Nayyab, S., Saladino, M., Belval, J., Haubrich, B.A., Symington, S.B., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “Chemogenomic screening of antimicrobial diamides in Streptococcus pneumoniae”. ACS Fall National Meeting, Boston, MA. August 19, 2018.
Onyundo, M., Sanborn, M., Timmel, V., Austriaco, N. “Genetic Characterization of Programmed Cell Death in Aneuploid Yeast Cells”. American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago IL. April 14, 2018.
Haak, V., Haverly M, McBride, T, Austriaco, N. “The Parkinson’s Disease Protein alpha-synuclein Alters the Microenvironment of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae“. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego CA. April 21, 2018.
Stanley, E., Wilson-Wuestefeld, A., Axen, H. “Assessing the Effects of Exposure to the Fungal Pathogen Metarhizium anisopliae on Grooming Behavior and Survivorship in the Pavement ant (Tetramorium caespitum)”. New England Natural History Conference. Burlington VT. April 23, 2018.
Axen, H. “Understanding and Preventing Epidemics: What Can We Learn from Social Insects?” Biology Department Invited Lecture Series, Roger Williams University, Bristol RI. November 7, 2018.
Bertin, M. “Investigating the chemical potential of a Trichodesmium bloom uncovers a treasure trove of new metabolites”. 2nd US-China Summit on Marine Natural Products Sciences, San Diego CA. August 13-15, 2018
Duncan, O., Villon, V., Vito. A., Cook, E.C. “Differential stress response to a performance based and interpersonal stressor”. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Philadelphia PA. March 1, 2018.
Fernandez, M., Windrow, J., Cook, E.C. “The impact of high quality friendships on stress reactivity and substance use”. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Philadelphia PA. March 1, 2018.
Gilchrist, E., Small, A., Dougherty, E. “A Computational Approach for Constructing an Intracellular Signaling Pathway Mathematical Model with Application to Parkinson’s Disease”. Association of Women in Math and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Brown University, Providence RI. November 17, 2018.
Small, A., Dougherty, E. “Reverse Engineering a Mathematical Model of a Dopaminergic Neuron with Application to Parkinson’s Disease”. Spuyten Duyvil Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CT. April 28, 2018.
Tran, K., Sardiu, M., Gogol, M., Washburn, M., Workman, J.L., Dutta, A. “Composition of mutant Swi/Snf complexes”. RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 8, 2018.
Hunt, S., Santos, Y. Espinosa, A. “Effects of Purified Plant Extracts and Homologous Commercial Derivatives on Entamoeba histolytica growth”. American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting. San Diego CA. April 21, 2018.
Gabrielle, M., Paz-y-Miño-C.G., Espinosa, A. “Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar as Models for Kin Recognition through Fluorescent Assays”. 53rd NCHC Annual Conference. Boston MA. November 7, 2018.
Gabrielle, M., Espinosa, A. “Isolation and characterization of alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenases (ADHE) from the Entamoeba lineage”. American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting. San Diego CA. April 21, 2018.
Espinosa, A., Paz-y-Miño-C.G. “Kin Recognition in Protists and other Microbes: A Synthesis”. International Society of Protistology (ISoP) Meeting, Vancouver Canada. July 28, 2018.
Goldfield, B., Bazin, A., Newman, R., Silvia, S. Petagna, K. “Comprehending words for actions”. 58th Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester MA. November 10, 2018.
Higgins, K.A., Surette, V., Swanson, G., Miller, A., Gonzalez, K., McGowan, M., Lewis, S. “Investigating Metal Binding to KmtR”. RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 8, 2018.
Griffith, Alijah A., Holmes, W. “A highly efficient, one-step purification of the Hsp70 chaperone Ssa1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae”. Protein Society Annual Meeting. Bostin MA. June 9, 2018
Holmes, W., Lally, A., Griffith, A.A., Anderson, J. “Determining the effects of N-terminal acetylation on protein homeostasis”. RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 8, 2018.
Lally, A., Holmes, W. “Determining the Effects of N-Terminal Acetylation on the Microtubule Associated Protein Tau”. American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting. San Diego CA. April 21, 2018.
Griffith, A.A., Holmes, W. “Effective One-step Purification of the Hsp70 class chaperone Ssa1”. Protein Society Annual Meeting, Boston MA. June 18, 2018.
Anderson, J., Lally, A., Holmes, W. “Expression of Tau in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Determine Effects of N-Terminal Acetylation”. Protein Society Annual Meeting, Boston MA. July 9-12. 2018.
Forest, C., Blasi, D., Dayal, P., Lacey, S., Lacey, H. “Seeking reassurance from diagnostic testing: Decision making for genetic testing using the Possibility Probability Questionnaire”. Annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester MA. November 9, 2018.
Lacey, H., Lacey, S., Blasi, D., Everson, K., Mahan, K., Miller, R. “Sensitivity to probabilities and emotional reactivity predict responses to mass shooting”. 30th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco CA. May 24, 2018.
Dhamecha, D., Menon, J.U. “Fabrication of novel porous polymeric microspheres as substrates for cancer spheroid growth”. AAPS PharmSci 360, Washington DC. November 4, 2018.
Menon, J.U. “Polymeric nano/microparticles for management of pulmonary diseases”. Short presentation for the Department of Thoracic Oncology, Lifespan Hospital, Providence RI September 24, 2018.
Mozzer, A., Meschwitz, S. “Synthesis and biological evaluation of analogs of a bacterial secondary metabolite for antagonism of quorum sensing phenotypes”. 256th ACS National Meeting, Boston MA. August 19, 2018.
Martin, N., Meschwitz, S. “Synthesis and biological evaluation of phevalin and related pyrazinones as potential quorum sensing inhibitors”. 256th ACS National Meeting, Boston MA. August 19, 2018.
Munge, B. “Electrochemical Immunosensor for Simultaneous Determination of IL-6 and IL-22 in Serum using Nanostructured electrode Array coupled to PEG-multilabeled Magnetic particle and a microfluidic device”. 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans LA, March 18, 2018.
Ramsey, M.T., Almeida, E., Perera, D., Mark Welch, J. “Identifying Mechanisms that Dictate Spatial Organization of the Human Oral Microbiota”. Boston Bacterial Meeting, Cambridge MA. May 30, 2018.
Ramsey, M.T., Almeida, E., Perera, D., Mark Welch, J. “Mechanisms Underlying Spatial Interaction in the Oral Microbiota”. Mark Wilson Conference of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Duck Key FL. February 9, 2018.
Haubrich, B., Rochefort, L., Saladino, M., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “AccesSARizing the teaching laboratory”. American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, Boston MA. August 19, 2018.
Rochefort, L., Saladino, M., Haubrich, B., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “Lord of the Rings – SAR in Gram-positive pathogens”. 2nd Annual Northeast Glycoscience Symposium, Northeastern University, Boston MA June 7, 2018.
Rochefort, L., Haubrich, B., Saladino, M., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “Microwave-assisted organic synthesis (MAOS) of diamides for antimicrobial structure-activity study in Gram-positive pathogens”. American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, Boston MA. August 19, 2018.
Nayyab, S., Saladino, M., Belval, J., Haubrich, B., Symington, S., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “One Strep at a Time: Chemogenomic screening of antimicrobial diamides in Streptococcus pneumoniae” American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, Boston MA. August 19, 2018.
Nayyab, S., Saladino, M., Haubrich, B., Basu, A., Reid, C.W. “Strep by strep: Screening and Characterization of diamide inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae growth”. American Society for Microbiology MICROBE National Meeting, Atlanta GA, June 7, 2018.
Safaee, M., Roxbury, D. “Design of Advanced Non-Toxic Flame Retardants Based on DNA and DNA Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA October 28, 2018.
Gravely, M., Roxbury, D. “Aggregation State Determines Uptake, Intracellular Processing, and Long-Term Fate of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Mammalian Cells”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA. October 28, 2018.
Roxbury, D. “Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications”. Complex Fluids Workshop, Yale University, New Haven CT March 31, 2018.
Safaee, M., Roxbury, D. “Design of Advanced Non-Toxic Flame Retardants Based on DNA and DNA Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA. October 28, 2018.
Roxbury, D. “Probing the Intracellular Fate of Carbon Nanotube-Based Near-Infrared Sensors”. Electrochemical Society General Meeting, Seattle WA July 26, 2018.
Hosni, S.I., Besio, W., Shahriari, Y. “A Comparison Between Spatial Filtering Techniques Based on Conventional Methods and Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrodes” 7th Brain-Computer Interface Meeting. Pacific Grove CA May 21, 2018 & Brown Mind Brain Research Day, Providence RI March 27, 2018
Deligani, R.J., Carmack, C.S., Heckman, S M., McCane, L.M., McFarland, D.J., Vaughan T.M., Wolpaw, J.R., Zeitlin, D J., Krusienski, D.J., Shahriari, Y. “Alterations in Connectivity During Use of a P300-based BCI by Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”. 7th Brain-Computer Interface Meeting. Pacific Grove CA May 21, 2018
Borgheai, B., Abtahi, M., Mankodiya, K., Shahriari, Y. “Towards a Single Trial fNIRS-based Brain-Computer Interface for Communication”. 7th Brain-Computer Interface Meeting. Pacific Grove CA May 21-25, 2018
Borgheai, B., Abtahi, M., Mankodiya, K., Shahriari, Y. “Towards an fNIRS-based Brain-Computer Interface for Communication”. Brown Mind Brain Research Day March 25, 2018
Sharp, K.H., Klein, A., Howard, R., Schickle, A. “Astrangia poculata as a model for investigating microplastics pollution”. 3rd Annual Astrangia Research Workshop, Bristol, RI August 2, 2018
Sharp, K.H. “The Hidden Corals of New England: The coral Astrangia poculata as an emerging model system for studying host-microbe interactions in the face of disturbance and climate change”. Weekly Biology Research Seminar, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography. Narragansett RI September 26, 2018
Sharp, K.H., Pratte, Z., Kerwin, A., Rotjan, R., Stewart, F. “Using temporal and environmental patterns in the diversity and composition of the Astrangia poculata microbiome to identify drivers of coral microbiome assembly”. International Symbiosis Society Congress, Corvallis OR July 15, 2018
Shen, J. “IVIVC of Complex Parenteral Polymeric Microspheres and Semi-Solid Applications”. 13th Annual USP 4 Application Seminar, Westborough MA June 6, 2018
Stilwell, G. “Age-dependent changes in axonal architecture of an identified leg motor neuron in a Drosophila model of ALS”. RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 8, 2018.
Templer, V.L. “Does social housing protect against cognitive decline due to aging?” International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach California April 18, 2018
Templer, V.L. “Memory systems in nonhuman animals: Metamemory as a key aspect of episodic memory”. Brain Colloquium Series, invited speaker, CLPS Program, Brown University. Providence RI. March 18, 2018.
Towle-Weicksel, J.B. “DNA Polymerases: Guardians of Genomes or Instigators of Instability”. Cheminar, Providence College, Providence, RI October 5, 2018
Rebelo, A. “Labeling DNA Polymerase Theta with 5-FAM Cadaverine”. SACNAS Regional Meeting, Worcester, MA April 21, 2018
Victorino, J., Towle-Weicksel, J.B., “Melanoma Derived DNA Polymerase Theta Variant Exhibits Altered DNA Polymerase”. 32nd Annual Protein Society Meeting, Boston MA July 9, 2018
Victorino, J. “Melanoma-Derived Active Site Mutation of Human DNA Polymerase Theta Exhibits Altered Polymerase”. SACNAS Regional Meeting, Worcester MA April 21, 2018
Rebelo, A., Victorino, J., Towle-Weicksel, J.B. “Site-specific Labeling of DNA Polymerase Theta with 5-FAM cadaverine”. 33rd Annual Protein Society Meeting, Boston MA July 9, 2018
Clark, M., Kraus, A., Higgins, J., Gallant, B., Arruda, D., McTigue, C., Li, X., Guo, H., Chen, H., Cui, Y., Di, W., Wan, Y. “Development of hydrolytically activated, oxygen-generating biomaterials to enhance drug efficacy on cultured ovarian cancer cells”. Experimental Biology, San Diego CA April 18, 2018
Higgins, J., Kraus, A., Clark, M., Gallant, B., Arruda, D., McTigue, C., Ma, H., Seeram, N. P., Guo, H., Chen, H., Cui, Y., Wan, Y. “Effects of botanicals and purified phenolic compounds on NFkB pathway in cultured human skin keratinocytes and fibroblasts”. Experimental Biology, San Diego CA April 18, 2018
Mangiamele, J., Zappia, L., Brown, N., Privat, F., Williams, L.E. “Comparative genomics, prey range and plaque phenotype variation of Bdellovibrio isolated from a drain”. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Leipzig Germany. August 12, 2018
Martinez, K., Oser, M., Cullen, N., Mellone, J., Williams, L.E. “Investigating variation in predation via phenotypic and genomic comparisons of Bdellovibrio from bioswale soil and type strain HD100.”. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Leipzig Germany. August 12, 2018
Zappia, L., Mangiamele, J., Williams, L.E. “Phenotypic variation and genomics of Bdellovibrio predatory bacteria from the built environment”. Experimental Biology annual meeting, San Diego CA April 21, 2018
Casale, A., Williams, L.E. “Prey range and comparative genomics of Bacteriovorax stolpii isolated from snails in an urban stream”. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Leipzig Germany. August 12, 2018
Martinez, K., Oser, M., Williams, L.E. “Variation in predation phenotype among predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio“. Experimental Biology annual meeting, San Diego CA April 21, 2018
Zheng, Y., Ricci, M A PDMS Elastomer-based Microfluidic Platform for Aqueous Chemical Sensing 2nd Annual Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR Research Symposium, Kingston RI. April 9, 2018
Tian, Y., Ghanekar, A., Zheng, Y. “Experimental Investigation of Mie-Metamaterial-based Thermal Emitters for Thermophotovoltaics”. ASTFE 3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Fort Lauderdale FL. March 1, 2018
Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, and Zheng, Y. “High Contrast Photonic Thermal Diode”. ASTFE 3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Fort Lauderdale FL. March 1, 2018
Zheng, Y. “Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport”. Research Seminar. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China. October 22, 2018
Zheng, Y. “Nanomaterials for Engineering Applications”. Nanomaterials for Engineering Applications, Seminar. Rhode Island College. Providence RI. October 5, 2018
Zheng, Y. “Near-field Thermal Radiative Transport and its applications”. Research Seminar. Sichuan University. Chengdu, China. June 22, 2018
Zheng, Y. “Thermal Photonics for Energy”. Research Seminar Tsinghua University. Beijing China. July 11, 2018