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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.

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