Officers -2002:

• 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 industrial research centers. In addition to publishing the magazine 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.

Check the national website (www.sigmaxi.org)
and the local picture site (www.csam.montclair.edu/~kight/sigmaxi2002),
as well as this program listing (csam.montclair.edu/~west/sigmaxiconf02.html).

Program: 9:00 Welcome - Science Hall-102, the Sokol Conference Room, Dean Dr. Robert Prezant, Dr. Jack Gaynor and Dr. Mary Lou West

Session I - Room SH-126, Dr. James Dyer, Moderator

• 9:15 Genetic Profiling in Overespressed Gsa Mice, Gregorio Maceri (Vega)
• 9:30 Analysis of a Ret Co-receptor Function Using Random Insertion Mutagenesis, Eduardo Areche (Vega)
• 9:45 Tryrosine Autophosphorylation Within the Kinase Domain and the Role of Tyrosine 1062 in Downstream Signaling, Malavika Gupta (Vega)
• 10:00 POSTERS and refreshments - Hallways and Lobby
• 10:45 Induction of Testicular Autoimmune Disease (Orchitis) in Sprague- Dawley Rats, Rory Ulloque, Joseph Riggio (Shillcock)
• 11:00 Collagen-Induced Arthritis in Mice: Role of Cytokines and Relevance to Rheumatoid Arthritis, David J. Shuster (Shillcock)
• 11:30 Closing Remarks and Presentation of Certificates, Assistant Dean Dr. Jinan Jaber, Dr. Jack Gaynor and Dr. Mary Lou West

Session II - Room SH-131, Dr. James Campanella, Moderator

• 9:15 Characterization of an IAA Amidohydrolase from Arabidopsis, Vinela Bakllamaja (Campanella)
• 9:30 The Healthy Eating Index of American and German College Students, Claudio Fernández (Wunderlich)
• 9:45 A Vaccination Model to Prevent Rubella Epidemics, Carmen Piccolo III (Billings)
• 10:00 POSTERS and refreshments - Hallways and Lobby
• 10:45 Simple Mathematical Modeling Of the Cardio-Vascular System, Mana Mozaffarian, Joseph Gyulay (Mukherjee)
• 11:00 Diet and Body Condition of American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Nestlings in Northwestern New Jersey: Preliminary Results of a Field Study, Christine A. Bandstra (Smallwood)
• 11:15 Hydrogen Bond Based Catalysis of the Diels-Alder Cycloaddition, Kyle Van Arsdale (Chapman)
• 11:30 Closing Remarks and Presentation of Certificates, Assistant Dean Dr. Jinan Jaber, Dr. Jack Gaynor and Dr. Mary Lou West

Poster Session - Hallways (10:00 - 10:45)

• 1. An Examination of the Berger Hypothesis and Arabidopsis Phylogeny, Alexander Rios, Karen Vargas, and Claudia Batson (Campanella)
• 2. Physical Stress Influences Gestation and Fecundity in Brood-Bearing Terrestrial Isopods, Porcellio laevis, Meydar Nevo (Kight)
• 3. The Effects of Food Restriction on Reproductive Allocation and Mortality in the Terrestrial Isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, Anaiseh Hashemi (Kight)
• 4. Genome Project of Cyanophage AS-1 and Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans, Patricia Platner, Shi-Fang Hsu and Kisha Vilecus (Gaynor, Lee, Vega, Lustigman)
• 5. The Effect of Cadmium on the Growth of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Suzen Awad, Lucy Ghanoum, Darlene Guerrier (Lustigman)
• 6. Study the Effect of Combinations of Heavy Metals Iron and Cadmium on the Growth of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans, Clyde Griffith and Flore Macenat (Lee, Lustigman)
• 7. Study of Combined Effect of Cadmium Chloride and Ferric Chloride on the Growth of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans, Tope Olufade and Devin R. McDonald (Lee, Lustigman)
• 8. Isolation and Identification of Antibiotic Substances from Novel Marine Bacteria, Lauren Salch (Lustigman, Lee)
• 9. Study the effect of AS-1 Virus on its host Anacystis nidulans Cyanobacteria, Schakia Eze and Paola Reveco (Lee, Lustigman, McCormick)
• 10. Effects of Environmental Factors and Stress on a Tube-dwelling Diatom, Berkeleya rutilans, Mario Wassel (McCormick)
• 11. A Comparison of Two Genotypes of Tobacco in Response to Partial Defoliation and Pot Size, Christian Burr (Vanderklein)
• 12. Using GIS to Assess Vegetation Changes in New Jersey, Julissa Torres and Sharline Volcy (Vanderklein)
• 13. Image Compression Using Wavelets, Jeffrey Jacobi, Michal Pol, Kei Kaneko (Antoniou)
• 14. Image Processing in JAVA, Ledion Bitincka, Aaron Hanisch, Michael Marinos (Antoniou)
• 15. Coulomb Constant, Carola M. Springer (Kowalski)
• 16. Expression Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Radiation-induced Tumors using Microarray Technology, Olubusola Gomes and William Graff (Vega, Campanella)
• 17. The Effect of Heavy Metals on the Photosynthetic Activity of Anacystis nidulans, Naadira Binyard and Tamra C. Grizzle (Lee, Lustigman)
• 18. Inhibitory Effects of Spices on Bacteria, Elizabeth Reyes (Lustigman)
• 19. Purification of Phospholipase D from Castor Bean Endosperm and Development of Enzymatic Assay, Christopher Tavares and Mujib B. Walli (Dyer)
• 20. DNA Binding Mechanism of the Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpes Virus (KSHV) Lytic Switch Protein: Differential DNA Interaction Mechanisms of KSHV/Rta and EBV/Rta, Sarah I. Ramirez, S.J. Lynch, D. Palmeri, D. Lukac (Vega)
• 21. Response of Filamentous Algae in the Hackensack Meadowlands to Variations in Light Intensity, Jackly Nazaire and Ayobami Ojutalayo (McCormick)
• 22. Prevention of Lead Damage to Embryonic Chick Bone by Pre-Treatment with Calcium, Sherria McKoy and Domenic Sportelli (DiLorenzo)
• 23. Comparison of the Effects of Vitamins on Reducing Cadmium Damage in a Stress Environment, George Lewis and Natalie White (DiLorenzo)
• 24. Analysis of the Effects of Selenium on Stressed Cells In Vitro, Melissa Colon and Fatima Constante (DiLorenzo)
• 25. Mechanism of Anti-Tumor Activity of AniteCer Monoclonal Antibody MN-14, Cynthia Okoduwa (Stein, Lee)