The Wolf Biology Research Fund was established in October 2008 by LVC biology alumni and faculty in honor of Paul L. Wolf, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the LVC Department of Biology. The endowed fund will provide ongoing support for research projects undertaken by students and faculty studying various disciplines of biology.
On October 11, 2008, LVC research students participated in the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The symposium, which is sponsored by the national Institutes of Health, highlights interdisciplinary research in the areas of biochemistry, biology, cell biology, chemistry, computational chemistry & molecular biology. This year, Khevna Shukla (Biology '11) and Patricia Cunfer (Biology '11) won a second place award for their poster detailing work completed in the laboratory of Dr. Kristen Boeshore, titled "Modeling Neurite Regeneration in PC12 Cells".
Dr. Alan Wolfe spent spring semester 2008 on sabbatical leave in the laboratory of an LVC alumnus, James Dillman III, at the Edgewood Arsenal, in Maryland as part of a research team studying inflammatory reactions in cultured cells using cell and molecular biology techniques.
In April, Yekaterina Belousov (BCMB '07) and Ryan Lucas (BCMB '08) presented a poster at the 22nd Annual National Conferences on Undergraduate Research at Salisbury University. Yekaterina and Ryan work in the laboratory of Dr. Kristen Boeshore.
Dr. Courtney Lappas and co-authors presented a poster entitled "In vivo bioluminescent imaging studies following in vivo gene therapy" at the 11th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy held in Boston, MA in June 2008.
Dr. Dale Erskine entered into contract with McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series to become co-author and eventually primary author of the AIDS Update series.
Dr. Rebecca Urban has two manuscripts in press:
- Urban RA, JE Titus, WZ Zhu. Shading by an invasive macrophyte has cascading effects on sediment chemistry. Biological Invasions In Press. DOI 10.1007/s10530-008-9231-4
- Titus JE, RA Urban. Aquatic Plants: General Introduction. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. G.E. Likens, ed . In Press.
Dr. Courtney Lappas has had two recent manuscripts published:
- Srinivasan, S., Bolick, D. T., Lukashev, D., Lappas, C. M., Sitkovsky, M., Lynch, K. R. and Hedrick, C. C. Sphingosine-1-phosphate reduces CD4+ T lymphocyte activation in type-1 diabetes through regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor short isoform I.1 and CD69. Diabetes. 57(2): 484-493 (2008).
- Dyer, K.D., Czapiga, M., Foster, B., Foster, P. S., Kang, E. M., Lappas, C. M., Moser, J. M., Naumann, N., Percopo, C. M., Siegel, S. J., Swartz, J. M., De Ravin, S., Rosenberg, H. F. The dblGATA enhancer in the promoter of the GATA-1 gene is notessential for eosinophil differentiation ex vivo. Journal of Immunology. 179(3): 1693-1699 (2007).
Dr. Stacy Goodman attended the Chautauqua NSF Course: "Circadian Biology: From Clock Genes and Cellular Rhythms to Sleep Regulation." held in Cambridge, MA in May, 2007
Dr. Sidney Pollack attended several short courses in 2008: the Chautauqua Short Course, " Using Case Studies to Teach Science - A Workshop," held in June, 2008 in N.Y., N.Y. and the Paramecium Genome Workshop and Annotation, held June -July, 2008 in Wooster, Ohio
Dr. Sidney Pollack also attended the FASEB Summer Research Conference: Ciliate Molecular Biology, held in Tucson, AZ in July 2007.
In 2007, Dr. Rebecca Urban and co-authors presented a poster entitled "Shading by an invasive macrophyte accounts for its cascading ecosystem effects." at the Watershed Management and Science Conference in Binghamton, NY.
Dr. Alan Wolfe and D.D. Dangle presented the poster "Histochemical and biochemical study of Artemia franciscana hemocytes during the molting cycle (Crustacea: Anostraca)" at the 2006 PA Academy of Science meeting at Grantville, PA.
Dr. Sidney Pollack and co-authors have published two recent manuscripts:
- Mollie G. Kedney*, Kevin B. Strunk*, Lisa M. Giaquinto*, Jennifer A. Wagner*, Sidney Pollack, Walter A. Patton Identification of bacteria using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 2007 (35), 425-433.
- Jessica L. Abbott*, Jordan M. Newell*, Christine M. Lightcap*, Mary E. Olanich*, Danielle T. Loughlin*, Melanie A. Weller*, Gary Lam*, Sidney Pollack, and Walter A. Patton, "The Effects of Removing the GAT Domain from E. coli GMP Synthetase," The Protein Journal 2006, (25;7-8) 483-491. (DOI 10.1007/s10930-006-9032-5)Save This New Event