Wesleyan Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Publications

2008

Gunay C, Smolinski TG, Lytton WW, Morse TM, Gleeson P, Crook S, Steuber V, Silver A, Voicu H, Andrews P, Bokil H, Maniar H, Loader C, Mehta S, Kleinfeld D, Thomson D, Mitra PP,  Aaron G, Fellous J-M.  “Computational Intelligence in Electrophysiology: Trends and Open Problems”. In: Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biology: Current Trends and Open Problems. Smolinski TG, Milanova MG, Hassanien A-E (editors), 2008.

Barth, H. (2008). Judgments of discrete and continuous quantity: An illusory Stroop effect. Cognition, 109, 251-266. 

Barth, H., Beckmann, L., & Spelke, E. (2008). Nonsymbolic, approximate arithmetic in children: Evidence for abstract addition prior to instruction. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1466-1477.

Barth, H. (2008). Do mental magnitudes form part of the foundation for natural number concepts? Don’t count them out yet. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 644-645.

Zhang Z, and D Bodznick (2008).  Plasticity in a cerebellar-like structure: suppressing reafference during episodic behaviors. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19011212?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum>   J Exp Biol. 211(Pt 23):3720-8.

Durland, J. L., Sferlazzo, M., Logan, M. and A.C.Burke (2008). Visualizing the lateral somitic frontier in the Mouse using the Prx1Cre transgenic. Journal of Anatomy. 212: 590-602

Gilbert, Cebra-Thomas, and A.C.Burke, (2008) How the turtle gets its shell. In. J Wyneken, M. Godfrey and V. Bels, eds. The Biology of Turtles. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

Ward, D. M., F. M. Cohan, D. Bhaya, J. F. Heidelberg, M. Kühl, and A. Grossman. 2008. Genomics, environmental genomics and the issue of microbial species. Heredity 100:207-219.

Koeppel, A., E. B. Perry, J. Sikorski, D. Krizanc, W. A. Warner, D. M .Ward, A. P. Rooney, E. Brambilla, N. Connor, E. Nevo, R. M. Ratcliff, and F. M. Cohan. 2008. Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: A paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105:2504-2509. (recommended by Faculty of 1000 Biology)

Cohan, F. M. 2008. Tracking bacterial responses to global warming with an ecotype-based systematics. Clinical Microbiology and Infection (in press).

Cohan, F. M. and A. F. Koeppel. 2008. The origins of ecological diversity in prokaryotes.  Current Biology 18:R1024-R1034. (chosen as the issue’s “Magazine Highlight”).

Patterson SE, Mook LB and Devoto SH (2008). Growth in the larval zebrafish pectoral fin and trunk musculature.  Dev Dyn  237: 307-15.

Costello, D., Dierker, L.C., Jones, B.L., Rose, J.S. (2008). Trajectories of smoking from adolescence to early adulthood and their psychosocial risk factors. Health Psychology.27 (6), 811-818.
 
Dierker, L., He, J., Kalaydjian, A., Swendsen, J., Degenhardt, L., Glantz, M., Conway, M., Anthony, J., Chiu, WT, Sampson, N., Kessler, R, Merikangas, K. (2008). The Importance of Timing of Transitions for Risk of Regular Smoking and Nicotine Dependence. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 36, 87-92.
 
Sledjeski, E.M., Speisman,  B., Dierker, L. (2008) Does number of lifetime traumas explain the relationship between PTSD and chronic medical conditions? Answers from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R). Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 31, 341-349.
 
Pisetsky, E., Chao Y., Dierker, L. May, A., Striegel-Moore, R. (2008). Disordered eating and substance use in high school students: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 41, 464-470.

Dierker, L., Donny, E. (2008). The role of psychiatric disorders in the relationship between cigarette smoking and DSM-IV nicotine dependence among young adults. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 10(3):439-46.
 
Sledjeski, E., Dierker, L., Brigham, R. Breslin, E. (2008). The use of risk assessment to predict recurrent maltreatment: A classification and regression tree analysis. Prevention Science. 9, 28-37.

Chao, Y., Pisetsky, E, Dierker, L., Dohm, FA, Rosselli, F., May, A., Striegel-Moore, R. (2008) Ethnic differences in weight control practices among U.S. adolescents from 1995 to 2005. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 41(2), 124-133.
 
Costello, D., Swendsen, J., Rose, J.S., Dierker L. (2008). Risk and protective factors associated with trajectories of depressed mood from adolescence to early adulthood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.76(2), 173-183.

Dierker, L., Stolar, M., Richardson, E., Tiffany, S., Flay, B., Collins, L., Nichter, M., Nichter, M., Bailey, S., Clayton, R., TERN (2008). Tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among first year U.S. college students: A time series analysis. Substance Use and Misuse . 43(5), 680-699.

Lisa Dierker, associate professor of psychology, is the co-author of "Risk and protective factors associated with trajectories of depressed mood from adolescence to early adulthood," published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 76(2), 2008; and "Tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among first year U.S. college students: A time series analysis," published in Substance Use and Misuse 43(5), 2008.

Albert Fry, the E.B, Nye Professor of Chemistry, is the author of "CBS-QB3 computational examination of substituent effects on the interconversion of 1,3,5-cyclooctatriene and bicyclo[4.2.0]-2,4-octadiene," published in Tetrahedron No. 64 in 2008.

Gilmore M. S., Bornstein B., *Merrill M. D., Castaño R. and Greenwood J. P. (2008) Generation and performance of automated jarosite mineral detectors for visible/near-infrared spectrometers at Mars, Icarus 195, 169-183, DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.025

Gilmore M. S., Wilson E. H., Barrett N., Civco D. L., Prisloe S., Hurd J. D. and Chadwick C. (2008) Integrating multi-temporal spectral and structural information to map wetland vegetation in a lower Connecticut. River tidal marsh, Remote Sensing of Environment 112, 4048-4060, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.020

Hashimoto G. L., Roos-Serote M., Sugita S., Gilmore M. S., Kamp L. W., Carlson R. W. and Baines K. H. (2008) Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) data suggest felsic highland crust on Venus, J. Geophys. Res. 113, doi:10.1029/2008JE003134.

Gilmore M. S., Bornstein B., *Merrill M. D., Castaño R. and Greenwood J. P. (2008) Generation and performance of automated jarosite mineral detectors for visible/near-infrared spectrometers at Mars, Icarus 195, 169-183, DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.025

Becker, S. and Grabel, L. (in press) Using ES cells to study Hedgebog signaling.  Invited chapter to appear in book “Embryonic Stem Cells: Methods and Protocols” volume 2.

Carpentino, J., Hartman, N., Grabel, L., and Naegele, J. (2008) Region-specific differentiation of ES-derived neural progenitor transplants into the adult mouse hippocampus following seizures.   Journal of Neuroscience Research 86:512-524.

Cai, C., Thorne, J., and Grabel, L. Hedgehog serves as a mitogen and survival factor during embryonic stem cell neurogenesis. Stem Cells In press.

Greenwood, J. P., Itoh S., Sakamoto N., Vicenzi E. P. and Yurimoto H. (2008) Hydrogen isotope evidence for loss of water from Mars through time.  Geophys. Res. Lett. v. 35 doi:10.1029/2007GL032721

H. Chen$ and L. Hüwel, "Dissociative ionization of Na2 via repulsive Rydberg states: Elucidating femtosecond dynamics with nanosecond lasers", J. Phys. Chem. A 112, 9374 (2008)

Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Margaret Gullick '07, are the co-authors of "Age of acquisition's effect on memory for semantically associated word pairs," published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1177-1185, 2008.

Pytte C., Wilbrecht L., and JR Kirn. In Press: Regulation and function of neuronal replacement in the avian song system. In: The Neurobiology of Birdsong., P. Zeigler & P. Marler (eds), Cambridge University Press., Chapter 29: 348-364

Hurley P, Pytte C., and JR Kirn (2008). Nest of origin predicts adult vocal control neuron addition rates in the zebra finch. Brain, Behavior & Evolution, 71:263-270.

 A. Stotland, R. Budoyo*, T. Peer, T. Kottos and D. Cohen, "The mesoscopic conductance of disordered rings, its random matrix theory and the generalized variable range hopping picture" J. Phys. A: Math and General (Fast Track Communication) 41,  262001 (2008)

 M. Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos and Doron Cohen, "Controlled quantum stirring of Bose-Einstein condensates", Phys. Rev. A {\b78}, 013602 (2008).

 M. Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos and Doron Cohen, "Control of atomic currents using a quantum stirring device", Europhys. Lett. 82, 40006 (2008).

 J. . Bodyfelt$, A. Mendez-Bermudez, A. Chabanov and Tsampikos Kottos, "Universal scaling properties of delay times in 1D random media", Phys. Rev. B 77, 045103 (2008).

Sikorski, J., E. B. Perry, A. F. Koeppel, D. Krizanc, A. P. Rooney, R. Pukall, M. S. Roberts, N. C. Field, J. C. Francisco, S. Verbarg, N. Connor, E. Nevo, and F. M. Cohan. 2008. Incorporating ecology and evolution into the classification of species:  Proposal of Bacillus negevensis sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (in review).

Kurtz, M.M., Mueser, K.T. Social skills training for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of  controlled research.  The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 491-504, 2008.

Kurtz, M.M., Wexler, B.E., Fujimoto, M., Shagan, D.S., Seltzer, J.C. Symptoms versus neurocognition as predictors of change in life skills in schizophrenia after outpatient rehabilitation. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 303-311, 2008. 

