{"id":14357,"date":"2015-04-02T13:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=14357"},"modified":"2021-10-22T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:21:17","slug":"14357_biology-students-win-at-macub-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2015\/04\/02\/14357_biology-students-win-at-macub-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Students win at MACUB Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSAM students represented our college superbly at the 47<sup>th<\/sup> annual Metropolitan Association for College and University Biologists (MACUB) Conference held at Molloy College. The meeting was held on November 1, 2014. Montclair students&#8217; posters made up 14 of the 140+ that were presented.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Students &amp; Presentations<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>Myla Ramirez<\/strong>, <strong>Alessandra Rossi<\/strong>, <strong>Edward Wong<\/strong>, Meiyin Wu and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>Comparison of Selected Enterococcus and E. coli Detection Methods in Recreational Waters.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Kaitlyn Socha<\/strong> and <strong>Raed Atiyat<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Characterization and Comparison of Helitron Tandem Repeats in O. sativa<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Anum Aftab<\/strong>, Lee H. Lee and Sandra D. Adams<\/dt>\n<dd>Effect of Black Tea Extract on Herpes Virus Type-2 Infection of A549 cells<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Developmental Biology and Genetics 1<sup>st<\/sup> place (tie)<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Shivani N. Patel<\/strong>, Lee H. Lee and Sandra Adams<\/dt>\n<dd>Green Tea Polyphenols, EGCG and EGCG-Stearate as Potential Inhibitors of Herpes simplex virus-1 in Human Epithelial A549 Cells.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Kevin Marques<\/strong>, <strong>Christopher Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Hassan Tahir<\/strong> and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>Green Tea Polyphenols Inhibit Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Cody Berkefeld<\/strong>, Sandra D. Adams, and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>In Vitro Synergistic Antiviral Activity of Black Tea Theaflavins and Acyclovir on Herpes Simplex Virus Types 1 and 2 in A549 Cells<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Masters\/Doctoral<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>James Stamos<\/strong>, Sandra D. Adams and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>Inhibition of HSV-2 in Vero Cells by EGCG and EGCG-Stearate<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Microbiology and Immunology 1<sup>st<\/sup> place<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Brianna D\u2019Elia<\/strong>, <strong>Claudia Ko<\/strong>, <strong>Ramona Nadres<\/strong>, <strong>Nelson Casanova<\/strong>, <strong>Alexa Decker<\/strong>, <strong>Emily Whitney<\/strong> and Julian Paul Keenan<\/dt>\n<dd>Jazz flies: Can Adult Drosophila Melanogaster Discriminate Consonant from Dissonant Tones.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Fanaye Woldeamanuel<\/strong> and Carlos Molina<\/dt>\n<dd>Mapping the Ubiquitination Sites of the Transcriptional Repressor ICER<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Christopher Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Hassan Tahir<\/strong> and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>Study the Effect of Different Tea Polyphenols on the Biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Microbiology and Immunology 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Ayuni Yussof<\/strong>, <strong>Syed Samy<\/strong> and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>Synergistic Effect of Green Tea Polyphenols with Antibiotics on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Masters\/Doctoral<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Valerie Paschalis<\/strong> and Quinn Vega<\/dt>\n<dd>The Effects of EGCG-stearate and DMSO on the Cellular Processes of HSV-1 Infected Vero cells.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Bushra Ali<\/strong>, <strong>Hassan Tahir<\/strong>, and Lee H. Lee<\/dt>\n<dd>The Effects of Lipophilic Green Tea Polyphenols in Controlling Endospore Germination in Bacillus cereus<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Developmental Biology and Genetics 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place (tie)<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Elizabeth Y. Flores<\/strong> and Quinn C. Vega<\/dt>\n<dd>Transcriptional Changes that Occur in Response to the Activation of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase RET<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Masters\/Doctoral<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Maria Carvalho<\/strong>, <strong>Dena Restaino<\/strong>, <strong>Nashali Ferrara<\/strong>, <strong>Zachary Fetske<\/strong>, <strong>Isabella Pastore<\/strong>, Paul A.X. Bologna, and John J. Gaynor<\/dt>\n<dd>Use of qPCR to Map the Distribution and Seasonal Changes in Early Developmental Forms of the Altantic Sea Nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"award\">Award: Senior College 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>Attached Media<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/in-vivo-2014.pdf\">MACUB IN VIVO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 undergraduate and 3 graduate students took home 7 of the 20 awards given out in the poster competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":114357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-biology-coastal-sciences","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207496,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14357\/revisions\/207496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}