10th CSTEP Conference, April 2002

Presented at the 10th Annual Statewide CSTEP Conference, April, 2002

Osteoclast Function in an Osteogenesis Imperfecta Murine Model.
Joy Drummond and Ines Vigil,¹ Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ¹Hospital for Special Surgery. Faculty Mentor: Mozaffar Hassan.

Rehabitation of the American Oyster Crassostrea virginica in Jamaica Bay, NY.
W. Barreiro and S. Edwards, Medgar Evers College and Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn NY. Faculty Mentors: E. Nduka and G. Sarinsky.

Study of Heavy Metal Accumulations in the American Oyster Crassostrea virginica in Jamaica Bay, NY.
S. Persaud¹ and K. Lett,² ¹Medgar Evers College and ²Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY. Faculty Mentors: M. Carroll and G. Sarinsky.

Genes Encoding Proteins Responsible for the Biosynthesis of Daunorubicin in the Actinomycete NS3-166.
Kedra Cyrus, Leong May Ling¹ and Nga Been Hen¹. Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ¹National University of Singapore. Faculty Mentor: Charles desBordes.

Investigating and Analyzing the Phenotypic Qualities of K14 Downless Transgenic Mice.
Julia Ebanks, Johanna Pispa¹ and Irma Thesleff¹, Department of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ¹Department of Developmental Biology University of Helsinki. Faculty Mentor: Charles desBordes.

Genes Encoding Proteins responsible for the Biosynthesis of Tetracenomycin (TCM) in the Actinomycete Strain NC4.
Julia Graham, Bok Chek Mei¹ and Nga Been Hen¹, Dept of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ¹Dept. of Microbiology, National University of Singapore. Faculty Mentor: Charles desBordes.

Isolation of a putative Arabidopsis indole pyruvate decarboxylase gene by RT-PCR.
Pascale Pierre¹ and Jennifer Normanly,^{2 1}Department of Biology, Medgar Evers College Brooklyn, NY and ²the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Faculty Mentor: Mohsin Patwary.

The Diversity of Bacteria in Human Milk.
Anne-Marie Holland,¹ Mari Heikkilä², Shea Beasley² and Per E. J. Saris,^{2 1}Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY and ²University of Helsinki. Faculty Mentor: Charles desBordes.

Trapping One Conformation of DNAK, a E-cdi Hsp70 Protein, using Chemical Cross Linking.
Claudia Pyke,¹Joanna Feltman-Swain² and Lila Gierasch,^{2 1}Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY and the ²Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Faculty Mentor: Carolle Nicolas-Bolnet.

Identification of eNOS in Pellets and Supernatants Using Western Blotting Techniques.
Shelton Charles,¹ Jazmin Liu,² E. Mbaku,² C. Hewitt,² S.P. Duckles² and J. Buchholz.² ¹Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ²Loma Linda Univ. Sch. of Med. and Coll. of Med. Univ. of Calif. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nduka.

Molecular Characterization of a cDNA encoding an aldolase enzyme in sea scallop.
A. Wauchope, E.J. Catapane and M. Patwary. Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY. Faculty Mentor: Mohsin Patwary.