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ROCHESTER ACADEMY

OF SCIENCE

39th Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session Saturday, November 10, 2012

Hosted by St. John Fisher College

2012 RAS Fall Paper Session 1

Rochester Academy of Science Fall Scientific Paper Session

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Hosted by: St. John Fisher College

Rochester, NY

Table of Contents

Page Schedule of the Day 2

Map of Campus 3 Oral Session Schedules

Session I – Chemistry 4 Session II – Education 4 Session III – Physics I 5 Session IV – Physics II 5 Session V – Life Sciences: Ecology 6 Session VI – Life Sciences: Zoology, Evolution, and Paleontology 6 Session VII – Life Sciences: Agriculture, Environmental Science and Animal

Behavior 7

Session VIII – Life Sciences: Genetics, Cell & Molecular, and Biophysics 7 List of Posters 8

Chemistry 8 Earth Science 10 Education 11 Life Sciences 11 Physics 18

Acknowledgements 19

Abstracts 20

2 2012 RAS Fall Paper Session

Schedule of the Day

8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee Wegmans School of Pharmacy Atrium 8:00 – 11:15 Poster Setup Campus Center Atrium 9:00 – 11:15 Oral Presentations Wegmans School of Pharmacy 1st Floor

Session I – Chemistry WSOP131 Session II – Education WSOP131 Session III – Physics I WSOP129 Session IV – Physics II WSOP129 Session V – Life Sciences: Ecology WSOP132 Session VI – Life Sciences: Zoology, Evolution, and Paleontology WSOP132 Session VII – Life Sciences: Agriculture, Environmental Science and Animal Behavior WSOP133 Session VIII – Life Sciences: Genetics, Cell & Molecular, and Biophysics WSOP133

11:30– 12:30 Poster Session Campus Center In Main-stage/Game-Room and Wilson Formal Lounge 12:30 – 1:15 Lunch Ward-Haffey Dining Hall Reserved Seating straight ahead of enterance Last minute diners may pay at the Cafeteria 1:30 – 2:30 Public Keynote Lecture Cleary Auditorium, Kearney Hall

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Oral Presentations All presentation located on the first floor of the Wegmans School of Pharmacy

The presenting author is highlighted in bold.

Session I – Chemistry Room WSOP-131 Moderator: Markus Hoffmann 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES

Carly Augustyn, Kenneth Reed, Thomas Allston

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. AGGREGATION DYNAMICS OF THE IONIC LIQUID [C6mim][NTf2] IN THE LOW-DIELECTRIC SOLVENT CHLOROFORM Markus M. Hoffmann, Nathan T. Scharf

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF STERIC BULK ON THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF SUBSTITUTED TIN(II) CHLORIDES IN THE METHYLATION OF OLEIC ACID Emily Benton, Richard W. Hartmann

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. THE COMPOSITION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER IN STREAMS SURROUNDING CONESUS LAKE, NY Morgan R. Bida, Todd Pagano, A. Christina Tyler, Thomas H. Gosnell

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. CHARACTERIZATION OF DOMAIN-SWAPPING PROTEINS FOR DESIGN OF SELF ASSEMBLING-HYDROGELS Molly Kingsley, Josh Karchin, Nancy Walker-Kopp, Stewart N. Loh

Session II – Education Room WSOP-131 Moderator: Kimberly Chichester 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO MONITOR

LEVELS OF NUTRIENTS IN BUCKLAND CREEK. Kimberly Chichester, Kristina Lantzky, Lynn Donahue, Alyse Palumbo, Jason Brownell, Irene Kimaru

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. “…A LOVELY, CHARMING LITTLE COTTAGE”: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RURAL LIFE AT THE WESTFALL-MERCIER HOUSE, GREECE. Kyle Somerville

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. PLANT DNA BARCODING AS AN EXPERIENTIAL COLLEGE LABORATORY. Michael Boller


Session III – Physics I Room WSOP-129 Moderator: Adrian Ieta 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. MAGNETICALLY SENSITIVE PVA NANO-FIBERS SYNTHESIZED BY

ELECTROSPINNING. Justin Patus, Josh Apenowic, Ryan Ellis, Danielle Citro, and Adrian Ieta

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. ROLLER COASTER SAFETY: MINDING THE LINE BETWEEEN THRILLS AND INJURIES. Katharyn Christiana, Carolina C. Ilie

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. CORONA WIND VISUALIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION. Ryan Ellis, Danielle Citro, Josh Apenowic, Justin Patus, Adrian Ieta

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. WHY MILKY WAY SPIRALS? Ingo H. Leubner

Session IV - Physics II Room WSOP-129 Moderator: Mishkat Bhattacharya 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. INVESTIGATION OF THE LOW ν METHOD TO DETERMINE NEUTRINO FLUX AT

LOW ENERGIES. A. Bodek, U. Sarica, D. Naples, L. Ren

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. TORSIONAL OPTOMECHANICS AND THE DETECTION OF QUANTUM BACK-ACTION. H. Shi, M. Bhattacharya

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL ORDERING IN MAGNETRON SPUTTERED CO/PT FILMS. Junghune Nam, Siddharth Gopal, Zachary J. Howard, Olav Hellwig, Eric Fullerton, Michael S. Pierce

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. A THEORETICAL EXAMINATION OF PENTACENE DERIVATIVES FOR LOW COST

ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS. Ross Netusil, Thorin Kane, Carolina C. Ilie

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. COUPLING A SMALL TORSIONAL OSCILLATOR TO LARGE OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM. Hao Shi, Mishkat Bhattacharya


Session V – Life Sciences: Ecology Room WSOP-132 Moderator: Amanda Shaver 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR RESPONSE TESTS IN TERRESTRIAL ISOPODS.

Harshita Sood, F. Harvey Pough

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. CONFERING RESISTANCE AGAINST PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES. Amanda O. Shaver, John Jaenike

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. THE CONTROL OF INVASIVE TYPHA SPP. AT A RESTORED FRESHWATER WETLAND. Kathryn Boa, A. Christy Tyler

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. EFFECT OF HERBIVORY ON THE GROWTH AND COMPETITIVE ABILITY OF AN INVASIVE GRASS. Lisa Kratzer, A. Christy Tyler

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. FISH ASSEMBLAGES IN LAKE ONTARIO TRIBUTARIES FROM OVER ONE CENTURY AGO: WAS WRIGHT RIGHT? Ben Carson, Paul Shipman

Session VI- Life Sciences: Zoology, Evolution, and Paleontology Room WSOP-132 Moderator: Michael Grenier 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. CROCODYLIAN DENTAL MORPHOMETRICS: AN ANALYSIS OF SIZE AND SHAPE

HETERODONTY WITHIN AND BETWEEN EXTANT SPECIES, AND ECOLOGICAL AND PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS. Megan Harmon, Domenic D’Amore

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. THE FIRST INTACT SCAPULAR GLENOID REGION OF DEINONYCHUS ANTIRRHOPUS AND THE CONSEQUENT RE-INTERPRETATION OF DROMAEOSAURID FEATURES THAT ENHANCED THE EVOLUTION OF AVIAN FLIGHT. William L. Parsons, Kristen M. Parsons

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. SCLERACTINIAN CORAL EXTINCTIONS IN PAST REEF CRISES IN THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. Michael R. Grenier


Session VII – Life Sciences: Environmental Science, Agriculture, and Animal Behavior Room WSOP-133 Moderator: Aaron Spacher 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. CHARACTERIZING WETLAND VEGETATION USING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL

IMAGERY. Nicole Dutcher, A. Christy Tyler, Jan van Aardt

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. A NEEDS ASSSESSMENT OF NEW YORK STATE FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYERS. Robert N. King

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN BACTERIAL SAMPLES FROM LAKE ONTARIO. Aaron N. Spacher, Maryann A.B. Herman

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. HEAD-FIRST AERIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE CAPTIVE BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS). Christi Schultz, Michael Noonan

Session VIII- Life Sciences: Genetics, Cell & Molecular, and Biophysics Room WSOP-133 Moderator: Stuart Tsubota 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. MELANIN-CONCENTRATING HORMONE RECEPTOR 1 IN CHO-K1, SH-SH5Y AND

3T3-L1 CELLS: A PATHWAY TO PRIMARY CILIA. Bryan H. Pratt, Nico N. Covello and Laurie B. Cook

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. THE USE OF A GENE CONSTRUCT THAT LACKS THE PROTEIN CODING REGION IN THE STUDY OF THE CONSERVATION, REGULATION, AND FUNCTION OF THE ENHANCER OF RUDIMENTARY GENE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Stuart Tsubota, Theodore Ryan

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. DESENSITIZATION OF MELANIN-CONCENTRATING HORMONE -MEDIATED ERK SIGNALING DESPITE POOR MCHR1 INTERNALIZATION. Andrew Goodspeed, Jay I. Moden, Stacy Wicks, Laurie B. Cook.

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. THE LOSS OF CADHERIN-11 IN THE MAMMARY GLAND RESULTS IN INCREASED APOPTOSIS AND DECREASED PROLIFERATION DURING BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS IN THE ADULT MOUSE. Megan Vos, Neha Sanyal, Kyle Klosowski, Kaitlin Krisko, Priya Singhal, Aashish Kumar, Julie R. Hens

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION: EXPLORING ANTIMICROBIAL LIPOPEPTIDES AT THE ATOMIC LEVEL. Joshua Horn, Jesse Sengillo, Alan Grossfield


Poster Presentations Grouped by subject (Sorted alphabetically by the last name of the first author)

The presenting author is highlighted in bold.

Analytical Chemistry 1. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A SERIES OF NEW PEPTIDE-BASED CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS. Faiza Filfil, Irene Kimaru Department of Chemistry, St. John Fisher College 2. INFLUENCE OF ALKYL SPACER ON PROPERTIES OF L-PHENYLALANINE ESTER CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS. Lydia Morris, Nicole Savage, and Irene Kimaru Department of Chemistry, St. John Fisher College 3. VALIDATION OF A RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS Zachary L. VanAernum, Nicole M. Gombert, Kacie L. Rich, Irene Kimaru, Fang Zhao, Parag Budukh, and Kimberly Chichester Department of Chemistry, St. John Fisher College

Environmental Chemistry 4. DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON PROFILE OF SUBWATERSHEDS OF CONESUS LAKE. Ryan Spector1, James Macisco1, Morgan Bida2, Annemarie D. Ross, Susan B. Smith2, A. Christy Tyler2, and Todd Pagano1 1Laboratory Science Technology Program, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 2Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 5. ASSESSING TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT IN NATURAL WATER AND WILD FRUITS. Gloria Wink, Stephanie Schroeder, Morgan Bida, A. Christy Tyler, Todd Pagano, and Susan B. Smith Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology

Inorganic Chemistry 6. SYNTHESIS OF TIN (II) HALIDE-PHOSPHINE COMPLEXES AND CHARACTERIZATION VIA 119SN AND 31P NMR SPECTROSCOPY. James Chambers, Briana Laubacker, Kristin Nichols Nazareth College 7. TIN II HALIDES AS CATALYSTS FOR THE METHYLATION OF OLEIC ACID. Matthew Gilligan, Elana Tontarski, Eliot Sachsenmeier, and Richard Hartmann Nazareth College 8. INVESTIGATION OF THE KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECT WITH TIN (II) BROMIDE AS A LEWIS ACID CATALYST FOR THE ESTERIFICATION OF OLEIC ACID Nandini Singh, Nicole Bayona, Richard W. Hartmann Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nazareth College


9. EXPLORATION OF NOVEL PHOSPHORUS(III) COMPLEXES OF 2-HYDROXOPYRIDINE N-OXIDE. Amber Wiltse, Bradley M. Kraft Department of Chemistry, St. John Fisher College

