Photos of the conference can be found at http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~kight/sigmaxi/
Programs of previous years can be found at 2004 , 2003 , 2002 , 2001 , 1998

9:00 Welcome (The Sokol Science Room, Science Hall-102)
Dr. Robert Prezant, Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, Dr. Jack Gaynor, Dr. Mary Lou West

Session I Talks - Room SH-102, Dr. Baojun Song, Moderator

• T-1. (9:15) Spectrum of Operators on a Hilbert Space Ewa Musial (Bill Parzynski)
• T-2. (9:30) Bifurcations in Multi-strain Disease Dynamics Marie McCrary (Lora Billings)
• T-3 (9:45) Leslie Model Comparison Between Indian and Chinese Populations Milan Vasic (Baojun Song)

  10:00-11:00 POSTERS and REFRESHMENTS - all along the Hallway

• T-4 (11:00) New Jersey Black Bear Population Study Mark Maloney (Baojun Song)
• T-5 (11:15) A Dynamic Model for Two-Strain Tuberculosis with Re-infection Supun Pathirana (Baojun Song)
• T-6 (11:30) Hydrophobicity in Burned and Reburned Soils Anne Ajamian (Greg Pope)

12:00 Closing remarks and the Presentation of Sigma Xi Certificates Dr. Jack Gaynor and Dr. Mary Lou West (Sokol Seminar Room, SH-102)

Session II Talks - Room SH-126, Dr. Roman Zaritski, Moderator

• T-7 (9:15) Clustering and Computing: A Look at Inexpensive Design Ideas Robert Perriero and Stephen Jui (Stefan Robila)
• T-8 (9:30) Generating Large Prime Numbers for Cryptographic Algorithms using Distributed Computing Ayesha Mohiuddin and Ramazan Burus (Stefan Robila)
• T-9 (9:45) Cellular Automata: Life with Simple Rules Bill Madden, Nancy Ricca and Jonathan Rizzo (Roman Zaritski)

  10:00-11:00 POSTERS and REFRESHMENTS - all along the Hallway

• T-10 (11:00) Simulation of Long-Term Interaction of Spiral Waves in Excitable Media Modeled by Cellular Automata using a 20-CPU Linux Cluster Lukasz G. Maciak and Micheal A. Alexisponniah (Roman Zaritski)
• T-11 (11:15) Condensation of Patterns in a 2D Cellular Automaton with a Toroidal Topology, as simulated on a 20-CPU Linux Cluster Ysabel Bravo and Ayesha Mohiuddin (Roman Zaritski)
• T-12 (11:30) Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) Cation Sensors Derived from Natural Products Kenny C. Loo (Saliya de Silva)

Session III Talks - Room SH-131, Dr. Dean Hamden, Moderator

• T-13 (9:15) Visibility of Dangerous Comets as seen from Earth Matthew David, David Burger and Cesar Marino (Mary Lou West)
• T-14 (9:30) Black Hole Companions: Are Their Orbital Speeds Relativistic? Marcee Martinez and Taki Zaidi (Mary Lou West)
• T-15 (9:45) The Nature of Telicity of Sentences Joanna Musial (David J. Townsend and Milton S. Seegmiller)
• T-16 (10:00) An Analysis on How Well Students in Urban High Schools Understand the Terminology Used in Science Text Books Yanneris Rosario (Dean Hamden)

  10:15-11:00 POSTERS and REFRESHMENTS - all along the Hallway

• T-17 (11:00) Inhibition of Xylella fastidiosa Biofilm Formation via Metal Chelators Mipha L. Koh (Jeffrey Toney)
• T-18 (11:15) The Effects of Heavy Metals on the Cyanobacterium, Anacystis nidulans Suzen Awad (Lee Lee, Bonnie Lustigman, Quinn Vega)
• T-19 (11:30) Bioinformatics Analysis of DNA Sequences of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons in Maize Joe Wezenter (Chunguang Du)

12:00 Closing remarks and the Presentation of Sigma Xi Certificates Dr. Jack Gaynor and Dr. Mary Lou West (Sokol Seminar Room, SH-102)

Poster Session - Hallways (10:00 - 11:00 AM)
Student presenters should be available to answer questions related to their posters at this time.

