior to starting at "e Ohio State University, Lee worked at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB). Since May 2009, Lee has been a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Jiyoung Lee’s group in the College of Public Health and involved in various health and environmental related studies. One of these researches addresses ecological aspects of bacterial colonization in gastrointestinal tract of germ-free mice in relation to the nutrition of controlled food and water.

Biography:


Home Country: EgyptFaculty Mentor: Ali Keyhani

Department: Electrical & ComputerEngineering

“Sizing a High Speed PM Generator for Green Energy Applications (Classical and

Optimized)”

Adel El Shahat Lo!y Sayed Ahmed received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, in 1999 and 2004, respectively, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, through the Joint Supervision of "e Ohio State University and Zagazig University. He is now working as a Visiting Scholar with the Mechatronic-Green Energy Laboratory, OSU and as an Associate Lecturer, with the Renewable Energy Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez, Egypt. He received the Suez Canal University Honor in 2006 and Merit Ten Top-up Students Award of each Faculty from Egypt, in 2000.

Biography:

Adel Lo!y Sayed Ahmed

Pin LuVisiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: China

Faculty Mentor: Patricia A. MorrisDepartment: Materials Science &

Engineering

“Study on SnO2-NiO sensitive nanoparticles used in gas sensor devices

for the detection of trace amounts of hazardous gases”

Pin Lu completed her B.S. in Microelectronics from the Electronics Department, Liaoning University, China in 1995 and has been a teacher at Liaoning University since then. She received her M.S. in Computer So&ware and "eory from the Computer Science Department, Liaoning University in 2002. She received her Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from the School of Electron and Information Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China in 2008. She is currently an associate professor of Microelectronics in the Physics School, Liaoning University. Her scienti$c interests are gas sensitive materials and sensors.

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Home Country: IndiaFaculty Mentor: Guo-Liang Wang

Department: Plant Pathology

“Towards map-based cloning of the broad-spectrum resistance gene Pi40(t) to rice

blast”

A native of India, Sheshu Madhav Maganti received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the Indian Agricultural Institute, New Delhi, India. Presently, he has been working as a visiting scholar in Dr. Guo-Liang Wang’s lab at "e Ohio State University since 2008. Maganti is involved in elucidating the molecular basis of rice blast resistance. He also has been working as a scientist in Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), one of the premier ICAR institutes (Government of India) for the last 10 years. His present research focuses on pyramiding three major blast genes and identi$cation of QTLs for major quality characteristics in rice. Maganti was awarded a BOYSCAST Fellowship in 2007 to pursue research at Ohio State. Maganti has published 16 research papers in peer reviewed international journals.

Biography:

Sheshu Madhav Maganti

Paula Martin-VaqueroVisiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: Spain

Faculty Mentor: Ronaldo C. da CostaDepartment: Veterinary Clinical

Sciences

“Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance

Spectroscopy of the Canine Brain at 3.0 TESLA and 7.0 TESLA”

Dr. Paula Martin-Vaquero received her veterinary degree in 2006 from the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. A&er that, she worked for two years in private practice in Spain. In 2007 she obtained a two-year fellowship funded by the Spanish bank “la Caixa” to pursue post-graduate studies in an American university. She has completed a Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at "e Ohio State University (2008-2009) and is currently a Small Animal Neurology Fellow at OSU (2009-2010). Her main research interests include canine and feline epilepsy and magnetic resonance imaging.

Biography:


Home Country: SpainFaculty Mentor: Alicia Bertone

Department: Veterinary ClinicalSciences

“In Vivo Quantitative Contrast Enhanced 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Combined with Knee Loop Coils to

Evaluate Healing of Osteochondral Defects in an Equine Model”

Dr. Maria Menendez, is a post doctoral research fellow at the Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine, "e Ohio State University. She received her veterinary degree (DVM) from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leon, Spain in 2002. Dr. Menendez completed one year clinical internships at the Sierra de Madrid Veterinary Hospital in Madrid, Spain, and at the London Equine Hospital, in Ontario, Canada, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. In 2006, Dr. Menendez served as an Associate Veterinarian at the Dubai Equine Hospital in the United Arab Emirates. In 2007, Dr. Menendez came to the United States to further her education in orthopedics and studied in the Orthopedic Research Laboratory at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Biography:

Maria Menendez

Burcu Mirkelamoglu Visiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: Turkey

Faculty Mentor: Umit S. OzkanDepartment: Chemical and Biomolecular

Engineering

“Development of Environmentally Benign Catalyst Formulations for H2 Production through Water Gas Shi%

Reaction”

Burcu Mirkelamoglu is a Research Associate in "e Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She earned her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 1998. A&er pursuing an MBA and an M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the same university, she started her Ph.D. study in 2002, where she worked on preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide for fuel-cell applications. Dr. Mirkelamoglu joined "e Ohio State University in 2006 as a post-doctoral research associate. Her current research interests include catalytic elimination of NOx from lean burn engine exhausts, H2 production from syngas through water gas shi& reaction and natural gas steam reforming.

Biography:


Home Country: IndiaFaculty Mentor: Michael A. CaligiuriDepartment: Comprehensive Cancer

Center

“Creation and characterization of a novel mouse model of Cutaneous

T-Cell Lymphoma”

Dr. Anjali Mishra holds post-graduate degree in Bio-technology from the University of Delhi, India and a Ph.D. degree in Biology from Hannover Medical School, Germany. She has published research articles in peer reviewed journals and has an international patent on the HupB Gene from her work on mycobacterium and host immunity. Her current research focuses on the role of cytokines in the genesis of cancer in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Caligiuri at "e Ohio State University. Her work in the Caligiuri laboratory has thus far led to a published manuscript in Leukemia Research describing mouse model of Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia.

Biography:

Anjali Mishra

Nicolas MurerVisiting Scholar

The Ohio State UniversityHome Country: France

Faculty Mentor: Rudolph G. BuchheitDepartment: Fontana Corrosion Center

Materials Science & Engineering

“Towards the Prediction of Localized Damage Accumulation in Aluminum

Alloys”

Nicolas Murer is a French post-doctoral researcher at the Fontana Corrosion Center, located in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His work is supervised by Rudolph Buchheit. He received an engineering degree in materials and electrochemistry from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG) and a Ph.D. from the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, a&er which he joined "e Ohio State University. His Ph.D. was focused on the use of local probes and modeling tools for the prediction of localized corrosion in aluminum alloys. His work at Ohio State was presented at several conferences (NACE, Eurocorr) and a paper about his Ph.D. work has recently been accepted for publication in Corrosion Science.

Biography:


Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor: Linda K. Weavers

Department: Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering and Geodetic Science

Seungmin Na

“Ultrasonic desorption and degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from sediment of di&erent particle sizes.”

Seungmin Na received her Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering in February 2007 from Korea University. Her Ph.D. thesis topic was “"e study on the use of ultrasound for the treatment of sewage sludge.” She has published $ve professional papers in the subject area of applied sonochemical e!ects on contaminated soil and wastewater. She has been interested in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) of pollutants in various environmental conditions such as wastewater, groundwater and contaminated soil and sediment. She received support from a 2008-2009 Post-doctoral Fellowship Program funded by the Korea Research Foundation (KRF). She is working with Dr. Linda K. Weavers at "e Ohio State University as a visiting scholar.

Biography:


Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor: Merry M. Merryfield

Department: School of Teachingand Learning

Ilnam Ok

“A Biography Research on a Preparatory Teacher’s Concern Shaping in Social

Studies”

Ilnam Ok is currently studying social studies and is a social studies professor. Ok has had previous experience as a secondary school social studies teacher. "is strong connection Ok has with social studies is derived from her secondary school days. At that time, her social studies teacher inspired her to pursue further education in social studies. Ok’s frequent contact with the social studies curriculum further cultivated her interest in the subject. Ok’s future goals are to investigate what multicultural and global perspectives for democratic citizenship are in the U.S. textbooks.

Biography:


Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor: Patrick Roblin

Department: Electrical & ComputerEngineering

Hyo-Dal Park

“Design of Poly-Phase Multi-Path Harmonic Cancelling Transmitter for SDR

and CR Applications”

Hyo-Dal Park was born in Korea in June 1952. He received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering (EE) from Inha University, Korea, in 1978 and M.S. (DEA) and Ph.D. (D.I.) degrees in EE from ENSEA, France, in 1984 and 1987. He started his career at KIAT, Korea (1987-1992). In 1992, he joined the EE Department, Inha University, Korea, as Professor. He is the founder of the Microwave-and-Avionics Lab. He is joining the Non-Linear RF/Microwave Lab, the Department of ECE, OSU as a visiting scholar since 2007. He is the author of a textbook on Microwave Technology (HongReung, Seoul, Korea, 2004). His current research interests include the RF Front-end Circuit Design, IT System Design for Transportation Areas.

