Senior Presentations Presentations - Spring 2009

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Senior Seminar in Biochemistry (Dr. Monica Chander)

  • Katie Weng, Optimizing antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor and exploring the mechanism of the development of antibiotic resistance
  • Christina Harview, Exploring the effect of exogenous paraoxonase addition to Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonies in vitro and in vivo

Senior Seminar in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Dr. Greg Davis)

  • Jean Chung, The Symbiotic Relationship of V. fischeri and E. scolopes-A focus on the Initiation Stage
  • Benjamin Pyenson, The Evolution of Genetic Sex Determination in Turtles
  • Rina Mehta, The Origin and Ontogenesis of Male Dimorphic Vocalization in the Midshipman Fish
  • Madina Ghazanfar, The Role of Ultraconserved Genes in Placental Mammals
  • Caroline Feldman, Tandem Repeats and the Evolution of Craniofacial Morphology in Dogs
  • Jenn Wong, Regenerating Vestigial Organs: The evolutionary effects of sonic hedgehog gene expression on the blind cavefish
  • Megan Gallagher, The Novel Anableps Eye

Senior Seminar in Molecular Genetics (Dr. Tamara Davis)

  • Katie Kent, Investigating the Importance of Location for the Expression of Air and its Non-coding RNA Function
  • Francesca Marangell, Imprinted X-inactivation: A Comparison between Marsupials and Eutherians
  • Andrea R. Zambetti, Investigation of Epigenetic Alterations in Osteoarthritic Chondrocytes through S-Adenosyl Methionine Supplementation
  • Sarah Allard, Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Epigenome: The Dose-Dependent Effects of Bisphenol A
  • Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle, Sub-fertile Males: A Cautionary Tale
  • Alexa Yim, Dnmt3L Protein and the Role of its Sex-Specific Transcripts
  • Molly Pieri, Artificially Induced Monoallelic Expression of the GABRB3 Gene in Mice: Implications for Autism
  • Lauren Poon, A highly conserved activator sequence influences Prader-Willi Syndrome, imprinted genes
  • Penn Tong, Mest expression in hypothalamus of mice may play a role in maternal behavior
  • Heather Fetting, The role of polycomb proteins in tissue-specific imprinting of Grb10

Senior Research Presentations - 2008 / 2009

  • Nicolette Belletier, The Reproductive Polyphenism in Acyrthosiphon pisum: Patterning of the Sexual and Asexual Oocytes  (Advisor - Dr. Greg Davis)
  • Rebecca Pisciotta, Understanding Free Will: How our model of the universe informs our conception of human free will (Advisor - Dr. Paul Grobstein)
  • Shikha Prashad, Object Detection & Tracking Using Neural Networks (Advisors Drs. Paul Grobstein and Doug Blank (Computer Science))
  • Nana Asabere, Synaptotagmin-1's Role in Neurite Outgrowth and Patterning (Advisor - Dr. Karen Greif)
  • Dominique McKeever & /Sarah Powers, Persistent Excitation in the Leech (Advisor - Dr. Peter Brodfuehrer)
  • Eva Bastianon, The organization of the duo-gland feeding system in the palps of Magelona (Polychaeta) (Advisor - Dr. Stephen Gardiner)

Student Research - Summer 2008