From sea slugs to Ebola virus, CSUEB students present at biotech symposium

January 27, 2011 5:13am

Cal State East Bay professors and students spent two days at the annual CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) symposium in Orange County, CA Jan 7-8 where they shared research projects and networked with biotech professionals working in academia, government and industry.

The symposium featured more than 230 student research posters from 22 CSU campuses. Professors and students from CSUEB’s departments of biological science, chemistry and biochemistry presented eight posters on a wide range of topics from the RNA kissing complex to the rapid detection of the Ebola virus.

The two-day symposium program aims to make a connection between innovative life science research and the impacts it has on society, to highlight cutting-edge biotechnologies, and to inspire students for success in the global economy. This year the program theme is innovation - especially as it might impact global health and new product development.

Amelia Manlove, a CSUEB master’s student in chemistry who teaches in general and organic chemistry laboratory sections, won the Crellin Pauling Student Teaching Award at last year’s symposium. Read story.

2011 CSUEB research teams (u=undergraduate/ g= graduate):

Poster: 18 On the conformational stability of the RNA kissing complex of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus genomic RNA

Kim, Chul-Hyun — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Wei, I-Wen [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chu, Wally [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 31 Understanding Nickel and Cobalt Hyperaccumulation in Alyssum murale

LeDuc, Danika — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Huang, Xinqi [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Power, Anton [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 46 Acetylcholinesterase activity in the marine slug Tritonia diomedea is modestly inhibited by the toxin ptilosarcenone derived from the slug’s food source Ptilosarcus gurneyi

Murray, James — East Bay, Biology
Amagata, Taro — San Francisco, Chemistry
Sommerhalter, Monika — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Tran, Vu [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 48 Sol-gel entrapment of Chloroperoxidase

Sommerhalter, Monika — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lee, Tuan [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Doss, Anna-Louise [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ebaid, Bassem [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 74 Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of New Antibacterial Ring-fused Diazaborine Derivatives: An SAR Study for the Development of New Antituberculosis Agents

Groziak, Michael P. — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Xu, H. Howard — Los Angeles, Biology
Silva, Isba [G] — Los Angeles, Biology
Roppiyakuda, Lance [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ma, Queenie [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Homran, Kamal [U] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Kosmowska, Ewa [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Kanichar, Divya [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 97 A single stranded dangling tail sequence has significant effects on the conformational characteristics of a RNA promoter sequence (cbBox) in Brome Mosaic Virus genomic RNA

Kim, Chul-Hyun — East Bay, Chemistry&Biochemistry
Yamamoto, Nobuyuki [G] — East Bay, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Poster: 135 Early and Rapid Detection of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Virus

Rosa, Ana Marie [U] — East Bay, Molecular Biology

Poster: 209 O Serogroup Specific Real Time PCR Assays for the Detection and Identification of non-0157 Shiga Toxin -producing E. coli

Sultan, Omar [G] — East Bay, Biological Sciences
Lau, Henry [G] — East Bay, Biological Sciences
Lauzon, Carol — East Bay, Biological Sciences

Download research abstracts by poster number on the CSU Web site.