The January Term 2015 and Spring 2015 master schedules are now available online on the Registrar's Office website. The schedules are updated daily. You can view by level, department, or course. There is also a separate listing of 100 percent online sections by level for each semester.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for the seminar “Where There’s a Gill, There’s a Way – Parasitism by Freshwater Mussels,” presented by Chris Barnhart, professor of biology at Missouri State University, on Thursday, October 23, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science Building 272.

Students, staff, faculty, and colleagues are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

The dietitian education program's junior class presents the annual Chili Sale on Tuesday, October 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Buckham Hall A113. Your $5 purchase includes an 8-ounce portion of Buffalo chicken chili or vegetarian chili, cornbread, an apple, and a bottle of water. Cookies can be purchased for an additional $1 each. Proceeds will be donated to the Food Bank of WNY.

Advance orders are available for faculty and staff members only and can be picked up or delivered the day of the event. To place an advance order, please e-mail buffalostatechilisale@gmail.com by Friday, October 24. Please provide your name, e-mail address, phone number, type of chili (Buffalo chicken or vegetarian), cookie (Y/N), pickup or delivery, and building and room number. Cash will be collected on delivery.

Day-of-event walk-ins are welcome. Faculty and staff members who do not place advance orders and students who would like to purchase chili may do so in Buckham Hall A113 the day of the sale. Thank you. You make this event a success!

Please join us for the Art Conservation Department's Fall Open House on Friday, November 7, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Meet our graduate students and faculty, view works of art undergoing conservation treatment, and learn more about the art conservation graduate program. This is a great opportunity to discover our program and explore the field of art conservation. We welcome the public and encourage any pre-program conservation students to come as well. If you have a party of more than 10, RSVP to ext. 5025 by Thursday, October 30.

Nominations with supporting materials for the Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Service Professor Awards, and for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; Professional Service; Librarianship; Scholarship and Creative Activities; and Faculty Service, are due to the Provost's Office, Cleveland Hall 519, on Monday, October 20, 2014.

The Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS) will hold its 20^th International Conference on October 17–19 at Buffalo State College. The conference is being sponsored in collaboration with the Buffalo State Center for China Studies (CCS) and the University at Buffalo Confucius Institute (UBCI).

"Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainability in China and Beyond: Environment, Health, Justice, and Other Emerging Social Issues" is the conference theme. Registration for the conference will be held on Friday, October 17, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. outside Bulger East in the Bulger Communication Center. 

The conference will officially begin with an opening ceremony on Friday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. Buffalo State president Katherine Conway-Turner will offer welcoming remarks, followed by a keynote speech by Ouyang Kang, professor and dean of the Institute of State Governance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

On Saturday, October 18, concurrent sessions will be held in the morning in the Social Hall, Assembly I, and Assembly II in the Campbell Student Union. At noon, participants will enjoy lunch and a bus tour of Niagara Falls, with concurrent sessions resuming at 4:00 p.m. and the annual dinner at 7:00 p.m. On Sunday, October 19, concurrent sessions will be held in the morning and the conference will end after lunch.

For more information, visit http://www.acpssus.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277&Itemid=87.

The Idea Lab's mission is to constructively share ideas, insights, and experiences that will facilitate Buffalo State College's mission and advance creativity, collaboration, and research within our campus community and beyond!

At Buffalo State, exceptional and innovative work is conducted by faculty and staff. The Idea Lab believes that by getting together on a monthly basis for facilitated, but informal conversations about the work we are doing, our interests and our projects—planned or underway—can be created in a more innovative, interactive, and constructive campus environment. The Idea Lab is a grassroots project designed to strengthen our institutional capacity and to create a platform for new collaborations and unexpected outcomes. Meeting notes will be shared and archived for future reference and inspiration.

Join us for a meeting on Friday, October 17, 2014, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in Rockwell Hall 204. Everyone is welcome. For more information, please call Sue McCartney at ext. 4030 or e-mail mccartsa@buffalostate.edu.

