Twenty-two research projects involving BU faculty and graduate school biomedical researchers are among the 49 presentations that will be displayed at the SUNY Upstate Medical University’s 10th annual Clinical Campus Research Poster Session. The session will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the Keeler Building Gymnasium of the Binghamton Psychiatric Center, 425 Robinson St., Binghamton.

Researchers from BU represent several departments including biological sciences, chemistry, clinical psychology, the Institute for Child Development, systems science and industrial engineering, chemistry, anthropology and computer science. Several other projects include BU faculty researchers working with other universities.

Among the posters to be presented will be one outlining a collaborative project entitled “Early detection of breast cancer using DNA biosensor with support vector machines.” The project involves professors Omowunmi Sadik, Susannah Gal and Walker Land of Binghamton University and Dr. J. Terzian of Lourdes Hospital.

Among other topics to be covered in BU-related posters are:

• Accuracy of brief cognitive screening in predicting neuropsychological functioning
• A demographic profile of porotic hypertotis in an ancient Native American population
• Activation and progression of apoptosis following desiccation in human cells
• Calpain inhibition improves cryopreservation efficacy
• Culture substrate interactions influence cellular tolerance to desiccation
• Primary hepatocyte cryopreservation: enhanced survival and function
• A scintillation proximity assay for DNA binding by human p53
• Industrial engineering and continuous improvement in health care
• Cells of the coronary vasculature exhibit differential sensitivity to low temperature insult
• Enhanced hypothermic preservation: Modulation of apoptosis and necrosis improves storage interval and cell quality
• Emotional abuse and the onset of major depression and dysthymia
• Differential outcome in two brothers with fragile-x: Behavioral and pharmacological intervention
• Depression chronicity in an inpatient and outpatient psychiatry sample
• Disease as detective: An analysis of sever skeletal pathology in a modern forensic case.