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2008

Magen Lorenzi (Professor Eric Widmaier, CAS-Biology)
Townsend KL, Lorenzi MM, and Widmaier EP. 2008. High-fat diet-induced changes in body mass and hypothalamic gene expression in wild-type and leptin-deficient mice.  ENDOCRINE 33:176-188

Sean T. Berthrong (Professor Adrien Finzi, CAS-Biology)
Finzi, A., Berthrong, S.T. 2008. Differential effects of sugar maple, red oak, and hemlock tannins on carbon and nitrogen cycling in temperate forest soils. Oceologia.

Laura Byerly (Professor Angela Jefferson, MED-Neurology)
Jefferson AL, Byerly LK, Vanderhill S, Lambe S, Wong S, Ozonoff A, Karlawish J.  Characterization of activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (In Press).

Hubbard EJ, Santini V, Blankevoort CG, Volkers KM, Barrup MS, Byerly LK, Chaisson C, Jefferson AL, Kaplan E, Green RC, Stern R.  Clock drawing performance in cognitively normal elderly. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology (In Press).

Karen Chien (Professor Elise Morgan, ENG-Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering)
Morgan, EF, Chien, KB, Mason, ZD, Pfeiffer, AJ, Barnes, GL, Einhorn,  TA, Gerstenfeld, LC. Computed tomography assessment of fracture healing: relationships among callus structure, composition, and mechanical function. In review, Bone. (submitted 2/15/08)

William Comb, Tom Ennis, Kate Coleman, Sheila Yong (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology) Herscovitch M W Comb, T Ennis, K Coleman, S Yong, B Armstead, D Kalaitzidis, S Chandani & TD Gilmore. 2008. Intermolecular disulfide bond formation in the NEMO dimer requires Cys54 and Cys 347. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 367:103-108.

Julie Donaghey (Professor Francisco Naya, CAS-Biology)
Reynolds JG, SA McCalmon, JA Donaghey, and FJ Naya. 2008. Deregulated PKA signaling and myospryn expression in muscular dystrophy. J Biol Chem, in press.

Brittni Frederikson (Professor Renee Spencer, SSW- Social Work)
Poster Presentation
Spencer, R., Frederikson, B., Lewis, T. O., & Basualdo-Delmonico, T.  Parents' perspectives on youth mentoring relationships. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2008.

Glenn Sugar (Professor Meers Oppenheim, CAS-Astronomy)
Oppenheim, M., Sugar, G., Bass, E., Dimant, Y.S. and Chau, J. 2008. Day to night variation in meteor trail measurements: Evidence for a new theory of plasma trail evolution. Geophysical Research Letters.

2007

Ajay Abichandani and Anita Ratnasari (Professor Christian Weber, BMC-GI)
Ratnasari, Anita, Xiao, Dongmei, Abichandani, Ajayand Weber, H. Christian: Functional Gastrin Releasing Peptide-Receptor (GRP-R) Expression in Mouse 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes Mediates Cell Proliferation Presented at the Annual Meetings of the AGA and AASLD at the Digestive Diseases Week, May 15-20, 2007, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Gastroenterology 2007; 132 (No.4, Suppl.2): A-587

Jonathan Africa (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Starczynowski DT, H Trautmann, C Pott, L Harder, N Arnold, JA Africa, JR Leeman, R Siebert & TD Gilmore.
Mutation of an IKK phosphorylation site within the transactivation domain of REL in two patients with human B-cell lymphoma enhances REL?s in vitro transforming activity. Oncogene 26: 2685-2694.

Jared Bancroft(Professor Elise Morgan, ENG-Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering)
Tsiridis E, Morgan EF, Bancroft JM, Song M, Kain M, Gerstenfeld LC, Einhorn TA, Bouxsein ML, Tornetta P 3rd. Effects of OP-1 and PTH in a new experimental model for the study of metaphyseal bone healing. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 2007; 25(9): 1193-203.

Caitlin Bonney (Professor Thomas Kunz, CAS-Biology)
Campbell P, AS Putnam, C Bonney, JC Morales, TH Kunz & LA Ruedas. 2007. Contrasting patterns of genetic differentiation between endemic and widespread species of fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 474-482.

Karen Chien (Professor Elise Morgan, ENG-Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering)
Chien, K, Mason, ZD, Al Sebaei, M, Barnes, GL, Einhorn, TA, Gerstenfeld, LC, Morgan, EF. Multivariate assessment of fracture healing via micro-computed tomography. Paper #940, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 2007.

Sara Edquist (Professor John Finnerty, CAS-Biology)
Reitzel AM, Sullivan JC, Brown BK, Chin DW, Cira EK, Edquist SK, Genco BM, Joseph OC, Kaufman CA, Kovitvongsa K, Muñoz MM, Negri TL, Taffel JR, Zuehlke RT, Finnerty JR. 2007. Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. J. Parasitology 93:1392-1402.

Andrew Eng (Professor Maria Abate, CAS-Biology)
Meeting Presentation
Patterns of Brain Structure Development in the Nicaraguan Cichlid after the Removal of Olfactory Alarm Cues. The 5th Annual Boston Behavior Club Woods Hole Symposium, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA, May 2007.

Meeting Presentation
Does Variation in the Brain Morphology of the Nicaraguan Cichlid Persist in the Absence of Olfactory Alarm Cues? East Coast Nerve Net Meeting, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, March 2007.

Sreenivas Garla and Anita Ratnasari (Professor Christian Weber, BMC-GI)
Ratnasari, Anita, Xiao, Dongmei, Garla, Sreenivas, Coy, David, Corkey, Richard, and Weber,  H.C.: Bombesin Receptor Subtype-3 Expression in Differentiated Human Visceral Adipocytes Mediates Insulin-independent Glucose Uptake Presented at the Annual Meetings of the AGA and AASLD at the Digestive Diseases Week, May 19-23, 2007, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Gastroenterology 2007; 132 (No.4, Suppl.2): A-70

Sharon Gonzales-Barbosa – SURF (ProfessorKim McCall, CAS-Biology)
Meeting Abstract
B. Paige Bass, Elizabeth Tanner, Daniel Mateos San Martín, Sharon Gonzalés-Barbosa, Jason S. Baum, Jeanne S. Peterson, and Kimberly McCall.  Non-canonical cell death pathways in Drosophila oogenesis. Talk presented by K. McCall at Cell death in developing and aging, 7th international conference Institut de Biologie Integrative, Paris, France (2007)

Marc Kelechava (Professor Emma Previato, CAS-Mathematics and Statistics)
Meeting Abstract
On Lattice Path Enumeration and Epidemiology. Mathematical Association of America National Meeting = MAA, San Jose, CA, August 3-5 2007

Megan King (Professor Michael Mendillo, ENG–Aerospace Engineering)
Meeting Abstract
Martinis, C., Mendillo, M, and King, M. GPS Phase Fluctuations at Equatorial and Low Latitude Stations During Extreme Solar Activity Conditions. Proceedings of the 2007 International Beacon Satellite Symposium, June 11-15, Boston College, Boston, MA

Cassandra Krone (Professor John Finnerty, CAS-Biology)
Reitzel AM, Burton P, Krone C, Finnerty JR. 2007. Comparison of alternate developmental trajectories in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Stephenson): embryogenesis, regeneration, and two forms of asexual fission. Invert Biol. 126: 99-112

Elise Magarian(Professor Maria Abate, CAS-Biology)
Meeting Presentation
Risk-Averse Strategies of Nicaraguan Cichlids Exposed to Olfactory Alarm Cues. The 5th Annual Boston Behavior Club Woods Hole Symposium, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA, May 2007.

Hung Pham(Professor Maria Abate, CAS-Biology)
Meeting Presentation
The Neuromorphological Responses of Nicaraguan Cichlids Exposed to Familiar and Novel Olfactory Alarm Cues.  East Coast Nerve Net Meeting, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, March 2007.

John Vincent (Professor James Deshler, CAS-Biology)
Benjamin B Andken, In Lim, Gary Benson, John J Vincent, Matthew T Ferenc, Bianca Heinrich, Larissa A Jarzylo, Heng-Ye Man and James O Deshler
“3'-UTR SIRF: A Database for Identifying Clusters of Short Interspersed Repeats in 3'-Untranslated Regions” BMC Bioinformatics 2007

2006

Julie Barkman (Professor Ethan Baxter, CAS-Earth Sciences)
Conference Abstract
Mehl, L.Y., Barkman, J., Baxter, E.F., 2006. Constraining the Rate of Water Releasing Metamorphic Reactions in Subduction Zones. AGU Fall Annual Meeting.

Marina Belyayev (Professor Peter O’Connor, BUSM Biochemistry)
O’Connor, P.B, Belyayev, M.A., Cournoyer, J.J., Cheng, L. 2006. The Effect of Radical Trap Moieties on Electron Capture Dissociation Spectra of Substance P. Mass Spectrometry Resource.

Kendra Buscetta (Professor Thomas Kunz, CAS Biology)
Sullivan JC, KJ Buscetta, RH Michener, JO Whitaker Jr, JR Finnerty & TH Kunz.  2006. Models developed from d13C and d15N of skin tissue indicate non-specific habitat use by the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Ecoscience 13: 11-22.

Joseph D’Errico (Professor Wei Qin, ENG-Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Conference Paper
J. D'Errico, W. Qin. Constructing Portable Compiled Instruction-set Simulators -- An ADL-driven Approach, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe. March 2006.

Conference Paper
W. Qin, J. D'Errico, X. Zhu. A Multiprocessing Approach to Accelerate Retargetable and Portable Dynamic-compiled Instruction-set Simulation, International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis. November 2006.