Biography:


Home Country: BrazilFaculty Mentor: David Bloome

Department: School of Teachingand Learning

Valdeni Reis

“Incarcerated Youths and the Teaching-Learning English Language: !e Journal

Writing and the Relationships in this Setting”

Valdeni da Silva Reis is a second-year Ph.D. student from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil) working in the School of Teaching and Learning ("e Ohio State University) under the supervision of Dr. David Bloome. Reis earned an M.A. in Applied Linguistics (2007) and a B.A. in Language and Linguistics (2004) also from UFMG. Her experience is mainly based on teaching-learning foreign language focusing on journals writing; teachers formation; continuing education; representations; discourse analysis; education in the prison; psychoanalysis. She is currently researching the teaching-learning experience in a juvenile detention center. Reis investigates the culture and relationships established in this special education setting.

Biography:


Home Country: EgyptFaculty Mentor: Mohammed IsmailDepartment: Electrical & Computer

Engineering

Mohamed A. Salem

“High !roughput Architecture for High Performance Networks-On-Chip”

Mohamed Ahmed Abd El Ghany Ahmed El Sayed Salem received a B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (with honors) and a master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was in the National Space Agency of Ukraine, EGYPTSAT-1 project. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the area of high-performance VLSI/IC design at the German University in Cairo. He is currently a visiting scholar at "e Ohio State University, Electrical Engineering Department. His research interest is in Network on Chip design and related circuit level issues in high performance VLSI circuits, clock distribution network design, and low-power design. He is the author of about 7 papers and two book chapters in the $elds of high throughput and low-power NoC design.

Biography:


Home Country: ChinaFaculty Mentor: William J. Mitsch

Department: School of Environment andNatural Resources

Chenyan Sha

“Methane emission from three di&erent types of wetlands under varying

hydrological conditions”

A native of China, Chenyan Sha studied at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University. Since September of 2008, Sha has been cooperating with Professor William J. Mitsch of Olentangy River Wetland Research Park. As a visiting Ph.D. student at "e Ohio State University, Sha’s research investigates the spatial and temporal patterns of CH4 and N2O emission in three di!erent types of wetlands under various hydrology conditions and quanti$ed the relationship between greenhouse gas emission and environmental parameters.

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Home Country: South KoreaFaculty Mentor:

Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska Department: Civil and Environmental

Engineering and Geodetic Science

Dongseob Song

“Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor Variation retrieved by GPS during a

progress of Typhoon”

DongSeob Song earned the B.S. degree in civil engineering in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geodesy from the SungKyunKwan University, South Korea in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He currently works at "e Ohio State University on a Research Fellowship which was supported by the KRF, Government of Korea. His work at Ohio State was accepted for publication in the ISI journal. He has received several paper awards (2002, 2006 and 2007) and six scholarships. In addition, he was the recipient of the best dissertation award (2008) and young researcher honors (2009) from the KSCE. He has published many research papers in peer reviewed international/domestic journals.

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Home Country: ItalyFaculty Mentor: Yann Guezennec

Department: Center for AutomotiveResearch

Pierfrancesco Spagnol

“Aging and characterization of advanced battery for automotive applications”

Pierfrancesco Spagnol received a Bachelor of Science in automation engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2005, a Master’s degree in automation engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2007 and a Master’s degree in mechatronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2008. His research is in the area of advanced control for automotive applications. He worked as a researcher for Chassis Control System of FIAT Automobiles in 2008. During the last year, he has been a full-time so&ware engineer for the advanced R&D mechtronic department of Brembo S.p.A. He developed HIL systems for testing innovative hybrid braking systems and was responsible for algorithm development for electromechanical braking applications. He is a visiting scholar at "e Ohio State University, Center for Automotive Research, since July 2009.

