1. The Function of Microtubule Polarity in Drosophila Dendrites Open Access Author: Parmar, Manpreet Kaur Title: The Function of Microtubule Polarity in Drosophila Dendrites Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Microtubule PolarityDendritesDrosophila melanogasterMinus-end-out microtubulePlus-end-out microtubulepolarized traffickingKap3RNAiRtnl2RNAiClass I neuronddaEmorphologyendosomesmitochondria File: Download Parmar_Manpreet_FunctionofMicrotubulePolarityinDrosophilaDendrites__Final_4-9-12_.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Melissa Rolls, Thesis SupervisorDr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors AdvisorDr. Gong Chen, Faculty Reader
2. 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
3. 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
4. Genetic Analysis of Protection from Environmental Stress-Induced Degeneration: Characterization of a Loss of Function Drosophila Mutant for the Cytoplasmic RNA Exosome Component, dSKI2 Open Access Author: Moon, Mackenzie Taylor Title: Genetic Analysis of Protection from Environmental Stress-Induced Degeneration: Characterization of a Loss of Function Drosophila Mutant for the Cytoplasmic RNA Exosome Component, dSKI2 Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Drosophila melanogasterneurodegenerationheat shockpeleSKI2Ski complexinfertility File: Download Moon_Mackenzie_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Richard W Ordway, Thesis SupervisorRichard W Ordway, Thesis Honors AdvisorDr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Faculty Reader
5. Genetic analysis of the Drosophila ESCRT-III complex protein, VPS24, reveals requirements in lysosome homeostasis and autophagy Open Access Author: Florian, Jonathan Title: Genetic analysis of the Drosophila ESCRT-III complex protein, VPS24, reveals requirements in lysosome homeostasis and autophagy Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Drosophila melanogasterneurodegenerationVPS24ESCRTautophagylysosome homeostasis File: Download Jonathan_Florian_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Fumiko Kawasaki, Thesis SupervisorRichard W Ordway, Thesis Honors Advisor
6. Phenotypic variablility associated with the 15q11.2 CNV region in a Drosophila melanogaster model for neurodevelopmental disorders Open Access Author: Gould, Dagny Title: Phenotypic variablility associated with the 15q11.2 CNV region in a Drosophila melanogaster model for neurodevelopmental disorders Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: 15q11.2 CNV regionDrosophila melanogasterneurodevelopmental disordersgenetics File: Download thesis_final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis SupervisorJames Harold Marden, Thesis Honors Advisor