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Author:

Cai, Alice Y

Title:

REPROGRAMMING ASTROCYTES INTO FUNCTIONAL NEURONS FOR SPINAL CORD REPAIR

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Spinal cord injury
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cell reprogramming
Spinal cord repair
Conversion
NeuroD1
Ngn2
Neurons

File:

Download Cai_Thesis_edited.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Gong Chen, Thesis Supervisor
Timothy J Jegla, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Henry, Jessica Behin

Title:

NOVEL 3-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL MORPHOLOGY IN AGED AND ISCHEMIC FEMALE RAT HEART

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

ischemic injury
mitochondria
aging
menopause
heart

File:

Download Henry_Jessica_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Donna Hope Korzick, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Gong Chen, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Post, Laura Renee

Title:

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SPECIALISM AND OPPORTUNISM IN THE DIET OF HERRING GULLS

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

herring gull
opportunism
specialism

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Jennifer Marie Arnold, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sandy Feinstein, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Perry, Brent R

Title:

Development of a R package for Classifying Duplicate Gene Retention Mechanisms (CDROM) and Application to Duplicate Genes in Grasses

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Gene duplication
subfunctionalization
grasses
Oryza sativa
Sorghum bicolor
Brachypodium distachyon
neofunctionalization
specialization
conservation
CDROM

File:

Download Perry_Brent_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Raquel Assis, Thesis Supervisor
Timothy J Jegla, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Lai, Michelle Song

Title:

Impact of drug dose and treatment time on the synergism between pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine in the mouse malaria model

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

drug resistance
malaria
pyrimethamine
sulfadoxine
treatment timing
drug dose
combination therapy

File:

Download Michelle_Lai_Honors_Thesis_-_Impact_of_drug_dose_and_treatment_time_on_the_synergism_between_pyrimethamine_and_sulfadoxine_in_the_mouse_malaria_model.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Andrew Fraser Read, Thesis Supervisor
Sarah Mary Assmann, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bogale, Kaleb Tadesse

Title:

THE IMPACT OF ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS S2220 ON MULE DEER ISY1 GENE EXPRESSION

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Endogenous retrovirus
ERV
LTR
long terminal repeat
solo LTR
solo long terminal repeat
gene expression
mule deer
Odocoileus hemionus
RNA
Splicing
retrovirus
pre-mrna splicing gene
ISY1 gene
isy1
gene regulation
hardy-weinberg equilibrium
population genetics
Bos taurus
domestic cow
Ovis aris
sheep

File:

Download KalebBogale_ThesisFinal.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Mary Poss, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Bernhard Lüscher, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Li, Sally Shan

Title:

Discovery and Implications of a new Variable Tandem Repeat in the Dopamine Transporter Gene

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Variable Number Tandem Repeat
VNTR
DAT1
SLC6A3

File:

Download Li_Sally_DiscandImplicNewVNTRinDAT1Gene.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

David John Vandenbergh, Thesis Supervisor
Richard W Ordway, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Yellin, Emma V

Title:

REACTIVE ASTROCYTES AND THEIR CONVERSION TO FUNCTIONAL NEURONS IN ISCHEMIC STROKE MOUSE MODEL

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

in vivo reprogramming
stroke
NeuroD1

File:

Download final_thesis_b.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Timothy J Jegla, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Gong Chen, Thesis Supervisor

Author:

Vanstone, Gavin Robert

Title:

The Effect of a Nutrient Gradient on the Porites-Lithophaga System in the Phoenix Islands

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Porites
Phoenix Islands
Lobata
Evermanni
Lithophaga
Nutrient Gradient

File:

Download Vanstone_Gavin_PoritesGradient.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Thesis Supervisor
Benoit A Dayrat, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Friedland, Daniel Bakke

Title:

RECONSTITUTION OF THE YEAST CENTROMERIC NUCLEOSOME CORE PARTICLE

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

molecular biology
yeast
Cse4
centromere
chromatin
nucleosome
HPLC
reconstitution

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Song Tan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor