Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 24, 2012
Activities
Amanda Andreas, coordinator of the Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center (SMIC), received a "Best Poster" award for her poster titled "Structural characterization of cell wall microarchitecture using the unicellular green alga, Penium margaritaceum,"at the Gordon Research Seminar on "Plant Cell Walls" Aug. 4-5 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Andreas' work centered on the use of various microscopy technologies to study the cell wall of the model green alga, Penium.
Andreas also presented an invited talk with the same title at the Gordon Research Conference on "Plant cell walls: cell wall research in a post-genome world" Aug. 5-9 at Colby College. In addition, she was a co-author of two other posters: "The construction and organization of the pectic domain of the cell wall in the unicellular green alga, Penium margaritaceum" and"Biology-driven, microarray-assisted selection of cell wall directed antibodies."
David Domozych, professor of biology and director of the SMIC, was lead author of a poster titled "The construction and organization of the pectic domain of the cell wall in the unicellular green alga, Penium margaritaceum," at the Gordon Research Conference on "Plant cell walls: cell wall research in a post-genome world" Aug. 5-9 at Colby College. In addition, he was co-author of several other poster presentations, including "Wall diversity and evolution: an integrated omics approach for investigating the cell wall"; "Biology-driven, microarray-assisted selection of cell wall directed antibodies"; "Developing a molecular toolbox for the charophycean green alga Penium margaritaceum; a model system to study the origins of land plant cell walls"; "Cell-covering of a so-called wall-less Prasninophyte, Ostreococcus tauri," and "The plant cuticle: a conserved adaptation in terrestrial plant evolution." Co-authors included researchers from Skidmore, Cornell University, the National University of Ireland, INRA-Nantes, France and the University of Copenhagen.
Also at the Colby conference, Domozych moderated a session titled "New insights into plant cell wall development."
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, gave a talk, "Dance, Death and The Art of Gravity," as a Saratoga Performing Arts Center pre-performance event July 19. The presentation combined discussion of Peter Martins's New York City Ballet production ofRomeo + Juliet with a reading from Rogoff's book of dance-inspired poems, The Art of Gravity. On July 10 at SPAC, he conducted a pre-performance interview with Martins, NYCB's ballet master-in-chief, and on July 18 he interviewed NYCB principal dancer Tiler Peck.
Rogoff delivered a public talk, "Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's Most 'Humorous' Comedy," at the Saratoga Springs Public Library on July 9 as an introduction to the Saratoga Shakespeare Company's production of the play.
On June 21 in Treadwell, N.Y., Rogoff gave a reading of his poetry at the Bright Hill Literary Center.
Publications, Performances, Exhibitions
Jennifer Bonner, assistant professor of biology, along with five Skidmore students recently published a research article in the journal Neural Development, Vol. 7, No. 1. In this article entitled "Midline crossing is not required for subsequent pathfinding decisions in commissural neurons," Bonner determines genes involved in the development of individual nerves in the spinal cord.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had several poems published recently from his book-length sequence Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia on Paris 1870: "Coppélia Tells the Facts of Life" and "Giuseppina Gets a Lesson in Courtship" in The Southern Review,Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 2012); "Coppélia in the Metropolis" in North American Review, Vol. 297, No. 2 (Spring 2012); "Ballon"and "The Emperor Attends Coppélia" in Able Muse, No. 13 (Summer 2012); and "The Creator's Love for His Creation" in Notre Dame Review, No. 34 (Summer/Fall 2012).
He has also published "Enter Justin Peck--By Leaps and Bounds," an article on New York City Ballet's young dancer and choreographer, in the Fall 2012 edition of the company's program, Playbill. New York City Ballet commissioned the article. His most recent dance essay-review, "Terpsichore Talks: Two New Dance-Dramas," on Big Dance Theater's Supernatural Wife and Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's Angel Reapers, appears in The Hopkins Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 2012).
In addition, he served as reviewer of the New York City Ballet's summer season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center forThe Saratogian July 10-21.
More details on summer activities of Skidmore faculty and staff will be featured in the next issue of Scope Weekly. Please send items for inclusion in the column to Andrea Wise, Office of Communications.
Posted On: 9/23/2012
