September
2007
Greg Koch (Major Advisor: Dan Childers) presented his Dissertation
Proposal Seminar entitled "Landscape and ecosystem perspectives
on phosphorus transport and transformation in the southern Everglades"
on 4 September 2007 at 1:30 pm in ECS 186b.
Nora Oleas (Major Advisor: Javier Francisco-Ortega) presented her
Dissertation Proposal Seminar entitled "Phylogeny, Population
Genetic Structure and Niche modeling of Phaedranassa Herbert, an
Endangered Genus of the Northern Andes" on 13 September 2007
at 10:00 am in WC 130.
Samantha Whitcraft (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) participated in
the Vemco Days Workshop, Halifax NS, Canada. August 22-24 and gave
an invited talk entitled "Race to the Reef: Tracking reef fish
from open ocean to nursery habitats to coral reefs and back again."
Samantha Whitcraft (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) received a $35,000
grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Federation/NOAA International
Year of the Reef 2008 for Race to the Reef: Empowering and educating
the greater Loxahatchee Estuary community through active participation
in acoustic tracking of sub-adult reef fish migrations form the
estuary to the coral reef (Martin and Palm Beach Counties, FL).
Congratulations Sam!
Samantha Whitcraft (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) received a $14,000
from NOAA for a mobile array to evaluate mangrove habitat quality
for the Loxahatchee Project. Congratulations Sam!
Casurina McKinney (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) recently received
a $40,000 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and $2000
from the Disney Foundation for a project entitled "Bahamian
Nassau Grouper Research and Education". Congratulations Casurina!
Cassandra Quave (Major Advisor: Brad Bennett) recently received
a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual
Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research
($33,723) from the NIH through NCCAM (National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine) for her project entitled "Anti-pathogenic
activity of natural products from plants." Congratulations
Cassandra!
Samantha Whitcraft (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) recently published
a co-authored paper in a NOAA Technical Memo: Whitcraft, S., L.
Pytka, B. Richards, J. Lamkin, T. Gerard, T. Carlson, G. A. McMichael,
J. Vucelick, and G. Williams. 2007. Developing Shallow-Water Acoustic
Telemetry Methods for Juvenile Snapper Habitat Studies in the Florida
Keys National Marine Sanctuary. in Sheridan, P., J. W. Ferguson
and S. L. Downing (Eds.). Report of the National Marine Fisheries
Service Workshop on Advancing Electronic Tag Technologies and Their
Use in Stock Assessments. U.S. Dept. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo #
NMFS-F/SPO-82, pp. 11-12. Congratulations Samantha!
Caroline Peyer (Major Advisor: Craig Layman) recently published
a co-authored paper: Layman, C.A., J.P. Quattrochi, C.M. Peyer,
and J.E. Allgeier. 2007. Niche width collapse in a resilient top
predator following ecosystem fragmentation. Ecology Letters 10:937-944.
Congratulations Caroline!
Chad Husby (Major Advisor: Steve Oberbauer) recently published
a co-authored paper: Husby, C.E., E.A. Stasny, D.A. Wolfe, and J.
Frey. 2007. Cautionary note on unbalanced ranked-set sampling. Journal
of Statistical Computation and Simulation 77:869-878. Congratulations
Chad!
Several students presented papers as part of the FIU MBRS RISE
Mini-Symposium held on 25 September 2007:
James Valdes (Major Advisor: Ophelia Weeks) presented a co-authored
paper: J. Valdes and O.I. Weeks. "Observations of Lithium's
and Estrogen's Effect on Gene Expression Involved in Learning, Memory
and Neuroprotection."
Mario Perez (Major Advisor: Fernando Noriega) presented a co-authored
paper: M.H. Perez and F. Noriega. "Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes
aegypti) Metallothionein: A Molecular Basis of Mosquito Adaptation
to Metal Polluted Urban Environments."
Melissa Doud (Major Advisor: Kalai Mathee) presented a co-authored
paper: M. Doud and K. Mathee. "Metagenome Analysis of the Polymicrobial
Lung Infection seen in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis using Amplicon
Length Heterogeneity - Polymerase Chain Reaction (ALH-PCR)."
Amy Saldana Tavares (Major Advisor: Lidia Kos) presented a co-authored
paper: A. Saldana Tavares and L. Kos. "UV Dependent Endothelium-3
Transgenic Mouse Model of Melanoma."
Adriana Galvis (Major Advisor: Alejandro Barbieri) presented a
co-authored paper: A. Galvis and A. Barbieri. "Structural Features
of Ras Interference 1 (Rin1) Required for their Inhibitory Activity
on Endocytosis."
The MCB club held their first event which was a HAPPY HOUR at Titanic
on 7 September 2007 at 6 pm!
The BGSA held a mixer outside WC 130 on Friday September 14 at
4:00 pm.
The MCB Club held a meeting on Wednesday, September 19 at 11:00
am.
Alessandro Catenazzi (Major Advisor: Maureen Donnelly) recently
published a paper on the basis of research he conducted while he
was a student at FIU: Catenazzi A. and M.A. Donnelly. 2007. Distribution
of geckos in northern Peru: Long-term effect of strong ENSP events?
Journal of Arid Environments 71:327-332. Congratulations Ale!
David Green (Major Advisor: Joel Trexler) recently was hired as
a full-time Instructor for the Department of Marine and Ecological
Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University. Congratulations David!
Hannah Thorton (Major Advisor: Javier Francisco-Ortega) recently
published a co-authored paper: Namoff, S., Thorton, H.E.B., Lewis,
C.E., Oviedo, R. and Francisco-Ortega, J. 2007. Molecular evidence
for taxonomic relationships of Jacquemontia reclinata (Convolvulaceae):
A critically endangered species from coastal strand of Florida.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 443-454. Congratulations
Hannah!
Ralph Saporito (Major Advisor: Maureen Donnelly) recently published
a co-authored paper: Saporito, R.A., M.A. Donnelly, P. Jain, H.M.
Garraffo, T.F. Spande, and J.W. Daly. 2007. Spatial and Temporal
Patterns of Alkaloid Variation in the Poison Frog Oophaga pumilio
in Costa Rica and Panama Over 30 Years. Toxicon 50:757-778. Congratulations
Ralph!
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