Summer Biology
09/07/2010
September, 2010. As the Academic Year begins and the Calendar year starts its final quarter, we highlight some student and faculty research activities.
Two announcements:
1) The 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience students (SURE) will present the results of their research on Sept. 15th and 24th (Honors Center, starting around 9am). See: http://www.newpaltz.edu/research/usr_sure.html
2) The MERCK/AAAS Research Poster Session will be held on Sept 16th, in the CSB atrium from 3:30-4:30pm. Right afterwards, the Merck/AAAS lecture (4:30-5:30pm or so, CSB Aud) will feature Dr. Lila M. Gierasch from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The title of her talk is: "MOVING THE PROTEIN FOLDING PROBLEM FROM THE TEST TUBE TO THE CELL."
All of these presentations are open to the public.
Graduate student Denni Catalano presents some research from her thesis at the Spring 2010 Student Research Symposium. The photo on the right shows one of the marine rocks from a tropical reef that Denni has sampled for novel/new bacterial species. She also has published the sequences of several bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA genes (see below).
Elena Oldendorf (grad student) and Tyler Carson (undergrad) presented their work, "Bisphenol-A Interferes with Wound Healing and Blastema Formation in the Planarian Dugesia Tigrina." at the Northeast Regional Society of Developmental Biology conference at the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA this past spring (Left and Middle); and again at our Spring 2010 Student Reearch Symposium (Right).
Some more student presentations at the Spring 2010 Student Research Symposium, from left to right: "ELUCIDATING THE CENTRAL DOGMA IN AN UNDERGRAD LAB," Kara DeSantis (grad student). "THE EFFECTS OF DEET ON FLY DEVELOPMENT," Hana Akimoto (undergrad) talking with Dean Dan Jelski. "LIFESTYLE TRANSITIONS OF B. BACTERIOVORUS," Sombridho Bhaduri and Michael Marone (undergrads).
Some recently published research from Biology faculty (name highlighted in a yellow box) and students (name highlighted in a green box):
AND, Dr. Jennifer Waldo spearheaded an interdepartmental effort (with Anthropology, Biology and Chemistry) to win an NSF grant and succeeded!
The instrumentation acquired through this grant will be used in faculty and student research.
