Saturday, April 26, 2003, 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon, Science Hall Room 102 (Sokol Seminar Room)

Photos of the conference can be found at http://csam.montclair.edu/~kight/sigmaxi2003.
Programs of previous years can be found at 2002 , 2001 , 1998

9:00 Welcome (Science Hall-102, the Sokol Seminar Room)
Dr. Michael Kruge, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, Dr. Jack Gaynor, Dr. Mary Lou West

Session I - Room SH-102
Dr. Mary Derengowski-Stein, Moderator

1. (9:15) Structures of Questions in Physics Problems
   Edgar Manalo (Dean Hamden)
2. ( 9:30) Effect of Vaccinations in an Immigrant Model for Rubella
   Carmen Piccolo (Lora Billings)
3. (9:45) Critical Regions of a RET co-receptor, GFRa-1, identified through site-directed and insertion mutagenesis
   Kelvin Caban (Quinn Vega)

   10:00 POSTERS and REFRESHMENTS all along the HALLWAY

4. (10:45) One-pot Synthesis of N-substituted Phthalimides from Methylarenes
   Saurabh Dhruve, Magambo Nyakirang'ani, Supun Pathirana (Saliya de Silva)
5. (11:00) Using the Sun to Calculate the Size of the Earth
   William Phillian (Mary Lou West)
6. (11:15) MatGAT: A new computer application that generates similarity/identity matrices using protein or DNA sequences
   Ledion Bitincka (James Campanella and John Smalley)
7. (11:30) Class and Identity in the American Middle 19th Century: Evidence from the Walkways at Feltville/Glenside Park, New Jersey
   Carissa DeRooy (Matthew Tomaso)

11:45 Closing Remarks and the Presentation of Sigma Xi Certificates, Drs. Mary Lou West & Jack Gaynor, Room 102 (Sokol Seminar Room)

Poster Session Hallways (10:00 to 10:45 AM)
Student presenters should be available to answer questions related to their poster at this time.

• 1. Role of Vitamin D and Calcium in the Prevention of Cadmium-induced Deterioration in Embryonic Chick Bone
  Jody E. Dolce, Christopher Holtenhoff, Monikha Hussain, Zehad Zeidan (AnnMarie DiLorenzo)
• 2. ILR1 and sILR1 IAA amidohydrolase homologs differ in enzymatic activity and expression pattern
  Vinela Bakllamaja, Vipul Sharma and Ania Cartier (James Campanella)
• 3. Analysis of Fort Morgan Infection and Replication in Vero and Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
  Aimee Luers, Tamara Beckford, Quarashia Al Shehab (Sandra Adams)
• 4. Title: Cloning and Expression of an IAA amidohydrolase from Triticum aestivum (wheat)
  Steven Berwitz, Temuri Budagov, Gena Coffey, Patrice Dennis, Jody Dolce, Monika Krzysztofik, Aimee Luers, Christine Manzo, Adebanke Olajide, Joseph Riggio, Mark Rutherford, and Scott Sigethy (James Campanella)
• 5. Transposon Rearrangement in pCMVFLAG GFRa-1, a RET co-receptor
  Maria Velasco, Cristina Ochoa (Quinn Vega)
• 6. Study of Angiogenic Growth Factor PLGF in post cytotoxic therapy
  Roberto R. Zoino (Quinn Vega)
• 7. Pathology of Testicular Autoimmune Orchitis Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
  Nazish Sayed, Joseph Riggio, Rory Ulloque, Analia DaCruz (Judith Shillcock)
• 8. Induction of Adjuvant Induced Arthritis in Sprague Drawley rats.
  Nazish Sayed, Joseph Riggio (Judith Shillcock)
• 9. Weather and clutch size of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) breeding in Northwestern New Jersey
  Julie C. Lucente (John Smallwood, Gregory Pope)
• 10. Study of the Combined Effect of Ferric Chloride and Cadmium Chloride on the Growth of Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans
  Norma Aguilar and Giselle Reyes (Lee Lee, Bonnie Lustigman)
• 11. Establishment of a knowledgebase for cyanophage and cyanobacteria genomics
  Tin-Chun Chu, Ting-Hsiu Liu, Patricia Platner and Shi-Fang Hsu (Shankar Srinivasan, Lee Lee, Jack Gaynor, Quinn Vega , Chunguang Du, Bonnie Lustigman)
• 12. Genome Project of Cyanophage AS-1 and Cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans
  Patricia Platner, Shi-Fang Hsu, Tin-Chun Chu and Sungwook Yang (Lee Lee, Jack Gaynor, Quinn Vega, Chunguang Du, Bonnie Lustigman)
• 13. Understanding Terms (words) in Physics and Implications for Problem Solving
  Frances Rivera-Lopez (Dean Hamden)
• 14. High School Students' Perceptions of Copying Laboratory Work
  Shanese S. Page (Dawn Del Carlo)
• 15. Event Structure as a function of Noun Phrase Specificity
  Carolyn Skoutelakis (David J. Townsend)
• 16. Change of Speaker Detection with Resultatives and Depictives, Transitivity and Subcategorization
  Jeffrey Jacobi (David Townsend)
• 17. Categorization affects hedonic contrast in the visual arts
  Melissa Dolese (Debra Zellner)
• 18. The foods we eat when stressed are those we normally avoid
  Zuleyma Gonzalez & Susan Loaiza (Debra Zellner)
• 19. Differences in odor intensity ratings for fruit beverages presented orthonasally and retronasally
  Brian Koza (Debra Zellner)
• 20. Optical Imaging of Interacting Galaxies
  Juli Stoltz (Mary Lou West, Beverly Smith)
• 21. Using Observations of Jupiter's Moons to Determine the Mass of Jupiter
  Nadia Akhtar (Mary Lou West)
• 22. An Educational Web-Based Digital Image Processing Tool
  Ledion Bitincka, Marinos Michael (George Antoniou)
• 23. Minimization of Logic Functions Using Cubical Representation
  Mike Cafaro, Lukasz Maciak, Joseph Mwenje, Khin La Pye Wone (George Antoniou)
• 24. Time-Efficient Discovery of Inclusion Dependencies
  David Stein (Andreas Koeller)
• 25. Software Development Using UML Tools: Automated Teller Machine (ATM) simulation.
  Clint DeSoto, John Olulo (Hubert Johnson)
• 26. Food Choices, Nutrient Intakes,and Healthy Eating Index of American and German Elementary School Students
  Claudio Fernandez (Shahla Wunderlich)
• 27. Exogenous Sphingomyelin Increases Pancreatic Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Chemotherapeutic
  Thomas Daggs (Quinn Vega, David Modrak)
• 28. Soil Moisture and Texture Characteristics from a Forest Fire
  Anne Ajamian (Gregory Pope)
• 29. New Theory to Explain Acid Precipitation in Northern New Jersey
  Belkys Melendez (Gregory Pope)