The Faculty-Student Association is accepting applications for grants to enhance the educational and cultural life of the Buffalo State campus. The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 1. Application information and forms are available on the United Students Government website. Grant recipients will be notified at the beginning of the spring 2015 semester.

For further information, please contact Gary Vickers, (716) 983-0084.

Melissa Boler, a master's degree candidate in forensic science at Buffalo State, will present her master's defense seminar, "Hsp110 and Hsp7 in Wild Type and 11485 Drosophila When Exposed to Stressful Environments," at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, October 16, in Classroom Building B119. Light refreshments will be served before the seminar. This event is supported by the Faculty-Student Association.

Abstract
Heat shock proteins are a type of molecular chaperone protein that are significant in assisting in the refolding of denatured proteins and escorting terminally misfolded proteins to the proteasomes for degradation. Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Polyglutamine diseases (e.g., Huntington’s disease) are all diseases that can be caused by aggregation of misfolded proteins, so clearance of the misfolding proteins is essential. The over-expression of heat shock protein Hsp70 along with co chaperone Hsp110 plays a vital role in many of these neurological diseases.

The protein expression levels of wild type and 11485 Drosophila lysates were observed in this study. 11485 Drosophila differ from the wild type Drosophila in that they are heterozygous for the hsc70Cb⁰⁰⁰⁸² disruption allele. The protein expression levels from western blots probed with antibodies of Hsp70 and Hsp110 were compared under stress-induced environments by heat shocking the lysates. The western blot data was also compared to mRNA data from q RT-PCR to understand the gene expression regulation with these specific proteins.

Findings suggested that female 11485 Drosophila over-compensated not only when heat shocked but also under non heat shock conditions, an unexpected finding. They also suggested that these genes are most likely regulated at the transcription level. Understanding how the heat shock proteins, specifically the Hsp70 family, work is the key to future studies that might lead to therapeutic and drug discoveries of many neurological diseases.

The Buffalo State TLE TeachLive simulation lab, housed in Ketchum Hall 211, will be formally unveiled by President Conway-Turner during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, October 16, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. The TeachLive lab has been under development for the past year. Initiated and tested by faculty members in the Exceptional Education Department, this mixed-reality teaching environment is ready to be shared with the wider campus and area education communities. Open house lab simulations will follow the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4:00 p.m. TLE TeachLive simulation sessions will be offered every 15 minutes until 5:15 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 211. The open house will include the opportunity to participate in lab simulations, as well as posters and discussions describing the many ways that TeachLive can be used across content and academic disciplines. Teacher education faculty, school administrators, and faculty members from other disciplines are encouraged to attend.

Please e-mail or call the Exceptional Education Department at ext. 5317 if you have questions or would like to register in advance for an October 16 lab simulation session so we can meet your scheduling needs. RSVPs are appreciated.

To learn more about TeachLive, please visit the Exceptional Education Department website.

About TLE TeachLive
The TLE TeachLive simulation lab is a mixed-reality teaching environment supporting teacher practice in classroom management, pedagogy, and content. TLE TeachLive began at University of Central Florida and is currently used across the country to prepare or provide professional development on instruction and management routines to improve teaching methods and behavior management practices of preservice and in-service teachers at all levels. TLE TeachLive is also being used to prepare teachers in the use of STEM-related instructional strategies.

TLE TeachLive uses adult avatars for one-on-one conversations and to help teacher candidates and other professionals engage students in various scenarios including working with students who do not speak English as their primary language and students who demonstrate behaviors on the autism spectrum.

Newly developed adult avatar scenarios provide the opportunity for practicing and aspiring teachers, administrators, social workers, business-related majors, and students from other majors to rehearse parent-teacher conferences, annual evaluation meetings, critical conversations (e.g., performance feedback and reviews, job interviews, leading administrative meetings, facilitating professional developments, and hosting problem-solving conferences), and many other scenarios.