Officers -2001:

• President: Dr. Jack Gaynor
• Vice President: Dr. Mary Lou West
• Secretary: Dr. John K. Korky
• Treasurer: Dr. Mark Whitener
• Conference Coordinators: Drs. Mary Lou West & Jack Gaynor

Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit membership society of more than 80,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry research centers. In addition to publishing American Scientist, Sigma Xi awards grants annually to promising young researchers, holds forums on critical issues at the intersection of science and society and sponsors a variety of programs supporting honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy and the public understanding of science.

We would like to thank the Deans Robert Prezant and Ken Wolff for generously providing financial support for this meeting.

Program: 9:00 WELCOME (SH102, Sokol Conference Room), Drs. Mary Lou West & Jack Gaynor

Session I - Rm 102, Dr. Mary Derengowski-Stein, Moderator

• 9:15 MATH WIZARD Presentation: Amrit Sandhu, Diveysh Masani, Haroon Hasan, Maria Sohail, Keith Niechwiadowicz, and Robert Wittig
• 9:30 THE LAVBANC ONLINE COURSE REGISTRATION SYSTEM Presentation: Larraine Brooks, Aremi Amachree, Victor Tolo, Billiah Moturi, Alfred Sifunjo, Natasha Nugnaya, and Carolina E. Segues
• 9:45 MDBI (MAINTAINING DATABASE INTERFACE) Presentation: Issam Alfalah, Anna Blanko, Isusi Matxalen, Manisha Patel, Kei Kaneko, Alberto Valentin, and Ilan Sigura
• 10:00 POSTERS - HALLWAY
• 10:45 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STUDENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM Presentation: Kamrul Ahsam, Emin Arikan, Mohammed J. A. Khan, Valentine Okorie, and Jim Williams
• 11:00 STRANGE AND INTERESTING MATHEMATICAL PICTURES Presentation: Brian Heinold
• 11:15 IS THE GEORGE FOREMAN LEAN, MEAN, FAT-REDUCING MACHINE EFFECTIVE? Presentation: Stacey Mack
• 11:45 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Dean Robert Prezant, Room 102

Session II - Rm 126, Dr. Scott Kight, Moderator

• 9:15 AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE RED-QUEEN HYPOTHESIS: DOES IT TAKE ALL THE RUNNING FLIES CAN DO TO STAY WHERE THEY ARE? Presentation: Carolyn Eadie
• 9:30 CORRELATION OF GENETIC DIVERSITY WITH HABITAT TYPE IN FIDDLER CRAB UCA PUGNAX: AN APPLICATION OF THE RAPD TECHNIQUE Presentation: M. Berenice Duran
• 9:45 IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF THE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF EDAPHIC DIATOMS Presentation: Maria Agapito and Rory Ulloque
• 10:00 POSTERS - HALLWAY
• 10:45 A METHOD FOR RANDOM MUTAGENESIS OF A RET CO-RECEPTOR Presentation: Eduardo Areche
• 11:00 POTENTIAL OF THE TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR RET IN APOPTOSIS Presentation: Irene Zilberman
• 11:15 THE EFFECT OF CARDIAC AND RENAL PERFUSION ON THE FIXATION OF RENAL TISSUE OF SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS Presentation: Maria Agapito and Rory Ulloque
• 11:45 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Dean Robert Prezant, Room 102

Session III - Rm 131, Dr. James H. Dyer, Moderator

• 9:15 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ELECTRONEGATIVITY TO THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CONFORMATIONAL ENERGY OF SUBSTITUTED CYCLOHEXANOLS Presentation: Teresa Aversa
• 9:30 A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE ROTAMERS OF PROPYLCYCLOHEXANE AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF EXOCYCLIC TORSION ANGLES ON CONFORMATIONAL ENERGY Presentation: Christine Bray and May Yokota
• 9:45 A MODEL FOR DETECTING DIABETES Presentation: Tiffany Small, Steve Tobar, and Denis Kolenovic
• 10:00 POSTERS - HALLWAY
• 10:45 FOOD CHOICES AND NUTRIENT INTAKE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Presentation: Claudio Fernandez
• 11:00 SOUND IN AN AUDITORIUM Presentation: Tiffany Small and Leah Peniston
• 11:45 CLOSING REMARKS/PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Dean Robert Prezant, Room 102

