Wagner College graduate biology student Michael C. Gutkin’s research earned an award for excellence in the graduate level at the 44th annual conference of the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists — or MACUB — held Oct. 29 at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.
In all, Wagner’s Biology Department sent seven faculty and staff members, and nine students, to participate in MACUB, with six students and four faculty members contributing to five research papers presented at the conference:
- “Analyzing the Effect of Phthalates on the Development of Drosophila melanogaster” — Lisa Duncan, Joanna Emilio and Heather Cook, Wagner College
- “Electron Microscopic Analysis of Cell Membrane Integrity when Expressing Tau Pseudophosphorylated at Positions T212, T213 & S262” — Leonid Denisenko and Christopher Corbo, Wagner College, and Alejandra Alonso, College of Staten Island
- “Identification of Proliferating and Immunologically Active Cells in Surviving Organotypic Culture of Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Optic Tecturm” — Michael C. Gutkin, Christoper P. Corbo, Linda A. Raths and Zoltan L. Fulop, Wagner College. This research received an award for excellence in the Graduate Level.
- “Imaging Primary Cilia in Pancreatic Cancer Tumor Initiating Cells” — Gina M. Auricchio, Wagner College, and Jennifer Bailty, Florencia McAllister, Anirban Maitra and Steven Leach, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- “Measuring Distribution and Permeability of an HIV Microbicide Gel Vehicle using MRT, SPECT/CT and a Radiolabeled Small Molecule” — Maleeha A. Memon, Wagner College, and Edward Fuchs, Rahul Bakshi and Craig Hendrix, Johns Hopkins University