INDEX
Student Researchers: T = talk, P = poster

Norma Aguilar P-10
Anne Ajamian P-28
Nadia Akhtar P-21
Quarashia Al Shehab P-3
Vinela Bakllamaja P-2
Tamara Beckford P-3
Steven Berwitz P-4
Ledion Bitincka T-6, P-22
Temuri Budagov P-4
Kelvin Caban T-3
Mike Cafaro P-23
Ania Cartier P-2
Tin-Chun Chu P- 11, P-12
Gena Coffey P-4
Analia DaCruz P-7
Thomas Daggs P-27
Patrice Dennis P-4
Carissa DeRooy T-7
Clint DeSoto P-25
Saurabh Dhruve T-4
Jody E. Dolce P-1, P-4
Melissa Dolese P-17
Claudio Fernandez P-26
Zuleyma Gonzalez P-18
Christopher Holtenhoff P-1
Shi-Fang Hsu P-11, P-12
Monikha Hussain P-1
Jeffrey Jacobi P-16
Brian Koza P-19
Monika Krzysztofik P-4
Ting-Hsiu Liu P-11
Susan Loaiza P-18
Julie C. Lucente P-9
Aimee Luers P-3, P-4
Lukasz Maciak P-23
Edgar Manalo T-1
Christine Manzo P-4
Belkys Melendez P-29
Marinos Michael P-22
Joseph Mwenje P-23
Magambo Nyakirang'ani T-4
Cristina Ochoa P-5
Adebanke Olajide P-4
John Olulo P-25
Shanese S. Page P-14
Supun Pathirana T-4
William Phillian T-5
Carmen Piccolo T-2
Patricia Platner P-11, P-12
Giselle Reyes P-10
Joseph Riggio P-4, P-7, P-8
Frances Rivera-Lopez P-13
Mark Rutherford P-4
Nazish Sayed P-7, P-8
Vipul Sharma P-2
Scott Sigethy P-4
Carolyn Skoutelakis P-15
David Stein P-24
Juli Stoltz P-20
Rory Ulloque P-7
Maria Velasco P-5
Khin La Pye Wone P-23
Sungwook Yang P-12
Roberto R. Zoino P-6
Zehad Zeidan P-1

Faculty Mentors: MSU
Archaeology: Matthew Tomaso
Biology and Molecular Biology: Sandra Adams, James Campanella, AnnMarie DiLorenzo, Chunguang Du, Jack Gaynor, Lee Lee, Bonnie Lustigman, Judith Shillcock, John Smalley, John Smallwood, Quinn Vega
Chemistry and Biochemistry: Dawn Del Carlo, Saliya de Silva
Computer Science: George Antoniou, Hubert Johnson, Andreas Koeller
Earth and Environmental Studies: Gregory Pope
Human Ecology: Shahla Wunderlich
Mathematical Sciences: Lora Billings, Dean Hamden, Mary Lou West
Psychology: David Townsend, Debra Zellner

East Tennesee State University: Beverly Smith
Garden State Cancer Center: David Modrak
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: Shankar Srinivasan