January
Molecular Neuroscience - Session 1

February
Molecular Biology Research Techniques

March
Functional Genomics of Membrane Transport

Molecular Neuroscience - Session 2

Methods in Developmental Biology

April
34th Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium

May
Environmental Toxigenomics

June
9th Annual Quantitative Fluorescent Microscopy

Structure and Function of Polarized Epithelial Cells

Satellite Workshop to the Gordon Conference on Mytotoxins and Phycotoxins

Int'l Symposium on principles of Calcium signaling

July
14th Annual Environmental Health Sciences Symposium

August
Mount Desert Island Stem Cell Symposium

September
Health Management of Laboratory Fish

Harvard University Course

POSTER SESSION ROSTER (as of 04/17/07)

Please note: Posters are indexed by first author. Additional authors may be attending to present the poster, but are not listed below.

Michael Angelichio University of New England Drosophila melanogaster as an Animal Model System for Studying Vibrio cholerae Pathogenesis Kelly Bakulski Colby College Antimicrobial properties of purified skin peptides from the Mink Frog (Rana septentrionalis) against bacteria from the natural habitat Tara Bergin Colby College Juvenile hormone mimic methoprene’s influence on eastern black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) and painted lady (Vanessa cardui) territoriality and aggressive behavior Haley Bridger Bowdoin College Obtaining Mitochondrial DNA sequence information from human follicle mites Lura Caddle Jackson Laboratory The Role of Xrcc2 and P53 in Developing B-Lymphocytes Christopher Cashman Bowdoin College A Comparative Analysis of Orcokinin Family Peptides Detected In The Commissural Ganglia Of Decapod Crustaceans: Sequences And Distributions Across Infraorders Sarah Dobrowolski University of New England AFM Characterization of Native and Mutant Fibrinogen Andrew Doyle University of Maine Non-classical Export of Signal Peptide-less Proteins Studied via Vibrational Spectroscopy and Liposome Destabilization Techniques Deborah DuDevoir University of New England Bacterial Flora Associated with the Green Crab (Carcinus maenus) : Geoffrey Ganter University of New England Ecdysone modulates sexual behavior in adult male fruit flies Julia Germaine Colby College Phylogeography and Demographic History of Gray Foxes, Urocyon cinereoargenteus Kay Gonsalves Bates College Beta-Naphthoflavone Induced Inhibition of Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Promoter Driven Luciferase Activity Is Not Mediated Via Putative Dioxin Response Elements Justin Guay Unversity of Maine The role of Death Associated Protein Kinase 2 in ischemic kidney damage Katharine Harmon Colby College Transcription targets of D-Pax2 activity in Drosophila sensory systems. Valerie Johnson University of Maine Higher order chromatin folding of the active and inactive X chromosomes in mice Jessica Kaplan Colby College Cyclic patterns of innate immune system activity in zebrafish Kristen Keough University of New England The ATP hydrolysis Activity of the RAD51 Recombinase of Schizosaccharomyces pombe John Lowery University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine In vivo characterization of MMP2200, a mixed delta/mu opioid agonist, in mice Neil Marya Bates College Characterization and Mapping of Glutamate Receptor-Containing Neurons in Helisoma trivolvis through Immunocytochemistry Elizabeth McAndrew University of New England AFM Characterization of Diabetic Cardiomyocytes Christopher McCarty The University of Maine Generating a knockout construct of Serac1, a gene involved in vertebrate spermatogenesis Amanda McGarry Colby College Mate Choice and Immune Function in the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata NiQuita Parker University of New England Biochemical Characterization of the RAD22 Recombination Mediator Protein of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Lisa Ralph University of Maine at Machias Paternity Analysis of Squalus acanthias Jennifer Rochira Maine Medical Center Research Institute and the University of Maine at Orono Neurotrophin Receptor-Interacting Melanoma-Associated Antigen Homolog as a Target for the Development of Novel Treatments for Medulloblastomas Szymon Rus Bowdoin College Sulfakinin Peptides: Sequences, Predicted Peptides and Physiological Effects in the Lobster Homarus americanus Jesse Salisbury Functional Genomics Ph.D. program, University of Maine Probe-level analysis of microarrays as a tool to delineate alternative mRNA transcript processing Denry Sato Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Serum- and Glucocorticoid-Inducible Kinase-1 Regulation of Human Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Elizabeth Scannel Bates College Pharmacological Characterization of Excitatory and Inhibitory Glutamate Receptors in Buccal Neurons B5, B19, and B27 in Helisoma trivolvis Kether Scharff Gray University of New England Auto-Orientation and Manipulation of G-wire DNA Networks Sarah Smiley Colby College Transcriptional regulation of D-Pax2 in Drosophila external sensory organs. Kathy Snow Jackson Laboratory/ Functional Genomics Program 3-D organization of amplified c-myc and IgH loci in lymphoma cell nuclei Sarah Sterling University of Maine Enabling Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy of a Model Cellular Membrane comprising a Cushioned Phospholipid Bilayer Evan Timusk Univ. Maine Machias Genetic Variation in a Population of Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) from the Gulf of Maine Crystal Tolman University of New England Biochemical Characterization of the RAD54 Protein of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Tenzin Tsewang Colby College Characterization of AFN1, a gene associated with cereal grain germination Rebecca Wood University of New England Biochemical Characterization of the Role of the RecQ Helicase and Topoisomerase III in the Suppression of Illegitimate Recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Zachary Zalinger Colby College Antimicrobial properties of purified skin peptides from the Mink Frog (Rana septentrionalis) against bacteria from the natural habitat

The 2007 Maine Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium is organized and supported by the Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence.