Virtual Biology Day- Agenda from Fall 2021

Live Event is December 4. 2021 from 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Virtual Booths are open till Spring 2022.

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To preview a student’s research, click on their project title. Linked text will underline when you hover over them. 

vBio Day Agenda

10:30 – 11:00am: Biology and MARC Information Session

Biology professors will go over the basics of our Undergraduate Biology program and also go over the MARC U*STAR program, which provides training, support, and mentorship for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds interested in pursuing a PhD in the biomedical sciences with the ultimate goal of enhancing diversity in the biomedical sciences.

11:00 – 11:30am: Welcome Remarks and Rapid Fire Presentations

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11:30am – 12:15pm: Session A Presentations

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Student Authors/ Poster & Room #	Title
Taqdees Gohar Poster/Room 1	Sex and Strain Differences in Working Memory in the Rats
D’Erica Boskie Poster/Room 2	Exploring the role of SBTs on stomatal development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Julianna Jimenez Poster/Room 3	The Use of Barr Bodies to Determine Sex in Samples of Forensic Significance
John Crespo Poster/Room 4	Pilot Study Reveals Reduced Sleep Increases Sensitivity to Chemical Nociception in Drosophila melanogaster
Sienna Casciato Poster/Room 5	Characterizing Genetic Mechanisms for Measuring Day-Length in Neurospora crassa
Anthony Monte Carlo (MARC) Poster/Room 6	Inactivation Kinetics of G-Quadruplex/Hemin Complex and Optimization for More Stable Catalysis
Teresa Osorio Poster/Room 7	A Quantitative Approach to Examine Levels of Inorganic Polyphosphate in Annelida
Christina Suoto Poster/Room 8	Characterizing Seizure Susceptibility in a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Familial Hemiplegic Migraine
Sashoya S. Dougan Poster/Room 9	Investigating the Origin of Novel Reptile-infecting Adenoviruses

12:15pm – 12:50pm: Session B Presentations

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Student Authors	Title
Liliana Berrios Poster/Room 1	The effects of warming and nutrient enrichment on rates of ecological change: preliminary data from an ongoing meta-analysis
Lisa Traczyk Poster/Room 2	Generation of higher-ordered mutants in stomatal-related receptors
Malaika Mahmood Poster/Room 3	A Machine-Vision Approach for Automated Locomotor Recovery Evaluation at Millisecond Timescales
Jannat Fareen Poster/Room 4	Baseline variation in Arthropod diversity and abundance in the NJ Pinelands: the first step in long term ecological research on the impacts of climate change
Kinjal Mody Poster/Room 5	Modifying the Rat Grimace Scale for the Sub-Second Assessment of Acute Pain
Anthony Monte Carlo (495) Poster/Room 6	Photon energy transfer along DNA nanowires enabled by G-Quadruplex Enhanced Fluorescence
PPBR Team Brainiacs: Donaira Dent, Sashoya Dougan, Chelsea Guarrera, and Swetha Samuel Poster/Room 7	Understanding the effects of Stress on ALS Symptomology in Drosophila melanogaster
PPBR Team Exerflies: Alexis Winters, D’Erica Boskie, Julianna Jimenez, Makeda Smalls, and Andrew Carpen Poster/Room 8	Establishing Drosophila melanogaster as a Model Organism for Anxiety Research

12:50pm – 1pm: Student Prize Awards and Closing Remarks