December 2008

Defense of Proposals

Carolyne M. Peyer, M.S. student (major advisor: Dr. C. Layman) presented her thesis proposal entitled: “The influence of body size on the ecology of generalist predators in coastal ecosystems.” on December 3rd.

Tenzin Gayden, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. R. Herrera) presented his dissertation proposal entitled "Genetic Polymorphisms in the Himalayas" on December 4th.

Presentations at Meetings

Amy Saldana, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Kos), Marcy Lowenstein, Ph.D. candidate (major adviror: Dr. L. Kos), Marbelys Rodriguez, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Kim), Sudhakar Veeranki, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. L. Kim) and Adriana Galvis, MS candidate (major advisor: Dr. A. Barbieri) presented the following posters at The American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting held from December13-17 in San Francisco, CA:

“Ednrb expression pattern and role in the developing murine central nervous system” by A. Saldana and L. Kos.

“Rescue of Sox10 mutant hypopigmentation phenotype by transgenic expression of Ednrb” by M. Lowenstein, D. Diaz and L. Kos.

“Dictyostelium B56 is essential for both differentiation and cell migration” by M. Rodriguez, N. Lee, S. Veeranki, B. Kim and L. Kim.

"Functional Determinants of Ras Interference 1 Mutants Required for their
Inhbitory Activity on Endocytosis" by A. Galvis and A. M. Barbieri.

Publications

Rudolf von May, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. M. Donnelly) and alumnus Alessandro Catenazzi, Ph.D. (major advisor: Dr. M. Donnelly) have co-authored the following paper:

von May, R., Catenazzi, A., Angulo, A., Brown, J.L., Carrillo, J., Chávez, G., Córdova, J.H., Curo, A., Delgado, A., Enciso, M.A., Gutiérrez, R., Lehr, E., Martínez, J.L., Medina-Mu¨ller, M., Miranda, A., Neira, D.R., Ochoa, J.A., Quiroz, A.J., Rodríguez, D.A., Rodríguez, L.O., Salas, A.W., Seimon, T., Seimon, A., Siu-Ting, K., Suárez, J., Torres, C. and Twomey, E. 2008. Current state of conservation knowledge on threatened amphibian species in Peru. Tropical Conservation Science Vol.1 (4):376-396.

Alumni News

Clayton Williams, Ph.D. (major advisor: Dr. F. Jochem) has published two chapters of his dissertation:

Williams, C. J., P. J. Lavrentyev, and F. J. Jochem. 2008. Bottom-up and top-down control of heterotrophic bacterioplankton growth in a phosphorus-depleted subtropical estuary, Florida Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 372:7-18

Williams, C. J., J. N. Boyer, and F. J. Jochem. 2008. Microbial activity and carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content in a subtropical seagrass estuary (Florida Bay): Evidence for limited bacterial use of seagrass production. Marine Biology Online First
DOI 10.1007/s00227-008-1087-8

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