Jennifer Durham (Professor Frank Naya, CAS-Biology)
Brand, OM; Arnold, M; Reynolds, JG; Muthukumar; Weller, H; Richardson, JA."Myospryn is a direct transcriptional target for MEF2A that encodes a striated muscle, alpha-actinin-interacting, costamere-localized protein." Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006 Mar 10;281(10):6841-9. Epub 2006 Jan 3.

Andrew Hagedorn (Professor David Starobinski & Ari Trachtenberg, ENG-Electrical and Computer Engineering)
"Rateless Codes for Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks"
Paper published for - ACM SenSys 2006 Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 31- Nov. 3.

Hsuan-Ting (Emily) Huang and Matthen Mathew (Professor Frank Naya, CAS-Biology)
Huang HT, Brand OM, Mathew M, Ignatiou C, Ewen EP, McCalmon SA, Naya FJ.
Myomaxin is a novel transcriptional target of MEF2A that encodes a Xin-related alpha-actinin-interacting protein. J. Biol Chem., v.281(51):39370-9.

Emily Pace and Diana Rosman (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Liang M-C, S Bardhan, EA Pace, D Rosman, JA Beutler, JA Porco Jr & TD Gilmore.
Inhibition of transcription factor NF-kB signaling proteins IKKb and p65 through specific cysteine residues by epoxyquinone A monomer: correlation with its anti-cancer cell growth activity. Biochemical Pharmacology 71: 634-645.

Ishan Patel (Professor Lawrence Ziegler, CAS-Chemistry)
Presentation Abstract
Ishan S. Patel, W. Ranjith Premasiri, Donald T. Moir, Lawrence D. Ziegler. Bacterial pathogen diagnosis via Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. NERM 2006 meeting in Binghamton, NY

Anita Ratnasari(Professor Christian Weber, BMC-GI)
Chinnappan, D., Xiao, D., Ratnasari, A., King, T., Andry, C. and H.C.Weber:  Transcription factor YY1 is over-expressed in gastrointestinal cancer cells. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the AGA and AASLD at the Digestive Diseases Week, May 15-20, 2006, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. Gastroenterology 2006; 130 (No.4, Suppl.2): A-538

Paul Romessor (Professor Gerald Denis, MED-Cancer Center)
G. V. Denis, M. E. McComb, D. V. Faller, A. Sinha, P. B. Romesser and C. E. Costello (2006). Identification of transcription complexes that contain the double bromodomain protein Brd2 and chromatin remodeling machines. J. Proteome Res. 5: 502-511.

Jennifer Shadrach (Professor Mary Erskine, CAS-Biology)
L.E. Northrop, J.L. Shadrach and M.S. Erskine (2006). Noradrenergic innervation of the ventromedial hypothalamus is involved in mating-induced pseudopregnancy in the female rat. J Neuroendocrinol. 18: 577-583.

2005

Sean Berthrong (Professor Adrien Finzi, CAS-Biology)
Sean T. Berthrong and Adrien C. Finzi. 2005. Amino acid cycling in three cold-temperate forests of the northeastern USA. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Finzi, A., Berthrong, S.T. 2005. The Uptake of Amino Acids by Microbes and trees in three cold-temperate forests. Ecology, 86(12), pp. 3345–3353

Kerry Burgess (Professor John Snyder, CAS-Chemistry)
Burgess, K. L.; Lajkiewicz, N. J.; Sanyal, A.; Yan, W.; Snyder, J. K. 2005. A New Chiral Anthracene for the Asymmetric Diels-Alder/Retro Diels-Alder Sequence. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 31-34.

Burgess, K. L.; Corbett, M. S.; Eugenio, P.; Lajkiewicz; N. J.; Liu,  X.; Sanyal, A.; Yan, W.; Yuan, Q.; Snyder, J. K. 2005. ChiralAnthracene and Anthrone templates as Stereocontrolling Elements in Diels-Alder/Retro Diels-Alder Sequences. Bioorg, Med. Chem.2005, 13, 5299-5309.

Brian Czervionke (Professor Kim McCall, CAS-Biology)
Meeting Abstract
Cullen, K., Czervionke, B. and McCall, K. 2005. A role for programmed cell death in patterning the arista. Poster presented by K. Cullen at the 46th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA.

Sarah Chobot (Professor Sean Elliott, CAS-Chemistry)
diBernardo, D.; Thompson, M.J.; Gardner, T.J.; Chobot, S.E.; Eastwood, E.L.; Wojtovich, A.P.; Elliott, S.J.; Schaus, S.E.; Collins, J.J. 2005. "Chemogenomic profiling on a genome-wide scale using reverse-engineered gene networks" Nature: Biotechnology, 23 (3), 377-383.

Manisha Dadhania (Professor Joyce Wong, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
S. Sarkar, M. Dadhania, P. Rourke, T.A. Desai, and J.Y. Wong. 2005. "Vascular Tissue Engineering: Microtextured Scaffold Templates to Control Organization of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Extracellular Matrix." Acta Biomaterialia, 1: 93-100.

Dominic Fullenkamp (Professor Rosina Georgiadis, CAS - Chemistry)
Wolf LK, Fullenkamp DE, Georgiadis RM "Quantitative angle-resolved SPR imaging of DNA-DNA and DNA-drug kinetics" J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2005 127 (49): 17453-17459.

Jennifer Levine(Professor Ethan Baxter, CAS-Earth Sciences)
Conference Abstract
Levine, J.A. and Baxter, E.F. 2005. A Sr and Nd isotopic study of the sources and age of salts from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. NE Section GSA Annual Meeting.

Ashley Pollock (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Gapuzan ME, Schmah O, Pollock AD, Hoffmann A, Gilmore TD. "Immortalized fibroblasts from NF-kappaB RelA knockout mice show phenotypic heterogeneity and maintain increased sensitivity to tumor necrosis factor alpha after transformation by v-Ras." Oncogene. 2005 Sep 29; 24(43):6574-83.

Marisa Tricarico (Professor Chantal Stern, CAS-Psychology)
Schon K., Atri A., Hasselmo M.E., Tricarico M.D., LoPresti M.L., Stern C.E. (2005) Scopolamine reduces persistent activity related to long-term encoding in the parahippocampal gyrus during delayed matching in humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(40):9112-23.

2004

J. Nicholas Betley (Professor James Deshler, CAS-Biology)
Betley, J. N., Heinrich, B., Vernos, I., Sardet, C., Prodon, F., and Deshler, J. O. 2004. "Kinesin II mediates Vg1 mRNA transport in Xenopus oocytes." Curr Biol 14, 219-224.

Sarah Chobot (Professor Sean Elliott, CAS-Chemistry)
Bradley, A.L., Chobot, S.E., Arciero, D.M., Hooper, A.B., Elliott, S.J.. 2004. "A Distinctive Electrocatalytic Response from the Cytochrome c Peroxidase of Nitrosomonas Europaea". J. Biol. Chem., 279(14): 13297-13300.

Adam Cloe (Professor Michael Baum, CAS-Biology)
Cloe, A.L., Woodley, S.K., Waters, P., Zhou, H. and Baum, M.J. 2004. "Contribution of anal scent gland and urinary odors to mate recognition in the ferret." Physiology and Behavior, 82:871-875.

Woodley, S.K., Cloe, A.L., Waters, P. and Baum, M.J. 2004. "Effects of vomeronasal organ removal on olfactory sex discrimination and odor preferences of female ferrets." Chemical Senses, 29:659-669.

Paul Eisenberg (Professor Eric Widmaier, CAS-Biology)
Lee J, Eisenberg PI, Papadopoulos V, Wang J, and Widmaier EP.  2004  Developmental changes in adrenal steroidogenesis and in expression of proteins associated with steroidogenesis in the postnatal rat.  Endocrinology  145:2165-2173.

Sreenivas Garla (Professor Christian Weber, BMC-GI)
Qin, X., Garla, S., Qu, X., Xiao, D., Coy, D., and H.C.Weber:  A Novel Selective BRS-3 Agonist Induces CREB Phosphorylation and Transactivation. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the AGA and AASLD at the Digestive Diseases Week, May 15-20, 2004, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A. Gastroenterology 2004; 126 (No.4, Suppl.): A-258 also presented at Presented at the 15th International Symposium on Regulatory Peptides, September 19-22, 2004, Toulouse, France.  Regulatory Peptides 2004; 122 (1): 47

Carolyn Imbres (Professor Richard Primack, CAS-Biology)

Miller-Rushing A, Primack D, Primack, R.B., Imbres, C, Del Tredici, P. 2004. Herbarium specimens as a novel tool for climate change research. Arnoldia 63:26-32

Primack, D., C. Imbres, R.B. Primack, A Miller-Rushing, and P. Del Tredici. 2004. Herbarium specimens demonstrate earlier flowering times in response to warming in Boston. American Journal of Botany 91: 1260-1264.

Anna Ledneva (Professor Richard Primack, CAS-Biology)
Ledneva, A., C. Imbres, A. Miller-Rushing, and R.B. Primack. 2004. Climate change as reflected in a naturalist’s diaries. Wilson Bulletin 116: 224-231.

Darren Lipomi (Professor James Panek, CAS-Chemistry)
Lipomi, DJ, Langille, NF, and Panek, SJ. 2004. Total Synthesis of Basiliskamides A and B. Organic Letters Vol. 6 No. 20: 3533-3536.

Alex Lipovsky (Professor Ivelisse Sanchez, MED-Anatomy/Neurobiology)
Abstract
K Zacharin, A Lipovsky, I Sanchez. "Modulation of the calcium activated potassium channel subunit SK3 by expanded polyglutamine repeats and ER stress" 1021.14 [Abstr] Society for Neuroscience, 2004.

SieMun Lo (Professor John Snyder, CAS-Chemistry)
Lahue, B. R.; Lo, S.-M.; Wan, Z.-K.; Woo, G. H. C.; Snyder, J. K. “Intramolecular Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reactions of Imidazoles with 1,2,4-Triazines: A New Route to 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-1,5-naphthyridines and Related Heterocycles” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 7171-7182.

Marlene Nicholas (Professor Chantal Stern, CAS-Psychology)
Atri A., Sherman S., Norman K.A., Kirchhoff B.A., Nicolas M.M., Greicius M.D., Cramer S.C., Breiter H.C., Hasselmo M.D., Stern C.E. 2004. "Blockade of central cholinergic receptors impairs new learning and increases proactive interference in a word paired-associate memory task." Behavioral Neuroscience: 118(1):223-236.

John Ok (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Kalaitzidis D, J Ok, L Sulak II, D Starczynowski& TD Gilmore. 2004. Characterization of a human REL-estrogen receptor fusion protein with a reverse conditional transforming activity in chicken spleen cells. Oncogene 23:7580-7587.

Asher Pembroke (Professor Harlan Spence, CAS-Astronomy)
Presentation Abstract
Owens, M.J., H. E. Spence, A. Pembroke, C. N. Arge, D. Odstrcil, and P. Riley, Predictions of solar wind properties at 1 AU: A comparison of empirical and physics-based models to spacecraft data, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SH53B-0308, 2004.

Benjamin Sachs (Professor James Cherry, CAS-Psychology)
Thompson, B.E., Sachs, B.D., Kantak, K.M. and Cherry, J.A. 2004. "The Type IV phosphodiesterase inhibitor rolipram interferes with drug-induced conditioned place preference but not immediate early gene induction in mice." European Journal of Neuroscience 19(9):2561-2568.

Yakov Shapiro (Professor Robert Devaney, CAS-Mathematics)
Devaney, R. L., Josic, K. Shapiro, Y. 2004. "Singular Perturbations of Quadratic Maps." International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 14, 161-169.

Devaney, R. L., Moreno ROcha, M., Seal, P., Shapiro, Y., Frumosu, A. 2004. "Playing Catchup with Iterated Exponentials." American Mathematical Monthly, 111, 704-708.

Leonid Sigal (Professor Stan Sclaroff, CAS-Computer Science)
 Leonid Sigal, Stan Sclaroff and Vassilis Athitsos. 2004. "Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 26, No. 7, pp 862-877.

Shawn Thorne (Professor Bennett Goldberg, CAS-Physics)
S. B. Ippolito, S. A. Thorne, M. G. Eraslan, B. B. Goldberg, M. S. Ünlü, and Y. Leblebici, "High spatial resolution subsurface thermal emission microscopy," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 84, No. 22, 31 May 2004, pp. 4529

Conference PaperM. S. Ünlü, S. B. Ippolito, M. G. Eraslan, S. A. Thorne, A. N. Vamivakas, B. B. Goldberg, and Y. Leblebici, "High Resolution Backside Imaging and Thermography using a Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens," Proceedings of the 2004 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, March 2004

Marisa Tricarico (Professor Chantal Stern, CAS-Psychology)
K. Schon, M. E. Hasselmo, M. L. LoPresti, M. D. Tricarico, and C. E. Stern (2004) "Persistence of parahippocampal representation in the absence of stimulus input enhances long-term encoding: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study of subsequent memory after a delayed match-to-sample task." The Journal of Neuroscience 24(49):11088-11097.

Annie Wertz (Professor Kim Saudino, CAS-Psychology)
Saudino, K. J., Wertz, A., Gagne, J. R., & Chawla, S. 2004. "Night and day: Are siblings as different in temperament as parents say they are?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 698-706.

Sean Wright (Professor Howard Eichenbaum, CAS-Biology)
Fortin, N.J., Wright, S.P. & Eichenbaum, H. 2004."Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus."  Nature 431:188-191.

2003

Shane Buker, Jill Sheets, and Ronald Totong (Professor John Celenza, CAS-Biology)
DiDonato, R. J., E. Arbuckle, S. Buker, J. Sheets, J. Tobar, R. Totong, P. Grisafi, G. R. Fink and J. L. Celenza. 2003. Arabidopsis ALF4 encodes a nuclear-localized protein required for lateral root formation.  The Plant Journal On-line publication December 11, 2003.

Catherine Cormier, and Juhee Kim (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Thomas D. Gilmore, Jims Jean-Jacques, Rebecca Richards, Catherine Cormier, Juhee Kim, and Demetrios Kalaitzidis. 2003. Stable expression of the avian retroviral oncoprotein v-Rel in avian, mouse, and dog cell lines. Virology 316 9-16.