Organic Chemistry 10. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR REACTIVITY OF THE VITAMN B6 RING THROUGH PYRIDOXINE ANALOGS. Aashish Abraham, David Samuel, David Hilmey Department of Chemistry, St. Bonaventure University 11. PEPTIDE SCAFFOLDS FOR TARGETED MULTI-MODAL IMAGING AGENTS. Taylor M. Barrett, Zane R. Barnstien, Hans Schmitthenner Rochester Institute of Technology 12. METALLOPHTHALOCYANINE CATALYZED REACTIONS: C-H INSERTION VERSUS CYCLOPROPANATION. Robert W. Kubiak II, Brandon M. Belz, Dominic L. Ventura* Math and Natural Sciences Department, D’Youville College 13. METALLOPHTHALOCYANINE CATALYZED CYCLOPROPANATION. Robert W. Kubiak II, Dominic L. Ventura* Math and Natural Sciences Department, D’Youville College 14. DIHALIDE MONOMER SYNTHESIS FOR USE IN GRAPHENE NANORIBBON FABRICATION Kelly Morrison, Deena Butryn, David Samuel, Aditya Rao, Sarbajit Banerjee, David G. Hilmey Department of Chemistry, St. Bonaventure University 15. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF HIV-1 INHIBITOR DRUG CANDIDATE BMS-378806: THE ROLE OF BENZYL DERIVATIVES. McKenna Murphy, Emily Triplett, Stephen Tajc Nazareth College 16. SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPYLCARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVES ON THE ETHYLENE PATHWAY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Tri Nguyen, Michael Coleman School of Chemistry and Material Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 17. TOWARDS THE ANALYSIS OF SMALL MOLECULE HIV-1 VIRAL ENTRY INHIBITOR WITH GP120 ON SOLID SURFACE. Goodwell Nzou, Sarah Wazenkewitz, Jennah Wocolt and Stephen Tajc Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nazareth College of Rochester 18. A COMMON [3+2] CYCLOADDITION OF SINGLET OXYGEN TO VITAMERS OF VITAMIN B6. Aditya G. Rao, David Samuel, Kirsten Norrell, David G. Hilmey Department of Chemistry, St. Bonaventure University


19. ANTI-CANCER PROPERTIES OF WATERCRESS’S (Nasturtium officinale) GLUCONASTURTIIN. Marianne Stopper1, Brad Frate1, Eric Fuchs2 1State University of New York at Oswego, Department of Biological Sciences 2UNIBE-Universidad de Iberoamerica, San Josè, Costa Rica 20. PREPARTION OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS. 1Eric Sylvester, 2Annegret Stark, 1Markus M. Hoffmann 1SUNY Brockport 2Universität Leipzig

Physical Chemistry 21. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE BINARY SYSTEM CHLOROFORM WITH THE IONIC LIQUID 1-HEXYL-3-METHYLIMIDAZOLIUM BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYLSULFONYL)AMIDE ([C6MIM][NTF2]). David R. Saeva, Markus M. Hoffmann The College at Brockport, State University of New York, Department of Chemistry

Earth Science 22. OBSERVABLE TRENDS IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE FRESHWATER MOLLUSKS IN WESTERN NEW YORK STATE. Kate Bailey Nazareth College 23. EURYPTERIDS OF THE DEVONIAN OLNEY LIMESTONE (MANLIUS GROUP) OF CENTRAL NEW YORK. Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr. Peabody Museum of Natural History 24. IMPACT OF SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO ON THE CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM OF MONTSERRAT, W.I. Barb Dagata, Courtney Stein, Ashli Roberts, James Hewlett Finger Lakes Community College 25. MILLIMETER-SCALE ELEMENTAL VARIABILITY IN TUFA FROM THE MONO BASIN, CALIFORNIA. Victoria Jaskula, Paul Tomascak , Sidney Hemming Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY Oswego, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University 26. LONG-TERM TRENDS AND TROPHIC STATUS OF CONESUS LAKE 2012. Joshua M. LaFountain1, Joseph C. Makarewicz1, and Theodore W. Lewis1

