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General Scientific Meetings
General Scientific Meeting and Young Scientist Symposium
Wednesday, August 9, 2006



8:45 am Inhibition of first cleavage modifies MAP kinase activity and embryonic patterning in squid.
Crawford, Karen

9:00 am Immune cell migration in allografts of the marine sponge Microciona prolifera: a confocal microscopic study.
Himic, Lisa, Ellen Faszewski, Jane C. Kaltenbach, Xavier Fernandez-Busquets, Max Burger

9:15 am Functions of the blood clot in the immune defenses of long-lived animals
Armstrong, Peter B., Margaret T. Armstrong

9:30 am Heterochronic development of the locomotory systems in thepolychaete Capitella sp. I.
Hill, Susan D., Barbara C. Boyer

9:45 am Characterization of cathepsin in the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
*Schiller, Zachary A., Christina Romano, Steven B. Roberts

10:00 am A functional signature of the development and regeneration of hair cells.
Levic, Snezana

10:15 am Break

10:45 am Genomic organization of hox genes in an anciently asexual animal, the bdelloid rotifer Philodina roseola.
Welch, Jessica Mark, Matthew Meselson

11:00 am Characterization if disease resistance in Crassostrea virginica through gene expression analysis
Bermingham, Mairead, C. Romano, S. Roberts

11:15 am Chemical redox cycling induces cyanide insensitive respiration in lung epithelial cells.
Gray, Joshua P., Michael P. Shakarjian, Peter J. S. Smith, Diane E. Heck, Jeffrey D. Laskin

11:30 am Characterization of trans-epithelial sodium-dependent proton transport using self-referencing microsensors.
Shakarjian, Michael P., Joshua P Gray, R. Paul Malchow, Peter J. S. Smith, Jeffrey D. Laskin, Diane E. Heck

11:45 am Slow Calcium Waves Help to Drive Fast Axonal Transport
Jaffe, Lionel

12:00 pm Break

1:30 pm Visualizing with the centrifuge polarizing microscope hemoglobin stratification and deformation of human and Amphiuma red blood cells,
Inoué, Shinya, Joseph F. Hoffman

1:45 pm Dry mass distribution derived from orientation-independent DIC coupled with LC-Pol image
Shribak, Michael, James LaFountain, David Biggs, Shinya Inoué

2:00 pm Natural selection at multiple levels: Selection for higher growth rates is linked to mitochondrial variation in Neopomacentrus filamentosus,
Barber, Paul H., Laurent Vigliola, Elizabeth Jones, Mark Meekan, Devin Drown, Peter Doherty

2:15 pm Genetic connectivity of pelagic fishes (Katsuwomis pelamis and Scomberomus commerson) across the Indo West Pacific.
*Jackson, Alexis, Paul H. Barber

2:30 pm Break

3:00 pm Tracking Nemo: gene flow and genetic structure in the clownfish Amphiprion ocellaris
*Chavarria, Krystle L., Paul H. Barber

3:15 pm Comparative phylogeography of giant clams throughout the Indonesian Archipelago.
*Subia, Matthew, Paul H. Barber

3:30 pm Comparative phylogeography of surgeon fish across the Indo-West Pacific
*Pfeiffer, Vera, Paul H. Barber

* Denotes undergraduate scientist