Bonni Laundrie (Professor Kim McCall, CAS-Biology)
Laundrie, B., Peterson, J.S., Baum, J.S., Chang, J., Fileppo, D., Thompson, S.R. and McCall, K.  2003. Germline cell death is inhibited by P-element insertions disrupting the dcp-1/pita nested gene pair in Drosophila. Genetics 165: 1881-1888.

Eric Lim (Professor Herbert Voigt, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
Conference Paper
Zheng, X., Lim, E., Voigt, H.F. 2003. "A Modeling Study of Notch Noise Responses of Type III Units in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus" Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Nashville. Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

Heather McManus (Professor Ulla Hansen, CAS-Biology)
Venkatesan K, McManus HR, Mello CC, Smith TF, Hansen U. 2003. "Functional conservation between members of an ancient duplicated transcription factor family" LSF/Grainyhead. Nucleic Acids Res. 31:4304-4316.

Monica Reeves (Professor Eric Widmaier, CAS-Biology)
Zhao J, Kunz TH, Tumba N, Schulz L, Li C, Reeves M, and Widmaier EP.  2003.  Comparative analysis of placental leptin expression in mammals. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 285:R438-R446

Emily A. Pace (Professor Tom Gilmore, CAS-Biology and Professor John Porco, CAS-Chemistry)
Mei-Chih Liang, Sujata Bardhan, Chaomin Li, Emily A. Pace, John A. Porco, Jr., and Thomas D. Gilmore. 2003 Jesterone Dimer, a Synthetic Derivative of the Fungal Metabolite Jesterone, Blocks Activation of Transcription Factor Nuclear Factor kB by Inhibiting the Inhibitor of kB Kinase. Molecular Pharmacology, 64:123-131.

Peter-Jim Soohoo Reynolds (Professor Carol Simpson, CAS - Earth Science)
Reynolds, P.-J. S. and Simpson, C. 2003. "Pure shear and deformation temperature estimates from Ordovician mylonites and ultramylonites, Sierras Pampeanas, central Argentina." Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.35, n.3.

Shawn Thorne (Professor Bennett Goldberg, CAS-Physics)
Conference Paper
S. A. Thorne, S. B. Ippolito, M. G. Eraslan, B. B. Goldberg, M. S. Ünlü, Y. Leblebici, and D. P. Vallett, "High Resolution Backside Imaging and Thermography using a Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens," Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis, November 2003

Conference Paper
S. B. Ippolito, S. A. Thorne, M. G. Eraslan, B. B. Goldberg, M. S. Ünlü, and Y. Leblebici, "High Spatial Resolution Subsurface Thermal Emission Microscopy," Proceedings of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2003 Annual Meeting, Vol. 2, 29 October 2003, pp. 738-739

2002

Kara Agster (Professor Howard Eichenbaum, CAS-Psychology)
Agster, K.L., Fortin, N.J. & Eichenbaum, H. 2002. "The hippocampus and disambiguation of overlapping sequences." Journal of Neuroscience 22: 5760-5768.

Fortin, N.J., Agster, K.L. & Eichenbaum, H. 2002. "Critical Role of the Hippocampus in Memory for Sequences of Events." Nature Neuroscience 5:458-462.

J. Nicholas Betley (Professor James Deshler, CAS-Biology)
Betley, J.N., Frith, M.C. Graber, J.H. Choo, S. and J.O. Deshler. 2002. "A ubiquitous and conserved signal for RNA localization in chordates." Curr Biol 12, 1756-61.

Neeru Gupta (Professor John Celenza, CAS-Biology)
Zhao, Y., A. K. Hull, N. R. Gupta, K. Goss, J. Normanly, J. Chory and J.L. Celenza 2002.  Trp-dependent auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis: involvement of cytochrome P450s CYP79B2 and CYP79B3.  Genes and Development 16: 3100-3112.

Ronald St. Marie (Professor Ian Callard, CAS-Biology)
Duggan, A., St. Marie, R., and Callard, I.P. 2002."Expression of SR-B1 (scavenger receptor Class B, type 1) in turtle (Chrysemys picta) tissues and other non-mammalian vertebrates" J. Exp. Zoology. 292 430-434.

Emily Pace (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Li C, S Bardhan, E.A. Pace , M-C Liang, T.D. Gilmore & J.A. Porco Jr. 2002. "Angiogenesis inhibitor epoxyquinol A: total synthesis and inhibition of transcription factor NF-kB." Organic Letters 4:3267-3270.

Tiffany Psemeneki (Professor Tasso Kaper, CAS-Mathematics)
Technical Paper
J. Bailey, A. Gallardo, and T. Psemeneki. Summer Institute in Mathematics for Undergraduates. Technical REport Series. Hunmancao, Puerto Rico, 2002.

Matheen Siddiqui (Professor Stan Sclaroff, CAS-Computer Science)
Conference Paper
Siddiqui, M. and Sclaroff, S. 2002. "Surface reconstruction from multiple views using rational B-splines and knot insertion" Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), pp 372-378.