1Department of Environmental Science and Biology, The College at Brockport - State University of New York 27. A COMPARITIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOUND AT A NEAR SHORE AND OFFSHORE REEF USING THE REEF CHECK PROTOCOL, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, W.I., SUMMER 2012. Melissa Miller, James Hewlett

Finger Lakes Community College


28. CHARTING A NEW ENERGY FUTURE IN CAROLINE, NY: PLANNING AND EVALUATING A PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS. Niamh O’ Leary1, Sharon Vitello2, Sharon Anderson3 1Professor of Environmental Studies, Wells College, 2Wells College Class of 2012,3Environment Program Leader, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tompkins County

Education 29. MEIOSIS CONCEPTS IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. Christina M. Catavero, L. Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology 30. INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK REPRESENTATIONS OF GENETIC PHENOMENA MAY FOSTER CONFUSION. Ben Tobin, L. Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology

Anatomy & Physiology 31. ARCTIGENIN IMPROVES GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN A STRAIN OF MIGHTY MICE. Mohammad Husain Bawany, Kathleen Savage. St. John Fisher College, Department of Biology 32. REMODELING OF THE PYTHON GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AFTER FEEDING Tori Cenzi, Adam Rich The College at Brockport

Animal Behavior 33. CHARACTERISTICS OF PLAY IN JUVENILE KILLER WHALES (ORCINUS ORCA) Brittany Coppinger, Michael Noonan Canisius College 34. GENDER SEGREGATION AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Alexandra Ferrente, Michael Noonan Canisius College 35. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEONATAL BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Elizabeth George, Michael Noonan Canisius College 36. CHARACTERISTICS OF OBJECT PLAY IN A BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Ashley Holmes, Michael Noonan Canisius College


37. DO FORAGING DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS EXHIBIT THREAT-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO CHEMICAL STIMULI ASSOCIATED WITH PREDATION? Elyse C. Johnson, Aaron M. Sullivan Department of Biology, Houghton College 38. FUNCTIONALITY IN TOOL USE IN WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLAS Matthew LeFauve Canisius College, Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation 39. CALL TYPES IN KILLER WHALES (ORCINUS ORCA) Lindsey Machnica, Michael Noonan Canisius College 40. WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA BEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT FROM 0 – 12 MONTHS OF AGE Macy Madden, Lindsey Perkes-Smith Canisius College 41. PERIODICITY IN THE CALL PRODUCTION OF CAPTIVE KILLER WHALES (ORCINUS ORCA) Susan May, Michael Noonan Canisius College 42. A LEFT-PREDOMINANT TURNING BIAS IN THE BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Lauren Mazikowski, Michael Noonan Canisius College 43. WHICH FACTORS INFLUENCE THE LENGTH OF STAY OF CATS IN A NO-KILL ANIMAL SHELTER? Kelsey Morgan, Bill Brown Division of Natural Sciences, Keuka College 44. UNDERWATER BUBBLING IN THE BELUGA WHALE (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Laura Stevens, Michael Noonan Canisius College 45. STABLE ASSOCIATIONS AMONG MALE BELUGA WHALES (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Jerrianne Whittmore, Michael Noonan Canisius College 46. TEMPORARY ASSOCIATIONS AMONG YOUNG BELUGA WHALES (DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS) Kristen Whyle, Michael Noonan Canisius College 47. LONG-TERM STABILITY THE VOCALIZATIONS OF KILLER WHALES (ORCINUS ORCA) Paul Wirth, Michael Noonan Canisius College


Botany 48. NOTABLE TREE AGES IN NATURAL PLANT COMMUNITIES OF UPSTATE NEW YORK. Bruce A. Gilman Department of Environmental Conservation and Horticulture, Finger Lakes Community College 49. THE EFFECT OF DAM REMOVAL ON PLANT SUCCESSION ALONG A RIPARIAN ZONE AT FALLBROOK POND, SUNY OSWEGO, NY. Marianne Stopper, Bethany Iqbal, Jessica Spencer, Lisa Cassidy, Samantha Smith, C. Eric Hellquist State University of New York at Oswego, Department of Biological Sciences

