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Author:

Garrity, Bridget

Title:

THE IMPACT OF COMPETITION ON THE EMERGENCE OF DRUG RESISTANCE IN PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI INFECTIONS

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Malaria
antimicrobial resistance
competition
competitive suppression
competitive release
resistance emergence

File:

Download Bridget_Garrity_Thesis_After_Edits.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Andrew Fraser Read, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael Axtell, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hossain, Aasma

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF SELECTED TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND SMALL MOLECULES ON CONVERTING GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS TO GABAERGIC NEURONS

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

GABAergic neurons
Transcription factors
Glioblastoma
Cancer
Reprogramming efficiency

File:

Download Hossain_Aasma_Honors_Thesis_PDF_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Gong Chen, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael Axtell, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Westlake, Jonathan George

Title:

Meiotic Drive Via Sex Ratio Chromosome In Drosophila Psuedoobscura

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Genetics
drosophila
biology
evolution
natural selection
chromosome

File:

Download Westlake_Jonathan_Meoitic_Drive_via_SR_chromome.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. James Harold Marden, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Decker, Alyssa

Title:

THE ROOT MICROBIOME: COMMUNITY DRIVERS OF THE ENDANGERED VIROLA SURINAMENSIS TROPICAL TREE SPECIES

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

microbiome
Virola surinamensis
tropical trees
Fungal ITS
Bacterial 16S
model

File:

Download Decker_BIOL_Thesis_VF.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. James Harold Marden, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael Axtell, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Lysek, Kelsy

Title:

The Effects of ZNF804A Expression on Neuron Growth and Protein Expression as It Relates to Schizophrenia

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

ZNF804A
Schizophrenia

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Lysek.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Yingwei Mao, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Priestley, Diana

Title:

The Correlation Between Pulse Wave Velocity and Flow Mediated Dilation in Adults with Enlarged Waist Circumference

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Pulse wave velocity
PWV
Flow-mediated dilation
FMD
arterial stiffness
endothelial dysfunction
Cardiovascular disease
CVD

File:

Download Priestley_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kristina Susan Petersen, Thesis Supervisor
Richard W Ordway, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hale, Anastasia

Title:

The Effect of Subcellular Architecture on Osteogenic Differentiation

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

biomedical engineering
osteogenesis
YAP1
tissue engineering
nanofibers

File:

Download AnastasiaHFinalThesisSubmission.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Justin Lee Brown, Thesis Supervisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Olson, Samantha

Title:

An Assessment of Colonization Patterns and the effects of Co-habitation on VRE Transmission

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus
daptomycin-resistant enterococcus
sensitive bacteria
resistant bacteria
VRE
shedding
social
isolated
colonization

File:

Download FINAL-VRE-THESIS-S0__1_.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Andrew Fraser Read, Thesis Supervisor
Michael Axtell, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Lin, Alice

Title:

Development of Gene Editing Strategies for Correcting Human Genetic Diseases

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

CRISPR/Cas9
HITI
CRBR
gene editing
human genetic disease
neonatal diabetes
Perk
Wolcott-Rallison Syndrome

File:

Download Alice_Lin_Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Douglas Cavener, Thesis Supervisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Khan, Fatima Mahmood

Title:

Identification of differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs in a model of neuron differentiation

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

biology
bioinformatics
genetics
RNA

File:

Download Khan_Thesis_Draft_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Nikolaos Tsotakos, Thesis Supervisor
Sairam V Rudrabhatla, Thesis Honors Advisor