POSTER SESSION - Hallway (10:00 - 10:45AM)

• 1. PURIFICATION OF A PHOSPHOLIPASE D ISOFORMS FROM CASTOR BEAN ENDOSPERM, Mujib B. Walli and Noredia I. Ojogun
• 2. EXPRESSION OF PHOSPHOLIPASE D PROTEIN AND ENZYME ACTIVITY IN SEVERAL PLANT SPECIES, Noredia I. Ojogun and Mujib B. Walli
• 3. SYNTHESIS OF N-SUBSTITUTED BETA-ALANINES, Agate Iwanczak
• 4. HIGHER GENERATION FLUORESCENT SENSORS FOR CATIONS, Ben Amorelli, David Isidor, and Kerry Crooker
• 5. THE EFFECTS OF RET AND GFR? IN NB41A3 CELLS, Aundrea Bartley
• 6. ANALYSIS OF RET TYROSINE MUTANTS, Malavika Gupta
• 7. DEVELOPMENT AND PURIFICATION OF BI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES, Noel De Villa
• 8. ANALYSIS OF YEAST COLD SHOCK-INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION USING A YEAST GENE ARRAY CHIP, Pat Platner, Jeffrey Su, Tin-Chun Chu
• 9. THE REGULATION OF THE EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION OF THE KAPOSI'S SARCOMA-ASSOCIATED HERPES VIRUS (KSHV/HUMAN HERPES VIRUS-8) LYTIC SWITCH PROTEIN BY PROTEINS EXPRESSED DURING VIRAL LATENCY, Larissa M. Bonilla
• 10. CO-ADMINISTRATION OF SPHINGOLIPIDS WITH ANTI-CANCER DRUGS INCREASE THE APOPTOTIC RESPONSE PATHWAY, Carl Richard Cascone
• 11. CELLULAR RESPONSE TO ADRIAMYCIN OF A HUMAN OVARIAN CANCER CELL LINE AND A HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELL LINE EXPRESSING p53wt, p53(143), OR MRP, Evelyn Leon
• 12. CHRONOBIOLOGY OF KIDNEY DAMAGE AFTER Y-90-FAB" THERAPY, Jillian Graham
• 13. COULD COX-INHIBITOR DRUGS BE USED TO INHIBIT THE GROWTH OF CANCERS BECAUSE OF AN OVER-EXPRESSION OF THE CYCLOOXYGENASE ENZYMES?, Christine Manzo
• 14. APOPTOSIS IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER MCF7 CELLS INVOLVES LYSOSOMAL AND MITOCHONDRIAL ALTERATIONS, Manuel Zea
• 15. EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE AND SACCHARIN ON CHO CELL PROLIFERATION, Tracie Restieri and Priscilla Calderon
• 16. IS TENTACLE NUMBER CONSERVED IN CLONAL LINEAGES OF HYDRA LITTORALIS?, Emy Concepcion and Shyanne Vega
• 17. PHOTOTAXIS IN LAND SNAILS: DO LIGHT INTENSITY AND COLOR INFLUENCE RESPONSE?, Markitta Jemerson-Dixon, Sara Mendoza and Julian Nguyen
• 18. INFANTICIDE IN MICE, MUS DOMESTICUS: DOES FORAGING STRESS INFULENCE KILLING OF PUPS?, Robyn Klein and Robert Molinaro
• 19. BODY SIZE AND EGG ENCUMBRANCE IN TERRESTRIAL ISOPODS, PORCELLIO LAEVIS: IMPLICATIONS OF MATERNAL INVESTMENT, Chadwick Leo
• 20. IS AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN SIAMESE FIGHTING FISH, BETA SPLENDENS, MODIFIED BY EXPERIENCE?, Peter Tadros
• 21. PREDATORY DECISION-MAKING IN A PRAYING MANTIS Catherine White
• 22. ISOLATION OF AN ARABIDPOSIS SUECICA HOMOLOG FOR AN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA HYDROLASE, Shahin Shahtaheri, Tracie Restieri, Michael Vomacka, Jason Herron, and Megan Patterson