Cell & Molecular 50. C3H10T½ CELLS TREATED WITH PTHLP SHOW ALTERED EXPRESSION OF MICRORNAS THAT MAY TARGET CDH11. Kyle M. Alpha, Julie R. Hens Walsh Science Center, St. Bonaventure 51. MCH RECEPTOR LOCALIZATION: CONNECTING THE DOTS. Derek T. Bernacki, and Laurie B. Cook The College at Brockport 52. MCHR1 LOCALIZATION TO PRIMARY CILIA IN SHSY-5Y CELLS Nico N. Covello and Laurie B. Cook The College at Brockport, SUNY, Dept. of Biology 53. PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII MOTILITY MUTANTS. Sarah Hryzak, Mariana Reyes, and Noveera Ahmed Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 54. DETERMINING THE ROLE OF TUBULIN IN OPTIMIZING CILIA MORPHOLOGY & CHEMOSENSORY BEHAVIOR Nazish Jeffery, Daryl D. Hurd Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 55. TERMINATION SEQUENCE IS MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CROWDING AGENTS IN THE AMP REGION VERSUS MID GENE, INITIATION SEQUENCE AND ORI-P Lauren Kapus, Robert Greene Biology Department, Niagara University 56. PRION CONTAINING YEAST CELLS CAN BE VISUALIZED INVADING AGAR USING THREE INVASION ASSAYS Haeja A. Kessler, Yin Peng Lee, Prashanti Patil, Dylan S. Weil, Zachary Niziolek, Sean Aronow, Thomas Di Benedetto, and Irene M. Evans Rochester Institute of Technology


57. DISRUPTION OF CAVEOLAE LIPID RAFTS AND THE EFFECTS ON MELANIN-CONCENTRATING HORMONE RECEPTOR-1 LOCALIZATION: A PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDY. Colin King, Laurie B. Cook The College at Brockport, SUNY 58. PIEZO, A NEW MECHANICALLY GATED ION CHANNEL, IS EXPRESSED IN THE ZEBRAFISH GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT Kelly Marchionda, Alexander Viavattine, and Adam Rich The College at Brockport

59. ARTIFICIAL MICRORNA KNOCKDOWN OF HAP1 DISTURBS POLLEN FORMATION AND SPERM DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. Cecilia Mo, Xiao-Ning Zhang Department of Biology, St. Bonaventure University 60. EXPRESSION PATTERN OF ANOCTAMIN 1 IN THE ZEBRAFISH Cyrus Salehi, Tyler Steinhilber, Julie McGrath, Adam Brooks, Edward Capurro, Kris Dewaters, Kelly Hasman, Nataliya Ponomarova, Alesya Poplavskiy, William Valentino, and Adam Rich The College at Brockport

61. EFFECTS OF BPA ON STEROID HORMONE RECEPTOR MRNA’S IN ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO) Lindsay Sturnick and Edward Freeman, PhD. Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 62. THE EFFECT OF 20-HYDROXYECDYSONE ON THE REVERSIBLE MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSHYDROGENASE IN MANDUCA SEXTA. Kurt P. Vandock, Emily C. Perregaux, and Brianna M. Consiglio Houghton College 63. MCHR1-EYFP AND RHODAMINE-MCH COLOCALIZE TO PRIMARY CILIA IN 3T3-L1 CELLS. Stacy Wicks and Laurie B.Cook The College at Brockport, SUNY, Dept. of Biology

Ecology 64. WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS OF TWENTY STREAM SITES IN THE OSWEGO/FINGER LAKES WATERSHED. Grete Bader and William Hallahan Biology Department, Nazareth College 65. Fertilization effects on soil respiration, root respiration, and microbial respiration in northern hardwoods of New Hampshire Kikang Bae*, Ruth D. Yanai* Departments of Forest and Natural Resources and Management, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry


66. ECOSYSTEM SCALE IMPACTS OF SIMULATED EMERALD ASH BORER IN WESTERN NEW YORK FORESTS Rebecca Bernacki, Mark Norris The College at Brockport 67. A CHARACTERIZATION OF BLACK SPOT STREAMS IN THE SENECA LAKE WATERSHED. Shannon M. Beston, Susan F. Cushman Hobart and William Smith Colleges and The Finger Lakes Institute 68. SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION VARIES ALONG AN OLD FIELD SUCCESSION GRADIENT. Torri Ivancic, Daniel Potts Buffalo State College 69. ANALYSIS OF BONE MORPHOGENIC PROTEIN GENES FROM WHITE TAIL DEER. Andrew Mrzygut, Kelly Williams, Mark A. Gallo Biology Department, Niagara University, NY 14109 70. THE EFFECT OF UV AND GRAZING BY DAPHNIA PULICARIA ON E. COLI. Jeffrey Pyka1, Sandra J. Connelly, PhD2

1School of Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 71. OPTIMAL FORAGING OF SMALL MAMMALS: PREDATION OF HIGH AND LOW CALORIE PLANT SPECIES SEEDS IN FOREST AND OPEN MEADOW HABITATS Nikolaus N. Reff, C. Eric Hellquist SUNY Oswego 72. THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF IXODES SCAPULARIS AND THE LYME DISEASE BACTERIUM, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI AT SUNY OSWEGO’S RICE CREEK FIELD STATION. Zuzi E. Salais, Timothy F. Braun, C. Eric Hellquist State University of New York at Oswego, Department of Biological Sciences 73. POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACULTATIVE BACTERIAL ENDOSYMBIONTS. Narayan Wong, John Jaenike University of Rochester Biology Department 74. RELATING SOIL FERTILITY AND PLANT COMPETITION TO COMMON BUCKTHORN (RHAMNUS CATHARTICA L.) INVASION SUCCESS. Julia York and Mark Norris Department of Environmental Science and Biology, The College at Brockport SUNY

Evolution 75. PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA. Larry Buckley, Alexandra Cooper Rochester Institute of Technology


Genetics 76. THE ROLE OF DNM1 IN MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME STABILITY IN BUDDING YEAST. Julie McGrath, Rachel Folts, and Rey A. Sia. Department of Biology, The College at Brockport – State University of New York 77. THE ROLE OF Rad52p ISOFORMS IN NUCLEAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION EVENTS. Laura Pankowski, Hugo Avalos, Matthew Luther, Christopher Prevost, Emily Whiteside, and Rey A. Sia. Department of Biology, The College at Brockport – State University of New York 78. CONSTRUCTION OF AN E(R) VECTOR LACKING THE PROTEIN CODING REGION FOR USE IN STUDYING THE CONSERVATION, EXPRESSION, AND FUNCTION OF THE E(R) GENE. Theodore Ryan, Stuart Tsubota State University of New York, The College at Brockport, Department of Biology 79. GENE ANNOTATION OF HYROGENOBACTER THERMOPHILUS DSM 6534. Henry Shawna, Dr. Roll David Roberts Wesleyan College Rochester, DOE Joint Genome Institute

80. MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOTYPE VARIATION IN LAKE STURGEON, ACIPENSER FULVESCENS (RAFINESQUE, 1817), OF THE GREAT LAKES BASIN Michelle Lynne Weatherell and Larry Buckley Rochester Institute of Technology

Microbiology, Immunology & Virology 81. BACTERIAL ISOLATION FROM THE GENESEE RIVER AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE Sarah Bowen, Maryann A.B Herman Department of Biology, St. John Fisher College 82. THE VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS MATRIX PROTEIN REGULATES NF-B ACTIVATION IN L929 CELLS. Ashley M. Dunham, Christopher Ried, Warren J. Hammond, Andrew Varble, Maureen C. Ferran Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 83. DEVELOPMENT OF A SAFE UNDERGRADUATE VIROLOGY LABORATORY COURSE USING AN ALGAL VIRUS. Maureen Ferran, Ph.D, Erika De Bonte, Katherine Barbaccia, Nur Faseeha Suhaimi, Renée Thiemann Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 84. ISOLATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS BACTERIOPHAGE FROM HUMANS. James P. Lioi, Mark A. Gallo Ph.D. Biology Department, Niagara University


85. ANALYSIS OF STAPHYLOCOCCI ISOLATED FROM WHITE TAIL DEER. Alexandra Mancuso, Lynnea Felton, Mary Gallo, Mark A. Gallo Biology Department,Niagara University, NY 14109 86. REGULATION OF IFN MRNA EXPRESSION IN VSV-INFECTED L929 CELLS Kaitlin A. Marquis, A.Totten, M. Ferran, Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 87. PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED GLDE IS NOT INVOLVED IN FLAVOBACTERIUM JOHNSONIAE GLIDING MOTILITY. Reed McElfresh, Ryan Rhodes Department of Biology, St Bonaventure University 88. THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF A CAUSATIVE AGENT TO THE FEATHERLOSS DISORDER FOUND IN AFRICAN PENGUINS (SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS). Stephen Mele, Kristin Picardo, Gregory Cunningham, Daryl Hurd Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 89. CHARACTERIZATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCI ISOLATED FROM MASTITIC CATTLE. Kyle Nugent, Mark A. Gallo Biology Department, Niagara University 90. PRODUCTION OF TISSUE-SPECIFIC NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOMOLECULE DELIVERY. Fernando Ontiveros Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 91. INVESTIGATION OF BACTERIAL SPECIES IN LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOIL Mark Prunella-Miller, Maryann Herman Biology Department, St. John Fisher College

Neurobiology 92. NEPHROCYSTINS AND TUBULINS INTERACT IN CILIATED SENSORY NEURONS OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS Linda Childs and Daryl Hurd Biology Department, St. John Fisher College 93. VISUALIZATION OF NOVEL GUIDEPOST CELLS IN DROSOPHILA OLFACTORY MAP DEVELOPMENT Emily R. Wexler, Jay-Christian P. Helt, Jennifer Clark and Huey Hing The College at Brockport, Department of Biological Sciences


Bioremediation & Toxicology 94. DEGRADATION OF BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING MATERIALS IN SOIL ECOSYSTEMS. Chaz Feathers1, Anna Bower2 and Jeff Lodge1 1Thomas Gosnell School of Life Science, 2College of Applied Science and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology 95. HYDROPONIC REMOVAL OF BISPHENOL A BY PHYTOREMEDIATION WITH PHASEOLUS VULGARIS AND TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE. Ariel Kubissa Nazareth College

Physics 96. MEASUREMENTS OF Rb MOT CLOUD CHARACTERISTICS. Joseph Engelbrecht, Bruce Thompson Department of Physics, Ithaca College 97. ARRHENIUS CALCULATIONS FOR THERMAL DESORPTION OF WATER FROM POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) FILM. Thorin Kane1, Ross Netusil2, Anastasia Yorke1, Carolina C. Ilie1 1Physics Department, SUNY Oswego. 2Chemistry Department, SUNY Oswego 98. DO STUDENT CURIOSITY QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS COURSES PREDICT FUTURE SUCCESS? Anastasia Yorke1, Katrina Hay2, Carolina C. Ilie1

1Department of Physics, SUNY Oswego, 2Department of Physics, Pacific Lutheran University


Acknowledgements Conference Co-Chairs Maryann Herman, Biology Department Noveera Ahmed, Biology Department Michael Boller, Biology Department Greg Cunningham, Biology Department Program Production Jonathan Holz, Biology Department Logistical Support Joseph Wyborski, SJFC Business Development Coordinator Technical Support SJFC Office of Information & Technology Rochester Academy of Science Jutta Dudley (President) Printing Larry Wells, SJFC Central Services Signage Kevin Johnson, SJFC Poster and Sign Studio Poster Frames and Easels Larry Buckley, Rochester Institute of Technology William Hallahan, Nazareth College Funding from St. John Fisher College David Pate, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences Eileen Lynd-Balta, Interim Provost Special Thanks To All Conference Presenters and Participants!


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