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8th Annual Biology Student Research Symposium, "Colorful Stories," February 22, 2008
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7th Annual Biology Student Research Symposium, February 16, 2007
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Ader, J. A., Tiede, B. J., and Kushner, D. B. (2006). Saccharomyces cerevisiae host transcriptional response to establishment of a membranous positive-strand RNA virus replication complex includes upregulation of ERG genes. Third Annual Undergraduate Science Research Symposium. Carlisle, PA.

Ader, J. A., Tiede, B. J., and Kushner, D.B. (2006). Saccharomyces cerevisiae host transcriptional response to establishment of a membranous positive-strand RNA virus replication complex includes upregulation of ERG genes. 2006 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, Princeton, NJ.

Bonneau, Lotte, and Loeffler, Carol. How and when does deer browsing affect forest regeneration? Tracking seedling growth and survival rates in Central PA. Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America, April 2006.

Carter, Camill, and Loeffler, Carol. Deer herbivory and plant species diversity in two forest understories in Perry County, PA. Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America, April 2006.

Nowicki, T. Scott, Werner, Eleonore P., Havens, Jennifer M., and Roberts, Michael P. Selected Participant/Presenter, Genome-wide Expression Analysis of Human Promyelocytic Leukemia Cell Differentiation. 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Washington, D.C. April 1-5, 2006.

Pye, M., Arnold, T. M., Appel, H., and Schultz, J. (2006) Modulators of plant invertase activities. Won best student poster at the 2006 meeting of the Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists.

Havens, J., and Guss, K. A. A study of the selector gene scalloped expression during Drosophila embryogenesis. 2005 Seventh Annual Beckman Scholars Symposium, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Irvine, CA.

Kushner, D. B. and Tiede, B. J. (2005). Microarray Analysis in the Microbiology Laboratory: Completing Both Experimentation and Data Analysis in as Little as Six Weeks. Twelfth American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, Atlanta, GA.

Minkah, N. K., Tiede, B. J., and Kushner, D. B. (2005). DNA Microarray-Generated Transcriptome Profile of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lacking the Tyrosine Phosphatase SIW14. 105th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, GA.

Minkah, N. K., Tiede, B. J., and Kushner, D.B. (2005). Host gene expression changes caused by a novel phosphatase: transcriptome profile of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking the tyrosine phosphatase SIW14. Fifth Annual Biology Student Research Symposium, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA.

Nowicki, T. Scott, Werner, E. P. and Roberts, Michael P.Turning Cancer Cells Into 'Normal' Cells: A Genome-wide Analysis of Human Leukemia Cell Differentiation. Undergraduate Science Research Symposium, Haverford College, October, 2005.

Prince, Patricia, Scott, Tracy, and Loeffler, Carol. Regeneration in twelve-year-old deer exclosures and its effects on light levels and Microstegium invasion. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2005.

Tiede, B .J. and Kushner, D. B. (2005). Genome-wide analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to brome mosaic virus 1a protein. Fifth Annual Biology Student Research Symposium, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA.

Tiede, B. J. and Kushner, D. B. (2005). Microarray analysis reveals significantly altered Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene expression in response to brome mosaic virus 1a protein. Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology, State College, PA.

Wright, Jacob, and Loeffler, Carol. Light levels, deer, and the demography of a rare forest perennial, glade spurge (Euphorbia purpurea). Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2005.

Zwemer, C. F., O'Malley, M. J., Powell, N. 12 hour fast significantly alters resting VO2, VCO2 and RER as measured by indirect calorimetry. Spring Experimental Biology Meetings, San Diego, CA March 31-April 05, 2005.

Arnold, T. M., Appel, H. M., Patel, V., Stocum, E., Kavalier, A., and Schultz, J. C. (2004) Induced sink strength in Populus: a common first-response in plants? Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions. Ventura, California.

DelConte, C., and Guss, K. A. (2004). Role of the selector gene scalloped during Drosophila development. Annual Drosophila Research Conference 45: 343A.

Fritz, K. A., McNally, J. P., Robinson, M. D., Tanner, C. E., and Arnold, T. M. (2004) The effects of nutrients and salicylic acid on chemical defense in Zostera marina (Eelgrass). Benthic Ecology Meeting. Mobile, Alabama.

Klotz, Larry H., and Loeffler, Carol C. Morphological analysis of shooting star populations (Dodecatheon, Primulaceae) in Pennsylvania. Annual Meeting of the American Botanical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2004.

Kouvatsos, T., Tiede, B., and Roberts, Michael P. Changes in Gene Expression During HL-60 Leukemia Cell Differentiation. Undergraduate Science Research Symposium, Haverford College, October, 2004.

