1998 MABEC Meeting Program

Held at Johns Hopkins University

March 20, 1998

Sponsored by

DuPont Central Research and Development

Life Technologies

Merck and Co., Inc.

Johns Hopkins University


Oral Presentations

8:30-9:20am Breakfast in Glass Pavilion
9:20-9:30am Introduction by Dean Timothy Barbari in Arellano Theater
Morning Session. Chair: Lisa Smith (University of Virginia)
9:30-9:55am Talk #1: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Speaker: Ron Bates (Advisor: Doug Frey)
Title: "Development of a novel chromatofocusing method for protein separation"
9:55-10:20am Talk #2: University of Maryland College Park
Speaker: Cheng-Chung Chou (Advisor: Nam Sun Wang)
Title: "Metabolic network analysis of Sf-9 insect cells by linear optimization"
10:20-10:45amTalk #3: University of Delaware
Speaker: Steve Wrenn (Advisor: Eric W. Kaler)
Title: "Quantitative determination of cholesterol nucleation in bile"
10:45-10:55amMid-Morning Break
10:55-11:20amTalk #4: Rutgers University
Speaker: Petra Archibald (Advisor: Henrik Pedersen)
Title: "Analysis of induction of secondary metabolite production in California poppy"
11:20 am-NoonKeynote Speaker: DuPont Central Research & Development
Robert James Leipold, Senior Research Engineer
Title: "Biochemical engineering and the production of industrial chemicals at DuPont"
Noon Group Picture on Gilman steps weather permitting
12:10-1:30pm Lunch & Poster Session in Glass Pavilion
Faculty Planning Session in Conference Room A
Afternoon Session. Chair: Ryan Gill (University of Maryland at College Park)
1:30-1:55pm Talk #5: Pennsylvania State University
Speaker: Mike Platz (Advisor: Wayne R. Curtis)
Title: "Biotransformation based on secreted peroxidase activity from plant cell suspension culture"
1:55-2:20pm Talk #6: University of Virginia
Speaker: Daniel R. Griffin (Advisors: Giorgio Carta & John L. Gainer)
Title: "Asymmetric reduction of ketones with immobilized Baker's yeast in organic solvents"
2:20-2:45pm Talk #7: Drexel University
Speaker: Ekrem Ozdemir (Advisor: Rajakannu Mutharathan)
Title: "Measurement of intracellular pH under cultivation conditions using a fluorescent dye"
2:45-3:10pm Talk #8: Johns Hopkins University
Speaker: Shawn Lawrence (Advisor: Michael J. Betenbaugh)
Title: "Expression of human signal peptidase and processing insect cells"

Poster Presentations

Raghuveer Basude (Drexel University)
"Gas and salinity dependent characterization of new surfactant based contrast agents"

Pinar Ozkan (Drexel University)
"Influence of environmental conditions on intracellular pH"

Alison J. Mastrangelo, J. Marie Hardwick, and Michael J. Betenbaugh (Johns Hopkins University)
"Inhibition of apoptosis in virally-infected mammalian cells"

E. M. Whiteley, E. Ailor, T.-A. Hsu, J. Pathmanathan, and Michael J. Betenbaugh (Johns Hopkins University)
"Engineering the secretory pathway of insect cells to overcome post-translational processing bottlenecks"

Colleen Merritt (Pennsylvania State University)
"Development of transgenic plants containing the Green Fluorescence Protein marker gene to study kinetics of secondary metabolite formation in plant root cultures"

Bill Driscoll (Rutgers University)
"Analysis of phenotypic differences in the benzophenanthridine metabolic pathway of various isolates of Eschscholtzia"

Lori Herz (Rutgers University)
"Metabolic control analysis of vanilla plainfola embryonic cell cultures"

Fulya Pak (Rutgers University)
"Modification of fatty acid desaturation in tomato suspension cultures"

Seshu Pedapudi (Rutgers University)
"Raspberry flavor pathway of Rubus Ideaus: production, characterization and metabolic modeling"

C. R. Albano, L. Randers-Eichhorn, W. E. Bentley, and G. Rao (UMBC)
"Utility of GFP in bioprocess development of recombinant proteins"

Ankur S. Dave, Duane F. Bruley, and Kyung A. Kang (UMBC)
"Preliminary studies in the separation of human protein C from transgenic swine milk using immobilized metal affinity chromatography"

Mark W. Hemelt, Arshia L. Honar, Duane F. Bruley, and Kyung A. Kang (UMBC)
"Determination of heterogeneity depth using the time constant and phase values of near infrared-time resolved spectra (NIR-TRS)"

Nehal Mohamed and Julia M. Ross (UMBC)
"Temporal regulation of collagen adhesin expression in S. aureus"

James O. Spiker, Kyung A. Kang, William N. Drohan, and Duane F. Bruley (UMBC)
"Protein C biosensor performance in the presence and absence of a non-specific competitor"

Mark Teeters, Nehal Mohamed, and Julia M. Ross (UMBC)
"Recombinant adhesin peptides inhibit adhesion of S. aureus to collagen under dynamic conditions"

Gan Wei and Antonio R. Moreira (UMBC)
"Studies to increase protein recovery yield during inclusion body refolding"

Huiping Wu, Duane F. Bruley and Kyung A. Kang (UMBC)
"Protein C separation from human blood plasma cohn fraction IV-1 using immobilized metal affinity chromatography"

Jing Zhang, Chein -I Chang, Stanley Miller, and Kyung A. Kang (UMBC)
"Multispectral image analysis on skin cancer study"

Cheng-Chung Chou and Nam Sun Wang (UMCP)
"Pattern recognition of growth characteristics in lysine fermentation"

M. DeLisa, G. Rao, W. A. Weigand, and W. E. Bentley (UMCP)
"Control of induced CAT expression in Esherichia coli using generic model"

Sylvia R. Francis and Nam Sun Wang (UMCP)
"The use of near-infrared spectroscopy to monitor a dry powder mixture and define an index of mixing"

R. T. Gill, M. Shiloach, C. F. Wu, T. E. Chase, R. Madurawe, J. Valdes, and W.E. Bentley (UMCP)
"Partial purification of an Escherichia coli outer membrane protease that degrades recombinant antibody"

Sigfrido Hernandez and Nam Sun Wang (UMCP)
"Use of oscillator load-pull technology to measure moisture accumulation"

R. Srivastava, H. J. Cha, M. L. Peterson, W. E. Bentley (UMCP)
"Repression of s32 expression through antisense regulation"

Lisa V. Smith (University of Virginia)
"A microcosm study to investigate the bioremediation of Elizabeth River sediments"

James C. Sung (University of Virginia)
"NMR analysis of bacterial migration in porous media"


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