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Student work published in print, on-line, or both.

• Nicole Ng and Zhao Na Wang
  On the inverse temperature transition and development of an entropic elastomeric force of the elastin mimetic peptide [LGGVG]_3,7 with Jiaxin Huang, Cheng Sun, Odingo Mitchell, and principal investigator Gregory S. Boutis of Brooklyn College in the Journal of Chemical Physics Volume 136, Issue 8 (February 2012): 085101–09.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both.

• Kirill Grinberg
  Multimode selective detection of mercury by chiroptical fluorescent sensors based on methionine/cysteine with Patrick Carney, Steven Lopez, Amanda Mickley, Wenyao Zhang, and principal investigator Zhaohua Dai of Pace University in Chirality Volume 23, Issue 10 (November 2011): 916–920.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both.

• Grace Chan
  was acknowledged by Dr. Ellen Hsu of SUNY Downstate Medical Center for her assistance in the research that lead to the paper Error-Prone DNA Repair Activity during Somatic Hypermutation in Shark B Lymphocytes with Catherine Zhu in the Journal of Immunology Volume 185, Issue 9 (1 November 2010): 5336–5347.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both.

• Regina Gurevich
  Computer Vision Syndrome: Accommodative and Vergence Facility [pdf] with Elizabeth Wickware, Marc Lay, and principal investigator Mark Rosenfield of the SUNY College of Optometry in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry Volume 21, Issue 5 (2010): 119–122.

Student work published in print, on-line, or presented at conferences.

• Vernon Wu
  PNC-27 and PNC-28 anticancer peptides selectively kill cancer cells by pore formation dependent on the binding of these peptides to hdm2 in cancer cell membranes with Ehsun Sarafraz-Yazdi, Wilbur B. Bowne, Victor Adler, Kelley A. Sookraj, Vernon Wu, Hunaiz Patel, Vadim Shteyler, William Oxberry, Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, Robert L. Fine, Fred K. Friedman, Michael A. Zenilman, Josef Michl, and Matthew R. Pincus. Presented by Ehsun Sarafraz-Yazdi at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego, California 14 April 2008.
• John Ferrara
  The role of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of sepsis and patient assignment to medical intensive care with Bernstein, L.H.; Devakonda, A.; Engelman, E.; Pancer, G.; Rucinski, J.; Raoof, S.; George, L.; and Melniker, L. Journal of Clinical Ligand Assay. Vol. 30, No. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2007): 98-104. For his contribution to this paper, John received a Distinguished Abstract Award from the National Academy of Clinical Chemistry and was a presenter at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
• Ali Bokhari
  Hypoxia and Elevated Interstitial Pressures Induce Tumor Cell Proliferation [pdf] with Shigeki Kakunaga, Vamsi K. Kancherla, Gene R. Di Resta, and John H. Healey. Presented by Shigeki Kakunaga at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in San Francisco, California March 2008.
• Adil Billa
  was acknowledged by Dr. Mark Kobrak of Brooklyn College for his assistance in the research that lead to the paper Electrostatic Interactions of a Neutral Dipolar Solute with a Fused Salt: A New Model for Solvation in Ionic Liquids. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 111 No. 18 (2007): 4755-4762. doi: 10.1021/jp066112f.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both.

• Farhana Hoque
  • "The Importance of C-Reactive Protein for the Accurate Evaluation of Systemic Inflammatory Reaction (SIRS)" with Gitta Pancer, Ester Engelman, Nariman Imran, and Dr. Larry H. Bernstein. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology. Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 2007): 689.
• Arif Hussain
  
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Dephospho-CoA Kinase from Aquifex aeolicus, Northeast Structural Genomics Target QR72 with F. Forouhar, M. Hussain, J. Seetharaman, M. Wu, Y. Fang, K. Cunningham, L.C. Ma, R. Xiao, J. Liu, M. Baran, B. Rost, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, and L. Tong of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB), 3 October 2006.
  • Molecular insights into substrate recognition and catalysis by tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase. with Farhad Forouhar, J. L. Ross Anderson, Christopher G. Mowat, Sergey M. Vorobiev, Mariam Abashidze, Chiara Bruckmann, Sarah J. Thackray, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Todd Tucker, Rong Xiao, Li-Chung Ma, Li Zhao, Thomas B. Acton, Gaetano T. Montelione, Stephen K. Chapman, and Liang Tong. Published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (a.k.a. PNAS ). Vol. 104, No. 2 (9 January 2007): 473-478.
• Wingyin Lo
  
  • Modulation of larval nutrition affects midgut neutral lipid storage and temporal pattern of transcription factor expression during mosquito metamorphosis. with James T. Nishiura, Cynthia Burgosa, Samuel Ayaa, and Yekaterina Goryachevaa of Brooklyn College. Published in the Journal of Insect Physiology. Vol. 53, No. 1 (January 2007): 47-58.

Three students this year coauthored academic works published in print, on-line, or both.

• Munif Hussain
  
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Peptidyl-arginine Deiminase from Chlorobium tepidum, NESG Target CtR21 with F. Forouhar, A.R. Befeler, S.M. Vorobiev, M. Ciano, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, and L. Tong of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB), 16 November 2004.
  • Crystal Structures of Two Bacterial 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyases Suggest a Common Catalytic Mechanism among a Family of TIM Barrel Metalloenzymes Cleaving Carbon-Carbon Bonds. Farhad Forouhar, Munif Hussain, et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 5 December 2005.
  • Crystal Structure of Human 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase: Insights into Catalysis and the Molecular Basis for Hydroxymethylglutaric Aciduria. Zhuji Fu, Jennifer A. Runquist, Farhad Forouhar, Munif Hussain, John F. Hunt, Henry M. Miziorko, and Jung-Ja P. Kim. Journal of Biological Chemistry 17 March 2006.
• Olga Pikovskaya
  • Structural Basis for Discriminative Regulation of Gene Expression by Adenine-and Guanine-Sensing mRNAs. With Alexander Serganov, Yu-Ren Yuan, Anna Polonskaia, Lucy Malinina, Anh Tuân Phan, and Dinshaw J. Patel1 of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Claudia Hobartner and Ronald Micura of Leopold Franzens University; and Ronald R. Breaker of Yale University. Published in Chemistry and Biology, Vol. 11, 1729-1741, December 2004.
• Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
  • A model for automated screening of thalassemia in hematology (math study). With William Fleischman, Larry H Bernstein, Anthony Riccioli, Rita Bellevue of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in Laboratory Hematology. 2007;13(4): 119-23.
  • Enhancing the diagnostic performance of troponins in the acute care setting. With Salman A. Haq, Morteza Tavakol, Steven Silber, Larry Bernstein, Madeleine Schleffer, Lesan T. Banko, John F. Heitner, Terrence J. Sacchi, and Joseph A. Puma. Published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
    
  • Development and Validation of a Beta Thalassemia Screening Protocol. With L.H. Bernstein and A. Riccioli of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in the Online Abstract Submission and Invitation System (OASIS).
  • The ACC/ESC Recommendation for 99 Percentile of the Reference Normal Troponin I Overestimates the Risk of an Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Novel Enhancement in the Diagnostic Performance of Troponin I. With S.A Haq, L.H. Bernstein, S.H. Silber, L. Banko, M. Schlefer, S. Shah, T.J. Sacchi, J.A. Puma. "6th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke." Circulation. 2005; 111; e310-e359.
• Madeleine Schleffer
  • A simplified nutrition screen for hospitalized patients using readily available laboratory and patient information. With Linda Brugler R.D., Ana K. Stankovic, and Larry Bernstein. Published in Nutrition. Vol. 21 (6), June 2005: 650-658.
  • Enhancing the diagnostic performance of troponins in the acute care setting. With Salman A. Haq, Morteza Tavakol, Steven Silber, Larry Bernstein, Jerard Kneifati-Hayek, Lesan T. Banko, John F. Heitner, Terrence J. Sacchi, and Joseph A. Puma. Published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.