Science Student Enrichment-CSTEP
Sponsored by the NYS Dept. of Education

Dr. Edward J. Catapane, Program Director

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Presented at the 34th Annual Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists Conference, October 2001

Study of Heavy Metal Accumulations in the American Oyster Crassostrea virginica in Jamaica Bay, NY. S. Persaud,¹ K. Lett,² M. A. Carroll,¹ E. J. Catapane¹ and G. Sarinsky,^{2 1}Medgar Evers College and ²Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carroll.

Rehabitation of the American Oyster Crassostrea virginica in Jamaica Bay, New York. W. Barrerio,¹ S. Edwards,¹ E. Nduka,²  E. J. Catapane² and G. Sarinsky;^{1 1}Kingsborough Community College, ²Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ebere Nduka.

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.

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.

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.

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: Edward J. Catapane.

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 Massachuset, 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 1}Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY and the Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, ²University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Faculty Mentor: Anthony Udeogalanya.

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. Duckles ² and J. Buchholz.^{2 1}Dept. of Biology, Medgar Evers College and ²Loma Linda Univ. Sch. of Med. and Coll. of Med. Univ. of Calif. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nduka.