The 2009 NE undergraduate and graduate student Sigma Xi poster conference took place on Saturday, April 18th, 2009, at SUNY-Oswego, Oswego, NY, on the beautiful shores of Lake Ontario.
2009 winners:
Graduate
A Long-Term Assessment of Vegetation Change in the Adirondack Alpine Zone
Sean Robinson
Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Undergraduate
The temporal association between yawning and brief handling stress in budgerigars (Melopsittcus undulatus)
Michael L. Miller, Jessica A. Cusick, Darien M. Sutton, Andrea R. Vogel, Andrew C. Gallup & Anne B. Clark
Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
The lineage of the Maya skeletons via mitochondrial DNA
Joshua Coons and Nancy Elwess
Biology Department, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY
Cubic Polynomial fits to M31 RR Lyrae light curves
C. Morgan, S. Reyner, and S. KanburDepartments of Mathematics and Physics, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
Schedule:
-arrival, set up, and breakfast snacks, Sheldon Hall Ballroom, 9:15 to 10:15 AM;
-poster session, judging, and networking, Sheldon Hall Ballroom, 10:15 AM to 11:15 PM (Session 1) and 11:25 AM to 12:25 PM (Session 2);
-lunch and networking, 12:30 to 1:30 PM, Sheldon Lower Lobby;
-lecture “The quantum identity crisis: Bose-Condensation and beyond” by Nicholas P. Bigelow, Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics and Chair Professor of Optics, Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Physics, University of Rochester, 1:30 to 2:30, and poster awards, 2:30 to 3:00 PM;
-Sigma Xi members and officers, discussion of the NE regional Sigma Xi, meet the national Sigma Xi Executive Director, Dr. Jerry Baker, 3:00 PM.
About conferences in 2008 and 2007 (THANK YOU, Cornell Chapter!):
Lecture by Jason Hamilton of Ithaca College
Congratulations to our 2008 winners!
Graduate level:
Yawning and thermoregulation in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates)
Andrew C. Gallup, Michael L. Miller, and Anne B. Clark
Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
Abstract 29
Undergraduate level:
The Role of Bacterial Endonuclease V in Nitrous Acid Mutagenesis under Aerobic Growth Conditions
Jillian C. Koster, Suzanne M. Deschênes
Biology Department, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
abstract 77
Runners up (2)
Does an urban forest fragment provide quality foods for migrating songbirds?
Kristen McIntire, Michelle Mortali, and Barbara J. Pierce
Biology Department, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
abstract 33
Analyzing of aDNA From Maya Skeletal Remains Using Mitochondrial Control Region
Elizabeth Lavoie, Nancy Elwess, and Sandra Latourelle
SUNY Plattsburgh
abstract 9
Congratulations to our 2007 winners!Graduate level
An Ran based screen for genes involved in the development of the carbuncular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Janelle Jung, Jeon Hong, Steve Gantt, Colby Starker, and Maria Harrison
Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research, Ithaca, NY
Undergraduate level
Characterization of Photoreceptors Cell Types in Myotis lucifugus
R. Clubwala, K. L. Kenyon, and J. Hureau
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY
TGF-ЮВ1-stimulated Transactivation of the EGF Receptor is Required for PAI-1 Expression
Christina Cervone, Stacie Kutz, Jennifer Freytag, and Paul Higgins
RussellSageCollege and Albany Medical College, Poughkeepsie, NY
A Case study of Early Childhood Bilingualism: A Multifaceted Development
Aeri Lee, Lu You, Christina Yi, Zofia Stankiewicz, and Sujin Yang
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Last Updated 9/12/09