 Kurtz, M.M., Mueser, K.T. Social skills training for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of  controlled research.  The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 491-504, 2008.

 Kurtz, M.M., Wexler, B.E., Fujimoto, M., Shagan, D.S., Seltzer, J.C. Symptoms versus neurocognition as predictors of change in life skills in schizophrenia after outpatient rehabilitation. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 303-311, 2008 

 A. M. Daltrini, S. A. Moshkalev, T. J. Morgan, R. B. Piejak and W. G. Graham, Plasma power measurement and hysteresis in the E to H transition of an RF inductively coupled plasma system, App. Phys. Lett. 92, 061504 (2008)

 L. Li, Q. Gu$, J. L. Knee, J. D. Wright$, J. M. DiSciacca* and T. J. Morgan, Two-color photoexcitation of Rydberg states via an electric quadrupole transistion, J. Opt. Soc. B 25, 334 (2008)

 J.D. Wright$, T.J. Morgan, L. Li, Q. Gu$, J.L. Knee, I.D. Petrov, V.L. Sukhorukov, H. Hotop, Photoionization spectroscopy of even-parity autoionizing Rydberg states of argon: experimental and theoretical investigation of Fano profiles and resonance widths, Phys. Rev. A 77, 062512 (2008)

Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology, is the author of “Attack, disapproval, or withdrawal? The role of honor in anger and shame responses to being insulted,” published in Cognition and Emotion, 22 (8), 1471-1498, December 2008. She also is the co-author of “The influence of cultural value orientations on self-reported emotional expression across cultures” published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39(2), 224-229, March 2008.  

Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, are the co-authors of "Spectroscopic and Molecular Dynamics Evidence for a Sequential Mechanism for the A to B transition in DNA," published in the Biophysical Journal V. 94, No. 12 in June 2008. Wesleyan alumni Kelly Knee '07, Sergei Ponomarev '04 and Colin Aitken '03 contributed to the article.

Choi Y-S, Cho H-Y, Hoyt KR, Naegele JR, Obrietan K (2008) Status epilepticus induced neuronal stem cell proliferation is stimulated by sequential waves of NMDA- and IGF-1 receptor-mediated ERK/MAPK signaling. Glia In press.

Choi YS, Cho HY, Hoyt KR, Naegele JR, Obrietan K. 2008. IGF-1 receptor-mediated ERK/MAPK signaling couples status epilepticus to progenitor cell proliferation in the subgranular layer of the dentate gyrus. Glia. 2008 May;56(7):791-800. PMID: 18338791

Carpentino JE, Hartman N, Grabel LB, Naegele JR (2008) Region specific differentiation of ES-derived neural progenitor transplants in the adult mouse hippocampus following seizures. J. Neuroscience Research 86(3): 512-524.

Choi Y-S, Cho H-Y, Hoyt KR, Naegele JR, Obrietan K (2008) Status epilepticus induced neuronal stem cell proliferation is stimulated by sequential waves of NMDA- and IGF-1 receptor-mediated ERK/MAPK signaling. Glia 56(7): 791-800.

Naegele JR and Maisano X (accepted for publication) Gene and stem cell therapies for treating epilepsy. In Epilepsy: Mechanisms, Models, and Translational Perspectives. Jong M. Rho, MD, Raman Sankar, MD, PhD, and Carl E. Stafstrom, MD, PhD (Eds.), CRC Press.

Maisano X, Carpentino J, Becker S, Aaron, G, Grabel L, and Naegele JR (Invited manuscript in preparation). Embryonic stem cell derived neural precursor grafts for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurotherapeutics, Special Issue: New Horizons In The Development of Antiepileptic Drugs: Non-Traditional Approaches To Treat Epilepsy. Michael Rogawski, Ed.

Determination of the structure of methylene cyclobutane confirming a non-planar ethene and the structure of the argon–methylene cyclobutane van der Waals complex,”Wei Lin, Jovan A. Gayle, Wallace C. Pringle, Stewart E. Novick, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 251 (2008) 210–216.

“Microwave spectrum and structure of the polar N2O dimer,” Nicholas R. Walker, Andrea J. Minei, Stewart E. Novick, Anthony C. Legon, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 251 (2008) 153–158.

“Uniformly convergent n-tuple-_ augmented polarized „nZaP… basis sets for complete basis set extrapolations. I. Self-consistent field energies,” Shijun Zhong, Ericka C. Barnes, and George A. Petersson, THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 129, 184116 (2008).

“The CCSD„T… complete basis set limit for Ne revisited,” Ericka C. Barnes, George A. Petersson, David Feller, and Kirk A. Peterson. THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 129, 194115 (2008).

R.F. Pratt, "Substrate Specificity of Bacterial DD-Peptidases (Penicillin-Binding Proteins)" Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 65, 2138 (2008).

