Student Presentations & Publications

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At St. Norbert College we take great pride in the accomplishments of our students. I am especially proud of the work of the students who have worked in my lab over the years, and want to highlight those who have contributed to our research program.  Student names appear in red.

 

Benassi, I.; Rauguth, I.;  Bhattacharya, S.; Polans, A.; Feirer, R. (2011) Resveratrol and polyamines: Effect on biosynthetic and catabolic enzymes, and interactions with DFMO and DenSpm in breast cancer and uveal melanoma cell lines.  American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, April 2-6, Orlando, FL

Patitucci, T. ; Feirer, R.  (2007)  A Simplified Method for the Measurement of Proline in Stressed Tissues.  American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Conference, July 7-July 11, Chicago, IL

Feirer, R., P.; St. John, B. (2006)  Arginine decarboxylase and water stress in primitive plants.  Gordon Research Conference:  Salt and Water Stress in Plants, September 3-8, Oxford, England.

   Feirer, R., P.; St. John, B. (2005)  Control of arginine decarboxylase induction in Arabdopsis thaliana  grown in vitro.  Society for In Vitro Biology Annual Conference, June 4-8, Baltimore, MD.

   Feirer, R., P.; St. John, B.; Gapinski, J. M.; Kerswill, H.. (2004)  Stress-induced elevation of arginine decarboxylase occurs via two distinct signal transduction pathways. (Abst 443) American Society of Plant Physiologists Annual Conference, July 24-July 27, Orlando, FL

   Schill, N., R. Feirer, and A. Choudhury. (2003) Molecular evidence for species differentiation and host relationships in the genus Crepidostomum (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae): C. cooperi and C. cornutum. American Society of Parasitologists, Annual Meeting, August 1-6, Halifax, Canada.

   Ondrej Podlaha (2001)  Sequence analysis of the D-loop region in Peromyscus leucopus and Peromyscus maniculatus and its possible applications in species identification. North Central District 1 Tri-Beta Convention,  Carroll College, Waukesha, WI  (4/01)

   Michael Levas, Andrew Lindner and Carol Vaz. (1998) Cold Stress-Related Arginine Decarboxylase Activities in Arabidopsis thaliana. North Central District 1 Tri-Beta Convention, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (4/98)

   Carol Vaz (1998) Effects of osmotic stress and ABA treatment in Arabidopsis thaliana grown in vivo. North Central District 1 Tri-Beta Convention, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (4/98)

   Feirer, R. P., Vaz, C., Rebarchik, J., P.W.Simon (1998) Induction of arginine decarboxylase by ABA and osmotic stress in Arabidopsis grown in vitro. (Abst #454) American Society of Plant Physiologists Annual Conference, June 27-July 1, 1998 Madison, WI

   Feirer, R.P., Hocking, K.L. and P. J. Woods (1998) Involvement of arginine decarboxylase in the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to osmotic stress. Journal of Plant Physiology 153:733-738
 
   Feirer, R. and C. Vaz. (1997) Effect of osmotic stress and UV light on arginine decarboxylase in Arabidopsis. (Plant Physiol. 114:97) American Society of Plant Physiologists Annual Conference, August 2-6, 1997 Vancouver, B.C.

   Feirer, R., Hocking, K. and P. Woods. (1995) Involvement of arginine decarboxylase in the response of Arabidopsis to osmotic stress. Sixth International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, June 7-11, 1995, Madison, WI

   Feirer, R. and K. Hocking. (1994) Arginine and ornithine decarboxylases from Arabidopsis. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. May 21-25. Poster #LB60.

   K.L. Hocking. (1995) Osmotic stress related arginine decarboxylase activities in Arabidopsis. 22nd Annual Undergraduate Research symposium in Biology, St. Mary's College, Winona, MN. (4/95)

   K.L. Hocking. (1993) Preliminary screening of strangler fig DNA. North Central District 1 Tri-Beta Convention, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (4/93)

   P. Woods. (1995) Studies of stress induced polyamine levels in Arabidopsis. 22nd Annual Undergraduate Research symposium in Biology, St. Mary's College, Winona, MN. (4/95)

   C. Vaughan (1991) Purification of seed storage proteins from loblolly pine. North Central District 1 Tri-Beta Convention, UW-Stevens Point (4/91)

Student Presentations at SNC's Spring "Celebration of Student-Faculty Collaborations"

2011 Isabella Benassi & Izzy Rauguth.  Resveratrol and polyamines: Effect on biosynthetic and catabolic enzymes, and interactions with DFMO and DenSpm in breast cancer and uveal melanoma cell lines. 

2011  KateLyn White. The effects of DCA and resveratrol on the metabolism of glucose in cancer cell lines

2010  Kim Keil, Izzy Rauguth & Isabella Benassi.  Induction of  Apoptosis in Neuroblastoma and Breast Cancer Cell Lines by Resveratrol and DCA  ()

2008  Teresa Patitucci.  A Simplified Method for the Measurement of Proline in Stressed Tissues.

2007   Tally Vethanayagamony & Justin Richter.  Investigations of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase in Monotropa uniflora.

2006  Bonnie St. John.  Arginine Decarboxylase and Water Stress in Primitive Plants

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