January 2009

Defense of Proposals

Mario H. Perez, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. F. Noriega) presented his dissertation proposal on Oct 17th entitled: “Metal resistance in the Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)”.

Presentations at Meetings

Melissa Doud, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. K. Mathee) presented an invited talk and a poster at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Orlando, FL, entitled "Molecular Analysis Showing Diverse Respiratory Fungal Infections in South Florida Cystic Fibrosis Patients".

The following students gave presentations at the annual FIU MBRS Mini-Symposium held on October 4th in the Wertheim Conservatory:

Diansy Zincke, Pd. D. student (major advisor Dr. K. Mathee): “Characterization of the poxAB operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”

Melissa Doud, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. K. Mathee): “Analysis of the ribosomal RNA genes indicate diverse respiratory fungal infections in south Florida cystic fibrosis patients.”

Marcy Lowenstein, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. L. Kos): “Interaction between the transcription factor, Sox10, and Endothelin receptor B in the melanocyte lineage.”

Amy Saldana, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Kos): “Ednrb expression pattern and role in the developing murine brain and spinal cord.”

Marbelys Rodriguez, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Kim): “ MPL1 is essential for proper ERK2 phosphorylation and cell motility.”

James J. Valdes, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. O. Weeks): “Estrogen and lithium alter NMDAR subunit NR1 mRNA and cell viability in cortical and hippocampal brain cell cultures.”

Publications

Claude-Henry Volmar, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. O. Weeks) in collaboration with Nikunj Patel, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. O. Weeks) and Amita Quadros, Ph.D. 2007 (major advisor: Dr. O. Weeks) have published the following book chapter:
Claude-Henry Volmar, Nikunj Patel, Amita Quadros, Daniel Paris, Michael Mullan (2008). AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. In: Bioinformatics: A Concept-Based Introduction. Editors: Venkatarajan Mathura and Pandjassarame Kangueane. Springer-Verlag New York, USA

Grants

Melissa Doud, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. K. Mathee) received a $1500 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Training Grant for November 1 to Jan 31.

Awards

Marbelys Rodriguez, Ph.D. student (major advisor: Dr. L. Kim) won the best talk award at the MBRS Mini-Symposium.

From previous months…

Cary Pirone, Ph.D. candidate (major advisor: Dr. D. Lee) ran the phytochemical contributed papers section of the Botanical Society of America annual meetings (July 2008, Vancouver) and also gave an oral presentation in that section entitled: "A mammalian pigment in a plant".

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