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Undergraduate Presentations

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This collection hosts presentations by undergraduate students at conferences, departmental symposia/research days, and classes both within and beyond Virginia Tech. It includes VT-sponsored undergraduate research conferences held in the spring and summer (and their abstract books). Presentation materials may include slides, posters, installation designs/photographs, audio, and video. Please see the Office of Undergraduate Research for research opportunities and assistance.

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    Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Program
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2012-04-19)
    An abstract book for the research conference held Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Squires Student Center and Newman Library.
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    Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2012-08-03)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on August 3, 2012 at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
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    Undergraduate Research Conference
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2013-04-19)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on April 19, 2013 at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
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    Summer Research Symposium
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2013-07-31)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on July 31, 2013 at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
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    University Undergraduate Research Conference - April 18, 2014
    (Virginia Tech, 2014-04-18)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on April 18, 2014, at the Graduate Life Center.
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    Summer Research Symposium
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2014-07-31)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on July 31, 2014 at the Graduate Life Center.
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    Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2015-04-24)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on April 24, 2015 in Squires Student Center.
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    Proceedings of the Symposium for Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science: VTURCS 2015
    (Virginia Tech, 2015-04-30)
    The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) program highlights the research and capstone projects of our undergraduate students during the past year.
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    Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at Virginia Tech
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2015-07-30)
    An abstract book for the research conference held on July 30, 2015 in Goodwin Hall.
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    2016 Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2016-02-22)
    An abstract book for the research conference held February 22-26, 2016 in Squires Student Center.
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    Proceedings of the Symposium for Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science: VTURCS 2016
    (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-26)
    The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) program highlights the research and capstone projects of our undergraduate students during the past year.
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    2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium: Abstract Book
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2016-07)
    An abstract book for the research conference held summer 2016 in Goodwin Hall.
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    Biocomplexity Institute Research Symposium 2016
    (Biocomplexity Institute. Virginia Tech, 2016-11-01)
    An abstract book of student poster presentations from the symposium held on November 1, 2016.
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    EngelNovitt Summer Research Program 2017
    (Virginia Tech, 2017)
    The EngelNovitt Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience program is a paid summer internship that gives students the opportunity to work within a neuroscience laboratory affiliated with the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience. Students devote 40 hours per week immersed in a research environment assisting with an ongoing project. The program provides students with a real-world neuroscience research experience and bench skills that can help them as they progress in their research and/or medical careers. This booklet contains abstracts from student projects.
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    2017 Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research & Creative Scholarship Conference
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2017-02-20)
    An abstract book for the research conference held February 20-23, 2017 at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Squires Student Center.
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    Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship Showcase
    Fralin Life Sciences Institute (Virginia Tech, 2017-04-20)
    This booklet features the 2016-2017 Fralin Undergraduate Fellows, their research abstracts, and a showcase schedule for April 20, 2017.
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    Proceedings of the Symposium for Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science: VTURCS 2017
    (Virginia Tech, 2017-04-25)
    The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) program highlights the research and capstone projects of our undergraduate students during the past year.
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    Virginia Tech’s Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium Abstracts
    (Virginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2017-07-27)
    An abstract book for the research conference held July 27, 2017 in Goodwin Hall.
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    Biocomplexity Institute Research Symposium 2017
    (2017-11-08)
    An abstract book of all student poster presentations from the symposium held on November 8, 2017.
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    Self-Assembly of Artificial Actin Filaments
    Cheng, Shengfeng; Grosenick, C. Ryan; Dayal, Shreya (Virginia Tech, 2018)
    Actin filaments (F-actins) are long, double-stranded, helical biopolymers that make up the cytoskeleton along with microtubules and intermediate filaments. In order to better understand the self-assembly process of actin filaments, a coarse-grained model to recreate their geometry was developed, which was motivated by the wedge model of microtubule self-assembly. The model monomer has the shape of a bent, twisted rod with binding sites on its lateral and top/bottom surfaces. The longitudinal binding through the binding sites on the top/bottom surfaces of the rod allows the formation of strands, while the lateral binding between the rods enables the strands to adhere laterally to form double-stranded helical filaments. Such a design captures the assembly behavior of G-actins into F-actins. With molecular dynamics simulations, we explored the self-assembly of these bent-rod monomers. A variety of assembled phases were observed when the strengths of the binding interactions between monomers were varied. Our simulations indicate that only a narrow range of binding strengths yields double-stranded helical filaments resembling F-actins. Furthermore, the structure of the assembled filaments is much more robust and resistant to fluctuations and defects when the strength of the longitudinal binding interaction is stronger than that of the lateral binding between monomers. Finally, double-stranded filaments are found to be much more stable structurally than single-stranded ones. Our results reveal fresh insights into the fact that actin filaments are predominantly double-stranded.