Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists 53rd MACUB FALL 2020 Conference Keynote Speakers OCTOBER 31 Viruses, Vaccines, and Vectors 9-9:45am 9AM-2PM Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D. To register and for Professor of MIcrobIology and Immunology at Columbia UnIversity’s College of Physicians and the zoom link email: Surgeons and founder of “TWIV---ThIs Week in VIrology” podcast [email protected] RegIster by sendIng an e-maIl with subject “MACUB RegIstratIon” and, In body of e-maIl, your full name, title, faculty or student, and school name to Kathleen Nolan. Member presentatIons 10-11am Health InequItIes in the Age of Poster sessIons COVID-19 1-1:45pm Shamard Charles, M.D., MPH. 11 AM-12:30pm Assistant Professor of Health PromotIon, St. Francis College, NBC News Health JournalIst Award Ceremony 2pm 1 WELCOME TO THE 53rd Annual MetropolItan AssocIatIon of College and UnIversity BIologIsts MACUB Conference! We hope to have a great day for you! 9-9:05 AM. IntroductIon of speaker by Kathleen A. Nolan, Ph.D., President of MACUB 9:05-9:50 AM. Keynote Speaker: Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., ColumbIa UnIversity “Viruses, Vaccines, and Vectors” 10-11AM---------Member presentatIons---Stay In the MaIn Room 11 AM-11:10 AM---MaIn Room--IntroductIon to Poster Session by Allen Burdowski, Ph.D., Dean of Science and Health, St. FrancIs College 11:10 AM-12:30 PM---Poster presentatIons and Student MInglIng In 4 separate Zoom Rooms: (see below) 12:30-1 PM—Lunch break on your own 1-1:45 PM—Second Keynote Speaker: Shamard Charles, M.D., St. FrancIs College “Health Inequiities in the Age of COVID-19” 2 PM--------Awards Ceremony The Board of MACUB thanks you for attendIng Kathleen Nolan Gary SarInsky Fernando NIeto Edward Catapane Margaret Carroll Paul Russo KumKum Prabhakar Tin-chun Chu Nidhi Gadura John Grew Jill Callahan MartIn HIcks Jonathan Ouellet Pam Monaco Davida Smyth Joshlyn Mensah Donald Stearns ChrIstopher Corbo Anthony DePass 2 Vincent R. Racaniello (born In Paterson, New Jersey) Is a HIggIns Professor In the Department of MIcrobIology and Immunology at ColumbIa UnIversity's College of PhysicIans and Surgeons. He Is a co-author of a textbook on virology, Principles of Virology. RacanIello has receIved the Irma T. HIrschl, Searle Scholars, ElI LIlly, JulIus Younger and NIH MerIt awards. He has also been a Harvey Society Lecturer at Rockefeller UnIversity, the HIlleman Lecturer at the UnIversity of ChIcago, and UnIversity Lecturer at ColumbIa UnIversity. He was also the keynote speaker for the MACUB meeting at NJCU in 2017 and at the AmerIcan Society for VIrology, at Its 2018 meetIng. RacanIello has served on the edItorIal boards of scientIfIc journals, IncludIng the Journal of VIrology,[5] and Is a communIty edItor for the open access journal PLOS Pathogens. Dr. RacanIello graduated from Cornell UnIversity (BA, bIologIcal sciences) and completed hIs PhD In the laboratory of Peter Palese in 1980, studying genetIc reassortment of Influenza virus. As a post-doctoral fellow In David BaltImore's laboratory at MIT (1979–1982), Dr. RacanIello used recombInant DNA technology to clone and sequence the genome of the small RNA anImal virus polIovirus. Using these tools he generated the fIrst InfectIous clone of an anImal RNA virus. ConstructIon of the InfectIous clone revolutIonIzed modern virology. Dr. RacanIello hosts a weekly podcast on virology, “ThIs Week In VIrology”. “ThIs podcast Is about viruses---the kind that make you sick!”. 3 Shamard Charles, MD, MPH, joIned St. Francis College In September 2020 as an Assistant Professor of PublIc Health & Health PromotIon. He has covered medIcal and health storIes for NBC News since 2017. Dr. Shamard Charles may be a new face among the St. Francis College faculty, but he Is lIkely famIlIar to many who turn on the evenIng news at the end of each day. SInce 2017, Dr. Charles has been a journalIst wIth NBC News, coverIng the health and medIcal beat fIrst as a web wrIter and then as an on-aIr contrIbutor. HIs more than 100 storIes there Include an In-depth examInatIon of the lack of Black men In medIcine, the dIsproportIonate rate of junk food ads targetIng Black and HIspanIc kids and the rIse in underage vapIng. Dr. Charles' medIa credentIals extend beyond the peacock network. As a Global Press Fellow for the UnIted NatIons General Assembly for the past three years, he spent tIme In NIgerIa, coverIng the efforts to elImInate polIo there. He also wrItes regularly for The GrIo (see hIs most recent column here) and hosts a weekly health podcast, Heart Over Hype. A graduate of The Warren Alpert MedIcal School of Brown UnIversity, Dr. Charles earned a Master of PublIc Health degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of PublIc Health. HIs undergraduate degree In psychology comes from NYU. The BushwIck, Brooklyn natIve attended ChamInade HIgh School In MIneola, New York. Dr. Charles joIned St. Francis College In September 2020 as an Assistant Professor of PublIc Health & Health PromotIon. 