2019 Regional Conference Poster Winners

Congratulations to the three 2019 regional conference poster winners!!

The NE Regional Sigma Xi Conference was held at Quinnipiac University on Wednesday, April 24th. Students from ANY discipline who are involved in a systematic investigation were invited and 55 abstracts were accepted and their posters displayed from 3-5  in the Burt Kahn Court. http://www.sigmaxiquinnipiac.org/

• Function of an Aging-Associated MicroRNA in Splicing Homeostasis in C. elegans. Liat Levy and Alexandre de Lencastre Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Quinnipiac University; Dept. of Biological Sciences, Quinnipiac University

• The use of Multi-quadric interpolation in polynomial-based ENO stencil selection procedure: Challenges and Numerical Experiments in Matlab. Rahimyar Abdul & Dr. Stavros Christofi. Western Connecticut State University. non-Quinnipiac University Graduate student. Western Connecticut State University, Mathematics 

• The Effects of Metformin on MicroRNA-71, Stress Resistance, and Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans. Kipp Hopper & Dr. Alexandre de Lencastre. Quinnipiac University Undergraduate student. Quinnipiac University Biomedical Sciences. 

NE Regional Sigma Xi Meeting April 24th 2019

NE Regional Sigma Xi Meeting April 24th 2019

The abstract booklet has can be downloaded here

Conference Page: http://www.sigmaxiquinnipiac.org/p/ne-regional-meeting.html

Conference date:  April 24, 2019, 3:00-7:00pm

The NE Regional Sigma Xi Conference will be held on Wednesday, April 24th in the Burt Kahn Court. Students from ANY discipline who are involved in a systematic investigation are invited. Students may present any aspect of their research (literature review, methods/procedures, manualized intervention, or final data, if finished). Trifold poster boards and clips will be provided for displaying posters on an easel or long table.
                                                         Conference Schedule
2:00-3:00:  Set-up
3:00-4:00:  Poster Session I
4:00-5:00: Poster Session II
5:00-5:45: Speaker Reception with Dr. Paul Anastas
5:45-6:45: Distinguished Lecturer Presentation Dr. Paul Anastas, “Green Chemistry”
6:45-7:00: Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Presentation
Conference Locations: Burt Kahn Court and Mt Carmel Auditorium

Conference Page: http://www.sigmaxiquinnipiac.org/p/ne-regional-meeting.html

Dr. Paul Anastas “Green Chemistry” April 24, 2019
Paul T. Anastas is a Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment. He has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He will be the Keynote and Sigma Xi Distinguished Speaker for the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Conference at QU.

Distinguished Lecturer, April 24th Dr. Paul Anastas “Green Chemistry” 5:45 pm

Distinguished Lecturer, April 24th     

Dr. Paul Anastas, Yale “Green Chemistry” 5:45 pm, Mt Carmel Auditorium

Paul T. Anastas is a Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment. He has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He will be the Keynote and Sigma Xi Distinguished Speaker for the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Conference at QU.

Please join us at the 2019 Sigma Xi conference Wednesday, April 24th
The abstract booklet has can be downloaded here

The NE Regional Sigma Xi Conference will be held on Wednesday, April 24th in the Burt Kahn Court. Students from ANY discipline who are involved in a systematic investigation are invited. Students may present any aspect of their research (literature review, methods/procedures, manualized intervention, or final data, if finished). 

Trifold poster boards and clips will be provided for displaying posters on an easel or long table.

                                                         Conference Schedule
2:00-3:00:  Set-up
3:00-4:00:  Poster Session I
4:00-5:00: Poster Session II
5:00-5:45: Speaker Reception with Dr. Paul Anastas
5:45-6:45: Distinguished Lecturer Presentation Dr. Paul Anastas, “Green Chemistry”
6:45-7:00: Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Presentation

Conference Locations: Burt Kahn Court and Mt Carmel Auditorium

Dr. Paul Anastas “Green Chemistry” April 24, 2019

Paul T. Anastas is a Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment. He has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He will be the Keynote and Sigma Xi Distinguished Speaker for the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Conference at QU.

Dr. Washington daSilva CT Friday, April 12, 2019 1pm “Small Things Considered: The Impact of Plant Viruses on Wine Production”

Dr. Washington daSilva
CT Agricultural Experiment Station

Friday, April 12, 2019 1:00 PM Buckman Theater 

“Small Things Considered: The Impact of Plant Viruses on Wine Production”

Dr. da Silva is an Assistant Agricultural Scientist II, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES).  He is a plant pathologist with an expertise is in the fields of diagnoses, bioinformatics, and molecular biology.  He uses state of the art technologies (e.g., high throughput sequencing) to study the biology and ecology of viruses infecting fruit crops.  Dr. daSilva received his B.Sc.. from Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil) in 2010, M. Sc. in Plant Health from LSU in 2013, and Ph. D. in Plant Pathology from Cornell University in 2018.

The top two priorities of his current research program are to develop and improve molecular diagnostics for plant viruses and to investigate plant-virus-vector interactions with the ultimate goal of translating findings into virus disease management.  He is currently investigating the incidence, prevalence, and genetic diversity of grapevine viruses in the state of Connecticut.