• P-1 Dynamics of Human Starvation Jessica Marini (Boajun Song and Diana Thomas)
• P-2 Estimation of Tuberculosis Latent Period Leonard Chang (Baojun Song)
• P-3 Dynamical model for drug resistant TB A. Aziz Sylla (Baojun Song)
• P-4 Modeling a roller coster track Bilal I. Abadi (Aihua Li)
• P-5 Linear models of time series in "Jordan-like" forms Robert Alexander Prince (Aihua Li)
• P-6 Nim Under Subtraction Sets with Three Elements S. Ryan Huddy and Brittany Shelton (Michael A. Jones)
• P-7 Chemical Abundances from Spectra of Bright Stars Marie C. McCrary (Mary Lou West)
• P-8 Novae in the Andromeda Galaxy Christine Moliterno (Mary Lou West)
• P-9 Near-Earth Asteroids Igor Vaksman and David Niechwiadowicz (Mary Lou West)
• P-10 Distribution of Chondrule Sizes in Meteorites Taki Zaidi and Cesar Marino (Mary Lou West)
• P-11 Magnetism of Meteorites Cesar Marino and Taki Zaidi (Mary Lou West)
• P-12 Vitamin C values of hospital-served vegetables during multiple stages of processing Michelle O'Malley (Shahla M. Wunderlich, Charles Feldman, Jeffery Toney, Goutam Chakraborty, Martin Ruskin)
• P-13 Complex signal generation from a fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensor for cations Rishi G. Gunness and Yeni E. Pena (Saliya de Silva)
• P-14 Purification and Expression of Acetoacetyl CoA Thiolase from Sunflower Cotyledon James Becker and Victor Geraldo (James H. Dyer)
• P-15 Cloning and Sequencing of Acetoacetyl CoA Thiolase from Sunflower Cotyledon Crystal Davis and Mario Giron (James H. Dyer)
• P-16 Automated docking of a ligand to a macromolecule Ronald Realubit (Andreas Koeller, and Jeff Toney)
• P-17 Discovering Consensus information in Phylogenetic Trees through Association Rule Mining Tazeen Fatima (Katherine G. Herbert)
• P-18 Bioinformatics Analyses of Galectins: Genetics, Phylogenetic Analyses and its Implications Tin-Chun Chu (Lee H. Lee and Masayuki Shibatal)
• P-19 Environmental preference of house crickets Abigail Grandison, Leslie Stephen, Nima Munir and Dyanni Austin (Dirk Vanderklein)
• P-20 Female cricket response to chirping frequency Russell Brown, Douglas McIntyre, Ashley Schaffer and Rachel Twerdak (Dirk Vanderklein)
• P-21 The effect of light intensity on cricket chirping Jaymes Fuller, LeChelle Herron, Maryann Poku, Rebecca Thelusca (Dirk Vanderklein)
• P-22 Olfactory memory vs. visual memory in crickets Cindy Amin, Marwa Assar, Tao Jian and Oguz Konar (Dirk Vanderklein)
• P-23 Diversity of Diatoms in Lake Wapalanne, Sussex County, NJ. Zinoviya Petryshyn, Dayana Haro (J. Michael McCormick)
• P-24 Plankton Dynamics in Lake Wapalanne Malgorzata Drazek (J. Michael McCormick)
• P-25 Expression Analysis of the MtIAR3 hydrolase gene family in Medicago truncatula Stephanie M. Smith, LaShire Hull, and Shiri Wexler (James J. Campanella)
• P-26 Employing sea scallop microsatellite markers for phylogenetic analysis in bay scallops Liliana Kim (James J. Campanella and Paul A.X. Bologna)
• P-27 Isolation and Identification of antimicrobial substances extracted from epiphytic bacteria on seaweeds of the New Jersey/New York coast Vanessa Heba and Tin-Chun Chu (John Berger, Sandra Adams, Bonnie Lustigman, Lee H. Lee)
• P-28 Induction of autoimmune thyroiditis and goiter in male Sprague-Dawley rats Jason Bink, Claudio Fernandez (Judith Shillcock)
• P-29 Induction of Adjuvant Arthritis in Sprague Dawley Rats Salome Escobedo, Lisaldi Rodriguez, Anna Sidor, Monica Zurawski (Judith Shillcock)
• P-30 The Effect of Cadmiun Exposure on Embryonic Chick Bone Flore Macenat and Imren Ozturk (Ann Marie DiLorenzo)
• P-31 Effects of pH and Glycosylation on Fort Morgan Virus Infection of Cultured Vero Cells Yasmin Sharif, Massoud Shahidi, Matias Alvarez-Saavedra (Sandra D. Adams)
• P-32 Study the Effect of Ferric Chloride and Zinc Chloride on the Growth of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans Joyce Samuel, Jose Perez (Lee H. Lee, Bonnie Lustigman)
• P-33 Study the Combined Effect of Ferric Chloride and Cadmium Chloride on the Growth of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans Julia S. Hwang, Eul Noh, and Suzen Awad (Lee H. Lee, Bonnie Lustigman)
• P-34 Probes Development of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans and Cyanophage AS-1 Doris Lui, Tin-Chun Chu and Patricia Platner (Lee H. Lee, Quinn Vega, John J. Gaynor, Bonnie Lustigman)

INDEX: Student Researcher, T = talk, P = poster

Bilal I. Abadi P-4
Anne Ajamian T-6
Micheal A. Alexisponniah T-10
Matias Alvarez-Saavedra P-31
Cindy Amin P-22
Marwa Assar P-22
Dyanni Austin P-19
Suzen Awad T-18, P-33
James Becker P-14
Jason Bink P-28
Ysabel Bravo T-11
Russell Brown P-20
David Burger T-13
Ramazan Burus T-8
Leonard Chang P-2
Tin-Chun Chu P-18, P-27, P-34
Matthew David T-13
Crystal Davis P-15
Malgorzata Drazek P-24
Salome Escobedo P-29
Tazeen Fatima P-17
Claudio Fernandez P-28
Jaymes Fuller P-21
Victor Geraldo P-14
Mario Giron P-15
Abigail Grandison P-19
Rishi G. Gunness P-13
Dayana Haro P-23
Vanessa Heba P-27
LeChelle Herron P-21
S. Ryan Huddy P-6
LaShire Hull P-25
Julia S. Hwang P-33
Tao Jian P-22
Stephen Jui T-7
Liliana Kim P-26
Mipha L. Koh T-17
Oguz Konar P-22
Kenny C. Loo T-12
Doris Lui P-34
Flore Macenat P-30
Lukasz G. Maciak T-10
Bill Madden T-9
Mark Maloney T-4
Jessica Marini P-1
Cesar Marino T-13, P-10, P-11
Marcee Martinez T-14
Marie McCrary T-2, P-7
Douglas McIntyre P-20
Ayesha Mohiuddin T-8, T-11
Christine Moliterno P-8
Nima Munir P-19
Ewa Musial T-1
Joanna Musial T-15
David Niechwiadowicz P-9
Eul Noh P-33
Michelle O'Malley P-12
Imren Ozturk P-30
Supun Pathirana T- 5
Yeni E. Pena P-13
Jose Perez P-32
Robert Perriero T-7
Zinoviya Petryshyn P-23
Patricia Platner P-34
Maryann Poku P-21
Robert Alexander Prince P-5
Ronald Realubit P-16
Nancy Ricca T-9
Jonathan Rizzo T-9
Lisaldi Rodriguez P-29
Yanneris Rosario T-16
Joyce Samuel P-32
Ashley Schaffer P-20
Massoud Shahidi P-31
Yasmin Sharif P-31
Brittany Shelton P-6
Anna Sidor P-29
Stephanie M. Smith P-25
Leslie Stephen P-19
A. Aziz Sylla P-3
Rebecca Thelusca P-21
Rachel Twerdak P-20
Igor Vaksman P-9
Milan Vasic T-3
Shiri Wexler P-25
Joe Wezenter T-19
Taki Zaidi T-14, P-10 , P-11
Monica Zurawski P-29

Faculty Mentors:
Montclair State University:
Biology and Molecular Biology Department: Sandra D. Adams, Paul A. X. Bologna, James Campanella, Ann Marie DiLorenzo, Chunguang Du, Jack Gaynor, Lee H. Lee, Bonnie Lustigman, J. Michael McCormick, Judith Shillcock, Dirk Vanderklein, Quinn C. Vega
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department: John Berger, James H. Dyer, Saliya de Silva, Jeffery Toney
Computer Science Department: Katharine G. Herbert, Andreas Koeller, Stefan Robila, Roman Zaritski
Earth and Environmental Studies Department: Gregory Pope
Human Ecology Department: Charles Feldman, Shahla M. Wunderlich
Linguistics Department: Milton S. Seegmiller
Mathematical Sciences Department: Lora Billings, Dean Hamden, Michael A. Jones, Aihua Li, Bill Parzynski, Baojun Song, Diana Thomas, Mary Lou West
Psychology Department: David J. Townsend

Elsewhere:
Biomedical Informatics, UMDNJ: Masayuki Shibatal

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