4 History of St. Francis College St. Francis College has a proud herItage of preparIng students to take theIr places as leaders In theIr fIelds and to become contrIbutIng members of society. WIth a mIssion founded on the Ideals and teachIngs of St. Francis of Assisi, the College plays a vital role In the communIty and In the lIves of Its students and alumnI. A group of Franciscan Brothers fIrst came to Brooklyn In 1858, openIng St. Francis Academy several months later In 1859. It was the fIrst prIvate school In the dIocese of Brooklyn. The school, whIch was opened to educate the boys of the dIocese, started In a buIldIng on BaltIc Street and grew quIckly. In 1884, just 25 years later, the trustees of St. Francis receIved permIssion from the state legIslature to "establIsh a lIterary college" under Its current name and gIving It the power to confer dIplomas, honors, and degrees. In June 1885, St. Francis College conferred Its fIrst Bachelor of Arts degree, and seven years later the fIrst Bachelor of Science degree was granted. See a visual timeline of our first 150 years The College contInued Its meteorIc growth and buIlt a new facilIty on Butler Street In 1926. In 1957, the Regents of the UnIversity of the State of New York granted an absolute Charter to the Trustees of the College. In 1960, St. Francis embarked on an expansion program. It moved to Remsen Street, where It had purchased two offIce buIldIngs from Brooklyn UnIon Gas Company, allowIng It to double Its enrollment. Shortly thereafter, It became a co- educatIonal InstItutIon and addItIonal property was purchased on both Remsen and Joralemon Streets. The College expanded Its facilItIes wIth the constructIon of a science buIldIng, athletIcs complex and housing to accommodate the Franciscan Brothers and provide more space for faculty. The addItIon of the Anthony J. Genovesi Center In 2003 offers students addItIonal opportunItIes to partIcipate and watch athletIc events whIle the $40 mIllIon Frank and Mary MacchIarola AcademIc Center whIch opened In 2006, houses a lIbrary, numerous smart classrooms, HDTV studIo, and black box theater. Today the School has more than 2,600 students and 20,000 alumnI. They come prImarIly from Brooklyn and the other boroughs of New York CIty, although theIr dIverse backgrounds represent some 80 countrIes. 5 Biology A BrIdge to Careers In Science, MedIcine and Health Care WIth two floors of brand-new state-of-the-art labs and top-flIght professors, our BIology educatIon prepares students to move ahead In a varIety of fIelds, from Science to MedIcine to Health Care. Our program prepares you for medIcal and graduate school as well as professions In a number of fIelds. St. Francis graduates currently work as physicians and physician assistants; veterInarIans; dentIsts; podIatrIsts; scientIsts; teachers; x-ray technIcians; sonographers and nurses. The program prepares students for medical and graduate school and professions in a number of fields. They have gone on to graduate and Ph.D. work at prestIgIous unIversitIes IncludIng: • ColumbIa UnIversity • Albert EInsteIn College of MedIcine • MIchIgan State UnIversity College of VeterInary MedIcine • Boston UnIversity Goldman School of Dental MedIcine Graduates also pursue careers at bIotechnology fIrms; hospItals; pharmaceutIcal companIes, as well as unIversitIes. A degree In BIology prepares you to enter a healthy job market and a career fIlled wIth excitIng opportunItIes. The BIology department at St. Francis College offers majors In: • BIology (as preparatIon for medIcal and graduate school) • BIomedIcal Science • and RadIologIc Sciences. Radiological Sciences is offered jointly with the Center for Allied Health. We encourage BIology students to consider the dIverse opportunItIes avaIlable through fIeld placements, InternshIps, or semesters abroad. Many of our students conduct summer research projects at esteemed InstItutIons IncludIng: • NYU MedIcal School • AmerIcan Museum of Natural HIstory • Brooklyn BotanIc Garden • New York City Department of Health • and at companIes such as PfIzer, Colgate-PalmolIve, and numerous hospItals. 6 Faculty Member Presentations --- 10-11 AM Stay in the Main Zoom Room! 1.10-10:12 AM Using Research in Curriculum as a High Impact Practice - Pedagogical Tool for Undergraduates at a Community College. Nidhi Gadura, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY. 2. 10:12-10:24 AM Cloning and Expression of Human MEF2b C-terminal STOP Codon Truncated Mutant Proteins From Human Lymphoma Patients in Cell Lines. Sanjay Koul, Queensborough Community College (CUNY), Bayside, NY. 3. 10:24-10:36 AM A Summer Biotechnology Boot Camp to Increase STEM Interest among Minority HS Students. Peter A. Novick and Nidhi Gadura, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY. 4. 10:36-10:48 AM Upregulation of Host Nutrient Transport by the Intracellular Protozoan Parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Amos Orlofsky1 and Yubao Wang2, 1Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, and 2Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.