Laws-Breeden, L., Melanie, C., Arnold, T. M. and Boettcher, A. A. (2004) The influence of exposure to Labyrinthula on phenolic levels in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum. Benthic Ecology Meeting. Mobile, Alabama.

Wright, Janet. Prevalence of Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) as a Factor in the Disappearance of the Allegheny Woodrat (Neotoma magister) in Ohio. Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting, Ecological Society of America, Lancaster, PA, March 27, 2004 (with student collaborators Lindsay Wieland and Karissa Lozenski).

Sierotko, James*, Wright, Jacob*, and Loeffler, Carol. Understanding a population decline: age, size, flowering, and mortality in a PA population of the globally rare glade spurge (Euphorbia purpurea). Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, March 2004.

Tiede, B. and Kushner, D. (2004). Microarray analysis of yeast gene expression levels in response to presence of Brome mosaic virus 1a protein. First Regional Microbiology Educators Network Symposium, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Arnold, T. M., Tanner C. E., Bullington, J. L.; Rothen, M.; and Boettcher, A. A. (2003) Induced defense lost? Environmental factors affecting seagrass chemical defenses. Benthic Ecology Meeting, Avery Point, Connecticut.

Bichler, Justin, Salvatore, Michael, Siddoway, Katherine and Loeffler, Carol. Deer browsing and recruitment failure as factors in the continuing decline of PA populations of a rare wildflower. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2003.

Merdinger, Melissa, Moulton, Natalie and Loeffler, Carol. Patterns of woody regeneration and Microstegium invasion in a ten-year deer exclosure experiment in south-central Pennsylvania. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2003.

Robison, Jennifer, and Loeffler, Carol. Investigations on the life history of two invasive species: Alliaria petiolata (M. Beib.) Cavara & Grande and Hesperis matronalis L. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2003.

Rothen, M., Bullington, J. L., and Arnold, T. M. (2003) Factors influencing seagrass phenolic metabolism. Benthic Ecology Meeting, Avery Point, Connecticut.

Cafaro, C., Kiefer, C., and Brennan, T. 2002. Copper and Ultraviolet-B Phototoxicity in Helianthus annuus and Cucumis sativus seedlings. Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania.

Halle, Beth, Johnston, Miranda, and Loeffler, Carol. Habitat-dependent effects of a high deer population (Odocoileus virginianus) on diversity and species composition of forest understory. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2002.

Keating, Melanie, and Loeffler, Carol. Effects of winterization on germination and growth of two invasive species, Hesperis matronalis and Alliaria petiolata. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2002.

Kushner, D. B., Lindenbach, B. D., Paul, S. M., Grdzelishvili, V. Z. and Ahlquist, P. (2002). A genome-wide screen for proteins that affect replication of brome mosaic virus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 2002 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.

Kushner, D. B., Lindenbach, B. D., Grdzelishvili, V. Z., Paul, S.M., and Ahlquist, P. Systematic functional genomics cataloging of host gene functions in brome mosaic virus replication. Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology, Davis, California.

MacGregor, D. and Brennan, T. 2002. Ultraviolet-B Photoisomerization of Phenylpropanoid Compounds Involved in the Biosynthesis of Flavonoids. Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania.

Short, Lisa, Bichler, Justin, and Loeffler, Carol. Balancing low mortality and slow recruitment in a rare wildflower, Euphorbia purpurea. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2002.

Zwemer, C. F., Campbell, S., Coleman, E., Ellerman, J., Levit, R., Lucin, K., and Ritchie, C. L.. Decreased VO2 in response to acute inspired hypoxia and hypercapnic hypoxia in rabbits (O. Cuniculus). Spring Experimental Biology Meetings, New Orleans, LA, April 20-24, 2002. "

Colflesh, Ashley, Jablokov, Alexandra, Thompson, Kelly, and Loeffler, Carol. Impact of white-tailed deer on understory vegetation at Reineman Sanctuary: year eight of a long-term study. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2001.

Dabbs, Russell, Gillette, Sian, and Loeffler, Carol. Population ecology of a deer menu item, the rare swamp wildflower Euphorbia purpurea. Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, April 2001.

Brennan, T. M. and Battaglia, P. R.. 2000. Differential Effects of Short Term Exposure to Ultraviolet-B Radiation Upon Photosynthesis in Cucumber and Sunflower Cotyledons. 13th International Congress on Photobiology, San Francisco, California.

Zwemer, C. F., Alles, M. E., Hazard, III, S. W., Pendergrass, C. J. , and Rizzo, N.C.. Acute compensatory hemodynamic responses to asphyxia, hypercapnia, and hypoxia in rabbits. Spring Experimental Biology Meetings, San Diego, CA, April 15-18, 2000.

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