Following are sample publications and presentations since 2000 which have significantly involved the research of undergraduate students within the Department of Biological Sciences. For each citation, the undergraduate students are indicated by underlining.

Undergraduate (underlined) Publications

Smith, R.A., C. Calviello, A. DerMarderosian and M.E. Palmer. 2000. Evaluation of antibacterial activity of Belizean plants: An improved method. Pharmaceutical Biology 38: 25-29.

Pierce, J. C., G. Tan and P. Gaffney. 1999. Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay Populations of the Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus are Genetically Distinct. Estuaries 23: 690-698.

Mihalov, J. J., A. DerMarderosian., and J. C. Pierce. 2000. Molecular Identification of Commercial Ginseng Species. J. Agric. Food Chem. 48: 3744-3752.

Smith, R.A, E. Anderson, and D. Wolenski 2000. Using tobacco rhizogenesis to introduce students to science process skills. Amer. Biol. Teacher 62: 445-447.

Smith, R. A., G. Burns, B. Freud, S. Fenning, R. Hoffman, and Sabapathi, D. 2000. Demonstrating type I and type II errors using Rhizopus spore diameter data. Amer. Biol. Teacher 62: 654-657.

Smith, R. A., S. Drummond, A. Haines, Porter, J. and Hock, R. 2001. Induction of umbelliferone in sweet potato cell suspension culture using mercuric chloride. Biotechnology Letters 23: 1397-1400.

Nguyen, T., J. Eshragi, G. Gonyea, R. M. Ream, and Smith R. A. 2001. Studies on factors influencing stability and recovery of paclitaxel from suspension media and cultures of Taxus cuspidate cv Densiformis by high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A 911: 55-61.

M. Braun*, W. Ding* and S.K. Murphy. “Regulatory interactions of PIP2-PLC, PC-PLD and PKC in cultured mouse fibroblasts.” Molecular Biology of the Cell, 14:1472(2003).

C. O’Brien, D. Lakic and S.K. Murphy. “HSP70 levels are elevated in fibroblasts overexpressing cellular Ras protein.” Molecular Biology of the Cell, 15:361a (2004).

Undergraduate (underlined)Presentations

Bilbow, A., M.A. Reinhart, M.R. Kasschau 1999. Responses of Different Classes of Earthworm Coelomocytes (Leukocytes) to changes in Osmolarity. Paper presented at the American Society of Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, DC, December, 1999 (also presented at the Eleventh Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by the USP Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 2000; Association for Woman in Science Annual Research Poster Competition, April 2000; and the St. Joseph University Eleventh Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2000).

Wlodyka, B., H. Dhillon, and K. Thomulka 2000 Comparison of the sensitivity of bioluminescence reduction in Vibrio harveyi to an E. coli strain containing the lux operon. J. Penna. Acad. Sci.73:185. Presented at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science annual meeting, April 2000, also at St. Joseph's Undergraduate Research Symposium and the USIP Undergraduate Research Symposium.

L. Sperber, A. Bilbow, and M.R. Kasschau 2000. The Effects of Increased Osmotic Pressure on Earthworm Coelomocyte (Leukocyte) Cell Body Size and Filopodia Formation. Paper presented at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2000 (also presented at the Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by the USP Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 2001; St. Joseph University Twelfth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2001).

S.K. Murphy, R. Kareem, Y. Lai and J. Worobiej 2000. Effects of Overexpression of Cellular ras vs. Mutated ras. Paper presented at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2000 (also presented at the Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by the USP Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 2001; St. Joseph University Twelfth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2001).

Chiariello, C. and J.C. Pierce 2000. Identification and Characterization of the Genomic Structure and Promoter Sequence of the Polyphemusin Gene, an Antimicrobial Peptide found in Limulus
polyphemus. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

George, C., S. Farrell and J.C. Pierce 2000. The Identification of Herbal Compounds by Direct DNA Sequence Analysis. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (also at the St. Joseph University Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Farrell, S., C. George and J.C. Pierce 2000. Improved PCR Primers and Nested-Sequencing Primers for the Molecular Analysis of Herbal Plant Samples. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Tan, G.S. and J.C. Pierce 2000. A Novel Method for the Identification of Highly Polymorphic Small Tandem Repeats (STR's) from any Genome. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Chiariello, C. and J. C. Pierce, 2001. Advanced PCR Techniques for Capturing Flanking Genomic DNA Sequences. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Burke, B. and J. C. Pierce, 2001. Molecular Genetic Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay Population of the Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Dunbar, T. and J. C. Pierce, 2001. Identification of “Unknown” Bacteria Using 16S Ribosomal RNA Sequencing. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Gramp, J., E. Soderblom, R. Singh, S. Mathews, and K. Thomulka, 2001. Measurement of toxicity of assorted weed and pest control agents by reduction in luminescence in Vibrio harveyi. Presented at the Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at USP, April 2001 (also at the St. Joseph’s University twelfth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2001).

Sperber, L. M. and M. R. Kasschau, 2001. Effects of cytochalasin on filopodia formation in earthworm coelomocytes. Paper presented at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in Washington, DC, December 2001 (also presented at the Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by USP Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 2002; St. Joseph University Thirteenth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2002).

Murphy, S.K., M.M. Braun, N.L. Cheung, N.S. Joseph, and M.Y. Kim, 2002. Characterization of a Ras expressing cell line. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, March 2002 (also at the St. Joseph’s University Thirteenth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2002).

Moravec, S. and J.R. Porter, 2002. Anti-microbial/anti-cancer compounds of endophyte fungi. Presented at USP Sigma Xi, Thirteenth Undergraduate Symposium, April 2002.

Moravec, S., J. Newcome, and J.R. Porter, 2002. Endophyte fungi as sources of antimicrobial and anti-cancer compounds. Presented at St. Joseph’s University Thirteenth Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2002.

Burke, B., R. Heipertz, J.C. Pierce, 2002. Molecular genetic analysis of the Chesapeake Bay population of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2002.

Patel, K. and J.C. Pierce, 2002. Bacterial samples based on 16S r RNA hybridization. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2002.

Shah, S.M. and J.C. Pierce, 2002. DNA fingerprinting technology and identification of the top 20 herbal compounds. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2002.

Abraham, C. and J. Johnson, 2002. Investigation of cysteic acid, 2-mercaptoethanolamine, and cysteine-sulfinic acid as nutritional substitutes for cysteine or as competitive inhibitors of cysteine metabolism by Staphylococcus aureus. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2002.

Hartzell, S. and J. Johnson, 2002. Comparison of growth of Staphylococcus aureus using varying concentrations of cysteine, cysteine and glutathione and measuring the degradation of the latter compounds using analytical methods. Presented at the USP Sigma Xi, Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2002.

Eyberger, A.S., S. Moravec, J. Newcome, R. Dondapati and J.R. Porter, 2002. Acquisition, bioassay, dereplication, and structural characterization of antimicrobial and cytotoxic compounds from endophyte fungi of medicinal plants. Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, New Brunswick, NJ, July 2002.

Kasschau, M.R., L.M. Sperber, T. Ngo, 2002. The role of microtubules in the formation of coeleomocyte filopodia. Presented at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2002.

Abdullah, I. and J.R. Johnson, 2003. A thin-layer chromatographic method that can be used to detect and measure glutathioine degradation. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Costleigh, J.R. and J. R. Johnson, 2003. Development of a biochemical assay to determine if Staphylococcus aureus is able to reduce the disulfide linkage in cystine. Presented at USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Braun, M.M., D. Lakic, K. Ng and S. Murphy, 2003. The relationship among PLC, PLD, and PKC in mouse fibroblast cells over-expressing cellular Ras. Presented at USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003 (also at the St. Joseph’s University Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 2003).

DelCollo, J., J. Shepps, and R. Smith, 2003. Improved taxol production in callus cultures of Taxus media var. Hicksii. Presented at the Seventeenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2003 (also at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003 and the St. Joseph’s University Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 2003).

Heipertz, R. and J.C.Pierce, 2003. Construction and analysis of a cDNA library generated from horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus larvae. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Herskowitz, J. and J.C. Pierce, 2003. Bioinformatics analysis of DNA sequence diversity of the 16s, 23s and ribosomal intergenic space from the genomes of five bacteria. Presented at USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Patel, K. and J.C. Pierce, 2003. Development of DNA microarrays for the detection and identification of bacterial samples based on 16s and RNA hybridization. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Ketterer, A. and J.C. Pierce, 2003. Development of a USP undergraduate bioinformatics web-based client-server platform using the Mac OS-X Jaguar computing system. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Shah, S.M. and J.C. Pierce, 2003. DNA identification of the top twenty commercial herbal compounds sold in the United States. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003.

Ngo, T.D., L. Sperber, and M.R. Kasschau, 2003. The role of microtubules in the formation of coelomocyte filopodia. Presented at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003 (also at the St. Joseph’s University Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 2003).

Moravec, S. and J.R. Porter, 2003. Discovery of anti-microbial compounds from plant extracts. Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Meeting, Denver, CO, February 2003 (also at the USP Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2003 and the St. Joseph’s University Fourteenth Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 2003).

Mostrom, A. and D. Massuto, 2003. Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus) males produce individually distinctive songs. Presented at the Animal Behavior Society International Meeting, Boise, Idaho, July 2003.

Moravec, S. and J.R. Porter, 2003. Anti-microbial compounds from the Celastraceae. Presented at the American Society of Pharmacognosy National Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 2003.

Kasschau, M.R., L.M. Sperber, K. Tran, and T. Ngo. Formation of filopodia in earthworm coelomocytes in response to high osmotic stress. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Cellular Osmoregulation in Bristol, RI, August 2003.

P.J. Saccone, N. Dollahon, M. Reinhart, An Excystation Procedure of Monocystis Spores, Sporozoan Parasites of the Earthworm Lumbricus terrestris, and the Isolation of their Sporozoites, poster presented at the St. Joseph University Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, April 2004.

Bednarczyk , L. M., Clinthorne, G. and Smith, R. A. Influence of carbohydrates, hormones, and light on taxane accumulation in callus cultures of Taxus media cv Hicksii. Presented as a poster at the Third Annual Scholarly Day at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA on April 21, 2005 and at the Sixteenth Annual SJU Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium on April 8, 2005 at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, and at the Nineteenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the Virginia Military Instutute in Lexington, Virginia on April 21, 2005.