Student Presentations

Many students have worked with me on undergraduate research projects.  This is an exciting opportunity for both my students and me.  We work together, not only on the actual research but also on writing grants to fund the research and on poster and oral presentations that we prepare for national meetings.  Many of my students have presented their work at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held each year at major colleges and universities across the country.  You will see from the list of presentations below that we have attended meeting at the University of Utah, Minnesota, North Carolina and the California Institute of Technology.  These meetings have been both intellectually stimulating and also great fun.

1. DeSantis, A., L. Hawn, and M. Brodkin.  1990.  Response of leopard frogs, Rana pipiens, to inoculation with pathogenic bacteria.  Abstract, Fourth National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  Union College, Schenectady, NY.
2. DeSantis, A., M. Simon, M. Brodkin, and K. Boyer.  1990.  Response of leopard frogs Rana pipiens, to inoculation with pathogenic bacteria.  Abstract 38th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
3. Caron, Robert J., Andrea M. DeSantis and Joanne Hudson, (M. A. Brodkin and M. P. Simon).  1991.  Analysis of the effects of bacterial strains and environmental stress on mortality and immune response in Rana pipiens.  Abstract, Fifth National Conference on Undergraduate Research. California Institute of Technology.  Pasadena, California.
4. DeSantis, Andrea M., Amy M. Pyle and Laurie Connelley, (M. P. Simon and M. A. Brodkin).  1991.  Evaluation of causative factors in the local extinction of the Grey Tree Frog Hyla Chrysoscelis in Southeastern Pennsylvania.  Abstract, Fifth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, California Institute of Technology.  Pasadena, California.
5. Simon, M. P., Brodkin*, M. A., Boyer, K. J., Betz, L., Caron, R. J., Weimann, R. S. and A. M. DeSantis.  1991.  Effects of acidification on microbial virulence in anurans.  Abstract the 39th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
6. Hopey, H. A., Butler, K., Weimann, R., Brodkin, M. A., and Simon, M.P.  1993.  An acidic pH causes a decrease in splenic white blood cell number of Rana pipiens.  Abstract, Seventh National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  University of Utah.  Salt Lake City, Utah.
7. Ayers, S. A., and Brodkin, M. A.,  1993.  Lymph node T cell subsets from BALB\cJ mice respond differentially to antigen stimulation with Salmonella typhimurium.  Abstract, Seventh National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  University of Utah.  Salt Lake City, Utah.
8. Brodkin, M. A., Ayers, S., Morris, F., and Harvey, P.,  1993.  Determination of the surface phenotype of lymph node T cells from Salmonella typhimurium -inoculated mice by monoclonal antibodies to T cell subsets.  Abstract, 93rd General Meeting American Society for Microbiology.  Atlanta, Georgia.
9. Butler, K. L., Hopey, H., A., (Martin P. Simon and Marc A. Brodkin). 1993.  The effects of coccidial protozoan infections on the blood cells found in the spleen and bloodstream of the leopard frog Rana pipiens.  Abstract, Seventh National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah.
10. Brodkin, M. A., Simon, M., Hopey, H., Butler, K., Korver, C., and Hilton, C., 1994.  An Acidic pH Causes a Reduction in Splenic White Blood Cell Number and Phagocytic Capacity of the Anuran Amphibian Rana pipiens.  Abstract, 94th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  Las Vegas, Nevada.
11. Brodkin, M. A., Simon, M. P., Hopey, H. A., and Butler, K. L. 1995.  The effect of long term low level acidification stress on splenic white blood cell number, viability, and bacterial colonization of the spleen in the leopard frog Rana pipiens.  Abstract. 95th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  Washington, DC
12. Brodkin, M.A., E. Ney, E. Kaercher, J. Vakil, A. Chung.  1997.  The effect of Salmonella typhimurium, vaccine strain SL3235, on the murine cytokine response.  Abstract Eleventh National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Texas at Austin
13. Ney, E. T., M. A. Brodkin, A. Chung, M.P. Simon, E. Kaercher, J. Vakil.  1998.  The effect of Salmonella typhimurium, vaccine strain SL3235, on the murine cytokine response.  Beta Beta Beta Northeastern Region district 2 Annual Meeting, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ.
 

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