Lycoming College Biology faculty/students present 10 papers (out of 143) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science - 183rd Annual Meeting - March 30-April 1, 2007.

1) Comparison of Microbial Communities in a Sequencing Batch Reactor (Cromaglass® Corporation) at Two Time Increments. Brittane Miller* and Jeffrey Newman. (Lycoming College).

2) Vegetation Analysis and Population Study of the White Tailed Deer at PPL Montour Preserve Montour County, PA. Christopher Dempsey* and Mel Zimmerman. (Lycoming College).

3) Use of an On-site Sequencing Batch Reactor to Satisfy a Total Nitrogen Discharge Limit. Mel C. Zimmerman*, Joshua B. Gliptis and Michael H. Gerardi. (Lycoming College).

4) Purkinje neuron dendrite structure: Regulation by the MAP kinase pathway. A. M. Campbell*, Stamatis Zeris and Mary E. Morrison. (Lycoming College, Department of Biology).

5) Identification and Characterization of Acinetobacter johnsonii KC11. Kellie M. Cicconi and Jeffrey Newman. (Lycoming College6) The effect of interleukin 6 and RNA interference against TERE1/Ubiad1 on Stat3 phosphorylation (Ser727) and c-jun expression in HepG2 and T47D human tumor cells. Amy Peasley*, Randy Fast* and Terence W. McGarvey. (Lycoming College, Department of Biology).

7) Population Structure and Habitat Preferences of the Eastern Hellbender. Neihl Williamson*, Arianna Brawn and Peter J. Petokas. (Lycoming College, Department of Biology).

8) Use of Bedrock Crevices by the Eastern Hellbender. Peter J. Petokas,*, James Rogers and James Reynolds. (Lycoming College, Department of Biology).

9). Physical Abnormalities in the Eastern Hellbender. Arianna Brawn*, Neihl Williamson and Peter J. Petokas. (Lycoming College, Department of Biology).

10) Water Quality Assessment of the Lower West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Lindsey Postasky*, Michelle Taylor, Nicole Rhodes and Mel Zimmerman. (Lycoming College).