Recent Presentations of Research at Professional Conferences and Symposia

2010-2011

Dr. Fadi Bou-Abdallah

  • Justin McNally and Fadi Bou-Abdallah; “Characterization of Several L-Ferritin Mutants that Cause Neuroferritinopathy”. Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, NY, April 2, 2011 (NCUR Booklet, P. 108, Sat 9:10-9:30 a.m.) (Oral presentation)
  • Tyson Terpstra and Fadi Bou-Abdallah; “Iron Binding and Oxidation at the Trinuclear Ferroxidase Center of E. coli Bacterial Ferritin (EcFtnA)”, 2nd Annual Chemistry Research Symposium, Northern New York Local Section of the American Chemical Society, April 16, 2011, SUNY Potsdam (Oral presentation)
  • Tyson Terpstra and Fadi Bou-Abdallah; “Human Serum Transferrin Interaction with the Soluble Portion of the Receptor: An Isothermal Titration Calorimetry” Study. Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, NY, March 31, 2011 (NCUR Booklet, P. 130, Tripod 18A) (Poster presentation)
  • Tyson Terpstra; SUNY Potsdam; “New Insights into the Odd Iron Oxidation Stoichiometry and the Role of the C-Site in E. Coli Bacterial Ferritin (EcFtnA)”. Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, NY, March 31, 2011 (NCUR Booklet, P. 127, Tripod 20C) (Poster presentation)
  • Justin McNally and Fadi Bou-Abdallah; “Rapid Release of Iron from Ferritin by BHT Chelate Ligands”. Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, NY, March 31, 2011 (NCUR Booklet, P. 131, Tripod 22A) (Poster presentation)
  • Brenna Cooper and Fadi Bou-Abdallah; “Characterization of Iron Oxidation and Mineral Core Formation in Recombinant Heteropolymer Ferritins”. Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, NY, April 1, 2011 (NCUR Booklet, P. 156, Tripod 15C) (Poster presentation)

  • Fadi Bou-Abdallah “Moving Away from a Teacher-Centered Paradigm” The 19th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference, Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley. Eben Holden Conference Center, St Lawrence University, Canton, NY, Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Dr. David Gingrich

  • David Gingrich, Jan Trybula: “The Development of Biochemistry Laboratories Centered on Hemoglobin”, 2011 CCLI-TUES PIs Conference, Washington, D.C., January 26-28, 2011 (Poster presentation)
  • David Gingrich: “Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology (EB) 2011” American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 2011, Washington DC, April 9-13, 2011 (Poster presentation)
  • David Gingrich: “Promoting Concept Driven Teaching Strategies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology through Concept Assessments” Northeast Regional ASBMB-UAN Leader’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Concept Workshop (RCN-UBE, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, January 29, 2011 (Poster presentation)
  • David Gingrich: ASBMB Northeast UAN Region advisors meeting, ASBMB meeting, Washington, DC, April 24, 2011 
  • David Gingrich: 37th Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM 2010) of the American Chemical Society, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010 (Poster presentation)

Dr. Maria Hepel

*Invited Talks

  • *Maria Hepel: (Invited talk) “Resonance Elastic Light Scattering (RELS) Spectroscopy for Monitoring Biomolecule Induced Gold Nanoparticle Assembly”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Oral presentation)
  • *Maria Hepel: (Invited talk)  “DNA Unwinding and Oxidative Damage Caused by Toxicants”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Oral presentation)
  • Jeffrey Deeb, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Studies of homocysteine interactions with fluorosurfactant-capped gold nanoparticles”.  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Sara Cutler, Magdalena Stobiecka, and Maria Hepel: “Prooxidant and antioxidant roles of quercetin in DNA interactions”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Kaitlin Coopersmith, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Nanomaterial surface energy transfer (NSET) between multiple fluorescent dyes and gold nanoparticles”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster )presentation
  • Zachary Reed, Justine Barcomb, Magdalena Stoiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Flow-cell nanogravimetric immunosensing for the detection of glutathione”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Amanda Prance, Kaitlin Coopersmith, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “DNA sensors for the assessment of DNA damage by atrazine”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Nicole Trombley, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Novel detection methods for nitryrosine based on plasmonic coupling and FRET”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Hui Xu, Robert Wallace and Maria Hepel:  “Interaction between Brilliant Yellow dye and bovine serum albumin”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY.( Poster presentation)
  • Indee Dela and Maria Hepel:  “Nucleation and growth of semiconducting WO3 films studied by AFM”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Zachary Reed and Maria Hepel:  “Novel Ligand-Exchange Technique for rapid functionalization of monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles”  The 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 22-26, 2010, Boston, MA. (Poster presentation)
  • Zachary Reed, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Novel Antibody-Bases Nanostructured Biosensors for glutathione oxidative-stress biomarker”  The 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 22-26, 2010, Boston, MA. Poster presentation
  • Amanda Prance, Kaitlin Coopersmith and Maria Hepel:  “DNA Interacolation biosensors for studies of interactions of herbicides and pesticides with DNA”  The 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 22-26, 2010, Boston, MA. (Poster presentation)
  • Sara Cutler, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Electrochemical reactivity and interactions of quercetin with DNA in the presence of Ca(ii) ions:  The 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 22-26, 2010, Boston, MA. (Poster presentation)
  • Robert Wallace (faculty advisor); Maria Hepel:  “Interactions between phenol red dye and BSA”  National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), March 31-April 2 2011 Ithaca, NY (Poster presentation)
  • Amanda Prance, Kaitlin Coopersmith  (faculty advisor) Maria Hepel:  “DNA sensors for the assessment of DNA damage by atrazine”  National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), March 31-April 2 2011 Ithaca, NY (Poster presentation)
  • Kaitlin Coopersmith, Janet Peachey (faculty advisor) Maria Hepel:  “Paraquat and Cateched-Mediated DNA damage”  National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), March 31-April 2 2011 Ithaca, NY( Poster presentation)
  • Robert Wallace and Maria Hepel:  “Interactions of the bovine serum albumin with organic dye molecules”  2nd Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry & Biology Research Symposium of the Northern NY section of the American Chemical Society, April 16, 2011, SUNY Potsdam, NY.  Robert’s poster received 3rd prize for the best research poster presented at this meeting.
  • Kaitlin Coopersmith, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel:  “Monitoring of the interactions of biomarker of the oxidative stress-glutathione with gold nanoparticles using elastic light scattering”  2nd Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry & Biology Research Symposium of the Northern NY section of the American Chemical Society, April 16, 2011, SUNY Potsdam, NY (Poster presentation)
  • *Maria Hepel and Magdalena Stobiecka: (Invited talk)  “Microsensor arrays for determination of biomarkers of oxidative stress”  The Electrochemical Society Meeting, Montreal, Canada  May 1-6, 2011  (Oral presentation)

Dr. Anthony Molinero

  • Amanda Dickson and Anthony A. Molinero:  “Synthesis of Derivatives of DW2282”.  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Anthony A. Molinero and Jered Federman: “Forensic Science at SUNY Potsdam”  The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Poster presentation)
  • Amanda Dickson and Anthony A. Molinero: “Synthesis of Derivatives of DW2282”  2nd Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry & Biology Research Symposium of the Northern NY section of the American Chemical Society, April 16, 2011, SUNY Potsdam, NY.

Dr. Clifford Rossiter

  • Matthew McCabe and Clifford Rossiter: “Development of site-selective metal ion prochelators for investigation of metal ion homeostasis in bacteria”  Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM2010) (Poster presentation) 
  • Melanie Hadden, Julie Haynes, Brittney Mathieu and Clifford Rossiter:  “ Development of Novel Antibiotics with a New Mechanism of Action”  American Chemical Society, The 2nd Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry and Biology Research Symposium  (Poster presentation)
  • Clifford Rossiter:  (Invited Chemistry Seminar)“Development of site-selective metal ion prochelators for investigation of metal ion homeostasis in bacteria”, Ithaca College, NY October 2011 (Oral presentation)

