Ashley Valdivieso and Dr. Melinda Ostraff, Integrated Biology Diabetes is an escalating health risk in Ghana, and it is estimated that approximately 22% of Ghanaians who develop the disease will die of it.1 While government programs intended to provide treatment for diabetes patients have focused on traditional western medicine, Dr. Kwabena Beecham, President of the […]
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Middle Missouri River Valley (1846-1853) Recreating a Legacy of Faith
Tiffany Taylor and Dr. Shauna C. Anderson, College of Biology and Agriculture In 1846, after escaping mob persecution in Nauvoo, Illinois, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established communities along the Missouri River in both Iowa and Nebraska. Approximately 90 settlements were created within seven years, with the most well-known being […]
Tilapia Fish: Feast or Famine?
Laura Scott and Dr. Jerald B. Johnson, Integrative Biology Tilapia is a commonly farmed fish throughout the world because of its nutritional value, reproductive efficiency, high resistance to disease, and the low-cost of production. However, despite such commercial benefits, there are some characteristics of this fish that are being overlooked. Previous field research in Costa […]
Phylogeny of the tribe Psoraleae in North America
Rebecca Schaeffer and Dr. Keith Crandall, Integrative Biology Introduction Many species of plants in the Leguminosae family are important economically, but many of these plants are now considered rare, threatened, or endangered. Seventy percent of the species in the genus Pediomelum are highly limited in geographic distribution, which influences conservation status. In addition to this, […]
ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT COMPOUNDS
David G. Evans and Dr. Matt A. Peterson, Biology and Agriculture Until only very recently it has been the common practice of most pharmaceutical manufacturers and manufacturers of agrochemicals such as herbicides and insecticides to market chiral compounds as mixtures of enantiomers. This practice has been driven by market forces due to the fact that […]
The Use of 13C/12C and 15N/14N Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis To Determine Carnivory Level in Gender Identified Free-Ranging Utah American Black Bears (Ursus americanus)
Eric Olson and Professor Beverly Roeder, Integrative Biology Stable isotope analysis of carbon (13C/12C or 13C) and nitrogen (15N/14N or 15N) has been shown to provide a more accurate estimate of overall diet in various mammalian species (Sponheimer et al. 2003). This technique was used to determine the amount of vegetation and animal protein in the nutritional […]
Radiological Analysis of Osteoarthritis in the Mouse Knee Joint
Mark Newcomer and Dr. Robert Seegmiller, Biology The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cites that nearly 21 million Americans currently suffer from osteoarthritis (OA) and has recently issued a news release which states that, “Today, 35 million people, 13 percent of the U.S. population, are 65 and older, and more than half of […]
A Higher Resolution Multiplexed Microsatellite Marker set for Reliable, Cost Effective Genotyping
Robert J. Kolts, Elliott G. Richards, Sam Ashby, Will D. Brubaker, Aaron C. Ferguson, Paul Fjeldsted, Derek Hatch, with Dr. Edward R. Wilcox, Department of Integrative Biology Summary We are creating a new microsatellite marker set for public use. Because many projects involving genetic disorders in humans depend on microsatellite markers, there is an existing […]
Effects of Predator Presence on Reproductive Effort in Livebearing Fishes of the genus Brachyrhaphis
Jason Kiene and Dr. Jerry Johnson, Integrative Biology My research experience has been quite different than anything I foresaw or expected. I will start this report by first reminding you what the experiment was supposed to be, then discuss the setbacks I had during the last two years to try to do the experiment and […]
Watering Snakes
Samuel Hirt and Professor Kent Hatch, Integrative Biology Stable isotope research is a relatively new and innovative tool in ecology. Studies have been done with stable isotopes to determine migration patterns, diet, and evidence for nutritional stress and much more. Little has been done with stable isotopes and reptiles. We conducted a stable isotope, pilot study […]
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