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Home Country: SwitzerlandFaculty Mentor: Giorgio Rizzoni

Department: Center for AutomotiveResearch

Stephanie Stockar

“Sustainability Analysis for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles”

Stephanie Stockar studied Mechanical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and obtained her B.S. in 2007. She is currently a master student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the ETH Zurich and since September 2008 she has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Automotive Research with the supervision of Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni. Her work focused on energy and economic analysis of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, energy management for Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. During her appointment at "e Ohio State University, her work resulted in three published articles and the submission of a fourth.

Biography:

Visiting ScholarThe Ohio State UniversityHome Country: Venezuela

Faculty Mentor: Armando E. HoetDepartment: Veterinary Preventive

Medicine

Joany Van Balen

“Pro"ling MRSA positive dogs: Results of a year long Active Surveillance in a

Veterinary Teaching Hospital”

Joany Van Balen received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Zulia University (LUZ), Venezuela in 2005. Following graduation, Dr. Van Balen worked in research at the LUZ Leptospira Diagnose Laboratory with a variety of animal species including human. She is currently working on a Master’s degree in Biology focused in Basic Immunology. At the present time, she works with Dr. Armando Hoet in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at OSU, $nishing her Master’s "esis and conducting research regarding the epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animal and human populations.

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Home Country: CanadaFaculty Mentor: Veronique A. Lacombe

Department: College of Pharmacy

Amanda Waller

“Overexpression of myocardial sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase pump rescues glucose transport during diabetes”

Amanda Waller grew up in the small town of Belleville, Ontario, Canada. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biological Science and a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology at the University of Guelph in Ontario. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on skeletal muscle substrate utilization in racehorses. Based on that experience, Dr. Waller wanted to expand her knowledge of muscle glucose utilization while applying it to the $eld of human and animal health. "erefore she was very keen to join the laboratory of Dr. Lacombe at "e Ohio State University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, where she is using state-of-the-art techniques to study glucose transport during diabetes in rodents and horses. It is hoped that this translational research will bene$t the many humans and animals that are a!ected with diabetes worldwide.

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Home Country: ChinaFaculty Mentor: Guo-Liang Wang

Department: Plant Pathology

Hongmei Yang

“Towards map-based cloning of the broad-spectrum resistance gene Pi40(t) to rice

blast”

Hongmei Yang is a visiting scholar from China Agricultural University, Beijing P.R. China. She has a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. Yang just completed 6 months of research at Ohio State and will continue her activities here for another year and a half. She participated in projects of the “948” China National Basic Research Program at the Laboratory of Rice Molecular Genetics at China Agricultural University and identi$ed potential blast resistance introgression lines. In addition, Yang has mapped a novel rice blast resistance QTL on rice chromosome 9 of Oryza. She is a native of China.

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Home Country: ChinaFaculty Mentor: Gail E. Besner

Department: Research Institute atNationwide Children’s Hospital

Hong-yi Zhang

“Mice Overexpressing the Gene for Heparing-Binding EGF-Like Growth Factor Have Increased Resistence to Hemorrhagic

Shock and Resusitation”

Hong-yi Zhang is an international scholar from the People’s Republic of China. He graduated from Tongji Medical College of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, receiving his Medical Degree in June 2007. In September 2007, he began residency training in Pediatric Surgery at Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China. He applied for an international visiting scholar position at "e Ohio State University and was very fortunate to be accepted into Dr. Gail Besner’s laboratory at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Under her mentorship since November 2007, he has been investigating the mechanisms by which heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) and its ability to protect the intestines from ischemia/reperfusion injury.

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Home Country: ChinaFaculty Mentor: Yebo Li

Department: Food, Agriculture, andBiological Engineering

Jiying Zhu

“Development of an Integrated Anaerobic Digestion System (iADs) for Methane

Production from Organic Waste”

Jiying Zhu is a visiting scholar from China. As an instructor at Shandong University of Technology of China, Zhu mainly teaches Food Microbiology in the Department of Food Science and Engineering. Zhu’s research interest mainly focuses on fermentation, bioprocess optimization, and anaerobic digestion. Currently, Zhu is working on the application of solid state anaerobic digestion for methane production from organic wastes with Dr. Yebo Li in the Bioproducts and Bioenergy Research Laboratory at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster, Ohio.

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Special thanks to the curator of the arts exhibits in Bricker Hall

Lawrence “Larry” Williamson, Jr.Director

O!ce of Minority A"airsFrank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center

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