• 23. EXAMINATION OF OUT-GROUP SPECIES FOR USE IN THE STUDY OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA INTRASPECIFIC PHYLOGENY, Vishnu Singh, Nicholas Kumburis, and Zankhana Thakkar
• 24. THE PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE USE OF FLUOROMETER AS A MEANS OF DETERMINING PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY UNDER STRESSED CONDITIONS, Estelle Docteur and Jade Gittens
• 25. THE LOCATION OF A TREE INFLUENCES ITS RESPONSE TO PRECIPITATION, Suzanna Lekht, Svetlana Lekht, and Erica Szymanck
• 26. MOLECULAR CLONING OF CYANOPHAGE AS-1 AND CYANOBACTERIA ANACYSTIS NIDULANS, Alan Thomas, Stephane Jacob, and Riti Desai
• 27. PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CYANOPHAGE AS-1 INFECTION AND CYANOBACTERIA PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY AS MEASURED BY FLUOROMETER Karen Aliche and Bexaida Martinez
• 28. PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL MARINE BACTERIA WHICH ARE EPIPHYTIC ON THE SEAWEEDS OF THE NEW JERSEY/NEW YORK COAST, Darrin Wolsko and Michael Ganger
• 29. EFFECT OF SELENITE ON THE GROWTH OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII, Renee Enriquez and Sharon Kaus
• 30. EFFECT OF THE COMBINATION OF SELENIUM AND MERCURY ON THE GROWTH OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII, Rene Enriquez, Silvana Garces, and Josy Alexis Lamour
• 31. FURTHER STUDY OF THE COMBINED EFFECT OF SELENIUM AND MANGANESE ON THE GROWTH OF ANACYSTIS NIDULANS, Chantell Cabezas and Kathleen Cazeau
• 32. FURTHER STUDY OF THE COMBINED EFFECT OF SELENIUM AND CADMIUM ON THE GROWTH OF CYANOBACTERIA ANACYSTIS NIDULANS, Regina Pierrecius and Lusine Tatevosyan
• 33. EFFECTS OF HEAVY METALS ON BONE DEVELOPMENT IN VITRO, Yaw Dwamena and Sarah Ramirez
• 34. A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP, Lynn Vandemeulenbroeke
• 35. A STUDY ON LOGIC CIRCUITS SIMPLIFICATION, Ledion Bitincka, Ilgaz Celik, Jae Gyun Cheong, Kei Kaneko, Ilan Sigura, Sebastian P. Tomaszewski, and James Young
• 36. CALCULATING THE SPECTRUM OF A COMPOSED FUNCTION, Barbara Pinkall
• 37. GENERAL FLIP-SHIFT GAMES, Jae Gyun Cheong and Kei Kaneko
• 38. GEOCHEMISTRY AND TECTONIC INTERPRETATION OF MAFIC GNEISSES IN THE WESTERN HUDSON HIGHLANDS, NY, Austin Harclerode
• 39. MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC A & I-TYPR GRANITE PLUTONISM IN THE WESTERN HUDSON HIGHLANDS, NEW YORK, Blair Sonzogni
• 40. GEOCHEMISTRY OF MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC MOUNT EVE GRANITES FROM THE NJ/HUDSON HIGHLANDS: A-TYPE GRANITES RELATED TO POST-OROGENIC COLLAPSE?, Todd Estelle
• 41. A RE-INTERPRETATION OF WATCHUNG MOUNTAINS WIND AND WATER GAPS, NORTHERN NEW JERSEY, Michael DaSilva, Carolin Stroehl, and Jennifer Reynard
• 42. HARMONICS OF A MICROWAVE OVEN, Michelle McDermott
• 43. HOW DOES LEARNING METHOD (VERBAL VS. VISUAL) AFFECT MEMORY RETENTION?, Marc Miele

  FACULTY POSTER

• 44. SOME ASTRONOMY 101 ACTIVITIES USING INTERNET RESOURCES, Dr. Mary Lou West