Student Presentations
Students in the Ph.D. Programs have varied educational and geographical backgrounds and are ethnically and culturally diverse. Throughout their studies, students are encouraged to interact professionally through laboratory collaborations as well as socially through various university, school and department functions. In addition, many students attend national and international meetings.
Recent Student Presentations at National and International Meetings
Melanie Baker-Preston
2009 Annual RNA Society Meeting, Madison, WI
“Yeast strains lacking the highly conserved G-1 residue of tRNAHis are viable, yet exhibit distinct growth phenotypes”
2009 Gordon Research Conference on RNA Editing, Galveston, TX
“The highly conserved G-1 residue of tRNAHis is not essential in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
2008 Annual RNA Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany
“G-1 addition to tRNAHis is the only essential function of the multiple activities of tRNAHis guanylytransferase (Thg1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
Brenda Cadiz-Rivera
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCL), Hamburg, Germany
“CLN3 mRNA characterization”
Suresh de Silva
12th Annual American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) Meeting, San Diego, CA
“Extending the transposable payload limit of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system using the bipartite Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)/SB amplicon vector platform”
12th Annual American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) Meeting, San Diego, CA
“In vivo comparison of the transposition efficiency of the ‘wild-type’ Sleeping Beauty transposase (SB10) and a hyperactive HSB5 mutant transposase in the developing mouse brain delivered via the HSV/Sleeping Beauty amplicon vector platform”
Rozzy Finn
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCL), Hamburg, Germany
“Altered glutamate receptor function in cerebellar granule cells isolated from Cin3(delta)ex7/8 knock-in mice”
Amanda Getty
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCL), Hamburg, Germany
“A cell migration defect in Cln3-/-“
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCL), Hamburg, Germany
“Cerebellar defects in a mouse model of Juvenile Ceroid Lipofuscinosis”
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCL), Hamburg, Germany
“CLN6, the gene responsible for variant late-onset infantile neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, interacts with CRMP-2”
Jennifer Gewandter
American Thoracic Society Meeting, San Diego, CA
“Loss of ER stress sensor protein, BiP, in hyperoxia does not cause ER stress”
SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
“Loss of ER stress sensor protein, BiP, in hyperoxia does not activate the UPR”
Jason Gloor
DNA Replication and Repair Symposium, Buffalo, NY
“Bloom helicase effectively resolves inactive intermediates during DNA replication”
Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“Bloom helicase effectively resolves inactive intermediates during DNA replication”
Chris Hine
10th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA
“Use of the Rad51 promoter for anti-cancer therapy”
David Hoffman
Mitochondrial Biology in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Conference, Bethesda, MD
“Different sensitivities to oxygen of the major reactive oxygen species generating sites within the mitochondrial electron transport chain”
14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Washington, DC
“Differences in O2 dependence of ROS generation for sites within the respiratory chain FRBM, 43S1, S151”
David Johnson
International C. elegans Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
“Loss of mitochondrial fusion causes acidification in worms and mammalian cells”
C. elegans Aging, Stress, Pathogenesis, and Heterochrony Meeting, Madison, WI
“Regulators of mitochondrial morphology affect intracellular pH”
John Karijolich
14th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Madison, WI
“Pseudouridylation of nonsense codons leads to translation readthrough”
Dan Letzring
2009 RNA Society Meeting, Madison, WI
“A systematic analysis implicates CGA codons as strong negative effectors of protein expression”
2009 Northeast Regional Yeast Meeting (NERY), Ithaca, NY
“Translation of CGA codon pairs impairs protein expression”
Jen Newell
Experimental Biology, San Francisco, CA
“Factor VII A2 domain residues Glu720-Asp725 facilities thrombin-catalyzed cleavage at Arg372”
Karyn Schmidt
12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, Hamburg, Germany
“An interaction between the ribosome and the acidic compartment in the yeast model for JNCL”
Beth Van Winkle
Cell Death Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“Diazoxide (DZ) Protection”
Joe Whipple
2009 RNA Society Meeting, Madison, WI
“Determinants for substrate recognition by the rapid tRNA decay pathway acting on hypomodified tRNA in yeast”
2009 Northeast Regional Yeast Meeting (NERY), Ithaca, NY
“Investigation of substrate specificity for degradation of mature hypomodified tRNAs”
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