Michael Stallings and Professor Chad Hancock, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a public health concern for the United States and is becoming a global health crisis. The hallmark of type 2 diabetes is high blood sugar, which leads to a host of other health issues. In healthy subjects, insulin […]
Examination of the Role of the LANA Protein in Persistence of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infections
Marshall Sheide and Dr. Bradford Berges, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus (KSHV) is one of seven known cancer causing viruses which have the capacity to persist in the host for many years. This particular virus can undergo a long latent infection which ensures that the virus can hide by not […]
Estimating Pinyon and Juniper Tree Cover Across Utah Using NAIP Imagery
Darrell Roundy and Dr. Steven Petersen, Department of Plant and Wildlife Science Pinyon and juniper (pj) encroachment is an ecological problem in the western United States. As these species expand they replace valuable sagebrush and grassland communities decreasing forage for livestock and wildlife, reducing habitat for multiple sagebrush obligate species and increasing fuel loads that […]
Search for Mitochondrial DNA Mutation in a Family With Myopathies and Lactic Acidosis
Mary Rennick and Dr. Brent Nielsen, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Beginnings This research focused on the search for the probable mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation in one family affected with fibromyalgia and lactic acidosis. The hypothesis was that there is mixture of normal and mutated mtDNA, called heteroplasmy. I first obtained the four patients’ […]
Screening of Secondary Chemicals from Selected Species of North American Lichens Against Various Pathologenic Bacteria
Jocelyn Raphael and Dr. Larry St. Clair, Department of Biology Lichens consist of a fungus occurring symbiotically with a photosynthetic organism (such as an alga and/or cyanobacterium). Lichens are known to produce a high number of secondary metabolites. Studies have shown that these secondary compounds have various biological roles such as antibiotic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, […]
The Effects of Anterior Knee Pain on the Kinetics of the Lower Extremities During High-Intensity Activities
Jordan Pitt and Dr. Matthew Seeley, Department of Exercise Science This project has not yet been completed due mostly to complications with the tools needed to make the measurements. We intend on completing this project and still feel that there will be opportunities to present or publish our findings. In fact, we have written one abstract with […]
Early Parental Death, Genetic Variants and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: Building a Risk Profile from the Cache County Study on Memory, Health and Aging
Michael Peterson and Dr. John Kauwe, Department of Biology Introduction A person’s predisposition to Alzheimer’s Disease is known to be influenced by both genetic factors as well as environmental factors. One know environmental factor is that known to affect risk for disease is early parental death. The purpose of this research is to better understand […]
Genetic Relationships of Cottus bairdii in Butterfield Springs, Nevada, to Other Population of Cottus bairdii
Sun Yeong Oh and Dr. Dennis Shiozawa, Department of Biology The goal for this project was to evaluate the genetic relationships of the freshwater sculpin, Cottus bairdii, in Butterfield Springs, Nevada, with other populations of C. bairdii. We planned to examine several mitochondrial genes, ND1, ND2, and the control region, to identify the most likely […]
Antibody Production and Diversification in Humanized Mice
Stanton Nielsen and Dr. Brad Berges, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Many scientists are skeptical of using humanized mice to study the human adaptive immune response. The reasoning behind this skepticism stems from discrepancies in various studies seen previously. A study conducted by Traggiai et al. showed that humanized mice elicited a human adaptive immune response when […]
Analysis of Phytotoxins Extracted from the Seed Pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda
Joshua Nicholson and Dr. Brad Geary, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences Review This project seeks to establish and understand a link between virulence and phytotoxin production between varying strains of Pyrenophora semeniperda, a necrotrophic fungal pathogen that attacks cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). Cheatgrass is an intermountain west invasive weed that is outsourcing native plants and […]
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