S.K. Perumal, S.A. Adediran and R.F. Pratt, "•-Ketophosphonates as •-lactamase inhibitors: Intramolecular cooperativity between the hydrophobic subsites of a class D •-lactamase" Bioorg. Med. Chem. 16, 6987 (2008).

E. Sauvage, A.J. Powell, J. Heilemann, H.J. Josephine, P. Charlier, C. Davies and R.F. Pratt, "Crystal structures of complexes of bacterial DD-peptidases with peptidoglycan-mimetic ligands: the substrate specificity puzzle" J. Mol. Biol. 381, 383 (2008).

S.A. Adediran and R.F. Pratt, "Inhibition of Serine •-Lactamases by Vanadate-Catechol Complexes" Biochemistry 47, 9467 (2008).

R.B. Pelto, and R.F. Pratt, "Kinetics and Mechanism of Inhibition of a Serine •-Lactamase by O-Aryloxycarbonyl Hydroxamates", Biochemistry, 47, 12037 (2008).

Every A., and Russu, I. M. (2008). Influence of Magnesium Ions on Spontaneous Opening of DNA Base Pairs. J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 7689-7695.

Cotel, S.C., Gallo, D.A., & Seamon, J.G. (2008). Nonconscious activation can generate false memories.  Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 210-218.

Shearman, R.M. and A.C. Burke, (2008) Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Lateral Somitic Frontier. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 310B

Janson, E.M., J.O. Stireman III, M.S. Singer, and P. Abbott. Phytophagous insect-microbe mutualisms and the ecology of evolutionary diversification. Evolution. In press.

Wu, M.B., & Stemler, S.E. (2008). Resident advisor general intelligence, emotional intelligence, personality dimensions, and internal belief characteristics as predictors of rated performance. NASPA Journal, 45(4), 528-559.

Stemler, S.E., & Tsai, J. (2008). Best practices in estimating interrater reliability. In J. Osborne (Ed.). Best practices in quantitative methods (pp.29-49). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications

S. Coppage$, P. Matei$, and B. Stewart,  The Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 241103 (2008).

T. Griffith and S. E. Sultan (submitted) Field-based insights to the evolution of specialization: plasticity and fitness across habitats in a specialist/generalist species pair.

 S. E. Sultan, K. Barton and A. Wilczek. (in press) Contrasting patterns of trans-generational  plasticity in ecologically distinct congeners. Ecologs

S. Kim, S. E. Sultan, and M. J. Donoghue. (2008). Allopolyploid speciation in Persicaria (Polygonaceae): Insights from a low-copy nuclear region.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:12370-75

M. M. McClure, S. M. Carlson, T. J. Beechie, G. R. Pess, J. C. Jorgensen, S. M. Sogard, S. E. Sultan, D. M. Holzer, J.Travis, B. L. Sanderson, M. E. Power and R. W. Carmichael.  2008.  Evolutionary consequences of habitat loss for Pacific anadromous salmonids.  Evolutionary Applications 1(2):  300-318.

Thomas, E., 2008. Research Focus: Descent into the Icehouse, Geology, 36: 191-192.

McCarren, H., Thomas, E., Hasegawa, T., Roehl, U., and Zachos, J. C. , 2008. Depth-dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion: paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (ODP Leg 208, Walvis Ridge). Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 9 (10): Q10008, doi: 10.1029/2008GC002116

Alegret, L., Cruz, L. E., Fenero, R., Molina, E., Ortiz, S., and Thomas, E., 2008. Effects of Oligocene climatic events on the foraminiferal record from Fuente Caldera section (Spain, western Tethys). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269: 94-102; doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.08.006

Griffin, E. M., Paytan, A., Caldeira, K., Bullen, T. D., and Thomas, E., 2008. A dynamic marine calcium cycle during the past 28 million years. Science, 322: 1671-1674; doi: 10.1126/science.1163614

Thomas, E., 2008. Paleoceanography: Overview. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. H. Steele, S. A. Thorpe  and K. K. Turekian, eds. (Elsevier), 2nd edition, 4213-4220, doi: 10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00696-2.

Huber, M., and Thomas, E., 2008. Paleoceanography: Greenhouse Climates. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. H. Steele, S. A. Thorpe and K. K. Turekian, eds. , 2nd edition, (Elsevier), p. 4229-4239; doi: 10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00701.3

 "Symmetry Control of Chemical Reactions: Applications to the Berry Pseudorotation of Five-Coordinate Transition Metal Complexes,” T. David Westmoreland, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2008, 361, 1187-1191.

 T. David Westmoreland, associate professor of chemistry, is the author of "Symmetry control of chemical reactions: Applications to the Berry pseudorotation of five-coordinate transition metal complexes," published in Inorganica Chimica Acta 361, 2008.
 

* = UG

$ = Grad

 08/26/2009