Dr. Martin Walker

  • Martin Walker: "Green Chemistry in the High School Laboratory." The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM 2010, June 2-5 Potsdam, NY. (Oral presentation)
  • Martin Walker:  Organizer of a day long symposium to honor my PhD adviser: "James B. Hendrickson: Fifty Years of Computers in Organic Chemistry".  235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA
  • Martin Walker: "Wiki Resources for Chemical Education" 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA (Oral presentation)
  • Martin Walker:  "Wikis in Education" First Annual Technologies in Education, Albany, NY, May 17, 2011 (Oral presentation)
  • Martin Walker: Two presentations: "Getting the Most Out of MediaWiki." (Three hour workshop) and "Wiki-based Resources in Education." (Oral presentation)  21st Conference on Instruction & Technology, Oneonta, NY, May 24-27, 2011

2010

  • Dr. Fadi Bou-Abdallah

    • Justin McNally, Huidong Yang, Mohan Rajasekaran, Kim Watson, Simon Andrews, and Fadi Bou-Abdallah.  “Characterization of Metal Binding to EfeO, an Iron Transport Protein from Escherichia coli”  Poster presented at NERM2010, SUNY Potsdam, June 2-5, 2010
    • Adeola Awomolo, Huidong Yang, Mark Woodhall, Simon C. Andrews, N. Dennis Chasteen, and Fadi Bou-Abdallah. “Iron Oxidation and Mineral Core Formation in the Non-Heme Escherichia coli Ferritin, EcFtnA”.  Poster presented at NERM2010, SUNY Potsdam, June 2-5, 2010
    • Banu Kandemir, Ashley N. Steere, Anne B. Mason, N. Dennis Chasteen, and Fadi Bou-Abdallah. “Interaction of the Human Serum Transferrin with its Receptor.”  Poster presented at NERM2010, SUNY Potsdam, June 2-5, 2010
    • Brenna Cooper, Paolo Santambrogio, Sonia Levi, N. Dennis Chasteen, and Fadi Bou-Abdallah. “The Iron Oxidation Mechanism in Recombinant Heteropolymer Ferritins.”  Poster presented at NERM2010, SUNY Potsdam, June 2-5, 2010
    • Justin McNally, Xing Xin Liu, Artem Melman, and Fadi Bou-Abdallah. “Oxygen Catalyzed Mobilization of Iron from Ferritin by Chelate Ligands.”  Poster presented at NERM2010, SUNY Potsdam, June 2-5, 2010
    • Justin McNally and Fadi Bou-Abdallah.  A look Into Our Iron Reserves: The Story of Ferritin and the Mechanism of Iron Uptake and Release.  Poster presented at the Legislative Office Building in Albany New York, April 13, 2010.

      Justin McNally was one of two students who represented SUNY Potsdam at the “SUNY Undergraduates Shaping New York’s Future: A Showcase of Scholarly Posters” conference in Albany, NY.

  • Dr. David Gingrich

    • Huidong Yang and David Gingrich “Cloning a Histidine-rich Loop of the CrMTP1 Protein of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 2010 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 23-27, 2010.

