1. Studying the Relationship Between Quality of Prenatal Care and Substance Use in Birth Mothers Open Access Author: Nagpal, Nikita Title: Studying the Relationship Between Quality of Prenatal Care and Substance Use in Birth Mothers Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Prenatal caresubstance use File: Download ThesisDraftFinalDraft.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Thesis SupervisorJenae Marie Neiderhiser, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Leveraging Disturbance Autocorrelation to Achieve Management Goals at Minimal Cost Open Access Author: Garrison, Andrew James Title: Leveraging Disturbance Autocorrelation to Achieve Management Goals at Minimal Cost Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: AutocorrelationCompetitionDisturbanceDisturbance aspectsReciprocal-Yield LawSpecies coexistence File: Download Garrison_Andrew_leveraging_disturbance_autocorrelation.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Katriona Shea, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors AdvisorDr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Faculty Reader
3. Transcriptome Identification of Y-chromosome Genes of Hylobates agilis albibarbis Open Access Author: Rogers, Carolyn Hester Title: Transcriptome Identification of Y-chromosome Genes of Hylobates agilis albibarbis Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: transcriptomegibbon apeHylobates agilis albibarbisY-chromosome File: Download Final_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors AdvisorKatriona Shea, Faculty Reader
4. Phenotypic Plasticity of Dispersal Characteristics of the Invasive Thistle Carduus nutans in Response to Mowing and Fertilizer Open Access Author: Saperstein, Jonathan Charles Title: Phenotypic Plasticity of Dispersal Characteristics of the Invasive Thistle Carduus nutans in Response to Mowing and Fertilizer Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Carduus nutansdispersalphenotypic plasticity File: Download Thesis_Draft_-_Final_Version.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Katriona Shea, Thesis SupervisorDr. Bernhard Lüscher, Thesis Honors Advisor
5. Selective and Age-dependent Cellular Degeneration in Drosophila Open Access Author: Lin, Annie Elizabeth Title: Selective and Age-dependent Cellular Degeneration in Drosophila Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Drosophila melanogasterneurodegenerationmolecular geneticsheat shock responseheat shock proteinHSP23HSP90 File: Download Lin_Annie_SelectiveandAgeDependentCellularDegenerationinDrosophila.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Richard W Ordway, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
6. Do corn plants self-prime at dusk? Open Access Author: May, Kyle D Title: Do corn plants self-prime at dusk? Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: zea maysgreen leaf volatilelipoxygenasedarkshockjasmonic acidpriming File: Download may_kyle_Docornplantsself-primeatdusk.pdf Thesis Supervisors: James Homer Tumlinson III, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
7. Oxidative stress alters the flight muscle lipidome of a lowland butterfly Open Access Author: Pekny, Julianne Elisabeth Title: Oxidative stress alters the flight muscle lipidome of a lowland butterfly Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: oxidative stresslipidomicsagingsuccinate dehydrogenase d File: Download Pekny_OxidativeStressAltersFlightMuscleLipidome_2015.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Dr. James Harold Marden, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
8. THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID ON RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR (RAR)- AND PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR-β/δ (PPARβ/δ)-DEPENDENT SIGNALING IN THE HUMAN NT2/D1 TESTICULAR EMBRYONAL CANCER CELL LINE Open Access Author: Dobrzanski, Tomasz Pawel Title: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID ON RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR (RAR)- AND PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR-β/δ (PPARβ/δ)-DEPENDENT SIGNALING IN THE HUMAN NT2/D1 TESTICULAR EMBRYONAL CANCER CELL LINE Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: testicular cancerembryonal carcinomaall-trans retinoic acid (atRA)Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-β/δ (PPARβ/δ) File: Download Thesis_Final2.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jeffrey Maurice Peters, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
9. Interactions of Hsp23, FoxO, and ESCRTIII-Vps24 in Mediating Proteostasis in Drosophila melanogaster Flight Motor Cells Open Access Author: Fatima, Shahroz Title: Interactions of Hsp23, FoxO, and ESCRTIII-Vps24 in Mediating Proteostasis in Drosophila melanogaster Flight Motor Cells Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Drosophila melanogasterneurodegenerationproteostasisheat shockHsp23FoxOESCRTIIIVps24autophagyproteasome File: Download Fatima_Shahroz_Final_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Fumiko Kawasaki, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor
10. Population genomic assessments of the plausibility of evolutionary ecology hypotheses for human rainforest hunter-gatherers Open Access Author: Cohen, Jacob Aubrey Title: Population genomic assessments of the plausibility of evolutionary ecology hypotheses for human rainforest hunter-gatherers Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: rainforest hunter-gathererpygmy phenotypeconvergent evolutionpolygenic adaptationecology File: Download Jacob_Cohen_Final_Thesis_Format_Edits.pdf Thesis Supervisors: George H Perry, Thesis SupervisorKatriona Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor