Application to Speak at the TH Research Invitational Symposium requires a pre-paid $30 fee
Please dicuss with your teacher how this fee is being paid (many schools cover the cost).
Payment is due by Dec. 15th at the latest.
Once payment is received, you will get a link to apply to speak.
Speakers can apply as early as Dec. 1st (if payment has been recieved).
Applications will be accepted through to Dec. 19th (11:59 pm)
ALL Speaker Applications must include this form
Will be submitted when you complete the Application (as a PDF)
Must be Hand Signed by supervising Adult & by Student (Supervising Adult can be your Teacher, Mentor, or Parent- as long as they have knoweldge of your research)
Must include date and chair of SRC/IRB committee if work involved humans, vertebrate animals, or hazardous materials
Applications without this form will NOT be considered
Papers must be:
Max 40 pages long (including ALL pages)
12 Point Font
Times New Roman Font
Double spaced
1 inch margins
Please help the Symposium Director keep your paper organized within her system by naming your Paper's PDF (when you "save as") in the following way-
lastname.category.teacherlastname
Example: smith.environmental.hopkins
Cover Page (Project Title, Student full name, School full name and city/ state)
Acknowledgement page (major assistance, funding, and source of samples)
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction (includes Review of Literature)
Statement of Purpose/ Question
Hypothesis
Materials & Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Appendices (including Human Partipant Informed Consent if applicable)
References/ Literature Cited
(The Application form requires students to submit an abstract so that it can be added to the Symposium Brochure. Abstracts longer than 200 words will be cut off at 200 words.)
"Preparing Your Abstract:
The abstract should accurately convey the essential nature of the research conducted and the most significant conclusions reached. A further purpose of the abstract is to attract the interest and curiosity of the non-specialist reader and thus encourage exchange, discussion, and elaboration between various authors and between authors and readers.
Content:
What you did, how you did it, what it means, why you did it and what you found.
Citing of experimentation completed by submission date (anticipated experimentation or results should not be included.
Reference to a specific procedure should be restricted to a description of the process employed.
State results, conclusions or findings clearly and concisely."
Formatting:
200 word maximum, 12-point font (Times New Roman).
Sweet potato is considered the sixth most important food crop in the world and has high nutritional value for humans. However, pests, diseases and environmental factors prevent the crop from reaching its maximum agricultural potential. Improvement of the sweet potato is highly limited by conventional breeding methods. Recombinant DNA technology offers a means for manipulation of the sweet potato genome to integrate valuable traits. Critical parameters of the electroporation (voltage of current and digestion of cell wall) and particle bombardment (helium pressure and gold particle distribution) were examined for efficient DNA transfer. Electroporation resulted in less damage and higher recovery of tissue after DNA delivery compared to particle bombardment. Transformed cells were identified with two marker genes: Beta-glucoronidase (GUS) and Green Florescent Protein (GFP). Cells expressing GFP were easily identified due to uniform protein distribution, and allow the monitoring of the cell development pattern, unlike cells expressing the GUS gene. Using the optimized conditions derived from the present study, sweet potato can be genetically improved for increased crop productivity and nutritional value.