2017 Research Presentations

Tran, S., Sardiu, M., Gogol, M., Washburn, M., Workman, J.L. and Dutta, A., 2017, Composition of mutant Swi/Snf complexes, RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Providence RI, June 2

Lally, A., Holmes, W., 2017, Determining the Effects of N-Terminal Acetlyation on the Microtubule Associated Protein Tau., Alzheimer’s Association Regional Meeting, Providence, RI.

Anderson, J., Holmes, W., 2017, Expression of Tau in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Determine the Effects of N-terminal Acetylation , Alzheimer’s Association Regional Meeting, Providence, RI.

Nayyab, S., Roohani, K., O’Connor, M., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. , 2017, Probing Gram-positive cell wall physiology with small molecule inhibitors of bacterial N-acetylglucosaminidases, Gordon Research Conference Carbohydrates, Mount Snow, VT, June 25-30

Haubrich, B.A., Saladino, M., Petteruti, A., Li, Q., Nayyab, S., Gravier, J., Chen, Y., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. , 2017, Towards target deconvolution of diamide inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae., Gordon Research Conference Carbohydrates, Mount Snow, VT, June 25-30

Nayyab, S., Haubrich, B.A., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. , 2017, Streptococcus autolysins as therapeutic targets by diamides, Northeast Regional IDeA Symposium, Burlington, VT, Aug 16-18

Jena, P.V., Mittal, J., Heller, D.A., Safaee, M., Roxbury, D., 2017, Experimental and Computational Approaches to Explore the the Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotube Biosensing, The 231st Electrochemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 28 – June 1

Safaee, M., Hunter, A., Roxbury, D., 2017, Probing the Intrinsic and ECM-Degraded Internalization of DNA-Carbon Nanotubes in Multicellular Tumor Spheroids, 2017 Northeast Regional Idea Conference (NERIC), Burlington, VT, August 16-18

Agudelo, A., Grissom, L., Achilli, T., Stilwell, G., 2017, Age-dependent degeneration in an identified leg motor neuron in a Drosophila model of ALS, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, Nov. 11-15.

Avalos, L.P., Islam, A.A., Rebelo, A.M., Towle-Weicksel, J.B. , 2017, Melanoma Derived DNA Polymerase Theta Variants Exhibit Altered Polymerase Activity *Award Winning*, 27th Annual Harry Allen Jr, Symposium, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 8

Avalos, L.P., Rebelo, A.M., Towle-Weicksel, J.B. , 2017, Melanoma Derived DNA Polymerase Theta Variants Exhibit Altered Polymerase Activity, RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

Towle-Weicksel, J.B., 2017, DNA Polymerase: Guardians of Genomes and Instigators of Instability, 28th Annual Harry Allen Jr, Symposium, Clark University, Worcester, MA, September 30

Avalos, L.A., Victorino, J., Towle-Weicksel, J.B., 2017, Characterizing the Biochemical Pathway of Melanoma Derived DNA Polymerase Theta Mutations, 2017 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 19-21

Mellone, J., Cullen, N., and Williams, L.E., 2017, Prey range and predatory phenotype of soil Bdellovibrio, Boston Bacterial Meeting, Boston, MA, June 15-16, 2017

Zheng, Y., 2017, Micro and Nanoscale Thermal Transport, Seminar, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Mechanical Engineering

Zheng, Y., 2017, Near-field Radiative Energy, Momentum and Entropy Transfer, Seminar, Brown University, Physics

Zheng, Y., 2017, Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport Phenomena and Their Engineering Applications, Seminar, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Mechanical Engineering

Zheng, Y., 2017, Nanocale Thermal Biosensing Using Photonic Metamaterials, Seminar, Smart Therapies Research Cluster (STRC)

Ghanekar A., Zheng, Y., 2017, Novel Thermal Emitter For Photovoltaic Applications, ASTFE 2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2017

Javaheri, A.ugrd , Zhu, V.ugrd *, Suhanovsky M., Deaconescu, A.M. , 2017, Interaction of DNA Polymerase IV (DinB) in Escherichia Coli with Termination/Anti-termination protein NusA and Transcription-repair Coupling Factor, Mfd., RI-INBRE SURF Symposium, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Lewis, S., Gonzalez, K., Higgins, K., 2017, Characterization of a Ni(II) and Co(II)-Responsive Metalloregulator, North East Regional IDeA Conference, Burlington, VT, August 16-18.

Higgins, K., Surette, V., Swanson, G., Miller, A. Gonzalez, K., McGowan, M., Lewis, S., 2017, Characterization of KmtR from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington DC, August 20-24

Higgins, K., Swanson, G., Miller, A., Surette, V., Gonzalez, K., McGowan, M., 2017, Purification and Characterization of a Ni(II) and Co(II) Responsive Transcriptional Regulator from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Providence, RI, June

Ke Bian, Ang Cai, Fangyi Chen, Qi Tang, Bongsup Cho, Deyu Li#, 2017, “Bypass efficiency and mutagenesis assays of site-specific arylamine DNA adducts in cell”, 254th ACS National Meeting, Washington DC, 2017.

Michael Vittori, Ke Bian, Fangyi Chen, Qi Tang, Deyu Li#, 2017, “Comprehensive kinetic study of ALKBH2 and related family enzymes”, 254th ACS National Meeting, Washington DC, 2017.

Williams, L., Zappia, L., 2017, Isolating and characterizing predatory bacteria from the built environment., Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 22-26, 2016.