Search

Start Over Area of Honors Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Degree B S Year 2023

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

open_access
Open Access
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:
Download Tomasko_Nicholas_Final_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Thesis Supervisor
Joseph C. Reese, Thesis Honors Advisor

4. Assessing Sex Bias in Neurodevelopmental Disease-Associated Genes

open_access
Open Access
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:
Download Scanlon_Finalthesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Supervisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Scott Brian Selleck, Faculty Reader

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

open_access
Open Access
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:
Download final_draft_thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Shaun Mahony, Thesis Supervisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Honors Advisor

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

open_access
Open Access
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:
Download Lee_Ellen_Thesis2.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Lorraine C Santy, Thesis Supervisor
Song Tan, Thesis Honors Advisor

7. High Resolution Structure and Neutralization Mechanism of 1G1 Fab Bound to Poliovirus Type 3

restricted_to_institution
Restricted (Penn State Only)
Author:
Faust, Julia
Title:
High Resolution Structure and Neutralization Mechanism of 1G1 Fab Bound to Poliovirus Type 3
Area of Honors:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:
CryoEM
poliovirus
SPV3
virology
neutralizing antibody
1G1 Fab
structural biology
File:
Login to Download
Thesis Supervisors:
Susan Hafenstein, Thesis Supervisor
Timothy Charles Meredith, Thesis Honors Advisor

8. Cost-effective Molecular Weight Standards for Protein Size-exclusion Chromatography: HISftnA and HISDps Expression and Purification

restricted_to_institution
Restricted (Penn State Only)
Author:
Howells, Joshua
Title:
Cost-effective Molecular Weight Standards for Protein Size-exclusion Chromatography: HISftnA and HISDps Expression and Purification
Area of Honors:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:
Size-exclusion chromatography
molecular weight standards
Escherichia coli bacterial ferritin
Escherichia coli DNA-binding protein from starved cells
File:
Login to Download
Thesis Supervisors:
Song Tan, Thesis Supervisor
Song Tan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Jean-Paul Armache, Faculty Reader