1. Comparative Analysis Between SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2: Genomic Similarity, Spike Protein Homology, and Government Funding as it Relates to Vaccine Development Open Access Author: Foresman, Bridget Title: Comparative Analysis Between SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2: Genomic Similarity, Spike Protein Homology, and Government Funding as it Relates to Vaccine Development Area of Honors: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Keywords: SARS-CoVSARS-CoV-2Vaccine DevelopmentMERS-CoVGovernment FundingNIH RePORTER File: Download BridgetForesman_FinalThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Joel E Segel, Thesis SupervisorTeh-Hui Kao, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Development of a Functional RNA-Identifying Computational Pipeline and its Application to SARS-CoV-2 Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Forstmeier, Peter Title: Development of a Functional RNA-Identifying Computational Pipeline and its Application to SARS-CoV-2 Area of Honors: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Keywords: SARS-CoV-2RNApseudoknotsSNPsRNA structure conservationframeshifting elementFSE File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Philip C Bevilacqua, Thesis SupervisorTeh-Hui Kao, Thesis Honors Advisor