  • Dr. Maria Hepel

    • Z. Reed, N. Trombley, R. Wallace, Magdalena Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Novel Antibody-based Nanostructured Biosensors for Glutathione Oxidative-stress Biomarker”
      National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, August 22-26, 2010
    • K. Coopersmith, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer between Functionalized Coumarin Dyes and Gold Nanoparticles” National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, August 22-26, 2010
    • S. Cutler, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Electrochemical Reactivity and Interactions of Quercetin with DNA in the Presence of Cu(II) ions”
      National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, August 22-26, 2010
    • K. Coopersmith, A. Prance, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “DNA Intercalation Biosensors for Studies of Interactions of Herbicides and Pesticides with DNA”
      National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, August 22-26, 2010
    • M. Hepel
      “Resonance Elastic Light Scattering (RELS) Spectroscopy for Monitoring Biomolecule-Induced Gold Nanoparticle Assembly” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • M. Hepel
      “DNA Unwinding and Oxidative Damage Caused by Toxicants” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • Indee Dela and M. Hepel
      “Nucleation and Growth of Semiconducting WO3 Films Studied by AFM” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • S. Cutler, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Prooxidant and Antioxidant Roles of Quercetin in DNA Interactions” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • K. Coopersmith, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Nanomaterial Surface Energy Transfer (NSET) between Multiple Fluorescent Dyes and Gold Nanoparticles” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • J. Deeb, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Studies of Homocysteine Interactions with Fluorosurfactant-capped Gold Nanoparticles”
      The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • Zachary Reed, J. Barcomb, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Flow-cell Nanogravimetric Immunosensing for the Detection of Glutathione” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • A. Prance, K. Coopersmith, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      "DNA Sensors for the Assessment of SNA Damage by Atrazine” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • N. Trombly, M. Stobiecka and M. Hepel
      “Novel Detection Methods for Nitrotyrosine Based on Plasmonic Coupling and FRET” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • R. Wallace, Hui Xu and M. Hepel
      “Interaction Between Brilliant Yellow Dye and Bovine Serum” The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • Magdalena Stobiecka, Jeffrey Deeb and Maria Hepel
      “Resonance Elastic Light Scattering Assays Based on Selectively-Cross-linked Gold Nanoparticle Network Assemble”  The Pittcon Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy”,Orlando, FL.,  February 28-March 4, 2010
    • Anna Nowicka, Agata Kowalczyk, Zbigiew Stojek and Maria Hepel
      “Quartz Crystal Nanobalance and Voltammetric Approaches for DNA Hybridization Detection.  Influence of Cv(VI), pesticides and herbicides on DNA Biosensor Response” The Pittcon Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy”,Orlando, FL., February 28-March 4, 2010
    • Kaitlin Coopersmith, Magdalena Stobiecka and Maria Hepel
      “Resonance Energy Transfer in a Multi-component Fluorescent Dye System Influenced by Gold Nanorod Quadrupole Surface Plasmon Coupling”  The Pittcon Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy, Orlando, FL, February 28-March 4, 2010

  • Dr. Martin Walker

    • 234th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, August 22-26, 2010.
      1. "Green chemistry in the high school laboratory"
      2. "Developments in Chemistry Resources on Wikipedia"
    • "Wikimania 2010", Gdansk, Poland, July 9-11.
      1. Workshop: "Creating offline versions of Wiki content"
      2. Talks + workshop: "Wikipedia Offline"
    • John Montgomery
      "Cleavage of ketones in the presence of a hydrated lanthanide triflate" The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
    • Jeffrey Snyder
      "Esterification of carboxylic acids using alkoxysilanes in the presence of dysprosium(III) triflate"
      The Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (NERM), SUNY Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010

2009

  • Dr. Maria Hepel

    • Maria Hepel and Magdalena Stobiecka
      “Resonance Elastic Light Scattering Assays for Oxidative Stress Based on Selectively-Cross-linked Gold Nanoparticle Network Assembly”
    • 4th International Conference on Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Disease
      The New York Academy of Sciences, New York City,
      October 28-30, 2009
    • Magdalena Stobiecka, Kaitlin Coopersmith and Maria Hepel
      “Study of Resonance Elastic Light Scattering and Fluorescence Energy Transfer in Rhodamine B Modified Spherical Au Nanoparticles and Nanorods”
      The Materials Research Society, Boston, MA,
      November 30-December 4, 2009
  • 11th International Fischer Symposium on "Microscopy in     Electrochemistry", Center for Environment and Culture, Benediktbeuern,     Germany, July 26-31, 2009.
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        ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, March 22-26, 2009

         
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        19th Annual Great Lakes Consortium Conference, Syracuse, NY, March 13-14,     2009.

         
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        ACS Northern New York Section, Graduate/Undergraduate Symposium, Potsdam,     NY, April 4, 2009.

         

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