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Miller and Levin: Floral size and shape evolution following the transition to gender dimorphism

Ambika Kamath'11, Rachel A. Levin, Jill S. Miller

American Journal of Botany
VOLUME 104, 2017

Trapani Lab: “Intensity-dependent timing and precision of startle response latency in larval zebrafish.”

Eileen Troconis’15, Alex Ordoobadi’15, Tom Sommers’16, Razina Aziz-Bose’14, Ashley R. Carter, & Josef G. Trapani

May 2016. The Journal of Physiology

Clotfelter Lab: “Seeing orange: breeding convict cichlids exhibit heightened aggression against more colorful intruders”

Caleb Anderson, Ryan Jones, Michelle Moscicki, Ethan Clotfelter, and Ryan Earley

2016. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 647-657. 10.1007/s00265-016-2085-3

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The GEP: Crowd-Sourcing Big Data Analysis with Undergraduates

Students in the 2009-2011 Biology 191 courses contributed to the annotation part of this project.

Clotfelter Lab: “Dietary carotenoids and bacterial infection in wild and domestic convict cichlids (Amatitlania spp.)”

Alexandria C. Brown, Matthew D. Cahn’13, Sara Choi’13, and Ethan D. Clotfelter

2016. Environmental Biology of Fishes 99: 439-449. 10.1007/s10641-016-0485-x

Trapani Lab: “Natural Bizbenzoquinoline Derivatives Protect Zebrafish Lateral Line Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside Toxicity”

Matthew Kruger, Robert Boney, Alexander J. Ordoobadi’15, Thomas F. Sommers’16, Josef G. Trapani & Allison B. Coffin

March 2016. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Graf Lab: “Rab3-GEF Controls Active Zone Development at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction”

Haneui Bae, Shirui Chen, John P. Roche, Minrong Ai, Chunlai Wu, Aaron DiAntonio, & Ethan R. Graf

eNeuro, March/April 2016, 3(2) e0031-16.2016, 1-19

Loss of rab3-GEF results in a phenotype indistinguishable from the rab3 mutant.

Poccia Lab: A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation

Poccia, D.L. (2016) A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation.
Int. J. Dev. Biol. 60: 209-219.

Poccia Lab: The Use of Two-Photon FRET-FLIM to Study Protein Interactions during Nuclear Envelope Fusion in vivo and in vitro

Byrne, R.D., Larijani, B. and Poccia, D.L.

2016 Methods in Molecular Biology 1411: in press.
In, The Nuclear Envelope: Methods and Protocols

FRET–FLIM techniques have wide application in the study of protein and protein–lipid interactions in cells.

Miller Lab: Correlated polymorphism in cytotype and sexual system within a monophyletic species, Lycium californicum

JS Miller, A Kamath'11, BC Husband, RA Levin

Hood Lab: Distribution and population structure of the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum silenes-acaulis parasitizing an arctic-alpine plant

Bueker, B., Eberlein, C., Gladieux, P., Schaefer, A., Snirc, A., Bennett, D. J. Begerow, D., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T.

BIOL-450 Physiology Poster Session

Genetic Analysis Symposium Event

Yeast Symposium
April 11, 2017 Poster Session: 9:30am – noon, MCLS 3rd floor Lobby
Refreshments from Atkins Farm

The Trapani lab at the 29th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference

On the last Sunday of February, Prof Trapani took a campus van loaded with 7 students from his lab (6 undergrads plus a UMass graduate student) to the 29th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. (NorthEast Undergraduate Research On Neuroscience) Conference at Quinnipiac University in CT. Four of the students presented their own research and Christina Hansen ‘17 won best poster out of over 100 posters presented that day. In addition to a keynote talk, the students spent time at the poster session and attending 1-hour workshops before sharing lunch with other conference attendees.

Jeong Lab: Professor Jeong publishes article in The Journal of Biological Chemistry

Published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2016

MacDiarmid CW, Taggart J, Jeong J, Kerdsomboon K, and Eide DJ

“Activation of the yeast UBI4 polyubiquitin gene by Zap1 viaan intragenic promoter is critical for zinc-deficient growth”

Stability of many proteins requires zinc. This work highlights the importance of the ubiquitin-proteasome system for protein homeostasis when zinc supplies are inadequate in cells.

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Students in the 2009-2011 Biology 191 courses contributed to the annotation part of this project.

“Activation of the yeast UBI4 polyubiquitin gene by Zap1 viaan intragenic promoter is critical for zinc-deficient growth”