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Author:

Kim, Ellie

Title:

Assessing the Adaptability of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 to New Host Cell Types

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Herpes simplex virus
HSV-2
virology

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Moriah Louise Szpara, Thesis Supervisor
Lorraine C Santy, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Tomasko, Nicholas

Title:

Is there a Trade-off? Impacts of Antibiotic Treatments on Gut Microbiota and Immune Gene Expression in Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera)

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Apis mellifera
Oxytetracycline
E. coli
Microbiome
Antimicrobial peptides
Immune genes
Immune response

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Thesis Supervisor
Joseph C. Reese, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Foltz, Anna

Title:

Fluorescent Protein Trapping in Drosophila melanogaster

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Drosophila melanogaster
Gene Trap
Fluorescent Protein
Molecular Cloning
Larval Screening

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Claire Madison Thomas, Thesis Supervisor
Song Tan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Kumar, Supriya

Title:

AHR Activation Affects Enteric Neuronal Survival by Inducing Apoptosis

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
TCDD
Enteric Nervous System
Persistant Organic Pollutant
Ceramide Synthesizing Genes
Apoptosis
Longitudinal Muscle Myenteric Plexus
Gut Motility
IM-FEN Cells
Neuronal Marker Genes
Nitrergic Neurons
Cholinergic Neurons
GI Tract

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Andrew Patterson, Thesis Supervisor
Joseph C. Reese, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Scanlon, Bradley

Title:

Assessing Sex Bias in Neurodevelopmental Disease-Associated Genes

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

genetics
drosophila melanogaster
sex bias
neurodevelopmental diseases
genes
molecular biology
RNA interference

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Supervisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Scott Brian Selleck, Faculty Reader

Author:

Patel, Radha

Title:

Topic Modeling as an Approach to Deduce Tissue-Specific Regions in the Human Genome

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Topic Modeling
Transcription Factor Binding
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Regulatory DNA Sequences
Tissue-Specific Regions
Human Genome

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Shaun Mahony, Thesis Supervisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Lee, Ellen

Title:

Synthesis of Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) in Endosomal Compartments during Serum-Stimulated Cell Signaling

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

integrin recycling
epithelial cell migration
cancer
endosomes

File:

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Thesis Supervisors:

Lorraine C Santy, Thesis Supervisor
Song Tan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Deng, Eilene

Title:

The Mechanism of NELF Recruitment by DSIF in Promoter-proximal Pausing of RNA Polymerase II

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

promoter-proximal pausing
transcription factors
gene regulation
DSIF
NELF
RNA Polymerase II

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Thesis Supervisors:

David Scott Gilmour, Thesis Supervisor
Lorraine C Santy, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Veglia, Karleigh

Title:

Investigation of the Behavior of RNA G-quadruplexes from the Human Genome under Physiological Conditions

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

G-Quadruplexes
RNA Folding

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Thesis Supervisors:

Philip C Bevilacqua, Thesis Supervisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Grecco, Samantha

Title:

The Effect of the Small RNA RyhB on the Structure of its mRNA Targets

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

sRNA
RyhB
gene expression profiling
in vivo chemical structure probing
pulldown assay
antibiotic resistance
structure-function relationship

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Thesis Supervisors:

Philip C Bevilacqua, Thesis Supervisor
Ying Gu, Thesis Honors Advisor