Shawn Thorne (Professor Bennett Goldberg, CAS-Physics)
Conference Paper
S. A. Thorne, S. B. Ippolito, M. S. Ünlü, and B. B. Goldberg, "High-resolution thermoreflectance microscopy," Materials Research Society Proceedings Fall 2002, November 2002

Cheng Ting Lin (Professor John Porco, CAS-Chemistry)
Shen, R.; Lin, C.T.; Bowman, E.J.; Bowman, B.J.; Porco, J.A., Jr. 2002. "Synthesis and V-ATPase Inhibition of Simplified Lobatamide Analogues." Org. Lett.; 4(18); 3103-3106.

Pavel Yufit (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Gapuzan M-ER, PV Yufit & TD Gilmore. 2002. "Immortalized embryonic mouse fibroblasts lacking the RelA subunit of transcription factor NF-kB have a malignantly transformed phenotype." Oncogene 21: 2484-2492.

2001

Senay Abbay (Professor Bela Suki, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
Sakai, H., E.P. Ingenito, R. Mora, S. Abbay, F.S.A. Cavalcante, K.R. Lutchen and B. Suki. "Hysteresivity of the lung and tissue strip in the normal rat: effects of heterogeneities" J. Appl. Physiol. 91: 737-747, 2001.

Abstract
Alencar, A.M., S. Abbay, S. Arold, B. Suki. "Non-equilibrium dynamics and negative compliance during lung inflation" 2001 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2000, Rayleigh, Annals Biomed. Engin. 29: suppl. 1, p. S-138, 2001.

Catherine Cormier (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Gilmore TD, Cormier C, Jean-Jacques J and Gapuzan M-E. 2001. "Malignant transformation of primary chicken spleen cells by human transcription factor c-Rel." Oncogene 20:7098-7103.

Lori Lemonnier (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Barkett M, JE Dooher, L Lemonnier, L Simmons, JN Scarpati, Y Wang & TD Gilmore. 2001. "Three Mutations in v-Rel Render it Resistant to Cleavage by cell-death protease caspase-3." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: 1526:25-36 .

Katherine Lendas (Professor Ian Callard, CAS-Biology)
Rie, M.T., Lendas, K. and Callard,I.P. 2001. "Cadmium: Tissue Distribution and Binding Protein Induction in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta." Comp.Physiol.Biochem. 130: 41-   51.

Eric Lim (Professor Herbert Voigt, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
Parsons, J.E., Lim, E., Voigt, H.F. 2001. "Type III units in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus may be Spectral Notch Detectors" Annals of Biomedical Engineering 29: 887-896.

Emily Pace (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Li C, EA Pace, M-C Liang, E Lobkovsky, TD Gilmore and JA Porco Jr. 2001. "Total synthesis of the NF-kB inhibitor (-)-cycloepoxydon: utilization of tartrate-mediated nucleophilic exclusion." Journal of the American Chemical Society 123: 11308-11309.

Matheen Siddiqui (Professor Stan Sclaroff, CAS-Computer Science)
Conference Paper Matheen Siddiqui and Stan Sclaroff. 2001."Surface reconstruction from multiple views using rational B-splines" Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), No. Technical Sketches.

Conference Paper
Romer Rosales, Matheen Siddiqui , Jonathan Alon and Stan Sclaroff. 2001. "Estimating 3D body pose using uncalibrated cameras" Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. 1, pp 821-827.

Leonid Sigal (Professor Stan Sclaroff, CAS-Computer Science)
Conference Paper Rosales, R., Athitsos, V., Sigal, L. and Sclaroff, S. 2001. "3D hand pose reconstruction using specialized mappings" Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Vol. 1, pp 378-385.

Devin Swanson (Professor John Snyder, CAS-Chemistry)
Deng, Y.; Scott, L.; Swanson, D.; Snyder, J. K.; Sari, N.; Dogan, H. “Guaianolide Sesquiterpene Lactones from Cichorium intybus (Asteraceae)” Z. Naturforsch. B 2001, 56B, 787 - 796.

Kara Yopak (Professor Jelle Atema, CAS-Biology)
Kozlowski, C., K.Yopak, R.Voigt and J.Atema. 2001. "An initial study on the effects of signal intermittency on the odor plume tracking behavior of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus." Biol. Bull. 201: 274-276.

2000

Senay Abbay (Professor Bela Suki, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
Abstract
Sakai, H., E.P. Ingenito, R. Mora, S. Abbay, B. Suki. "Effects of lung configuration on airway and tissue mechanics in rats" 2000 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, May 2000, Toronto, Am. J. Respir. And Critical Care Med. Vol. 161, No. 3, p. A689.

M.L. Brady (Professor D.S. Coleman, CAS-Earth Sciences)
Brady, M. L. and D. S. Coleman. 2000. "Determining the Source of Felsitic Lithic Material in Southeasten New England Using Neodymium Isotope Ratios." Geoarchaeology, Volume 15, No.1: 1-19.

