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Steve McMurray
McMurray, S.E., Johnson, Z.I., Hunt, D.E., Pawlik, J.R., and Finelli, C.M. Estimates of pelagic-benthic
planktonic carbon flux for populations of giant barrel sponges on coral reefs. 42 th Annual Benthic
Ecology Meeting, March 2013.
McMurray, S.E. Demographics of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta and planktonic carbon flux
on coral reefs. Invited Speaker, Eastern Carolina University Department of Biology, February,
2013.
Kiersten Newtoff
Newtoff, K. Tern and pelican tissue sample analyses for mercury and stable isotopes. Annual Meeting of
the North Carolina Waterbird Management Committee, March, 2013.
- Note: this was a professionals meeting, not necessarily a conference. My presentation was mainly an overview of my project
and me reaching out to federal/state/local agencies for data collection.
Steve Thornton
Thornton, S., McLellan, W., Rommel, S., Dillaman, R., Nowacek, D., Koopman, H., Pabst, DA. Functional
morphology of dorsal acoustic structures in pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm
whales. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium. March, 2013. (Oral
presentation).
Thornton, S., McLellan, W., Rommel, S., Pabst, DA. Functional morphology of dorsal acoustic structures
in pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales. Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology. January, 2013. (Poster).
Maria White
White, M.C., Courchesne, M.J., and Frampton, A.R. Jr. Equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) mediated
oncolysis and viral cell-to-cell spread in human glioblastoma multiforme cells are enhanced by
valproic acid. 37 th Annual International Herpesvirus Workshop, August, 2012.
White, M.C., Courchesne, M.J., and Frampton, A.R. Jr. Equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) mediated
oncolysis and viral cell to cell spread in human glioblastoma multiforme cells are enhanced by
valproic acid. North Carolina American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, October, 2012.
White, M.C., Courchesne, M.J., and Frampton, A.R. Jr. Equine herpesvirus type 1-mediated oncolysis and
viral cell to cell spread in human glioma cells are enhanced by valproic acid. Mid-Atlantic
Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting, January, 2013.