Biology Students win at MACUB Meeting

CSAM students represented our college superbly at the 47^th annual Metropolitan Association for College and University Biologists (MACUB) Conference held at Molloy College. The meeting was held on November 1, 2014. Montclair students’ posters made up 14 of the 140+ that were presented.

Students & Presentations

Myla Ramirez, Alessandra Rossi, Edward Wong, Meiyin Wu and Lee H. Lee

Comparison of Selected Enterococcus and E. coli Detection Methods in Recreational Waters.

Kaitlyn Socha and Raed Atiyat

Characterization and Comparison of Helitron Tandem Repeats in O. sativa

Anum Aftab, Lee H. Lee and Sandra D. Adams

Effect of Black Tea Extract on Herpes Virus Type-2 Infection of A549 cells

Award: Developmental Biology and Genetics 1^st place (tie)

Shivani N. Patel, Lee H. Lee and Sandra Adams

Green Tea Polyphenols, EGCG and EGCG-Stearate as Potential Inhibitors of Herpes simplex virus-1 in Human Epithelial A549 Cells.

Kevin Marques, Christopher Chen, Hassan Tahir and Lee H. Lee

Green Tea Polyphenols Inhibit Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus.

Cody Berkefeld, Sandra D. Adams, and Lee H. Lee

In Vitro Synergistic Antiviral Activity of Black Tea Theaflavins and Acyclovir on Herpes Simplex Virus Types 1 and 2 in A549 Cells

Award: Masters/Doctoral

James Stamos, Sandra D. Adams and Lee H. Lee

Inhibition of HSV-2 in Vero Cells by EGCG and EGCG-Stearate

Award: Microbiology and Immunology 1^st place

Brianna D’Elia, Claudia Ko, Ramona Nadres, Nelson Casanova, Alexa Decker, Emily Whitney and Julian Paul Keenan

Jazz flies: Can Adult Drosophila Melanogaster Discriminate Consonant from Dissonant Tones.

Fanaye Woldeamanuel and Carlos Molina

Mapping the Ubiquitination Sites of the Transcriptional Repressor ICER

Christopher Chen, Hassan Tahir and Lee H. Lee

Study the Effect of Different Tea Polyphenols on the Biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Award: Microbiology and Immunology 2^nd place

Ayuni Yussof, Syed Samy and Lee H. Lee

Synergistic Effect of Green Tea Polyphenols with Antibiotics on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus

Award: Masters/Doctoral

Valerie Paschalis and Quinn Vega

The Effects of EGCG-stearate and DMSO on the Cellular Processes of HSV-1 Infected Vero cells.

Bushra Ali, Hassan Tahir, and Lee H. Lee

The Effects of Lipophilic Green Tea Polyphenols in Controlling Endospore Germination in Bacillus cereus

Award: Developmental Biology and Genetics 2^nd place (tie)

Elizabeth Y. Flores and Quinn C. Vega

Transcriptional Changes that Occur in Response to the Activation of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase RET

Award: Masters/Doctoral

Maria Carvalho, Dena Restaino, Nashali Ferrara, Zachary Fetske, Isabella Pastore, Paul A.X. Bologna, and John J. Gaynor

Use of qPCR to Map the Distribution and Seasonal Changes in Early Developmental Forms of the Altantic Sea Nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

Award: Senior College 2^nd place

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