Evan Dvorin (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Epinat J-C, EL Dvorin & TD Gilmore. 2000. Envelope-dependent transactivation by the retroviral oncoprotein v-Rel is required for efficient malignant transformation of chicken spleen cells. Oncogene 19:3131-3137 .

J.L. Edmands (Professor D.S. Coleman, CAS-Earth Sciences)
Edmands, J.L., Brabander, D.J., and Coleman, D.S. "Uptake and Mobility of Uranium in Black Oaks: Implications for Biomonitoring DU Contaminated Groundwater." Chemosphere, in press.

Dickran Kajandjian (Professor Thomas Gilmore, CAS-Biology)
Jean-Charles Epinat, Dickran Kazandjian, Daniel D Harkness, Steven Petros, Jasmine Dave, David W White & Thomas D Gilmore. 2000. Mutant envelope residues confer a transactivation function onto N-terminal sequences of the v-Rel oncoprotein. Oncogene 19:599-607.

Katherine Lendas (Professor Ian Callard, CAS-Biology) Rie, M.T., Lendas, K.A., Woodin, B.R., Stegeman, J. and Callard, I.P. 2000."Hepatic biotransformation enzymes in a sentinel species, the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), from Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Seasonal, sex and location related differences." Biomarkers: 5: 382-394.

Eric Lim (Professor Herbert Voigt, ENG-Biomedical Engineering)
Conference Paper
Parsons, J.E., Lim, E., Voigt, H.F. 2000. "Type III units in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus may be Spectral Notch Detectors" Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Seattle. Annals of Biomedical Engineering.Conference Paper
Voigt, H.F., Cheng, J., Davis, K.A., Ding, J., Gdowski, G.T., Hancock, K.E., Fan, H., Jackel, J., Lim, E., Parsons, J., Voigt, J.D. 2000. "Issues to be Considered when Modeling (or Studying) the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN)" Proceedings of IEEE-EMBS Asia/Pacific Conference on Biomedical Engineering Hongzhou China 14-17.

Daniel Neuman (Professor James Panek, CAS-Chemistry)
D. Neuman, P. Paraskevopoulou, N. Psaroudakis, K. Mertis, R. J. Staples, P. Stavropoulos. 2000. "Structural and Functional Characteristics of Rhenium Clusters Derived from Redox Chemistry of the Triangular [ReIII3(m-Cl3)] Core Unit" Inorg. Chem. 39,5530-5537.

Patricia Ong (Professor James Panek, CAS-Chemistry)
Dakin, P. C. Ong, J. S. Panek, R. J. Staples, and P. Stavropoulos. 2000. "Speciation and Mechanistic Studies of Chiral Copper(I) Schiff Base Precursors Mediating Asymmetric Carbenoid Insertion Reactions of Diazoacetates into the Si-H Bond of Silanes" Organometallics. 19, 2896-2908.

Justin Pniower (Professor Bennett Goldberg, CAS-Physics)
M. J. Manfra, B. B. Goldberg, J. C. Pniower, A. Pinczuk, V. Pellegrini, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, "Absorption Spectroscopy InElectron Double Layers: Evidence for Broken Symmetry States," Physica E, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 2000, pp. 590-593.

Jennifer Schultz (Jackie Liederman, CAS-Psychology)
Flannery, K. A., Liederman, J., Daly, L. &  Schultz, J. (2000) Male prevalence for reading  disability is found in a large sample free from ascertainment bias. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 433-442.

Leonid Sigal (Professor Stan Sclaroff, CAS-Computer Science)
Conference Paper
Sigal, L., Sclaroff, S. and Athitsos, V. 2000. "Estimation and prediction of evolving color distributions for skin segmentation undervarying illumination" Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. II, pp 152-159.

Lydie Yang (Professor John Snyder, CAS-Chemistry)
S.C. Benson, L. Lee, L. Yang, and J. K. Snyder, “Intramolecular Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reactions of Tryptamine with Tethered Heteroaromatic Azadienes”, Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 1165 - 1180.

1999

Joshua Newhouse (Professor Catherine Harris, CAS-Psychology)
Newhouse, J., & Harris, C.L. 1999. "Individual differences in spatial ability and change blindness". Eastern Psychological Association. April 16-18, 1999, Providence, RI

Justin Pniower (Professor Bennett Goldberg, CAS-Physics)
Conference Paper
J. C. Pniower, M. F. Ruane, B. B. Goldberg, and M. S. Ünlü, "Web-Based Educational Experiments," ASEE-ERM Annual Conference, 20-23 June 1999, pp. 3232

1998

Marc Girardot (Professor John Snyder, CAS-Chemistry)
Girardot M, Nomak R and Snyder J.K. 1998. Direct conversion of heteroaromatic esters to methyl ketones with trimethylaluminum: nonsymmetrically disubstituted 1,2,4,5-tetrazines. J. Org. Chem., 1998, 63:10063-10068.

 

 

 

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