The Montclair State University Chapter of Sigma Xi presents a research conference each spring for our students and faculty. The program for 1998 is listed here. You can also check the 1997 program .

Officers -1998

Co-President: Dr. Jack Gaynor

Co-President: Dr. Mary Lou West

Secretary: Dr. John K. Korky

Treasurer: Dr. Mark Whitener

21st Annual Student Research Conference, May 2, 1998

Montclair State University Sigma Xi Chapter

9:00 WELCOME (Rm 231) Drs. Jack Gaynor & Mary Lou West

Dr. Richard A. Lynde Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Session I - Rm 231 Dr. Quinn Vega, Moderator

9:15 CHROMOSOME-SIZE DEPENDENT CONTROL OF MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE: THE ROLE OF CROSSOVER INTERFERENCE Presentation: Jerome You

9:30 EXPRESSION OF HUMAN RET KINASE IN BACTERIA-BL21 DE-3 Presentation: Marc Morresi

9:45 COUPLED EXPRESSION OF HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS IN E. COLI Presentation: John Casale

10:00 COMPARISON OF VEGF EXPRESSION IN HUMAN CANCER CELL LINES Presentation: Rosa Sanchez

10:15 POSTERS/REFRESHMENTS - HALLWAY

10:45 THE SURGICAL TECHNIQUE OF JUGULAR CATHERIZATION FOR CONTINUOUS INFUSION IN A RAT MODEL FOR DRUG DISCOVERY Presentation: Leo Luistro

11:00 HETEROTROPHIC PLATE COUNTING OF DEIONIZED WATER Presentation: Laura Hammel

11:15 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Room 231

Session II - Rm 226 Dr. Mary Lou West, Moderator

9:15 SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND POWER STATUS: DO WE HOLD PRESIDENTS TO A HIGHER STANDARD? Presentation: Jennifer Wright

9:30 THE CLINTON-LEWINSKY CONTROVERSY: IS FAULT GENDER OR POLITICALLY BASED? Presentation: Tammy Barry

9:45 THE APPEARANCE OF EMPATHY: WHAT DOES A GOOD PSYCHOTHERAPIST LOOK LIKE? Presentation: Christopher Guastello

10:00 NIELS BOHR AND ERWIN SCHRODINGER AGREE Presentation: Carl Carlson

10:15 POSTERS/REFRESHMENTS - HALLWAY

10:45 GROUNDWATER FLOW: MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY AND ENVIRONS Presentation: Michael McGill

11:00 EFFECTS OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION OF IMPERVIOUS STRUCTURES ON GROUNDWATER RECHARGE OF THE BRUNSWICK AQUIFER, SPRING VALLEY, ROCKLAND COUNTY, NEW YORK, MODELING AND SIMULATION Presentation: Gene P. Fowler

11:15 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Room 231

Session III - Rm 261 Dr. John Smallwood, Moderator

9:15 THE NEW JERSEY NEST BOX PROGRAM: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOR AND ECOLOGY OF CAVITY NESTING BIRDS Presentation: Perry J. Wargo

9:30 NEST SITE CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN KESTRELS BREEDING IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY Presentation: Amy Fost

9:45 CLINAL VARIATION IN THE JUVENAL PLUMAGE OF AMERICAN KESTRALS Presentation: Christopher Natale

10:00 SMALL MAMMAL ABUNDANCE AND RAPTOR PRESENCE ON JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Presentation: Jennifer Allen

10:15 POSTERS/REFRESHMENTS - HALLWAY

10:45 NUTRIENT INTAKE AND DIETARY ASSESSMENT OF LOW INCOME PREGNANT WOMEN OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITY Presentation: Yvonne A. Labita and Elizabeth S. Kilbashian

11:00 NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN Presentation: S.M. Wunderlich, A.M. Thomas, A.R. Courter, P. Tropper, and N. Sporysz

11:15 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Room 231

POSTER SESSION - Hallway (10:15 - 10:45AM*)

STUDENT POSTERS

1. STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM SELENITE ON THE GROWTH AND MORPHOLOGY OF CYANOBACTERIA ANACYSTIS NIDULANS Bellazmin N. Aquine and Damon Demercurio

2. A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF THALLIUM ON THE GROWTH OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM ANACYSTIS NIDULANS Farah Sultana Khan and Yatini Naik

3. THE EFFECT OF FeCl3 ON THE GROWTH OF CYANOBACTERIA ANACYSTIS NIDULANS Nishat Shakil and Gerald Caputo

4. EFFECT OF SELENIUM AND SELENATE ON THE GROWTH OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII William Esponosa and Thomas Tacinelli

5. A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF LEAD ON THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURED CHICK FEMURS IN VITRO Brian Carey, Gloria J. Brown, and Francisco Santiago

6. STUDY OF CADMIUM RESISTANCE IN MUMMICHOG (FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS) Eduardo Areche

7. PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL MARINE BACTERIA WHICH ARE EPIPHYTIC ON SEAWEEDS OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST Denise Martin

8. GROWTH RESPONSES IN THREE TREE SPECIES FOLLOWING PARTIAL DEFOLIATION Elisabeth Carrozza and Elizabeth Daquilla

9. THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING IN CHELONIANS Carolyn Eadie

10. TOWARDS A MOLECULAR CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARACEAE: AMPLIFICATION OF THE MATK AND ITS LOCI David Hunt

11. GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN: AN IDEAL REPORTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENE EXPRESSION Diego Guzman and Fausto Ramos

12. PROBE DEVELOPMENT AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF CYANOPHAGE AS-1 DNA Michelle Sabater, Kristen Barber, and Luis Arce

13. AUTOMATED DNA SEQUENCING OF A cDNA CLONE FOR CYCLIC-AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT FROM HUMAN LIVER Danielle Nardin, Hala Shehadeh, Elias Triantafillou and Ashraf Salameh

14. TRACKING BEACHFILL MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY Catherine Joe

15. THE GEOLOGY OF ZION NATIONAL PARK Brenda Paradiso

16. AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRADUATES APPLYING FOR EXECUTIVE-TRAINING POSITIONS: DO LOOKS COUNT? Dwayne McNeil

17. BINGE DRINKING EXPECTATIONS AND SELF-ESTEEM LEVEL Cherron Bradshaw

18. SYNTHESIS OF THYMITAQ ANALOGS Daniel Savad

19. TWO-DIMENSIONAL POSITIVE SYSTEMS: MINIMAL STATE SPACE REALIZATIONS AND TRANSFER FUNCTIONS Angie Chilmaza and Apostolos Papis

20. THE FOUR GALILEAN MOONS OF JUPITER Philip Dressler

21. MASS OF SATURN CALCULATED FROM OBSERVED ORBIT OF TITAN Brian Heinold

FACULTY POSTERS

22. IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE CO-RECEPTORS FOR RET, A RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE Dr. Quinn Vega

23. THE EFFECTS OF TIME AND TEMPERATURE ON THE DURATION OF MATERNAL CARE IN A BURROWER BUG (HETEROPTERA: CYDNIDAE) Dr. Scott L. Kight

24. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION IN THE MILKY WAY: A LABORATORY EXERCISE Dr. Mary Lou West

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